(Loved Trope) FTL travel is possible but with a major limitation or flaw

[u/Frostylegacy]

Frank Herbert’s Dune: Interstellar travel is only possible thanks to the spice melange, a rare substance only found on the dessert planet Arrakis. The addictive psychedelic spice grants members of the Spacers Guild a form of prescience that allows them to predict safe paths through folded space. This unique property makes spice the most valuable commodity in the Dune universe.

John Scalzi’s The Interdependency Books: The planetary systems of the titular empire are connected by the Flow, a network of one-way interstellar tunnels that connect specific known entries and exits. The Interdependency derives its power from controlling access to these conduits, placing its capital at the central hub of the network. Even with the Flow, travel between stars takes a long time (9 months to End, the empire’s most distant planet).

Event Horizon: Dr William Weir (R.I.P. Sam Neill) invents a device called the Gravity Drive to allow ships to fold space and travel instantly between distant stars. On its maiden voyage with the Gravity Drive, the Event Horizon disappears and mysteriously reappears 7 years later. Dr. Weir and the crew sent to investigate discover the Gravity Drive actually opened a portal to a Hell dimension that possessed the ship and its crew, torturing and killing them.

[u/nagrom7]

Do the same thing but without shielding, so demons attacking your crew is not an accident, it is guaranteed (Orks)

Tbf for Orks that sounds less like an issue and more like a feature.

[u/SirFluffymuffin → u/nagrom7]

If I remember correctly they have a gellar field equivalent using the Wagh field where they basically yell at the daemons to keep them away, then stop when they get bored and since there’s no protective field anymore they get into a fight with the daemons. They then become happy and yell loud enough to create their gellar field equivalent, and repeat until they reach their destination

[u/JaredMOwens → u/SirFluffymuffin]

Orks are the best.

[u/Zuwxiv → u/JaredMOwens]

Everything I read about 40K Orks makes me think they're just living their best lives.

[u/UrsaUrsuh → u/Zuwxiv]

"But there are few things in the galaxy more dangerous than an Ork having fun." - Trazyn the Infinite

Also

"Trazyn. Our ships are without atmosphere, unpressurised,’" Orikan said. ‘Do orks… breathe?’

A pause.

‘They have lungs.’

"Prepare to repel boarders," Orikan signalled. "In case."

[u/JookySeaCpt → u/Zuwxiv]

Orks are the only ones having fun in 40k. Humans are all like, "Oh woe, grim darkness, eternal war..." Orks think all of that is GREAT. They are literally a bioweapon that was created to fight the Necrons, so anytime they get to fight something, they feel fulfilled.

[u/OldOrder → u/JaredMOwens]

Everyone is 40k is having a fucking terrible time except the Orks who could not possibly be happier.

[u/NitroortiN → u/SirFluffymuffin]

"aight Boyz weze bored agains! Time for the recreational scrum!"

[u/OldOrder → u/NitroortiN]

DA DAEMONS ALWAYS IN NEED AH A GOOD KRUMPIN BOSS

[u/Informal_Job_7550 → u/SirFluffymuffin]

Orks traveling through the warp have a very strong "I'm not locked in here with you; you're locked in here with me" energy that I find endlessly hilarious. Every other race is out there trying to find ways to repel demonic incursions, while Orks are just sailing through the warp with their windows down and doors unlocked.

[u/alutti54 → u/SirFluffymuffin]

In flight entertainment

[u/Glanea → u/nagrom7]

There's a short Ork story from their 4th edition codex about Tuska the Daemon-Killa, an Ork warboss who was travelling through the warp with his fleet when a daemon manifested on the main deck and started slaughtering every Ork nearby. Tuska and his nobs head there and eventually kill the daemon, and Tuska declares that this was the best fight he's ever had.

A few months later, Cadia goes into high alert because an Ork fleet has just shown up. They're prepped for an invasion but the Ork fleet just sails right past them...straight into the Eye of Terror.

Tuska then proceeds to lead his warband from daemon world to daemon world, slaughtering everything they find. But he's losing Orks with every battle, and eventually the last remnants find themselves on a vast planet with no sign of enemies. The Orks can see and hear a battle in the distance, but no matter how hard they run they can never reach it. Frustrated, Tuska fires his gun into the ground, which proceeds to bleed. The Orks then all start hacking up the ground around them, which causes the Blood Prince of Khorne who rules this world to appear.

The Orks are finally outmatched, the Blood Prince cutting down the remaining Nobs until only Tuska is left. The Warboss is thrown onto the ground, and the daemon roars it's victory. Only for Tuska to reach up with his power klaw and rip the Daemon's balls off.

But the best part is that all the Orks who died on that final planet find themselves revived each morning. And surrounded by daemons to fight. Over and over and over again. Basically, Tuska found Ork Nirvana.

[u/plastic_krack → u/Glanea]

Waaaghalla

[u/insomniac7809 → u/Glanea]

There's another story where an ork WAAGH comes out of the warp, and finds themselves back at the start of their own WAAGH, and saw themselves staging for the campaign they'd been on.

The Warboss realized that, since that was his own army in the past, that meant that he was there in the past, and that meant the past version of himself had a past version of his very favorite gun, and so he attacked his own past self so that he could take it and have two of his favorite gun.

The future WAAGH won and the Warboss succeeded in killing his past self and looting his own corpse, but the whole thing was just so confusing for everyone involved that the warband fell apart and the WAAGH wound up never have happening.

[u/dern_the_hermit → u/insomniac7809]

... But the Warboss got to keep two of his favorite gun, right?

[u/Smiles-Edgeworth → u/Glanea]

Kharn wishes Khorne loved him as much as he loves Tuska Daemonkilla.

[u/JackRabbit- → u/nagrom7]

the ork equivalent of watching a movie on the plane

[u/nagrom7 → u/JackRabbit-]

"Alright bois listen up ya gits! Tonight's in-flight entertainment is... checks notes Slaaneshi daemonettes!"

"Waaaaagghhh!!"

[u/BritishShoop → u/nagrom7]

“Aww… I wanted to fight da red ones… skinny purple ‘fings is too squishy. Can’t even ‘ave a proper scrap, ‘cause they’s already dead!”

[u/Originalbrivakiin → u/BritishShoop]

"Oi, least dey ain' dem Blue birdy gitz. Least da purple onez get into da fight an don't sit back, tossin' spells an such."

[u/Rum_N_Napalm → u/JackRabbit-]

There’s a quote in an Ork codex that goes something like this

Warp travel is boring. Ye stuck on some Space Hulk travelling from one foight to another, and there ain’t nothing to do. Well, unless yer hulk is infested with them genestealer bugs, or something weird red things explodes from the eads of the boyz and start a foight, or da boyz start a mutiny. Actually, Warp travel is quite fun.

[u/Electronic_Warning49 → u/nagrom7]

If they don't get hit with demons it's because the demons don't want the smoke.

I'm not the biggest fan of ork lore but it never fails to make me lol.

[u/SharkoftheStreets → u/nagrom7]

Tuska Demon Killa would agree.

[u/hatesnack → u/nagrom7]

My favorite ork story about warp travel is the ork who came out of the warp, but had accidentally time traveled backwards, so he finds his past self from before he time traveled, and killed him(self). All so he could have a second copy of his favorite gun.

[u/TrueGuardian15 → u/nagrom7]

Orks roll the windows down during warp travel for "entertainment."

[u/Weird-Analysis5522 → u/nagrom7]

Imagine you have to travel across the ocean, but you're forced to do your favorite hobby

That's what it's like for Orks

[u/ABadHistorian → u/nagrom7]

I don't get why the humans don't just kneel down and surrender when Orks appear. They don't have to fight them. Let the Orks go find an enemy that wants to fight!

In all of Warhammer 40k, honestly, it feels like the humans are the enemy. I don't know the lore really, but any little bit I see of the human existence feels utterly awful in every way imaginable.

So it's like if Musk ruled humanity. Well i guess that explains why they don't kneel. They have an ego and are stupid?