"Halo 4: I Get a Woman!" - Sgt. Mjr. A.J. Johnson, RIP

[Amit]

While we're on technicalities, a battle cruise that close to a slipspace gateway should have been shredded to all hell by the gravitation eddies being spewed out by that thing anyway.

I was thinking the same thing, but why is it then that ODST drop pods didn't get completely fucked when Regret's ship went into slipspace above New Mombasa? New Mombasa definitely got fucked up, but as we can see, it wasn't incinerated to oblivion as we saw in ODST despite its proximity to the Covenant ship. Then again, as Jcap pointed out, the Halo games don't follow their own lore. A perfect example of this is the ODST version of New Mombasa looks significantly different than the Halo 2 version. Pieces of the Halo 2 version that were untouched by the slipspace rupture were completely gone in the ODST version which makes it seem as though the Scarab boarding encounter never occurred.

Because the ship has.....Infinity health.