So all of this halo universe is only taking place in the Milky Way galaxy? They stated that the ark is just outside the galaxy so tht the halos don’t affect it but, whats beyond that forerunners were so advanced but they go to other galaxies like andromeda? (closest galaxy near us) I’m hoping they’ll expand on things like where other species went and other species outside the galaxies the precursors made.
Actually the Forerunners never went to Andromeda, they struggled to reach the Greater Magellic Cloud and Lesser Magellic Cloud, which in comparision is approximately about an eigth of the distance from the Milky Way to Andromeda.
Local Galactic Group
It should be noted that the milky way is pretty enormous. That’s somewhere between 100-400 billion star systems already.
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> Actually the Forerunners never went to Andromeda, they struggled to reach the Greater Magellic Cloud and Lesser Magellic Cloud, which in comparision is approximately about an eigth of the distance from the Milky Way to Andromeda.
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My bad I didn’t mean to say they went to the andromeda
*but they NEVER go to other galaxies like andromeda.
but thanks for telling me why they never went there.
It’s impracticle to go there given the nature of super-long distance slipstance travel. We don’t see its effects as much in halo due to us not using the Domain, our ships being smaller, and our distances being relatively minor in comparison.
Even going to the Megellic Clouds created great disruptions in both the Domain and slipspace travel throughout the galaxy. It’d be like if us going to the moon negatively impacted the speed of the internet, and the speed of all car travel, and did so for years.
The forerunners also had little interest in going there. Likely due to the realization of the complications, or possibly even remnants of Precursor geas to keep their creations within a controlled environment.
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> It’s impracticle to go there given the nature of super-long distance slipstance travel. We don’t see its effects as much in halo due to us not using the Domain, our ships being smaller, and our distances being relatively minor in comparison.
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> Even going to the Megellic Clouds created great disruptions in both the Domain and slipspace travel throughout the galaxy. It’d be like if us going to the moon negatively impacted the speed of the internet, and the speed of all car travel, and did so for years.
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> The forerunners also had little interest in going there. Likely due to the realization of the complications, or possibly even remnants of Precursor geas to keep their creations within a controlled environment.
Wait can you explain to me in simpler terms, I don’t understand why you’re telling me, sorry.
It’s a bit tricky to explain as I don’t fully understand all the complications of it. But effectively, slipspace travel at long distances ends up slowing all other slipspace travel down, as well as the Domain, which is effectively the forerunner internet.
It took the most advanced ship the forerunners had built to make it to just Path Kethona (the greater megelenic cloud), thus travel to other galaxies, such as Adromeda, are likely beyond the scope of halo’s stories, with the exception of precursor technology.
Path Kethona was found to be utterly devoid of life, except for 1 colony of exiled forerunners, who were later killed by Omega Halo in silentium.
It’s unknown if the other ‘local micro-galaxy’ supports life or not.
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> It’s a bit tricky to explain as I don’t fully understand all the complications of it. But effectively, slipspace travel at long distances ends up slowing all other slipspace travel down, as well as the Domain, which is effectively the forerunner internet.
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> It took the most advanced ship the forerunners had built to make it to just Path Kethona (the greater megelenic cloud), thus travel to other galaxies, such as Adromeda, are likely beyond the scope of halo’s stories, with the exception of precursor technology.
To clarify this a bit more for the O.P:
Travelling in Slip-Space creates a ‘debt’, an affect on both slip-space and normal space. Now in normal travel, this isn’t a problem. Travelling from say Earth to the next nearest star is a small hop with no effect.
But when you want to travel VAST interstellar distances, even if it’s only to the Megelanic clouds…that ‘debt’ is going to increase massively.
From how I ‘understand’ it, you can view it kind of like a toilet cistern, with the water representing slip-space. You can do lots of small flushes multiple times, since the water will top itself back up at a certain rate. But if you do one big flush, you use A LOT of water, and therefore have to wait for the cistern to fill again before you can use it fully again as normal without restrictions.
Now the reason that this kind of travel affects the Domain is quite simple: The domain exists within Slip-Space.
Hope my really bad example was understandable.
Oh ok, so it’s not really permanent. Hmm that’s kinda weird, I wonder if humans will ever reach tier 0 tech to be able to travel like the precursors without consequences… Thanks a lot guys for those good explanations
But now it has me wondering, if there’s a rock bottom like lets say your sprint meter
you slip space travel, you run out, and you wait to recharge or if it just keeps adding “debt” and the longer you use it the longer it takes to “recharge”.
Never mind that last post I re read the explanation and it answered my question