they asked His counterproposal to the Guild offered the monopoly in return for their maintenance oi the sanctuary, and the Guild accepted The hypothesis mat this sanctuary existed in or near the Tupihan system rests on two arguments The first notes the Guild's frequent use of misdirection as a tactic a classic example is the Guild disclosure of me- lange as a life prolonging agent to divert attention from the spice s navigational uses If the Guild used a similar play after the Convention, they may have reasoned mat the last place suspected for the haven was within their own system, just as no one would have expected them to revea