THE SPACING GUILD (Masters of Interstellar Travel in DUNE) EXPLAINED

for the Imperium spice is used by The Navigators of the spacing Guild to find safe paths between the Stars [Music] I stand before you as Herald of the change we're witnessed by representatives of the space and Guild and as sister of the Benny Jesuit do you accept Pastor tradies accepts hey guys what's happening niad here with film Comics explained as requested today we'll be exploring the spacing Guild featured in Frank Herbert's expansive Dune universe the spacing Guild also called The Guild of Navigators or more simply the guilt and secretly known among its members is the Corpus luminous prey nantientis the union of the foreseeing eye was an organization that held exclusive rights to faster than light space travel the spacing Guild and its Navigators use the orange spice gas which gives them the ability to fold space The Guild was essentially an Interstellar shipping and trade conglomerate during the years of the Carino and a trades Empire they were one leg of the political tripod maintaining the great convention a historic treaty brokered between the great houses the spacing Guild and the Imperium shortly after the destruction of thinking machines even Baron Vladimir harkinen pointed out the importance of the guilt stating with a three-point civilization the Imperial household balance against the Federated great houses of the lands ride and between them the guild with its damnable Monopoly on Interstellar transport The Guild spice infused Navigators steer their massive Holtzman drive-powered Highlander crafts through folded space the spice melange gave their helmsmen prescient abilities to see the future of all possible outcomes enabling them to choose safe routes for their ships with the destruction of all thinking machines in the butlerian Jihad the spacing Guild was able to develop a unique Monopoly in interstellar travel we covered the butler in G had last week in my video on the mentat which I'll be leaving a link to below but the underlying philosophy of the great convention was that of human life being precious and Superior to all other forms of existence while all the factions were relatively fractured this was something everyone could get behind its principal guideline is that human life was to be protected as a result strict rules are put in place for walls and feuds between their houses by mutual agreement between the Federated Council of the lands rod and house Carino the regulation was designed to prohibit Emperors from taking sights they would act as a neutral Arbiter in situations of house-to-house warfare where an appeal to the emperor had been made by one side the emperor was required either to render immediate assistance or convenient emergency security council meeting to deal with the matter however and that is involving the butler in Jihad and strictest established thereafter the emperor was given additional latitude to make decisions regarding punishment for those who breached the prohibition against thinking machines much like the mentat older who took advantage of the absence of these computers The Guild established a mental and physical training school after the Jihad in fact they were the second to do so the first of course being The benef Sisterhood who we've also covered in the past in the words of Reverend mother Gaius Helen moham the butler in Jihad forced human Minds to develop they had to either adapt or wither away the Reverend mother continued there were two Chief survivors of those ancient schools the Benny Jesuit and the spacing Guild The Guild so we think emphasizes almost pure mathematics interestingly in the same way only a woman could become a reverend mother in the Benny deserts the spacing guilds also only allowed mostly men to undergo The Guild Navigator mutation with the mastering of mathematical knowledge paired with their present abilities through the use of their Navigators the spacing Guild held a monopoly on space travel for Millennia so vital were they to the functioning of the Imperium that the imperial calendar literally began the year The Guild was established the origins of the spacing Kilt are shrouded in Cosmic Mists not unlike the convoluted Pathways and navigating US Travel in 177 BG during the butler in Jihad scientist Norma senva extended the horsemen effect to complete the theory of space folding on poetry while working for Savant Tio holtzmann she'd spent a great deal of her life conceiving designing and testing the space folder idea up to this point the next year Aurelius venport released Norma from the contractor made her inventions the property of Teo venport then used the prophet's gain by his company venki Enterprises to assist her in building the first actual space-folding ship unfortunately the ship endured only two years before it was taken from her by Lord Nico blood and Holtzman himself after leaving poetry Norma was captured and tortured by the Titan Xerxes this event unlocked her dormant powers to control her molecular structure and utilize formidable new prescient abilities after killing Xerxes she went to the planet known as Cola where she summoned her mother zuffa senfa an Aurelius venport who'd been looking for her on solution secantus the three set about transforming Kohler into the first Junction a massive construction yard to build ships with Norma's new Holtzman engines in 164 BG Aurelius venport was persuaded by high priestess Serena Butler of the Jihad to offer the technology to their cause in an agreement made on solusa the giard would be given the Kohler Shipyard and could use the fault space technology for now however venport and his company would receive the rights after the Jihad ended this would be a setback to venpot's finances but in the long run it would extremely benefit fenki by the year 108 BG Norma senfer still couldn't find a way to fold space safely because a pilot had no way of knowing exactly where a space-folding ship was likely to arrive one out of every 10 flights were lost the ships often appeared in the middle of suns black holes or came crashing into planets without enough time for a pilot to react unfortunately in the Years between Aurelius who she'd marry died and their son Adrian Vanport had taken over the first ships had used complicated computers with lightning fast reflexes but when the gr discovered this they insisted on their complete destruction Norma subsequently devoted all their efforts into finding a solution as a result she began to consume increasing amounts of melange to gain precedence and think with better efficacy [Music] against the suggestion of her doctor Norma decided to give an answer to the navigational problem once and for all in 88 BG she filled her room with extravagant portions of melange in gas form and had an epiphany her unique talent combined with the power of spice melange helped her realize the potential for carefully screened and trained humans to fold space safely when the experience finished she saw that her body was tragically deformed resembling a dwarfist shape only with an even larger head she realized that for one to obtain such levels of prescience they would need full spice immersion resulting in total exposure and complete dependence establishing the Society of Mystic Mariners which lay the groundwork for what would later become the guild her Crews constructed an airtight clearplast chamber there she could breathe in the large in gas form without the need for food or water after the battle of Corin Adrian created the new Ford space shipping company whose space folders were navigated by prescience based on Norma's innovation the Monopoly of venki Enterprises renamed venpot Holdings through this company did not last long though it was essentially revoked by Jules Carino the second Emperor to the Jihad resulting in numerous competing fault space companies bringing up like Celestial transport and escontran however unlike fernport Holdings their competition was unable to guarantee safe travel they had not made Norma's Discovery an ultimate sacrifice and so the key to Interstellar travel and making Navigators remained with fenhold 85 years after the end of the Jihad Norma senva's great-grandson director Joseph Vanport ran the company with ruthless efficiency the man dreamed of taking Humanity to new heights of progress feeling slighted at his family's Monopoly being taken away he uses stream to mercilessly crush his competition and even kill rival CEOs his company continued developing new technology and even tried to reverse engineer the technology of the thinking Machines of course this stupid move resulted in the fanatical butlerians declaring venport and his entire company their enemies and the enemies of humanity by default [Music] during the resulting struggle which ended up involving house Carino the butler instant Emperor Roderick Carino systematically reduced the company's power and assets and just like that venpok Holdings went from being the greatest economic power in the Imperium to nothing during the Battle of Denali frustrated had a Navigators being killed Norma entered negotiations with Roderick they agreed to allow venport Holdings to be destroyed in exchange for the formation of an independent spacing Guild created from the former fold space shipping company but not tarnished by the sacrilegious actions of Joseph venport this Guild would unite the Imperium would save fault space travel and propose the creation of an independent spacing Guild to serve Commerce throughout the Imperium communication and transportation is the tapestry that binds our civilization together across countless planetary systems trade must be allowed to function unfettered by war or the threat of War under this new spacing Guild I will see that you will have all The Navigators you wish and all the spice you need it should also be noted that in the Battle of Corin Norma continued to mutate due to excessive melange intake described in this quote her direct physical senses were deadened and Norma no longer cared about taste touch or smell she found it remarkable to see webbing between her fingers and toes her face once blunt featured in later Flawless now had a small mouth and Tiny eyes surrounded by smooth folds her head was immense while the the rest of her body atrophied becoming a useless appendage while Nova made the first melange guided journey through hyperspects as the first navigator it came with a severe cost damaging her brain before ultimately taking her life while venport and sevna were lost the society they created allowed gifted to pillions such as frello Mason to continue what was started by the pioneers of tupile Mason took over after Norma's death with the goal of ultimately transforming The Guild into an Interstellar shipping Juggernaut he was able to safely and steadily guide his crafts through hyperspace and his son just a Mason one of the great figures in the history of human Commerce expanded the fleet until he felt secure enough to make their abilities known by the year 12 BG but the road ahead was treacherous and one of danger this Guild can make us great I tell you we can be the wings of the Imperium right now this moment as we argue a new humanity is being conceived and we have the chance to shape that child that will be born hesitate now and the chance will never come again as the Imperium develops that child will grow and if we hide on two pile for how long a Century Two centuries and we come out of our Burrows and look at him we'll see that he can fly all right but his wings won't be Guild ships but they can be we can be those wings if we remember who and what we are and be bold the company sent an agent named zaf to an imperial governor of deneb but the results were disastrous locking the directors in a policy struggle unknown to himself zav went through mental conditioning that would end his life before revealing anything of harm about the spacing Guild when he met the governor zav offered the possibility of the return of interstellar travel but in a fit a voracious Creed the governor subjected zaf to painful interrogation techniques in an effort to gain the knowledge for himself unfortunately the governor kept pressing until the conditioning ultimately stopped the heart of zav regardless Mason's ambition and desire to honor his ancestors compelled him to push on zav died horribly and we're all sorry about that but we can't let it Panic us you say be safe be careful but zav wasn't Norma senver wasn't when the spice was killing her brain cell by cell then Port wasn't when he took the fleet into the void if the ixians had been safe and careful all of us right now would be sitting around a campfire wearing skins low he was truly a giga Chad for the ages and not much from this encounter now the guild did not dare to deal directly with the sadika who would find the location of two pile nor would they approach the lands Rod since the great houses would likely join to use the guild against the new emperor Mason also wanted to keep secret their use of the launch fearing this would be used against them the debate narrowed on two choices Retreat back into secrecy or continue trying to negotiate Mason broke the impasse with his commanding words and a unanimous board affirmed his ambitious plan and so another Emissary was sent to the governor of nabatia this Governor proved more temperate but was of course skeptical the human Navigator could replace the efficacy of computers that had been abandoned long ago naturally he demanded a demonstration with that the guild folded space to travel vast distances Across the Universe transporting him to the Imperial Court in three standard days instead of two years while confined to their own craft during the voyage and never permitted a glimpse of the guild ship or its crew the naboteans were blown away at this time Emperor Saudia the first was involved in dealings with the Lance Rod over the formation of a government that would permit both parties to thrive in 10 BG Saudi arranged the financial Synod honorarian 4 where the guild participated The Guild Representatives offered melanch representing it only as a spice that would extend human life importantly they claimed ignorance of the source of melanch and allayed any suspicion that spice had additional effects the emissaries also warned against attempts to use the guild for purposes other than those that were negotiated although outnumbered just or emphasized that the line must be drawn here no further more than that if any action against a guild was entertained they would Retreat back into secrecy they pointed out that no political entity could match the Guild in space still some of the great houses had Ambitions on becoming the Imperial house and saw the guild as a means of Ascension but both the guild and the emperor proved to be skilled negotiators and Saudi eventually came up with the proposal of Comb also known as the combine hanette over Fanta mercantiles comb had become one of the major Galactic organizations in the universe most economic Ventures were to be conducted through comb in which the Imperial house the lands Rod the Benny Jesuit and the spacing Guild would all have a stake maintaining a gigantic Monopoly encompassing all forms of comets across the Imperium and thus all economic Affairs across the cosmos cone would rely upon the spacing Guild for faster than light space travel The Guild grew immensely over the next five years by this time it was composed in part of members genetically engineered for special sensitivity to melange this produced Navigators and steersmen whose presidents enabled them to guide spacecraft through hyperspace there were also ancillary Personnel whose Highline is maintained and regulated transportation between planetary systems Guild Highlanders were immense in size easily accommodating many thousands of passengers whole flits of smaller vessels and vast exports of planetary Goods with the power to fold space to travel vast distances Across the Universe in an instant by 2800 he The Guild rediscovered hundreds of habitable unpopulated worlds under the right of domain rulings in the great convention the house paying the guildsman for a planetary find gained dominion over that planet conditional upon the approval of the lands ride Council and the Emperor of course no house could expect to meet the Imperial revenues demanded without being able to establish a Workforce there and since the house often could not populate the planet most were content to relinquish all claim to a find and offer it instead as an imperial Colony if accepted such an offer netted the house a handsome finders fee and left the problem of populating the New Colony to the Imperial house being imminently practical in such matters the emperor would spread the costs and lost Manpower with volunteer settlers for Millennia the power of the guild was great and in one case they even named the successor to the Golden Lion Throne only when a tradies came to power was Guild influence checked through control of the melange they required The Guild ultimately held the Civilized worlds together until the invention of ixia navigation devices in 14132 he breaking their Monopoly The Guild was after the emperor and the lands Rod the Third Leg of the political tripod of the Imperium although it owed formal allegiance to the Imperial house from whom it received its Charter The Guild was equally powered to both the emperor and the combined forces of the lancerat houses after all every communication travel trade and Military operation was dependent upon killed approval no great house not even house Carino dead endangered skilled shipping privileges through ill-advised infringements of the guilt peace the emperor himself was forced to employ spies and smugglers in an attempt to circumvent guilt control the guild was a fundamentally conservative organization because of the fear that technological advances in places such as icks and slalax would break their Monopoly through new methods of space travel therefore the Imperium with its feudal structure and religious strictures against technology was its only Safeguard against these dangers of course they also fear that supply of the large would be cut off their only weakness because of this The Guild allowed rubber stamp control over its Charter to prevent any threat to the established Imperial order only on arrakis the sole source of melanch that the Guild's policy prove ill-founded and disastrous [Music] first mentioned in Frank Herbert's Dune Guild Navigators have mutated humans that worked as spacefolder Pilots it is essentially them that give the guild their Monopoly over space travel in the novel pole notes the extent of power Guild Navigators had over Discerning the future saying think of that the finest Guild Navigators men who can quest to head through time to find the safest course for the fastest highliners all of them seeking me rarely ever seen Guild Navigators at the backbone of space travel this is because their limited prescience granted them the ability to see into the future and plot a course through the Minefield of fault space the navigate is used an excessive amount of melange to boost their mental abilities to the point of presence from the first of them Norma senva all Guild Navigators were mutated by the excessive amount of melange they consumed making them develop weird features though rarely ever seen there are a few cases where their original physical form is described the excess melange intake by The Navigators causes a biological mutation forcing them to remain in tanks pumping spice gas to stay alive thank you [Music] this level of extreme and extended exposure causes their bodies to atrophy and change over time with their heads and extremities elongating causing them to become vaguely aquatic in appearance the first external sign of melange-induced metabolic changes visible in the eyes as the drug tends to sclera and Iris to a dark shade of blue called blue and blue or the eyes of a bad as mentioned in my video on the fremant this is a common side effect to normal spice addicts the Navigator possesses thinned hands and feet with an elongated body frame and repositioned limbs their face looks repulsive as they have a tiny mouth made into a v-shape and a flappy nose which caused their breathing to sound weird due to excess mutation a guild Navigator's voice becomes so bad that only translators make it possible for anyone to understand what they're saying because of over-dependence on spice a guild Navigator becomes practically useless when they're cut off from their never-ending melange Supply the spacing Guild was bite's very nature a secretive organization that took up functions previously covered by the thinking machines just as the mentats and the Benny Jesuit did their very existence rested on the proprietary knowledge and practices they'd clone to for thousands of years the role of Guild Navigators was most prestigious and the ambition of almost all who joined the guild other known roles included the chief administrator the administrative staff navigator attendants Guild ambassadors and technical support staff the organization was essentially divided into five main departments responsible for keeping everything running smoothly accounting legal security operations and two-pile accounting involved payroll in all Financial records while the legal team dealt with contracts in all matters involving the rule of law unsurprisingly the security team was in fact the most efficient secret police organization ever founded not only did they have specialized teams involved in covert operations interior branches to deal with stolen cargo public relations officers and Ombudsman to deal with in-house problems but they also had a quality control team monitoring every single Journey that was being taken on top of that they had their own subgroups of specialized guards and police this range from basic crime Fighters and investigators anti-highjack guards spice and Sanctuary police to protect their reserve of melange to their own secret police helping them maintain counter Espionage and security within the guild operations was in charge of the day-to-day activity of the guild this Branch dealt with everything from Shipping in cargo recruitment advertising for tourism Planet evaluation research and development to training methods to ensure loyalty they even had an arroquin branch that tried to find a way to keep the occultional sand worm snatched for miraculous alive lastly there was two pile the home base of the guild whose location was Kept Secret in addition to having Personnel that maintained the operation and functioning of the planet tupar was also the retirement home of gildsman an Advanced Training Center and a hospital for those who needed special treatment this is also where every ship in the Guild's Fleet is built and undergoes maintenance and repairs making it one of the most vital locations that needed to be kept secret [Music] The Guild Navigators were utterly dependent on the spice melange to safely deliver a vessel via the Holtzman effect even a partial restriction on the guild spice requirements rendered them powerless and reduced long-distance trade and transport to a snail's pace polar trades was the first emperor to check the power of the guild through control of the spice melange in the year 10191 he when the Iraqis Affair boiled up the guild made overtures to the Benny Jesuit they hinted that their Navigators were bothered about the future and saw problems on the horizon two years later The Guild lowered its price so that every great House's Army headed to Iraqis with the emperor Sudan IV to stop the rebellious polar tradies however Paul threatened to destroy the spice if they did not ship all the troops back home you'll have one last chance to take matters into your own hands and bring the situation under control on arakis remedy this situation the star spice production or you will live out your life in a pain amplifier The Guild was then forced to sight with Paul threatening to strand the emperor and his troops on arrakis if he did not relinquish the throne they had no choice their limited powers of Prophecy showed Paul was capable of it and so they sent everyone home yielded to the control of the man who quickly became the new emperor five years later an oppressant Vision Paul saw a strike against kalidan and the rebellion of land's rad Nobles led by memnon thorvald Paul also knew the guild was helping them because of this he ordered the guilty Guild Navigator Barrick to strand the rebel Starships in distant space with no supplies seven years after the Caledon Affair The Guild participated in another plot against the emperor through steers minetrick due to his relative power within the guilt and his ability to elude Paul's prescience edric was a principal conspirator along with Reverend mother Gaius Helen moham and Princess irelan Carino the emperor's wife of course she was Paul's wife in name only because he was banging Chaney and making mutated San William babies the group's plot was discovered and revealed to Paul by his faithful follower otheim after Paul was blinded by a stone burner and disappeared into the desert edrick was killed by stilgar along with all the other participants in the conspiracy [Music] although there remained a significant political power for some time new problems emerged by the ascendancy of later trades II to the title of God emperor lato's extremely long lifespan coupled with his decision to realize the golden path strategy saw him hoard the spice melange with no concern for short-term problems thus over the many centuries the guild was forced to do his bidding leading to their unique power base evolved significantly diminishing while the guild remained a powerful body even after the death of later trades II their power gradually eroded over time by the time of the arrival of the honored mattress the success of the group sent out in the scattering had created new but largely unknown threats to their sovereignty the newly developed no ships by the ixians essentially starships that were invisible to prescience could perform the same functions of a guild Navigator as a result The Guild no longer had the Monopoly on space travel that gave the organization its Edge for thousands of years with that said that's all for today folks a huge thanks to everyone that requested we explore the spacing Guild don't forget to hit like And subscribe if you enjoyed the video and if there's anything else you'd like for me to cover please don't hesitate to ask as always it's been a pleasure niad here with film Comics explained thanks for stopping by you are transparent I see plans within Planet I have ordered House of tradies to occupy a rackets to mine the spice thus replacing their enemies the hard colors yes The Guild and the entire universe depends on spice he who can destroy a thing controls a thing there are Guild highliners above us send them back how dare you speak to me you're speaking [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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