Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-5.65.81.205-20131002091720/@comment-6078851-20131117164937

Legionaire22 wrote: The way I remember it, and from what it seems from the wiki page, the Golden Throne was not meant to focus the Astronomican, it was a gate into the Webway. As such, even if the project had been finished, it would still have had to be powered, else there would have been no access to the Webway on Terra. well the golden throne is actually 2 devices joined together - 1) the 'doorway' for access to the webway, and 2) the psychic amplifying throne itself, which provided a sufficient boost to emps' power for protecting the terran portion of the webway until it was connected to the rest.

if the webway project was finished would the doorway not then be a stable webway portal like any other portal? and the throne part of the device is not a power source: emps creates and guides the astronomican and recieves a 'power-up' from the throne in that regard, but i think both devices are powered by conventional (for 30k) means: stick a plug in a socket, albeit a rather large plug :)

i may be wrong but it seems logical to me that such devices would have their own seperate, and uber safe, power supplies, as well as an entire battalion of back-up power supplies.