Move an object without Character Controller?

Yes.

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Fiiine. You certainly can. Are you having a specific issue? You can directly alter position/rotation through transform.position (a Vector3) and transform.rotation (a Quaternion). You can also set rotation by using tranform.forward, .right, and .up, but you can run into issues using those if you're looking around in 3D. Better to use Quaternion.LookRotation in that case.

For instance, this'll make an object move according to the Horizontal and Vertical axes set up in project settings, and the object will snap to face the direction it's moving.

 var desiredMovement : Vector3 = Vector3( Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Vertical") );
 transform.position+= desiredMovement;
 if ( desiredMovement.sqrMagnitude > 0 ) transform.forward = desiredMovement;