How reliable is warp travel?

Small jumps of up to four or five light years are generally accurate, while longer jumps can be dangerous or a long way off mark. It is safer and easier to travel from some Systems to others where established channels with well-charted warp currents are regularly used for Imperial shipping.

What is warp travel like in 40k?

A Warp-Drive makes a voidship capable of a form of faster-than-light travel known as a Warp “jump.” The Warp-Drive allows a starship to enter the Warp and travel its currents until reemerging into realspace tens, hundreds or even thousands of Terran light years away from the starting point. …

What happens when the Gellar field fails?

The weakening, failure, and collapse of a Gellar Field while the ship is traveling through the warp would be completely disastrous. Warp entities would tear the ship apart to reach and consume the souls of the crew.

Is the warp infinite?

The Warp’s existence is fueled by the emotions and souls of all sentient beings in the Materium. Warpspace is without form and the laws of time and space do not apply there, for both size and time are simultaneously infinite and irrelevant within The Warp.

Is the emperor fighting in the warp?

He is also said to constantly battle the Chaos Gods in the Warp and prevent their further intrusion upon the material universe. His mind must remain vigilant at all times throughout the entire Imperium to safeguard the Human race and to offer His protection to the faithful.

Can orks travel through the Warp?

Whatever the manner of their construction, Ork warp engines carry a ship into, through, and out of the Warp.

Do orks use Gellar fields?

Orks do not seem to generate a Gellar Field around their admittedly patchwork spacecraft and their method of surviving transit through the Warp unharmed is unknown, though it is possible that their latent, collective psychic powers help make a repulsive Warp barrier instinctively.