Global Crossing: Empire of Stars

"Could it be a Necron King?" he guessed.

The Imperium of Man was not entirely unfamiliar with the Necrons. In the 41st millennium of Warhammer, a Planet-class Warship—the World Engine—had appeared in the Vidal Subsector. Armed with the largest Gauss Weapon known to mankind, a Death Star-style weapon, it had swept across planets. Two Agricultural Worlds had been destroyed, and hundreds of

millions of humans had been killed.

Although this powerful Planet Warship had ultimately been destroyed in a dramatic fashion, the Empire's upper echelons all remembered that brutal battle.

If the Star Knights Chapter hadn't made the decisive sacrifice of piloting their Battle Barge at full speed into the colossal War Machine, perhaps the entire human sector would have been wiped out by the terrifying Necrons.

That World Engine had belonged to a Necron Dynasty.

Just as the Fastin Tech-Priest was lost in thought, an electronic voice echoed through the chamber. "Cyborg, tell me: does the Imperium of Man still exist?"

The voice startled the Fastin Tech-Priest. He stood and looked up. In the center of the palace, atop an enormous Mechanical Throne, sat a giant with a metal-skeleton-like frame, holding an intricately shaped Mechanical Scepter. Eerie Green Energy flowed in a circuit through its entire body, radiating energy throughout the chamber and mingling with the special force field that permeated the hall, circulating endlessly.

The Necron giant stood exceptionally tall. Even seated on the Mechanical Throne, it was nearly a hundred meters high, truly a Mechanical Titan in humanoid form.

"Master of the Tomb World, ruler of the ancient era—which Necron Dynasty's Photonic Emperor are you?" the Fastin Tech-Priest asked. The Necron King's question had surprised him. According to the analysis of his logic unit, when these ancient beings first awakened, they knew nothing about the Milky Way