Heighliner

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A Heighliner was a starship used by the Spacing Guild to transport people and equipment across the known universe.

Guild Heighliners were usually immense in size, easily accommodating many thousands of passengers, whole fleets of smaller vessels, and the vast export of planetary goods.

Spacing Guild Heighliners could be used to fold space to travel vast distances across the universe in an instant. They were piloted by Guild Navigators and Steersmen.

Images of Guild Heighliners

A Guild Heighliner (Miniseries)

A Guild Heighliner (Miniseries)

heighliners -Illustration for the Dune encyclopedia by Matt Howarth

Heighliner as depicted in the Dune CCG

Heighliner in the 1984 Dune Movie

Heighliner Illustration by DB Ellis

Guild Heighliner in orbit over Caladan (Dune, 2021)

Guild Heighliner in orbit over Arrakis (Dune, 2021)

Videos

Spacing Guild Navigator Folds Space

A Guild Navigator in his spice gas control pod using his prescienct vision to pilot a Heighlinger through interstellar space (video excerpt, Frank Herbert's Dune miniseries, 2000)

Discrepancies

Heighliners were not described in detail by Frank Herbert in his original Dune releases. Both the 1984 and 2021 film adaptations, as well as the 2000 Dune miniseries, show guildships as gigantic cylindrical vessels, though the 2021 film depicts them as ovoid cylinders rather than the circular ones from earlier adaptations. The Dune Encyclopedia, however, states that Heighliners have a globular shape.