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Since the weak sector is one of the only places explored by the Standard Model (SM), there is hope that studying neutrinos may provide insight into physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). For this purpose, neutrino telescopes have broad programs searching for the effects of BSM physics; however, the phenomenological community, which predicts the observational effects of BSM models, does not have direct access to the simulation of neutrino telescopes and must approximate the detector response. This issue will only grow with the advent of a new global network of gigaton-scale detectors currently under construction, for there is no consistent simulation of these detectors. In this contribution, we present Prometheus, an open-source simulation of neutrino telescopes from neutrino injection to photon propagation that can therefore be used for studies both in the realm of SM physics, such as neutrino oscillations and point source analysis, as well as BSM physics. The flexible implementation allows for simulation in solid and liquid water and therefore allows for a consistent simulation of all existing and proposed gigaton-scale observatories.
