Forum:Slipstream survival.

Here is my proposal to you people. If some of the shield worlds operate by being suspended in slipspace, then why can't ships that are in slipspace at the time of the firing survive aswell, politley discuss.

Perhaps they can, I don't remember it being said anywhere that ships in slipspace couldn't survive.

Forerunner disappearance?

Actually Spartan Jack I'm glad you brought this topic up. We know from the Ghosts of Onyx that people can live quite comfortably within a contained slipspace field for long periods of time. Team Katana was kept in a sort of Forerunner version of a cryo tube for almost the entire length of the events on Onyx, and are still tucked away inside them after. Call me crazy, but I believe that the Forerunners had never ever intended to stay behind after the firing of the Halo array. It is obvious that there were no Forerunners left in the galaxy insofar as we know. Not even scraps or fragments of them are left. No bones. No graves. Nothing. So where are they? How could they vanish so utterly and completely as to leave the whole thing a mystery? If it was as simple a matter of them not getting into Onyx in time, or not being able to retreat to the Ark fast enough we would have some hard evidence. My theory is if the Forerunners were so skilled in their understanding and manipulation of Slipspace, it is probable that they could coax entire planets or other large installations such as the Ark into slipstream space to inhabit, safe from all other outside forces. I believe that the Forerunners first of all wanted to let all of the species of the galaxy evolve and progress on their own without them interfering, and secondly I believe that they just wanted to be safe from anything like the Flood ever occurring again. What better way than by entering slipspace and never coming out. We know that this is possible even by humans as witnessed in the events of Halo: Cole Protocol when the entire Rubble was sent through Slipspace and all inhabitants on board survived. So there's my theory. Does it have a leg to stand on or am I nuts? Captain MIC  19:57, 26 May 2011 (EDT)


 * Well the whole "ability to enter large structures into slipspace" idea was suggested way back in Halo: The Fall of Reach when a Covenant fleet heading for Sigma Octanus was mistaken for an asteroid pulled into slipspace, and confirmed in First Strike with megastructures such as Enyielding Heirophant and High Charity. I agree with your idea that the Forerunners would wish to limit contact with the outside world - with non-sentient Flood forms still alive, introducing a slipspace-capable civilization nearby would just repeat the whole cycle again. We don't know what exactly happened to the shield world within Onyx (remember, Onyx was the artificial planet surrounding the shield world) - it could be that there Forerunners that lived there but left after the shield was re-opened or simply died elsewhere around the very large structure.--  Fore  run  ner '' 20:19, 26 May 2011 (EDT)

We do know that Forerunner weaponry could attack ships in slipspace. Additionally, the Halo blast would probably be traveling through slipspace as well, otherwise how would it get through other planets? Simply entering slipspace probably wouldn't render them completely safe from the Halo effect. Tuckerscreator (stalk ) 23:02, 26 May 2011 (EDT)

I think it was intended in the final plan of the forruner's that they would not come back, otherewise they would not have appointed humans as Reclaimer's, dont forget, forerunner thought of humans as a minor species that was once an enemy but after the Human-Forrunner war, (inwhich the prophet species were alianced with humans) humans devolved. anyways, aswell with the idea with taking entire planets into slipspace, there was a limi to the tecknology, things such as the halo array and the ark had to use portals to go about( such as the one witnessed in halo 3), aswell, if i remember correctly, in one of the halo books, it mentions how on an estremely rare ocation, a ship may into slip-space, and arrive at its destination, whithout its crew, completely missing, sometimes even the ship never comes back out, kapoof, gone. Anyways, i believe it is likely that forrunners do live in subspace bubble's such as onyx, just probably not all of them, in some of them i would think that they'd die of because of something, such as desease, not a large inouph gene pool to reproduce, etc., any comments on my theory's?--The Grave Mind 11:49, 27 May 2011 (EDT)

It's certainly plausible that Forerunners are harboring a society deep in Slipstream space, but remember, the Halo Array was a last resort of the best kind. If all it took was to hide in Slipstream space to get away from a harmonic neurological pulse of their own design, then the Forerunners would simply hide the Ark, with it's many samples of the Milky Way's sentient species, away in 11th-dimension space until such time the Flood no longer had sustenance and died out. IMO, the Forerunners knew it was the end of the line, and they blew themselves out of existence so that others may have a chance to attain peace in the galaxy. k 4   karnage   01:01, 28 May 2011 (EDT)

My point made more obvious:
I am talking about dumb luck here. No staying in slipspsace indefinately. I mean that a ship happens to jump as the array is fired and comes out of slipspace to find a galaxy devoid of sentient life. Just like Kansas.