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'''Watch Stations''' are facilities of the [[Imperium]] used by the [[Deathwatch]] branch of the [[Inquisition]].^1-p308-309.

These smaller facilities are much more common compared to the larger but more scarce [[Watch Fortress]]es. In size, they are typically no larger than a small escort ship though others are simple rockrete bunkers on a lonely mountain. These stations are established in order to watch over specific threats or guard a particular location where some have been in place for centuries where they awaited either a time of prophecy or an auspicious reading of the Emperor's Tarot or even a defeated enemy's return is expected. Similar to a Watch Fortress, a Watch Station can take many forms with a great many serving as sentinels in orbit around a planet whilst others are towers that guard over long dead battlefields. Regardless of shape, they each provide facilities for at most a single [[Kill-team]] and the Battle-Brothers stationed at them are rarely left there for any great length of time. This is because of the simple fact that the Deatwatch's resources are too scarce to have all its stations being permanently staffed. However, the simply presence of these facilities allow them to serve as a vital staging point should any threat become apparent and thus they are always stocked with large reserves of arms, equipment and ammunition.^1-p308-309

Ultimately, the duty of all Watch Stations is to gather information and pass it to a Watch Fortress. Such data can be detailed acitivity logs comiled by watch-serfs or even rare chatter of raw machine language that is sent from never ending tramissions across the void. It is only the most important of stations that are allowed an [[Astropath]] whilst others rely on regular visits for these reports to be gathered. In a majority of cases, it is not the reports of alien activity that draw the attention of the Deathwatch but rather the absence of any report at all. Under such circumstances, standard doctrine states that unexpected silence must be investigated immediately with a Kill-team dispatched to stem a possible xenos assault.^1-p308-309

==Sources==

[[Category:Deathwatch]]