[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Gottalovec4 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ROBERTO jh [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Xd00999 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ROBERTO jh They're using Forerunner technology to build a Foreruner slip drive with a team of Forerunner Huragok. If any faction in the universe could build the tech to make a drop ship FTL compatible, I think it would be the Forerunners.[/quote] Completely fair point, but I still think it is an unneeded addition. The Tart-Cart may have a slipspace drive, but it can't really be anything other than a puddle jumper. [/quote] Smaller craft = less energy needed to propel it. The [i]Savannah's[/i] drive fit inside a Pelican in Reach, so it's not like it'd be hard for an Engie to make it smaller. [/quote] Missing the point. Slipspace is characterized by huge amounts of deadly radiation. It's not the DRIVE that creates it, is's Slipspace it's self. Hence why when a UNSC ship leaves it huge amounts of gamma radiation and blown through the spectrum. The only reason that the dropship on in First Strike didn't fry was the few seconds of slipspace they experienced instead of hours, and the few cubic tons of lead they welded inside. Forerunner drive or not, the very essence of slipspace would render a small craft moot, the pilot would be crispy charred after an hour. [/quote] You're missing the point. That's how [i]UNSC[/i] drives work, or rather don't. It's pretty obvious to me that Forerunner drives--or, how they manipulate slipspace to make it safer--have gotten around this problem, since they clearly don't have it.[/quote] Except slipspace is slipspace. That's like saying a BMW engine is different from a Mercades engine because it manipulates the air around the car. It doesn't, they both use the same process. Slipspace as loads of Chernov and Gamma radiation that will nuke your insides. The UNSC has been able to detect Covenant ships exiting slipspace through the war because of the radiation a transition creates. It doesn't matter how a ship is propelled, the radiation is still there. Forerunner ships were MASSIVE, so it's obvious they'd have ablative coatings able to absorb radiation. [/quote] When you can give me details on the physics of a Forerunner slip drive, a UNSC drive, and how the physics of the alternate reality work to begin with, I'll concede to your point; comparing an eldritch location like slipspace dimension to air makes no sense. We can't know anything more than what is given to us, and what is given to us is that the UNSC's drives are brute force, unstable, highly dangerous and inaccurate. Forerunner drives are extremely safe, reliable, and precision accurate, as well as millions of years ahead of us. Forerunners have slip drives that have gotten around the radiation problem. I know this how? Because that is the only information that has been presented us. It doesn't contradict anything because we don't know anything about how Forerunner slip drives work, so there is nothing to contradict.