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A "Slipspace wake" is a phenomenon occurring for some time after a ship has made a slipspace transition. When another, slower ship encounters a slipspace wake, they will be pushed to the speed of the ship that left the wake, thus propelling them through Slipspace at the same velocity. The {{UNSCShip|Dusk}} took | A "Slipspace wake" is a phenomenon occurring for some time after a ship has made a slipspace transition. When another, slower ship encounters a slipspace wake, they will be pushed to the speed of the ship that left the wake, thus propelling them through Slipspace at the same velocity. The {{UNSCShip|Dusk}} took two weeks to get to Installation 05 via the ''[[Solemn Penance]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s weakening "wake",<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''Chapter 22'', page 186</ref> but came back to [[Earth]] within hours by following the Forerunner Dreadnought's wake.<ref group="note">It is never directly stated that the wake the ''Dusk'' followed was left by the Forerunner Dreadnought; however, it is implied on page 289: ''"The Dusk's journey back to Earth had occurred in record time. They had caught a wake in slipstream space, one indeterminably larger than the Covenant wake they had followed."'' This creates an inconsistency with later canon, such as [http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=16989 this timeline], which reveals that the Dreadnought took five days to reach the Sol system and another nine days to reach Earth, instead of a few hours. Therefore, the ''Dusk''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s speedy return to Earth may have been the result of a Slipspace anomaly.</ref> The crew of the ''Dusk'' later exploited the ''[[Bloodied Spirit]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s outbound wake to get to [[Onyx]], thirty-eight light years away, within an hour. | ||
===Anomalies=== | ===Anomalies=== | ||