Webway

The Webway is a device that features in Warhammer 40,000.

History

The technologies used to create the Webway was through knowledge taught to the Eldar by the ancient race of beings known Old Ones. (Codex: Eldar (4th Edition))

Since the Fall of the Aeldari in the late 29th and early 30th Millennia of the Imperial Calendar, the Webway has become a realm shattered and dangerous, its splintered reaches infested by strange beings from different realities. Yet the Webway's portals still allow the brave and the bold to strike without warning at millions of locations throughout realspace. The ancient Aeldari discovered millions of Terran years ago the means to move within the threads of the veil between realspace and the Warp. It was they who mastered the original Webway network, though it has changed drastically since the height of the Aeldari Empire, torn open by war and disaster. Moving between the dimensions is a technique fraught with danger, but such is the skill and intellect of the Aeldari that they are still able to utilise it without hesitation. The Asuryani craftworlds float in deep space and move at only sub-light speeds. Their exact locations are not known by other intelligent races, and the Craftworld Aeldari themselves do not consider their physical positions to be important -- a minor detail in an eternal journey. Smaller Aeldari spacecraft, moored in docks upon the craftworld's fringes, travel between the different craftworlds by means of the Webway. The main gateways into the Webway take the form of swirling spheres of light and darkness held in stasis astern of each craftworld. The pathways of the Webway lead to the craftworlds, to the surface of the verdant worlds of the Exodites, to the Drukhari's corrupt city of Commorragh, and to untold thousands of other worlds throughout the galaxy. Cloistered deep within the hidden city-realms of the Webway, those survivors who concealed themselves in their palaces of depravity still revel in the debauched lifestyle that led to the Fall. In that twilight realm between the material universe and the Warp, the Drukhari mock and jeer those ravaged by the downfall of their species. Even though they would never admit it, they know in their hearts that, try as they might to allay their fate, unless something changes beyond their imagination to conceive, Slaanesh will claim them in the end. Though the Webway still connects many Aeldari worlds and craftworlds to one another, the baleful energies of the Fall have ruptured its hyperspatial pathways in countless places. Amongst the Webway's shattered and treacherous tendrils there are many byways, dead ends and mazes that can entrap the unwary. Some lead to places long since abandoned or destroyed, or else now inhabited by the daemons of the Warp. These doors are sealed with runes of psychic power, lest unknown horrors gain access to a craftworld or some unwary traveller unwittingly opens a doorway and is sucked into the Warp. It is claimed that there are many secret paths that lead through time and reality, though only the elegant and deadly Harlequins are reputed to know of such routes.

Overview

The Webway was a labyrinth dimension that was part of both the Warp and realspace but was not part of either. (Codex: Eldar (4th Edition))

There were a number of variations of the Webway technology which included:

• Webway Portals : these are mobile deployable gateways that are deployed on the field and allow access to the Webway and are used by the Dark Eldar. (Codex: Dark Eldar (3rd Edition))
• Wraithgate : similar to the Webway Portals, these are deployable gates that allow reinforcements to arrive on the field through the Webway and are used by the elite strike forces of Craftworld Ulthwe Eldar.

Notes

• The Webway was created by Games Workshop where it featured in the setting of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Appearances

• Eldar Codex:

External Link

• Lexicanum Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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