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Pharos (Device)

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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 199th Company of Ultramarines, now their own chapter and renamed the [[Scythes of the Emperor]] after the [[Third Founding]].{{fn|4}}
Despite the attempts to dismantle the Pharos, the Necron technology of the Pharos activated it's its self-repair functions and quietly the Pharos facility rebuilt itself. Millennia later, the formation of the [[Great Rift]] reactivated the now fully repaired and operational 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 he discovered that the device's core, a singularity, and it's datacore, were both being contained by an enslaved C'tan shard of Zarhulash. Cawl tricked the shard into destabilizing the device's singularity, before using the Pharos to teleport the shard to an unknown distant star system. The destabilized singularity then began to collapse into a blackhole. However, Cawl was able to escape with the data stored within the Pharos, including the location of other Pharos and Blackstone deposits across the Galaxy. The Pharos device itself was destroyed by an Ultramarines strike cruiser before the destabilization could create a blackhole.{{Fn|5e}}
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