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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Technik4" data-source="post: 3400405" data-attributes="member: 7211">There is nothing in the book that suggests the Guild had access to atomics, and even assuming it did, it would be risking quite a lot to use them (almost certainly the guild would have been wiped out by the combined houses and the landsraad). Frank Herbert always gave the spacing guild the attribute of a symbiote - leeching off of everyone else to ensure its own survival. This makes sense if you factor in their limited prescience, which was inactive once Muad'dib began his attack. Not knowing how things would turn out, the Guild went with the safe option of continuing to survive as they always had.The point is Frank Herbert was correct - the ability to destroy a thing gives you control of it (which Paul's son Leto certainly showed with his 3,000 year reign).</blockquote>