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===Navigation and precision===
===Navigation and precision===
{{quote|multi=yes|Captain James Cutter|Professor Anders|q1=Sensor records show we arrived via slipspace less than an hour ago?|q2=Our Slipspace drive is gone. However we got here, it wasn't us who initiated the trip. Something down there..must have opened the portal from this end and pulled us in.|[[Professor Anders]] and [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[James Cutter]] talk about who draw the Spirit of Fire into Installation 00}}
The plotting of slipspace jumps is known as [[astrogation]], and is typically performed by a [[navigation computer]] or an [[artificial intelligence|AI]],<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 96''</ref> although humans are capable of conducting at least some of the calculations involved.<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole"'', ''page 426''</ref> The trajectory of a slipspace jump is already determined by the time the ship enters slipspace; thus, pursuing ships are able to follow the ship which made the transition. This also enables the pursuers, provided they are equipped with superior drives, to overtake the ship they were following through "slipspace supersession"; this occurred when the Covenant [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] followed {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} to [[Installation 04]], allowing the Covenant ships to arrive long before the human vessel.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''' (2010), ''[[Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit]]''</ref>
The plotting of slipspace jumps is known as [[astrogation]], and is typically performed by a [[navigation computer]] or an [[artificial intelligence|AI]],<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 96''</ref> although humans are capable of conducting at least some of the calculations involved.<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole"'', ''page 426''</ref> The trajectory of a slipspace jump is already determined by the time the ship enters slipspace; thus, pursuing ships are able to follow the ship which made the transition. This also enables the pursuers, provided they are equipped with superior drives, to overtake the ship they were following through "slipspace supersession"; this occurred when the Covenant [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] followed {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} to [[Installation 04]], allowing the Covenant ships to arrive long before the human vessel.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''' (2010), ''[[Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit]]''</ref>


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