Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24944355-20141215055516/@comment-28742621-20170425224834

Sentry 616 wrote: My mistake. I thought the Emperor's psychic energy powered as-con, and he needed to be "alive" to maintain it.

For clarity, what actual purposes does the Emperor serve beyond an object of worship/rotting symbol?

Going off of my limited understanding, if the Emperor completely dies, the Golden Throne fails completely, and nothing changes, the truth would be smothered, and its spreaders would be silenced/discredited. How accurate is this? Not very accurate as  the emp prevents the creation of an Eye of Terra and guides the astronomican from being a giant ball of psyker energy and instead a lighthouse of sorts.