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Spacing Guild
16 entries tagged Spacing Guild, 16 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Spacing Guild: the monopoly on space travel and Melange.
- Heighliner: the great foldspace carrier of the Spacing GuildThe Heighliner was the immense starship of the Spacing Guild, a vessel large enough to hold whole fleets of smaller craft and many thousands of passengers. Piloted by melange saturated Navigators, it folded space to cross the universe in an instant, and the Guild's monopoly over it made the Heighliner the quiet arbiter of Imperial power.
- Rental Gorus: Chief Administrator of the Spacing GuildRental Gorus led the Administrator branch of the Spacing Guild in the era of Kralizec. Deceived by the Enhanced Face Dancers, he authorized the killing of the Guild Navigators and unknowingly delivered the Guild to the reborn Thinking Machines, surviving to see the breach he caused healed.
- Carryall: the lifter of the spice harvestThe carryall was a large winged aircraft used by spice mining teams on Arrakis. It ferried harvesters across the sand and, above all, lifted them clear when a sandworm came, making it indispensable to spice production.
- D'murr Pilru: the Ixian Guild NavigatorD'murr Pilru was a skilled Spacing Guild Navigator of Ixian heritage, twin brother of the resistance fighter C'tair Pilru. He gave up family and human concerns for the heightliner's tank, and was instrumental in restoring House Vernius to the rule of Ix.
- EdricEdric was a third-stage Spacing Guild Navigator and ambassador who joined the failed conspiracy to assassinate Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib. His prescience shielded the plot from the Emperor's foresight, and he delivered the Hayt ghola to Arrakis before the scheme collapsed and he was executed.
- Edrik: the Steersman of KralizecEdrik was a Spacing Guild Navigator, one of the line called the Edrics, who rose to lead his fellow Steersmen as the prophesied time of Kralizec approached. His efforts to secure spice and a synthetic source of melange ended when he was killed by the Enhanced Face Dancer Khrone.
- Financial SynodThe Financial Synod of Aerarium IV was convened by Emperor Saudir I to settle the Spacing Guild's place among the Landsraad. After years of deadlock, the emperor broke the impasse with a plan that created CHOAM and gave the Imperium its enduring commercial and political order.
- Guild NavigatorA Guild Navigator, also called a Steersman, was a spice-transformed human at the highest rung of Spacing Guild ambition. Saturated in melange within antigravity tanks, Navigators used prescience to guide Heighliners safely across the folds of space.
- Josef VenportJosef Venport was the third and final Directeur of VenKee Enterprises, which he renamed Venport Holdings. The great-grandson of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva, he commanded the foldspace shipping empire that fought the Butlerian movement in the galactic civil war of the early Imperium.
- JunctionJunction was a world of the Spacing Guild, with meeting halls built to hold the tanks of its Navigators. In Chapterhouse: Dune it has fallen to the Honored Matres and becomes the scene of the war's last battle.
- KolharKolhar was a cold, barren world near the Rossak system that Norma Cenva transformed into the manufacturing center for the first spacefolder vessels. Decades after the Butlerian Jihad it was reduced to a radioactive wasteland by Manford Torondo's atomics.
- MelangeMelange, commonly called simply the spice, was a naturally produced awareness spectrum narcotic found only on Arrakis. It was the foundation of commerce, longevity, and interstellar travel across the Imperium, the single resource capable of creating or destroying an empire.
- Norma CenvaNorma Cenva was a mathematical genius of the Butlerian Jihad who designed the first foldspace ship, became the first Guild Navigator, and co-founded the Spacing Guild. She ultimately evolved into the disembodied Oracle of Time.
- OrnithopterThe ornithopter, or thopter, was the most common small transport aircraft of the Imperium, flying by jet propulsion and by mimicking the wingbeats of birds. It carried passengers and cargo, served in war, and on Arrakis dueled with the sandworms above the spice sands.
- Spacing Guild: the monopoly on space travelIts Navigators took spice until prescience let them fold space, and nothing crossed the stars without them. That monopoly held the Imperium up.
- TupileTupile was the sanctuary region of the known universe, a group of worlds whose location was kept secret by the Spacing Guild. Under House Corrino it sheltered defeated and renegade Great Houses sent into exile.