> if I recall correctly, the fremens (who had unlimited access to it) were a bloody waring bunch They were, but not because they had spice. They had spice long

> if I recall correctly, the fremens (who had unlimited access to it) were a bloody waring bunch They were, but not because they had spice. They had spice long before they became a bloody warring bunch. The interplanetary jihad was at the behest of Paul Muad'dib. The Spartan and militant culture that existed before Muad'dib was mostly out of self preservation in the face of a brutal Arrakis environment and colonial oppression.