Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine: Difference between revisions

The term for making a transition between normal space and the slipstream is "jump" or "slip". ''[[Halo Wars]]'' introduces additional terminology for the slipspace drive. It is referred to as an FTL (for "Faster Than Light") drive and FTL reactor several times, and the process of initializing it for a slip was referred to as “spinning up”. This may be an attempt to introduce more accessible nomenclature for newcomers to the ''Halo'' franchise, and is likely to be a reference to the TV show ''Battlestar Galactica'' as they also refer to preparation for use of an FTL drive as "spinning up". Another explanation is that the drive most likely requires time to power up the particle accelerators and reach the mini-black-hole-creating threshold. The accelerators are most likely circular, and the subatomic particles could be said to "spin" around the center of the accelerator. The term "FTL drive" is also used in the story ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]'' in ''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''.