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Originally Posted by jason taylor
In Dune the Atreides were kept from deploying sats because the Guild had artificially pumped the price to harass them or keep them from seeing something or something like that. Politics could get involved in infrastructure budgets in similar ways.
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Kynes put the Fremen up to bribing the Spacing Guild with spice to keep hidden the patches of green and other signs of Arrakis' ecology recovering as well as the movements of the sandworms and the Fremen themselves.
In Traveller, The Imperial Navy exists to prevent anyone other than the Emperor and the Moot from having power over space travel and inter-world trade.