Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine

The Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace Drive is a Human motor capable of Slipspace jumps.

History

was developed secretly by a group of military researchers in 2291. The motor is capable of Slipspace jumps of hundreds of thousands AU(Astronomical Unit) to other Colonies in months. "Short" jumps routinely take up to two months, and "long" jumps can last six months or more. Shaw-Fujikawa engines allowed UNSC ships to leave normal space and plow through a dimensional subdomain colloquially known as "Slipstream space".

Background

The Shaw-Fujikawa drive of the Humans "forces" its way into Slipspace by using brute force. The Covenant on the other hand slice open Slipspace and are therefore much more accurate when it comes to Slipspace jumps. In Halo: First Strike, captured covenant engineers made the Gettysburg the fastest ship in the UNSC, by upgrading its Slipspace drive.

"Shaw-Fujikawa engines allowed UNSC ships to leave normal space and plow through a dimensional subdomain colloquially known as "Slipstream space." ... The drive used particle accelerators to rip apart normal space-time by generating micro black holes. Those holes evaporated via Hawking radiation in a nanosecond. The real quantum mechanical "magic" of the drive was how it manipulated those holes in space-time, squeezing a hundred-thousand-ton cruiser into Slipspace."

— Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, pg. 53

Trivia

A damaged Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace Drive was used to make the armor of Spartan-051 malfunction and send him flying into unknown space, so that he could be rescued, and then recommissioned to train the new Spartan-IIIs.

Related Articles

• United Nations Space Command
• Human-Covenant War

Sources

• Halo: Combat Evolved- Mentioned
• Halo 2- Mentioned
• Halo: The Fall Of Reach
• Halo: The Flood
• Halo: First Strike
• Halo: Ghosts Of Onyx- page 53.