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{{Era|UNSC|HCW|Post}}
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{{Rename|Shaw-Fujikawa translight engine}}
[[File:SFTE.png|thumb|250px|A Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine.]]
[[File:SFTE.png|thumb|250px|A Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine.]]
{{Quote|They have opened a path to the stars for all of us.|Dedication to Tobias Fleming Shaw, ScD, QeD, FRS (January 30, 2220 - November 10, 2317), and Wallace Fujikawa ScD, QEnD (April 20, 2215 - February 18, 2318)<ref name="Orbital">'''[[Halo 3]]''', multiplayer level ''[[Orbital (level)|Orbital]]''</ref>}}
{{Quote|They have opened a path to the stars for all of us.|Dedication to Tobias Fleming Shaw, ScD, QeD, FRS (January 30, 2220 - November 10, 2317), and Wallace Fujikawa ScD, QEnD (April 20, 2215 - February 18, 2318)<ref name="Orbital">'''[[Halo 3]]''', multiplayer level ''[[Orbital (level)|Orbital]]''</ref>}}
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A slipspace drive does not actually "accelerate" a spacecraft through slipstream space; this is performed by the ship's conventional reaction thrusters. Thus, ships with more powerful conventional engines are also faster within the slipstream.<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 23''</ref> When active, a Shaw-Fujikawa engine emits alpha (helium nuclei) and beta (fast electrons) particles.<ref name="Ghosts">'''Halo: Ghost of Onyx''', ''pages 145-146''</ref> The coordination and plotting of slipspace jumps, referred to as [[astrogation]], requires an enormous amount of calculations which require a [[navigation computer]] or an [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] to successfully conduct.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 96''</ref> However, the basic jump parameters can be calculated by a human.<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole"'', ''page 426''</ref>
A slipspace drive does not actually "accelerate" a spacecraft through slipstream space; this is performed by the ship's conventional reaction thrusters. Thus, ships with more powerful conventional engines are also faster within the slipstream.<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 23''</ref> When active, a Shaw-Fujikawa engine emits alpha (helium nuclei) and beta (fast electrons) particles.<ref name="Ghosts">'''Halo: Ghost of Onyx''', ''pages 145-146''</ref> The coordination and plotting of slipspace jumps, referred to as [[astrogation]], requires an enormous amount of calculations which require a [[navigation computer]] or an [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] to successfully conduct.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 96''</ref> However, the basic jump parameters can be calculated by a human.<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole"'', ''page 426''</ref>


The elements [[Wikipedia:Selenium|Selenium]] and [[Wikipedia:Technetium|Technetium]] are used to manufacture Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engines. In the 2490's, the colony of [[Levosia]] was suspected of diverting the said elements to the black market. The ensuing UNSC blockade of the system and the [[Insurrectionist]] reaction eventually led to the [[Callisto Incident]], which is said to have effectively sparked the [[Insurrection]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]'', ''page 436''</ref>
The elements [[Wikipedia:Selenium|Selenium]] and [[Wikipedia:Technetium|Technetium]] are used to manufacture Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engines. In the 2490's, the colony of [[Levosia]] was suspected of diverting said elements to the black market. The ensuing UNSC blockade of the system and the [[Insurrectionist]] reaction eventually led to the [[Callisto Incident]], which is said to have effectively sparked the [[Insurrection]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]'', ''page 436''</ref>


===Dangers and risks===
===Dangers and risks===
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===Saddle box===
===Saddle box===
"[[Saddle box]]es" are rare, specialized slipspace drives built only by the UNSC for use in military experiments with Slipstream space. They are commonly built to resemble commercial slipspace drives in order to be inconspicuous.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike (2010)''', ''[[Tug o' War]]''</ref>
[[Saddle box]]es are rare, specialized slipspace drives built only by the UNSC for use in military experiments with slipstream space. They are commonly built to resemble commercial slipspace drives in order to be inconspicuous.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike (2010)''', ''[[Tug o' War]]''</ref>
 
==Terminology==
The term for making a transition between normal space and the slipstream is "jump" or "slip". ''[[Halo Wars]]'' introduces additional terminology for the slipspace drive. It is referred to as an FTL (for "Faster Than Light") drive and FTL reactor several times, and the process of initializing it for a slip was referred to as “spinning up”. This may be an attempt to introduce more accessible nomenclature for newcomers to the ''Halo'' franchise, and is likely to be a reference to the TV show ''Battlestar Galactica'' as they also refer to preparation for use of an FTL drive as "spinning up". Another explanation is that the drive most likely requires time to power up the particle accelerators and reach the mini-black-hole-creating threshold. The accelerators are most likely circular, and the subatomic particles could be said to "spin" around the center of the accelerator. The term "FTL drive" is also used in the story ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]'' in ''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''.
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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
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File:HW-Reactor-Model.jpg|Untextured and textured 3D models of the ''Spirit of Fire'''s slipspace drive.
File:HW-Reactor-Model.jpg|Untextured and textured 3D models of the ''Spirit of Fire'''s slipspace drive.
File:Spirit_SF_room.png|The Shaw-Fujikawa drive room of the ''Spirit of Fire''.
File:Spirit_SF_room.png|The Shaw-Fujikawa drive room of the ''Spirit of Fire''.
File:HW-SoF-SFTE-Slipspace-Scan.jpg|The ''[[UNSC Spirit of Fire|Spirit of Fire]]'' transitioning through slipspace, from ''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''. It should be noted that this depiction of slipspace is artistic license; canonically, slipspace appears as a pitch black void.
File:HW-SoF-SFTE-Slipspace-Scan.jpg|The ''[[UNSC Spirit of Fire|Spirit of Fire]]'' transitioning through slipspace. It should be noted that this depiction of slipspace is artistic license; canonically, slipspace appears as a pitch black void.
File:HReach-SFTE-Stardrive.png|Side profile view of the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine core.
File:HReach-SFTE-Stardrive.png|Side profile view of the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine core.
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