![]() ![]() ![]() Smith analyzes the concept of the Guild in the essay "Navigators and the Spacing Guild" in The Science of Dune (2008). Although their ability to dictate the terms of and fees for all transport gives them influence in the political arena, they do not pursue political goals beyond their economic ones. Essentially apolitical, the Guild is primarily concerned with the flow of commerce and preservation of the economy that supports them. ![]() The power of the Guild is balanced against that of the Padishah Emperor as well as of the assembled noble Houses of the Landsraad. Guild Navigators (alternately Guildsmen or Steersmen) use the drug melange (also called "the spice") to achieve limited prescience, a form of precognition which allows them to successfully navigate " folded space" and safely guide enormous starships called heighliners across interstellar space instantaneously. The Spacing Guild is an organization in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe which possesses a monopoly on interstellar travel and banking. Controls a monopoly on space travel and banking ![]()
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