The scallops need no fuel, since they strain the air they fly through (though good maintenance procedure mandates allowing the creatures to continue to function even when the ornithopter is not in use-a point which occurred late to ornithopter manufacturers who did not use detachable wings on the earlier models). The major repair and maintenance problems associated with ornithopters are the wing gears and joints, which are complicated ball-and-socket connections, and structural problems arising from the switchover from bird-like flight, which requires flexible wings for optimum performance, to fixed-wing flight, which requires rigid structures. Ornithopters faced considerable resistance when first introduced, since the piloting of one was quite different from the flying of fixed-wing craft. The Imperial Pilots Guild 417 refused to admit members on the basis of ormthopter flight-time until 7520 B G and many systems refused to permit ornithopters to be used as anything but sport or commuter vehicles One of the earliest sport ornithop-tensts was IV Holtzman, who was senoasly injured in a crash of an eariy model Emperor Neweh, distressed with the slow acceptance of the ornithopter, directed the scientists who developed it to cease further development work on the device, and in stead to concentrate on a unified astrological theory that could be used to detect plots against his life among his courtiers Although slow in coming, acceptance of ornithopters eventually arrived, and by 7000 B G , they were the favored mode of air borne transports Hie Butianan Jihad, with its proscription of complicated machinery, advanced the simple, effective ornithopter to almost sole possession of planetary skies WDI Further reference!: Beekster Barty. The History of the Ormthopter m Sport and Commerce (Caladm Apex) Ruuverad Zhaunz, Cost Effective Procedures at Omahop ler Veterinary Medicine (Richese U of Bailey Press) OTHEYM. (10149-102Q5) The ftemen destined to become one of Paul Muad'Dtb's most trusted Fsdaykin lieutenants and a key figure in penetrating the conspiracy against the Atreides Emperor He was bom at Sietch Tabr during an enormous sjffidstorm-a portent perhaps of the day Otheym would help his Lisan al-Gaib defeat the Padishah Emperor and of the holocaust that would take Otheym's Irfe Otheym's mother, Ulja, an efficient organizer of children's classes, saw to her son's education However, rt was Otheym's father, Uliet, a highly experienced fighter, who had the greatest influence on his son, even though he died when Otheym was just an infant Otheym was too young to remember toe day Patriot Kynes was brought to the sietch by the three youths he had saved from the Harkonnens From his mother Otheym heard the story of how the debate on Kynes' fate had raged for hours until the judgment for death prevailed, of how his father, armed with a consecrated knife, approached Kynes, who was enthusiastically speaking to a group about the water paradise he foresaw for Arrakis, and of how Kynes spoke just two words to Uliet "Remove yourself" as he swept past his would-be assassin What happened then wil! always remain inexplicable without speaking a word, Uhet moved aside and fell on his own knife From that moment Kynes was an umma, a holy man, and in time Uliet was elevated to the sadus the blessed company of heavenly judges As the son of a legend, Otheym came to believe implicitly in the sacred mission of the man who had sanctified his father and bowed to devote his life to torwardmg Kynes' vision In his jouth, Othejm showed great prom ise as a fighter, as an adult a huge man with broad, flat features, he easily surpassed his father's brilliance on the battlefield As one of Stilgar's most able men, Otheym was among the group sent into the desert by Liet-Kynes' distrans to find the outworlders, Paul Atreides and Jessica Otheym was captured by the power he felt in Paul and surrendered to an unshakable belief that Paul was Lisan al-Gaib incarnate In tune the faithful disciple became a lieutenant of Muad'Dib's dreaded Fedaykin death commandos On hand the day Muad Dib became a sandnder, Otheym rode with the troop on his hero s worm to the Cave of Birds, where he helped to overwhelm the smugglers who had penetrated there, and where he observed the emotional reunion of Paul and Gurney Halleck Although startled by the sudden attack of the ten Sardaukar who had infiltrated the smugglers, Otheym acquitted himself well in the ensuing melee, accounting for two of the seven Imperial troops slam by the Fremen Undoubtedly Otheym's supreme moment came when he was chosen, with his fnend Korba, to serve on Muad'Dib's War Council to plan the battle strategy against the Padishah Emperor Otheym was also indispensable m the maneuvers at the Shield Wall prior to the decisive battle at Arrakeen that resulted m the defeat of the emperor's five legions of Sardaukar and the Harkonnen mercenaries Otheym not only functioned as a scout, but also contrived the escape of the two Sardaukar captured with the smugglers and set up watchers to note their progress By Paul's 418 direct orders, he was in charge of moving the check patrols out of the blast area before Paul triggered the explosives that breached the Shield Wall.