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{{otheruses|USE=Warp navigation device|OTHERUSE=planet|OTHERPAGE=Pharos}}
The '''Pharos''' is a pre-[[Imperial]] piece of [[human]] technology used for [[Warp]] travel. Used to navigate the Warp much like the [[Astronomican]], except while the former acted as a "lighthouse" in the Warp the latter was a "lantern". A Pharos was discovered by [[Dantioch]] during the [[Horus Heresy]] and used by [[Roboute Guilliman]] as a beacon to attract scattered loyalist forces to his new empire, [[Imperium Secundus]].{{Fn|1}}
The Pharos became the subject of battle when the [[Night Lords]] under [[Krukesh]] discovered the nature of the device and became determined to claim it in order to find the [[Nightfall]] and [[Konrad Curze]]. In the ensuing [[Battle of Sotha]], Dantioch overloaded the Device to defeat the traitors and its engines fell silent for the first time. Unknown to all involved, this act served to alert the [[Tyranids]] to our [[Galaxy]].{{Fn|2}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[The Unremembered Empire]] pg.30-45
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Pharos (Novel)]] - Epilogue
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