Pylon

This article is about the anti-warp structures; for the Necron mobile weapons emplacement, see Necron Pylon.

Cadian Pylon^[8]

The Pylons are monumental constructions of, once mysterious but now known to be Necron in origins, found on a number of planets across the galaxy that hold back significant overlap between the Warp and realspace.^[5a] The form and number of the pylons on each respective world are unique to one another, but their effects the same.^[6]

Overview

The necron pylons employ negatively empyrically charged noctilith in order to dampen the effects of the warp.^[6] However, these devices can be flipped to instead be positively empyrically charged and empower local warp energies, as seen in the subversion of Project Aurora's pylon on Demerium.^[7]

Each unique set of pylons appear to have unique properties, as seen in the Pariah Nexus. Each set is one part of an immeasurable complex machine with a robust number of redundancies.^[6] Necrons are capable of seeding worlds with Pylons using vessels known as Pylon Ships.^[6a]

Cadian Pylons

Archmagos Esotericus Sigulus Herstoffen of Stygies did much research on the pylons, and Belisarius Cawl developed his work much further by examining the pylon networks once found around the Eye of Terror.^[6]

These structures are one kilometre tall, half a kilometre under the earth and half a kilometre on each side. They have intricate systems of tunnels bored into them, which are impossible to map, as even the smallest servitor never returns from a journey within them. There tends to be a complex arrangement of them across a particular planet, such as those on Cadia.^{[Needs Citation]}

Made of Blackstone^[3], they are believed to be of Necron design^{[Needs Citation]} and intended to influence the warp in their immediate area, this is thought to be the reason that there is a relatively calm area of warp space, now called the Cadian Gate, which is the only safe thoroughfare in the area. Inquisitor Quixos attempted to construct his own in order to further his own Radical goals.^{[Needs Citation]}

Pylons can be reduced to ruin through overloading them with massive amounts of Warp energy, such as an influx of Daemons. During his Black Crusades, Abaddon hunted and destroyed pylon networks on planets near the Eye of Terror, thereby weakening the barrier between the Warp and realspace. During the 13th Black Crusade, he destroyed Cadia itself, and its pylon network with it. This caused the formation of the Great Rift, which split the galaxy in two.^{[Needs Citation]}

History

Some time before 338.M41, the radical Inquisitor Quixos developed an interest in the warp-altering properties of the Cadian pylons, in the hope of permanently closing the Eye of Terror. Controlled through Quixos' enslaved daemonhost Cherubael, a cult calling itself the "Sons of Bael" studied the pylons.^[4a] These studies bore fruit, and Quixos duplicated the pylons on other worlds using corrupted merchant cartels and personal supplies of Blackstone.^[4b]

Unfortunately, these plans never came to fruition as he was executed by an Inquisitorial taskforce led by Eisenhorn.^[4c] It is unknown if Quixos' plan would have succeeded regardless - he was deeply addled by warp corruption and it was well within reason that his experiment could have instead torn the Eye of Terror asunder, which would have resulted in the Noctis Aeterna's devastation and the formation of the Great Rift almost six centuries early.^{[Needs Citation]}

Known Worlds with Pylons

• Cadia
• Demerium^[7]
• Know pylon-bearing worlds withing the Pariah Nexus:
  • Mesmoch - A keystone in the Parish Nexus pylon web. On it is a solitary and very large pylon; a cloud piercing pyramidal structure.^[6b]
  • Gu-Oli - Pylons are much smaller and concentrated in three distinct areas, with the rest of the world untouched.^[6b]
  • Paradyce^[6b]
  • Zeidos^[6b]

Images

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  Cadian Pylon^[2]

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  A noctolith obelisk being used to channel warp energies.^[7]

See also

• Null field matrices
• Project Aurora
• Irtanathep - Ancient galactic Pylon network control world
• Noctilith Crown - Noctolith Warp Portals
• Pylon Ship

Sources

• 1: The 13th Black Crusade (Background Book), pg. 15
• 2: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition), pgs. 19–20
• 3: Codex: Necrons (8th Edition), pg. 11
• 4: Malleus (Novel):
  • 4a: Chapter Twelve
  • 4b: Chapter Twenty-One
  • 4c: Chapter Twenty-Three
• 5: Fall of Cadia (Novel):
  • 5a: Phase 6 "Elysion Fields", Chapter 1
• 6: The Silent King (Novel)
  • 6a: Chapter 4
  • 6b: Chapter 24
• 7: Space Marine 2
• 8: Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Video Game), Fall of Cadia cutscene