What does the Webway look like?

[Kurisu313]

Well, just the title, really.

I've always pictured it as a network of pulsating green circular tunnels, a bit like the wormholes on Star Trek, except solid, so you can stand on it.

But if that was true, I wonder how could Commoragh be built? What are the foundations set in if the ground is impenetrable?

So I was wondering if perhaps it is more like the network the old ones built in Giantslayer, the Gotrek and Felix novel. More like wraithbone corridors of some appreciable thickness.

Is there any fluff on this?

[inq.serge]

In Ian Watsons Inq.War trilogy, It's described as monochrome bright blue tunnels of varying sizes* with mist on the floor. There's no decoration in them. Just blue. Like a bluescreen. And some mist.

* Some sized for infanterists, some large enough for spacefleets.

[WarbossKurgan]

Infanterists = infantry?

I always imagined the webway to be made of energy that looks like it has a surface made of coruscating lights and swirling shadows - and possibly transparent in places, so you can see the warp surrounding it!

[stormblade]

For some reason I always envisioned it like a tunnel of orange light.

[TheSaylesMan]

I've always imagined it sorta like the inside of a body. You know those films of medical cameras scooting around inside of people's bodies? Like that but everything is a glowing warp energy construct and its less wet. As for the important part of your question, how do you build in it, its most certainly not impenetrable. The Webway is a malleable thing and stuff is breaking, being repaired or newly constructed at any given time. I'm sure that the Eldar have the means of joining the stuff the Webway is made of to more conventional (at least by their standards) building materials. Plus, gravity doesn't seem to work as a constant. No matter where you walk, gravity is always pointing down towards the floor where you are standing. I always imagined that the Webway is spherical and that you could walk up the walls until you went in a full circle. On top of that Eldar are masters of anti-grav tech. Those two things would offset the "wobble" that I imagine the Webway would have. On a sidenote, I always imagine that walking in the Webway was like walking on sandbags. There would be a slight give to it.

[Hrw-Amen]

For some reason I always imagined it to be a bit orange in colour. I think it is from those pictures in the HH Art Books, specifically the one of the Grav-Rhino tank. I just picture it as a squishy orange tube, sort of like walking in a swamp or on thick moss, probably with a mist around the sides about ankle deep.

I always though that the larger sections containing things like the Dark Eldar city and other constructs were big enough for them to basically be floating inside rather than actually having foundations as such. A bit like a really big space station but in the webway. Almost like a craftworld but one stuck inside it.

[Lord Damocles]

Collected Visions shows the webway as a swirly yellow/orange/green.

[Askil the Undecided]

In Deamonifuge the webway is transparent Ephrael Stern and the Harlequin Pariah stroll about watching ships travel through the warp around them in the warp outside the webway tunnel.

[Paul Nexus]

I imagined a a similar style to the Tok'Ra tunnels from Stargate SG-1

[Spider-pope]

I picture it as a cross between the wormhole travelling shots in later episodes of Stargate SG-1 and the Time Vortex in Doctor Who. Whirling energy forming a tunnel in other words.

[blackcherry]

I think Atlas Infernal is the most recent book to describe the webway. Blue tunnels. Lots of them with many intersections. Actually impossible to navigate unless you know where you are going.

[Col. Tartleton]

I always imagined it was somewhere between a surrealist warp and realist galaxy.

It's more like the warp, than not, but it's safe and it makes enough sense you can get where you're going if you know the way. Tunnels isn't how I imagine it. I mean they're tunnels as so far as they "lead" places, but it's more like a twilight zone. Time and space would be distorted immensely, you could walk, or run, or fly for a billion years and it would feel like a moment had passed and indeed that's all it was. The "short ones", portals and the like, would be like stepping through a doorway, crossing a thousand light years in a single step. The long ones would be like alternate dimensions where you could build cities if you weren't just passing through. Vast enough to contain entire solar systems, suspended in a bizarre unreality. Comorragh is not a city, it is a huge number of unnatural cities situated within the "long ones" but connected so thoroughly with "short ones" that it's effectively seamless transitions.