[OOC Board] Eternal Galaxy: Shards of Starlight - Part I

@Book

Well, a slipstream is entered by opening up a portal in space. The portal is pitch-black for the normal eye.

It is used as a means of FTL (Faster than Light) travel, but has been used in one instance as a way to create an explosive, sending pieces of ship to another dimension. In Halo, there are seven dimensions, but only three "space" dimensions affect our universe. Slipspace is creating a portal into the other four dimensions and using it to travel to other locations. The physics there is different and non-shielded craft and sometimes even people tend to simply disappear from existence.


It is pretty much a wormhole, except that it creates many tiny black holes that eventually converge into one, or at least that's what I gathered.


The relation it has with the storyline is that it was the reason John was sent to this universe. Thanks to his luck, John and Cortana were simply transported to this time instead of simply vanishing from existence. It's not supposed to work like this, but a malfunction caused the whole trip to sort of accelerate and after 3 hours, they traveled 519 trillion years into the future, into the time period of this RP. This is known as a Slipspace Anomaly, specifically a Time-Space Rip, and has happened in the Halo universe before, except that it sent people into the past.



If you want to know more about Slipspace and the like, here's some pages. They can explain it better than I can.

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Shaw-Fujikawa_Translight_Engine
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Slipstream_Space
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Slipspace_Anomaly

What about Mima? and didn't cucoo mention it being to only way to gain access to the "halls of time"?

@Book

Where did Cucoo say that?:confused:

Or maybe I'm getting confused... the method which Mima used to arrive in venturia ><

@Book

Yea, Mima traveled here because of the Halls of Time, while John and Cortana ended up here because of a Slipspace anomaly.

The Halls of Time tend to fragment and slightly erase people's memory, while Slipspace is just really dangerous.

Ok, looked back through the IC, it is called "passages of fates". Sorry, made a mistake, I was asking about the Passages of Fates, not the slipstream ><

...although the slipstream thing could be useful

@Book

What do you have in mind?

(Just curious.:p)

I think the only ways you could get your hands on one would be if you went to John, or found somebody that specializes in building 519 trillion year old technology. Just a thought.

@S121
I was considering what starla said about Nova engines, using 2 aura crystals. KamiKaze , Nhiome's battle cruiser uses 2 engines, it also happens to be a lot faster than most other ships. Then, I would need a second character, I was thinking of a non-human one, not even humanoid, but still a sentient species, so I decided one from another Galaxy would be better. The question was how would the second character travel to Venturia. The second thing I want for my second character is access to Nhiome's ships ( I really like those ships XD)... you can see where this is leading right?

@Book

You're basically replacing your old Character with a new one?

@S121

Yeah, I would need to anyway, Nhiome is going to die anyway because of the aura crystal, just a matter of how long he lives, the other galaxy thingy which would bring my second character into play, I plan that to be Nhiome's last act, so the second character will come in when he dies.