Dune Novels

What happened to the sand trout on Salusa Secundus?

I thought the experiments failed? Maybe they just stopped after the marriage of Farad'n and Ghanima?
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Probably starved to death- I don't think they ate just sand- wasn't it sand-plankton? Anyway, kind of hurts the storyline later on if the worm died of starvation- with Rakis nuked- wouldn't the sand plankton in the non-sterile die from lack of exposure? Perhaps it's lifecycle or makeup is decidedly different from anything on earth- a plankton that does not photosynthesis but rather absorbes heat for food?

Anyway, if it starved to death from lack of compatible food, it jeopardizes the later story line of post nuclear Rakis and the return of the worms..... the top surface of the planet was glassy hard- nothing is growing on the top levels...... nothing.

I think the sandworm solitary never being able to reproduce is a better storyline- always there on Seleucus, never making spice in any measurable quantity due to it not breeding for whatever unknown reason- growing old, older, older..... for centuries, until it dies of natural causes.

I could imagine it being part of the training program by Leto II in the first few hundred years of his reign- for non-native fish speakers due to arrive on Arrakis to learn to ride the worm so they have some chance of holding their own against the fremen and not look like the total noobs they are- having one worm is much more forgiving in a training sceneario knowing that during training event, ten other worms are not going to unknowingly show up and have a turf war over the thumper yards away from the disembarking line. You only have one old, depressed worm who is comfortable in it's ways due to the complete lack of competition from other non-existent worms.

Shoot, besides, Secundus becomes a personal fief of the Ghanima as it is, no one is going to dispute the worm's authority over it generations after she passes away- even if in some old legal sense for the passing civilization it's not technically his. One worm destined to die of natural causes isn't going to move him much..... but I can see a lame exploitation of it.

Simple calculation:
Fremen- Natural Warrior
Fremen- Use worm for transportation

Fish Speakers- not natural warriors
Fish Speakers- need to train elsewhere than on arrakis so not to embarrass themselves infront of the jealous and proud fremen,

Leto- Owns both Arrakis and Selucus
Desert- Retreating but surely not gone for quite some time
Secundus- known training plantet for hard-core infantry
Leto- Sole source of the worms at the end of GEOD



I can see the possibility of the worm being shamelessly exploited until it's deeply unsatisfying death. I wonder if anyone ever tried to learn how to kill it to get at Leto in a similar manner? I can see a lot of conspiracies against him starting there with hairbrained schemes to kill the practice worm.