ssent adepts seem different in kind from the effects of melange useful to the Guild the voices were echoes of the past, but Guild Steersmen needed windows into the future Despite all these objections, there is something attractive about the idea of a secret B G hand m the founding of the Guild suppose Leona Shard was not cast out, but planted on Praxus specifically to intercept and join the exiles What motive could the B G have had? The answers to that question are as numerous as the benefits an organization like the Guild may furnish the genes of intelligent and adventurous people, perhaps one day useful m the breeding program, an organization tying an empire together, widening the resources of the gene-pool, die enormous political leverage that hyperspace monopoly would wield Still, how could the Sisterhood have known that the exiles would stop on Praxus? Even Bene Gessent sources shed little light on this and associated questions, but one of the most closely reasoned conjectures outside their ranks comes from Dons Bhrazen in her Pursuit of the Kwisatz Haderach The future to the Bene Gessent was a flux, its swirls dependent on every pebble dropped into the pool A larger pool meant less senous consequences from slight disturbances, but a larger gene-pool required better physical transportation If the Sisterhood could have become the Guild, they would have done so But open operation was not their way Also, at heart they were Butlenans and averse to traveling paths open to people like Aurelius Venport He had the boldness and the lack of scruples to test the spice given him by the B G But it would have been a purchase not a gift their scheme was to control his possible success by routing melange through his mistress, Norms Cevna, who would then rule Amelias and the enure enterprise, and the B G would then rule Norraa It almost worked ' If such was indeed the plan, part of the reason for its failure was that Frelo Mason had Leona Shard put to death when he took command of the Society of Mystic Manners The problem at tine heart of this second theory is the question of where the Bene Gessent originally found melange Despite the Sisterhood's seeding of the planets with the Missionana Protective, the B G could not have learned about melange from the Fremen, who did not reach Arrakis until 7193 Wherever from, the Guild clearly had melange m their early days on Tupile It is also clear that m the more than sixty years between Frelo Mason s dbcendancy and the Guild's joining the Impenum, the Guild discovered Arrakis and the source of the spice The Guild would not have been able to reveal the geriatric properties of melange and offer it as a lure to the emperor and the Landsraad during their negotiations at the Financial Synod (10 B G -5 B G ) if they did not have a controllable, steady source NAVIGATION Imagine a circus performe on the high wire Suppose that the wire rocks back and forth, but in each hand he twirls a bar, making himself a