Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-8257990-20130821144250/@comment-44615803-20200110133350

203.134.114.55 wrote: LegionoftheDerped wrote: I think Callum pretty much has it right. The Old Ones started tampering with this particular Galaxy and more or less, 'broke' the Immaterium. Maybe an experiment? Could they have been using their creations and alterations in the 40k Galaxy as a test run for some greater project? Maybe they weren't all wiped out or run off as the fluff legends tell it, maybe they just finished their experiment and moved on to a new galaxy to implement what they had learned.

But back to the subject at hand, if this scenario is true- then the roiling, seething, Chaotic, 40k Immaterium is the exception, rather than the rule. And so, sure the warp exists all over the entirety of the Universe... It just isn't the hurricane of energy and psychic potential that this Galaxy is. Maybe the Warp is Universal, but most of the chaos is channeled in this particular Galaxy. Other then that all the Nids are just fleeing into our Galaxy to run from something worse...such as the Flood from a Fanfiction I have just read.

[Darth Grunt]

'''The warp is obviously universal. '''

They exist as a hive mind because of the warp. They're all psychically linked. That's what the synaptic web is, a load of psychic messages constantly flying back and forth between them through the warp, a constant telepathic network. That's likely the cause of the Shadow in the Warp, constant warp traffic from them blocking out other people's attempts to use it. Like a DDoS attack using all the bandwidth.

Next.

"Atop a palanquin loaded with the paraphernalia of a mobile laboratory, Ku'gath is carried across the universes by a mound of straining Nurglings as he searches for the elusive combination of blights and woes that will create the perfect disease." -Codex: Chaos Daemons, 8th Ed. pg.51