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==Overview==
[[File:Niklas-eneqvist-auspex.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A handheld auspex scanner.{{Fn|14}}]]
Auspex scanners are a standard tool of many Imperial agents and warriors. It is They are easy to use and invaluable when scouting or investigating unfamiliar terrain.{{Fn|15}} 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,{{Fn|1}} five hundred,{{Fn|8}} or fifteen hundred metres,{{Fn|9}} although walls more than fifty centimetres thick as well as certain shielding materials are able to block them.{{Fn|1}} 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}} Ground vehicle-mounted auspexes can have a range of fifty kilometres.{{Fn|6b}} Aircraft-mounted auspexes can have a range of a hundred kilometres.{{Fn|11}}
Auspexes mounted on spaceships can easily scan the orbit and surface of a planet from the edge of a system at the [[Mandeville Point|Mandeville point]], the collected data visually represented with the help of a [[Hololithic Projector|hololithic projector]]{{Fn|10a}} or [[pict|pict screens]],{{Fn|10b}} after being processed by [[cogitator]]s and [[servitor|mono-task servitors]].{{Fn|10a}}
==Images==
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Auspex.jpg|[[Ultramarine]] [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Antaro Chronus]] holding an auspex.{{Fn|13}}
Auspex 02.jpg|An auspex used by [[Gregor Eisenhorn]]
