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[[File:Auspex.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[Ultramarine]] [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Antaro Chronus]] holding an auspex.{{Cite This}}]]
'''Scanners''' (or '''multi-scanners''', or '''Auspexes''') are [[Imperial]] short-ranged devices used to detect motion, invisible gases and energy emissions throughout a wide spectrum, such as heat, radiation and most forms of energy given off by vehicles and living troops.{{Fn|1}}
==Overview==
Their main tactical use is to reveal otherwise hidden troops and allow them to be fired on. The standard range of a handheld scanner is fifty metres, although walls more than fifty metres centimetres thick as well as certain shielding materials are able to block them.{{Fn|1a1}} Longer-range, bulky, auspexes have, depending on craftmanship, a range of five or ten kilometres and can penetrate walls up to a metre thick.{{Fn|6a}} Vehicle-mounted auspexes can have a range of fifty kilometres.{{Fn|6b}}
Scanners can take the form of separate hand-held viewscreen devices, or they may be built into a helmet such as in the case of [[Terminator armour]]. {{Fn|7}} The [[Imperial Guard]] uses scanners known as '''surveyors'''. [[Space Marine]]s and other forces use the '''auspex'''.{{Cite This}}
===Augury Scanner===
===Energy Scanner===
This type of scanner detects energy emissions indicating the position of vehicles, robots, functioning equipment, weapons, etc. It would not detect ordinary life functions, but psychic activity will detected as an extremely hard reading. However radiation sources will not show up as distinct from other energy emissions.{{Fn|1b5}}
====Known Patterns====
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Rogue Trader Core Rulebook]]**{{Endn|1a}}: , pg. 143**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 121
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (8th Edition, 2nd Codex)]] pg. 70
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Kill Team: Moroch]] Rules Manual, pg. 49 - ''Phobos Strike Team - Strategic Assets''
*4: [[Liber Imperium]]:
**{{Endn|4a}}: pg. 125
**{{Endn|4b}}: pg. 151
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]], pg.121===Uncited===*6: [[Rogue Trader: Into the Storm]]:**{{Endn|6a}}: pgs. 136-137**{{UncitedEndn|6b}}: pg. 182*{{Endn|7}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Wargear (2nd Edition)]], pg. 73
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