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The Pylons are monumental constructions of unknown origins on a number of planets near the [[eye of terror]] usually found near the [[Cadian Gate]]. They are one kilometre tall, half a kilometre under the earth and half a kilometre on each side.
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'''Pylons''' are monumental constructions of, once mysterious but now known to be [[Necron]] in origins, found on numerous planets across the [[galaxy]] that hold back significant overlap between the [[Warp]] and [[realspace]].{{Fn|5a}} The form and number of the pylons on each respective world are unique to one another, but their effects the same.{{Fn|6}}
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They have an intricate system on tunnels bored into them, which are impossible to map, as even the smallest [[servitor]] never returns from a journey within them.
 
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There tends to be a complex arrangement of them across a particular planet, such as those on [[Cadia]].
 
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They have a [[Necron]] design, intended to influence the warp in their immediate area, this is thought to be the reason that there is a relative calm area of warp space, now called the Cadian Gate, which is the only safe thoroughfare in the area.
 
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Inquisitor [[Quixos]] attempted to construct his own in order to further his own Radical goals.
 
  
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[[Category:Necrons and C'tan]]
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===Overview===
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[[Category:Artificial Objects]]
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The necron pylons employ [[Null field|negatively empyrically charged]] [[noctilith]] in order to dampen the effects of the warp.{{Fn|6}} However, Noctolith can both ward against or act as a locus for warp energies. The forces of [[Chaos]] have learned how to subvert these materials and device to instead thin the veil between the Warp and reality.{{Fn|9}} An example of these devices can be flipped to being in a position of positive empyrical charge, empowering local warp energies in realspace, is seen in the subversion of [[Project Aurora]]'s pylon network on [[Demerium]].{{Fn|7}}
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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.{{Fn|6}} Necrons are capable of seeding worlds with Pylons using vessels known as [[Pylon Ship]]s.{{Fn|6a}}
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===Cadian Pylons===
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[[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]].{{Fn|6}}
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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]].{{Fn|4a}}
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Made of [[Blackstone]]{{Fn|3}}, they are believed to be of [[Necron]] design 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.{{Fn|4a}}
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Pylons can be reduced to ruin through overloading them with massive amounts of [[Warp]] energy, such as an influx of [[Daemon]]s. 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.{{Fn|10}}
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====History====
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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 [[Chaos Cult|cult]] calling itself the "[[Sons of Bael]]" studied the pylons.{{Fn|4a}} These studies bore fruit, and Quixos duplicated the pylons on other worlds using corrupted merchant cartels and personal supplies of [[Blackstone]].{{Fn|4b}} These plans never came to fruition as he was executed by an Inquisitorial taskforce led by [[Eisenhorn]].{{Fn|4c}}
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Recently the [[Necrons]] under the [[Silent King]] [[Szarekh]] have created the largest pylon network in the [[Nephilim Sector]]. Known as the [[Pariah Nexus]], it is part of an ambitious plan by the [[Xenos]] to eventually shut out the Warp entirely.{{Fn|11}} Observing this, [[Belisarius Cawl]] later attempted to utilize technology derived from Necron Pylons to stabilize the [[Attilan Gate]] to [[Imperium Nihilus]].{{Fn|14}}
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===Known Worlds with Pylons===
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*[[Eriad VI]] - Near-perfect match to the Cadian Pylons, now destroyed.{{Fn|12}} Bombarded during the [[4th Black Crusade]].{{Fn|13}}
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*[[Cadia]]
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*[[Cadmus Phosp]]{{Fn|16}}
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*[[Demerium]]{{Fn|7}}
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*[[Vigilus]]
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*[[Ulvheim]]
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*[[Pit of Raukos]]
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*[[Pariah Nexus]] pylon locations
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**[[Mesmoch]] - A keystone in the Parish Nexus pylon web. On it is a solitary and very large pylon; a cloud piercing pyramidal structure.{{Fn|6b}}
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**[[Gu-Oli]] - Pylons are much smaller and concentrated in three distinct areas, with the rest of the world untouched.{{Fn|6b}}
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**[[Paradyce]]{{Fn|6b}}
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**[[Zeidos]]{{Fn|6b}}
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**[[Skahren's Coil]] - Moon-sized pylon.{{Fn|15a}} Destroyed.{{Fn|15b}}
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===Images===
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
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CadianPylon.jpg|Cadian Pylon{{Fn|2}}
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SM2 Level 15 pve obelisk.jpg|A noctolith obelisk being used as a locus for warp energies.{{Fn|7}}
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File:Pariah Nexus Chaos.jpg|[[Forces of Chaos]] opening a [[warp rift]] in the [[Skahren System]] after a pylon node is destroyed.{{Fn|15c}}
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</gallery>
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===See also===
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*[[Blackstone Fortress]]
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*[[Null field matrices]]
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*[[Project Aurora]]
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*[[Contra-Empyric Beam]]
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*[[Irtanathep]] - Ancient galactic Pylon network control world
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*[[Noctilith Crown]] - Noctolith Warp Portals
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*[[Pylon Ship]]
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*[[Parched Realms]]
  
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''In the final years of their Great War against the Old Ones, the C'tan were losing, overwhelmed by the psychic might of their foes. Using machineries conceived by the C'tan known as the Dragon, the Necrons planned to turn the tides of the war by cutting off the Old Ones from the source of their psychic power: they would forever separate realspace from the warp with unbreakable barrier. Protected by massive warfleets, the Necrons began to construct warp suppresion pylons at key locations across the galaxy such as Cadia - and also in the Cerberus Shroud. This plan was interrupted and the arcane mechanisms never completed.''
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===Sources===
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From BFG journal.
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{{Classics}}
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*{{Endn|1}}: [[The 13th Black Crusade (Background Book)]], pg. 15
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*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition)]], pgs. 19–20
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*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Necrons (8th Edition)]], pg. 11
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*4: [[Malleus (Novel)]]:
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**{{Endn|4a}}: Chapter Twelve
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**{{Endn|4b}}: Chapter Twenty-One
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**{{Endn|4c}}: Chapter Twenty-Three
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*5: [[Fall of Cadia (Novel)]]:
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**{{Endn|5a}}: Phase 6 "Elysion Fields", Chapter 1
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*6: [[The Silent King (Novel)]]:
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**{{Endn|6a}}: Chapter 4
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**{{Endn|6b}}: Chapter 24
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*{{Endn|7}}: [[Space Marine 2]]
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*{{Endn|8}}: [[Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Video Game)]], Fall of Cadia cutscene{{CE}}
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*{{Endn|9}}: [[War Zone Nachmund: Vigilus Alone]], pgs. 30 & 31
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*{{Endn|10}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Rulebook]], pgs. 50-53
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*{{Endn|11}}: [[Codex: Necrons (10th Edition)]], pg. 12
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*{{Endn|12}}: [[Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II]]
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*{{Endn|13}}: [[Fall of Cadia (Novel)]], Phase One, Chapter One
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*{{Endn|14}}: [[Archmagos (Novel)]], Chapter 3
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*15: [[Crusade: Pariah Nexus]]:
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**{{Endn|15a}}: pg. 16
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**{{Endn|15b}}: pgs. 40-41
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**{{Endn|15c}}: pgs. 44 & 45
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*{{Endn|16}}: [[Dark Imperium (Novel)]], Chapter Twelve
  
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==Sources==
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[[Category:Artificial Objects]]
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*[[Eisenhorn]]
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[[Category:Cadia]]
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[[Category:Eisenhorn (Novel Series)]]
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[[Category:Technology (Necrons)]]
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[[Category:Warp Technology]]

Latest revision as of 21:47, 16 April 2026

Targetdrone.gif This article is about the anti-warp structures; for the Necron mobile weapons emplacement, see Necron Pylon.
Cadian Pylons[8]

Pylons are monumental constructions of, once mysterious but now known to be Necron in origins, found on numerous 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, Noctolith can both ward against or act as a locus for warp energies. The forces of Chaos have learned how to subvert these materials and device to instead thin the veil between the Warp and reality.[9] An example of these devices can be flipped to being in a position of positive empyrical charge, empowering local warp energies in realspace, is seen in the subversion of Project Aurora's pylon network 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.[4a]

Made of Blackstone[3], they are believed to be of Necron design 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.[4a]

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.[10]

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] These plans never came to fruition as he was executed by an Inquisitorial taskforce led by Eisenhorn.[4c]

Recently the Necrons under the Silent King Szarekh have created the largest pylon network in the Nephilim Sector. Known as the Pariah Nexus, it is part of an ambitious plan by the Xenos to eventually shut out the Warp entirely.[11] Observing this, Belisarius Cawl later attempted to utilize technology derived from Necron Pylons to stabilize the Attilan Gate to Imperium Nihilus.[14]

Known Worlds with Pylons

Images

See also

Sources

 

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