帝国的舰船有时甚至能够在实体宇宙加速到95%光速。下文中做到这一点的是一艘护卫舰，所以这也可能是因为它作为小船本就更快。
原文：Warp technology permitted travel attremendous - albeit relativistic - inherently incalculable speeds, butintra-system transit remained as arduous as it must have been in thepre-expansionist epoch. At their current relative positions, Thennos was fivelight hours from Medusa. From the vibrations in the decking, Stronos could tellthat the Clan Vurgaan system frigate, the Onslaught, was still acceleratingtowards its maximum velocity, about ninety-five per cent of light speed. Oneday there, a few hours to convince the Iron Council of the logic of rescindingtheir interdiction orders, and then one day back. Stronos would be back withhis clave before the order to push out passed through the interlinkmanifold.
- Eye of Medusa

面是对于帝国战舰用于推进的反应堆的原理描述。反应堆里的物质不断而永久地被湮灭和重新生成。按照这种来回生成和湮灭的描述，舰船推进器反应堆的原理属于质能转化技术，这中间是否涉及了反物质则还是未知的。
原文：The ship’s prow projected into a largevoid, the other side of which the fusion reactor of a much larger vesselburned, locked in a perpetual cycle of matter creation and annihilation.
- Death of Integrity
这种质能转化是双向的，并且可以循环进行：物质被变成能量，能量再被变回物质，如此反复来达到长时间持续使用的效果，这种打破能量守恒的技术理论上讲可以弄出永动机，但单论这种引擎的话似乎还做不到这一点。

在大远征时期，亚空间相对平静，所以人类的亚空间航行也可以很快，远快于40k时期。那个时候他们的舰队（而不只是少数快船）数个小时就能够穿过几十万光年的距离，也意味着速度接近了10亿倍光速。
原文："Without the warp drive theImperium and its civilization could not exist. Spacecraft equipped with warpdrives can, under the guidance of a specially gifted Navigator, move into,across, and out of warp space. By doing so, a spacecraft can move hundreds ofthousands of light years in only a few hours."
- Adeptus Titanius Rulebook
下文还有另一个当时的例子。星舰能够在眨眼间横跨数个秒差距（这显然是亚空间航行），也就是10光年左右的距离（可能更大）。
原文：It was hushed like a chapel and alwaysserene, even though it controlled a starship capable of crossing parsecs in ablink.
- Ghostmaker
眨眼算作一般人的水准（0.25秒），那么这艘船就是十几亿倍光速的水准，正好和上面的那个倍数差不多。

即使是现在混乱的亚空间下，白疤的舰队也能够在几天之内从普罗斯佩罗赶到泰拉，这中间有着一两万光年的距离，也就是说跃迁的速度有一两百万倍光速。
原文：The Space Wolves legion had beenattacked and thus prevented from travelling to the Solar system. The loyaldefenders of Terra would miss the strongarm of Russ and his legion. However, their actions at least allowed the WhiteScars Legion of Jaghatai Khan to make headway for Earth. Even allowing for thevagaries of warp travel, Dorn expected the Kahn and his fleet to arrive withindays.
- Horus Heresy: Collected Visions

下面是一个上限版本的大数值产量原文，火星和地球在几天（最多不到一年）之内造出了数十万星舰。
原文：The alliance of Terra and Mars wascomplete, and the Mechanicum had outdone itself, building fleets of ships toallow the Emperor to take to the stars and complete his Great Crusade of Unity.The skies over Terra were thick with starships, hundreds of thousands of themorganised into more than seven thousand fleets, reserve groups and secondary,follow-on forces.
- A Thousand Sons
上面的造船时间不是很具体，所以按下面这段原文，这些船是花了两天（two days）被造出来的。虽然文中说是条约签订好之后的两天启程的，但是考虑到条约下来之前双方合作与否都是个问题，这意味着这些船就是这两天里出来的。
原文：The Emperor had shaken his head. 'Thevaults of Moravec must never be opened. You will swear this oath to me,Kelbor-Hal, or the union between Mars and Terra will be no more.'
Unwilling to even enter into any negotiation on the subject,the Emperor had demanded Kelbor-Hal's oath, and he had had no choice but toagree. That had been the end of the matter, and two days later the Emperor leftMars to begin his conquest of the galaxy.
- Mechanicum

这个版本原文里帝国有十亿艘船。
原文：Identica, paperwork and logs weremaintained to keep up the illusion that the Iota-Æternus was one of a billionunremarkable transports plying their trade about the Imperium.
-Sons of the Hydra

这里计算一下帝皇级战列舰接敌时派遣出的轰炸机的数量。首先，一艘帝皇级战列舰在面对对方的战列舰时派出了24个中队的轰炸机。
原文：The two Firestorms intercepted a groupof Infidel raiders flanking the main fleet to attack the Emperor classbattleship Intolerance. Three of the raiders were destroyed for the loss of onefirestorm, enabling the Intolerance to complete the despatch of twenty fourbomber wings against the Chaos Desolator class battleship Eternity of Pain.
- Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook, Pg. 113, Ships of the GothicSector
每个轰炸机中队都包含四个小队，所以帝皇级那次派遣出的轰炸机多达96个小队。
原文：Glancing out of the cockpit window, hecould see his wingmen taking up position to his port and starboard, each ofthem tens of kilometres distant but with the bright flares of their multiplemass-reactive engines starkly marking their position against the blackness ofspace. To his rear the seven other Starhawks of his squadron would also bemaneuvering into attack formation, he knew, and somewhere beyond them theStarhawks of Firedrake, Harbinger and Mantis squadrons would be doing the same,joining up with his own squadron and forming up one large attack wing as theyclosed the distance on their target. Forty Starhawks.
- Execution Hour
而后我们可以知道，每个小队里面包含十架轰炸机。
原文：Squadron Commander Milos Caparansurveyed the instrumentation panel in front of him, intoning a silent prayer ofthanks as the status runes representing each of the ten Starhawk bombers underhis command glowed a healthy green.
- Execution Hour
所以，帝皇级战列舰放出来用来对付敌方一艘战舰的轰炸机就多达960架，而且要注意的是这里的每一架轰炸机都是长度接近百米的巨无霸。

有时，帝国会为了支援一个较为重要（但依然远远达不到一二线世界或者首都标准）的星球而派出规模达到2000艘的舰队。
原文：“We detected the psychic bow waves ofover two thousand ships.”
“Two thousand?” echoed Kantor. “And you are certain theseare Imperial ships?”
(…)
"The ships are indeed human, and, in the minutes beforeyou arrived, we received confirmation that they are loyalists. The Crusader isamong them."
- Rynn's World
这里有更细节一些的描述，当时有2216艘舰船来支援，并且每一艘都不小于轻型巡洋舰（也就是说每艘长度都是四公里以上）。同时，这里面包含有八艘战列舰和数艘战列母舰作为主要的火力来源。也就是说，战列舰和战列母舰在整个舰队中的占比基本就是二百分之一，虽然这个比例比起其他很多版本的描述都更小，但是这里也把它列上来了。
原文：“Two thousand two hundred and sixteenwarp-capable ships,” said Deguerro, “and nothing smaller than a Dauntless-classlight cruiser. There are several Space Marine battle-barges, but the main bulkof the fleet’s firepower is comprised of that aboard the Imperial Navy’sEmperor- and Retribution-class battleships. There are four each of these, asignificant commitment from Segmentum Headquarters.”
- Rynn's World

舰载感应器侦察到数光分外的东西，准确地说是八千万公里外的物体，这大约是四五光分的样子。
原文：Forward arrayed detectors pinged as theytasted the magnetic and energetic profiles of other ships at high anchor aroundthe system’s fourth planet, eighty million kilometres ahead. The local sun wasyellow and hot, and billowed with loud, charged particles.
- Horus Rising

帝国船上搭载的扫描仪能够即刻定位数光时（光在真空中运行一小时的距离）之外的东西。
原文：The holo-display winked out and wasreplaced, the ship's immediate vicinity being picked out in light. The Endeavorof Will was surrounded by flickering icons representing its small garrison ofImperial Fists. A star a handful of light hours away, with deead moonlets and aband of asteroids. Long-defunct explorator platforms.
There was no Bastion Inviolate.
- Architect of Fate

这段原文中帝国的探测器探测到了三个天文单位之外的东西。
原文：“'Full sensory sweep,' Spika said.'Locate the lord militant’s ship, track it, and prepare to put us between itand any attack if necessary.' A different series of alarms sounded. 'Contact!Contact!' the officer of detection announced. 'Translation signature three AUto port.'”
- Salvation's Reach, p.148

下面是未经过改造的凡人一个表现。一位女性凡人能够挥剑弹开飞来的自动枪子弹，并且这么做了两次。而当自动枪开始连续开火时，她也成功挥剑反弹了前面的三发子弹。虽然战锤世界观中的凡人本就比现实中更强，但是下面这种表现依然是其中的佼佼者。这里要么可以当作人类帝国凡人中的超强个体（虽然依然算凡人就是了），要么就当个上限。
原文：Tchaikov turned to face him, Kara’slifeblood drooling off her blade.
Nayl fired. Tchaikov swung the sword and deflected the shotso it ricocheted away across the warehouseand buried itself in a bale offabric.
Nayl fired again, and again Tchaikov knocked the round asidein mid-air with her sword.
Nayl nodded, impressed. ‘A guy like me could grow to love awoman who can do that,’ he said.
Tchaikov bowed slightly in acknowledgement, and thenreaddressed, her sword upright in both hands,angled over her rightshoulder.Nayl raised his handgun again and slid his thumb across the selectorlever.
‘How do you do on full auto?’ he asked.The gun began tofire, roaring, one squeeze of the trigger unloading the full clip at auto-max.
To her credit, Tchaikov parried the first three shots. Thefourth hit her in the left thigh, the fifth took off her right leg at the knee.She fell and the rest went wide.
- Ravenor Returned

下面是微秒级别表现的列举，为了让这个时间显得更直观，一微秒等于100万分之一秒。Ragnar Blackmane在一微秒内躲开了一次攻击。
原文：As the shell seared past, Ragnar threwhimself flat behind the low pile of rubble, trying to make himself as small atarget as possible. That had been close, too close. The shot had almost partedhis hair. Only his lightning-quick reflexes and the microsecond's warningprovided by his superhuman senses had got him out of the way. If he had duckedhalf a heartbeat later, his head would have been an exploding fountain of goreand bone. Ragnar had seen it happen too often to have any doubts as to what hisown fate would have been.
- Ragnar's Claw

技术神甫Linya Tychon能够在一微秒内处理完一个人本质的每个角度的信息，包括但不限于他的性格、经历、学识等等。
原文：Irrational,’ said Linya. ‘Roboute, youare a man of varied history, much of which clearly holds great appeal to otherhumans. You have personality matrices that I am sure make you an interestingperson, but not to me. I can see through you and study every facet of your lifefrom the cellular level to the hominid-architecture of your brain. Your life islaid bare to me from birth to this moment, and I can process every angle ofthat existence in a microsecond. You divert me, but no unaugmented human hasenough complexity to ever hold my attention for long.’
- Priests of Mars

Raldoron连长观察到了Amit连长脸上那只持续了一微秒的表情。
原文：Amit’s face twisted and he pointed afinger, his holograph stuttering. ‘You brought this mission to us, messenger.Do you know more than you have revealed?’
For a microsecond, Raldoron saw a flicker of uncertainty inKreed’s eyes; then it was gone and he was shaking his head. ‘I can offer onlymy impressions as an outsider. More than that… I can’t say.’
- Fear to Tread: The Angel Falls