Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-5.65.81.205-20131002091720/@comment-3258762-20131116154122

Callummacdonald79 wrote: i knew the primarchs were created from the best of others but i assumed their genetic blueprint was stable once created, so i'll concede that point.

the throne wouldn't need to be directed though - as a psychic amplifier emps, and briefly malcador, used it to defend the construction of a tunnel through the warp to the webway, but if the webway project had been completed then that defence would no longer be needed, and the astronomican wouldn't need boosting from the throne. in fact the astronomican probably wouldn't be needed at all if the webway project reached fruition - as i understand it the throne was simply a means to an end, after which it would have been magnus' to play with. 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.