Glossary of Dune Terminology - H

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• Handlers – Humanoid race who bred and trained Futars to hunt Honored Matres.
• Harvester (also Harvester Factory or Crawler) – "Large (often 120 metres by 40 metres) spice mining machine ... buglike body on independent tracks."
• Heighliner – Enormous carrier starships used by the Spacing Guild for interstellar travel.
• High Council – "The Landsraad inner circle empowered to act as supreme tribunal in House to House disputes."
• Holtzman effect – Scientific phenomenon that makes (among other things) instantaneous space travel and defensive force shields possible.
• Honored Matres – Violent matriarchal order formed in The Scattering.
• Hunter-seeker – "Ravening sliver of suspensor-buoyed metal guided as a weapon by a nearby control console; common assassination device." Floating in mid-air, it kills by entering the body and following nerve pathways to vital organs. A hunter-seeker is employed in Dune in an assassination attempt on Paul Atreides.