'''MultiScanners''' (or '''multi-scanners''' , or '''Auspexes''') are [[Imperial]] short-ranged scanners, devices used to detect motion, invisible gases and energy emissions throughout a wide spectrum, such as heat, radiation and most forms of energy given off by vehicles and living troops. Scanners can take the form of separate hand-held devices, or they may be built into a helmet such as in the case of [[Terminator armour]]. Its main tactical use is to reveal otherwise hidden troops within a certain range and allow them to be fired on.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|15}}

The ==Overview==[[Imperial GuardFile:Niklas-eneqvist-auspex.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A handheld auspex scanner.{{Fn|14}}]] uses Auspex scanners known are a standard tool of many Imperial agents and warriors. It is easy to use and invaluable when scouting or investigating unfamiliar terrain.{{Fn|15}} Their main tactical use is to reveal otherwise hidden troops and allow them to be fired on. The standard range of a handheld scanner is fifty,{{Fn|1}} five hundred,{{Fn|8}} or fifteen hundred metres,{{Fn|9}} although walls more than fifty centimetres thick as well as '''surveyors'''certain shielding materials are able to block them.{{Fn|1}} Longer-range, bulky, auspexes have, depending on craftmanship, a range of five or ten kilometres and can penetrate walls up to a metre thick. [[Space Marine]]s use the '''auspex'''{{Fn|6a}} Ground vehicle-mounted auspexes can have a range of fifty kilometres.{{Fn|6b}} Aircraft-mounted auspexes can have a range of a hundred kilometres.{{Fn|11}}

Auspexes mounted on spaceships can easily scan the orbit and surface of a planet from the edge of a system at the [[Mandeville Point|Mandeville point]], the collected data visually represented with the help of a [[Hololithic Projector|hololithic projector]]{{Fn|10a}} or [[pict|pict screens]],{{Fn|10b}} after being processed by [[cogitator]]s and [[servitor|mono-task servitors]].{{Fn|10a}} Scanners can take the form of separate hand-held viewscreen devices, or they may be built into a helmet such as in the case of [[Terminator armour]].{{Fn|7}} ===Augury Scanner===This energy scanning device has the effect of alerting the user to the concealed presence or imminent arrival of enemy troops in the vicinity.{{Fn|4b}}====Known Patterns==Sources==*[[Warhammer 40Noospheric Interloper]]s - Used by [[Vanus Assassin]]s.{{Fn|4a}}*'''Explorator Augury Web''' - A complex web of augurs, scanners and atmospheric probes used by Space Marine vehicles to gather a wide variety of valuable battlefield information.{{Fn|12a}}*'''Helical Targeting Array''' - A complex system of Augurs and tracking baffles used by Space Marine vehicles. It is designed to enable a war machine's weapons to strike true,000: Wargeareven against the most evasive targets, and to penetrate even the most esoteric of shrouds.{{Fn|12b}} ===Energy Scanner===This type of scanner detects energy emissions indicating the position of vehicles, robots, functioning equipment, weapons, etc. It would not detect ordinary life functions, but psychic activity will detected as an extremely hard reading. However radiation sources will not show up as distinct from other energy emissions.{{Fn|5}} ====Known Patterns====*'''Divinator Class''' - Used by [[Incursor]][[Space Marine]]s{{Fn|2}}*'''Lodestar Class''' - Used by [[Phobos Strike Team]]s. This ancient and little-seen model provides exceptional strategic inloads, 2nd editionalmost the equal of having a spaceship scanning the region from on high.{{Fn|3}} ==Images==<center><gallery mode="nolines" widths=200px heights=200px>Auspex.jpg|[[Ultramarine]] [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Antaro Chronus]] holding an auspex.{{Fn|13}}Auspex 02.jpg|An auspex used by [[Gregor Eisenhorn]]Auspex1.jpg|A handheld auspex scanner.{{Fn|15}}</gallery></center>

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