is everyone forgetting an elephant in the room? the guild? The guild may choose to cooperate with Paul sometimes, but as soon as he loses his leverage on spice hostage situation, all of the fremen are stranded on other worlds, orbital bombardment on remaining sietches, Paul dethroned, no more jihad. and its not like the navigators can be taken hostage, thats like shooting the only airplane pilot on board. What are you going to do? learn millenniums if genetic mutation and folded space maths before spice withdrawal kicks in? basicly Herbert left a glaring plothole because it needed to happen in the story. but if you look closely at it, without the guild, not a single planetary conflict would ever leave the boundaries of that planet. Paul loses all his power as soon as his fremen army leaves the planet, the guild would shut this situation down so quick its ridiculous
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