Personal slipspace unit

Spark: "I believe the portal on Zeta Halo was issued from a personal slipspace unit, a device that follows similar principles as those used in translocation technologies and those used in remotely sending a Halo through slipspace, for instance. The device itself can exist in one location, on either the departure or destination side. The anomalous placement of such a device was most likely done without authorization; personal slipspace units were forbidden to use except by special license from the Forerunner Council."

Lessa: "Why forbidden?"

Spark: "Imagine billions of souls regularly using personal transports across four million worlds. The immense buildup of reconciliation would have made it impossible and highly dangerous for any other space travel to occur."

— 343 Guilty Spark and Lessa discuss the device

A personal slipspace unit was a Forerunner device used to generate slipspace portals to allow the user easy travel around the galaxy.

Design and operation

Personal slipspace units generated slipspace portals that could transport the user between worlds quickly. Forerunners utilized their personal armor to protect themselves from the danger of slipspace travel through such a portal. 343 Guilty Spark believed that a confinement bubble could be used to shield an otherwise unprotected human so that they would survive the journey. The device itself could exist on either the departure or destination side.

The effect of billions of souls regularly using personal transports to travel between the four million worlds of the ecumene would create such an immense buildup of reconciliation that it would make it impossible and highly dangerous for any other space travel to occur.

List of appearances

• Halo: Point of Light (First appearance)