Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141119150740/@comment-86.147.147.99-20141221174401

I don't know about that...we (The British Empire) didn't have GPS when we were sailing around in the big wide world bringing the light of civilisation to various folks...We just created nagivation fixed points, used the stars etc. Seems like a similar concept, a single ship in our worlds seas to a space ship navigating inter-stella. I still feel a massively up scales version would retain the Imperium of Man, I think this device allowed Segmentum Ultmar to remain stable in its self.

"At the present time, the Astronomican is a complex piece of machinery powered by 10,000 specially-trained psykers, whose life-forces are exhausted in a matter of months maintaining the beacon. "

"The Astronomican is powered by the psykers trained by the Adepta, though it is the omnipotent will of the Emperor Himself that constantly directs this psychic energy across the depths of approximately 70,000 light years of galactic space. Although the Emperor does not provide the psychic energy of the beacon, only He has the psychic control required to handle such immense amounts of psychic energy and direct it across the galaxy." - Astronomican page...the Emperor helps certainly but is not the sole power to it.