Necrons

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Necrons
Original Name	死灵
Species/Race	Necrontyr transformed into mechanical beings; later restored to flesh and blood 632 635 636
Affiliation	Necron Empire; later joins humanity’s camp 358 543
Leadership	The Silent King, supreme ruler of the Necrons 357
Occupation/Role	Ancient galactic civilization organized into dynasties, tomb worlds, and vast military forces 391
Status	Reborn as the Necrontyr and allied with humanity 543 635 636
Principal Holdings	Tomb worlds throughout the Milky Way and their own four-dimensional space 391 539

Background / History

The Necrontyr were originally mortal beings who sought longer lives and appealed to the Old Ones for help. During the ancient War in Heaven, the C’tan deceived them, forcibly stripping away their flesh and imprisoning them within Living Metal bodies. Their apparent immortality came at the cost of ordinary life, physical sensation, and freedom 354 632.

The Necrons eventually turned against the C’tan. Hyper-energy cannons grievously wounded those material-universe gods, while dimensional disintegration devices shattered them into fragments. Captured shards were subsequently confined and exploited as energy sources 367 370 424.

After the ancient wars, the Necrons entered prolonged dormancy. Their sealed tombs preserved their military strength while other civilizations rose, declined, or disappeared. The Silent King regarded that survival as a source of pride, but also questioned whether exchanging living existence for eternal power had been worthwhile 392.

Appearance

• Mechanical bodies: Cold metallic shells constructed from Living Metal or Necrodermis, used by warriors, nobles, and rulers 372 395 404.
• Green illumination: Eyes, energy circuits, engines, and weapons commonly emit an eerie or ghostly green glow 371 393.
• Specialized modifications: Destroyers replace their arms with heavy Gauss Cannons and their lower limbs with anti-gravity thrusters 392.
• Restored bodies: Their eventual rebirth returns flesh, blood, physical senses, and family life. Peter Parker’s new body is described as stronger and more durable than his original one 635 636.

Organization and Military

The empire consists of numerous dynasties ruled by Overlords and other nobles. The Silent King can transmit orders across the empire: his summons for the invasion of Terra reaches every dynasty and tomb world in 0.3 seconds 391.

Leadership and Notable Members

Member / Office	Role
Silent King	Supreme ruler; directs diplomacy, military mobilization, and the effort to restore the Necrontyr 357 391 539
Dynastic Overlords	Command tomb worlds and dynastic armies. The Seventh, Ninth, and Fourteenth Dynasties participate in the war against humanity 391
Blade Phaeron Mesophit	Ancient commander and wielder of the Dust Scythe; fights Titus during the advance toward Terra 395 398
Star Phaeron	Accompanies the Silent King at the Galactic Representatives’ Conference 536
Trazyn the Infinite	Collector based on Solemnace; his unauthorized campaign against Guilliman disrupts the Silent King’s diplomatic plans 360 367 379 390
Crypteks	Technical specialists responsible for maintaining and calibrating advanced equipment, including that of the Triarch 397
Archivists	Process battlefield intelligence through the empire’s internal network 406

Ground Forces

Unit	Characteristics
Necron Warriors	Numerous mechanical infantry; equipped with restoration systems and capable of returning after bodily destruction 371 372 404
Immortals	Heavily constructed backbone troops using Gauss weapons, dense volleys, and steady advances 392 418
Deathmarks	Marksmen who move through the Phase World. Their weapons can strike across immense distances and bypass obstacles 392
Destroyers	Anti-gravity war machines driven by hatred of the living; a single Destroyer can slaughter a city in minutes 392 393
Lychguard	Elite personal guards of Overlords, equipped with high-grade Living Metal bodies and phase blades capable of cutting Titan armor 393

Scale and Doctrine

• Population and reserves: The Necrons number in the trillions. The ten-billion-warrior invasion force is described as only one percent of the empire’s military strength 391.
• Attrition warfare: They rely on enormous armies, durable defenses, regeneration, and patience; ancient campaigns could last centuries or millennia 392.
• Continuous reinforcement: Fallen warriors can receive replacement bodies and return through teleportation, sustaining pressure on enemy formations 404 418.
• Technological confidence: The empire openly provides the Imperium with information about Mesophit’s weapons and defenses rather than concealing its capabilities 395.

Abilities & Skills

Living Metal and Restoration

Living Metal bodies can repair damage, allowing properly equipped warriors to rise repeatedly after being knocked down 372.

• Local restoration depends on the core remaining intact 372.
• Consciousness can be recalled into a tomb and installed in a replacement Necrodermis body 357 404.
• Mesophit survives his dismemberment by transmitting his consciousness through the internal network and awakening in a more advanced body 407 408.
• Destroying core control systems or phase-transit infrastructure can obstruct these advantages 373 407.

Phase Travel

Necron phase technology enables movement through the material universe without conventional Warp travel 394.

• Ships and troops can bypass material barriers and appear within enemy formations 391 394.
• Deathmarks use the Phase World for concealed movement 392.
• Consciousness packets travel through phase channels between tomb worlds and dynastic territories 408.
• The Silent King considers existing teleportation methods detrimental to restored flesh bodies, motivating a future shift toward Webway travel 543.

Blackstone and Psychic Suppression

Blackstone suppresses psychic power and Warp energy. The Necrons used it against the Old Ones and ancient Eldar 367 371.

• Fortresses: A Blackstone Fortress emits a field that suppresses Warp fluctuations and causes discomfort to psykers 114.
• Containment: Trazyn combines Blackstone boundaries with Eldar Wraithbone in a four-dimensional prison, reducing Guilliman to less than a tenth of his strength 371.
• Amplification: Blackstone armor can also stimulate the wearer’s own psychic potential, as demonstrated with Rogal Dorn 371.
• Pariah Nexus: Coordinated generators and Blackstone obelisks form a battlefield-wide barrier that completely severs access to the Warp 415.

Dimensional and Temporal Engineering

Necron technology can create spaces and preservation systems independent of ordinary time 371.

• Four-Dimensional Prison: Isolates prisoners from Realspace’s flow of time and prevents them from tracking outside events 371.
• Stasis Fields: Halt time and physical processes within preserved exhibits 371.
• Four-dimensional storage: Houses C’tan energy reserves and imprisoned shards 413 424.

Combat Analysis and Data Networks

Necron processors calculate firing solutions, evaluate battlefield conditions, and record combat data 379 395 406.

• Mesophit’s predictive matrix calculates possible enemy actions within the next half-second 404.
• Crypteks optimize body integrity, shields, and weapon output before combat 397.
• These systems have limits: Titus’s attacks overwhelm Mesophit’s predictive matrix, while the resulting battle records overload an archivist’s processor 404 406.

C’tan-Derived Power

Captured C’tan shards supply energy and support some of the empire’s strongest defenses and weapons 390 424.

• Mesophit shares shard energy from the Silent King’s throne, granting immunity to psychic attacks and the ability to banish daemons 395.
• High-end constructs incorporate Necrodermis and weapons carrying C’tan energy 409.
• The shards remain imprisoned in Blackstone crystals, phase cages, and beneath the Silent Throne 424.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Weapons and Strategic Systems

• Gauss weapons — Break targets down into fundamental particles; used extensively by infantry and heavier units 257 392.
• Phase weapons — Tear reality apart; Lychguard phase blades can cleave Titan armor 392 393.
• Hyper-energy / Hyper-Convergence Cannons — Draw power from stellar cores and were used to wound the C’tan. Trazyn steals seventeen; the ancient examples used in his operation are expended when fired 367 370.
• Dimensional Disintegration Devices — Destroy targets physically and conceptually, with enough power to fragment an intact C’tan. Trazyn steals forty-three 367.
• Dust Scythe — Mesophit’s weapon, forged from a neutron star’s core and capable of cutting through a primarch’s power armor 395.
• Pariah Nexus generators — Networked anti-psychic systems deployed throughout the fleet and army 415.

Vehicles and War Machines

Asset	Capabilities
Reaper-class Battleships	Large Living Metal-armored warships carrying planetary-shield-breaking weapons and Gauss turrets 391 394
Ghost Arks	Fast phase-capable assault craft; each carries one hundred warriors and can deploy directly within enemy lines 391 394
Titans, monoliths, and colossi	Include pyramidal, obelisk-shaped, and spherical machines. Their firepower inflicts heavy losses on human Titans 417 418
Blackstone Fortresses	Major Warp-suppressing constructs; one is controlled by Huron Blackheart within the Great Rift 114

Culture and Mentality

The Necrons present themselves as ancient masters of the Milky Way: solitary conquerors confident in their technological superiority and endurance. Before the Silent King’s initiative, they had not formed an alliance with another race for sixty-five million years 360.

Their mechanical existence is repeatedly described as emotionless and soulless, making them unattractive targets for Chaos corruption. Individual Necrons nevertheless display despair, curiosity, anger, longing, and even tears. Later revelations describe their condition as the imprisonment of souls rather than genuine living immortality 356 395 463 543 632.

Restoring ordinary life ultimately becomes more important than territorial ambition. The Silent King explicitly accepts cooperation with humanity in exchange for the bodies his people once possessed, and begins planning transport suitable for their future biological existence 539 543.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Chapters	Events
Humanity becomes a new variable	221	The Silent King detects the material-universe disturbance caused by Guilliman’s Atomic Manipulation. He initially prioritizes dynastic recovery and reclaiming tomb worlds.
First diplomatic initiative	354 357 358 360	The Silent King considers restoration, halts a losing battle against the Dark Angels, announces his return, releases his brethren from being bound by his will, and orders an alliance with humanity.
Trazyn’s unauthorized campaign	367 368 371 372	Trazyn steals seven dynasties’ accumulated treasures and attacks Guilliman using Dorn, a Krork, a four-dimensional prison, and 250,000 regenerating warriors. The affected dynasties issue a joint wanted notice against him.
Destruction of Solemnace	375 379 380 389	Guilliman discovers his mother among the collection. His fleet then overwhelms Solemnace’s defenses; the museum and its accumulated exhibits are reduced to wreckage.
Diplomacy collapses	389 390 391	The Silent King prepares technological gifts and offers compensation, but Guilliman rejects reconciliation. The king orders war against Terra, initially mobilizing one hundred million warriors before expanding the summons to ten billion.
Mesophit’s defeat	395 406 407 408	Titus and 250,000 Space Marines defeat a force recorded as losing five million warriors, 2,200 Reaper-class Battleships, and 18,000 Ghost Arks, with no Space Marine casualties. Mesophit is dismembered but returns in a replacement body.
Battle against the united Imperium	415 418 423 424	The Pariah Nexus forces the Emperor to withdraw his projection, but human forces and primarchs continue fighting. Reported Necron losses exceed 70% of Titans, 60% of warships, and 50% of warriors before the Silent King orders retreat.
Signs of reconciliation	434 444	Guilliman honors a Necron killed by his own kind after expressing faith in humanity. Later, Guilliman and the Silent King jointly punish Trazyn.
Galactic settlement	536 539 543	The Necrons negotiate with humanity and the Eldar, prioritize bodily restoration, contribute to Webway planning, and formally join humanity’s camp.
Return of the Necrontyr	632 635 636	Cawl promises curse removal and longer biological lives. Guilliman guides liberated Necrontyr souls into new bodies while Necron fleets protect the region. Families reunite, and the restored race announces a new era.

Restoration

Step	Chapter	Result / Limits
Restoration judged feasible	543	The Silent King calculates that molded bodies, the Law of Eternity, and psychic energy can provide complete souls and biological existence.
Curse-removal and longevity plan	632	Cawl proposes using technology and C’tan authority to erase the stellar curse, with Guilliman modifying genetic vitality. The intended result is lifespans measured in millennia—not immediate natural indestructibility.
Soul release and reincarnation	635	The soul matrix releases countless Necrontyr souls from the Void Dragon’s restraints; Guilliman guides them into flesh bodies.
Sensory and familial return	636	Reborn Necrontyr regain touch, smell, temperature, and emotional reunion with loved ones after sixty-five million years.

The rebirth alarms the Chaos Gods because it is genuine restoration—not necromancy, a projection, or a manufactured replica. Tzeentch proposes seeking C’tan shards as allies against Guilliman 638.

Relationships

• Roboute Guilliman / Imperium of Man — Relations move from proposed alliance to open war, then to cooperation and restoration. Guilliman becomes the guide of the Necrontyr’s rebirth 360 390 543 635.
• Belisarius Cawl — Studies captured Living Metal and later uses his C’tan-derived authority to develop the Necrons’ biological restoration and curse-removal plan 356 632.
• Eldar / Asuryan — Ancient rivals who later participate in the same galactic settlement. The Silent King seeks Webway privileges for his restored people 392 536 539 543.
• C’tan — Former allies and deceivers, subsequently betrayed, shattered, imprisoned, and used as power sources 360 367 424 632.
• Chaos Gods — Regard mechanical Necrons as lifeless and unsuitable for corruption. The Necrons oppose Warp entities through Blackstone technology and later identify Chaos as a common enemy with humanity and the Eldar 415 463 539.
• Tyranids — A common enemy under Guilliman’s proposed coalition. Necron fleets guard the reincarnation region against Tyranid approach 539 635.

Notable Quotes

“But you are no longer bound by my will.”
— The Silent King, announcing his return to the Necron Empire 358

“So long as you can help us restore the bodies we once possessed as Necrontyr, I do not care about such things as territory.”
— The Silent King during the galactic negotiations 539