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**KamikazeCanuck**

Laodamia wrote:Yes, I read those posts... But I don't see how they answer my question

Or, I'm just a stupid 'umie.

As for KamikazeCanuck's answer, I went through the fluff on the astronomican, and what I understood from this reading was that warp anomalies (bad weather as you call it) don't limit the range of the astronomican in any way. Within their limits, the signal is simply perturbed and dimmed, sometimes completely lost, but the astronomican can reach areas of space beyond the Eye or the Maelstrom for example.

Yes, you're basically contradicting yourself. If Warp-Weather is dimming the Astronomicon its effecting its range and visibility. It's like how Polaris is harder to see on a cloudy day.

**Laodamia**

The warp does not function like real space. You can't compare it to a normal landscape where an obstacle can effectively block your vision.

The astronomican would not function in the Maelstrom, but it can be perceived beyond this area of space. This is what I was trying to say in my last post.

**xXSir MontyXx**

How I put warp into perspective is this; imagine the universe as a huge piece of paper (or something else flat), then imagine a similar sized piece of paper right above it. The distance between the two fluctuating in various areas due to the random occurrences such as the eye of terror and various warp storms. Now, each intelligent creature that fall's to the worship of chaos makes a infinitesimally small dot on this plane that represents the universe. These conduits of mortals minds located in their actual planet/star-cluster ect. However it is not just a dot but a connection between the two planes, a conduit through which the gods can assert their will. This one dot however has very, very small influence on the material realm. This is why they spread their influence to others. This one small dot/conduit pools together as more followers in this area are obtained. The conduit getting ever wider with more influence. This allows massive amounts of the chaos gods whim to be delivered to our plain of existence. (this is where exterminatus comes in). The eye of terror is a perfect example of this, where the consciousness of Chaos has gotten so great it has broken through consciousness and into even the visible spectrum.

This is something i wrote a long time ago for a different thread.

**xXSir MontyXx**

That theory basically explains how the warp gets stonger is some areas. (The way I look at it anyways). To me it seems pretty solid.