At the very beginning.
When Magnus used a psychic call to blow open the Webway realm beneath the Emperor's Golden Throne.
Magnus had been given a chance at redemption.
But at the time, the Emperor was suppressing the Golden Throne and had no time to personally seize Magnus.
That was what led to the سلسلة of rebellions.
The Imperium's operations began to grow more frequent.
Yet these operations were not intended to expand its territory or reclaim the lands occupied by other factions. Instead, it adopted certain measures and employed flanking tactics, as though it were buying time.
Facing the Necrons' invasion, humanity had almost no power to resist.
After all, the Necrons at their height had been true powerhouses. They had fought wars on a cosmic scale, facing the Old Ones, rulers of the Warp, as well as the C'tan, the most powerful physical laws of the material universe.
Although they had now declined, the speed at which they built megastructures showed just how formidable they were. Building megastructures was as easy for them as piling up sandcastles. Gamma World had exhausted itself to construct only two megastructures, while the Necrons had built forty in a short time. Though none of those forty megastructures had been filled with training data, that was still an unbelievable miracle compared to any other race.
Nearly every region of the Imperium bordering the Necrons was successively seized by them. Most of those places even became Necron territory under such circumstances, and humanity could hardly reclaim what it had lost.
And the Necrons' assessment of humanity remained full of disdain and mockery.
After learning about this race and the mistakes it had made, they became even more convinced that humanity would never learn enough from its past errors. In the eyes of some overlords,