lemanruss10 Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Does anyone know how the astronomican worked while the Emperor was on the Great Crusade??? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Styphus Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 It worked because the Emperor is obviously an ork, and he wanted it to work. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/#findComment-2429342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Father Ferrum Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 I was always under the impression that the Astronomican didn't need the Emperor to be physically present in order to work prior to the Heresy. It was like a lightswitch; the Emperor simply left the lights on when he left the house. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/#findComment-2429657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raulmichile Posted June 9, 2010 Share Posted June 9, 2010 He directed it, but not produced it by himself. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/#findComment-2429840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP13 Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I think it worked fine without him up until the point when Magnus messed it all up with his Psychic Warning Message of Doom... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/#findComment-2430613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Father Rik Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I got the impression that now the Golden Throne is used to keep the Emperor "alive", even though that was not it's intended purpose (or main one at least) - but it was the only machine capable of doing this after the Emperor's confrontation with Horus. Over such a long time, where the Imperium has devolved into a place of mystical ritual and superstition and distrust of technology and innovation, it has become widely believed and accepted that it is the Emperor himself within the Golden Throne that is projecting the Astronomican, even though that may well not be the case technically. In other words the Emperor has nothing to do with it, it is all the machine itself, however it is such ingrained belief that it is created by the Emperor himself, that noone even thinks about considering to contemplate risking suggesting such a thing, let alone actually removing the Emperor from the machine. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/#findComment-2430892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronWinds Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 The machine is powered by the sacrifices of hundreds->thousands of psykers... dying basically. They are slowly killing themselves to power it. That is how it works. The confusion is that after the heresy the Golden throne kept the emperor alive... also using dying psykers. So now you have psykers being given to the emperor and the astronomicon to keep him alive and power the astronomicon. Somewhere people combined the two into psykers were given to the emperor to power the astronomicon. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/#findComment-2436175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemanruss10 Posted June 16, 2010 Author Share Posted June 16, 2010 I believe even the authors of the Horus Heresy books have got confused. Before the Emperors palace was based in Europe with the Golden Throne supposedly centred on GW HQ in Nottingham and the Forbidden Fortress is based the Astronomican centred in the Himalayas. But the novels are now saying that the palace is centred around the greatest mountain range on earth ie the Himalayas meaning that geographically the Imperial Palce and Forpidden Fortress are in the same area Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/#findComment-2436515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Father Rik Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I believe even the authors of the Horus Heresy books have got confused. Before the Emperors palace was based in Europe with the Golden Throne supposedly centred on GW HQ in Nottingham and the Forbidden Fortress is based the Astronomican centred in the Himalayas. But the novels are now saying that the palace is centred around the greatest mountain range on earth ie the Himalayas meaning that geographically the Imperial Palce and Forpidden Fortress are in the same area It was like that before. I can't for the life of me remember where, but I'm sure I saw that fluff somewhere else before the Horus Heresy novels came out. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/#findComment-2436522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Styphus Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 It was like that before. I can't for the life of me remember where, but I'm sure I saw that fluff somewhere else before the Horus Heresy novels came out. It's in the newest Rulebook, under the picture of the starmap. They show Terra with the Forbidden Stuff and Astroglide in separate locations. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/203718-astronomican/#findComment-2436745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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