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==Mechanics==

This new engine allowed ships to tunnel into "the Slipstream" (also called "Slipspace"). Technically called "Shaw-Fujikawa Space",<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], page 141</ref> after the scientists who proved its existence, Slipspace is a domain with alternate physical laws, allowing faster-than-light travel without relativistic side-effects (much like hyperspace from the popular Star Wars movies, though ships travel the ~~shaw~~/~~fujikawa~~ space much slower than hyperspace, as a ship in hyperspace could cross in minutes a distance that would take a ship in ~~shaw~~/~~fujikawa~~ space months. <ref>[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Propulsion/Propulsion2.html An Analysis of Star Wars Propulsion]</ref>). Faster-than-light travel is not instantaneous; "short" jumps routinely take up to two months, and "long" jumps can last six months or more, which is why most UNSC ships have cryo chambers.

This new engine allowed ships to tunnel into "the Slipstream" (also called "Slipspace"). Technically called "Shaw-Fujikawa Space",<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], page 141</ref> after the scientists who proved its existence, Slipspace is a domain with alternate physical laws, allowing faster-than-light travel without relativistic side-effects (much like hyperspace from the popular Star Wars movies, though ships travel the Shaw/Fujikawa space much slower than hyperspace, as a ship in hyperspace could cross in minutes a distance that would take a ship in Shaw/Fujikawa space months. <ref>[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Propulsion/Propulsion2.html An Analysis of Star Wars Propulsion]</ref>). Faster-than-light travel is not instantaneous; "short" jumps routinely take up to two months, and "long" jumps can last six months or more, which is why most UNSC ships have cryo chambers.

[[Image:Covenant Assault Carrier FanArt.jpg|right|thumb|A [[Covenant Assault Carrier]] opens a Slipspace vortex.]]

Slipspace can be thought of as our Universe (which, technically, it is) but with a greater number of dimensions. Our plane of existence is thought to have four dimensions (up-down, front-back, side-to-side, and time), but Cortana states in [[Halo: First Strike]] that Slipspace is an eleven-dimensional spacetime. Slipspace is currently theorized (in [[2552]]) as a "tangle" of our plane's dimensions, rather like taking the classic "flat sheet" used to represent gravity and crumpling it up into a ball, thereby creating extra dimensions and shorter spaces between points.

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 ==Mechanics==
-This new engine allowed ships to tunnel into "the Slipstream" (also called "Slipspace"). Technically called "Shaw-Fujikawa Space",<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], page 141</ref> after the scientists who proved its existence, Slipspace is a domain with alternate physical laws, allowing faster-than-light travel without relativistic side-effects (much like hyperspace from the popular Star Wars movies, though ships travel the shaw/fujikawa space much slower than hyperspace, as a ship in hyperspace could cross in minutes a distance that would take a ship in shaw/fujikawa space months. <ref>[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Propulsion/Propulsion2.html An Analysis of Star Wars Propulsion]</ref>). Faster-than-light travel is not instantaneous; "short" jumps routinely take up to two months, and "long" jumps can last six months or more, which is why most UNSC ships have cryo chambers.
+This new engine allowed ships to tunnel into "the Slipstream" (also called "Slipspace"). Technically called "Shaw-Fujikawa Space",<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], page 141</ref> after the scientists who proved its existence, Slipspace is a domain with alternate physical laws, allowing faster-than-light travel without relativistic side-effects (much like hyperspace from the popular Star Wars movies, though ships travel the Shaw/Fujikawa space much slower than hyperspace, as a ship in hyperspace could cross in minutes a distance that would take a ship in Shaw/Fujikawa space months. <ref>[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Propulsion/Propulsion2.html An Analysis of Star Wars Propulsion]</ref>). Faster-than-light travel is not instantaneous; "short" jumps routinely take up to two months, and "long" jumps can last six months or more, which is why most UNSC ships have cryo chambers.
 [[Image:Covenant Assault Carrier FanArt.jpg|right|thumb|A [[Covenant Assault Carrier]] opens a Slipspace vortex.]]
 Slipspace can be thought of as our Universe (which, technically, it is) but with a greater number of dimensions. Our plane of existence is thought to have four dimensions (up-down, front-back, side-to-side, and time), but Cortana states in [[Halo: First Strike]] that Slipspace is an eleven-dimensional spacetime. Slipspace is currently theorized (in [[2552]]) as a "tangle" of our plane's dimensions, rather like taking the classic "flat sheet" used to represent gravity and crumpling it up into a ball, thereby creating extra dimensions and shorter spaces between points.