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 Hunterindarkness wrote:

 Stonerhino wrote:


@Tau FTL travel. The Tau do not breach the warp/real barrier. So it is not true warp travel. Even if it needs the warp to work its "Bending" of physics to allow for its travel speed.

That is just semantics man. It is still a form of warp travel as uses the warp to achieve FTL. It may not be the same way the Imperuim does it, but might not be all that odd from per dark age man. Anyhow it really just illustrates a point. If a race with a few hundred worlds and just 6'000 years are a civilized race can manage FTL, then one millions of years old and galaxy spanning ( as a living race) could do so. Much less one that can harness wormholes and make stars go boom.

Not really. Its different enough to warrent an "*" next to it when you call it "Warp Travel".

Its still a warp based FTL, so yes its warp travel,just not impreum based warp travel. If it makes you feel better to call it something else, eh what ever helps you deal with it man.

Soo......just give Necrons an advanced and more efficient version of the Tau's "Warp skipping" to explain their FTL drives. One that instead of being a "poor man's warp travel" because it's slower, make it actually faster than basic warp Travel.


It makes sense. The Necrons would likely have a greater (objective) knowledge of the Warp than other races, and yet are completely unaffected by the negative influences of it.

I myself would say they would have FTL on par with common warp travel times. Just more reliable, which would make it slower at times then warp travel. I mean look at the Jarko(sp?) They have FTL that is not warp based in the lest it seems, yet have normal travel times.

I forgot about that! Of Jokaero can build warp-capable starships, the Necrons better damn well be able to have ships at least on par with the other races!

That is the thing, IIRC the Jokaero FTL is not in any way warp related. It seems to work closer to the Necron wormholes/gates. They simply tap into "Galactic" energy and pull themselves into systems or something of the like. It is not very clear just how it works.

But yeah, it simply does not fit that a race that had to be millions of years old before the coming of the C'tan never found a way to go FTL. They also clearly possess the technology and understanding to do so, in way other ways can't even dream of.