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===The Cadian Pylons===
[[File:CadianPylon.jpg|thumb|150px|right|A Cadian Pylon.]]
Perhaps the most unusual and significant feature of Cadia were the mysterious [[Pylon]]s, structures of [[Blackstone|unknown origins]] that predated the planet's colonization by man. Five thousand, eight hundred and ten intact Pylons were spread out across the surface of Cadia, with a further two thousand either buried or in various states of disrepair. No two were identical in design, but each one rose to precisely half a kilometer in height and extended a quarter-kilometer into the ground. Each Pylon also featured slim, winding tunnels machined into them, each one no wider than a man's head and exactly two hundred and fifty meters long.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|2}}
Efforts by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] to study the Pylons had failed miserably, as their surfaces were totally impenetrable to scanning by [[auspex]] and efforts to map the tunnels via [[Servitor]]s had resulted in missing probes. However, it is widely believed that they were the reason for the existence of the Cadian Gate in the first place.{{Fn|1b}} During the [[13th Black Crusade]], as the [[warp storm]] '''Baphomael''' expanded to engulf the edges of the Cadian System, the Pylons simultaneously began resonating with an almost imperceptible vibration, and microscopic fractures began appearing on their surface. It was discovered that they were resonating at an amplitude similar to that produced by a [[Gellar Field]] in their effort to fight back against the encroaching storm.{{Fn|1d}}
