


Using Forerunner technology, signals can instead be carried across slipspace, allowing colonies and even starships to remain in contact at much faster speeds. The energy required to open a wavespace link is immense, however, bandwidth across the relay is limited, and signals carried in wavespace are prone to distortion the further they travel, limiting their effectiveness.

By the final years of the Human-Covenant War, however, the UNSC had developed technology enabling them to tap into wavespace, a dimensional realm similar to slipspace, to carry messages across short interstellar distances along a series of relays and retransmission stations, allowing colonies and ships to be connected in virtual real real time. For much of their spacefaring history, humanity and the UNSC were reliant on starships to carry information across interstellar distances.
