Gamma World.
During the reverse-engineering research into Necron technology.
Research into Gauss Rays and Living Metal had always remained at the forefront of development.
This was because the Gauss Weapons manufactured by Gamma World were essentially copied products.
They had never cracked their core energy technology, which was also the Necrons' core technology.
In order to uncover the origin of the energy within Gauss Rays and Living Metal, find the source behind it, and claim it for themselves.
They fed the project into the Megastructure Synapse Condenser for computational analysis.
A researcher discovered the project's signal source on a spectrograph.
It seemed to originate from a planet that was not particularly close.
"The Necron tomb on Ozrax should have been abandoned. We never found the source of the weapons we use on Ozrax. Instead, the signal source identified through our repeated use of those weapons comes from somewhere else. This happens especially when we use Necron weapons, and the more we use them, the stronger the signal becomes."
"This is probably where the energy source leads. The database records that all Necron energy comes from batteries like the C'tan. There may be a C'tan hidden there. Report this to Chief Brown. We've found the unlimited energy Gamma World currently lacks. Perhaps a single C'tan battery could supply weapons for tens of millions of soldiers, construct Living Metal, and satisfy our laboratories' applications."
"That's right. If we had a C'tan-brand battery, we could experiment with our weapons however we wanted without the Ministry of Finance breathing down our necks."
The source of Living Metal's power also came from the C'tan.
The reason Living Metal was not widely adopted in Gamma World, and was only used as badges to reward those who had contributed to the war, was that they could not