Compared to the first time he had seen the Golden Throne, Iax could now discern far more information.
The machine body specially built to repair the Golden Throne housed an astonishing number of scanning devices.
Vast quantities of data on psychic power and advances in technology now allowed Iax to properly understand the existence of psychic power and other extraordinary forms of energy.
Countless energy cables ran throughout the Throne Hall.
Psychic power flowed along the vast network of conduits behind the throne, connecting to the Emperor.
The Golden Throne confined the surging psychic power and the terrifyingly powerful biomagnetic field to its seat.
This was certainly not a normal state for a living being, even accounting for Iax's knowledge that the Emperor was a psyker.
Iax had already had extensive contact with both Imperium-sanctioned psykers and the sacrifices fed to the throne.
The Emperor's condition was anything but normal.
The biomagnetic field emanating from that skeletal, corpse-like figure was astonishingly active and immense.
It was countless times more violent than even the biological fields emitted by the Men of Gold in the records.
Yet the energy upon the throne was exceeding the maximum limit it could contain.
The entire Golden Throne had been operating under constant overload.
From time to time, energy spilled out of the nearly failing stasis field.
Under psychic scanning, the withered figure on the Golden Throne became a gigantic golden figure seated upright.
In the psychic scan, even the throne beneath him appeared several times larger to accommodate his towering figure.
This was unlike the visions brought by countless prophecies and the Emperor's Tarot.
Through the eyes of the Men of Iron, every other detail of the figure was perfectly clear. Only his face presented a problem.
His features jittered like a distorted image, constantly