Vehicles (Dune Supplement)
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- Carryall
- Crushers
- Dump Boxes
- Frigate
- Harvester
- Heighliner
- Hutment
- Monitor
- Ornithopter
- Sandcrawler
- Spice Factory
- Spice-Lighter
- Spotter Control
- Starship Lighter
- Troop Carrier
- No-Ship
A large (often 120 meters by 40 meters) spice mining machine commonly employed on rich, uncontaminated melange blows (often called a "Crawler" because of a bug-like body on independent tracks).
[edit] Main article: Heighliner
Major human transport and cargo container of the Spacing Guild's transportation system.
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A nine-leveled tent of interlocking metal leaves that reached out in a thousand-meter circle and could be attached to the base of a Starship Lighter. The Huntment brought to Arrakis by Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV housed five legions of Sardaukar.
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A ten-section space warcraft mounting heavy armor and shield protection. It is designed to be separated into its component sections for lift-off after planet-fall.
[edit] Main article: Ornithopter
Commonly referred to as 'thopters. Any aircraft capable of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds and insects. In the 1984 movie, the 'Thopters were seen as jet-propelled ships, while in the 2000 miniseries, the 'Thopters had moving wings, but were still not as Herbert had described.
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General term for machinery designed to operate on the Arrakis surface in hunting and collecting melange.
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See Sandcrawler
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A small ship used on Arrakis to transport the spice; a Lighter in general is simply a small transport ship.
[edit] The lighter Ornithopter in a spice-hunting group charged with control of watch and protection, looking out for wormsign.
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The royal spaceship the Emperor Shaddam IV used to lead his entourage of Sardaukar onto Arrakis.
[edit] Any Guild ship designed specifically for transport of troops between planets. A carrier could carry 300 Imperial Sardaukar.
[edit] Ships from other novels in the series
[edit] Main article: No-ship
A no-chamber designed into a spaceship. It was undetectable by users of prescience such as Spacing Guild Navigators.
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