Glossary of Dune Terminology - O

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• Obliterators – Weapons of mass destruction stolen by Honored Matres from their "outside enemy;" they combust the atmosphere of a planet and subsequently its surface.
• Other Memory – The combined ego and memories of all female ancestors, which a Bene Gesserit may be trained to access.
• Ornithopter (or 'Thopter) – "Aircraft capable of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds;" one of the primary modes of transportation on the desert planet Arrakis.