Wormhole Empires feel more like WH40K Warp Space Drives. It'd actually be funny if one End Game Crisis tech about experimental wormhole tech led to opening up wormholes to another dimension (the Warp) and letting daemons pour through.
So is the Warp like warp drives? (a W40K question)
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These were retconned out in the 7th edition codex as far as I can tell.
They use inertialess drives which basically let them fuck with physics to instantly jump to infinite speed now. Which is what the used pre-wardex.
Would be pretty much the same as the Unbidden from the Yump Drive, so I doubt they will do the same thing twice
I think it's the other way around. Originally they had the inertialess dives, but since the concept did not fit the fluff they changed it to the dolmen gates.
Nope.
It was inertialess drives -> Dolmen Gates and implied Inertialess Drives -> Inertialess Drives with Dolem gates in the background.
I just opened the 7th edition necron codex and I can't find any mention of the inertialess drive. All it mentions is the dolmen gates.
I'm not trying to argue about this, I'm just curious, GW changes the fluff every year anyways.
Question: With the recent mod thing that came in do you think it's possible to have events trigger based on your fleet "warping" or 'hyperspacing" or wherever? If so I think it might be fairly simple for some clever cog to put in an event where every time you FTL you have a chance of a Lost in the Warp style situation.
It's possible but it would almost certainly be a hassle resource wise because it'd have to check for the event literally every time ships moved between systems.
Isn't it a mix of all three?
- Jump drives because you are entering a different dimension ie the immaterial
- Warp drives because you "can" travel in any direction you want
- Hyperlanes because warp storms and the flow of the warp obstruct your movement to certain systems along with permanent warp storms ie the eye of terror and other landmarks.
- Jump drives because you are entering a different dimension ie the immaterial
- Warp drives because you "can" travel in any direction you want
- Hyperlanes because warp storms and the flow of the warp obstruct your movement to certain systems along with permanent warp storms ie the eye of terror and other landmarks.
I believe they said it was specific to wormhole travel.
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In 40K, going through the Warp is actually quite fast - certainly faster than the Tau who can only skim the Warp, but it is slower than the Webway.
The Necrons don't use wormholes - they have some mysterious inertia less drives which doesn't enter the warp or any other dimension.
To answer the OP's question, the Warp drives are probably the best analogue to the ones in 40K for the Imperium.
I think both standard travel through the Warp (via Navigators or Sorcerers) and Webway travel map best to Hyperdrives. Warp is far too free and 'remaining in this universe'-ish for 40K travel. Worm Holes are instantaneous which does not transfer to 40K at all. Jump Drives are interesting as they allow 'demons' to come through and go into an alternate dimension, but are a bit... efficient, for 40K standards.
Hyperdrive -> Jump is probably best for a 40K Imperium or Eldar (or Chaos or Orks or Necrons, or pretty much anything not Tau).
Hyperdrive -> Jump is probably best for a 40K Imperium or Eldar (or Chaos or Orks or Necrons, or pretty much anything not Tau).
Actually the 'Mugani? Hak Hak Hak!' are limited to Jump Drives, the dangerous FTL tech. As far as we know none of the basic techs are dangerous.
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That video is out of date. On the Blorg stream and in the 'End Game Disasters' Dev Diary they confirmed that the Jump Drive tech was the one which could cause inter-dimensional aliens to assault you.
Totally serious and not time-wasting question I am posting here!
So I'm going to play the Imperium of Man for at least my first game and I was looking at the FTL methods. On the one hand, Warp drives seem functionally the same as in the Warhammer universe, however there's isn't really that alternate dimension you go through. That seems closer to the Wormhole method of travel.
So basically, should I stick to functional relevance or go for the terrors of the Wormholes?
Hyperdrive is probably the best way to simulate it.
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I agree, Hyperdrive is what you are looking for. One big point that they make in the 40k fluff is that due to warp storms and other disturbances travel has to proceed along known routes and can often be circuitous; ie you often have to take a lot of detours to get to where you are going.
One thing to remember about the 40k setting is that in 15k there was the "Dark Age of Technology" where FTL/Warp travel was fairly safe, and humankind expanded super fast, and people built intelligent robots (that didn't go well). Stellaris most closely resembles that era.
By year 40,000 there have been warp cataclysms and all types of craziness that make the Astronomicon necessary for (relatively) safe FTL/Warp travel.
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40k's warp is not in the game. Or maybe the Yump Drive goes there, but I think it's more like Eclipse Phase. Anyway, if you really want 40k you'll have to wait for a mod.Totally serious and not time-wasting question I am posting here!
So I'm going to play the Imperium of Man for at least my first game and I was looking at the FTL methods. On the one hand, Warp drives seem functionally the same as in the Warhammer universe, however there's isn't really that alternate dimension you go through. That seems closer to the Wormhole method of travel.
So basically, should I stick to functional relevance or go for the terrors of the Wormholes?
On the other hand, they're not always predictable, and they do better in warp lanes.
There is only one astronomicon, which was made by the Emperor himself and requires a godlike psyker plus the sacrifice of thousands of other psykers daily. What's more, it's a beacon. You don't have to go to Holy Terra and back every time you want to get somewhere.
It's not much similar.