A no-ship is a fictional type of spacecraft from the Dune science fiction series by Frank Herbert.
Essentially, a no-ship is a type of no-chamber that can be used for interstellar transportation. Like a no-chamber, anything inside a no-ship is hidden from prescient vision and other methods of detection, although it is indicated that in standby mode, it can be seen with the naked eye. A no-ship has much greater technological capability than a no-c...
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A no-ship is a fictional type of spacecraft from the Dune science fiction series by Frank Herbert.
Essentially, a no-ship is a type of no-chamber that can be used for interstellar transportation. Like a no-chamber, anything inside a no-ship is hidden from prescient vision and other methods of detection, although it is indicated that in standby mode, it can be seen with the naked eye. A no-ship has much greater technological capability than a no-chamber; for example, it can perform the functions of a Guild Navigator. Specifically, a no-ship's computer is capable of enough limited prescience that it can successfully navigate its way through a fold in the fabric of the space-time continuum.
No-ships can also be gigantic. In Chapterhouse: Dune, Duncan Idaho and Murbella are confined to a no-ship for their own protection from prescient spying. They are capable of living within it for years without suffering many of the undue effects one would associate with such confinement, implying a...
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