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The Mentat discipline is developed as a replacement for computerized calculation, just as the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild take on functions previously performed by thinking machines.
Spacing end distortion is the termination of marking pulses before the proper time.
Spacing in neoclassical ballet is usually more modern or complex than in classical ballet.
" Due to the rarity and value of melange and its necessity as a catalyst for interstellar travel, the Padishah Emperor's power at the outset of Dune, is secured by his control of Arrakis, which puts him on equal footing with both the assembly of noble families called the Landsraad and the Spacing Guild, which monopolizes interstellar travel.
The Spacing Guild is an organization in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe.
His rule is threatened by a conspiracy spun by the other major powers in the Imperium: the Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild, the Bene Tleilax, Irulan herself and even some of the Fremen.
Spacing is the same on a putlog scaffold as on a general purpose scaffold, and ties are still required.
Spacing among females is less complete.
The Legends of Dune prequel trilogy ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson establish that the Spacing Guild first start using Guild Navigators because the travel technique of spacefolding is not safe ; only about nine out of every ten heighliners make it to their final destination without Navigators.
Spacing of 2. 0 to 2. 5 m is appropriate if C. spinosa is used to control soil erosion on slopes.
In Sandworms of Dune, Brian Herbert and Anderson's 2007 conclusion to the original series, the Spacing Guild is manipulated into replacing its Navigators with Ixian navigation devices and cutting off the Navigators ' supply of melange.
Towards the end of the real-time strategy game Emperor: Battle for Dune, it is revealed that both the Tleilaxu and the Spacing Guild have been secretly experimenting with the sandworms of Arrakis in a remote research facility in the desert as the three great Houses of the Landsraad, the Atreides, Ordos and Harkonnen, are busy waging the War of Assassins amongst each other.
Later on, Irulan spies on Reverend Mother Mohiam's clandestine meeting with a Spacing Guild operative ; their conversation makes her realize that there is more to what is happening on Arrakis than meets the eye.
The third primary power in the universe is the Spacing Guild, which monopolizes interstellar travel and banking.
The organization plays a very important role in the political and economic power balance of the Empire, which is shared among the Landsraad, the Padishah Emperor, and the Spacing Guild ( the Bene Gesserit prefer clandestine manipulation to overt action and therefore remain a " silent " fourth power in the Empire until the fall of Leto Atreides II ).
In Frank Herbert's Dune series, the Padishah Emperor — also commonly referred to as " Emperor of the Known Universe " or " Emperor of a Million Worlds "— is the supreme ruler of humanity, whose power is checked by the Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit and the Landsraad.
Spacing is important to integrate, especially with self-modeling.
The effect is used in this case to fold space at the quantum level, allowing the Spacing Guild's heighliner ships to instantaneously travel far distances across space.
The Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild, and the Tleilaxu also plot to overthrow Paul's reign, aided even by rebel Fremen, who hate how Paul's terraforming project is changing Arrakis and the traditional Fremen way of life.
While the Emperor is supreme sovereign ruler of the universe, power is shared, in a quasi-feudal arrangement, with the noble houses of the Landsraad and with the Spacing Guild, which possesses a monopoly over interstellar travel.

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* The Spacing Guild from the Dune series, created by Frank Herbert.
Urged by the Spacing Guild, Shaddam accepts his terms.
Afflicted by despair as a result of his prescience, Paul faces another assassination attempt by a conspiracy of the Bene Tleilax, the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild.
Shaddam secures his throne by paying the Spacing Guild with a supply of the spice and by arranging his own marriage to a Bene Gesserit.
Seizing control of the planet, Paul Atreides intensifies this form of hydraulic despotism by asserting control over both the Landsraad and Spacing Guild, as well as other factions in the universe.
The old Emperor wants to remove the spice monopoly by making sure that he has the only access to it, thus controlling the Spacing Guild.
The feed was eventually revealed to have been written by Shawn Micallef, a journalist for the publications Eye Weekly and Spacing.
In Hunters of Dune, the 2006 Brian Herbert / Anderson sequel to Chapterhouse Dune, the Navigator Edrik fears his kind's obsolescence when the Spacing Guild itself ( pressured by a shortage of melange ) begins funding the development of superior Ixian navigation technology that would not require Navigators.
The old Emperor wants to take over the spice monopoly by making sure that he has the only access to spice, thus controlling the Spacing Guild.
They saw the Imperium's dependency on melange and the superhuman tasks performed by specialized groups such as the Spacing Guild, Mentats, and the Bene Gesserit as threats to any species-wide evolution.
However, in a July 15, 2010 blog post, Anderson announced that these novels had been postponed due to plans by Herbert and Anderson to publish a trilogy about " the formation of the Bene Gesserit, the Mentats, the Suk Doctors, the Spacing Guild and the Navigators, as well as the solidifying of the Corrino imperium.
The Spacing Guild has been forever weakened by the development of Ixian machines capable of navigation in foldspace, practically replacing Guild Navigators.
Spacing ... Aerial Highways, a large 300 foot ceramic tile mural designed by Claude Breeze, spreads across the north face of the main station building above the bus platform.
* Spacing Magazine article, hidden gems: Crawford & Harbord bridges by Sarah Meehan
The corporation's management and board of directors are controlled by the Padishah Emperor and the Landsraad ( with the Spacing Guild and the Bene Gesserit as silent partners ).

Spacing and method
* Spacing, a science fiction term for a theoretical method of execution by space exposure.

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* Spacing tubes-vacuum maintaining tubes which provide the proper space between optical elements, and shield any scattered radiation
After the last battle with any one of the opponent Houses on their home planet, the Spacing Guild ( Guild of Navigators ) leaves the victorious House stranded on the enemies ' conquered homeworld, attempting to control Arrakis with House Tleilaxu by genetically engineering an Emperor Worm with immense psychic powers empowered by Lady Elara.

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House Corrino schemes to return to the throne, while the Bene Gesserit make common cause with the Tleilaxu and Spacing Guild to gain control of the spice and the children of Paul Atreides.
Note that not all modifiers are non-spacing – there exists Spacing Modifier Letters Unicode block.
Spacing should be 45 cm ( 18 in.
Similarly specialized groups of humans which arise after the Jihad include the Bene Gesserit, a matriarchal order with advanced mental and physical abilities, and the Spacing Guild, whose prescience makes safe, instantaneous space travel possible.
The Jihad also gives rise to the Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild, the Sardaukar army, the Landsraad, and even House Corrino, whose Padishah Emperors rule the universe for the next 10, 000 years, until the events of Dune and the ascension of Paul Atreides.
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The Tleilaxu themselves step into the foreground in 1969's Dune Messiah, as their Face Dancer Scytale enters into a conspiracy with the Bene Gesserit, Spacing Guild, and House Corrino to topple the rule of Paul Atreides.
The Navigators of the Spacing Guild depend upon melange for the heightened awareness and the prescient ability to see safe paths through space-time, allowing them to navigate the gigantic Guild heighliners between planets.
As Paul Atreides notes in Dune, it was the Spacing Guild's obsession with the ' safe path ' that led them ' ever into stagnation ,' and brought on their eventual obsolescence.
In Emperor: Battle for Dune ( 2001 ), the Spacing Guild plays the role of a subhouse.
The old institutions, the Bene Gesserit, the Bene Tleilax, the Spacing Guild, the houses Major and Minor, the Landsraad, the technocrats of Ix, and CHOAM, have all faded from power in the face of Leto's hydraulic despotism: since he has absolute control of the spice on which the whole universe depends, he has the universe in the palm of his hand, and ruthlessly enforces his simplistic order.

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