Cardinalsin said:
Visitor Q said:
Remember that most people don't enter the warp. 99% of humanity in the WH40K universe will never leave their planets surface.
True - but in absolute terms, we are talking millions (billions?) of people entering the Warp. Hundreds of thousands of Imperial Guard, trading vessels, and so on. If the Warp is really so mind-blowingly, unfathomably terrifying - well, let's just say that if that were the case I'd definitely be keeping the portholes shut.
Well, if it helps, I've read from a verity of sources that's exactly what tey do (though there seems to be an equal number of sources that say they don't). It seems that the modern GW interpretation of warp travel involves heavy shutters going down over all portholes and vista walls prior to translating allowing only the navigator(s) in their dome to actually see what's going on in the warp.