Playing Devil's Advocate here, but we've never actually seen a Forerunner ship jump with a reference to the amount of time that's passed; there was no date flashing when Truth warped into the Sol system, nor exactly when he warped out of Delta Halo's system either. We can estimate when he left, but until the comics or Halo 3 or something else comes along I don't think we've been given dates on when ol' 117 hitched a ride back to Earth.Omega Hunter 9 wrote:You're only half right. The human FTL drives aren't fast enough to make cryos useless. However, the Covenant have faster ships, (said by Cortana, Halo 1), and they probably designed their ships off of that Forerunner ship or ships they have. Also, backwords engineering is never 100% effective, so the Forerunner ships probably are near instantaneous, once you think of the Forerunner's jump to Earth at the end of Halo 2.Echelon Three wrote:Part of a bigger plan?
It is interesting, but perhaps even the Forerunners in their technology needed time to retreat behind the shield...? FTL travel in the Halo Universe sure isn't instantaneous, or humans wouldn't need cryo for long jumps.
Star Trek is so much easier....
I do agree that the Covenant ships are faster, there are too many examples of that to ignore; I'm not ruling out your idea, but until I see some timeline or something saying when that ship warps in, the jury is out for me. And yes, Star Trek is so much easier, haha.