hello ladies and gentlemen boys and girls it
is law crimes hello everyone welcome back people
uh we have huge news for you but hal's news is
much more important oh we were just talking about
colin's diarrhea to be fair oh dude well now
that we're live let me tell there was one time
it was so like bad dude can you wait one second
we literally have such an important thing to
say which is uh first of all welcome everybody
uh it is another episode of the podcast it is
obviously your boys hal colin eli and andy but
uh for the live audience they won't notice anything
different but for the uh later when this video
well when this goes up as a video there'll be
a few changes uh they might see that we've resorted
back to uh A lot of people said they preferred
the older style of video in terms of pre -recorded
stuff. So we're actually going to do both. So
for the guys watching this later, enjoy this
beautiful video format. Back to the old classic.
Got our characters, gameplay footage, artwork,
all that good stuff going up. But for all you
amazing people who show up every week to the
live stuff, you can still have the live version
with our, as I said in our announcement on our
Discord, our lovely receding hairlines visible.
But for today's episode, it's going to be a bit
of a, you know, again, normal live. And if you
want to catch the... unedited live version with
all the donations and all the chat stuff in it
you can go join our discord and it's just going
to be linked there right you know still on youtube
but just linked there nice easy to access but
for the people who like the video stuff we're
going to go back to that i think not everyone
preferred all the uh donations and all the parts
that delay the law that one's just gonna be straight
up law straight up good chats all that good stuff
but the live guys you get exactly what you want
so hopefully we've been we basically everyone's
going to get what they want and hopefully guys
you enjoy that uh today's episode though is going
to be well first of all it is about necrons we
have some cool door we're going to just we we've
got a collection of four people here who know
a ridiculous amount of useless warhammer lore
and you know we can't use it anywhere else but
we've got we want to tell you things about the
necrons that not everybody is going to know we're
going to start with the basics of course but
we're going to Eli's going to guide us through
this one on his ridiculous, I think, 44 -page
note, ridiculous deep dive into maybe parts of
the lore that you didn't know, or maybe it's
probably the most interesting parts about Necrons.
But before we do that, Colin, will you please
finish your diarrhea story? See, the funny thing
was the other important news I was going to say
was just you should play EU5. Well, I read this
before you brought up that. But no, since you've
now put it on me, there was one time I took a
courtesy wipe. It was so bad. Like, it was coming
down the side of the bowl. Bro. Bro. Bro. Bro.
I took a courtesy wipe. Look at this man. Gentlemen,
it gets worse. Oh, no. Is that why you're pleading
the fifth? No, no. I'm pleading the opposite.
I did a little courtesy wipe on my nuts. Bro!
Necrons, everyone. Yeah, what a fun topic that
we're going to get swiftly into. We're leaving
this in the cut, by the way. We apologize for
this chat. We don't have to leave this in the
cut. We don't have to leave this in the cut.
The man can't come back from that. That's on
the internet. But today we are going to talk
about something where hopefully... a race of
beings will avoid but avoid ever having the problems
of flesh the necrons hate poo by the way poo
is one of like the top 10 things that they hate
unironically there's there's something they don't
tell you and i'll say eli please save us please
guide us into the uh the necron law again let's
go through some basics but here's some stuff
you guys might not be able to get from just regular
sort of law videos we're going to go to a few
things that we find particularly very interesting
go ahead take it take us away from the poop please
well levi gar says literally first time i came
to a live episode this is what this is what we
bring to the table this is what brings to the
table okay let's go over the go over the basics
go over the basics and then we'll cover some
of these pre -stream donations i think uh but
As we all know, the Necrons are the oldest race
in Warhammer 40 ,000, originating from over 60
million years ago. They were once the Necron
-tier people. These were odd people, but they
were somewhat similar to humankind, more like
Egyptian humankind, but on a spaceboard scale.
On their original planet, they had a sun that
was not very nice, very radiating sun. And it
was causing them cancers and tumors and short
life in general. So life was very short for these
people. They died generally a pretty painful,
agonizing death from cancer like every single
time without fail. But despite this, they were
able to kind of advance their technology a little
bit and eventually reach to the stars in some
living metal ships called Necrodermis. I guess
we'll go over that a little bit more later. Despite...
Leaving their planets, leaving their home world,
the cancerous tumor DNA was so ingrained within
them that it continued throughout their entire
existence. They just couldn't get away from this.
And lifespan did increase. They did find scientific
ways to increase lifespan. Being on different
planets did increase lifespan. But they were
still dying from tumors. Now, the other oldest
race around, perhaps older than the Necron tier
even, I suppose, are the old ones. so -called
gods, perhaps creators of the universe in Warhammer.
They discovered the Necronteer, and the Necronteer
discovered the Old Ones. They saw that the Old
Ones were immoral. They had the keys to immortality.
The Necronteer asked very politely, can we please
have immortality? Can we please stop dying from
cancer? And can we live past the ripe old age
of 35? And these old ones, the lizardmen, the
fat fellow lizardmen, the slan, pretty much,
said, No! Not for the likes of you! Get over
yourselves, warm bloods. Hey, disgusting Necron
tier, get away from me. That's true, we're about
to lose Andy, man. R .I .P., man. Yeah, I was
going to say, I'm on my way out if I'm a Necron
tier. My last years were. God bless, soldier.
There's no actual... There's no actual recorded
amount of time that the Necronteer were living
as. We just kind of have to assume that it was
very short. But of course, it would eventually
get pretty long. But regardless, they're comparing
themselves to an immortal being, that being the
Old Ones. The Old Ones say no. The Necronteer
get really angry. The dynasties, for there are
dynasties, kind of unite together at this time
and fight a war against the Old Ones. And they
get... absolutely obliterated, backhanded to
the corner of the galaxy where they just continue
to wither and die away. And it is this time,
around this time, that they meet what are called
the Catan, the kind of beings that were around
the same time as the old ones, these odd primordial
beings that are part of the universe itself,
these weird dust cloud space entities that are
eating stars. The Necrons eventually make contact
with them and they build these necrodermis bodies
for this Catan to inhabit. The Catan then say,
we know about the Old Ones, and we fought them
before, and they're our ancient enemies, and
we also hate them. And we also know how to make
you immortal. So, the Catan strike a deal with
the Necronteer, and they teach them how to be
immortal in exchange for aid in fighting the
Old Ones, and being kind of brought back into
a physical form, you could say. This is where
biotransference happens. The Catan send all the
Necron people through biotransference. Their
flesh and bones and blood are removed away through
these flames, and they are replaced with bodies
of Necrodermis, again, living metal. They are
undeniably powerful, extremely, extremely tough,
extremely durable. They are truly immortal now.
But unfortunately, it comes with the catch of
the Catan eating all of their souls, supposedly.
The commoners lose all consciousness as... You
can move up in the hierarchy of Necron tier society.
You have more and more consciousness, more and
more sophisticated minds. So the nobility generally
keeps their consciousness. Some might even say
they keep their souls. Perhaps. It's hard to
tell. Well, again, the commoners lose everything.
The Silence King, at the time, Zarek, is given
control over all of his people. And they march
to war. They march to war like Isengard from
the cool scene. They obliterate the old ones.
as the old ones deserve. The Necrons are taught
how to answer the webway by Neanderthal, one
of the Catan. And from here on out, there's the
biggest war literally ever called the War in
Heaven. This is fought by the old ones and their
creations, the Krook and the Eldar. Colin, would
you like to speak about the War in Heaven for
a little bit? Of course. The War in Heaven is,
well, I mean, like you said, it's the biggest
war ever. the no they made the crook yeah they
so when you know they declared war on the old
ones the necron the now necrons that is they
the old ones were things it wasn't great and
i'm just going to say it wasn't great they uh
they were a little outmatched between against
the newfound might of these metallic beings so
they started making races and or uplifting them
uh To my knowledge, I know the Krook were artificially
made. I feel like every time I read Eldar lore,
it like wavers back and forth. Maybe they were
uplifted. Maybe they were created. Maybe some
secret third thing, especially once you start
talking about their gods. But that's the end
result is the ancient Eldar were helping the
old ones with their own psychic might. A little
bit less than the old ones, but there was a whole
lot more Eldar than the old ones. So kind of
balanced out. And it was the most horrific war
there was. It essentially, to go down the line,
it was so bad that it would create chaos because
of all the death that happened here. And the
Horus Heresy would be a rounding error compared
to your average war in heaven battle. Deploy
the stupid GigaChad music or whatever for how
destructive these conflicts were. I mean, to
be fair, we could even say like... As much as
the Horus Heresy is a decade -long war, this
is the time span from which the Necrotear dying
and becoming the Necrons to the actual end in
the Warheaven is completely unknown. It could
have been hundreds of thousands to millions to...
It's impossible to fathom, basically. It's impossible
to fathom how gargantuan this conflict is. I
think the closest thing to a hint there's ever
been given is that... the reason there was extinction
events on earth you know 65 million years ago
with the dinosaurs was the war in heaven i feel
like i read that somewhere but that that that
was like so i that was i feel like five years
ago i read that don't quote me on that exactly
either way it's like next level horrific tragedy
uh the old ones influence becomes you know going
just very much on the way out they start kind
of like they did in fantasy they just start throwing
shit at the wall and seeing what sticks just
to try and survive although whereas in fantasy
it was an effort to stop chaos in 40k it was
more of an effort to not get obliterated by necrons
which is why we have the jacaro and the funny
monkey men uh because yes the old ones did create
the uh create the orangutans we gotta love we
love to see it though What a weird choice, though,
to be fair. What a weird... They deserve an episode.
What are we going to talk about? They're good
at tech. They're monkey. They could be part of
an episode. They could be an own segment. A segment,
not a full one. Monkey. I think it was said there,
like, during the War in Heaven, the Necrons fought
entire races of Xenos -slash -aliens that is
lost to time now. It's in the same vein as when
Imperium lore is like, there used to be many
alien species in this sector. Used to. It's like,
yes, there used to be many more creations of
the Old Ones alongside the Eldar and the Kroak.
Used to. They all were... murdered by the necrons
uh so it's it's one of those things there's very
little lore on it but the scale of it is something
that was is just has not been seen and will probably
never be seen again in the setting uh because
of just how horrific it was uh the end result
however was eventually kegarek shout out to the
clown god he's a real one convince some Ignore
that diabetes for a moment. I will fix that shortly.
Convinced some of the Catan to eat the rest of
the Catan. Like, hey, if you devour their energy,
you'll be one hell of a Catan. You'll be very
strong. Wasn't necessarily lying with that. He
was kind of underplaying how it would then be
like one versus a galaxy for the super Catan
that are left. And also, in the meantime, the
silent king was doing his own scheming in the
background. Is this crouching into Hal's territory?
You can say it if you want to. I'll talk later.
I'll get for the rest of this stuff. Outside
of internal politics was Kegorak doing a funny...
The various other super beings of the galaxy
were taking on the Catan. Kane shattered the
Nightbringer, I know that. There was no Necrons
involved in that one. That was Kane. It was the
only win he's ever gotten in 40k. And slowly
but surely, in part because of what Hal will
be talking about, the Eldar, the Krook, the old
one, what old ones were left? There was like
five at this point. managed to start pushing
the Necron tier back. And then eventually, as
I said, as I started to say, the Silent King
had his own plan, which I understand. Will that
be Hal? I understand. Hal will cover the Silent
King in general. I can keep talking from here.
This is the beginner section, as one may say,
I suppose. How did I get Robotent to do the beginner
and the expert section? What the heck? What's
going on? You love it. Don't lie. Well. yes creates
40 page script upset he has to talk uh don't
worry like 20 of those are character notes we
won't go over all we won't be here for eight
hours uh but anywho what did where did we just
leave off uh it's the end of the war in heaven
we won the war in heaven we won the war in heaven
the eternal empire won the war in heaven uh as
you can see i wore my eternal love My Twilight
shirt. War in Heaven is like the Vietnam equivalent
for Warhammer. I was like, who won? What do you
mean? It was a definite winner. It was a definite
win, but we had a nap -nap. Andy, that one, I
don't know about that one. I think, explain it.
I don't know. This is... Nah. Nah. Slightly get
into terms, which is more for the parts that
some people may not know, which is a bit for
later. But the Necrons were doing so well in
the war in heaven, because first of all, they're
completely mindless and they serve the Silent
King and the Catan and all that stuff. But there's
also the fact that the Catans start civil warring,
like Colin said. So they were winning the war
so well. that they had time to fight each other
and then so the katana you know the katana are
not very say like you probably can guess that
they sacrificed an entire species uh you know
to eat their souls they're probably not that
concerned with eating each eating each other
too so it was pretty bad at this point the galaxy
is in a terrible terrible place yeah we we won
the war in heaven The Necrons won the war in
heaven. That's that. But afterwards, after the
war in heaven, after these old ones have been
hunted down and executed like Jedi, Zarek realizes,
well, he realized already at the very beginning
after biotransference, like the second he walked
out, he realized that this was the worst mistake
he has ever made and he doomed his entire people
and he's like filled with unbelievable regret.
So at the end of this war in heaven, The Catan
are feasting. They're vulnerable. Zarek brings
his people together, and they turn against the
Catan, and they shatter them. Because the Catan
are part of reality, they cannot be truly destroyed.
All but one. Excuse me. All but one. One was
truly destroyed, and it had dire consequences
for reality itself. Only really for the Necrons,
but there's probably some more lore that should
go into that. I was going to say, did it? I don't
know. Anyways, they destroy, they shatter the
Catan into shards and they enslave these shards.
And that's it. They go to sleep because after
this, the Empire is kind of like, it sucks. Things
just really suck. Everything, everyone is going
extinct. The Necron Empire is pretty weak now
after fighting the Catan and also winning the
War in Heaven. And they foresee the rise and
fall of the Eldar. In fact, Orc and the Diviner
himself. is the one who exclaims it. He sees
the rise and fall of the Eldar Empire, so they
decide it is time for the Eldar to take control
of the galaxy. We're going to let them do that
because they're going to lose in the end of the
day. So they go to sleep. The Great Sleep, they
call it. It is Zarek's last command. He puts
his people to sleep, and then he leaves into
self -imposed exile for the next 60 million years.
And that's that. The Necrons go to sleep for
60 million years, and they have recently... just
started waking up in the 41st millennium, sowing
quite the terror and quite the havoc. The dynasties
themselves are now kind of obviously waking up,
but there's a lot of infighting. There's not
a lot of unity in the empire, which we will kind
of get into later. There's a lot of intrigue
in Necron society. Some of them have very, very
good goals, at least for their own people. Some
of them are just power hungry. There's not much
unity. A decent sect of the Necrons want to destroy
all life entirely. And then another really big
sect wants to return to flesh and kind of get
their souls back. And a lot of them don't want
to destroy all life because life is needed to
enslave so that the Necrons can rule over the
galaxy, which is a big reason why Zarek needs
to destroy the Tyranids. So we're in the 41st
Millennium. Not a lot of lore advances for the
Necrons as anything, but what has advanced is
the Silent Kings timeline. and i believe uh damnos
damnos was one of the first battles against the
necrons it was ultramarines versus necrons and
uh necron sweep by the way necron sweep kato
sicarius uh took an l i think the i think the
very first like lore thing well they i mean i
think there was some retconning they turned into
the first thing after you know a battle report
was sisters versus necrons one sister survived
oh yeah yeah so now i did like um in the yanari
second book where it's just like a necron in
a big prison world just being like get off my
lawn get off my lawn and bring this chaos stuff
with you get it out of here get out of here let
the rain go yeah uh so that's pretty much the
basic rundown of the necrons there's really i
don't think i need to add any more of that but
we're going to go all the way back to the start
now and uh redo everything in a very detailed
sense uh Before we do that, we would like to
address the donations for the live segment, boys.
Thank you so much. I think we have some interesting
comments, especially since Colin's poo chat.
I'll start us off then with a few. DonkeymanUSA
for two. Stream later to how sodomizing synoptics
work. Pretty much. Shalaxy's insulin -veined
megalomaniacal cock of woe for 13 months of membership.
Thank you very much. When can we get a LawCrime's
big bukkake stream? See, this is the thing we
were talking about, guys. The video people. Everyone's
like, oh, I really want to learn about that.
I'm like, why is that word in this whole video?
Chicken jockey, but instead of the soggy biscuit.
Nomias Chomsky for two. Hal, your gooning allegations
are coming true. Thanks, brother. Appreciate
that. Hyperbolic Backhole for two. Streamlager
to Hal gousing his pariah next thing. Very nice.
This is the last I'll say for now. Set for 499.
Patrolling the live chat almost makes you wish
for a nuclear winter. Yes, it does. Of course,
Collins do husband oil the bouncing chaos style.
Thank you, Erebus, for the $5. Crazy how this
podcast can have simultaneously the best and
most abysmal taste. Hope your prostates are doing
okay. Happy birthday to you all. There's only
a moderate amount when I wipe a blood, so don't
worry about it. I haven't had to check yet. Okay.
Thank you for the $1 .99. Eli, great Mr. Miyagi
impression in Nightlord's video. Thank you. I'm
trying my hardest to do an astronomer accent.
It's very hard. Hell, if you don't give it a
look, how do you know if you still got poop?
When you're done wiping? I thought you meant
the prostate. Oh, well, no. Is man's looking
at his prostate? Looking? X -ray vision, sir.
It's the sleeper button. Stealthy 47 for 5 bucks.
The Necrons went to sleep for 65 million years
just for GTA 6 to be delayed. I'm so waiting
for that game to be mid. Yep, me too. So true,
man. I still haven't played 4, 5, or 3. I've
only played the newest one and I've barely even
played it. GTA is not one for me. Sorry. I can't
even say that word. Megalomaniacal. Megalomaniacal.
You could just say megacock, yeah. For five Canadian
brothers, a fellow ill man, I've had many a shit
like this. Trauma can still give you IBS, gang.
Like, stay tight, clenched. Flex that toe gutter,
Andy. I'm so glad we're cutting these out of
the video. I'm so glad. But thanks for showing
up on Fridays, man. Appreciate it. Thank you.
Oh my gosh. Thank you. Thank you very much. Eli
looking like an old bino Ronnie Coleman from
the neck down. Crazy. Is that a compliment? Yes,
Ronnie Coleman's Mr. Olympia like seven times.
Oh, Tiago Silva. Thank you for the R5. Great
timing. Since I'm currently eating my lunch,
y 'all's foreheads are looking quite lovely today.
Bella's hi from a fan all the way from Brazil.
Hello. Oh, thanks, man. Are you having a good
day, brother? Thanks for coming. As a more, we
have Zimcon for two bucks. Hey, guys. Love the
vids. Praise the infinite empire. Praise be.
Yes. Yes. Thank you, man. Thank you. Check this
out. The ricotta. Check this out. Colin, would
you like this one? Sure. Why not? Set with the
five bucks. So you have chocolate smoothie on
your marbles. First time. Wow. I know how set
sounds, so I can hear his voice saying that too.
Unbelievable, man. Look, it's slip space rupture
detected. Break off, man. Tom Warren, member
for 10 months. Imagine the shame from losing
a war to fat frogs. They're magical fat frogs.
They are wizards. It was literally like impoverished,
starving panther child, fighting a god. And they're
like, ribbity ribbity, get ready your skibbity.
Do you want to tell us one, Andy? Get off my
property. Nomius Chomsky for 20. Hey guys in
chat, how y 'all doing? Colin, this is why some
necrons don't want to be mortal again. And thank
you, Andy, for dropping into Discord VC. I enjoyed
our talk about Ironhands. This is why you guys
are my favorite. I had a few drinks, and I think
I went to bed at five in the morning because
we were chatting about lore. It was fun. You
guys all got the craziest. The Dank Apostle for
the 35 Tsar. It was cool. GW need to complete
the Catan foursome with the return of the Outsider,
the most insane Catan imprisoned in a Dyson sphere.
which even the Tyranids avoid. And that's right.
That's right. That Dyson sphere. Hey, he makes
hooves, doesn't he? Carson C, thank you for the
$5. He wanted to say hi for catching you guys
live again. Sorry. Thanks, man. Hey, he wanted
to say hi for catching you guys live again. How
are you enjoying the onset of the Canadian winter
Eli greetings from Calgary? Oh, hello. uh maybe
there's potentially might even met me in real
life uh it's just started snowing around here
so it's it's quite nice but it's like one degree
outside so it's it's really nice because it's
snowing but it's warm enough to like be outside
and just like a hoodie or whatever and the snow
melts so it's quite uh colin would you like to
take this one Trazen's Custodes Collection Abs
Polisher with a 500 RSD. Thank you. That's a
name. Turning Colin into a Necron. Pros. No more
instant alarms. No more poop stories. Triggered
because he's the objectively cooler race than
an elf. Untold, or cons. Untold millennia of
my takes. Skill issue on your part? Fuck you.
I can't believe this donation. Eli is most excessively
hung for Tony and Sableboy. Thank you for the
27 SEK. Eli, you're back. I can finally be hard
again. Thanks. Horse emoji. Horse? We do it for
the community. Oh, my God. War crimes only fans,
I guess. Maybe that would feed families. Only
crimes. There you go. Antonio Ranza for 20 bucks.
Jesus, you guys are so generous. Thank you guys
so much. Hello, boys. So a super weapon in the
war in heavens is a gutling gun that shots star
as ammo. Am I reading this right? Also, tomorrow
I have a D &D game with a Transformers character.
All hail Optimus Prime and Peter Cullen. He's
getting old. Thank you. Thank you for that. Don't,
don't Colin. I'm going to get sad. I don't, don't,
don't bring up the possibility. He's going to
die. He's going to be immortal. He'll be a Necron.
I can't handle it. Transference baby. The dang
apostle. Thank you for the 35 czar. Colin as
a Necron would be funny as he would no longer
need a pancreas, but he gets the flare curse,
which would make him think he still needs one.
True and real. That sounds miserable. Why would
you put that on me? Before the stream, we were
literally saying Colin would be a flayed one,
but instead of skin, it's chili cheese dogs,
because he was talking about how much he loves
chili cheese dogs. I love chili cheese dogs.
Look, I'm not a Sonic fan. I'm not into animals,
but by God, chili cheese dogs are real. What
about cheesesteak? Are you a big fan? I do love
me a good chili cheese steak, too. Can we all
get Sonic OC characters in the art section of
the Discord, please? Can I be Big the Cat, please?
Froggy! If you've never heard of this very fun
internet game, just type your name, the Hedgehog,
into Google and then you'll get horrible images.
My Steam is Eli the Hedgehog. Yeah, it is. Mr.
Taz for two bucks. Necrons, boop. Got your son.
Oops, now it's gone. That is cute. Eli's most
excessively hung Britannian stable boy for 27.
Okay, what they don't, they want us to nose.
Never you mind. Zarek's not on the list. Zarek's
not on the list, I'll tell you that. He's the
GOAT. Chaotic Noom, I think he's a resident artist.
Five million bucks, thank you. I have so many
questions right now. But also a Bukkake does
sound hilarious. How does Necron Bukkake work?
Also, good morning. Good morning to you. How
to spend your breakfast listening to us idiots.
It's a bit too early for Bukkake in the morning.
Delta Crafter is now a member. Thank you very
much, but what an episode to become a member.
I like that name. That sounds like a Minecraft
name from like 2015. I like that name. Reckonslong
Pancreas has tumor with the $5 every time I see
that. Calling it mugged, my pancreas is going
to get cut in half, giving me two functioning
tumor -covered pancreases. To your one non -fooks.
I wish I wasn't losing that competition for a
variety of reasons, sir. Get well. I just like
the way it was phrased. It was like, ha ha, casual.
I've got two, but here's the rub. Dude, he's
going to come up and beat my ass with the Dark
Souls door shield build. I was going to say,
Colin, that's like a Dark Souls item description,
that message, where it's just like split into
two. It's like, yeah, oh, there's a backstory.
I love it. All right, that's all the donations.
Thank you very much, you guys. That was a lot
of those. I really appreciate it. Right before
we cut back in, I'm going to go grab myself another
drink, because I've been coughing like General
Grievous all day, and this is actually hell.
It's a fine addition to his collection. Yeah,
except the only addition is like... Phlegm, I'm
coughing up. Are you saying to talk amongst ourselves
until you come back? No, I'm just saying I will
be right back. So the Necrons of current... We've
done the basics of the Necrons, but Eli, you've
got a lot of lore pieces that you want to bring
that maybe the uninitiated might not be aware
of. We're going to expand out the story to much
more depth of the lore. Because the Necron lore...
even though it's not necessarily a novel form
it's some of the more interesting parts of all
of warhammer i think many would agree perhaps
two years from now we'll do another necrons episode
and i'll just keep going for two hour prs and
we'll have a five hour necron episode next year
but this will be a fairly comprehensive overview
of the necrons missing a few things i must regret
as i've not read the most recent books and i've
not re -read a few books recently but I've read
pretty much every Necron book, except for the
two new ones. I'm in the middle of one of them.
Yeah, yeah. I think I've read every Necron book
except for like one or two. So going back to
the beginning, 60 million years ago. Now, as
I said before, this was an Egyptian -esque society.
There was very much so a hierarchy. But overall,
the culture of the society, they were obsessed
with death, extremely obsessed with death. Their
short lifespans, obviously. played into this
they lived in tombs literally they were basically
just guests passing by in their short lifespans
now they were more obsessed with legacy and building
and then their actual lives realistically uh
they used cubits and something called cat to
measure i'm not sure how big a cat is or if a
cat is real but a cubit is real uh it's about
this big it's got a tail that goes now okay And
after I go through this overview, I also have
a bunch of bullet points of just facts that I'll
list off for an hour. Maybe not an hour, but
it'll be cool. Ancestor worship was very common.
So was pain. So was the blight, which is what
they called this cancerous issue that they all
have. Every morning upon waking, you go through
this rite. I cannot remember the gosh darn name.
It sounds like asphyxiation, but it's not. But
you go through this rite where you check your
entire body. Is it excruciation? No. It might
be somewhere else in these notes that we might
find later. Every morning, these people go through
this rite and they check their entire body for
tumors and bumps and all that. The inevitable
ones that will eventually show up. Now, as I
said, ancestor worship was very common. They
had a pantheon, but it was not really like...
it was it's kind of not really that big of a
deal to them it mattered it mattered but so did
the ancestors and stuff uh is it the same way
in which it's like there's a norse pantheon where
they're more like grand beings rather than they
actually think they need to they make offerings
but they don't pray every single day yeah they
also treated stars as all powerful beings and
uh they pretty much believe that stars were sentient
well they did believe that stars were sentient
and that uh demons from these stars were causing
most of their problems and not all of their problems
so they had something called the red harvest
which is where uh i guess it's further on my
nose but these things called the the crimson
the crimson something we'll find that name later
came and rounded up people for this uh red harvest
and were these people were to sacrifice to the
stars uh it was kind of just like determined
randomly so tough stuff man is this aztec influence
do you think in some sense i guess maybe a little
maybe a piece in the sun gods with uh ritual
sacrifices yeah maybe so could be these uh these
crimson wardens they're called something like
that we'll find the name again later they were
kind of out of western society they were very
honored people though they were very honored
very very esteemed but they kind of lived by
themselves they were very feared obviously as
they were the royal executioners basically the
royal sacrifices understandably so yeah uh now
even as the necron tier progressed in technology
the commoners were still nothing more than commoners
they lived in mud shacks they did not even have
the same level of sentience as the nobles whose
royal hecka was true and grand. The higher you
go up in nobility, the more divine you are, essentially,
until you're basically that of a god. Not quite,
but basically. Their will is reality. It is called
Heka. Heka is, well, it's divine will. Anything
that a nobility says will become reality. Their
speech... It's the words of reality. There's
like a story of one king in a chariot who rides
up to a castle and he wins an entire war just
by speaking these royal hecka. Is it real? Is
it just myth? Hard to tell because it's Warhammer.
Whatever it is, it's hecka good. They sure believe
in it and they still believe in it to this day.
If a noble says something and it is not seen
in reality, it is up to the commoners and the
servants. to make it so for it is truth it has
just not become true yet a statement filled with
hecka cannot be denied by the galaxy itself and
it is reality hopefully that makes sense so as
they slowly slowly progress in technology it
obviously takes a while but some people most
people do make the most of their lives in achievement
wise it's not really there's no living life there's
no enjoyment in life there's not there's not
much art or music or anything like that Again,
it's mostly about legacy. You're erecting statues.
You're trying to further your people in general,
but there's no passions. There's none of that
really. And every piece of artwork is depicting
death or avatars of death or crypts or dead stuff.
That's where we're going. Yes. Now, the scientists,
though, are generally pretty good. They work
really hard despite their short lifespan. They
work very quickly. And the Necrons, as I said
before, do take the stars in these living metal
ships, these necrodermid ships. Living metal
is a bit of a mysterious substance, but it is
seemingly an organic substance that grows and
just has existed since way back then. It's very
unsure what it really is. It's kind of liquidy,
but it also solids. And yes, it is. Yeah, it's
basically nanomachines. When a Kroot eats an
Ekron, this is some neat lore, when a Kroot eats
an Ekron, the living metal has tiny little microscopic
scarabs, like nanoscarabs, basically, in it,
and the inevitable fate of that Kroot will be
they convulse, and then their stomachs explode
as these nanoscarabs eat through them, and they
have, like, an alien -esque death. Well, that
quite sucks. You know what that reminds me of,
though? Have you ever seen those, like... CGI
videos of like how cells work and there are like
like kind of like cables in your genetic material
that these like little beetle like things scurry
along that pass like materials along and you're
like huh it's like when you look at like the
itty bitty stuff like human organisms there's
like a lot of weird like critters and stuff that
work inside even just like the surface of your
skin has like billions of teeny tiny creatures
that like live on your skin oh yeah there's more
There's more creatures inside your eyelashes
than there is dirt on a toilet seat or something
like that. There's more beings on your hand than
there is in the world's population. You've heard
it here first from the Lore Crimes crew. It's
very toilet themed, considering. There are bugs
under your skin. Get them out. Get them out.
They're cool. They're like little goobies that
just carry stuff. This goes over here and that
goes over there. I don't know if Eli was going
to mention this part. specifically but there
is a thing with nobles how maybe not everyone
knows this in which they even though like the
nobles are completely you know like basically
a peasant isn't it's like an animal to them in
some sense not all of them are wasteful in a
sense they still see peasants as part of society
i don't know if you want to go there's a specific
part in twice dead king isn't it i don't know
if you like mentioned that scene but there is
some indications in which some of them are like
yes they are like peasants but they serve a place
in society and then their life is valuable in
the sense of it is building material yeah for
the grand empire again their sentience is basically
they are there are sentience but the noble sentience
is here uh the commoner sentience is down here
and I mean, how kind of somewhere is it pretty
good? Each commoner has its place in the Necron
tier society, and they are generally just kind
of seen as resources. Now, Dejarus gives a lesson
to Ultix, the character from Twice Dead King,
where he just murders these guys training, like
right in front of Ultix. And he says like this.
like his life led up to this point this was what
he was meant to do these people are fuel for
our fire and you cannot regard them as like real
living people you cannot feel bad for when you
just for when you kill them when you use them
as resources because they are wood for the fire
they are resources to further the glory of the
empire it is a it's an honor to die in such a
way and they that person died so that you could
be taught this lesson hopefully that sums up
what you were trying to say yeah pretty it's
pretty brutal though isn't it and then what kind
of people but but it goes to show you like they
like life is it's valued in a different way in
the sense of you know like you know solaris or
any paradox game version of you know people like
truly are numbers and they are people well that's
slightly different because in paradox games you
need to be a genocidal monster otherwise your
frame rate takes in the end game i'm not killing
you for any superiority reasons i just don't
want to look at a powerpoint and also the the
blight the cancers you know like the nobles are
just as terrified as the commoners about it they
see some scenes with them and they're like i
think it isn't that same book where they see
some of the commoners who are affected by it
and like you know this person is kind of in the
sense that you know the picture like elephant
man it's like quite shocking in the novel yeah
uh anywho back to kind of what i was saying about
nanoscarabs in living metal uh from a crew crew
perspective the story goes as uh this is just
random facts i guess that's kind of the point
of this episode though isn't it uh on the world
of karak a deadly disease had infested the crew
who had attempted to learn the minds and purposes
of their metal enemies those being the necrons
and by the feast these shapers on croc were hard
pressed by the necron onset had feasted upon
the metal flesh of some of their foes only for
their own flesh to be consumed eaten from within
by infestations of nanoscarabs, which then burst
from the hollowed -out bodies of the shapers,
infecting many kin bands. So don't eat necrons
if you're a crew. That crew does try to eat one
in Kazarkin, and he tries to, like, throw it
up and stuff. It's a cool book to read. Okay,
where were we here? Where were we here? Yeah,
yes, here. Necrodermis. It also has the ability
to regrow and regenerate almost instantaneously,
which allows these ships to soar. through space
and repair without any real damages makes it
really easy to put on autopilot and go to sleep
so these people go to sleep for a very long time
for each new plants uh it's also i think worth
mentioning that like the necrons do not have
any connection to the warp they do not have psychos
yeah no it's like they do have some magic shenanigans
all into intelligence all into science like none
into mysticisms like all about like i guess what
the emperor wanted which is like secular society
it's like look where that got the necrons although
i will say do you theorize that's because with
the with sent with psychic power due to it being
linked particularly with sentience a lot of the
time or like heightened emotions the fact that
most of necron society they don't they they crush
their emotions they don't allow it to exist because
of you know they're basically a caste system
i mean the lower ones don't so in a way like
it doesn't come up because they suppress that
part of them so much when they were in flesh
maybe maybe i also wonder like you know no no
necrons are like they don't have ambition beyond
like even their sciences where we need to develop
technologies to escape death And then they escaped
to the sun of their planet. And we're like, Oh
no, the cancer is so bad. It's in our very DNA.
There's no hope. And I wonder if that's also
like a thing of like, why have hope or ambitions
that can feed emotions into the warp when we
know we're doomed anyway. And that's kind of
like a, maybe a factor, but that's just speculation.
Yeah. So anyway, they go to different planets.
Now, unfortunately, even on these other planets,
as I said before, the cancer was just too inlaid
within their genetics. But they did carve a decent
empire and eventually advanced to pretty high
technology. But as I said before, even the commoners
still lived in mud huts. They had circles of
nobility and rank and structure and hierarchy,
with commoners on the outside living in mud,
and then eventually get to the very inside where
it's paradise, the coolest place you've ever
seen. Now, mind you, We don't know how long they
were living in the times of spaceships and stuff
after this. Their lifespan probably increased
by like 20 years, maybe. I'm just kind of guessing.
But I don't know. According to the internet,
I guess a long time ago, I read that this could
go up to like 200 years or more. But their only
comparisons would be the old ones that they would
find. So if you're comparing yourself to a tree,
all of a sudden you're... Whatever, 500 years
of life? Doesn't seem that long. You are always
going to come up short against forever. Yeah.
Yeah. Ah. So now that the empire has spread far
and wide, the dynasties have become very strong,
but word spreads slowly, and there's obviously
people who are far away from the authority of
the Silent King. Silent because the Silent King
does not speak. He speaks through his Treyarch
Praetorians. More on that later, I suppose. This
is not Zarek, we should say. This is not Zarek
at this time. There's a long line of Silent Kings.
Zarek is the last and mightiest, of course. And
to be fair, your reign is like five years. He
had a great reign. He was a long -lived king.
How long did he live? 25? Yeah. It's honestly
very hard to tell how long they live. In the
books where they're describing the time of flesh,
it kind of seems like they live for a decent
amount of time because there's enough time to
have a lot of achievement. And bear in mind,
a Terran year is different from a Necron year
because we don't know how many times their planet
revolves around the sun or how they gauge years
or time. Yeah. In theory, they could all, you
know, they live for thousands of Necron years.
It's like 50. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. It's true.
My roommate is home walking around. I don't know
if you can hear that. Anyway. So Civil War happens
as the influence of the Silent King does not
quite reach the edges of the galaxy. And the
dynasties start to just hate each other. And
intrigue really starts to flow in this time as,
I guess, things have become more comfortable.
Things have become more stable. People are getting
power that they did not have before. And so the
desire for more power grows greatly. And there's
so much nobility who hate each other. So political
intrigue and assassinations and civil war are
rampant throughout the society. Now, the Old
Ones are discovered around this time. The Treyarch
asks the Old One for immortality, and of course,
they say no. So, sorry. Sorry, I gotta check
these notes again. Okay, this is when they fight
the Old Ones as well. The race now bands together.
The Civil War ceases for a bit, and they fight
Zarek's War, is what it's called, against the
Old Ones. And of course, they are completely
obliterated. The dynasties, the empire is shattered,
and the second wars of succession start. Even
worse than the first, it's extremely, extremely
bleak for the Necrons. If things didn't change...
at this point they probably would not have survived
for another like century or so they would have
gone extinct essentially i think also the part
that people may not at least this is some it
may be some theory slash i think this is in the
law which is not everyone might know is which
like the the reason they fought the old one is
prob is most likely a mix of what they feel is
like somewhat betrayal because the old ones are
so amazing and they seed life on planets why
would they not protect them who is lie you know
they are life they also it's jealousy as well
because they i think it's the silent king at
the time if i don't i might be getting this wrong
i don't know who you like but he wanted to unite
basically stop the wars of succession he was
like oh there's actually an enemy we can all
fight together and steal immortality yeah yeah
so they so as actually it wasn't you're thinking
why the necrons do this it was to in a way it
was a diversion to save them quote unquote save
the empire yeah the fall of rome type thing should
we uh should we read some donuts that's a good
point to andy got a few ones from you lovely
boys brothers and sisters thank you so much we
have the crazy daisy remember That's a good name.
Crazy baby. I can't read this one because I can't
read it, literally. I'll do it. I'll say the
name and you say the comment then. Shellaxis
insulin -veined megalomaniacal cock of woe for
10. Wow. Colin, your pancreas works, but your
hairline advances one inch towards your chest
every month. Actually, I'd be getting better
then, wouldn't I? Trimming any hair will revert
your wretched little organ back to non -functional
status. Happy birthday, Hal. Well, that's not
my birthday, but I appreciate it. It's Hal's
birthday now. So, like, what happens when, like,
do I just have, like, hair, but it's just here?
You would grow it into your chest, and you'd
tie it to your chest hair and use it as a harp.
That's what happens. Just like my hair will then
grow farther down, because my hair used to do
that anyways. I miss that, if that's what it
is. Wow. Thank you for the $5. Your name, the
Hedgehog Comet, has given me an idea. Interesting.
Uh -oh. Ominous. Angriest, the silliest clown.
You've got a hurt voice. I'll do it. Mine's just
recovered from October. It's not running away.
It's Fabian tactics. And if I do not have 70
plus percent odds of victory, I do not fight.
Glory to the Confederacy. Quick question from
Karsten C for the 5CA. Is everyone going to do
an iceberg for Battletech, i .e. Colin ranting
about his debilitating fear of the Black Marauder?
I'm sure that'll be a slap I sit down. The mech
is hungry. I'm sure that'll be a slap I sit down
eventually, I would assume. Yeah, one day. One
day. Delta Crafter for 100 arse. Thank you very
much. You guys made a guy all the way from Argentina
become a law criminal. Be so proud that your
hairline go even more up. Just kidding. Love
you guys. Keep up the good work. Thank you, man.
Thank you. Cool picture as well. Danger Tickle
for 100 SEK. Got a third edition Necron Codex
and got inspired by old paint schemes. Space
Wolf Grey and Gloss Varnish for a porcelain look.
That's actually quite cool. You guys prefer Metalchrons
or other materials? I love Metal. I love Metal,
man. Do you mean like for painting? He means
like the paint scheme. Oh, yeah. That's why Necrons
are the best army because you can paint them.
So fast and so easy. It's so splendid. Hello
to Necron. Eli's for the visual. Eli was showing
a bit of his codex there. But I would say...
That sounds like a euphemism. Eli's in the chat
showing off his codex. He's got his codex out.
He's got his codex out. This is one of my favorite
pictures in Warhammer probably. That's the Nightbringer.
He's pulling his book out. The video one, the
old school Nightbringer picture is so cool. I
mean, Metal Necron, I mean, it's Terminator,
right? It looks like the T -I -whatever shit.
Shout out to my friend Matt, who's repainting
his entire Necron army in white. It'll be three
years. Evil. It's not evil. It's good. Your necrons
have limescale. What's going on? Eli Wen Jim
Rat Skaven Tank. I actually messaged the artist
after you sent that message and he's working
on it. He'll probably take a long time because
he's busy, but I have told him about it. Persuasive
wink. Wow, thank you for the $10. I listen to
Eli's hate speeches from the BL10 vs. episode
every morning to get ready for the day. Love
your lore deep dives, good sir. May Colin's betrayal
never be forgotten. Wow. Wow. Which one? That's
a crazy motivational morning. What was my betrayal?
Donkey Man USA, my resident boy. Five bucks,
gotta go. It's deer camp, baby. Have fun. Is
my man gonna hunt Bambi? Bambi deserved it. Thank
you. Thank you for the fives, you know. I like
the main arc dynasty, Eli. Do you feel twice
a king has retconned them somewhat? I will confess
I have not read the Imperial Armor books. That's
one of the few books I've not read and one of
the things that is next on my list. So sadly,
I don't know. But I know that they're like, I
know they're cool. They have a couple of cool
characters and they're very violent and like
to kill things a lot. imperial armor you can
get in the warhammer vault so if any of you have
warhammer tv remember there's a lot of good resources
in the vault like you get all the imperial armor
books you get a bunch of codex it's not all of
them strangely and typically the other month
they were like we've got some new space marine
chapters i'm like all right let's have a look
and they've been delaying releasing that on the
vault Put it on Vault so I can make videos on
them. We need more Space Marine chapters. We
need more. We need five more chapters. I need
a chapter known for their brutal and cunning
strategy. Ah, not to worry. I believe I have
room to speak for this one. Eli's most excessively
hung Bretonnian stable boy, the 27 SDK. colonie
baloney we need the tes race discussion no one
no one wants to invite me to the elder scrolls
race theory discussion it's not the scrolls race
tier list when i do it at the top those filthy
bretton you know they're uh they're like somewhere
in d tier and everyone else is done i will say
no dunmer's f tier for uh they're right next
to the argonians who are also in the f tier I
was getting a message from my brother, like,
Christmas ideas, Christmas ideas, and I went
on Starforge and they have the brooches, and
I did look at the Bretonnian ones, and there
was a cool one, and I was like, don't give a
whiff about Bretonnian, but I'm like, that's
a cool shield thingy. They can still look cool.
They got the drip. But, uh, no, no, the F in
the Elder Scrolls tier list stands for farming
tools where the Argonians belong. That's crazy.
This sounds exactly something like... Yeah, but
even John Murr needed to go. Filthy fucking Murr.
Oh, sorry. Pellinol always tracks the hero in
this house. He did one thing wrong and that was
not finishing it. He should have been like, Pellinol,
you mind telling me what you're doing on that
caravan? Can we get a shout -out to the... fan
more sympathizers can get it on site from colin
that's right that's right uh shout out to the
paranormal animation i'm sure we've all seen
it i like the part where he kills all the khajiit
and garfield is there yep okay anyways back to
the neck ones uh so what we just said the second
wars of succession are currently going on the
necrons are going to go extinct it looks like
but The Silent King is... I'm going to have somebody
in my eyeball. The Silent King and his scientists,
slash cryptex at this time probably, discover
some weird anomaly things eating stars. And these
are the Catan. The Silent King, through two of
the Treyarch, makes contact with these Catan,
which are gaseous animalistic beings, which are
given intelligence... through their necrodermis
bodies at least it seems um it's kind of hard
to tell before they were in these necrodermis
bodies they were kind of just like forces of
nature almost kind of like bit like not really
sentient it's there's not a lot of explanation
on it the idea of like their sentence is the
hunger is the only thing they feel isn't it yeah
they don't they don't quite have things more
complicated than that Now, these cheeky guys,
when given the bodies of the Necron tier, sorry,
the bodies of Necrodermis, they took on the forms
of the old Necron pantheon of gods, kind of further
playing into their godhood stuff. Now, the Catan
are as follows. Potentate. Zarhulash sounds like
a dish. It's great. Zarhulash. Yeah, I quite
like that. Landegore player. Zara Noga, the Outsider.
Ugranya, the World Shaper. Bless you. Blue Shudra,
the Endless Swarm. Ogriada, the Arisen. Yeah,
okay. And that's it. Kind of just goes together
one by one, I guess. Azogarad is basically the
Grim Reaper. In fact, he's literally the Grim
Reaper. The Grim Reaper and other forms of death
exist because of Azaghrad, the Nightburner. He
is death incarnate. He is death itself. The edgiest
you can really get of these guys. He is what
haunts mortal beings in their nightmares. He
is the shadows and the scary monsters that are
under their bed. He is literally the concept
of death as a being. Bro wants to be Batman so
badly. Where are you, King of the Dwarves? Would
you do this, Eric? Where is he? Where is he?
Where's the Silent King? My dad was named Neoth,
too. Okay. My mommy's name is Marfer. My mommy.
The Deceiver, who, by the way, did not go by
the name of the Deceiver when he talked to the
Silent King, for he was the first one to make
contact and speak with the Silent King. He was
the one to strike the deal with the Necronteer
people, to fight the Old Ones, to claim immortality,
to unite his people. He is the Master of Illusion,
the Master of Trickery, basically like a Loki
-esque being, has a lot of power over reality
itself. Megalodroth, the Void Dragon, the most
recent model of New Catan. Most recent isn't
like years ago. We haven't got another one, unfortunately.
Even though Neadrazath is still kicking around.
But the Void Dragon is perhaps, maybe, just maybe,
the original Omnissiah. Oh, he's definitely the
Omnissiah. Come on. Come on. Probably. Come on.
Maybe not anymore. Maybe not anymore. Once the
Emperor came, he kind of, he took the place of
the Omnissiah in theory. Boo, even worse. But
the Void Dragon is pretty much the Omnissiah.
And it's maybe a full Catan. It can't really
be, can it? They have something very suspicious
in Mars. That is the Void Dragon. I guess, yeah,
it's not a full Catan. We have the Catan shards
of it now. So maybe, oh, it could still be. I
don't know. I don't know. We don't know. But
potentially a shard or the actual thing is in
Mars. The book Mechanicum or Mechanicus, whatever
it's called, they meet it. And there's like this
weird sect of guardians who watch over the Void
Dragon's tomb. It has literally been... years
since i've read this book so like horace heresy
bros step in whenever you want um no you didn't
he's in all right yeah colin colin immediately
signals like nah i think colin is doing some
kind of like hex to try and do that reason i'm
afraid i'm out uh colin's doing like a problem
grabbing the crucifix and being like there's
potentially the the emperor potentially fought
the katan uh of void dragon probably it's a shard
probably uh it's all very vague but the the emperor
had like a dragon slayer excalibur sword guy
moment and bought this thing on Mars, I guess,
and banished it to the crevices. It's like that
one painting that's mentioned in one of those
fucking books. It's like Saint Michael beating
the serpent. We gotta make more bad comparisons.
Look, the Emperor's Jesus. He's clearly not.
I do like that comic strip, though, of just,
like, the Emperor on a big horse riding up, and
it's like... I have seen that. Come on, bitch.
Bring it, motherfucker. Emperor moment right
there. this katana is like technology is almost
like it's dna isn't it it's like it's it's this
is integrated completely with the great the the
the uh golden age of technology can perhaps be
attributed to the void dragon as it shared its
secrets with the then cult of mars maybe maybe
confirmation about stuff like this but it has
like it mentions this in books and there's um
there is a weird exchange where in the iron hands
uh book for card and strenuous things i have
medusa he's roaming mars when he's training as
a tech marine and he stumbles upon what can only
be described as cerberus from mythology and it
gives him guidance to like sort out his problem
in that book and i was like what the fuck it
was just such a weird departure from the book
it's like there's like a weird monster that's
roaming mars and it's like a three -headed dog
thingy i'm like what and i think that maybe is
like connected somehow how did that get here
huh and it's like part of their like mythology
of ferris malice where they've made like texts
where it's like he's pulled he met him once when
he was young like huh huh maybe the neck one
but yes uh the void dragon has master technology
it is Maglideroth that taught the Necrons how
to make a lot of their technology, which is the
best in the galaxy. We have Nefron, who I missed,
I guess, in this first reading, this fire or
flame. He's some random guy, I guess. Neanderthal
is the burning one. He's fire. He's all the fire.
That's his thing. He's the fire guy. He always
has to be a fire guy. He is destruction incarnate.
Obsessed with destruction and suffering and like...
causing anguish and pain he is the guy who helped
the necrons create the dolman gates more a little
bit more a little bit more on those later oh
fun fact guernsey has a dolman okay jersey would
have a dolman there's anyone in the world to
have one of these freaking things it'd be guernsey
we got he he lets them in to uh the webway that
was the biggest advantage that the Old Ones and
the Eldar had was using the webway, which allowed
you to traverse literal armies across the breadth
of the galaxy in, if not moments, days, hours,
weeks, regardless. It was a safe way to traverse
the galaxy. It's what the Emperor was trying
to get into and not telling his sons about. Very
important. Still around today. Dolmen gets still
around today. And Neadrazatha taught them how
to do this, to get in there. This was kind of
the turning point of the War in Heaven, when
they were able to get into the webway, and Neadrazatha
was able to spread his flames into the webway,
searing the Old Ones and the Eldar to a crisp.
It is said that all the Catan asked for payment
for their knowledge that they gave the Necrons,
except for Neadrazatha, for the screams and pain
of the Old Ones and their children was enough
payment for him. Jotty fire burning on the dance
floor. I'd say after the first three mentioned.
In fact, he might even be more. Neanderthal has
a lot of mention in 40k lore in general. He's
generally like the go -to generic Catan shard
that often gets seen either as a battery or as
a weapon. Anarkir the Traveler uses one to help
the Blood Angels. It's always cool. It'd be nice
to have a model for him, but one can dream. One
can dream. We have Zarhulash, the potentate.
It's very nice with a side of, you know, salad.
Lovely dish. Bro's literally the potato. I'm
thinking of, like, goulash. It's like, goulash?
Sounds like goulash. A shard of Zahu Lash, the
potentate, was used to power one of the ancient
Necron warp beacons known as the Theros. Little
thing there. I've not read that Horus Heresy
book. If that counts as a Necron book, I haven't
read it. But needs to have. Is there anything
important to mention there? in the meantime i
guess maybe all that we should i should i guess
they're like oh bear in mind this is in the horror
service where the rift storm is causing problems
where gilliman's making a second empire in case
the previous one falls so faros device slash
sofa is really useful because uh barabas dantioch
the the goat from the iron warriors does like
some experiments. He's like, oh, we can teleport
things instantaneously across the galaxy. That's
really useful. If we want to like, or at least
before the rifts, the ruin storm, we can use
this for logistics. And Gilliman's like, did
somebody say logistics? That's my favorite thing.
And then the, the night Lords have to run it
for everyone. But it's very useful and they don't
know it's a Necron thing. Really? until belisarius
calls book the great work i think it is where
he goes back to sofa when it's like been ravaged
by tyranids and he has some cives with him and
they're like it sucks i like this place i grew
up here this is where we're from it's like shut
up i'm looking at stuff it also might be like
the the device on sofa which is like mountain
size which is say the interesting thing about
it is that it self -repairs so usually like you
know a mountain or building tectonic plates move
over millions of years but necron buildings were
designed to literally more they self -repair
themselves kind of like how you know romans have
like their sort of concrete that's lasted for
thousands of years necron technology is they
designed their buildings in a way in which they
would last for millions of years because that's
why necron tombs have not you know later on when
they go to sleep you know and there's also years
It does outlast the Tyranid invasion from Highfleet
Kraken, where it picks clean all life. But the
Pharos device, the sofa device, doesn't get destroyed.
And it's like, yeah, because he's under the mountain.
Then Belisarius crunks Katarn. He's just like,
get out of here, loser. It's not a particularly
big shard, we should say. It's not a particularly
big shard there. How big's your Catan shard,
Hal? Eight inches. Which one does Mr. Uriel Ventress
fight? Oh, Kato is the Carrier. It's just Kato.
It's not Uriel Ventress. No, I'm Uriel Ventress.
Does he? Well, it's supposedly the Nightbringer,
supposedly. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was Kato against
the Nightbringer. Well, there is in Uriel's book,
he has like a... But it's not him that takes
it down, is it? Or Mephiston does some stuff
with Catan. Everyone gets a Catan now and then.
But usually it's a bit of a Catan. It's not a
real one. Yeah, it's not an actual poppy shard.
Okay. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, where was I? Just the
other Catan. I guess there's Kalugra, Master
of Destruction. There's this guy in the Spiral
Flame, even though Niazra Zathra already does
both of those things. I'm not really sure. There's
not really any lore on these things. Landegore,
another one of the most important ones, who is
the Flayer. He's the only destroyed Catan Shard.
He was probably, after the Nightbringer, definitely
the scariest one. There is another one, but we'll
get to that later. True. I suppose. True. Maybe.
He was destroyed, though. I guess this is kind
of jumping in a little bit forward in time. But
after the War in Heaven, Landgor was destroyed.
And this messed up reality. He released a curse.
Landgor's curse, which is the Flare Virus. We
can talk about that later, I think. Sara Noga,
the Outsider, was tricked by Kegorak. to eat
the other Catan and went insane. He causes madness
and sewer slide wherever it goes and it's trapped
in a Dyson sphere beneath the galactic plane.
That'd be cool if DW brought that guy out. How
do you convince your bro to eat your bro? That's
kind of crazy. He's looking like a snack. Kegorax
got the speech 100 or whatever. I know. Could
you eat any of us if pushed? I think it's more
likely we should eat Eli, because he's the smallest.
I got some protein goals to get to. A god was
involved in this chicanery, alright? Don't be
too hard on him, you know? And the god of trickery.
Yeah, the god of being a funny little guy. But
then he was like, was he talking to the god of
snacking? Like, what's this about? The god of
snacking, my lord and savior. Okay, then the
other guys don't really matter. Ygranya, the
World Shaper, Lashudra, the Endless Worm, Ogdreda,
the Arisen. That's that. There's a little portion
in the Necron Codex of an Eldar talking about
them. That's pretty much all the lore you're
going to get for most of these guys, which is
mostly just mentioning their names. To be fair,
I kind of like that they're kind of mysterious,
similar to the Lost Primarchs and some things
we don't need. Extra detail on Lee. Mysterious
and weird. I would really like to see more shards
in the game, though. That'd be really cool. At
least give us Neanderthal, because he is still
an active thing and is around all the time. So
that would be nice. Okay, so back to the timeline,
I guess. Mephrith ran the Deceiver. It talks
about the old enemies of the old ones, how they
were in a scrap once, and that supposedly, allegedly,
the Catan were in such a primal state because
the old ones kind of seized on them and beat
them up. Supposedly. All of this stuff, you don't
know. It's literally coming out of the mouth
of the guy who's named Deceiver, so I'm not sure
if any of this is true. I'm of the opinion the
Catan are lying. Because they went from a state
of they're just pure hunger to when the Necron
tier gave them bodies, they start to awaken sentience.
And when they awaken sentience, they aren't good
beings at all. So therefore, when they want to
eat more, they need an excuse. And what unites
people more than an enemy? A common enemy, isn't
it? So I think they probably never even... came
across the old ones at all before. The old ones
saw them before, they just left them alone because
they valued life. I think... Go ahead, Colin.
I wish that possibility was more discussed in
lore, that someone is just simply in an instance
full of shit. Yeah. I hate to tell you it's like
Zeech fans. I'm like, I'm sorry. He might be
lying on some things. In my opinion, this is
all... just random theory but like the chaos
gods are conglomerations of emotions and things
in reality made into form supposedly the katana
are potentially actual forces of said thing from
reality like uh as a grad is the concept and
the force that is entropy and death uh the deceiver
is literally like deception and illusion and
all of that stuff And so on. In theory, they
might be like the actual forces of the literal
universe that are the physics and stuff of the
universe. There's nothing to really back that
up. I'm just saying stuff. And I think that might
be true. So, we can talk a little bit more than
donations. The receiver talks about the stuff
and he says, I know how to make you immortal
and it'll be great and we're going to beat the
old ones together. So, The Silent King says,
yeah, sure, or his triarchs say, yeah, sure.
And he offers all dynasties amnesty if they end
all civil war activities and join the new cause.
So they then become the Necrons. Biotransference
is shown to the Necrons. They are taught how
to create these giant horrific factories that...
People are forced into. No one gets to avoid
biotransference. It is the royal decree of Sarek
himself. Everyone is forced to go through this.
Some are, Dre, kicking and screaming. People
are hiding. You can't avoid it. And to be fair,
some people are like, what else have I got to
lose? Like, I know in Twice Dead King, there's
an account of people with stretchers of dying
people running towards them, and then they're
like, he's dead, keep going, drop the thing,
and the other ones are like, he's still got a
minute left. There are people who literally die
on the way to biotransference, which, by the
way, is a better fate than what is going to happen
to them at the end of the day. Is there an afterlife
for Necrons? Who knows? The warp isn't really
a thing. I mean, it is. The warp is really chill
at this point. Well, there's no loss of life
for Tau, because Tau don't... In theory. There's
no proof. There's really no proof for it. Well,
they're just kind of dim. Yeah, but dim doesn't
mean they don't exist. They still have souls.
It doesn't mean they've got small souls. How
big is your soul? It's this big. It's this big.
I think it's most likely that there wasn't enough
coalescence to create dark warp entities such
as the Chaos Gods, which therefore would swallow
up or devour other good things in the universe.
I would say there's an also cool bit of lore
maybe some people don't know. I think this is
correct. The Old Ones imprisoned all the Necrontyr
back to their original home world, I think, or
their home system. So when this was happening...
all the dynasties are like cramped back onto
the place where they basically end up dying because
of their horrible son so they're they're very
desperate and slash then again they do go through
a great wealth transfer every decade like come
on guys it's not that bad i can't afford a house
you can afford a house come on down you're like
they're great empire i think it's I know they
were kicked back to a corner of the galaxy. I'm
not sure if it was their whole system. It wouldn't
really make much sense unless most of their society
was wiped out because they wouldn't fit on one
system. I think it's mostly their system. They're
not going to have faster than light travel, are
they? So it's like they're going to be hibernating
anyway to get anywhere. So maybe it's just like
it's impractical to expand too far from our means.
I do know that the old ones basically punished
the Necron tier for their actions. Yes, they
were very brutal. Yeah, they wouldn't wipe them
out because they do value life, but they utterly
outmaneuvered and outmagicked them and outobliterated
them, and they were punished. So that's why they
particularly hated the old ones even more now.
So biotransference is going up. We'll get to
the war in heaven, and then we will do some donations.
Biotransference, these... I don't even know how
long. Your entire... society is lined up to get
in this factory you're probably waiting if not
days like weeks maybe even months oh some of
these people people literally die on the way
there so it's probably a lot a long time of waiting
it's billions of billions isn't it of people
like yeah there's there's multiple factories
like there's not just one factory for the entire
civilization but there's you get the idea but
in these factories it's not really no one knows
what it looks like in these but The fires of
biotransference strip away their flesh and their
bones and their organs, and they replace everything
with these living metal bodies, which do have
their own physiology and anatomy, if you could
even call it that, which we'll get into later.
And the Catan were above all of this, feasting
on the souls of all of the Necron people. So
during this time, every last Necron tier died.
There will never, ever be a new Necron. There
will never be Necron tier children. ever again
and in theory most if not all of them lost their
souls and were replaced by these um clones essentially
these digital clones kind of but yeah they're
not they're not the real like say we talk about
characters like treason or zarak other ones they're
they're actually dead i in theory it's like an
imprint of them on it it's hard to say some of
the characters the lore is a bit inconsistent
some of the characters have very soul -like personality
and quality traits potentially in theory you
one could say that maybe the nobility kept their
souls or at least had a piece of their soul yeah
into the necrodermis into their body somehow
but all of the commoners all of them definitely
100%, all of their souls were consumed by the
Catan. So if there was an afterlife, they're
not going there. This is also probably going
to make me sound insane, but sometimes with stuff
like blanks, Warhammer seems to imply that you
don't need a soul to live. It's optional. Andy
desktop. But also, there is also the thing of
when I watched the Pariah Nexus thing, and it
was... about a uh the sniper class what they
called the death marks death mark he's talking
to um the the mad genius guy what's his name
not saarek do you have two doctors and he's all
like you will go and shoot these people and he's
like um you're kind of stupid i am not stupid
and he uses words like believe and he uses like
quasi terms and he's corrected by him he's like
you will not utter those words in my presence
so like obviously he has like a brain and a mind
still or not brain but a mind a consciousness
but it's maybe it's like an ascending scale of
like if it's just like a necron gauss rifle wielding
warrior nothing yeah and then death marks it's
like you get enough sentience to do your job
and then you have no ambitions or anything and
there's also command codes it's a whole other
kettle of fish Command protocols. Yeah, it's
really hard to say. But essentially, as you go
up in ranks of hierarchy, the more sentience,
maybe even the more soul you have. Warhammer
has also shown us that souls can be split into
multiple pieces. So, like, I don't know, man.
I don't know. Whose soul is scattered through
time, as Tagutayusu guy said. He's like, oh,
it's not just here, it's everywhere. That's why
he's saying a roast. An entire species, an entire
species of like a galactic empire that once was,
is turned into Necrons. And each one of these
things is now become a killing machine warrior
or better. So like there's probably trillions,
if not quadrillions or more Necrons that exist.
Even the babies, it's crazy. And they're all
these soulless killing machines. It's like if
you took... every single person on planet Earth,
whatever amount of people, and turned every single
one of them into a immortal, nearly indestructible
super soldier, that would be enough to take over
a ton. But now you have an entire galactic civilization
of manpower. You create an entire species into
manpower. It's hard to really explain how insane
that is. It's Warhammer, so they don't understand
numbers at all, but it's literally an unfathomable
army size, which then plays into how the War
in Heaven is so insane. As these legions of people
march out of biotransference and their personality
and souls are stripped away and feasted on by
the Catan, they are all marked by the Ankh of
the Triarch. And they are also marked by the
Dynasty's symbol, but only the highest nobles
may bear the full symbol, with other Necrons
bearing only parts. With warriors... And sometimes
Immortals being seen as shadow and not worth
marking at all. Vehicles are marked. And I mean,
random fact here, I guess Doomsday Arc is a subtype.
A Doomsday Arc driver is a subtype of a Lord
that's in the notes right here for whatever reason.
Okay. I guess that's... There's a little bit
more. There's a little bit more. These notes
feel a little weird to word, but it's okay. So
now when an Ekron dies... Their algorithmic consciousness
goes back to storage banks, which are in a tomb
world or a tomb ship, depending on where they
are. And they are then remade again, hence these
reanimation protocols. And even if you kill a
Necron completely eradicated, their consciousness
still exists as long as they have access to something
called the interstices, which is kind of a space
between reality. It's like a digital space, more
or less. So as long as they have access to the
interstices... Whenever you kill an Ekron, they'll
simply phase out. Their body, whatever remains
of it, will go back to the tomb, to the tomb
ship, to the tomb world. And their consciousness
will go back to the databanks, and they will
eventually be made again. So unless you get really
lucky on the 1 % chance and completely obliterate
them, every time you kill an Ekron, they're probably
coming back. Now, mind you, every time this happens,
they do lose a tiny little shred of who they
are, of their personality, of their function.
So this eventually does ride you away into nothing.
Okay. Now I guess we would be in the war in heaven
so we can read some more donations. Yeah, let's
go through some donors, guys. My God, there's
a lot of Necron law. I forget. What do we got?
Antonio Ranzifer, 20 bucks. Jeez, thank you so
much, man. The Necrons have the Dark Reaper while
in Fancyland we have a Rat God and his Sidious
Prophet. Kill the Orange Dwarves. Also, Dark
Reapers are an aspect path. Thank you. And Seth
SM. Thank you for becoming a YouTube member.
Thank you very much. Cheers, man. Thank you so
much. Maybe we'll do another battle report next
week if we get time. It's a big fish. It is a
big fish. I wonder if that's... Is that your
big fish in your PFP? Probably. There's one for
Eli here. You made that name up. Zun... Bakia.
Bakia. Let me see. The Mother of Oblivion. Okay,
again. Again. This is... I think this is the
Imperial Armor stuff. This is the Imperial Armor
lore. I'm sorry. I haven't read that Imperial
Armor book. I would say yes. If Badab War is
still canon, this is still canon. I don't think
they have recorded the entire book. Thank you,
Namius Chomsky, for the two euros. I'm sorry
that I haven't read that. Embarrassing, I know.
Fun fact, I was listening to Jordan Sorcery's
stuff with him and Peachy, and Peachy was saying
about, I can't remember his name, but there was
an Andy, because of course it was an Andy. who
worked at Games Workshop and was the first to
paint orcs green. And apparently since he painted
them green, it became the standard. And now you
have him to thank for World of Warcraft orcs
and just orcs in general being green. It's like,
it's that guy. Because he used to be like Isengardi.
Can you imagine like a Caucasian army of orcs
with a bunch of naked dudes running around? They
just used to be like very Tolkien -like. Okay,
like orange and icky, gross. And gritty, yeah,
yeah. And there's like green. Eli's most excessively
hung Bretonnian stable boy, the 20 SEK, thank
you brother. Amtora was promised Tamriel 4000
years ago. I don't remember this specific lore.
It's a reference to Mora. Sorry, it's at Mora.
I apologise. Kill them all. No more Murr. Is
Atmor the home of the Nords? That's not how it
works. Colin, is Atmor where the Nords come from?
I would assume so. You've got those A10s to answer.
Stormcast in the chat. Kill him! Kill him! Kill
him! Noemius Chomsky. Thank you for the five.
Zarek the Goat. Eli and Colin, how do you think
the Imhotep vs. Silent King will play out? Will
it even happen? Will Colin and Bobby G get involved?
I need to read those two most recent books, unfortunately.
I think it shouldn't happen at all. I think a
Necron Civil War would be dumb and stupid, and
both of those characters are way too smart to
do something like that. And their goals are more
or less aligned to still unite the dynasties
and secure victory for the Necrons. So I really
hate the idea of a Necron Civil War, especially
with two of the smartest, most advanced characters
in the setting. So hopefully it doesn't happen.
But maybe they don't want the other one to lead.
that's the whole thing i'm just saying as someone
who's done a video on both the characters who
are the premier characters and they're like 10
minutes long can we just have like a book about
just them doing stuff yeah the problem is that
the problem with emo tech is he's kind of just
like the big big bad evil guy there's not a lot
more to he's just really good at fighting and
strategy could you imagine a a war in heaven
book where it's when they're still flesh and
bone that'd be cool and it's immotech as the
pov and it's all about how He and Sarek are having
their loggerheads, and then there's the biotransference,
and then there's the whole clash of conscience
of, like, I've been fighting for so long, and
was it worth it? Now look at our people. You
could make a good book out of that, but... Yeah.
Perfect Orb. You are perfect. Sup, you spicy
metal menaces. Have you heard the theory? that
the tyranid hive mind is the qatar known as the
hungry swarm ps read worm by wild bow that'd
be cool i have not that's a cool theory but um
unlikely things happened like we have a a nurgle
infested genesty of the cult that's kind of cool
as a gimmick maybe it's but the only thing is
they're like bio and you've got metal like how
does that work that's the only sticking point
i can see also with i think it conflicts with
current law in terms like zarek We'll go into
his stuff. He finds the Tyranids later outside
the galaxy. Do you think Bro just blew around
in space on his chair? Maybe. In the words of
the Silent King, it kind of implies that. That
he was just flying around in his chair. He has
this massive dreadnought -sized... spaceship
would literally drop. True. I guess that's also
in that short story. The big obelisk thing. Here's
the thing. You said about the Necrons are the
oldest species. Maybe the Tyranids are older.
Because if they've conquered the universe, apart
from Milky Way, maybe the Hivemind's older than
the Necron species. I don't know. We'll see.
Or maybe the endless swarm guy left the galaxy
and made it here and it's elsewhere. Tom Warren
for two bucks. I have completed the hedgehogging.
Is this something in the Discord? Probably. Methinks.
Yep, yep, it is. Nice. That Eli the Hedgehog
is actually my Steam PFP. Oh my gosh. StephMM.
Has commented about the fish. Called a large
mouth nungi. Tasty fish. That looks like a nice
tasty fish. I've never tried one. Hell yeah.
That's cool stuff. Very cool. Nice. Thank you
guys. Thank you so much. Thank you very much.
We do really appreciate it. And you make it possible
for us to do these. These goofy little streams.
Oh, my gosh. We're on page three. Okay. You're
not going to be able to do all of it. Okay. Rick,
okay. All right. It's the war in heaven time.
It's the war in heaven time, everybody. The most
exciting battle in 40K that we know nothing about.
As we said before, the war in heaven is where
the Necrons gear up. They take this unbelievable
technology, literally like... reality bending
technology it's not magic but it might as well
be called magic it abuses physics to a degree
we cannot even understand they have incredible
unbelievable technology they have we have cryptex
now who've been learned like who've learned these
sorcery it's basically sorcery but it's math
it's math sorcery where they bend physics and
they bend time and they yeah they mess with literal
reality to make things happen I like science.
That's the power of math. And they already had
very powerful technology, but the diabetes needs
to be mastered as well, apparently, because it's
been shout to us. Let me just step right in.
The Catan, fast forward to this, propelled this
to an unbelievable degree. They march to war.
They fight the old ones. Goes pretty well. It's
a tough time at first until Neanderthal again
shows them how to get into the webway. And then
that is kind of the tipping point of the war.
Now this war is like, literally, as I said before,
it's unbelievable. There's nothing in our imagination
can come up with what really happened in this
war. Stars are literally thrown at each other
to use as ammunition for weapons. Like entire
planets are destroyed daily. Millions and millions
of people. Their lives are spent on the daily.
Again, this is a battle of trillions, maybe quadrillions
of soldiers and reality shattering weapons. And
again, it's so unbelievably insane that it creates
the chaos gods. So the theory goes, barely even
theory at this point is pretty much confirmed.
The stuff with the enslavers happens as well,
I guess. That is also after the war in heaven,
right? Yeah, they're kind of during, isn't it?
A little bit. It's like the closing acts. Yeah,
sure. Now, the Catan in this time are feasting
on... Trillions of souls. And are swelling and
becoming. Unbelievably powerful. Like literal
gods of reality. Strong enough to destroy the
old ones. To beat the old ones. And of course
beat the old ones they do. They destroy the Eldar.
They destroy the Quark. The Eldar are left a
little bit better than everyone else. I would
say and assume. And after this. As we said. In
the Catan's kind of time of. I guess you could
say they could be fragile. This time after the.
time and they're feasting, yadda yadda. Zarek,
realizing the mistake that he made and that the
Catan deceived them and tricked them and brought
about the worst fate they could have possibly
had, he would have rather his people have just
died out than what has happened to them now.
He decides that we're going to kill the Necrons.
I mean the Catan, sorry. They do kill the Catan.
They shatter them, as we said, because they cannot
really be destroyed. Landigore is destroyed and
it releases the Flare Virus. upon the Necrons,
which I don't think they really know about until
they start waking up. I'm not sure. That could
be wrong. Although, from what I've seen with
my... the section I've been covering, one of
the characters is aware of the Flare Virus after
they've just woke up because their Farons slumber,
and he's like, I hope he doesn't have the Flare
Virus! That would suck! Ugh! And... I'm just
saying. Okay, so we win. We win. The dynasties
are a bit weakened from this crazy fight with
the Catan. It's another reality -bending, crazy,
wacky fight. We should say they utilize weapons
to break the Catan, which they basically deem
that it's almost not worth ever having them again,
because it... Again, like it ruins the universe
to do this. They're so powerful at this point
that they get rid of a lot of their technology
because it is so unbelievably destructive. I've
heard a theory that the ghoul stars is their
fault. Like that's why that particular area of
space is so messed up. It's like, that's their
fault because they shoot one weapon. I can't
remember what it is. And it like fragments reality
itself. And it's all goes wibbly wobbly. And
they're like, let's not do. that again that's
i did have a theory yeah i think how they did
it which is the uh what's the um there's that
series where um the aliens are like trying to
take over planet earth but like a few hundred
years away so then the humans have to battle
them through their own mind because they found
out humans can lie i can't remember it's uh oh
is that uh there's something problem the um the
something something problem I don't know what
that is. I feel like I know what you're talking
about. Yeah. It's people in the chat might have
to, or people who are listening live might have
to help me out for this one, but it was, there's
something, something problem, but then it ends
up in that series though. It ends up basically
being, there's like a whole theory about if you
let other aliens know you exist on a certain
level. they basically destroy others the three
body problem that's it they destroy other civilizations
uh it's called like it's called the dark universe
theory or something dark forest theory we don't
know of any aliens because they blow up all the
ones who oh yeah the power the moment you broadcast
your presence five million rods from god no there's
the part i was getting to was like there's a
bit in it where like really late in the series
they have the the basically getting spotted by
other aliens means they use dimension weapons
and they basically see earth and like our home
system gets collapsed into like a second dimension
and then that's what kills everyone so i wonder
if they have something like that where like it
is like dimension ruining weapons like obviously
would shatter a being such as the katan cool
stuff that uh thing yeah dark forest really good
series by the way really really good series dark
forest theory Cool. Very cool. These Catan shards
are basically sources of limitless energy. They
are reduced to... not really reduced. They're
used as batteries now. They are literally enslaved
to the will of the Necrons. And they're basically
just mini versions of Catan. They're necrodermists.
They're very powerful. They still have a lot
of the powers that the Catan have, just in a
much more contained manner. And they are controllable.
Sometimes, unless they're left alone and forgotten
about, then I guess they kind of just... can't
be controlled like in the infinite in the divine
book the deceiver shard is left to its whims
and is still a complete troll and goober there's
a deceiver shard that uh pretends to be alfarius
in a book that i haven't read that andy has read
i think oh it's good like so so it's sons of
the hydra it's a bunch of alpha legionaries who
are loyal to the emperor none of them are true
alpha legionaries they're like captured from
other chapters and made into, there's like a
Night Lord or a Byler, et cetera, blah, blah,
blah. But they are given information by a crypt
tech who works with the Alpha Legion. And then
they betray their overlord, the Angel Bane. And
long story short, they do this whole rigmarole
of things for this Necron crypt tech. And then
the guy in charge, Occam is like, you will take
me to who I think is Alpharius or I'm going to
kill you. And they find him in like the center
of the galactic core on the space station. And
it's how far is, but say, no, it's a Catan shot.
And you're like, Oh no. And then all the awful
Legionary guys are like, well, that's my dad.
It's like, he's not your dad. That's it. Oh my
God. Isn't it? Well, they think it's, but it's
like, and it's like, the Catan, and then Occam's
like, we need to kill this Xenos bitch, he betrayed
us! And then they blow up the space station,
and it's like, oh, we had a tease of a Primarch,
and it wasn't real, it was a Catan shard. You
cheeky boys! Stop being cheeky boys! It's a very
good book, I'd highly suggest it. It might also
suggest under the law that the prisons slash
containments for Catan shards are not always
perfect. So they're still able to somewhat manipulate
things outside of their prison. Not necessarily
the Necrons all the time. I do think it is a
shard of the Deceiver, to be fair, that deceived
the Alpha Legion. It was like, that tracks. That
tracks. Yeah. Where was I? This is the time when
we go to sleep. Orkin the Diviner and other such
chronomancers or divin... chronomancers is what
they're called. They have divination powers,
though. They can see the future. In fact, Orkin
was originally... very against biotransference.
And he told everyone what was going to happen,
but no one listens to him. But now they decide
to listen to him. And he tells of the time when
the Eldar Empire will rise and then fall. And
so he decides, and other chronomancers with him,
the time limit for the Great Sleep, which is
60 million years. zarek this is the last command
he gives for his people to sleep for the 60 million
years he destroys the command protocols that
he once had i think that's still canon i don't
i have not read the newest books i think that's
still canon yeah i think it adds a layer of tragedy
to the to the entire war which was like once
they became necrons they were enslaved to zarek
and then zarek was essentially enslaved to the
qatan by the fact that he couldn't He could never
fight them, even if he had his full Necron, so
he planned for this later. They see that the
Eldar are ascendant, and now they don't really
have the Catan. The Eldar have unbelievable psychic
potential at this time, psychic power. And they
do become the most powerful. galactic empire
for a long time. Until they mess it up big time.
But they have one advantage, I think, over the
Necrons, which is they'll never be a new Necron.
But there will be Eldar can still be born. As
slow as that process is, there still can be more.
Now in old lore, and this has technically not
been retconned, there can be new -ish Necrons
called Pariahs. And in theory, this can be done
with any living creature. Almost mackably. Yeah,
it's questionably canon, but it is still technically
canon. It's mentioned in recent sources, like
the Praia Nexus. I think the thing is, it was
an experiment by Seraz, and he tried it, and
then he went, this is a dead end. So it's not
been retconned, but I think the Necrons are like,
fun experiment. Not great. I guess anything could
be biotransferred. Couldn't be. In theory, but
the means of biotransference are not really known
anymore. I don't think you could. The actual
lore is that the biotransference was made for
Necronteer, and if you send a non -Necronteer
through it, it doesn't work correctly. The way
they make pariahs from humanity is they have
to have the pariah genes. They have to be known.
Yeah, so like... Sisters of Silence for the male
equivalent, which aren't made into them. Yeah.
We'll get a picture on screen, maybe. We'll get
a picture on screen for people from Dawn of the
War. If our internist Maximus is listening. But
anyways, pariahs are basically these semi -quasi
-necron things where they turn a human... blank
into a necron there's still some organs inside
of them because they can't go through true biotransference
uh but they have worse eyes they're blanks they're
very scary thomas mcabee is a guy in dawn of
war does he have any lore worth noting andy uh
not much i did a video on him it's not much all
you got to know is that you can't be a soul if
you want to be a necron that's the rules yeah
uh and orkin as a quote from orkin the diviner
is time is a weapon like no other if nothing
else i can simply wait for my foes to rot and
wait they do for the 60 million years they slumber
and the necron do indeed rise and fall just as
orkin said they would there's a cool quote in
this in this old book now speaking of the old
book the old necron lore the retcon stuff was
the entire species was fully enslaved to the
will of the Catan, the gods, and had no really
free will slash sentience at all. They were just
Terminators. The nobility maybe had a little
bit. It's kind of wishy -washy. But the Catan
actually remained in the old lore. This is retconned.
This is not real anymore. The Catan themselves
were still gods and remained in the old lore
and were still kicking. And their goal was to
enslave and eradicate and consume all life in
the galaxy. And they used the Necrons. These
Necrons were just these really scary Terminator
-esque things. And I found a cool quote. Some
Eldar believe that the Necrons are a worse threat
than Slaanesh herself. That being Illich Nightspear.
He knows a lot about the Yingrex, which is what
they call the Necrons. Now, this Eldar quote
from this old lore, but this is still canon,
I would say. The banshees call shall wake the
dead when dark portents wax nigh. Heed them as
the counsel of a seer or a father. The yngir
who have slept since the birth of chaos shall
crawl once more from their tombs, thirsting for
warmth. The war in heaven shall be as nothing
to their vengeance. For the sons of Azarian,
few in number cannot stand against them. I just
like... The South Park quote, I think, sums it
up quite well. How do you kill that which has
no life? That's how the Eldar are like. How do
you fight the Necrons? And the eye of Isha shall
dim, closing for eternity. Such a gentle goddess
cannot witness such atrocities as they shall
wreak. The soulless ones shall be the harbingers
of the dark fate. Then shall come the living
dead, the progeny. Pretty, pretty, pretty edgy.
Pretty edgy and cool. Speaking about old lore,
is there anything worth talking about the Chaos
Android stuff, Colin? I know you did recently
a Rogue Trader thing. Is there anything funny
worth noting there? You can clearly see they're
the precursors to what Necrons would be. I mean,
just visually looking at them, that is clearly
a proto -Necron. But Rogue Trader was a magical
time where not only were robots commonplace and
regularly employed in war by everyone, But the
Eldar weren't even the only ones who had shuriken
cannons. They're among a variety of other weird
things. In fact, Chaos Androids aren't even in
the very first edition of Rogue Trader. Like,
they're not in the core book. They came out a
little bit after. But no, they're just chaos
corrupted robots. Shove a demon in the robot.
Send it forth. You can go find old Chaos model
art in Androids. It looks like a Necron. Their
design became the Necrons, but Chaos Corrupted
Robot is about as far as you can get from the
Necrons while still being a robot. Although I
have a source that might point to Chaos Corrupted
Necrons. Do tell. i've got a section so i don't
know it's too early i will wait it's it's very
it's all it's all death watch uh stuff death
watch rpg stuff but i did videos on these characters
like i didn't know they existed like me but did
i and then i found them maybe a death watch rpg
writer was having some fun bringing back the
chaos androids that'd be cool but they're more
to say andy are we good Sorry? I thought there
was more to say. So we're good. It's time to
wake up, though. It's time to wake up. It's been
60 million years. It's time to wake up. Not everyone
wakes up at the same time. There's a lot of problems.
Turns out 60 million years is a long time to
be relying on stuff to work. And so time kind
of messes up a lot of things. The Necrons are
sleeping within... tomb world these tomb worlds
your old hell wow these two worlds thanks these
two worlds are watched over by these cryptic
made autonomous spirits kind of like ai but also
the necrons do sort of actually believe in the
machine spirit as well maybe the void dragon
imparted machine spirits maybe that's a thing
that happened i'm not sure but it's watched over
by these autonomous spirits the the tomb worlds
the the tomb mind and It uses canoptics, these
little beastie insectile things that kind of
upkeep the tombs. They guard the tombs. It more
or less works pretty well. Some tomb worlds are
destroyed in natural disasters. Alaytok hunts
down a lot of tomb worlds and just kind of purges
them because Alaytok really hates the Necrons
even more than all the other guys. Ilyk is from
Alaytok. The biggest problem, though, I would
say is, other than just a lot of people not waking
up at all, the biggest problem... is the mental
issues that the Necrons find themselves plagued
by, which are the Destroyer Virus and the Flayer
Virus and overall madness. The Destroyer Virus,
the origin of it is unsure entirely. No one really
knows where it comes from. It might be a flaw
in some kind of coding or some kind of thing
left by the Catan. It's not sure. But it turns
you into basically what the old retconned Necrons
were, which are... nihilistic, want -to -kill
-everything Terminator robots. Destroyers are
obsessed with extinguishing all possible life,
not just sentient life, but all life down to
the bacterial, microscopic level. There's a scene
in the Trazen book where he's talking with the
Destroyer, and he's like, is this weird genius
evil scientist guy who's causing natural disasters
to speed up the process of destroying the entire
planet and like eradicate all the life from it
they want to get rid of trees and plants and
bugs and humans and everything these guys are
like attacking the ground to kill the bacterias
in the ground isn't that yeah they they hate
they hate they're the uh i don't know what game
is from but the weird fleshy computer that says
that he hates things a lot I have no mouth and
I must scream. They're that boss fight from Doom
that floats. Cyberdemon? No, not Cyberdemon.
It is anything. Beholders? It's the one that
has a little dump truck. It's got a dump truck
and it floats. No, no, no. He's got a dump truck
and he floats and he's got a slab for legs. I
found the picture. Now I need to know what he
is. He's in Doom 2016. Are you sure that's not
the case? We'll work on that. We'll work on that.
I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out. That's
the Destroyer virus. The Destroyer Lords and
regular Destroyers. Doom Hunter. Sorry. It's
a Doom Hunter. They're the beetle guys who float.
I love them. They're one of the coolest models,
in my opinion. Then we have the Flare virus,
which really sucks. It's Landegore's gift. Some
believe it to be myth, but it is very much real.
It's depicted differently in a lot of books.
Sometimes it's a slow encroaching thing that
kind of almost implies that it'll get all necrons
eventually. Some books, it's an immediate thing
that happens. Some books, flayers can turn other
necrons into flayers and just transmit the disease
that way. Some sources don't think it's infectious
at all. Hard to say for sure. flare patterns
are not recalled to the tomb world the tomb worlds
know what a flare is and don't let it back in
so when you destroy a flare they're gone for
good generally of course they still like can
reanimate with their living metal and stuff but
uh in one book in the anricure the traveler novella
there's a cryptek who succumbs to the flare virus
and she kind of hears it as a constant like buzzing
and static in her mind and this weird The Landgore
message comes out of one of them, and it says,
to those who are faithless and wretched in their
jealousies, to those who have denied us, to those
who have denied me, I will wreak vengeance. I
will wrench your souls and break your bones.
I will cast hunger through your accursed existence
down the eons. You will not forget. I will grant
you this gift from love turned aside and make
you like me. break you in my image as you have
broken me i shall cast the fear of myself into
you and all of your kind i am landegore i am
the hunger i am the flare and from this moment
you shall be too so i suppose that's probably
what he said when they killed him the flare virus
also plays into this thing called the diasporic
which is like the phantom brain of a necron it's
largely spoken about in the twice dead king books
it's kind of like the imprint of their brain
still exists and it is trying it's like this
cage thing trying to get out of this metallic
prison that's been put into it makes them think
that they are still in actual bodies but then
they realize they're not in the actual bodies
and they spiral into this like crazy panic attack
type thing they have a necron necron might like
try to breathe and then realize It has no lungs,
so I can't breathe. So it feels like a suffocating,
even though I can't. Oh, my heart is racing.
Wait. Yeah. I don't have a heart. Wait. Why do
I feel this beating? And then it goes back. And
this, this diasporic phantom mind seems to get
worse and worse. The further you progress down
the flare virus path into twice. I gain books.
They are. It's very much a process that slowly
creeps up and gets you. One of the characters
is like caught trying to like stuff flesh into
his mouth. And he's like, I just have a little
bit on Sundays. It's not a big deal. But that's
what the flare virus does. It's my cheat day,
said the pharaoh. Yeah, it's fine. The flare
virus makes you crave flesh. Like, drastically.
It makes you want flesh. It makes you want to
be a being of flesh again. And it makes you want
to eat flesh. These things... the flayers will
grow their long fingernails become animalistic
they get the power to walk within this dimension
called the ghost wind so they can just pop up
wherever they want and like kind of tunnel through
reality and they are probably one of the scariest
worst things you can encounter in warhammer they
will literally flay you alive and wear your skin
and take your organs and try to stuff them into
their mouths which they don't have they have
no stomachs they there's not a hunger that they
can ever quench it's literally an eternal hungry
i have no stomach and i must feed yes i do think
of the one which was in uh twice a king with
the one pops up behind the guy and goes put his
finger his long finger to his mouth his little
grill and was like i'm gonna kill this guy you
know in uh in the book kazarkin the flares can
go to a sleepy necron and like put their heads
on theirs and turn them into a flare That's the
only time that we see that really happening.
And then in the Anarchia of the Traveler, when
a Canopic Spider runs into a Flayer, and it turns
it all red and affects it as well. So, I don't
know, it's wacky. The other, the last problem,
main problem, playing Necrons is just madness,
generally. Insanity, madness. Some wake up insane,
some develop the insanity after literal eons.
But, for example, someone might wake up... and
they've lost a part of themselves in the Great
Sleep. Take Zandrek, for example. He still believes
he's a being of flesh, but not really. But a
lot of Necrons will be like that. Like, there's
the Necron Lord in the book, Kazakin, who is
completely convinced that he is still a being
of flesh. He still breathes. He still has blood.
He still thinks all of these things. And he's,
like, obsessed with making these wacky sandcastles.
And obsession plagues the minds of a lot of these
Lords. They're either insane or obsessed. every
every single character is kind of affected by
at least a small flaw after as the eons the time
has ravished them at least a tiny bit and yeah
the as they wake up they see that it is their
time to take control of the galaxy it is their
time to reclaim the stars they have now come
to see every other species of insects who are
utterly below them some of them don't even believe
in their sentience anarchy of the traveler does
not believe humans are fully sentient in any
way shape or form they are apes they are insects
they are germs and bacteria we are nothing to
them this quote here says we are less than cattle
to these beings casual to be cast aside consumed
or made sport with Now, Zarek, in his final days,
was very much contemplating returning to flesh,
and this lingering thought has kind of touched
a lot of the Necrons, as it was the last thing
on his mind before he told them to go to sleep
and got rid of the command protocols. So there
is, as I said earlier, a... decent chunk of the
necrons who want to go back to their bodies of
flesh as they believe it will bring them real
life in souls again trades in the infinite in
the divine book is mostly about this of them
trying to return to the flesh and uh there's
some random more stuff in there that's kind of
fun uh but overall flesh is seen as kind of disgusting
this taboo thing they don't want to touch it
ever uh and the machine is sacred the necron
is sacred they are holy their stones are sacred
yeah so but to bring in the podcast full circle
you're like how do they feel about poop yeah
okay uh yes probably the eschatological or whatever
they call it uh plumbing generally pee and poo
is like literally the nastiest thing that they
never want to think about they don't want to
touch it they don't want to even like be associated
with it they don't want to think about it at
all it's nasty and they hate it straight up not
in this yeah yeah this this denny's on a wednesday
was not my most pleasant shite me at castle at
3am necron's worst nightmare um Taco Bell is
there. Do you think they annihilate Taco Bells
on sight because they know what happens there?
Oh, man. Godforsaken things happen there. There
is an interesting part. I think one character,
they think he gets poo on his hand and they go
like... I have something about that somewhere
in these notes. I don't know where. I didn't
mention something at the beginning, which I really
liked. I don't know why. I think I just forgot
to say it for some reason. There was one guy.
I can't really find the thing, but I just know
it exists. One time to appease the stars, they
sent a noble who took his ship and all of his
people and just flew into a star. as a sacrifice,
and he's like awkward in this day, and I think
they still have his face lying around or something.
God bless. And I'm proud to be a Necromancer.
That's all I can think of playing, even though
it's not relevant at all. Okay. During the Great
Sleep, there was one cast of Necrons who stayed
awake, and these were the Treyarch Praetorians,
and they did a very unique job. Very unlike a
lot of other Necrons, their job was not only
to preserve and watch over the tomb worlds, but
also to spread Necron tier culture and Necron
culture, just in case. The Great Sleep didn't
go so well and nobody woke up. They wanted to
make sure that the Necron culture and the Necron
mindset kind of survived the eons. So these Treyarch
Praetorians would go around studying other cultures
and finding out lots of things about other races.
And they would also just spread Necron tier culture.
So there's a decent chance, even though it's
never really talked about, that there's people,
there's entire planets out there who like believe
in Necron gods and live like actual Necron tier
did, which is kind of cool. these are also the
servants of the the servants the eyes and the
ears of the silent king he speaks through the
triarch the the grand judicator uh yeah anything
anything else cool around this section does that
maybe hint to the fact that because in real life
there was ancient pyramid like yeah like in our
world then maybe it implies that One of them
at least had an influence on humanity in some
sense. I think Red also has a theory about this.
I don't really remember it that well. Prospero
is influenced quite heavily by that similar type
of culture as well. So maybe it could have been
a hint to there as well. It would be quite interesting.
Now, I guess I misspoke earlier. First contact
with the Imperium is potentially in 793 .m41
when an Inquisitor comes to investigate why Selenance
was completely ignored by a High Fleet. Selenance
is Trazen the Inquisitor's planet. And he has...
Everyone knows the Trazen quote where he's talking
about the lady who he captures in his Labyrinth,
which is, by the way, one of the worst places
you can possibly go. And then Dav knows... If
you're smart enough to get out, idiot. damn knows
uh happens the the lord awakens there this is
kind of old necron lore but not really it's still
canon uh it's kind of new with necrons more or
less uh i don't know but they wake up they supposedly
they used to take much of the webway as well
i guess i can say technically then we this is
like from when uh into the way when it was like
early 2000s this is In the M41 is when they first
come across Necrons, but the Necrons, at least
according to Infinite and the Divine, some of
them had awakened actually just before the Horus,
like a few thousand years before Horus Heresy.
Frazen watches the Horus Heresy happen on live
TV, basically. And he says it's really boring.
it's like a soap opera drama for him it's like
the super bowl he's like yay he said the great
crusade was boring but the horus heresy made
it interesting and i remember that very specifically
because i remember thinking ah yes we need to
jerk off the heresy more i know he said um he
said off the imperium makes the universe boring
because they're so uniform and he likes unique
things to be added to his museum so he Took lots
of things from the Horus Heresy when that came
out. There's some Ultramarines. They'll come
in handy later. These ones are colored red and
these ones blue. This is cool. Fucking bullshit.
He took the Emperor's Children's Genesee as well.
He took Volgrim. That was his biggest troll.
He literally trolled the Emperor's Children.
Should we read some donations before I go into
the dynasties and the hierarchy and stuff? We
got one. I think we have more than one, sir.
Tyboros, the colorblind way. Andy, we definitely
have more than one. You sure? I didn't think
so. Unless I missed the one that we read. Oh,
no, sorry. Yeah, I see it. I'm mistaken. Sorry.
Thank you, Tyboros. Thank you very much, Tyboros.
That's all. Late but obligatory Midwestern song.
I don't know this song, so I'm going to take
your word that it's real. The legend lives on
from the Chippewa on down the big lake they call
Gitche Gumee. The lake that is said never gives
up or dead when the skies don't remember turn
gloomy. Never mind, I've heard that song. It
just took me, it's been a minute. I used to live
on a street named Chippewa. I went to a school
called Chippewa. That is a certified Midwestern
song right there. Carry on. go kind of quickly
through the dynasties the dynasties and uh the
modern structure of the hierarchy of the necrons
and then i'll maybe skip stuff about random things
and we'll just go into my fun facts section because
this is probably gonna be about three hours but
we'll chill out we'll chill out a little bit
and then we'll just skim over the characters
and i'll we'll have to wait for my magnum opus
100 page necron video that will happen characters
might be its own video to be fair the characters
will be their own video yeah so we'll skim through
them um when the time comes but as for who's
in charge right now it it's changing now that
the silent king is back but for most for the
most part immotech was kind of the big big man
in charge. Now the Silent King is coming back.
But regardless, they're both from the South Tech
dynasty. Oh, no, they're not. Sorry. Imhotek's
the South Tech dynasty. Zarek is the Zarekin
dynasty, if I remember correctly. Yes. South
Tech, more or less, are in control. Zarekin are
on their way up with the coming of the Silent
King with many worlds under his controls. And
we're maybe seeing a rivalry, Civil War thing.
I gotta read these two goofy new books, even
though they're Space Marine books. I'll do it.
But anyway, the structure goes as follows. We
have the hierarchy, the Treyarch. The Treyarch
is the Silent King and the two other guys who
are important. I don't think the two other parts
of the Treyarch exist anymore. I think it's just
the Silent King. There used to be two other heads
to the Treyarch and the Silent King spoke through
them. Now it's the Silent King and his Treyarch
Praetorians. They're on his dais of destiny,
aren't they? Oh, that is who those are, isn't
it? Those fellas. Yeah, the random dudes. Yeah,
sure. Yeah. Sorry, the true arc still exists.
They don't wield the same power that they once
had, though. They're simply his puppets almost
now. Yeah. Then we have the Faeron, who is a
ruler of a dynasty. Then there's an Overlord,
who is a ruler of a cluster of planets, who usually
has many legions. A Lord is a ruler of a single
world. Random nobles in a court would be Cryptex,
who are the Technomages. But they're very important
and independent, generally. The greater courts,
the greater lords who have military mights. There's
like a bajillion random nobility positions. Then
you have lich guard, who are semi -sentient beings,
depending on what book you're reading, who guard
the nobles. They can also act as kind of lieutenants
and kind of direct operations when needed. Then
we have immortals, who are kind of like sergeants,
almost kind of. very good warriors they're kind
of the best of the best warriors back in the
day and they have little like echoes of sentience
left to them and little echoes of who they are
but not a lot they can kind of they can also
kind of direct troops uh i guess maybe lich guard
would be more like whatever would be below a
general or our generals and immortals are more
like sergeants such as the other lich guard can
conduct entire operations immortals can kind
of like just guide Little portions of your army.
Lich guards are captains, maybe? Yeah, I guess
that would make sense. I don't know the military
that well, sorry. Warriors, of course, are the
lowest of the low, and they live in a constant
torture of just barely having enough sentience
to long for better times, but are at the same
time too dull to even realize it. Theirs is a
very unfortunate existence. But if you're killed
enough times as a warrior, you're reduced to
a completely blank slate, basically just a thing
that can be controlled by the nobility. Now,
the nobility, every step above... And this is
the dub? Yeah, I don't know. Every step above
grants you some sentience and control over the
step below you. And overlord slash lord and all
of them can completely one -to -one control their
warriors. Okay. As I said before, Zarekin is
the Silent King's dynasties. They hold the most
power and influence over the Necrons. They also
contain the majority of Great Relics. The South
Tech are the largest dynasty, though, and their
pharaoh is Imhotek the Goat, the Storm Lord.
They are implacable and unstoppable, and Imhotek's
made the most progress for the Necron Empire,
arguably, since he's woken up. With the Mephrits
dynasty, they're experts at harnessing power
of stars and making them go supernova. They were
greatly employed in the war in heaven, unsurprisingly,
due to this ability to create solar system -ending
weapons. We have Novok, the bloody, spooky, murderous
fighters who give credit to the ancient rites
of bloody. Remembering these rites, they paint
their armor red, and fight often in brutal close
-quarters combat. And they have something called
the Crimson God, which is like one random line
in the Necron's 8th edition codex, which is a
Catan shard enslaved by Novok, who is known for
its incredible destructive power, but it's not
very easy to control. Nephrek, their crown world,
has trinary stars, which they use as a grand
energy source. Their cryptex are very skilled.
dynasty created something called uh meta gold
making their allegiance glitter and they are
the masters of translocation uh they also owner
here that's right here uh you know here's a quote
from some random guy in a random short story
story i read some cryptic guy i think my dynasty
was subsumed my my by magata during the last
war this is a network guy speaking I and all
scions of the once mighty Netverk dynasty were
bound up into the region's own legions in exchange
for his protection against the alien usurpers,
but we weren't to know that he was nothing more
than a paper prince, a bumbling coward. It was
Kesmes, another character, who won our battles
and guarded the borders of the Enclave as Turekin's
designated war leader. And now that he is gone,
I am left in most... precarious position, if
my involvement, blah, blah, blah. And then this
crypt deck basically helps overthrow this Turrican
guy who has taken over the Nefric dynasty. And
then they release the world engine, which is
a whole other thing. Neolek contains the head
of the Yithseer. Oh yeah, yeah, this is in the
Trazen book. I haven't read some of these notes
for a long time. Some of this is news to me.
They contain the head of a Yithseer, which they
use to scry. The future. And their realm was
taken by lesser beings, so they now war and hunger
endlessly to march and reclaim their territory.
We have Obobek, a dynasty of expert craftsmen
whose skill has carried over the time of the
machine. They boast great technomancers and wild
hammers. What is that supposed to mean? Don't
know, man. We're going to kill you with hammers,
I believe. Yeah. I guess an important battle
in the War in Heaven is the Battle of the Sokar
Gate. It's like the end of the war. It's a very
mysterious thing. This guy named Unas survives
the Sokar Gate conflict with haunted visions,
seemingly doomed the Ithacus dynasty and brought
about the flare curse upon that entire dynasty.
The Acrops, the big ship, is even affected by
it with the machine. Spirit changed. Calorantir,
that's a world, but we can skip that. That's
less important. Okay. Moving into some fun facts,
because it's been two hours already. Let's go
through some biology of the Necrons. This is
a lot of stuff that I wouldn't know beforehand,
which is quite... We did a quiz ages ago, and
I literally couldn't tell you any of this stuff.
It's actually quite well... Again, this is mostly
codex lore, isn't it, though? So it's not...
novel form. The cool lore. The cool stuff. The
battles and all the cools. It's a little bit
of each. A lot of this is actually book lore.
That is just compiled. That's cool. There's not
a lot of codex lore for Necrons, other than random
events that happen. The Twice Dead King was pretty
big for Necron bros. We got a lot of lore. But
okay, I'm going to go through the biology. Just
going to read through these notes. The diasterect
I mentioned again, but this seems to be probably
a better... Description of it, maybe from the
book itself, is the phantom mind entombed within
the flux patterns of every Necron, not knowing
it is dead, only that everything it needs is
not there. When it emerges from the depths, it
causes intense panic and terror. The Necron is
overcome with a need to heave for air with non
-existent lungs, to eat and drink, to fill a
non -existent stomach that has been starved for
millions of years. They need blood to flow through
their long gone veins, and a heart that isn't
there suddenly fails to beat. it is as it is
as if every function in your body failed all
at once yet you somehow lived wrapped in a state
of complete shock as the non -existent nervous
system lit up with every signal it would have
sent if these organs ceased to work so pretty
agonizingly horrified yeah some some necrons
have an evocatory medium like ultix from the
twice a king this allows for something called
revelry which is a real unbiased memories exactly
as events happened taken from memory engrams
and hectic inscriptions when used though the
memory can no longer be accessed and slowly becomes
the memory of a memory of a memory uh you can
have partition sub vessels which bear subminds,
which for Altix's case, these subminds are like
multiple personalities within your brain that
can kind of talk to you and you can converse
with, but you still have control over them. A
phantasary buffer is a mind's eye. You speak
through vocal actuators. Mimetic buffer is a
memory. Data flows through the core flux, vestigial
arrays flicker in the mind, and the necrons receive
actuator signals almost similar to the nervous
system, mimicking facial expressions and light.
Discharged nodes relay patterns that act as actual
expressions and emotion. Ocular flares, interstitial
glyph signifiers, and discharged node patterns
are these expressions and facial patterns. They
use auditory ciphers for sounds, such as clearing
one's throat. They smell with chemoreceptors.
Pretty cool. Wait, necrons smell? They can, with
chemoreceptors. I don't know what advantage that
would be. I mean, smell is useful. If you're
fighting a guy and he smells like he stank, then
you're gonna be like and you'll be like, I can't
you'll be like one hands off your sword. I mean,
it doesn't also have to necessarily be like,
you know, for combat, right? Like if I come home
or something and Or like a friend comes over
and they reek of alcohol, I know what's up. Is
it that time already? There's no downsides to
not being able to smell. And they can turn these
all off generally. Or if I sniff and I retch,
I can tell that they've had the chili dog. Chili
dog. In response to something, circumspection
protocols alert a Necron, and in regards to this,
they can use something called a chronosense,
which allows them to perceive time in a slowed
or fastened state. It doesn't actually increase
the flow of time or decrease it. It's like, I
suppose when you're... Yeah, it's your perception.
It's like, if you're doing something you enjoy...
Time flies. Time flies when you're having fun.
I guess it's tapping into something like that.
Eons can go by. There's like a, like a Treyarch
Praetorian standing over a tomb world. We'll
turn on their chrono sense as fast as possible
so that millions of years will go by while they
just sit there. And like, it only feels like
minutes or days or hours, whatever. And then
circumsection circum. inspection protocols that
they set will alert them if something happens
and take them out of their chromosomes it's also
very useful in combat you can slow things down
to a crawl to be able to react better to your
opponents uh divination protocols and algorithms
work to predict events uh or book or buke orb
oh my gosh or buke limbs whatever convey holographic
messages core fluxes or powers and necrons Diodes
feed the core flux to motor arrays. Rogue necrodermis
can encrust joints. It has to be clean. A hecatic
array can cue seals and commands that resonate
with control nodes or open gates. Oculars can
see through a thousand arcane spectra and can
switch to wavelengths far below the visible.
Every necron has a thoracic cartouche. Necrons,
at least nobility generally, or... Cryptex maybe
can project into scarabs and other such canoptics
by way of something called an ocular scry. Royal
Instinct, little fact, I guess, Royal Instinct
goes deeper than enigmatic damage. So someone
like Zandrek, even when he's being a goofball,
he still understands the authority and epicness
of Imhotep, even though he's kind of wacky. Memories
are burned into engrammatic pathways, and you
speak through, as I said before, probably vocal
actuators. there's some necron biology for you
i think that's pretty cool damn do we want to
yeah do we want to read let's read these two
donations now maybe go to the end maybe crazy
uh super boss 9000 thank you for the whole you
uh shrek combo there 84 84 years ago five I'm
going to proxy my Stormcast Eternals as Custodes.
Thoughts? I want to do so because fuck paying
for more GE plastic and they function as Custodes.
Yeah, they're on the right place. I don't see
why not. I've seen some of those before and they
do look cool. Hey, imagine what you could say.
You know what you can say is like if in the Valdor
Birth of the Imperium book the Custodes didn't
start out wearing proper Auramite. They just
wore whatever they had. So actually, they're
just like really early on custodians. Which would
be pretty cool. Is there one more, Andy, I think?
There's a few more. I didn't even see this one
from Sid. Oh yeah, I see it now. Eli giving me
a lecture while I work. Thank you, Sid. Lila's
most scrumptious busboy. Wow. Thank you for the
$5. Do you want to read this, Andy? Your guys'
videos have been getting me for a nasty tooth
infection. I haven't slept for a couple days.
Your videos are awesome. Thank you. Oh, well,
I hope you get better soon. I feel better. I'm
glad we can maybe soothe some of the pain, hopefully.
Mm -hmm. Colin, do you want to answer this one?
Tiberose to colorblind wake. Colorblind wake.
For two bucks. Necrometal should be metal cast
from uranium -235. That's right, they should.
That's right, they should. A little present for
Christmas this year, little Timmy. Thank you
guys very much for the donations. Shout out to
the prostate protocols that have been enacted
on this one. I don't know what you're talking
about, prostate. That is not where poop comes
from. Andy, you can decline if you don't want
to anymore. But as I spoke about dynasties for
a little bit, you could mention the Jericho Reach
stuff if you want. Yeah, I'll go through. It's
kind of brisk. So there is like a cool dynasty
in that we only really hear about Sarek, Imhotep.
And that's kind of it. But the Jericho Reach
stuff is kind of cool. And there's one dynasty
called the Subacar dynasty. They hail from the
crown world, as they call it, of the Hollow Sun.
And their rivals are the Charnavox. And the guy
in charge is Armantech, the last Pharaon. He
was feared across the stars as the Crimson Scythe
or Starslayer. And he was a harbinger of death
and destruction. This guy killed a Catan. And
I don't think it was a shard. I think it was
like an actual one. But maybe it was, maybe it
wasn't. He destroyed the planet of Maldek with
a single strike of his war scythe, which was
plunged into the ground of Zoth, and the Eldar
fear him so much that they are continually trying
to assassinate him. Basically, he went to sleepy
-bys with the rest of the Necrons during their
60 millennia of slumber. And so embittered was
he about biotransference and his betrayal by
the star gods that while he slept, it broke his
psyche until he became like an avatar of resentment.
Until one day, everyone else wakes up and his
blood relative, Ahotek, and bear in mind, Amontek,
Ahotek, kind of similar, but bear with me, the
overlord regent, he tries to wake him up. He's
like, oh no, he's not waking up. This is bad.
This is really bad. This is going to be a weekend
at Bernie's. Yeah. So Ahotek now rules the Subacar
dynasty in his place. Armontek, even though he's
in a comatose state, he has the command protocols
of his dynasty. He knows about a bunch of treasures
across the Jericho reach of different tomb worlds
and caches of weapons. Bear in mind, these are
the same guys that made like a little map. where
you can just, like, prod a finger and a sun explodes.
Not this dynasty, but, like, the Necrons in general
have, like, this thing that's just like, boop,
and then the sun explodes. Like, who knows? Yeah,
the orrery. So who knows what these guys have?
And so they attempt... So basically, Armantech
is like, ah, I'm sleepy -byes. The cryptex all
try to salvage what they can from his mind, but
it's locked away, and they... None of his dynasty
can betray him because of the command protocols.
They just can't do it. But just because you can't
betray him doesn't mean you can't work around
that. It's not a betrayal if you just happen
to take long breaks at work. Yeah. And bear in
mind that this guy, the Faron, he grieved about
biotransference. He was dismayed at Sarek's decision
to transform people. So basically... There's
something called the Dark Pattern in the Jericho
Reach, and apparently everyone from the Necrons,
Eldar, and Death Watch are trying to uncover
what this constellation of planets are, but only
really this guy knows what the true secrets are.
And it's prophesied in the Darlef Lexicon that
the so -called Crippled King, as he is known,
may have walked occasionally during the Necron
slumber. He might have had a bit of a sleepwalk
now and then. And the Imperium has reports of
blood harvesters with red scythes culling Imperial
citizens for some sort of blood ritual. Waking
up at 3am for shredded cheese. And it's like,
we've not all been there, Colin. That is bad.
Thank you, Eli. Thank you. Chat, back us up,
please. British can never get it. They can never
get the goldfish with cheese melted on it at
3am. They're not knowers. Or it looks like he
gets a white claw in the middle of the night.
Ain't nothing wrong with that. That's unrelated
to cheese. But either way, that's his whole thing
with the Pharaoh. He's so powerful. He killed
a Catan once. He's still asleep. But maybe he
was chaos corrupted. and occasionally woke up
and had a bit of a slaughter? We don't know.
But Ahotek, his blood relative, the Overlord
Regent, he now is in charge in his place. He
never anticipated to be in charge, but that didn't
mean that he didn't scheme and plot throughout
the whole of the War in Heaven to be better than
his peers, other than his pharaoh. So with treachery
and political maneuvering, he achieved his rank.
He capitalized on the war against the Old Ones.
It's implied that maybe he held his men in reserve
and let his rivals get killed by the Eldar and
the Kroks and stuff while he grows in power.
But either way, he's also the one who fueled
Armontek's resentment of the Karnavok dynasty,
which is the root cause of why he went kind of
mad. Big schemey, big bad. Apparently he woke
up occasionally during the Great Sleep before
everyone else. and tinker around with his peers
to try and put spanners in the works he doesn't
like to get his hands dirty he considers martial
combat for lesser beings and prefers to just
you know he takes no pride in killing he's like
let's just nuke them from orbit that's the kind
of guy he is um he spends the majority of his
time attempting to revive his pharaoh but Because
he can't betray him, that doesn't mean that he
can tell his underling cryptic, Ozkan, to maybe
see if he can find out how to get the command
protocols from his brain, just in case, so that
maybe he can deactivate them and maybe he can
be in charge. Who knows? And in the last few
millennia here, well, the last millennia, he's
been uncovering some of the tomb worlds within
the Dark Pattern, and he's rising to power. Now,
Ozkan is a cryptic of the Supercare dynasty.
he's extremely loyal to arm on tech he was his
main counsel he was so well trusted that he was
the only one who was allowed to criticize him
rather than give him platitudes which is what
everyone else would be like what a good idea
chief that's great yeah massive cocks You're
looking quite well hung today, my lord. Like
a horse, sir. It drags along the floor, sir.
But he was the only one who was allowed to naysay.
He was called the Codifier. Was he a horse? It
touches the bowl, sir, when you sit, sir. But
either way, he was one of the few who was like
similar to Orokin, the diviner. He saw that biotransference
was a bad idea. He begged Armantech not to side
with Sarek. So they had a council. They discussed
it. But in the end, Armantech said, no, we have
to do it. He's our king. Didn't go well. So Ozkan's
soul, because of his knowledge of like... the
impending dread of what he was about to become
is kind of shattered. And he's kind of like a
weird, like he's not completely unscathed by
biotransference, but he's also more independent
than most. And in preparation for The Great Sleep,
he basically, his warnings also contributed to
Armantec's insanity because then when he realized,
oh God, you were right. And that made him even
more insane. So he woke to find his guy in charge
asleep. He is doing everything he can to wake
him up. He is working against Ahotek's commands
in secret. He's all like, yeah, I'll get the
command protocols. Don't worry about it. But
in secret, he's like, I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to delay this as much as I can. And
he wants to put... He's one of the... He's similar
to Sarek in that he wants the Necrons to have
flesh and bone bodies again. And he wants to
transfer... his pharaoh's conscious into a human
or xenos host and he's like i've done a lot of
experiments i know i don't know if this works
and then one day he's like what if we put him
in a space marine body that might work and so
his whole thing is like he's trying to capture
a space marine because if he can capture one
alive maybe he can transfer the pharaoh's mind
into the space marine and his constitution will
handle it And then he will rise to power again.
Kind of strange. Grand Vizier Emonok is the most
senior member of the council. Bitter rival of
Ahotek. Thinks he's a dick. Both blood relatives
again. He was disturbed to his core when he saw
that Armontek wasn't waking up. He swears fealty
to Ahotek, but in truth, he doesn't want to really
serve him, but command protocols he can't not.
And even though he's called the Grand Vizier,
he doesn't really have any real influence or
power. He's been diminished ever since Ahotek
took power. And so while he's in charge of the
royal court and his chief administrator for the
Hollow Sun, he's basically, theoretically, he
could command all the lesser tomb worlds of the
dynasty at a whim. But because no one knows where
they are, that's a moot point. It's like, oh,
cool. You're so powerful. Where's that tomb world
you can control? So he's been making preparations
for a coup where he is going to, he's basically
trying to find all these lost tomb worlds, rally
the men under his command as like a direct link
with his protocols so that one day he might,
if he can't resurrect our Montek, he will rebel
against our Hotech. So he's kind of cool. And
he's like, he's leading a separatist movement.
You've got Tulek, the Destroyer Lord, another
blood relative of Armontek and Arhotek and the
other guy. He was once one of the best lieutenants
of the dynasty's War of Heaven campaign, trusted
implicitly by his phaeron. He was known as the
Blood Prince, and he hated Arhotek because he
was a schemer and he never got into the thick
of fighting. However, for some reason, he woke
up a lot earlier than the rest of the dynasty.
I mean, a lot. earlier when he woke up none of
the automated stuff listened to him his command
programs weren't were being refused he was ignored
by the the spiders and the maintenance devices
and he roamed around the crone world which was
completely slumbering until he went insane and
then he transformed into a destroyer and basically
for a while he found a dolmen gate at the bottom
of the hollow sun he went and slaughtered a bunch
of people whether it's xenos or imperials and
then eventually the rest of the supercar dynasty
awoke and they were like oh no oh oh no and they
started they started getting killed by him too
he killed his own people then um oscar and the
codifier woke up went heal and then his command
protocols stopped him from slaughtering the rest
of his kin because he has that like hierarchy
power And so he pacified Fulek, and now he is
completely under the whims of Ahotek, his bitter
rival, and he only takes pleasure in killing
things. That's nice. And the last character...
Yeah, the Blood Prince is not a fun fella. And
the last one is Kryptek Rakos. He's a member
of the Royal Court. He's the only one under the
rank of Oskar the Codifier. He's known as the
Court Cronomancer. He's in charge of looking
after the history of his dynasty, but he's also
studied every other species in the galaxy to
try and understand how they can best conquer
it. He's a master of arcane arts. He's known
as the Harbinger of Eternity because he can manipulate
these weird Necron engines in the heart of the
Hollow Sun, which fuel his power. And this guy,
this guy could just like mold space time at a
whim. He's so powerful that like, he can just
be like, I'm teleporting across the segmentum.
Like I'm an ultimate segmentum. Now I'm in solar.
Like he can just teleport across the galaxy.
And his, his shtick is that he's a historian.
He's trying to do the best for his, his, his
dynasty. He's not the highest ranking guy, but
he knows what's what. And he also has defined
the future of many calamities. This guy alone
has prevented the extinction of the galaxy as
we know it a few times because he's seen, oh,
that's like a calamity that's going to kill everything.
And then the Necron stopped it from happening
because of his advisements. And he kind of plays
up his power. A bit of that is like, yes, I did
help, but I wasn't like, I didn't do it myself,
but it doesn't tell people that because it's
like, I'm not going to tell people that I'm this
omnipotent guy that knows everything and thwarts
extinction across the galaxy. Why would I tell
people that? That's stupid. Ghostbusters. If
someone says, if you're a god, you say, yes!
And yeah, but he has this... theory that there's
a being known as the stranger that will one day
destroy the entire galaxy if it's not rooted
out and destroyed and so there is a branch of
the death watch called the dead cell they're
keeping an eye on rakos but they're um they're
like let's not we're not stupid let's not like
interfere with his plans because he obviously
knows what he's doing and that's kind of like
the last guy of this weird quirky uh necron dynasty
that's like got a lot of cool concepts but just
remember we will never see any of this ever again
because this was published like 15 20 years ago
it's so classic it's such classic gw to have
like most op important setting changing characters
in random like rpg books and imperial armor books
it's very classic i don't think i think hopefully
though uh for people listening along they have
discovered some maybe definitely with that last
bit some cool bits of necron world they might
not have known before i don't think i even heard
of that uh is there i think the last few donations
was there, and then we can... We're not done
yet. We're not done yet. I'll set the cap. I
was going to say I'll set the time limit to three
and a half hours, but I'll set it for three hours,
just because Kyle's getting antsy. Kyle's getting
fidgety. The episode's not too long for people,
that's all. The bro is twitching. Oh, bro. I
want to shout out to Stimpak. Stimpak in the
chat says this is my favorite podcast. Thank
you, Stimpak. We're glad you like the podcast.
You have shit taste in Beastman. As I was saying
earlier, it's circumspection protocols. Someone
said circumcision protocols. I knew that was
coming. Lilith said that. Anyways, let me quickly
go through some more things. I'll be fast. Let's
talk about their society a little bit because
there's cool things. Go ahead, man. As I said
before, Red has a theory on this. He's not in
the chat. Very sad. Where's Red? Where's DJ Beast?
Get them in the chat. It is said that the humans
of our time can be compared to the Necrontyr
of old in their own primitive way. As we said
before, they sacrificed the sun to appease spirits
that haunted it. What I was saying before about
those Crimson guys, they're actually called...
Oh my gosh, it was right here. Red Marshals.
It was called Red Marshals. And they conducted
the solar harvest we were talking about. The
Necronteer gave little heed and importance to
beauty, but they never gained much skill in music.
Necronteer were, in fact... Sorry. Necronteer
were not great at music. The Necrons themselves
are... utterly terrible at music. There's a part
where Ultix walks in on Djeris trying to play
a song and he's like, this is the worst thing
I've ever heard and Djeris is like, I've been
working on this for like 1 ,000 years. Not making
it out the hood with this one. Essentially like,
what is this song that we hear? It's Friday,
Friday. It's perhaps like a testament to... their
lack of souls. Lack of creativity. Like real
art, real music. I think music is perhaps one
of the greatest signifiers of sentience in a
soul. Anyways, all arts beyond the depiction
of majesty had vanished since biotransference
and was reduced to grim parody. Hecate, some
stuff about Hecate. When something is written
in Hecate cant, it is made to be universally
true. So if nobody is written upon a noble statue,
then they no longer exist. As I said before,
they measure in cubits and ket. They write in
glyphs and hecatic arrays. They sacrificed all
for lasting legacy in the stones, the tombs,
the statues. Necron stone is sacred. Kemet, sacred
ground. Touching organic viscera is extremely
taboo. And if done on accident, it would result
in the execution of the servant who was responsible.
and a long process of cleansing rites. Even in
the time of flesh, defecation, as we said before,
was a point of contempt for Necronteer society,
and they distanced themselves with it as much
as possible, reviling the necessary act. Necrons
believe in a machine spirit. Many Necrons hate
the void of space, and even their predecessors
despise the sea, calling the space Uath, or the
Sea of Stars. A lord cannot be seen to run, which
is actually similar to like ancient Hebrew stuff.
A man was not to run and then Jesus ran. It was
all wacky. Anyways, there's the story of the
wayward seal bearer welcomed with open arms.
I think it's similar to the particle sun story.
There's a process called being extorted. Is that
really what it says? I'm not buying that, but
you're stripped of all color. It's what happens
to Ultix and the Twice -Egged King. And down
to your rough black necrodermis. Teleporting
translation sinks you into the interstices. Interstitial
commands is the way of commanding troops. So
it is likely the same network as the interstices.
Vitraform is a neat little thing. It's glass
-like, as their ancestors had been sand -born
commoners to this specific place. which I guess
doesn't say here. The Vitreans, I think is what
they are. The Vitreans created Vitreform, which
is glass -like, translates to glass -like, as
their ancestors had been sand -born commoners
who were grudgingly given title status in recognition
of their feats. Most were soldiers who earned
the right to legacy through great service. Slag
-class lords is part of these people. They're
the most despised of all nobles. Yeah. Ancestors
were shrewd merchants of thousands of generations
of wealth. It was all spent on a stake in rare
alloys that went to the Ithacan shipyards. The
crown had permitted them a minor title. They
then squandered much of their wealth, living
lives of debauchery. Okay, it's something called
the Tale of the Shipwrecked Vargard. A Vargard
is speaking to his nemesaur as his lord had traveled
to face the Theron after a disastrous battle.
An emisor knew he walked to his death and had
no wish for entertainment, but had indulged his
servant anyways. The Vargard provided a long
account of personal woes, which began with the
destruction of his vessel as he had sailed across
the bear at Ueth. He then spoke of being stranded
on an island, riddles, treasure, and monsters
were spoke of, and many more mythological anecdotes.
There's a lot of wacky stories like that. The
Vargard finishes by showing his master all the
wealth he had brought back. Even amidst the many
disasters and hardships, his cunning and self
-control had seen him become richer than he was
when he left. If one so lowly as him could turn
fate around, then surely his great and powerful
nemesaur could avert his fate. The mouth of a
necronteer saves him, claims the Vargard in encouragement.
The nemesaur responds. Do not speak so arrogantly,
my friend. Why give water to a beast at dawn
before its slaughter at the rising of the sun?
There is no value in offering hope to those resigned
to doom. If the nemesaur had hoped for clemency,
he should have not failed in battle. I guess
is what the moral of the story is. Some of them
made a lot of sense, but that's just the words
from the book. A nemesaur's staff, speaking of
nemesaurs, a nemesaur's staff is a crucial signifier
of rank. It is engraved with symbolic designs
and glyphic records of the bearer's standing.
Usually... It is a matter of grievous insult
for a noble to commission a staff too similar
to any other. Zandrak and his buddy have a similar
staff because they're friends or they were friends.
The Necrons speak in hand gestures and stances.
A hand indicates a smile while the right begins
the pose of greeting, for example. Distance to
someone indicates status. Hierarchy and respect
to stand close to someone is a sign of affection
and a... Someone lower on the totem pole could
not stand near someone higher on the totem pole.
That'd be very bad, very disrespectful. All right,
here's an example of a high cryptex duty. It
was sacred duty, the charge, the purpose of a
high cryptex. While the lesser minds, creatures
of a tomb world awake, it is the cryptex duty
to ensure the dynast was wreathed. The dynast,
what is this saying? Trying to summarize these
notes, but I'm not working very well. During
the Age of Unwoken Comfort. Okay. The High Kryptek
wakes up the Dynast, makes sure they're comfortable
and safe. No one has the authority. No one has
authority over Treyarch Praetorians. Judgment
cannot be made upon them, and one cannot take
their Rod of Covenants because they are, of course,
the servants of the Silent King, Zarek himself.
They are the highest authority. Lower level of
Kryptek is an Apprentek. Speaking the true names
of the Catan was taboo until they broke them
into shards. What the heck? Do you want to send
it in the chat? It's a word. It's a word. What
did you call me? Yeah, I got nothing, dog. That
was a katan, whatever. And other katans supposedly
existed but have been lost throughout the years.
I've said this before in the quiz, Cat's Land,
Dovah's Land, and Emek are the first three numbers
of the Necron counting system. They're also the
names of the Treyarch Ratorians that follow around
Enric here, the Traveler, and keep an eye on
him. The Necron mindset is they're the commoners,
lose their identity, then encrypt X slash noble,
so don't feel so bad for those warriors. Nobles
can display the relays that would convey certain
emotions, yada yada, okay. There's Necron AI
leaders, that's a little thing. For people who
die, important individuals who died before biotransference,
their minds were kind of made into these AI things
that are kind of awkward versions of Necrons,
but they still have this similar personalities
and ideas of those people way back in the day.
It's just that they're clumsy. They're awkward.
They lack the poise of a true Necron. They have
a harder time with postures and poses and hand
gestures and stuff. see anything cool royal war
royal wardens stop our traditional threes paces
behind their overlord uh yig yigrenya was once
the patron deity of borsus the katan was depicted
in the okay sorry that's just something in the
book that's a katana i guess uh that's enough
of that i guess They have codes of conduct of
war and honor. I guess I never actually mentioned
that. The Necrons have a really big book of codes
that they find really important. At least most
of them do. These are codes of honor and general
ways of how you're supposed to conduct warfare
and stuff. It's very important. They were very
honorable people back in the day, and a lot of
their characters still go by these codes. These
codes say things like... not to use death marks
and how you're always supposed to offer surrender
to an opponent. You're supposed to capture a
general and give them dinner and take care of
them. Zandrek. Yeah, Zandrek follows these codes
very much so. Anric here a little bit, but not
always. Yeah, I don't know. Here's some sayings,
I guess. Robbing Zarek to pay Orkin is a saying,
which means giving up something to gain little.
But the way they swear is like... They say, like,
Xeric's teeth, or Xeric's bones, or Xeric's anything,
basically. Which is a fun little thing. Oh, Dolamgates.
I said I would talk more about Dolamgates, so
I'll talk a little more about Dolamgates. They're
very rare. They're basically the greatest jewel,
the greatest creations ever of the dynasties,
as I said. The knowledge was given by Neanderthal
for nothing in return but pain and suffering.
No one awake, no Cryptek awake currently seems
to know how to make one. But there may be Crypteks
that are still sleeping that know how to make
Dolumgates, which would be a big deal if they
did. Even the locations of these things is worth
great fortunes. The technology is fickle, and
it can be susus omogus to use sometimes, and
you can get stuck in the webway, as the webway
seems to be sentient or at least capable of responding
to breaches. Dolem gates make such breaches and
so the webway reacts to stem the entrance and
seal the wound. Any force that enters must swiftly
close it or move quickly to a depth that cannot
be severed. Entire legions have been lost in
the early days of the war in heaven and are presumably
still active. How is it they're able to do that?
Because surely it requires a psychic touch. I
don't know. That's why it's so wacky. I don't
know. Let's see what this is. Maybe this will...
Such technology was fickle in its prime. After
all this time, do you trust that it would still
function as madness? There too lurked tricks
and turns not anticipated by the naive Necron
tier, like the biotransference that had ensured
their unending half -life. The Dolmen Gates offered
the, uh... unexpected, and unendingly unwelcome.
They were access points to the webway, a means
of traveling across vast distances at great speeds
and without touching reality, but to move so
close to the nightmare dimensions of the other
realm to tempt the beings that dwelled therein
was madness. Okay, so, yeah, we don't know how
it works. I don't think anyone knows how it works.
That's kind of the point. They just know how
to turn them on. Todd Howard, it just works.
Yeah. It just works. Fallout 76, 16 times the
detail. How is it that a company makes games
that look like they were made 10 years before?
The original 76 had a weight class on the bottle
caps, and I just remember that someone sent Todd
Howard a box full of bottle caps, and it just
had a note that says... weigh these was it that
or was it bobby i don't it was one of those it
was bobby pins or bottle caps which is like way
these way this these are not a tenth of a pound
nope all right all right uh talk about a little
bit about a little bit about tomb worlds just
a little bit As I said before, they're watched
over by an autonomous spirit. They're set up
by cryptex. But even the architects of these
tomb worlds were unable to imagine their sorceries
might be undone by the brute attrition of time
itself. So there are many issues. Sometimes,
not all the time. But they did place the directive
to repel any invaders for a tomb world. And this
does go on to enemy necrons. The idea of, like,
intrigue and deception was so inlaid in the Necron
tier and the Necron people that even a tomb world
can sometimes repel other Necron forces. So if
you're there and you're not allowed to be there,
the Canoptics and stuff will attack you even
if you're a Necron and it will also block your
reanimation protocol codes. So if you die there,
if you die in the game, you die in real life
if that happens, which is an issue. The spookiest
kind of Necron is a severed Necron from a severed
world. These worlds, on these worlds, the nobles
don't wake up, and the tomb world takes control
of these, all of the Necrons, of the world itself.
And it sees even other Necrons, even friendly
other Necrons as enemies, and it kind of makes
like zombie puppet Necrons and controls them,
which is neat. Oh, kind of like spiders. are
a big thing. They have pre -programmed curiosity
protocols. They're fun little guys. They help
wake up and maintain the tomb world along with
the rest of the Canoptics. Canoptics can maybe
be affected by the Flayer Curse. It's hard to
say. Advanced autonomous spirits are not to be
installed within Canoptics. There's something
called cleaning scarabs. Necrons fighting Necrons
is inconceivable to most Canoptic programming.
That's a thing. In one book, at least. There's
Tomb Sentinel and Tombstalkers. Those are the
centipede things. Some of them can go through
walls and they have anti -gravitic motors. They're
pretty cool. Scarabs can fuse together to make
a pistol, which would imply that they can transform
into other things. Scarabs will also eat anything
they want and make it into whatever they want.
You could get eaten by a Necron Scarab and turn
into a piece of the Necron Obelisk, which is
kind of fun. Here's some miscellaneous facts
to close us out, I guess. There will never be
Necron children, which I said before. Something
called the sixth evocation. Give unto him sand
for the soldiers, soil for the workers, and rock
for the lords. Obsession distracts from the curse,
the flayer curse. It's good to talk to your legions,
even if they can't comprehend it. Speaking keeps
one from insanity, and one of the greatest killers
is loneliness. Many commanders stopped talking
as there was no need. Talking, though, Talking
through ideas also helps one realize new paths.
MWT, M apostrophe WT, MWT, something like that,
is what the Necrons call the ghoul stars, which
we mentioned before. And the Flayer Curse seems
to be particularly active in the ghoul stars.
Kemet, which I said earlier, is a root word for
sacred, sacred ground. The name of the Treyarch
Praetorian in the new book is named Kemet with
an H. Through some arcane science, the Necrons
have galactic maps that change and react with
what happens in the galaxy. Most people know
where the Celestial Orrery is. There's a million
YouTube shorts about it, whatever. Yeah, is there
anything else that I really, really need to talk
about? Doom scythes go three times the speed
of sound. I don't know if that's actually fast.
Maybe it's fast for, like, just flying around,
doing whatever you want. That's pretty good.
Seraptic heavy constructs are based off the Dread
Monsters of Necron 2 myth. Lich Guard are too
proud to use their blades on unworthy foes and
will just beat things up. Like when Vargard Oberon
leads his Lich Guard against the Severed Worlds,
they just beat the Severed Necrons up because
they're not worthy of using weapons against them.
Destroyers spew catechisms of hate from their
mouthspeakers. That's cool. Warriors get controlled.
and acts by means of synaptic relay processes.
There's a lot of Praetorian lore. We don't have
to talk about that. Hal, do you want to just
give us a really brief, really brief, really
brief, really brief breakdown of Zarek, the Silent
King, of what he's been up to lately? Just brief,
just brief. Yeah, because Zarek has been... He's
been cranking his hog. 60 million years of cranking
your hog. As much as we will probably tackle
him in a character episode, because, again, he
deserves quite a bit more. But very briefly,
this is a whole prior Nexus thing that's been
going on. And as the different Necron dynasties
have awoken, obviously Imatek's kind of come
out as the strongest. The Imperium has also been
battling up to the point of what is the Great
Rift, and then this specific... race for whatever
there's arms race in the prior nexus for blackstone
which the necrons have often used in their pylons
and other stuff uh the silent king is not so
silent anymore he has been back in the universe
in our galaxy at least for quite a few hundred
years a few centuries at this point but he's
let himself be known now and he's briefly had
a little bout with the imperium during the indomitus
crusade where uh he has a i don't want to spoil
all of it because it's actually quite cool but
some of his own stuff but essentially he's almost
fought gilliman one -on -one but gilliman got
saved uh from that but gilliman was terrified
he's like oh my god we'll have to battle because
this thing was he couldn't fathom the scale of
the necron uh basically power that could be arrayed
against them despite he him wielding the indomitus
fleet but yeah prior nexus is still going on
and there's a few players in the game and the
silent king is definitely one of them and he
needs to get imatek either in line or he needs
to show him you know like maybe yes i am worthy
of the rule because i think the main division
between sarek and imotech is that Sarek is completely
devoted to the idea that he'll return them to
flesh and blood. Whereas Emotech's like, no,
we just need to unite the species and make do
with what we have. The biggest enemy of Sarek
is the Tyranids, because if the Tyranids eat
everything, no flesh to make new bodies with.
Whereas Emotech is like, we need to crush the
Imperium and Chaos and bring... and bring order
to the galaxy. Also, he thinks Zarek's time is
over. There's no need to have the old guard take,
and that's why there'll be civil war. He wasn't
even ambitious until he was awakened, and then
it was like, oh, my dynasty is in turmoil, and
he killed all the people in which I was like,
right, I'm a respected general. Do as I say,
because I know what I'm doing. Oh, okay. He thinks
Zarek is just the failure of the past. which
I guess he kind of is in some sense. And then
he doesn't think he's worthy to lead them anymore.
So we'll see how that goes down. Either he convinces
him or they battle it out. I think the most,
the more like, I guess important, the appearance
of Zarek is first kind of seen by the blood angels.
It's fairly, fairly important. He's literally
says he speaks to Dante, which is kind of cray
cray. Which is that he's not. he can't not speak
he just doesn't he usually speaks through proxies
as a silent king like he uh he basically zarek
flew around cranked his hog for 65 million years
he saw the tyranids decided that they're the
biggest threat to the galaxy he teams up with
the blood angels for a little bit and he appears
with the face of sanguineus and taiko dante and
some other random guy i don't know if he's an
important character the third company guy talks
to him um and he says to dante they are the rising
storm and you must become the shield and then
he kind of he kind of tricks dante and the blood
angels into sacrificing most of their forces
and stuff well the necrons help a little bit
to fight these tyranids but yeah he takes out
both of them with one stone so takes advantage
of them but to be fair the imperium would have
lost anyway yeah so there's implications that
he might have met sanguineus or he was going
to talk to sanguineus and then didn't get to
uh it's he seems to think like sanguineus would
have been a good emperor and that they could
have had an alliance or they even were going
to uh it's all this is all in one being manipulative
so who knows he might be manipulating who knows
yeah i mean like the stuff about the alliance
like a trier praetorian says it to anric here
the traveler so it's probably true uh It'd be
a random thing to lie about to Anric here, but
speaking of who, I'll list off the characters
really fast. We have Imhotek the Storm Lord,
the best general in Warhammer 40k, undeniably.
He's literally the most unbelievable genius.
He's won bajillion supercomputers in a guy's
brain, conducting 20 campaigns all at the same
time while also leading from the front lines.
He's prideful. His thing is that he'll defeat
a character. Instead of killing them, he'll just
take his hand to make fun of them. He takes Helbrek's
hand. He takes Eldorath Stormbane's hand. He's
the Taker of a Trillion Hands. That's his name.
And Master of 300 ,000 Worlds. He made the Old
Ones scared. The Old Ones were scared of him
because he was such a brutal... ingenious commander
i've said it before gone like the kubu is the
idiom that the necrons used because immotech
in the time of flesh absolutely eradicated the
kubu which were a rebellious dynasty we have
anarchy the traveler he's a kind of a pilgrim
trying to unite the dynasties he is probably
the most ambitious necron and trying the hardest
to unite all the dynasties he gave up control
of his crown world and he takes his period his
eternals with them he can cast his mind and use
his hecka to take control of machines we have
xandric and oberon xandric's the old wily guy
who's really nice and thinks he's still living
being and everyone's still flushing blood but
it's also implied that he actually knows that
they're all necrons and he's just pretending
and having a good time fargo oberon is his bar
guard his bodyguard probably one of the best
duelists in the galaxy pretty cool uh Illumina
Rosaris is the classic mad scientist TM of the
Necrons. He's doing some Susus Amogus experiments,
and he's kind of insane. If you get captured
by him, it's tough times for you. Potentially
more crazy than Fabius Bile, but a little bit
more of a direction. Orc and the Diviner is the
master chronomancer. He can literally go back
in time and fast -forward time and do all this
crazy stuff and see in the future. Trazen the
Infinite is the goofy guy who has the museum
with all the relics and is trying to... gather
all of history together just in case the galaxy
explodes and he needs to restart and whatever.
Yeah, that's Ultix. I was going to have Andy
talk about Ultix, but I guess we don't have to.
He's a twice dead king guy. He became the bone
king of Drezak. Spoiler, sorry. But also the
bone king is kind of hard to tell what it really
is. Yeah. Are there any more characters that
I missed over? Kamotep the Crooked is Anarchy.
Cryptek, and he's in a kill team. That's a thing.
Yeah. Jared DeJairus is a cool character. He's
a really nice guy. There's that new character,
which is the new lord. He's dead. Spoiler, sorry.
Yeah. I guess we can leave it off there. We're
going to save some for another episode or else
we won't get to talk about Necrons again. That's
why I meant. We'll do a three hour Necron Lords
episode maybe. Although it probably would be
better just to split the characters off into
their own separate episodes. Cool. I think we
have a few more donors to be Andy. We do. We
have four left. So set Hal judging my 3am white
claw chugging status. Yeah. Unbelievable. Eli's
most excessively hung Bretonnian stable boy for
27. Yes, Hal, it do be like that. Thank you for
that. That was in reference to the toilet bowl
comment earlier. Eli's most excessively hung
Bretonnian stable boy. Thank you for the 27 SEK.
Later PFB for this. I was the Torox TM name,
Colin. What does this mean, Colin? And Panzer
Ron for five bucks. Court stream late. Hope you
all are having a good night. Colin Battletech,
Law Crimes episode when? People are keen. It'll
happen. One day. One day, I'm sure. I am Star
League's strongest moron. I hope you guys liked
this Necron episode. I left out some stuff. I
have more to talk about sometime in the future.
Three hour long. I left out some stuff. I also
have more books to read and an Imperial Armor
book to read, so there's still many things to
discuss. I think Bro is unwell. He made 44 pages.
This was like 10 of the pages, I think, to be
honest. He just likes necrons. But we do have
a question of the week, don't we, Colin, for
the previous week? It's amazing how I... Do we?
Do we? Oh, previous weeks. Yeah, I thought I
was in charge of getting the old ones, which
I did grab. So in that case, yes, I do have those.
Pardon me. My bad. You know, it was like, you
know, I've reread the first one. I'm sorry. It
was, you know, what's something horrifying in
Warhammer? What are you afraid of? Hashtag fear.
cursive s hashtag fear the moment hal starts
planning his pre -stream gooning time frames
appropriately i know shit's about i'm in man
if we reach that point i'm never late though
i'm like hell is usually on time yeah I'm the
one who's never late. Today was one of two times
he was the last person in. And even then, he
was like two seconds behind me. What Hal means
to say is he set a fire across the way from his
house, and then the fire brigade had to come
and sort it out. Fire brigade? Is that what you
guys call your firefighters? Yeah. I've heard
both. That was a little goofy, though. your country
though so you know it's fine i'm sure it's been
around a long long time so that's all good cope
cope and see cope and see country the size of
our state says what naira 9855 fear living in
40k and eating the same fucking meal every time
for my entire life i'm gonna be already bro could
not be a gym bro what the heck i ate like a dog
man i'm gonna be honest i think going off that
there's a lot more misery in 40k than people
see and think about i mean even just beyond you
know there's a jean stealer outside my house
i mean oh boy my fallen dead neighbors turned
into food for the tenth time this week. Or even,
you said Genesee, I've just done my video on
Genesee the cult, so there's one called the Wormlings,
and they just eat bugs. This particular type
of bug. They have big grubs in a pit that they
throw people in. Yeah, they eat the bugs from
a cemetery well, a mortuary well, so they eat
bugs from dead people, and they're like, it makes
us strong! And I'm like, it probably tastes like
a cat. And then the last one, Donkey Man USA.
Hashtag fear being one of the few servitors that
regains sapience due to malfunction. I have no
mouth, but I must scream. I must scream. I have
no soul, and I must scream. It's been hit back
in the minds. Fucking idiot. And we have another
question of the week, don't we? What was the
one we chose this week? I believe it was. Was
it? I thought we were going to do hashtag biotransference.
What would you look forward to? Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. There's not a lot of biotransference. Yeah,
what are you looking forward to? When Necrons
sit down, by the way, they don't have to use
chairs. They just bend their legs and pretend
to sit, basically. And time is a weird concept
to them. If you're late to a meeting, you might
be, like, 50 years late, and that's just, like,
whatever. They just accept that. Thousands of
years go by and, like, no one cares. Also, Trey
is one of the first guys to wake up after the
Great Sleep. He woke up. I know there was a council
in place where it was, like, if anyone else woke
up early, the council existed to keep them in
line from stabbing all their rivals. I just thought
the idea is, like, for all their power and manipulation
of time -space, they could... I didn't invent
one of those little egg stopwatch things. I believe
Anarchy also woke up early. I don't know, there's
a few people who woke up early. And it's where,
like, Sarek never went to sleep. He just went
out and ventured. Him and the Traitorians did
not go to sleep. Yeah, and then they went, what's
that? Oh, Gribblies. Gribbly Wibblies. Get back,
get back to the hallway. Cool. Yeah, that was
fun. And yeah, so I hope you guys enjoyed this
one. Pray for Eli. Pray for Panky. Panky has
tumor, bro. Pray for him. Sending love for you.
God bless you. We hope you enjoyed that episode.
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