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'''Slipstream Space''' ('''Slipspace''' for short), otherwise known as '''Shaw-Fujikawa Space''' by the [[United Nations Space Command]], is a collective term for the seven non-visible infinitesimal quantum dimensions used for faster-than-light travel. Making a transition from one place to another via slipspace is known as a "slip", or "jump". | '''Slipstream Space''' ('''Slipspace''' for short), otherwise known as '''Shaw-Fujikawa Space''' by the [[United Nations Space Command]], is a collective term for the seven non-visible infinitesimal quantum dimensions used for faster-than-light travel. Making a transition from one place to another via slipspace is known as a "slip", or "jump". | ||
== Background == | ==Background== | ||
[[Image:Seperatist_fleet_ark.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Elite]] [[Covenant Separatist|Separatist]] [[Fleet]] coming out of Slipspace over the [[Ark]].]] | [[Image:Seperatist_fleet_ark.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Elite]] [[Covenant Separatist|Separatist]] [[Fleet]] coming out of Slipspace over the [[Ark]].]] | ||
Slipspace travel has been the [[UNSC]]'s main way of traveling from planet to planet, and star-system to star-system since its discovery in [[2291]]. Before this technology was discovered by [[Tobias Shaw]] and [[Wallace Fujikawa]], mankind was never able to leave their home star system due to the [[Relativistic Lag|constraints of relativistic theory]], preventing faster than light travel. Now the UNSC traverses the galaxy in spacecraft to whole new worlds. The Slipspace drive is considered the most important invention in all of human history. | Slipspace travel has been the [[UNSC]]'s main way of traveling from planet to planet, and star-system to star-system since its discovery in [[2291]]. Before this technology was discovered by [[Tobias Shaw]] and [[Wallace Fujikawa]], mankind was never able to leave their home star system due to the [[Relativistic Lag|constraints of relativistic theory]], preventing faster than light travel. Now the UNSC traverses the galaxy in spacecraft to whole new worlds. The Slipspace drive is considered the most important invention in all of human history. | ||
== Mechanics == | ==Mechanics== | ||
Slipspace is a tangle of intertwined dimensions (estimated to be nine), comparably similar to a wadded up piece of paper, which lie underneath the three conventional spatial dimensions of the universe. Because of this tangle of intertwined dimensions, objects in slipspace often group together in mass transit. There are no ideas on why this occurs, other than brief speculations made in the novels. | Slipspace is a tangle of intertwined dimensions (estimated to be nine), comparably similar to a wadded up piece of paper, which lie underneath the three conventional spatial dimensions of the universe. Because of this tangle of intertwined dimensions, objects in slipspace often group together in mass transit. There are no ideas on why this occurs, other than brief speculations made in the novels. | ||
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It should be noted that the [[Forerunner]] may have been able to achieve instantaneous travel through Slipspace, as the portal generated slipstream space that allowed the fleet to travel through to the Ark in an instant. | It should be noted that the [[Forerunner]] may have been able to achieve instantaneous travel through Slipspace, as the portal generated slipstream space that allowed the fleet to travel through to the Ark in an instant. | ||
== Velocities == | ==Velocities== | ||
Human Slipspace drives are far slower than Covenant versions, only able to carry a ship at a speed of 2.625 light years per day <ref>Velocity=Distance/time (V=[[Reach|10.5 light years]]/4 days=2.625 l/d)</ref>, while Covenant drives can reach 9.12 light years per day<ref>Velocity=Distance/time (V=[[Zeta Doradus|38 light years]]/1 hour=38 l/h or 912 l/d)</ref>, an almost 350% increase in superiority to UNSC Slipspace technology. The capture of a Covenant Slipspace drive by the [[Master Chief]] and survivors of the [[Battle of Reach]] and survivors of the events at [[Installation 04|Halo]] may have increased the capabilities of Human Slipspace technologies. | Human Slipspace drives are far slower than Covenant versions, only able to carry a ship at a speed of 2.625 light years per day <ref>Velocity=Distance/time (V=[[Reach|10.5 light years]]/4 days=2.625 l/d)</ref>, while Covenant drives can reach 9.12 light years per day<ref>Velocity=Distance/time (V=[[Zeta Doradus|38 light years]]/1 hour=38 l/h or 912 l/d)</ref>, an almost 350% increase in superiority to UNSC Slipspace technology. The capture of a Covenant Slipspace drive by the [[Master Chief]] and survivors of the [[Battle of Reach]] and survivors of the events at [[Installation 04|Halo]] may have increased the capabilities of Human Slipspace technologies. | ||