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The Forerunners had developed a great deal of applications for the slipstream. These included the ability to create [[Slipspace bubble|bubble-like enclosures of slipstream space]], in which the flow of time could be manipulated or stopped altogether while keeping the contents of the bubble either visible or invisible in normal space. The Forerunners were also capable of containing these bubbles of alternate space-time within one another.<ref>''Halo: Glasslands'', p. 306, 311</ref> These bubbles could be used to store considerable masses and volumes in slipspace stably for thousands of years and potentially for all of time, and to transition matter from normal space to the inside of a construct in slipstream space without requiring the construct to transition back to normal space. The same technology was utilized in [[slipspace field pod]]s that were essentially a Forerunner equivalent of [[cryo-chamber]]s, effectively preserving a living organism inside a slipspace field. Slipspace bubbles were also employed in a type of Forerunner prison cell in which the passage of time could be manipulated so that a period of a billion years would pass inside the field, while only seconds had transpired in normal space.<ref>''Halo: Primordium'', p. 366</ref> | The Forerunners had developed a great deal of applications for the slipstream. These included the ability to create [[Slipspace bubble|bubble-like enclosures of slipstream space]], in which the flow of time could be manipulated or stopped altogether while keeping the contents of the bubble either visible or invisible in normal space. The Forerunners were also capable of containing these bubbles of alternate space-time within one another.<ref>''Halo: Glasslands'', p. 306, 311</ref> These bubbles could be used to store considerable masses and volumes in slipspace stably for thousands of years and potentially for all of time, and to transition matter from normal space to the inside of a construct in slipstream space without requiring the construct to transition back to normal space. The same technology was utilized in [[slipspace field pod]]s that were essentially a Forerunner equivalent of [[cryo-chamber]]s, effectively preserving a living organism inside a slipspace field. Slipspace bubbles were also employed in a type of Forerunner prison cell in which the passage of time could be manipulated so that a period of a billion years would pass inside the field, while only seconds had transpired in normal space.<ref>''Halo: Primordium'', p. 366</ref> | ||
In addition, the Forerunners had the ability to construct weapon systems that could fire into slipspace and affect targets in normal space or within slipspace. This is demonstrated by the [[Line installation]]s of the [[Maginot Line|Jat-Krula boundary]], which were capable of intercepting ships in slipspace.<ref name="blood">''[[Halo: Blood Line]]'' - [[Halo: Blood Line Issue 1|Issue 1]]</ref> In its [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere|final battle]] against [[Mendicant Bias]], the Forerunner AI [[Offensive Bias]] used slipspace ruptures generated by its warships to warp the laws of physics around them and tear Mendicant's ships apart.<ref>''Halo 3'', [[Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminal 6]]</ref> The ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'' employed a weapon of the [[Didact]]'s imagining known as a [[stasis tension driver]], which paired quantum singularity projectors with repurposed [[torsion driver]]s, allowing the weapon to create localised space-time distortions that impeded the formation of slipspace ruptures and | In addition, the Forerunners had the ability to construct weapon systems that could fire into slipspace and affect targets in normal space or within slipspace. This is demonstrated by the [[Line installation]]s of the [[Maginot Line|Jat-Krula boundary]], which were capable of intercepting ships in slipspace.<ref name="blood">''[[Halo: Blood Line]]'' - [[Halo: Blood Line Issue 1|Issue 1]]</ref> In its [[Battle of the Maginot Sphere|final battle]] against [[Mendicant Bias]], the Forerunner AI [[Offensive Bias]] used slipspace ruptures generated by its warships to warp the laws of physics around them and tear Mendicant's ships apart.<ref>''Halo 3'', [[Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminal 6]]</ref> The ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'' employed a weapon of the [[Didact]]'s imagining known as a [[stasis tension driver]], which paired quantum singularity projectors with repurposed [[torsion driver]]s, allowing the weapon to create localised space-time distortions that impeded the formation of slipspace ruptures and jammed all superluminal communications.<ref name="WF86">''Halo: Warfleet'', p.86-87</ref> | ||
[[Slipspace portal]]s created by the Forerunners could be used to send objects into slipspace and have them exit in different locations.<ref>'''[[Halo Legends]]''': ''[[Origins]]''</ref> The Forerunners were also capable of generating slipspace conduits which could anchor objects in normal space into place, as shown when the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} was constrained over [[Requiem]] by an array of [[Requiem translocation artifacts|slipspace artifacts]].<ref name="Expendable">'''[[Spartan Ops]]''', [[S1/Expendable|S1E8 ''Expendable'']]</ref> | [[Slipspace portal]]s created by the Forerunners could be used to send objects into slipspace and have them exit in different locations.<ref>'''[[Halo Legends]]''': ''[[Origins]]''</ref> The Forerunners were also capable of generating slipspace conduits which could anchor objects in normal space into place, as shown when the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} was constrained over [[Requiem]] by an array of [[Requiem translocation artifacts|slipspace artifacts]].<ref name="Expendable">'''[[Spartan Ops]]''', [[S1/Expendable|S1E8 ''Expendable'']]</ref> | ||