Gellar Field

The Gellar Field of Ignis Aeternus is ensuring the survival of starships as they traverse the Immaterium. Without it, no vessel could safely enter the Warp, for it is the only barrier preventing daemonic entities from breaching reality and consuming the souls of those aboard.

The Gellar Field is far more than a simple energy shield—it is a complex technological marvel that incorporates both hexagrammic and pentagrammic warding principles into a technological form.

  • Hexagrammic Warding: One of the primary functions of the Gellar Field is to mask the psychic echoes of the ship’s crew, preventing their presence from attracting warp entities. The Immaterium is an ocean of predatory daemons, drawn to mortal souls like carrion birds to a corpse. Without hexagrammic suppression, the ship would shine like a beacon in the Warp, inviting disaster.
  • Pentagrammic Warding: While hexagrammic patterns ensure the ship is hidden, pentagrammic warding actively repels and prevents direct intrusion from warp entities. The energy field generated by the Gellar Field acts as an anathema to the creatures of the Warp, creating a metaphysical barrier that seals the ship within realspace, no matter how deep it is submerged in the Immaterium.

Key Aspects of the Gellar Field

  • Functionality: The Gellar Field generates an energetic bubble of realspace, shielding the ship and its crew from the hostile environment of the Warp and the entities lurking within.
  • Imperative Operation in Immaterium: A ship’s survival depends entirely on the continuous operation of its Gellar Field. Even a momentary fluctuation can result in daemonic entities invading the vessel, leading to catastrophic consequences.
  • Gellar Field Emitter: Aethyr resonator projecting the field around the ship. Often located to a statue of the God-Emperor on the externel hull of the vessel.
  • Limitations: Though powerful, Gellar Fields are not absolute. Warp storms, sabotage, and field instability can disrupt or collapse the field, exposing the vessel to instantaneous warp intrusion. Certain entities or warp-based anomalies have bypassed even a functioning Gellar Field, leading to corruption, possession, or the complete destruction of a ship and its crew.