Editing The Golden Throne (section)

== Post-Heresy: The Imperium's Golden Life Support System ==
[[File:Golden Throne-Imperial Webway.jpg|thumb|left|400px|The Emperor seconds before realizing he'd just played himself by sitting in this damn thing.]]
Nowadays, the Throne maintains a lot of things vital to the Imperium's continued survival: The [[Astronomicon]], The psychic lock on the abandoned section of the Imperial Webway, and prolonging the life of the Emperor of Mankind, now only a half-dead corpse. The throne's rapid changes and modifications have caused a lot of unintended consequences: Namely the need for a constant sacrifice of Psykers, which facilitated the creation of the [[Black Ships]]. And even then, the Techpriests that maintained the throne found that the usual sacrifice of psykers wasn't cutting it in 36M, and they shot the number up by four times the usual amount, forcing the ships to go looking for even more psykers than they normally did; making a dangerous job considerably even more dangerous.

Further, after one of many of Failbaddon's Black Crusades, it was discovered that the Throne had some...problems. Namely, a lot of the technology that kept the thing working were starting to fail, and the Techpriests and Mechanicus at large can't fix any of them which is...bad. As for how bad? It's got several Mechanicus Cults going around trying to find ways to fix it or come up with a contingency for the eventuality of if/when this thing goes out. As for what happens? Well...Nobody's really sure. It's discussed at length over on [[God-Emperor of Mankind##On the Death of the Emperor| Big E's page,]] but a commonality is obvious: Something BAD will happen. And in the Indomitus era, where the Custodes have decided that they're actually gonna go out and do shit for once, they decided that the best solution is to just fix the damn thing, and are looking towards going to specific lost Forge Worlds in order to find what they need. As for whether or not they succeed? That's [[Advancing the Storyline]], my man. We'll probably find out in 10th edition.

The Vaults of Terra series gave a lot more information about the Throne, as well as its current problems. Firstly, the Throne is huge. As in the whole machine is larger than most hives. It's also confirmed that the "original" throne was made with an amalgamation of technology from multiple sources, including from xenos races. The Mechanicum have also known about its impending failure for quite a while, and have tried everything in order to fix it, hence why the current fabricator General became part of the conspiracy to get the Dark Eldar to help fix it.