Starship

Mixed Canonicity

This article refers to elements from both
Original Dune & Expanded Dune

A ( miniseries, 2000) — A Spacing Guild heighliner (*Frank Herbert's Dune* miniseries, 2000)

A starship was a space-faring vessel capable of travelling between star systems. They typically travelled close to light speed, or used the Holtzman Effect to realize faster-than-light travel.

Starships were essential to humankind's colonization of the known universe, and were critical to intergalactic transportation and communications for many millennia.

Spaceship often is used in a more generic sense for all types of spacecraft including shuttles and short-range planetary transports.

Starships used rocket propulsion when not travelling by Holtzman drive. Some larger starships used Suspensors.^[1]

Types of Star and Spaceship[]

starship - card artwork by — Spacing Guild starship - *Dune: Eye of the Storm* card artwork by Mark Maxwell

Harkonnen Hammership as depicted in the Dune CCG

Harkonnen Flagship by Chris Foss for Jodorowsky's Dune — Harkonnen Flagship by Chris Foss for Jodorowsky's *Dune*

Pirate-Spaceship design by Chris Foss for Jodorowsky's Dune — Pirate-Spaceship design by Chris Foss for Jodorowsky's *Dune*

Space-tug design by Chris Foss for Jodorowsky's Dune — Space-tug design by Chris Foss for Jodorowsky's *Dune*

Guild Transport landing Craft from the 1984 Dune movie — Guild Transport landing Craft from the 1984 *Dune* movie

Spice-Container design by Chris Foss for Jodorowsky's Dune — Spice-Container design by Chris Foss for Jodorowsky's *Dune*

House Frigate as depicted in the Dune CCG

CHOAM Frigates as depicted in the Dune 2 Pc Game

Reconnaissance
- Observation ships
- Scout Ships
- Searchers
  - Star-searchers
- Spy ships
Transports
- Carriers
- Dump Boxes
- Frigates
  - Attack Frigates
  - Troop Carriers
- Guild Cargo Ships
- Guild cartouches
- Guild space transports
- Heavy carriers
- Ixian conference ships
- Long-haul ships
- Shuttles
  - Factory shuttles
  - Small guild shuttles
  - Spice shuttles
- Spacefolders
  - Heighliners
- Starship Lighters
Warships
- Attack Frigates
- Crushers
- Defender ships
- Giant Hammerships
- Monitors
  - Ixian Monitors
Other:
- Drones
- No-Ships
  - Fortress No-Ships
  - Guardian No-Ships
- Orship

Famous Individual Starships[]

Ampoliros/DE
Emperor's ship

Expanded Dune[]

Combat Ships
- Ballistas
- Blockade runner
- Bomber
  - Atreides heavy bomber
  - Kindjal Fighter Craft
  - Command ships
- Corvette
- Cruisers
  - Battle Cruiser
    - Heavy Cruiser
  - Interplanetary Cruiser class three
  - Midsized cruisers
- Destroyers
  - Javelin
- Escort ships
- Fighter Craft
- Gunship
- Lumbering Battleships
- Marauder
Reconnaissance
- Spacing Guild reconnaissance ship
- Patrol craft
  - Patrol Scout
Transport Craft
- Cargo-ships
  - Cargo Hauler
  - Frigate Types
    - Brat
    - Steamship
    - Torch
  - Great House transport
- Heighliner Types
  - Dominic Class vessel
- Imperial Barge
- Landing Craft
  - Shuttle Types
    - Cannonball Shuttle
    - Large shuttles (for cargo and equipment)
    - small passenger shuttle
    - Tleilaxu shuttle
- Long haul carrier
- space yacht
- Starship lighter
  - Capital ships
  - Great Freight Lighter
  - Small Spice lighter
- passenger ships
  - Space liner
Machine Ships
- Cymek Star Voyager Craft
- Suicidal Robot Ships
- Update ships