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'''Pylon Ships''' are enormous [[Necron]] warships.{{Fn|1a}}
Diamond-shaped, as big as a [[Space Station]], and covered in [[Noctilith]], Pylon Ships are capable of phasing in and out of reality without using the [[Warp]]. It contained contains [[Pylon]]s which it dropped onto targeted worlds, expanding the [[Pariah Nexus]].{{Fn|1a}} Though equipped with formidable [[Particle Weapon]]ry that can rip apart even the largest [[Imperial Navy]] vessels, its most formidable weapon was is a "contra-empyric beam" generator that could can shut down the [[Void Shield]]s across entire enemy fleets and render much of the crew inside comatose.{{Fn|1b}}
Fortunately for the Imperium, only a single known Pylon Ship has thus far been encountered. It was first seen in the [[Nephilim Sector]], where it led the initial Necron invasion under the command of the [[Silent King]].{{Fn|1a}} This ship was later encountered at [[Paradyce II]] during the early [[Pariah Crusade]] and decimated swathes of [[Fleet Tertius]] including claiming its flagship ''[[Precept Magnificat]]'' and killing its [[Fleetmaster]], [[Cassandra VanLeskus]].{{Fn|1b}} It was only destroyed after [[Groupmaster]] [[Eloise Athagey]] rammed her own command ship, the [[Overlord Class Battlecruiser]] ''[[Saint Aster (Battle Cruiser)|Saint Aster]]'', into the vessel and unleashed its [[torpedo]] compliment at point-blank range.{{Fn|1c}}
