Editing Spacing Guild (section)

== Depictions ==

=== Film and television ===
In [[David Lynch]]'s 1984 film ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]'', the Navigator's mutation affects his entire body, and he resembles a giant newt or worm with a heavily deformed head, V-shaped mouth and vestigial limbs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2021/09/21/close-reads-the-iconic-weirdness-of-david-lynchs-dune/|title=David Lynch's ''Dune'' Kept Science Fiction Cinema Strange|first=Lincoln|last=Michel|date=September 21, 2021|website=[[Tor.com]]|access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/david-lynch-dune-is-better-weirder-than-you-remember/|title=David Lynch's ''Dune'' Is Better (and Weirder) than You Remember|date=October 26, 2021|website=Digital Trends|access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.duneinfo.com/arrakis/navigators|title=The Spacing Guild Navigators (Photos) |website=Dune: Behind The Scenes|via=duneinfo.com|access-date=April 16, 2025}}</ref> The 2000 miniseries [[Frank Herbert's Dune|Frank Herbert's ''Dune'']] portrays the Navigator as a withered figure with a humanoid head, blue-in-blue eyes and arms which have mutated into wings with elongated webbed fingers. The 2003 sequel miniseries [[Frank Herbert's Children of Dune|Frank Herbert's ''Children of Dune'']] presents Edric as a sleek, golden humanoid with an elongated head and limbs, and feathery appendages.<ref name="SR"/> Though Navigators are not present in [[Denis Villeneuve]]'s 2021 film ''[[Dune (2021 film)|Dune]]'', Guild representatives are depicted as humanoids in white, cloaked space suits with opaque helmet visors.<ref name="Empire">{{Cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/dune-spoiler-interview-denis-villeneuve-ending-paul-dreams-and-part-two/|first=Ben|last=Travis|title=''Dune'' Spoiler Interview: Denis Villeneuve on the Ending, Paul's Dreams, and What's Coming in ''Part Two''|website=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]|date=November 16, 2021|access-date=October 19, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nerdbot.com/2021/11/19/daily-dune-those-werent-guild-navigators-on-caladan/|title=Daily ''Dune'': Those Weren't Guild Navigators on Caladan|first=Mary Anne|last=Butler|website=NerdBot|date=November 19, 2021|access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref> Villeneuve explained:
{{blockquote|We don't see the Navigators in this first part... I tried to keep all the space-travelling as mysterious as possible, like almost bringing some kind of mysticism or sacred relationship with that part of the movie. Everything involving space is just evocated and very mysterious.<ref name="Empire"/>}}
Writing for ''[[Screen Rant]]'', Adam Felman opined that the limited inclusion of the Guild in Villeneuve's film helped prevent the story from becoming convoluted.<ref name="SR"/>

=== Games ===
The Spacing Guild is a sub-faction in the [[real-time strategy]] video game ''[[Emperor: Battle for Dune]]'' (2001).<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Star |last=Dingo |date=June 21, 2001 |url=http://www.gamepro.com/computer/pc/games/reviews/14850.shtml |title=''Emperor: Battle For Dune'' Review for PC |magazine=[[GamePro]] |publisher=[[International Data Group|IDG Entertainment]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041205182122/http://www.gamepro.com/computer/pc/games/reviews/14850.shtml |archive-date=December 5, 2004 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 26, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamerstemple.com/game-reviews/pc/43/emperor-battle-for-dune-review|title=''Emperor: Battle for Dune'' Review |website=The Gamers' Temple |date=July 19, 2005 |access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref> It has its own private army with which it can back up its demands. The Guild uses its heighliners to transport troops of the three player Houses ([[House Atreides|Atreides]], [[House Harkonnen|Harkonnen]] and [[House Ordos|Ordos]]) from their homeworlds to Arrakis. The Guild also uses its Navigators to pilot their NIAB ("Navigator in a Boat") Tanks, a hover tank that projects a single electrical bolt, and NIAP ("Navigators in a Plane") Flyers, an aerial version of the NIAB Tank, although without any weapons of its own. The NIAB Tank also has the ability to fold-space for short distances on the battlefield.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.g4li.org/emperor-battle-for-dune/niab-tank.html|title=NIAB Tank - ''Emperor: Battle for Dune''|first=Daniel|last=Schnieders|date=July 28, 2022|website=Games for Learning|access-date=October 21, 2022}}</ref> One mission in the game involves the three House attacking each other on a Guild heighliner.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Kapalka |first=Jason |url=https://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_206.pdf |title=The Emperor Has No Clue (''Emperor: Battle for Dune'' Review) |magazine=[[Computer Gaming World]] |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]] |issue=206 |date=September 2001 |pages=86–87; 109–115 |access-date=April 26, 2022}}</ref> The Guild forces in the game can also deploy a unit called the Maker, an infantry unit somewhat resembling both a Navigator and a small sandworm, armed with an electrical weapon. Later in the game, the Spacing Guild attempts to seize control of the universe by building an "Emperor Worm".