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0:00of all the sentient species within the
0:0240k universe none of them are quite as
0:04mysterious or as complex as the necrons
0:06now these are beings out of time a
0:08species that should have been confined
0:10to the grave millions of years ago they
0:12are a relic of a horrific time in the
0:14universe's history where the entire
0:16galaxy was engulfed in the flames of war
0:18nowadays the necrons exist as a
0:20cautionary tale of what the quest for
0:22vengeance and immortality can bring they
0:24are an absolutely ancient species the
0:26oldest in the galaxy in fact and in the
0:28time of flesh and blood nearly 60
0:30million years ago they waged an
0:32impossible war against god-like species
0:34known as the old ones now their hatred
0:36of them was so severe that they were
0:38willing to sacrifice their very souls to
0:40see their enemies eradicated they made
0:42deals with terrifying eldritch gods and
0:44traded everything for immortality the
0:46once proud yet frail necron tier shed
0:49their living forms in exchange for the
0:51undying metal bodies we know today and
0:53although originally betrayed and
0:54deceived by those very same gods the
0:56necrons would suffer no one above them
0:58and turned against their unholy masters
1:01shattering and shackling them to their
1:02engines of war turning their horrifying
1:04destructive abilities against those that
1:06would deny them as the masters of the
1:08physical universe now these monsters at
1:10one point had been successful in
1:12conquering nearly the entire galaxy they
1:15saw all life as beneath them and preyed
1:17on the living feeding them to their gods
1:19like livestock and then suddenly they
1:22vanished the unstoppable silver tide of
1:25death and horror that had enslaved gods
1:27and committed a million-year xenocide of
1:29unimaginable proportions
1:31disappeared without a trace never to be
1:33seen again
1:34now for millions of years these stories
1:36were thought to be no more than a legend
1:37a metaphor for the price of vengeance or
1:40possibly even just a scary bedtime story
1:42that the eldar would tell their children
1:44but here in the 41st millennium it has
1:46become apparent that these impossible
1:48tales were true that the necrons had
1:50returned and they had come back to
1:51reclaim what was once theirs and
1:53eradicate all that stood in their way
1:56when the necron tears shed flesh and
1:59left death forward nessa creatures
2:02we thought of only freedom from fear and
2:05making kingdoms that would never die we
2:08do not think of what else immortality
2:10would entail we thought in terms of wars
2:13and destruction in conquest
2:16but eternity also requires what you
2:18would call
2:19[Music]
2:20entertainment engage the necrons in
2:23battle is to fight death itself their
2:25undying legions harness some of the most
2:26advanced technology the galaxy has ever
2:28seen they are arrogant and soulless and
2:30see all organic life is beneath them now
2:32to stare into the glowing green eye
2:34sockets of the necron is to see eons of
2:36hatred made manifest to witness the rise
2:39and fall of countless empires and to
2:41truly know the bitter price of hatred
2:43you would see the futility of struggle
2:45how do you kill something that can't die
2:47how do you wage war against something
2:49that is so more advanced than you then
2:50the most powerful weapons you can bring
2:52to bear are no better than sticks and
2:54stones and how do you prepare for a war
2:56that can come from any direction at any
2:58moment even from beneath your own feet
3:00and what do you do when you realize that
3:03everything you've ever thought to be
3:04true was a lie that your pathetic view
3:07of the superiority of your species and
3:09your claim to the universe was built
3:11upon nothing more than ignorance and
3:13wishful thinking what do you do when the
3:15world your people have called home for
3:17millions of years the one that birthed
3:19your species and whose value cannot be
3:21quantified what do you do when you
3:23realize your people are nothing more
3:25than an infestation a squatter that's
3:27overstayed its welcome and what do you
3:29do when its true owners return to evict
3:32you
3:33so if you've ever read anything about
3:34the necrons you've probably heard that
3:36their planets are normally referred to
3:38as tomb worlds but what exactly is a
3:39tomb world so you can honestly think of
3:41a tomb world as basically a planet-sized
3:44crypt an eternal resting place of the
3:45necrons each contain deep labyrinthian
3:48underground structures that can house
3:49millions of them each one locked away in
3:51stasis for millions of years although
3:53the necrons are sealed away deep in
3:54stasis the halls of these structures are
3:56actively patrolled by their canopic
3:58constructs they maintain and repair the
4:00crips and keep everything in working
4:01order eagerly awaiting the return of
4:03their dormant masters so even though
4:05these structures are slumbering they're
4:06maintained by incredibly complex ai
4:09systems that monitor the necrons and
4:10keep the complex safe from intruders
4:12these worlds these structures are
4:13confined to were once ruled by the
4:15necrons during the war in heaven however
4:17since these structures have lain dormant
4:19for around 60 million years many of them
4:20have been colonized by new species you
4:22would have no way of knowing that you're
4:24on a tomb world until it comes online
4:26and the necrons try to remove you the
4:28process of which a tomb world can become
4:29active are numerous it could be the
4:31result of a simple timer going off
4:33geological activity that damages the
4:35structure or even its ai detecting
4:37intrusive life forms within the confines
4:39of its halls now it's not uncommon for
4:41eccentric and hopeful individuals to end
4:43up digging too deep within the surface
4:45of their world seeking to mine natural
4:47resources only to discover the ancient
4:49crypt of the necrons now obviously
4:51hindsight is 20 20 here but the correct
4:53thing to do would be fill that hole back
4:55up and pretend you never saw anything
4:58however the greed of sentient species
5:00knows no bounds and the promise of
5:01ancient alien archaeotect is too
5:04tempting to be resisted now this simple
5:06act of curiosity is often the catalyst
5:08that spells the doom of many a world now
5:11however tomb world ends up becoming
5:13active when an awakening is triggered
5:14it's basically the apocalypse the
5:16complex begins to rise from beneath the
5:18surface massive earthquakes across the
5:20planet devastate the population oceans
5:22drain away and lava boils to the surface
5:25now amidst the calamity of natural
5:26disasters the immortal killing machines
5:28begin to claw their way to the surface
5:30rising up within the very foundation of
5:32their intruders defensible structures
5:34quite often this actually resembles
5:36something out of an old zombie movie
5:38undead robots literally rising from
5:39their graves to eradicate the living
5:42swarms of alien constructs blotting out
5:44the sun and long dead lords rising from
5:47their graves to take command of their
5:48legions once again in deafening silence
5:51they ordered the destruction of the
5:52living and a cleansing of the unclean
5:55from their sacred world the weapons
5:57these creatures wield are unlike
5:58anything humanity has ever encountered
6:00it is seemingly as advanced as it is
6:02ancient mass-produced gauze weaponry
6:04that flays skin from the bone and can
6:06reduce the target to nothing more than
6:08atoms and mere moments even the lowliest
6:10of warriors is equipped with advanced
6:12targeting arrays that make them
6:13devastatingly accurate necron pilots are
6:16hardwired into their vehicles their
6:18machines basically becoming an extension
6:19of themselves and without organic bodies
6:22that are subject to the laws of physics
6:23they're able to make absolutely
6:25impossible maneuvers that would kill a
6:27normal flesh and blood pilot the
6:29majority of their soldiers are immortal
6:30unthinking literal killing machines that
6:32seek to purge all life from a world the
6:35attacks come with no warning as the
6:36world's defenses are quickly overwhelmed
6:39all organic life is atomized and the
6:40necrons take no prisoners if a species
6:43is fast enough to get a distress beacon
6:45out the world their allies come to
6:46defend will look radically different the
6:48architecture of the previous owners has
6:50been left in ruins and all that remains
6:52of organic life is but dust in the wind
6:55instead they find colossal monolithic
6:57structures of ancient alien design
6:59architecture that hasn't seen the light
7:01of a sun in 60 million years they are
7:03met with unbelievable resistance from a
7:06newly embedded ruler now what makes the
7:08necrons particularly dangerous is the
7:10fact that they're all basically immortal
7:12each one is comprised of a living metal
7:14substance known as the necrodermis their
7:16bodies can repair themselves from all
7:17but the most catastrophic of damage now
7:19if the damage is too great to be
7:21repaired in the fight itself they can
7:23also utilize a phasing technology this
7:25teleports the wounded or crippled
7:27individual and all of their equipment
7:29out of the battle and back to the safety
7:30of their tomb world their ability to
7:32heal themselves is known as the
7:33resurrection protocols and this allows
7:35them to take enormous amounts of
7:36punishment and heal from practically any
7:38injury this makes them incredibly
7:40difficult to destroy or even capture we
7:42have no way of studying them or their
7:44technology we only have first-hand
7:46accounts of the worlds they have purged
7:48data logs and vox transcripts from the
7:50moments of annihilation a warning in the
7:52darkness of what is to come and here's
7:55the thing about the necrons there are
7:56particularly arrogant species they see
7:59no difference between the forces of
8:00humanity the slaves to chaos or the
8:02various alien races that inhabit the
8:04galaxy all are vermin and must be purged
8:08the galaxy once belonged to the necrons
8:10and they've come back to reclaim it
8:11their conquest of eradication will never
8:13end so long as the living still draw
8:16breath within their kingdom now
8:17depending on when you started reading
8:19about the necrons their lore has
8:20actually undergone a couple of different
8:22iterations over the years now the old
8:24lore basically portrayed the necrons as
8:25an unstoppable tide of robot zombies
8:28terminators that would appear without
8:30warning and purge all life from a planet
8:32there was no reasoning with them no
8:33communication and they were beyond
8:35mysterious we knew practically nothing
8:37about them and that was honestly kind of
8:40part of their charm they were meant to
8:42be this super mysterious and horrifying
8:44entity an archetype of terror they
8:46existed to demonstrate just how brutal
8:48and unforgiving the galaxy truly was
8:50that for all of our understanding and
8:52all of our knowledge there were things
8:54in this universe we couldn't even begin
8:55to comprehend that our persistence was
8:58ultimately futile and the superiority of
9:00mankind nothing but a myth
9:03however more recent lore for lack of
9:05better words has actually kind of
9:06fleshed them out quite a bit giving the
9:08necrons a voice and ourselves a deeper
9:10insight into what they used to be and
9:12what they have become now it was once
9:14believed that all necrons lacked any
9:16form of consciousness however we know
9:18now that basically the more important a
9:20necron was in life the more sentients
9:22they maintain in their current form this
9:24means that necron nobles are incredibly
9:25intelligent and fully capable of
9:27communication and have their
9:28personalities intact their minds are
9:30unburdened from the limitations of flesh
9:32they are able to process information
9:34much quicker than a normal human and
9:36have various neural programs that
9:37enhance their minds even further now one
9:40such cognitive upgrade is known as sub
9:42minds a necron lord who has been
9:43upgraded with such a thing basically has
9:45multiple brains these are often
9:47reflections of their own mind but
9:49hyper-specialized in certain areas now
9:51in the novel the twice dead king the
9:52main character altex is equipped with
9:54multiple sub minds each a copy of his
9:56own yet completely dedicated to one
9:58specific aspect of his personality and
10:00knowledge in this way he's able to have
10:03full and complete dialogues with himself
10:05in order to come up with the best
10:06possible path of action for any given
10:08situation of his multiple sub-minds one
10:10is dedicated to war and combat another
10:13to politics and another is completely
10:15dedicated to zenology so in a sense no
10:18matter where he goes he has a team of
10:20trained scholars inside his head to help
10:22him make decisions and speaking of which
10:24let's speak a bit more on nekron
10:26dynasties and their nobility now there
10:27are many great necron dynasties each led
10:29by a different ruling class they all
10:31have different wants desires and plans
10:34and it's actually really interesting to
10:35see them bicker and squabble amongst
10:37themselves now despite their background
10:39all necrons are a proud people heavily
10:41inspired by the ancient egyptian culture
10:43of earth now despite their superhuman
10:45levels of intellect not all of the
10:47necrons made it through the deep sleep
10:49with their minds completely intact it is
10:51said that a great madness has infected
10:53the necron people and many of them have
10:55had their minds kind of deteriorated
10:57over the years now what that means is
10:59unique to the individual but it's not
11:01uncommon for a once benevolent lord to
11:03become paranoid and hyper-aggressive
11:05when he reawakens now when it comes to
11:07communication necrons are fully capable
11:09of speech but there's no real reason to
11:12do this other than out of tradition now
11:14most of the time they are basically
11:15communicating three form of binary which
11:17in addition uses a series of glyphs
11:19represented on their bodies now these
11:21glyphs give further emphasis to emotion
11:24and you can basically think of them like
11:25a high form of emoji these can represent
11:28happiness sadness anger futility
11:31anything you can think of now likewise
11:32their ships are often completely
11:34uninhabitable by organic life as the
11:36necrons have no need for air they are
11:38literally floating tombs inhabited only
11:40by the dead of all the things the
11:42necrons are known for their technology
11:44and superior weaponry are probably their
11:45number one claim to fame so let's talk a
11:47bit more about their weapons of all the
11:50weaponry utilized by the necrons none is
11:52more iconic or commonplace than that of
11:54gauze technology now god's weapons come
11:56in many different forms but all of them
11:58work by projecting a beam of energy that
12:00disrupts and disassembles matter at the
12:02molecular level in a practical sense
12:04this technology can be used by
12:05constructs such as scarabs to
12:07disassemble matter into its core
12:08components and then use those to
12:10reconstruct into something new breaking
12:13down rocks to then use those molecules
12:15to create something more useful like a
12:16bridge or a fortress for example now
12:18when utilized as a weapon the gas beam
12:21creates a devastating effect on living
12:22flesh it basically breaks down the
12:24impact site and turns the target into
12:26dust the effects of the beam go layer by
12:28layer on the target tearing them apart
12:30piece by piece
12:31needless to say this is a pretty
12:33horrific way to go and the gauze
12:34weaponry is rightfully feared these
12:36weapons can take the form of
12:38mass-produced gauze rifles to the
12:39massive gauze flux arrays the larger of
12:42which can tear apart hordes of infantry
12:44in mere moments now another common form
12:46of necron weaponry is known as tesla
12:48weapons now these firearms fire arcing
12:50bolts of lightning that can bounce from
12:52target to target increasing in strength
12:54every time they jump now if they're
12:56allowed to jump too quickly these arcs
12:58can become powerful enough to crack
12:59concrete now although an interesting
13:01fact about them these weapons are
13:03normally used more for engaging with a
13:05lot of lightly armored foes whereas the
13:07gauze weaponry is much better against
13:09highly armored targets now particle
13:11weapons are completely different from
13:12the first two whereas god's weaponry
13:14disrupts matter and causes it to break
13:16apart a particle weapon basically
13:19energizes atoms and causes them to
13:20violently be repelled from one another
13:23the target literally tearing itself
13:24apart now this can render human soldiers
13:26into piles of goo or cause tanks to
13:29collapse in on themselves as the atoms
13:31that held them together are ripped in
13:33every direction and finally let's talk
13:35about the big guns now these are known
13:37as doomsday weapons they are massive
13:39hulking death machines that have to be
13:40mounted on a stable weapons platform as
13:42they are far too large to be wielded by
13:44infantry now they use a massive stream
13:46of plasma that is focused and projected
13:49through a targeting crystal which
13:50unleashes a hellish beam of devastating
13:52light that eradicates everything in its
13:54path now the prey these are used against
13:57are far larger and more dangerous than
13:59any infantry now some of them are
14:00capable of obliterating even the largest
14:02of war machines tearing out the heart of
14:04an imperial titan and a single shot and
14:07in order to not bog this video down by
14:09listing literally every type of necron
14:11weapon ever documented i'll make a point
14:13to mention the most devastating creation
14:14in the entire galaxy
14:16now it is known as the celestial orry
14:19and it's basically a giant holographic
14:20map of the milky way now every star
14:23every solar system every sector is
14:25illuminated within it in precise detail
14:28now traditionally this thing is used
14:29more like a scrying device as having a
14:31map of everything that updates
14:33practically in real time is an
14:34unbelievably valuable tool however the
14:37celestial already harbors a much darker
14:39function in that the user can literally
14:41select stars within the map and
14:43basically tap them out of existence if
14:46the user was so inclined he could cause
14:48any star in the galaxy to supernova
14:51unleashing destruction on a cosmic scale
14:53never before seen now how such a
14:55creation works is a complete mystery and
14:57because this thing is a creation of
14:59sheer horrific magnificence the entire
15:01auroscar dynasty is sworn to its
15:03protection and although many other
15:05dynasties or even forces outside of the
15:08necrons would love to get their hands on
15:09this thing the oriskar dynasty will
15:11eternally defend it with their lives
15:13seeking counsel with the celestial ory
15:15is not something that's out of the
15:16question it's just very difficult to do
15:19now in the novel the infinite and the
15:20divine trezen was able to use this thing
15:22to locate a particular device of
15:24interest to him however let's just say
15:26that the meeting did not go well and
15:28he's definitely banned from ever using
15:30it again now the reason i bring this
15:31thing up is to elaborate on something of
15:33critical importance for you to
15:35understand just how powerful the necrons
15:37once were you see the war in heaven was
15:39an event 60 million years ago that saw
15:42the entire galaxy engulfed in war
15:44every conflict we see in the 41st
15:46millennium supposedly pales in
15:48comparison to just how horrific this
15:50time period was the necrons had created
15:52weapons capable of killing gods and
15:55after the war had ended the silent king
15:57ordered the destruction of all of them
15:59seeing no reason for such terrifying
16:02weaponry to exist as the cost to the
16:04universe would be too great if they ever
16:06fell into the wrong hands
16:08the celestial orary was allowed to
16:10remain functional so if this thing got
16:13the pass we can only begin to imagine
16:16just how insane the other weapons must
16:19have been now despite what we normally
16:21see in artwork and on the tabletop game
16:23the reality is that most battles take
16:26place in the void of space so let's take
16:28a moment to talk some more about their
16:29ships so much like everything about the
16:32necrons the ships they use are
16:33incredibly advanced so much so that
16:35their technology seems to be more akin
16:37to arcane magic than actual science now
16:40what we know about them is shockingly
16:42very little but we do know that they
16:44utilize two main types of systems to
16:46achieve faster than light travel the
16:48first is what is known as an inertialist
16:50drive meaning that somehow they have
16:52managed to break the laws of physics and
16:54their ships create no inertia meaning
16:56that in the vacuum of space they are
16:58able to move incredibly quickly possibly
17:00on par if not faster than those who
17:02utilize the warp to travel now it goes
17:04without saying that utilizing something
17:06like this is obviously incredibly
17:08efficient and practical as warp travel
17:10is insanely dangerous now the second
17:12thing they use is a system of portals
17:14known as dolem gates you see these
17:16things allow the necrons to infiltrate
17:18the web way which is basically like a
17:20network of tunnels that spreads across
17:22the known galaxy they exist as basically
17:24a pocket dimension between the warp and
17:26real space and are traditionally used
17:28only by the eldar as anyone who was able
17:30to infiltrate them would quickly get
17:32lost within their vast labyrinthian
17:34network of tunnels now the dolan gates
17:36haven't been mentioned in a long time so
17:38it's unclear if the necrons still
17:39utilize them now even though in the 41st
17:41millennium the webway is currently
17:43mastered by the eldari it didn't always
17:45used to be that way you see it was
17:47originally created by the old ones the
17:49ancient enemy of the necrons and who
17:51they fought during the war in heaven and
17:53before the necrons found a way to
17:54infiltrate it they were constantly
17:56outmaneuvered by the old ones it was the
17:58creation of the dolum gates that quickly
18:00swung the war in the necrons favor but
18:02i'm getting ahead of myself and we'll
18:04talk about the war in heaven in a little
18:05bit now what's really interesting about
18:07their ships is that they have something
18:09of an achilles heel you see their
18:11technology is unbelievably ridiculous
18:13and it can actually prove to be
18:14ineffective against the barbaric and
18:16primitive technology utilized by the
18:18imperium of man in the twice dead king
18:20there is a group of necrons that are
18:22fleeing from the imperium the torpedoes
18:24that mankind utilizes are seen as
18:26unbelievably primitive the necrons
18:28scoffing that the brutish and
18:30uncivilized race of man still fires
18:32physical projectiles at their enemies
18:35this is seen as incredibly uncouth and
18:37boorish that being said the shielding
18:39their ships use were created to deflect
18:42blows from god weapons energy-based
18:45weaponry that could shatter stars they
18:47were not designed to protect against the
18:49space-faring equivalent of throwing
18:50rocks at your enemy now without getting
18:52into spoilers this makes the human
18:54pursuers in the story incredibly
18:56dangerous to the necrons so let's talk a
18:58little bit more about how necron society
19:00is structured now when it comes to the
19:02necron hierarchy each of the tomb worlds
19:04is ruled by a singular individual that
19:06controls a vast court of nobles now
19:08smaller tomb worlds may be ruled by a
19:10lord or an overlord whereas larger ones
19:13may be governed by what is known as a
19:15pharon there are hundreds of necron
19:17dynasties some splinters of much larger
19:19ones but all with varying cultures and
19:21power levels and the largest of which is
19:24known as the sawtech dynasty now the
19:26slatec dynasty is possibly the most
19:28well-known of all necron dynasties
19:30they've claimed hundreds of worlds since
19:32their time of awakening with more and
19:33more of their aligned tomb worlds coming
19:35online every day now the satech dynasty
19:37is so large and powerful that it dwarfs
19:39all others by comparison ruled over by
19:42imotec the stormlord the satech dynasty
19:44is rigorously militaristic in nature
19:46limiting its conquest to not just that
19:48of lesser races but also those of rival
19:51dynasties they seek to assimilate all
19:53necrons under one banner the sautec
19:54dynasty wishes to reunite the necron
19:56people once again and if this must be
19:58done through military conquest then so
20:00be it now many lords will bend the need
20:02to emotex might before any blows are
20:04struck often being highly praised and
20:06rewarded for doing so being folded into
20:09the ranks of the sawtech is deemed an
20:11honorable path to take as the wise
20:13ruler's pride was less important than
20:15the good of his people this is possibly
20:17the best outcome such an individual can
20:19hope for as to deny the storm lord's
20:21will is to invite an unwinnable war such
20:24a dynasty would be absolutely brutalized
20:26and inevitably absorbed into the satech
20:29legions anyways now despite the vast
20:31cultural differences of many of the
20:32dynasties there's actually a lot of
20:34trends that remain the same within their
20:36various royal courts you see each court
20:38is made up of a lot of different members
20:40each with different backgrounds there
20:41are cryptics who are basically like
20:43court wizards they're scientists and
20:45engineers of the necrons that study many
20:47of the arts that were practiced by their
20:48ancestors these disciplines include that
20:51of biomancy plasmancy and even
20:53chronomancy the study of manipulating
20:55time now despite their seemingly arcane
20:57nature all of these studies of the
20:59cryptex are scientific in origin to the
21:01casual observer there is little
21:03difference between a trained cryptek and
21:05a psycher both are able to bend the
21:07nature of reality to their whim and
21:09unleash devastation upon their enemies
21:11now like all necrons the cryptex are
21:13beings of the physical universe and thus
21:15have no ability to manipulate the warp
21:17to do so requires a connection to the
21:19immaterium and the necrons do not have
21:21souls and thus for lack of better words
21:24are basically just engram copies of
21:26consciousness they cannot manipulate the
21:28immaterium it doesn't change the fact
21:30that what they are capable of is truly
21:32remarkable a skilled cryptek can bend
21:34space and time not to mention keep the
21:36ancient machinery of the necrons in
21:38working order other members of the court
21:40include that of royal wardens and these
21:42guys basically act like a hybrid between
21:44a lieutenant on the battlefield and a
21:46trained diplomat when it comes to war
21:48they make excellent lieutenants
21:49commanding legions of troops in the name
21:51of their king while simultaneously being
21:53trained in the art of dialogue and
21:55politics they are able to speak for
21:57their lord when he isn't present and the
21:58rewards for those that demonstrate
22:00competence and enacting the will of
22:01their king are vast and great whether
22:04they be gifted their own tomb world or
22:06their own swath of space to rule over is
22:08something that many lords strive for the
22:10generosity of their king knows no bounds
22:12but so does his wrath for those that
22:14would fail him you see underneath the
22:16lovecraftian horror of the necrons is
22:18something much more earthly in nature
22:21they are rigid people that adhere to
22:22tradition in the strictest of terms
22:24these are holdovers from the time of
22:26flesh where loyalty to one's king was of
22:28incredible importance concepts of
22:30subterfuge and going against his orders
22:32are unbelievably taboo it's as if the
22:35ruler of a dynasty is seen as a living
22:37god so to go against his will is out of
22:39the question now this leads many nobles
22:42to having a sycophantic relationship
22:43with their lords doing all they can to
22:46seek their favor at the same time a
22:48necron king must embody the role of a
22:50living god without question to show
22:51mercy is to display weakness to his
22:53subjects mercy and forgiveness are a
22:56sickness that will corrode even the
22:58strongest of dynasties a necron ruler
23:00must be like a wall that breaks the
23:02tides never faltering in his goals or
23:04ambitions and although members of his
23:06court seldom falter in their loyalty
23:08this does not mean treachery cannot come
23:09from outside of a court in this sense
23:12many nobles are distrusting of outsiders
23:14from other dynasties now you see the
23:15diversity of the necrons doesn't begin
23:17and end within the confines of a dynasty
23:19as there are various sub-factions and
23:21cults that are spread across all of
23:22necron culture
23:24now one of which is known as the
23:26destroyer cult you see these individuals
23:28truly encompass the madness that can
23:30infect necrons over time
23:32members of the destroyer cult have an
23:34absolute disdain for all organic life
23:37now necrons in general tend to view
23:39humans and other sentient species as
23:41unclean lacking the purity of the metal
23:43form makes them inherently weak and
23:45uncivilized however there is a vastly
23:48larger portion of necrons that want to
23:50undo what they see as the metal curse
23:52hoping to find a way to reverse
23:54biotransference the process that turned
23:56them into the necrons we know today but
23:57we'll cover that shortly it is the
23:59belief of these individuals that if they
24:01find a suitable host species and clear
24:04away all other threats then one day they
24:06might find a way to transfer their
24:08consciousness into said species and in
24:10this way the necrons could pick up where
24:12they left off 60 million years ago they
24:14would trade away immortality for a
24:16normal life the destroyer cult sees this
24:19concept as abhorrent they wish to
24:22distance themselves from organics as
24:23much as possible often contorting and
24:26upgrading their own bodies for the sole
24:28purpose of being better at killing the
24:30destroyers are death incarnate and will
24:32often purge entire worlds of every
24:34living creature all the way down to
24:36microscopic organisms using their
24:38god-killing weaponry to boil away oceans
24:41and scour the land destroyers can be
24:43found throughout necron society but they
24:45are often viewed as barbaric and
24:47inherently untrustworthy now that being
24:49said the destroyers are so good at doing
24:52what they do that only the most foolish
24:54and arrogant of lords would deny their
24:56usefulness destroyers are often taken as
24:59auxiliary forces or used as decimating
25:01shock troops and despite how they are
25:03normally portrayed they do have their
25:04own culture and values what compels an
25:07individual to become a destroyer is
25:09however currently unknown now some
25:11believe that it is a curse left over
25:13from the shattering of one of the katan
25:15a curse that in reality may just be some
25:18kind of program buried deep in their
25:20neural networks now another slightly
25:22more disturbing faction of necrons is
25:24known as the flayed ones you see flayed
25:26ones are viewed as diseased and twisted
25:28individuals they are afflicted with a
25:30madness curse known as the flare virus
25:32that causes them to slowly go insane
25:34over time
25:35now once afflicted with the flare virus
25:37a necron will begin to crave the taste
25:39of flesh now this starts small at first
25:42the individual may take a finger or some
25:44other grizzly trophy from the
25:45battlefield and consume it in secret
25:47over time the desire for meat grows
25:49stronger and stronger until the
25:51individual completely loses himself to
25:53their hunger now this can take years to
25:55develop some notable individuals holding
25:57off their transformation for multiple
25:59decades others with less strong wills
26:01can lose themselves quite quickly and
26:03here's the really sad thing about this
26:05the necrons are robots they don't have
26:08mouths or any type of digestive system
26:10for that matter so an individual
26:11afflicted with the curse can often be
26:14seen ripping and tearing into piles of
26:15bodies trying to shove as much of the
26:17meat into their mouths as they can but
26:19they don't have mouths they just have a
26:21marking on their face plate to show
26:22where a mouth once was
26:24viscera and gore smearing all over their
26:26bodies and dribbling down through their
26:28mechanical insides they're like hungry
26:31ghosts every day spent in agony their
26:33hunger growing deeper and deeper yet
26:35they cannot feed now over time their
26:38bodies will begin to twist and mutate to
26:40better serve them as harvesters of gore
26:42their fingers and arms fusing together
26:44in long thin scythe-like blades their
26:46spines twisting and contorting and their
26:48limbs elongating forcing them to
26:50permanently be hunched over taking on
26:52the appearance of a crouching predator
26:54the flayed ones are seen as the lowest
26:56form of life within necron society and
26:58the idea that any one of them could turn
27:00into such a creature is absolutely
27:02horrifying worst of all they believe
27:05that this curse is contagious
27:08when an individual is found to be
27:09displaying symptoms of the virus they
27:11are often banished either being exiled
27:13from their dynasty and sent off into the
27:15void of space or more commonly forced to
27:18reside deep in the undercroft of their
27:19tomb worlds long forgotten dark places
27:22where they will be forever alone save
27:24for the company of other cursed now over
27:27time the flayed ones will develop the
27:29ability to tunnel through reality the
27:31scent of blood from distant battlefields
27:33across the stars drawing them together
27:36now necron armies do not traditionally
27:37utilize the flayed ones in war more
27:40often they materialize seemingly at
27:42random at the sights of great battles
27:44that the necrons are involved in they
27:46rip through a portal into reality and
27:48descend on the battlefield like a wave
27:49of mechanical zombies come to feast upon
27:52the flesh of the living now it was
27:54thought for a long time that the flayed
27:55ones had no personality that they had
27:57completely descended into madness and
27:59any semblance of who they once were had
28:01been completely lost to history now part
28:03of their transformation is the losing of
28:05the ability to speak so there was no way
28:07to actually communicate with them
28:09however recently we've been given a much
28:11deeper insight into them and the reality
28:13is actually far more depressing than we
28:15originally thought you see in the second
28:17novel of the twice dead king trilogy it
28:19is revealed that the flayed ones still
28:21maintain their personalities they are
28:23not as insane as we once thought now
28:25they communicate through a series of
28:27taps tapping their claws out in a binary
28:29system to communicate messages those who
28:32have been afflicted with a curse no
28:33matter what stage they're in can
28:34actually understand this as if they were
28:36speaking the necrons native language now
28:39here's the saddest part you see these
28:41long forgotten individuals that have
28:42been banished from their dynasties and
28:44forced to live in the shadows
28:46actually remain some of the most loyal
28:48subjects within necron society
28:50the protagonist of the story the necron
28:52lord olteks ends up having a
28:54conversation with one of his friends who
28:56has completed his transformation into a
28:58flayed one and without getting into
28:59spoilers the necron protagonists asked
29:01why the flayed ones continuously showed
29:03up to help them and the flayed one is
29:05deeply saddened by this question and
29:07asks him why do you think he implies
29:10that despite being banished and despite
29:12his people looking upon him as a monster
29:14he still has a deep love for his dynasty
29:17and no matter what he is still loyal to
29:20his king and will show up whenever he
29:22needs him now whether this is true or
29:25not of all flayed ones or just this
29:27particular group is still left unclear
29:29but it certainly gives us a new insight
29:31into the workings of a particularly
29:32mysterious group
29:35my people shackled the stars and broke
29:37mortality when the species you sprang
29:39from had barely left your slime pools
29:42all wars burned reality and the dominion
29:45of our kings was without limit
29:48the ground you tread on is not yours it
29:51is ours
29:54so how did the necrons get here who were
29:56they before they became the undead metal
29:58skeletons that we know today
30:00now way back in the before times the
30:02necrons did not exist but the species
30:04that would inevitably become them was
30:06known as the necron tear now this was a
30:08cursed and frail species that had the
30:10unfortunate fate of being born on an
30:12uncaring world next to a super
30:14radioactive star another planet was
30:17barren and hostile to life and the sad
30:19truth of the matter was radiation
30:20sickness and cancers ran rampant through
30:22their society they lived incredibly
30:24short lives and their lifespan was
30:26filled with pain and suffering now
30:27despite the overwhelming odds the necron
30:30tear endured they weathered the storm
30:32that was their destiny and through some
30:33miracle managed to reach the space
30:36faring age now the necron tier knew that
30:38if they stayed on their world their
30:39species would inevitably wither and die
30:41as through the generations their species
30:43deterioration was getting worse and
30:45worse so they built vast ships and set
30:48off in every direction desperately
30:50trying to find a new place to live so
30:52that their children would at least have
30:53a chance in this cold hard galaxy that
30:56didn't care about them now as luck would
30:58have it they did encounter new worlds
31:00that were habitable and this inspired a
31:02hope that the necron necrontier had
31:03never experienced before here was their
31:05chance to start again to give their
31:08people a real fighting chance
31:10however
31:11fate is fickle and the curse of their
31:13homeworld followed them into the stars
31:16now many generations would pass and even
31:18though these colonizers were many light
31:20years away from their homeworld sun its
31:22light cast a far-reaching shadow and the
31:24children born of these worlds still
31:26displayed signs of radiation sickness no
31:29matter how many years passed the new
31:31offspring's life expectancy remained the
31:33same just because they had escaped their
31:35world hadn't meant that they had escaped
31:36its curse during this time many new
31:39dynasties arose and as luck would have
31:40it they would encounter a species known
31:42as the old ones and the two of them
31:44couldn't be more different from one
31:45another the old ones were a race of
31:48impossible alien intelligence they were
31:50immortal beings that lived in prosperity
31:52and were united in the goal of seeding
31:54life throughout the universe you see the
31:57old ones saw themselves as biological
31:59architects guiding the evolution of the
32:01galaxy in the right direction they would
32:03travel from planet to planet placing the
32:05seeds of life upon each new world they
32:07discovered now the necron tier saw a
32:09great potential in an alliance between
32:11the two species and begged them for
32:13assistance it was truly an example of
32:15the haves and the have-nots the old ones
32:17had everything and the necron tier were
32:19dying their children were dying their
32:22civilization would inevitably collapse
32:24and like a gift from the gods suddenly
32:26the old ones appeared to them
32:28now they begged them to share with them
32:30their secrets of immortality they begged
32:32them to save their children and above
32:34all the rigid and proud necron tear
32:37dropped to their knees and begged the
32:39strangers for help
32:41and in a seeming pattern of misfortune
32:44the old ones refused them now the old
32:46ones followed a code very similar to the
32:48prime directive in star trek choosing
32:50not to interfere with the destiny of the
32:52civilizations they encountered the
32:54necron tier were on their own but they
32:56wished them the best of luck something
32:58broke in the necron tier that day
33:01here were beings capable of anything
33:03that lived forever that through no
33:05effort could save them and yet they were
33:08refused the rage and hatred the
33:10necrontier felt for them cannot be
33:12understated and with no thought of the
33:14seeming impossibility of such an action
33:16the necron tier declared war on the old
33:19ones as one could expect this would not
33:22go well the old ones had no desire to
33:24fight them but would defend themselves
33:26and they were vastly more advanced than
33:28the necron tier time after time defeat
33:30after defeat the necrontier were pushed
33:32back and crushed against the
33:34technological superiority of the old
33:36ones
33:37now again this was a war that the old
33:39ones had no time for and didn't want to
33:41be involved in in the first place and at
33:43any point would have agreed to peace but
33:45the necron tier were relentless in their
33:48hatred and the festering need for
33:49vengeance was growing deeper and deeper
33:51with every defeat now if any good was to
33:53have come from this for the necrontier
33:55people it was that the united hatred of
33:57a singular enemy brought all of the
33:59dynasties together which before this
34:02wars between them had been rather
34:03commonplace now the necrontier were
34:06united in their goal of eradicating the
34:08old ones however this seemed like
34:10nothing more than a dream of revenge
34:12never to be brought to fruition that was
34:14however until they encountered another
34:15species one that rivaled the old ones in
34:18power and would prove to be the polar
34:20opposite of them a species with no
34:22desire to spread life only to consume it
34:24ancient beings that had complete mastery
34:26over physical reality star gods of
34:29devastating and terrifying proportions
34:32these entities were known as the katan
34:35now how the necrons first made contact
34:37with them is still a mystery some say
34:39they were encountered by the study of
34:41stars well others say the manifestation
34:43of the necrontier hatred acted like a
34:46beacon to them however it happened their
34:48meeting would fundamentally alter the
34:50course of history and would give the
34:52necrontier people what they were so
34:54desperate for
34:55power and immortality one of these
34:58beings came before the silent king and
35:00proposed an alliance he said that they
35:02were familiar with the old ones and much
35:03like the necrontier they also had a deep
35:06hatred for them he spun a tale about how
35:08the old ones were their ancient enemies
35:10and for the galaxy to prosper they must
35:12be purged the reality is that the catan
35:15were basically star sucking vampires
35:18massive beings of pure energy that would
35:20descend upon a star and leech out all of
35:22its energy condemning all life in its
35:24solar system to death so great was the
35:27hunger of the catan that they spread
35:29across the galaxy like a swarm of
35:30locusts destroying all in their path
35:33their existence was antithetical to the
35:35mission of the old ones to bring life to
35:37the galaxy and thus the old ones
35:38declared war on them seeing their
35:40existence as nothing short of
35:42blasphemous needless to say this was not
35:44the story the silent king was told
35:46however this great lie would prove to be
35:48fitting as that entity's name would
35:50later be known as the deceiver so the
35:53necron tier would come to accept the
35:54deceiver's offer and thus crafted for
35:57him and all the other katan bodies of
35:59living metal now this was made out of a
36:01stuff called necrodermis which was one
36:03of the inventions of the necron tier
36:04that they used in their starships now
36:06this would inevitably be used to
36:08construct the metal forms of the necrons
36:10we know today but we'll get to that in a
36:12minute now before this the catan were
36:14basically beings of pure energy and with
36:16their newfound bodies they were able to
36:18experience the physical universe on a
36:20level they never had before now this
36:22alliance would prove fruitful for the
36:24necron tier as well because the katan
36:26gave them remarkable gifts now the
36:28powers of these individuals were like
36:30that of gods they created for the necron
36:33tier weapons and machines that they
36:34could only dream of invigorated by their
36:36newfound discoveries their lust for war
36:39was once again ignited the necron tier
36:41were so enraptured by the power of the
36:43star gods that they actually began to
36:45worship them and this makes sense
36:47because from the necron tears
36:48perspective the catan were their saviors
36:50and through their power would they
36:52deliver the wrath of the necrontier
36:54people upon all that stood before them
36:56the high and mighty old ones who despite
36:58their self-proclaimed benevolence
37:00condemned their people to a slow and
37:02agonizing death and would soon pay for
37:04their hubris the combined might of the
37:07catan and the necron tier would see
37:09their empires burn to ash and the great
37:12legacy that they thought to craft for
37:14themselves lost to the annals of time
37:16all records of them purged from
37:18existence so none would remember that
37:20such a species ever even existed now the
37:23technology level and overall military
37:25might of the necron tier skyrocketed
37:27practically overnight with the power of
37:29the catan and their immensely
37:30destructive weapons of war all would bow
37:33before the combined might of the gods of
37:35the physical universe and their esteemed
37:37mortal followers but the catan had made
37:40two promises to the necrontier people
37:42that of power but also of immortality
37:46the next gift that they proposed would
37:48rid their people of their frail and
37:49sickly forms they would be forever free
37:52from disease and suffering the
37:54necrontier would become gods in their
37:56own right and would build kingdoms that
37:58would never die and all it would cost
38:00them
38:01was their souls
38:03monolithic towering furnaces were
38:05constructed on every world that would
38:07burn away their withered frames and
38:09replace it with bodies of living metal
38:11the same material that the catan now
38:12inhabited now the first to undergo the
38:14process of biotransference as it would
38:16later be called was none other than the
38:18silent king himself now he strode into
38:21the furnace and all that he ever was was
38:23burned away and replaced with undying
38:25metal the process was a success he felt
38:28power that no necron tear had ever felt
38:30before he was strong vital and his mind
38:33was operating faster than he even
38:35thought possible but there was something
38:37deeply wrong something deep inside him
38:39was missing it was like he was looking
38:41at the world from behind glass he had
38:43newfound power and freedom unlike
38:45anything his people had ever experienced
38:47before but something was deeply wrong he
38:50felt empty and hollow the realization of
38:52what he had done and what he had
38:54committed his people to slowly dawned on
38:56him
38:57he had no soul he was now nothing more
39:00than an engram copy of consciousness
39:02stored on an immortal robot
39:05this process would be repeated billions
39:06of times over on thousands of worlds his
39:09people were plunged into the fires of
39:11biotransference their bodies
39:13disintegrated and their souls ripped
39:14apart by the gorging feasting of the
39:16gluttonous catan for you see the catan
39:19did in fact wish to provide what they
39:20had promised however the energy of sons
39:23had long sensed being appealing to them
39:25and they instead found newfound joy in
39:28feasting on a different energy
39:29altogether the souls of the living now
39:32some individuals walked into the furnace
39:34of their own free will as it was their
39:35ruler's will to do so others were
39:38dragged in kicking and screaming it
39:40mattered not as eventually it was done
39:42biotransference of the entire species
39:45had been a success
39:46and on that day the necrontier
39:50died
39:51confined to the halls of history another
39:53name in the vast book of extinct species
39:56and standing amongst their ashes was
39:58only the necrons now the deceiver had
40:01one final gift for the silent king for
40:03of all his desires the mightiest was for
40:05his people to be unified i wish that the
40:07katan made more possible than anyone
40:09could have thought as all of the necrons
40:11had installed in them command protocols
40:14that meant they could not physically
40:15disobey him on one hand the silent king
40:17was completely horrified by this he
40:19realized the depth of what he had done
40:21and in doing such he had doomed his
40:23entire species but it is not like the
40:26necrons to look back a king does not
40:28make mistakes and a king marches forward
40:31the silent king controlled the most
40:32powerful army the galaxy had ever seen
40:35and this army along with its patron gods
40:38took to the stars and their mighty
40:39tombships to bring a war unlike anything
40:42the galaxy had ever seen to their
40:44ancient enemies and the empire of the
40:46old ones would inevitably burn
40:49the combined might of the immortal
40:51armies of the necrons and their god-like
40:53powers of the catan brought war upon the
40:55old ones in their kingdoms for countless
40:57millennia eventually pushing the old
40:58ones nearly to complete extinction
41:01driven by a need for vengeance the
41:02necrons burned millions of worlds while
41:04the katan feasted on the souls of the
41:06living countless lesser races created by
41:09the old ones were eradicated by the
41:10necrons while their gods gorged on their
41:13souls erasing them completely from
41:15existence now it was at this time that
41:17two major turning points occurred the
41:19first was that the catan began to war
41:21with each other for dominance over their
41:22siblings their hubris was so great that
41:25they each thought themselves the
41:26mightiest they turned on each other one
41:28by one until only a handful were left
41:31now the old ones took advantage of this
41:32infighting and began to create warrior
41:34races now their creations before this
41:37point were given the choice to make
41:38their own paths and develop in
41:40accordance with their own individual
41:41destinies however these were incredibly
41:43desperate times and races specifically
41:46crafted for war were needed the old ones
41:48created the orcs and the eldari one
41:50massive hulking brutes each bearing the
41:52might of an entire army in a single
41:54individual the ancient ancestors of the
41:56orcs were actually known as the corks
41:58and stood around 13 meters tall not to
42:00mention it was highly likely that the
42:02quarks had a fundamental understanding
42:04of their reality bending powers and were
42:06able to fully utilize them to great
42:08effect the eldari on the other hand were
42:10massively powerful psychers and each one
42:12had an innate connection to the warp
42:14these new races would spread across the
42:15galaxy battling and pushing back the
42:17necrons wherever they were encountered
42:19and as it turns out the powers of the
42:20warp were unbelievably effective against
42:22the catan you see they were gods of the
42:24physical universe and had no link to the
42:26immaterium they had no ability to deny
42:28such raw and devastating psychic attacks
42:31the combined might of the old ones the
42:33eldar and the quarks pushed back against
42:35the necrons and their sinister masters
42:37now this is a time period that is
42:38incredibly shrouded in mystery and it's
42:40on a scale unlike anything we've ever
42:42seen before imagine a singular war that
42:45spanned the entirety of the galaxy now
42:47the one that we know in the 41st
42:48millennium is a galaxy that has millions
42:50of wars happening simultaneously but
42:52there are vast sectors of space that are
42:54seemingly peaceful or are at least
42:56removed from the greater conflict this
42:57was a battle that raged across all of
43:00the stars we can't even really
43:01comprehend just how immense it was or
43:04how many unique individuals were
43:05involved there must have been millions
43:07of heroes each with countless war
43:09stories that could fill entire libraries
43:11now the warhammer universe has around
43:12600 novels written so far and this time
43:15period could probably have far more than
43:17that written about it it was so immense
43:19that it is aptly named the war in heaven
43:23now at one point during the war the
43:24catan tried to push back against the
43:26psychic onslaught by creating massive
43:28pylons made of blackstone these were
43:30constructed on hundreds if not thousands
43:32of worlds across the galaxy you see
43:34blackstone is a material that cannot be
43:35affected by warp sorcery and thus was
43:38constructed to try to tamper the enemy's
43:39ability to channel it these pylons were
43:42used to hold back the warp which before
43:44this the sea of souls was actually a
43:46pretty tranquil place compared to the
43:48warp that we know today in the 41st
43:50millennium it was the absolute onslaught
43:52of souls pouring into the warp day after
43:54day and the unbridled fury and hatred of
43:56quintillions of individuals locked in
43:59internal conflict that began to make the
44:01sea of souls into a roaring male storm
44:03the once tranquil denizens of the warp
44:06turned into twisted monstrosities its
44:08once peaceful tides becoming a twisted
44:10chaotic nightmare of pain and suffering
44:13the warp became a sick reflection of
44:14itself and came to be known as the realm
44:17of chaos unfortunately for the old ones
44:20a combination of the might of the katan
44:22their legions of necron soldiers and the
44:24dark and twisted warp manifestations
44:26that their own creations had unleashed
44:29in the end proved to be too much for
44:30even the god-like old ones as their
44:33kingdoms burned the old ones disappeared
44:35from existence
44:36whether or not every one of them met
44:37their end during this period or they
44:39fled our galaxy it still remains a
44:42mystery but the old ones were gone and
44:44the necrons had finally achieved their
44:46vengeance
44:47but this wasn't the end of the war in
44:49heaven for you see the entire time the
44:51war had been going on the silent king
44:53had planned his revenge on a second
44:54enemy the catan had lied they had
44:56tricked him into betraying his own
44:58people and a king lets no slight against
45:00his subjects go unanswered zara
45:03commanded the necrons to turn on their
45:05gods and for all their intelligence and
45:07all their power this was something the
45:09guitar were incapable of predicting as
45:12they were hubris made manifest the very
45:14concept that their subjects could rise
45:16against them was anathema to them the
45:19necrons harnessed weaponry of god
45:21killing power and shattered all of the
45:23catan into thousands of individual
45:25fragments each one was then locked in a
45:27tesseract fold so it could never again
45:29be free to roam the stars chained
45:31forever by those who they once ruled
45:33over the fate of the catan was to be
45:35eternally shackled to the war machines
45:37of the necrons in the far future their
45:40essence would be used to bring
45:41devastation to distant battlefields but
45:43for now
45:44they would remain prisoners
45:46now after this was done the silent king
45:48contemplated what to do next both of his
45:51great enemies had been utterly destroyed
45:53however the galaxy was in turmoil warp
45:55spawn monstrosities known as the
45:57enslavers were running rampant
45:58throughout the galaxy in addition the
46:00eldar had rose to prominence and were
46:02incredibly powerful the necrons had been
46:04solely focused on wiping out the old
46:06ones and it had cost them an enormous
46:08portion of their population in their
46:10weakened state they had no hope of
46:11defeating the eldari and reclaiming the
46:13stars with this in mind the silent king
46:16ordered the construction of vast tomb
46:18complexes on all of their worlds that
46:20dug deep within the earth it was there
46:22that he ordered his people to rest to
46:24sleep for millions of years it was the
46:26eldar who would inherit the galaxy and
46:28there was nothing they could do to stop
46:29this but the necrons know more than
46:31anyone else that time is an enemy to all
46:34all but the necrons for their immortal
46:37forms could never truly die and the
46:39eldar empire would rise and fall just as
46:41all empires do
46:43the silent king set the clock to awaken
46:4560 million years in the future to
46:46inherit whatever was left of the galaxy
46:48the elder would be long dead and
46:50whatever new species had crawled its way
46:52out of the primordial ooze would not be
46:54ready to face the necrons and they would
46:56once again take their rightful place as
46:58the rulers of the galaxy after all the
47:00necrons were locked in stasis the silent
47:02king had one thing left to do to atone
47:04for his sins he severed the command
47:07protocols the will of the necron people
47:09would be theirs once again and upon
47:11their awakening they would finally be
47:13free
47:14after doing this he exiled himself he
47:16hopped in a ship and took off for the
47:18void of space what he hoped to find out
47:20there between the stars is known only to
47:22him but he vowed to return to see his
47:25people as they awoke once more it is now
47:27the 41st millennium the alarm clock has
47:29finally gone off one by one the
47:32surviving tomb worlds are coming back
47:33online memories from 60 million years
47:36ago still fresh in the minds of the
47:37newly awoken overlords now with their
47:39free will reestablished the dynasties
47:41are no longer united in all things but
47:44they do however agree on one that the
47:46galaxy belongs only to them and the
47:49verminous filth that has come to inhabit
47:51it must be completely and utterly
47:53eradicated
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48:03as well as all the little short form
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48:06last year and a half i'm trying to
48:08strike a good balance between the two of
48:10them i do really enjoy doing these
48:12longer deep dives um but they do take a
48:14little bit more time to put together and
48:16i'm still kind of new to doing them i've
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48:26patrons because honest to god if it
48:28wasn't for you guys i would not be here
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48:46questions about the necrons on like
48:47where they came from or what their
48:49weapons are like or anything like that
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49:01learning from you guys so thanks a ton
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