: Look, what did Kat say? "Half the ship was transported to
: oblivion." Not "Only half the ship was transported to
: Cygnus." Not "Half the ship was cleanly torn off and teleported
: to a distant location and if only we'd gotten there we could have saved
: seven hundred people." Transported to oblivion. As in a negation of
: existence. As in a Total Existence Failure. As in... weirdly enough, I
: just got a sense of Deja Vu.

Well the case of Slipspace, I don't think they're actually sure /what/ happens when it malfunctions.

Things just disappear. But when it comes down to it a Slipspace drive makes a breach into another reality (I think, its been a while) so its entirely possible the chunk of the Supercarrier was just teleported into Slipspace then ejected out somewhere in empty space. Like the buildings that went with Regret in Halo 2. Although that was a guided jump, the premise would be the same.

As for radiation and such... he was also inside the would be intact Corvette at the time.

(this is honestly a bit weird posting, I've been a lurker here for years now....)