The Pharos is a pre-Imperial piece of Necron technology that is able to harness empathy to allow the user to find, communicate, or even teleport to a location they either consciously or subconsciously desired, without the use of the Warp. Instead of routing through the Warp, it connected two points directly within the Materium via quantum entanglement.
灯塔是死灵技术的前帝国版本，能够利用移情让使用者在不使用亚空间的情况下，有意识或无意识地找到、交流甚至传送到他们想要的位置。它没有通过亚空间，而是通过量子纠缠直接连接了物质界内部的两个点。
It could also secondarily aid in Warp travel, being used to navigate the Warp much like the Astronomican, except while the Astronomican utilized psychic power to provide a reference point and acted as a "lighthouse" in the Warp, the Pharos utilized empathic energies and would illuminate the needed location, making it appear as a comparative "lantern", which would provide a path to where a ship needed to go. Due to using empathic power, instead of psychic, the Pharos' function was completely unhindered by Warp Storms.
它还可以辅助亚空间航行，就像星炬一样被用来导航亚空间，除了星炬利用灵能力量提供参考点并在亚空间中充当“灯塔”外，灯塔利用移情能量并照亮所需的位置，使其看起来像一个相对的“灯笼”，这将为船只需要去的地方提供一条路径。由于使用了移情能力，而不是灵能能力，灯塔的功能完全不受亚空间风暴的阻碍。
The Pharos atop its mountain during the Battle of Sotha 索萨战役期间在山顶上的灯塔
History 历史
Built from Blackstone, the Pharos array was originally constructed by the Necrons for rapid communications and FTL travel. The Pharos is powered by eight C'tan Shards, one of which is Zarhulash. When the Necrons emerged into their great slumber, the array went inactive. By the Age of the Imperium the only known surviving Pharos was on Sotha. Belisarius Cawl states that he found another Pharos elsewhere, but it was long destroyed. Like most other Necron Blackstone technology, the Pharos is able to negate the effects and presence of the Warp.
灯塔阵列由黑石建造，最初由死灵建造，用于快速通信和超光速航行。灯塔由八个星神碎片提供动力，其中一个是扎胡拉什。当死灵进入休眠状态时，阵列变得不活跃。到了帝国时代，唯一已知幸存的灯塔在索萨。贝利撒留·考尔表示，他在其他地方发现了另一个灯塔，但它早已被摧毁。与大多数其他死灵黑石技术一样，灯塔能够抵消亚空间的影响和存在。
The Pharos was discovered by Humanity on Sotha by Barabas Dantioch during the Horus Heresy and used by Roboute Guilliman as a beacon to attract scattered loyalist forces to his new empire, Imperium Secundus. The Pharos became the subject of battle when the Night Lords under Krukesh discovered the nature of the device and became determined to claim it in order to find the Nightfall and Konrad Curze. In the ensuing Battle of Sotha, Dantioch overloaded the Device to defeat the traitors and its engines fell silent for the first time. Unknown to all involved, this act served to alert the Tyranids to the Galaxy.
灯塔是人类在荷鲁斯叛乱期间由巴拉巴斯·丹提欧克在索萨发现的，并被罗伯特·基里曼用作信标，以吸引分散的忠诚派部队到他的新帝国，第二帝国。当克鲁克什领导的午夜领主发现了该装置的性质并决心声称拥有它以找到夜幕降临号和康拉德·科兹时，灯塔成为了战斗的主题。在随后的索萨之战中，丹提欧克使装置超载以击败叛徒，其引擎首次陷入沉寂。所有参与者都不知道，这一行为被用来提醒泰伦虫族注意银河系。
While Dantioch's sabotage destroyed the primary communications chamber, designated "Primary Location Alpha", there was a less powerful secondary chamber designated "Primary Location Beta". Guilliman used this chamber to contact Emperor-Regent Sanguinius, after the Night Lords had been driven away from the planet. There was also a third chamber, designated "Primary Location Ultra" far deeper into the mountain.
当丹提欧克的破坏摧毁了被指定为“主要位置阿尔法”的主要通信室时，还有一个功能较弱的次要通信室，被指定为”主要位置贝塔“。在午夜领主被赶出行星后，基里曼利用这个房间联系了摄政王圣吉列斯。还有一个第三房间，被指定为“主要位置极限”，位于山的深处。
After the Heresy, Guilliman ordered the Pharos destroyed - removing thousands of tonnes of xenos machinery from the mountain and filling its tunnels with millions of tonnes of ferrocrete. The primarch appointed Oberdeii as Warden of the Pharos and Captain of the Aegida Company, sworn to protect Sotha from whatever secrets had been buried in the Pharos. This duty passed to the Company's successors, a new chapter named the Scythes of the Emperor, after the Third Founding.
叛乱之后，基里曼下令摧毁灯塔 — 从山上移除数千吨的异型机械，并用数百万吨的钢筋混凝土填充隧道。原体任命奥伯代伊为灯塔的守护者和艾吉达连队的连长，发誓要保护索萨免受灯塔埋葬的任何秘密的伤害。第三次建军后，这一职责被移交给了连队的继任者，即一个名为帝皇之镰的新战团。
Despite the attempts to dismantle the Pharos, the Necron technology of the Pharos activated its self-repair functions and quietly the Pharos facility rebuilt itself. Millennia later, the formation of the Great Rift reactivated the now fully-repaired and operational Pharos, which was noted by the now-reborn Scythes of the Emperor. Archmagos Belisarius Cawl led an expedition to study and perhaps use the Pharos to close the Rift and defeat Chaos. Ultimately during Cawl's experiments he discovered that the device's core, a singularity, and its datacore, were both being contained by an enslaved C'tan shard of Zarhulash. Cawl tricked the shard into destabilizing the device's singularity, before using the Pharos to teleport the shard to an unknown distant star system. The destabilized singularity then began to collapse into a black hole. However, Cawl was able to escape with the data stored within the Pharos, including the location of other Pharos and Blackstone deposits across the Galaxy. The Pharos device itself was destroyed by the combined firepower of an Ultramarines strike cruiser, its escorts and the Cawl's personal ship Zar-Quaesitor before the destabilization could create a black hole.
尽管试图拆除灯塔，但灯塔的死灵技术激活了其自我修复功能，并悄悄地重建了灯塔设施。数千年后，大裂隙的形成重新激活了现已完全修复并投入使用的灯塔，这被现已重生的帝皇之镰所注意到。大贤者贝利撒留·考尔领导了一支探索队，研究并可能利用灯塔来闭合裂隙并击败混沌。最终，在考尔的实验中，他发现该设备的核心，一个奇点，以及它的数据核心，都被扎胡拉什的一个被奴役的星神碎片所包含。考尔欺骗碎片破坏了设备的奇点，然后使用灯塔将碎片传送到未知的遥远恒星系统。然后，不稳定的奇点开始坍缩成黑洞。然而，考尔能够逃脱存储在灯塔中的数据，包括银河系其他灯塔和黑石矿床的位置。灯塔装置本身被一艘极限战士打击巡洋舰、其护卫舰和考尔的个人船只探索者之王号的联合火力摧毁，之后的不稳定造成了黑洞。
A second Pharos device has been discovered on the world of Planet 7/2 within the Nephilim Sector.
第二个灯塔装置在拿非利星区的7/2行星上被发现。
Technology 技术
A Pharos is a Necron device which allows the Necrons to travel faster than light and communicate over interstellar distances without relying upon the warp. In general terms, it is described as a Quantum Empahtic Resonance Beacon. These beacons, such the one upon Mount Pharos, are believed to each contain an entangled supermass of isolated particles that are perfectly in tune with each other. These devices exploit the fundamental laws of physics to connect multiple parts of reality together. The beacon within Mount Pharos was powered by C'tan Shards. When activated, the device creates a portal to a distant location in space that is keyed to the mind of its user. The beacon within Mount Pharos is only one of hundreds of similar devices (Pharoses), which form a network throughout the galaxy.
灯塔是一种死灵设备，它允许死灵以比光速更快的速度旅行，并在不依赖亚空间的情况下进行星际距离的通信。一般来说，它被描述为量子移情共振信标。这些信标，比如法罗斯山上的信标，据信每个信标都包含一个纠缠超质量的孤立粒子，这些粒子彼此完美协调。这些设备利用物理学的基本定律将现实的多个部分连接在一起。法罗斯山内的灯塔由星神碎片提供动力。激活后，该设备会创建一个通往太空中遥远位置的门户，该门户与使用者的思想相关联。法罗斯山上的灯塔只是数百个类似设备（灯塔群）中的一个，这些设备在整个银河系中形成了一个网络。
Besides its ability to act as an interstellar communication and travel device, each beacon is capable of tuning one's energetic state with their past emanations. In the case of Belisarius Cawl, it allowed him to experience the pasts of his constituent minds, despite his dominant personality never recollecting them. Within the Pharos beacon, this phenomenon has been referenced in tales of "mountain dreaming", wherein one experiences visions of their past and the pasts of others.
除了作为星际通信和航行设备的能力外，每个信标还能够根据过去的粒子流调整自己的能量状态。在贝利撒留·考尔的案例中，这让他能够体验到他组成部分的思想的过去，尽管他的主导人格从未回忆起它们。在灯塔信标内，这种现象在“山梦”的故事中有所提及，在这些故事中，人们会体验到自己过去和他人过去的幻象。
Trivia 琐事
In ancient history, the Pharos of Alexandria, Egypt was an immense lighthouse of its time and one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
在古代历史上，埃及亚历山大港的灯塔是当时一座极大的灯塔，也是古代世界七大奇迹之一。
