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The Golden Throne was the Emperor's final legacy to Mankind. With his last mortal breaths he whispered the directions for its construction into the ear of Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists Legion.

The Golden Throne is a complex life support device located in a massive complex over what was the British Isles, with the throne itself being over where Nottingham is in the real world. It was made out of The Emperors Golden Armour. There the Emperor's physical form is preserved and his life functions are carried out by carefully-maintained machinery. The Golden Throne is connected to a massive warp beacon known as the Astronomicon that generates the system of signals making faster than light Warp travel in the Imperium possible. To provide the psychic energies necessary to maintain the beacon, hundreds of carefully-selected psykers are brought into the Golden Throne complex every day, where their life energies are absorbed by the Emperor, leaving them lifeless husks in a matter of weeks. Those selected to replace the used-up psykers consider it a great honor.