Title, a realization hit me from halo infinite, condors have slip space drive, The infinity found condors in the remains of the UNSC bases.
The infinity now has slip space drives they just have to hook one of them up and boom they can escape. If atriox is their main objective. Zeta halo is there new goal.
The infinity is on the arc?
Brain fart when I made this meant to type spirit of fire. some how typed infinity.
A Condor may have a big enough drive to transport a ship the size of a Condor, but I would assume you’d need a bigger beast to take the Spirit of Fire through slipspace. If they have access to Engineers, then they could probably retrofit a bunch of Condor drives into a larger one.
Or abandon the ship and put all the personnel on a few Condors and jump back to something inhabited.
I wonder if the portal is still on lockdown after the events of Infinite.
Don’t think so, Apparently a portal from the Ark to Reach was found and is active now. So yeah the spirit of fire and her crew can easily escape.
UNSC Condors have short-range Slip-Space drives, not long-range ones like actual ships with full crews and multiple decks.
It would comparable to say “Motorcycles have engines. Lets hook up my trailer to my motorcycle instead of the heavy-duty 4-wheel drive truck.”
Too little power behind the engine to actually pull off the task at hand.
ah but as a redneck I can say this strap 10 motorsycle engines to a go cart and you can pull that trailer, not fast but you will be able to.
with their AI and the right knowhow things can be fixed.
True. But do they have 10 condors is the question?
No but they have at least a few, and likely other UNSC ships with slipspace drives.
Another question is, does their combined yield work well with one another? Or is it like when you put four microwaves together in an attempt to super-heat an object only to find that four microwaves cools it down instead?
The portal shut back down following the events of Shadows of Reach/Divine Wind
Actually yeah according to the lore the Condor slipspace drives are too short-ranged to make leaving practical. They can explore surrounding Forerunner space-stations and such, but to try to get back to human space would be impractical. There are explicit notes on this in-game, Phoenix Logs I think.
To quote the log: “…for they possess slipspace drive cores, although the Ark’s extreme distance from UNSC space mean they can only be used to explore outlying Forerunner installations and conduct long-range reconnaissance rather than make trips back to Earth.”
Excellent citation. Really need to go back and reread the Phoenix Logs
which means in halo infinite, If the pilot got a Condor they would still be stuck.
Not necessarily, Zeta Halo still appears to be within the galaxy, but no one quite knows exactly where in relation to where it previously was and we can surmise it’s quite fsr away
Heh, the last time I cared about Halo was Wars 2 so I probably spent a bit too much time reading the Logs. 
Such a good and underrated game
ikr? Then they decided that MCC and Infinite are the only Halo games in existence.
Really, they have no excuse for dropping support for Wars 2 a mere six years after release. Not when Bungie set a gold standard for legacy support. Not to mention working hard and releasing finished games, heh.
I understand the decision given that most of the guts of HW2 were Creative Assembly, but… a Steam release did seem like a majorly missed opportunity with the Banished having such a prominent role in Infinite.
Given that they hired Haruspis now, I have hope that the ‘Battle of the Five Armies’ approach he predicted on the Ark is coming to us. Without HW3 in development… that may be a while coming either via a book or a future game