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I run a DH campaign and one of my players (playing a Void-Born) has stumped me with a question. Was hoping someone here could help me out?
Luckily this is between sessions, he was writing a bit of background and messaged me on facebook with this:

When travelling in the Warp, what would a traveller see when looking out of a ship's viewport?

This has got me completely - I've not got a clue! Can't find an answer in any of my 40k or DH books or online. My knowledge of 40k is ok (not as good as my Fantasy knowledge tbf) but I've never even considered this. Anyone got any ideas? Help!

Cheers!

Pretty certain in one of the RT source books it mentions blast shutters down over any viewports during the warp as if your look at it and you're not a navigator you're going to go insane.

For the navigator characters it also mentions how they view the warp varies from navigator to navigator as everyone's mind tries to make sense of it different ways so if a normal person were able to look at it I imagine it would be the same.

All ports and windows would be shut off. To look into the raw energy that is the warp would destroy the minds of all.

Thanks folks

Yeah, if he insists on looking at the Warp, you can insist on having his character summarily executed for violating shipboard regulations of the most serious caliber. Or just have the character develop psychosis that make him unplayable. In the grimdark, there are rough consequences.

Indescribable madness. If ships have viewports in 40k, they are certainly sealed when in the warp. If someone in your campaign manages to see the warp, then it should have a fear rating of 4, according to the rulebook.

Manchu wrote:Yeah, if he insists on looking at the Warp, you can insist on having his character summarily executed for violating shipboard regulations of the most serious caliber. Or just have the character develop psychosis that make him unplayable. In the grimdark, there are rough consequences.

You're no fun at all. Why kill him, or make him otherwise unplayable, when you can use it as an opportunity to create fun. Dwarf Fortress fun.

The power of the warp flows into the character. Congratulations, you have developed latent psyker powers. You are now an unsanctioned psyker working for the Inquisition. Bonus points if the next adventure has a null NPC so the poor character has to fake food poisoning to cover up.

Looking into the warp caught the eye of a daemon. Guess whose character just got themselves a hot new nemesis. And the attention of the Ordo Mallus, if they manage to notice that the same daemon keeps showing up wherever the PC goes.

Have him receive a vision from the Emperor when he looked into the warp. Or maybe not from the Emperor. Or maybe it was more hallucination than vision. Regardless, the Inquisition wants to pick his brain about it, and that's literally going to involve picks in his brain. Will the group attempt to scoot off to do something about what he saw?

When undergoing warp travel it is better to close the blinds than look out on the warp (just imagine travelling in a Dali painting for a month).

Most IoM ships will close all blast windowswith only the Navigator looking out of their specially designed post.

You wouldn't see anything....your head will just explode or you get possesed by a greater daemon

As long as the Geller field was activevyou couldn't get possessed, but you would probably go insane.

Nah..heads exploding is better and more funny.

That isn't entirely true that you will definately go insane (kaldor draigo has been in the warp for a century and his mental health is still perfect

if you are regular human you will get insane,mad ect. No head explosioons or deamons

Ok your head wont explode but you will go insane and drive your head into a spike

daveNYC wrote:

Manchu wrote:Yeah, if he insists on looking at the Warp, you can insist on having his character summarily executed for violating shipboard regulations of the most serious caliber. Or just have the character develop psychosis that make him unplayable. In the grimdark, there are rough consequences.

You're no fun at all. Why kill him, or make him otherwise unplayable, when you can use it as an opportunity to create fun. Dwarf Fortress fun.

The power of the warp flows into the character. Congratulations, you have developed latent psyker powers. You are now an unsanctioned psyker working for the Inquisition. Bonus points if the next adventure has a null NPC so the poor character has to fake food poisoning to cover up.

Looking into the warp caught the eye of a daemon. Guess whose character just got themselves a hot new nemesis. And the attention of the Ordo Mallus, if they manage to notice that the same daemon keeps showing up wherever the PC goes.

Have him receive a vision from the Emperor when he looked into the warp. Or maybe not from the Emperor. Or maybe it was more hallucination than vision. Regardless, the Inquisition wants to pick his brain about it, and that's literally going to involve picks in his brain. Will the group attempt to scoot off to do something about what he saw?

The Gellar Fields would prevent that though, since they block of the powers of the warp.

Your second option may be possible, but I doubt a daemon of true power would really interest himself in a single human who looked out a porthole at a random point in time while screaming through the warp at incalculable speeds.

The third would hardly require a glimsp into the warp to occur. Plenty of document fluff of things like that happen all the time.

Any mortal host is tempting to a daemon of any power. Once it's in the ship, it has thousands of souls to feast upon, and if it's allied to any of the Ruinous Powers (Great Four or otherwise), it now has a ship it can give to Traitor Legions, renegades, or whoever.

Gellar Fields flicker, too. There's a table in FFG's Rogue Trader book that contains all sorts of "random events" that can happen during Warp Travel. If the Gellar Fields happen to drop for a few seconds or minutes.... well, all hell breaks loose.

I belive the space craft for the most part have large blast sheilds that raise up to obscure the warp outside the craft from anyone who is not a navigator (who can see outside through his abilitys).

I thought in one of the Gaunt's Ghosts books there is an area where they can see outside?

The spoiler is not too important to this topic, but it'll help identify the book, don't open it if you don't want a surprise bit to be ruined

orkdestroyer1 wrote:You wouldn't see anything....your head will just explode or you get possesed by a greater daemon

This, but it would explode from what Manchu said.....a bullet because you would be insane and a threat onboard.

With what a bolt pistol or a boltgun

orkdestroyer1 wrote:With what a bolt pistol or a boltgun

Heavy bolter.