Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150515003436/@comment-6078851-20150516134354

the warp was calmer back yonder but not much: there was still 3 long established chaos gods kicking up shenanigans :)

wasn't their scouting of the galaxy with the use of AI done before the height of the previous empire? i thought they did away with proper AI after the problems with the 'men of iron'.

i assume they had some sort of ftl since their technology was the best human tech has ever been, and since they had explored and colonised a larger expanse than emps' imperium managed. but i don't actually know for a fact whether or not they had ftl technology. they used navigators in exactly the same way though, and while they probably did utelise warp-beacons to aid safe travel, from what little i've read of that empire they avoided long distances travelled in warp space since most of the time long distance warp travel was so dangerous that most ships were lost.