Webway
From Warhammer 40k
The Webway is an extra-dimensional space utilized by the Eldar for faster-than-light travel.
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[edit] The Webway and the Warp
The Eldar avoid using warpspace because they have a stronger depth of emotion which gives them a stronger psychic presence in the warp. This would inevitably attract a large daemonic presence during the voyage, making the trip extremely hazardous. The Webway is a fairly safe method of travel, being free of the Daemon infestations that plague normal warp faster-than-light travel. There is still danger, however: the Webway consists of paths and tunnels that are profoundly easy to get lost in. Maps and guides are necessary.
[edit] Structure
The Webway is best imagined as a vast and tangled network of doorways between fixed points in real space. Through the Webway the Eldar can travel farther and faster than most other races. However, if there is not a Warpgate (the exits and entrances to the Webway) near their destination, or the one present is not big enough to permit the necessary forces, the Eldar are at a disadvantage.
[edit] Current status
Much of the Webway has fallen into obscurity and disrepair, with other sections destroyed or found uncharted after the Fall of the Eldar. This often forces the Eldar to make connecting stops on their way to their destination as they often have no direct route. Because the technology to create them has been lost, intact Webway gates are some of the Eldar's most treasured artifacts. The Warpgates that allow entry range in size from personal gates for foot travel to massive ones that entire Craftworlds use. Because of the gates' rarity and importance, they will stop at nothing to either claim or deny the use of the gates to the enemy.
[edit] The Black Library
The fabled Black Library resides somewhere within the Webway, though only the Harlequins know where.
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