- DonVinzone1
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Posted by: grey101
If you noticed the issue with slipspace being "out of wack" kept appearing through the entire novel, i wish to wonder why this isn't present with the UNSC and covenant.
Probably because the largest thing the Covies ever pushed through slipspace is High Charity with its protective fleet.
And thats about the biggest single "mass" that "frequently" uses slipspace travel in the entire Universe (as far as we know).
UNSC doesn't have anything nearly as big as it.
Now, Forerunners used to transport FAR greater objects en masse through Slipspace (multiple Halo Arrays, gigantic fleets, single ships which were enormous etc etc).
So a logical explanation would be that the Forerunners "overloaded" Slipspace capacity by transporting huge masses with high frequencies at the end of their time. Something which has never happened in UNSC/Covie times.
Running a bit ahead of things I would say the novels might point towards this slipspace overload being one of the causes the Forerunners didn't survive: they simply couldn't outrun the Flood anymore.