Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-71.91.63.134-20150920063835/@comment-26420219-20160822193731

Neithan02 wrote:

3. Tyranids move towards the psychic beacon of the astronomican and they move at very slow pace,how should emps have known that his actions are the reason for the coming of a species that is only viewable in the wap by the shadow in the warp--> unclear, 2. that he ahs no knowledge about whatsoever Well this is not entirely true anymore, as the Epilogue of Pharos (HH34) states that it was not the light of the Astronomican (which is a selfsustaining fragment of the Emperor’s soul) but the final shimmer of the Pharos on Sotha that draw the attention of the Tyranids to the Milky Way. This would then mean that it took the Tyranids ten millennia to cross the intergalactic void.