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 Furyou Miko wrote:
Warp travel is affected by tides and currents, but no more relies on it than modern sailors rely on ocean currents.

That is to say, they help (sometimes help a lot), but a ship is not dead in the water without them.

That depends on the ship. Modern vessels, with things like engines and screw propellers aren't, but during the age of sail, that most certainly wasn't the case (the pacific ocean in fact got its name due to large expanses of it which have no major tides and little/no wind). The question is, do ships in the 40k universe propel themselves through the warp or do they "ride" the warp?

The warp IS anathema to the C'Tan. It's mentioned to be several times in many sources. Of course, Ward may have screwed with that without me realising, but I haven't seen anything to contradict that yet.

anathema just means an intense dislike, not necessarily that they're 'incompatible'.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Warp travel is affected by tides and currents, but no more relies on it than modern sailors rely on ocean currents.

That is to say, they help (sometimes help a lot), but a ship is not dead in the water without them.

That depends on the ship. Modern vessels, with things like engines and screw propellers aren't, but during the age of sail, that most certainly wasn't the case. The question is, do ships in the 40k universe propel themselves through the warp or do they "ride" the warp?

Trust me, it was the case.

Go ask the Polynesians who managed to colonise islands across the entire Pacific against the winds and currents.

When you're plotting a course, you always try to catch a favourable current or tide, but it's not always possible. That's why sail technology improved and things like cutter rigs and the bermudan (triangular) sail were invented.

The question is, do ships in the 40k universe propel themselves through the warp or do they "ride" the warp?

A little from column A, a little from column B.