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{{Ambig|subject=Warp navigation device|disambiguation=Pharos}}
[[Image:Pharos.jpg|thumb|right|The Pharos atop its mountain during the [[Battle of Sotha]] ]]
The '''Pharos''' is a pre-[[Imperial]] piece of [[XenosNecron]] [[Tyranid|{{5}} bio-technology]] that is able to harness empathy to aid in [[Warp]] travel.{{fn|3}} 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". The Pharos allowed the user to find or even teleport to a location they either consciously or subconsciously desired.{{fn|1}}
==History==
The Pharos array was originally constructed by the [[Necrons]] for rapid communications and [[FTL]] travel. However when the Necrons emerged into their great slumber, the array went inactive. By the [[Age of the Imperium]] the only known surviving Pharos was discovered on [[Sotha]] . [[Belisarius Cawl]] states that he found another Pharos elsewhere, but it was long destroyed.{{Fn|5}} The Pharos was discovered by [[Humanity]] on Sotha by [[Barabas 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}}
After the Heresy, Guilliman ordered the Pharos destroyed - removing thousands of tonnes of xenos machinery from the mountain and filling its tunnels with millions of tonnes of ferrocrete. The primarch appointed [[Oberdeii]] as Warden of the Pharos and [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the Aegida Company, sworn to protect Sotha from whatever secrets had been buried in the Pharos. This duty passed to the [[Scythes of the Emperor]] after the [[Third Founding]].{{fn|4}}
*{{Endn|3}}: [[The Heart of the Pharos (Audio Drama)]]
*{{Endn|4}}: [[The Aegidan Oath (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work (Novel)]] - Chapter 9
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