Forerunner Slipspace 1

The displays tracked our course. We were moving outward along the great spiral arm that held both the Orion complex and Erde-Tyrene—just a few tens of thousands of light-years.
Hours at most would pass for us.
Had I known where we were fleeing, and what we would find … Against the greatest and most solemn instructions of the Mantle, I might have killed myself then and there.
(Halo:Cryptum; Ch.9)

Subduing a flash of anger, I did not ask him what he might be involved in, professionally, that twenty thousand light-years away I should be treated with grim leniency by an otherwise all-powerful Master Builder.
(Halo:Cryptum; Ch.27)

The physical journey between my family’s world and the capital of the ecumene ordinarily takes less than two hours. For reasons not immediately explained to me, even traveling in the superfast Council ship, our trip took three days.
(Halo:Cryptum; Ch.34)