Okay: if the spice is 1) essential to interstellar travel and 2) can only be found on the remote planet Arrakis, then how did humanity ever find it? I mean, how was Arrakis colonized and mined in a pre-FTL universe?
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The book doesn't spell it out in so many words, but the Religion essay in the appendix has space travel pre-date the butlerian jihad that replaced computational engines with drugged guild pilots, mentats, and other human specialists.
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