Dune part 2

[Jormungandr]

The problem with this, Leto was genuinely doing a great job. His Wormyness banned ursery and maintained a currency backed by a hard value*, had politicizing pseudohistorians burnt at the stake atop pyres of their own propaganda** and recognized that giving dissidents wives and families under the status quo meant they now had reason to support it***.



During the landsraad and later, Leto's empire, space travel was limited to a finite bubble of territory surrounding Arrakis, since a ship had to carry enough melange to sustain its Navigator both ways. After the Scattering, Ixian Navigation Machines and synthetic Melange produced in Axlotl Tanks broke this monopoly and allowed people to colonize everywhere. The idea being, that eventually new colonies would be being established at a rate faster than existing colonies could be conquered or destroyed, therefore, it'd be impossible for anyone to rule everyone.
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Ironically, the Fish Speakers would backfire in the long run as their remnants, along with a few others such as Bene Gesserit splinters and the awakened Axolotl tanks (women), would create the BDSM Cultists Honoured Matres, which twisted the Fish Speakers' original purpose.

 

[Jaenera Targaryen]

Ironically, the Fish Speakers would backfire in the long run as their remnants, along with a few others such as Bene Gesserit splinters and the awakened Axolotl tanks (women), would create the BDSM Cultists Honoured Matres, which twisted the Fish Speakers' original purpose.

Considering that came from the so-called sequels written by Frank Herbert's son, YMMV on that. I don't consider them canon myself, but I won't belabor the point, but there are some fans out there who can get really militant about those books and their status.

 

[Jormungandr]

Considering that came from the so-called sequels written by Frank Herbert's son, YMMV on that. I don't consider them canon myself, but I won't belabor the point, but there are some fans out there who can get really militant about those books and their status.

IIRC they were based on Frank's notes, so I wouldn't be surprised if that were what he'd been planning, but I agree; the sequels, eh.

I do think he intended the Thinking Machines to be the ones making a return like in the son-written sequels, though.

 

[Poe]

I do think he intended the Thinking Machines to be the ones making a return like in the son-written sequels, though.

yes, this is the only thing that was for sure something he planned

 

[Jaenera Targaryen]

The problem with this, Leto was genuinely doing a great job. His Wormyness banned ursery and maintained a currency backed by a hard value*, had politicizing pseudohistorians burnt at the stake atop pyres of their own propaganda** and recognized that giving dissidents wives and families under the status quo meant they now had reason to support it***.

I think that was the whole point. He wanted to make them want for nothing, and in so doing, make them hate it. A psychological gambit that's akin to having people have all their favorite food and drink all the time, or letting them watch their favorite shows and movies and nothing else for millennia on end, until they grow sick and tired of it.

Basically, make the safe and comfortable gilded cage so everyday that people want to go outside and never go back.