Ithaca (Dune)
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Ithaca is a fictional no-ship from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. It is a giant spacecraft designed by the Ixians and created in The Scattering for the Honored Matres to serve as a great city in space, a type of space habitat. Miles Teg stole the ship from Gammu, and a decade later the Miles Teg clone-ghola, Duncan Idaho, Sheeana, and Garimi stole it from Murbella, bringing along 150 refugees including the last Tleilaxu Master Scytale, some Bene Gesserit Suk Doctors, male workers from Chapterhouse, the "wild" Reverend Mother Rebecca, the Rabbi, the rest of the surviving members of a cell of Secret Israel, four Futars, and seven small sandworms taken from Chapterhouse.
Ithaca is the name given by Duncan Idaho, Sheaana, and her Bene Gesserits a year after they escaped Chapterhouse, in light of the no-ship's endless wanderings similar to the ancient Greek hero Odysseus' journey back to his home of Ithaca.
Ithaca is equipped with Holtzman engines which allows it to travel to any part of the universe instantaneously. The vessel is a compact city over a kilometer in diameter, over a hundred decks high, and contains uncounted passageways and rooms.
The Ithaca is also equipped with a navigational computer to assist with instantaneous space travel, but Duncan Idaho destroys it fearing that the computer would eventually lead them to a trap. Duncan uses his limited prescience to guide the Ithaca through foldspace whenever he feels that the hunters were near.
Reverend Mothers Elyen and Calissa are also part of the Ithaca crew. [1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hunters Of Dune pg. 63
