- PLUT0NIUM 235
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- Honorable Member
its not the drives that ever caused the problems, human drives are probably capable of making precise jumps as well, its just the understanding of the nature of slipstream space itself that causes them problems. the Covenant use what is probably reverse engineered Forerunner drives, Covenant drives are better because they can make more precise calculations and what not. Cole was a genius when it came to that area, at least that is what his short story makes out so maybe he came up with a way of making human drives more precise in the same way as the Covenant drives.
only thing that bugged me was the humans could really have done with that during the way, the ability to jump in atmosphere and more precisely in space. the way I look at slipspace drives is the Covenant are like a very aerodynamic car, their ships effortlessly 'cut' into slipspace, where as the humans don't have the same understanding, so there ships are like an old school muscle car, tons of power but terrible aero, so they have to 'smash' their way into slipspace. its all about understanding people, knowledge is power.