the favored means of transportation for the eldar inhabitants of the warhammer 40k universe, and occasionally used for other more nefarious means.. Intro by Henrik Sigeman / archwarhammer
Zellder I can't blame him, they're a bunch of lay-abouts with nothing better to do with their time but cause trouble including creating a God of murderfucking
Magnus when the he broke the wall of psychic powers in the Imperial Temple. Magnus: I'M THROUGH!!!! *waves of Daemons rush through for 15 odd seconds* Magnus: Oh well off to see father. Teleports inside Palace Magnus: Father I have grave- Emps:MAAAAAAAAGGGGNNNNNUUSSSSSSS!!!!!!! Magnus: Uhhhhhhhh.............
I do believe that the necrons don't need the webway to move around atm. Although they do have a few of those handy dolmen gates. Afaik, they are the only race with ships which have the ability of faster than lightspeed travel and they can use their knowlegde of other (pocket) dimentions to more around. Although I don't know how easy this is to use these dimensions to move entire armies or if it's mainly limited to a very select group at a time (like obviously the deathmarks). I do know that their teleportation/phasing tech is pretty powerfull as it will transport necrons over huge distances back to their tombs for instance. Someone could make a video about all the different ways there are to more around in this universe. As there are quite a few.
I believe their usage of phasing technology on ship to be appear anywhere in the galaxy is retconned and they get those dolmen gates instead of awesome teleportation
Inertialess drives would be so goddamn broken. It would essentially allow you to teleport wherever the fuck you want in the goddamn *universe*. Still less stupid than the taus not having any FTL whatsoever.
Uhm.. actually... entire space ships do fit through the webway... commoragh the city of the dark eldar deep within the webway is an actual harbor for capital ships. There is even artwork showing eldar battleships flying through its skies with imperial star cruisers impaled onto of commoraghs spires. Now i dont know about ALL of the webway but this means that there ARE portals big enough to fit entire space ships through, atleast to the size of imperial cruisers.
Craftworlds also dispatch fleets this way too. Though i think Arch is maybe mixing up the portals that open on planets to the ones that open in space? As ones on planets are referenced more than the ones in space.
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the story is this empror secluded himself to build it horus went heretic magnus broke it to try telling the empror deamons are still trying to enter the throne room
+The Emperor of Mankind *Don't worry bro, it'll be fine in a couple a millennia, I just introduced Tzeentch to marijuana and you can guess where its going from there.*
Just to confirm, that elder 'friend' is the creature, that shall go unnamed, that is located on mars and is supposedly the source of the Mechanicum's religion?
Big E has a note book somewhere with his plans in it, and it goes something like: Destroying Chaos. Step one, conquer the entire galaxy. Step Two, Break into the eldars place. step three, steal their shit. step four, profit.
I too thought Webway Gates were all small until I saw the one in Battlefleet Gothic. A bunch of battleships could drift sideways through the thing at max speed and none of them would hit each other.
So, in regards to the imperial webway, the book Watcher of the Throne puts it as a mix of the two. Like, there WAS a portal on Terra, but shit was hella tiny, so they just opened it bigger. They also encountered the Impossible City on the other side of the portal, which was the primary battleground if the War in the Webway.
My one complaint is that a geller field in the warp would be a beacon to the Desmond on the warp. A pocket of real space in the warp would be a light house in a pitch black night. That is all.
"To add further unpredictability, there are drastic time differences between the warp and real space. Time passes at very variable rates between both realities. Only once a ship jumps out of the warp can it learn how long its journey has taken in real time.[1b] Generally, however, one day in the warp relates to twelve days real time. Sometimes, ships and fleets within the warp can be caught in time bubbles for hundreds of years. This can lead to some strange, but extremely rare, events such as armies being sent across the galaxy to defend a threatened planet only to arrive many years too late"- GW
What I find funny is that there are no examples of null psychers being anything other than human. I think the same way eldar are 100% psychic, so too are humans evolving to be 100% null, I know there are "normal" psychers amongst human ranks. With this book of null skin being in the imperiums possession there must be a link between null psychers and the webway, makes sense considering normal ones have such a strong link with the warp.
Well, eldars are 100% psychic like you said, so i don't think it's possible for them to be null, the orcs are also psychic, so it should be impossible for them too, the taus aren't psychers if I remember correctly, the necrons don't even have a soul and the tyranids are producted through genetic manipulation, so unless the Hive Mind decide, there won't be any null tyranids (And I doubt the HM will create them because of the shadow in the warp).
darnage l Yeah, Tau don't have any psychers. Orcs aren't all psychers, only wyrd boyz. I was saying that the humans who are null must have some connection to the emperors webway. Shadow of the warp doesn't stop psychic ability all together, just interferes with it and stops interstellar communication. Thus far humans are the only race thats exhibited null fields. A soul doesn't seem to play into whether or not an entity is psychic, tyranid zoanthropes for example, are just another instrument of the hive mind and they are pretty powerful. Necrons are unique they have dominion over "real" space so they don't really need psycher anything, they just kind of own reality, to put it simply.
Zoanthrope don't have a soul? I know that not all psychers have a soul, but I though their were among them. Well, doesn't change the fact that no null tyranids can't randomly appears (well, maybe inside a genestealers cult).
Well, I think at least that the Swarmlord has a soul, it's mentionned that the HM c/p the Hive tyrants, but in the case of the SL, his consciousness is transfered and not just replaced by a copy. That might suggest that at least some of the tyrannids have a soul (even though it's confirmed that lesser tyrannids don't, it's never specified that higher tyranids don't have one either, it's even mentionned that the Hive tyrants have a consciousness).
here's something that would make imperium of man overpowered : bring emperor back complete imperial webway rediscover all hidden dark age tech like black hole staves how to make anti gravity etc. also figure out how to make space marines again and bring back missing primarchs and fix plasma give all imperial guard carapace armor and replace tempestuous scions with solar auxiliary brought back soon enough that would make imperium retake galaxy and defeat eye of terror
Can someone explain something to me? Why are there 4 or 5 Webways that say Commorragh? Is it just all of them link solely to there, or is it a split plane?
interesting but i must say that now the necrons posses their own technology who allows them to ftl wothout depending of the webway in fact they have something call inertialess drive which are allows them to travel faster than imperial ships
The imperial Webway was ruined when little, misunderstood, Magny Magic tried to warn the emperor of Horus' betrayal through an ethereal projection, but accidentally broke the barrier that blocked off the warp for construction of the imperial webway and let all sorts of demons on to Holy Terra itself. I'll be here all week Folks :)...
I'd love an in depth necron video not just on past lore but current. I'm not familiar with current necrons or their space or influence. Do they still invade worlds? Have fleets? Or are they just kipping all the time?
Hey I hope people sees this... FIrst off: Nice video, great collection of stuff, love the content. Second: The C'tan itself did not breach the webway, they only learned to breach it with the knowlege given by Nyadra'zath the "Burning one". It is the Dolmen gate itself that does so, on that note having a Ctan willingly create a functioning Webway would be rather... Uncanon, as they have no psychic precense, let alone wilingly as the C'tan is shards are descriped in the new lore to be unwilling to Serves the wish of their masters 100% willingly, often taking other routes of furfilling their masters wishes... It could also be theorized that the Necrons still is repairing the Dolmen gates to retake their galaxy. only takes a few billion scarabs with the right programming... Else the New fluff suggest they have FTL Star ships agian... but then agian it is 40k, and the Necrons are immortal... they may simply just fly really fast waiting it out while making plans n stuff waiting for months or years in their ships. Imotekh the Storm lord has a ship confirmed to be assaulted on its way to the Crown World of his Dynasty. This suggests that they can do Faster than light speed. or just near light speed.
So wait, I have a few questions: Are using webways faster than the regular 'ol warp? And why can't the Eldaar use drones or some sort of unmanned vehicle to explore the webways instead?
It's way faster, barring warp shenanigans, but you can only reach certain points already connected to the Webway. Think train vs bike. The Eldar aren't that fond of unmanned drones, soulless machines are a bit of a no-no, reminds them too much of the Necrons I suppose. Their drones are basically Wraithbone constructs animated by the souls of dead Eldar. As such, the Eldar don't like to risk those souls being gobbled up by the warp.
probably because it would take your ever for a drone send a signal back to where it came from because of the amount of real space in the way. so unless they use an AI to run the machine it couldn't be controlled by an eldar operator like America and their drones.
Hey I dont't wanna say your directly wrong arch...but about Eldar Vessels beeing the fastest ones in realspace atleast according to what i Remember from the BFG tabletop Necron Engines couald accel the craft far faster as they according to that law dont use warp-travel(as they are unable to) and have no Webwaygates, this however is A Old Lore and B it's been long since I read it so I might be completely wrong but you might wanna check it.
Having it on earth he could send hundred million man armies to other planets where as a already existing portal off Terra would require men and material to be sent via sublight/Warp becoming a choke point.
There should be a safer way to explore the Webways, you could just simply send something that records through the warp(In the Konrad Curze video Arch mentioned that Konrad used to broadcast "some stuff" so that should be a thing) and then pull it back with a rope or something.. I mean it would be somewhat safer than randomly sending ppl to explore, right?
Highly advanced and expensive piece of technology, or cheap as dirt replenishable dron-/sla-/serv- ... volunteers. Yeah, I'd go with option 2 as well and tell the gear heads to use that tech to make bigger killier guns.
1: Thanks for the video's there both funny and informative(a rare combintion) 2: Question what happends to captured eldar(useally by the inquistion) that are on ships that travel to the warp? Does a single or small group of eldar draw enough attation to make warp travel even more deadly?
i thought that the necrons had means to realspace faster-than-light travelling. In the word bearers trilogy for example a necron Overlord travels into a warpblocked star system with a giant space pyramid, apperantly using some sort of space-time accelaration. is this still canon or are they using the webway gates ?
I highly doubt that even if the emperor completed the web way before being betrayes and all of that, would have exterminated the eldar. The emperor, did not want to exterminate them, if they showed to be cooperative, without a doubt he would have eliminated the dark eldar, but the craftworld eldar surely would have given an opportunity in the kind of: If you fall into the fold, you will be fine, you will be vassals, independent but vassals. But if a single of you, presents any kind of threat to mankind, you will be extenguised.
During the emperors "living" days, was the emperor known as "The Emperor" or was he known as his given name, let's say Dave. Considering the messed up state and fanaticism of the empire I would not doubt that his name was changed from Dave to God-Emperor-Raptor-Jesus.
it was somewhat earlier before the first Great Crusade the Eldar have kept an eye on the rise the imperium but keep their space. you know how the imperium of man are with xenon? fucking exterminatus
The dark age of technology ended at about M25, and the fall of eldar happened at M30. Does that mean that the eldar empire existed for five thousand years after the humans' golden age had ended?
That... can't be correct. Keep in mind the "Age of Strife" was caused by the excessive warp storms that came from the Birth of Slaanesh.... "Old Night", aka, "The Age of Strife" had to have happened after he was born.
In the necron codex its suggereted that the necron with the help of the c'tan could manipulate the law of space and Time like the theorical alcubier drive at some point in the war in heaven.
It really puts Horus, Failbaddon and so into into perspective when you realise that Magnus (arguably) did more to disrupt the Emperor's long term goals than the lot of them combined, while simply trying to deliver a helpful warning.
Ahhhm, Arch, I'll have to stop you right there. There are webway portals of INSANE sizes. Eldar transport entire Battlefleets through the webway, consisting of ships up to glorianna class sizes. And to add to this insanity, as you said, the Eldar actualy did stuff a Craftworld in there: The Black Library. That Thing is a houmongous construct (bigger than most Craftworlds) , Floating through the Webway. The Eldar also have the tech to expand the openings, or even create new ones, by using bone singers and Farseers. And the Dark Eldar can even build up short streches of new tunnel without using psychic power(carryable Webway Portal), and don't even need a Portal to anchor that tunnel .As for the whole Slaneeshy birth Thing: The Craftworld Eldar that are alive today refused to BDSM Slaneesh into existence and left the rotting corpse of their once great empire. Thats why they're still alive
not to mention, the black library is only the second largest thing in the webway. There's also Commorragh, ostensibly a city of the dark eldar, in reality more like an actual planet. Certainly larger than a craftworld.
the necrons cannot enter into the webway, i don't even think they use the warp to travel, not their tech/style. but it's 40k so they do even more rediculous things to keep us fans happy. :)
I wonder if there are actually Necrons sleeping on Cadia? Oh jeez, imagine if Abby finally gets a foothold on Cadia. Laughing in triumph, he begins the process of bringing forth the full might of his forces out of the Eye when suddenly monoliths begin to erupt from the ground, warriors and Immortals rise from the ground, and he turns to find himself face to face with a Phaeron.
Abaddon: Yes i did it! I finally conquered Cadia after 13 Black Crusade. Necrons: Awakening protocol activeted. Abaddon: CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!
Kyle Trathen considering the galaxy has been literally turned into the universes asshole due to the great rift ( the great rift is the crack, the two halves the cheeks and the eye of terror the hole) I'd say it's safe to say that Cadia has been lost
In the new lore the Emperor was constructing a short stretch of brand new webway which connected to an abandoned Eldar city in the webway and through that to the wider webway network. However while the Emperor had the technology to create a gateway and construct tunnels in the warp he had not yet discovered how to replicate the material the Eldar used to construct their tunnels which is completely inert to the warp and doesn't erode so the human tunnel walls had to be constantly maintained through the psychic effort of the emperor (which made building it on Terra at the centre of the Imperial palace damn stupid if you ask me). After the Magnus psychic communication distracted the emperor and damaged the new webway tunnel hordes of demons were able to invade through the cracks (known as Magnus Folley's)and so the War Within the Webway was fought with Custodes/Sisters of Silence troops fighting a multi year rear guard action. When Horus reached Terra the Emperor was forced to give up trying to salvage the project by sending in hordes of troops until the breaches could be repaired and instead seal the webway portal shut through the Golden Throne. When the Emperor dies however the seal will be broken and there will essentially be a open Warp portal on Terra allowing daemonic invasion directly on to the ground.
The only thing keeping Terra from being overrun and subsequently obliterated by demons is the Emperor and the only thing keeping him alive is the Golden Throne which is, correct me if I'm wrong, slowly failing to operate correctly because they're unable to do proper maintenance on it. The Imperium is sitting on a gigantic timebomb and probably doesn't even know it.
However since the tunnel is only open due to the Emperor's concerted efforts, then once he dies, the portal should become unstable and therefore collapse. It might stay open for a length of time, say a few months, even years, but eventually it'd collapse.
@Incensement Well, kinda. The Mechanicus and the Emperors caretakers are pretty desperate at this Point, so they've hired Eldar scientists and Dark Eldar Homunculi to teach them how torepair the Throne.
Hey Arch, how many subs will it take for you to embrace Matt Ward as your Lord and Savior, and to do a full 50+ min video on how fantastic the Grey Knights are?
my Waagh is based off of this concept xD Its a speed waagh,and after discovering a very old ritual, using the teleyporta on many shokk jump dragsta, and several warp'eads they are capable to brute force it open, they dont get to pick where they come out tho. However it seems that use of webways in this way brings them to gates recently used or too large amounts of Waaagh Energy. The orks dont mind this tho, as eldar are good fer two fings. Deyz is fast, and nuffink is betta den going Fast. ANd dey know how ta put up a fight!
