After repelling the Necron fleet, the remaining Mechanicus Ships temporarily held position in the void.
Iax's Computational Core worked at high speed, calculating why the Necrons had ambushed him.
The conclusion was clear: it was most likely because of the time-reversal devices.
Clearly, these Necrons possessed some special equipment that could identify the positions of the Time-Reversal Ships within the fleet and strike them precisely.
What Iax did not understand, however, was why the Necrons had seemingly not attacked him the last time he reversed time for the Mechanicus Ships and the Heart of the Forge.
The difference between the two situations led Iax to conclude that the Necrons' behavior might be connected to large-scale temporal reversal.
Iax also confirmed one thing: Spacetime Control Devices could not perform overlapping reversals.
When the Medium Time-Reversal Ship attempted to reverse time for that Large Ship, it had clearly suffered some irreversible malfunction, ultimately causing it to disintegrate.
That attempt suddenly gave Iax some new insights into temporal technology.
Most importantly, Iax had learned more about the Necrons, those ancient xenos.
None of the records had ever mentioned that these ancient xenos also possessed Temporal Technology.
Clearly, the threat assessment of these ancient xenos had risen another level.
During his previous battle against the Sautekh Dynasty's fleet, Iax had thought he already understood something of the Necrons' power, but this encounter had clearly given him yet another new perspective.
Lord Cassius and the Necron fleet he commanded were equally surprised.
When humanity had been using temporal technology on a large scale, most Necron Dynasties had still been asleep.
By the time the Necron Dynasties began to awaken, the Human Federation had long since collapsed, and its victim from that era—the Ancient Aeldari Empire—had vanished as well.
The Aeldari had never considered telling their