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==History==
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}}
Millennia later, the formation of the [[Great Rift]] reactivated the Pharos which was noted by the now-reborn Scythes of the Emperor. [[Archmagos]] [[Belisarius Cawl]] led an expedition to study and perhaps use the Pharos to close the Rift and defeat [[Chaos]].{{Fn|5b}} Ultimately during Cawl's experiments the Pharos on Sotha was destroyed when it began to collapse in on itself and the C'tan [[Zharulash]] managed to escape, creating a black hole. However Cawl was able to gather much data, including the location of other Pharos and Blackstone deposits across the Galaxy.{{Fn|5c}}
==Trivia==
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work (Novel)]] - Chapter 9
**{{Endn|5a}}: Chapter 23
**{{Endn|5b}}: Chapter 6
**{{Endn|5c}}: Chapter 26
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