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Nah, I don't think they're similar at all. The gravity drive on the Event Horizon was a "jump drive" similar to that used in BattleTech, allowing FTL travel by literally bending space-time and moving the ship from point A to point B. A geller field is a special type of energy shield that acts as a barrier to warp entities; a ship's warp drive rips a whole in space-time, allowing the vessel to translate from the Materium to the Immaterium and vice versa. The geller field just keeps all the nasties in the Immaterium out of the ship while its traveling through the warp.
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The Gravity Well drive wasn't a jump drive actually, it just bent space and time to allow them to become one. It just so happened that they were sent to an alternate dimension. I just thought that whole sequence was similar in a way to the whole first part of the PILGRIMAGE, especially Chaos from Event Horizon
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What I want to know is why when they are in the imaterium and the Geller field is up, clocks and chronometers are useless, what's with that?

 

time does weird stuff in the warp. it's the reason why Chaos legionnaires can be 10,000 years old but only feel like a couple centuries have passed, among other things.

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What I want to know is why when they are in the imaterium and the Geller field is up, clocks and chronometers are useless, what's with that?

 

time does weird stuff in the warp. it's the reason why Chaos legionnaires can be 10,000 years old but only feel like a couple centuries have passed, among other things.

 

yeah but if your in the Geller field, your technically in a bubble of normal space time relative to where you are. and since time is relative, the same rules as here apply there, they may pass differently because of the warp, but the amount of time you experience is still that time. if you sit and count out 30 seconds then to you and everyone else in the field, 30 seconds went by.

 

as long as the geller field is up, everything inside the ship should be completely normal, its once your reality is blended into the immaterium when :) goes freaky.

 

doesnt feel like it was well thought out by anyone, but was widely accepted.

 

heres a wierd example:

In A-D-B's Sould Hunter, Talos's artificer counts to himself outside his masters chambers to record the time of the seizures. why not get a wrist watch and just watch it.

 

am i missing something?

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What I want to know is why when they are in the imaterium and the Geller field is up, clocks and chronometers are useless, what's with that?

 

The Geller Field acts like a Timelock from Doctor Who: time moves as normal inside it, while everything outside it is subject to the vagarities of a place where time isn't constant. In addition, the bubble of "normal" time inside the Field is also subject to relativity between itself and the rest of "normal" time outside the Warp. Basically, your clock/chrono would have to have five hands to even hope to cope with keeping track of actual Terra time at all moments while travelling through space and through the Warp, and one of those hands would have to be insane.

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Nah, I don't think they're similar at all. The gravity drive on the Event Horizon was a "jump drive" similar to that used in BattleTech, allowing FTL travel by literally bending space-time and moving the ship from point A to point B. A geller field is a special type of energy shield that acts as a barrier to warp entities; a ship's warp drive rips a whole in space-time, allowing the vessel to translate from the Materium to the Immaterium and vice versa. The geller field just keeps all the nasties in the Immaterium out of the ship while its traveling through the warp.

 

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