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Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: ajw34307
Even if that's the reason, it still means the Ardent Prayer is gone.
I don't see how it means that at all, why would it be destroyed by the opening of the portal?
Covenant slipspace technology is superior in terms of how fast they are able to travel through it, the physics are still the same, the slipspace portal wouldn't have a different appearance because it's a Covenant drive. Look at Regret's ship (was not "piggybacked"), it's the same looking portal as one Shaw-Fujikawa drives make.
Entering and exiting do not look different at all, when entering the portal is only sustained because they need time to head into its maw.
Actually not just in speed, Covenant slipspace tech is worlds better than the UNSC's, the Covenant's grasp on how slipspace works, might suck balls, but their tech is much more advanced than the UNSC's. Like their ability to make pin-point jumps, and when they enter slipspace, in all the stuff I've read, it was described as more like making a precise and delicate incision like a scalpel, while the UNSC slipspace technology is like ripping a hole with brute force. And have we seen a human ship, or human based tech, generate a slipspace portal before? I don't ever remember seeing one.
Halo Wars: Genesis and Halo Legends: Origins Part 2 depict Phoenix-class ships generating slipspace portals.
The exiting looks completely different from entering, the entrance portals for Covenant and Forerunner tech are always a dark, blue-black disk shaped tunnel, it's like a white bubbling mass that an exit portal is. And for the piggy backing I was talking about the human ships entering slipspace, the only instances I can think of where we have seen a human ship go into slipspace has been when In Amber Clad piggy backed off of Regret's slipspace wake, and when the Forward Unto Dawn went through the Ark's portal.
Regret's ship didn't create a "purple tunnel" in Halo 2 and ODST, neither did the many Covenant ships leaving High Charity at the end of Gravemind and the Keyship also had the same effect as a Covenant ship.
Ok, I haven't read that, and I haven't seen Origins in a while.
Watch the opening scene for ODST again, the portal created by Regret's ships is definitely primarily purple. What ships leaving at the end of "Gravemind"? I never saw any ships leaving High Charity, do you mean all those flashes off in the distance?
Well yeah, because Covenant slipspace technology is essentially the same as the Forerunner's.