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Which for the uninitiated is a device that emits a pocket of reality around a ship, essentially forming a bubble of protection from the monsters and machinations of unreality that are screaming to get in. To do so requires a Psyker Navigator, a particular engine, and a reliable Gellar Field. But most use to travel through the Warp as their main form of vast-distance transportation. Different races use their form of FTL travel, to different degrees of efficiency. The upside of having a nightmare dimension that's worryingly easily accessible is that it does make getting around in space a lot easier. The populace of Chaos Worlds suffers in their unique versions of homegrown hell. Tortured in some grotesque way or converted wholesale to their new Dark Patron's side.

What's more horrifying is that often these planetoids are ruled over by cruel and merciless Daemon Princes. These doomed worlds are numerous, and were either swallowed up by the opening or expansion of a Warp Rift or were dragged screaming into this Hell through machinations of the Chaos Gods and their maniacal followers. Though it may seem like no life exists that isn't demonic or other, entire planets and a range of lifeforms, unfortunately, call this place their home. Venturing in here unprepared is a fast journey to damnation or a fate worse than death and few brave this realm without sturdy Gellar Fields or powerful Sorceries to keep the madness out. The Immaterium, or 'Warp' as it's commonly referred to, is a dimension of anarchy where the laws of physics, time, and reality break down. Filled to its infinite brim with nightmarish entities that desire one thing, Souls upon which to feed. This anarchic realm is composed of a constantly roiling maelstrom of energy.

Crossing over into the Immaterium is a fate that awaits most races of the 40K universe after they pass on from the mortal plane, as their souls get torn apart and absorbed by the chittering monstrosities of the Warp.

Warhammer chaos and conquest chaotic rift