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You'll have to get someone who has studied the fiction a little more deeply than the average die-hard fan to answer this question, but I don't think it is entirely clear what happened to the Chief. The Arbiter, and the bow of the Forward Unto Dawn, definitely made it through the portal, as you would expect a ship to do. As for the Chief, he obviously had to go through the portal, otherwise the pulse from Installation 04-II would have killed him. I suspect that he got dropped along the way between The Ark and Earth when the portal cut out, like dropping out of a slip space journey early. How exactly then a very clean line was cut through the Dawn is not really known. At this point, it's all artistic license and sci-fantasy.