After receiving unequivocal feedback from the Crypteks, Phileas had to face his failure.
He had never imagined these enemies would be beings like this.
Otherwise, he would certainly have laid a trap with large-scale temporal stasis devices and captured the targets intact.
But now, Phileas could only report the actual situation to Szarekh.
After reviewing all the footage, Szarekh did not blame Phileas for his failure.
After all, this truly was the first time the Necrons had encountered such a strange situation.
No one had ever dared provoke the Necrons like this.
Following a tense meeting, orders were issued by the Triarch Council.
All Necron Dynasties still entirely dormant would be partially awakened to prevent these bizarre enemies from ambushing them during the Great Sleep.
As for those Dynasties that had already fallen completely silent, they would be divided among their neighbors, with their territories and the wealth of their Dynasty Worlds reclaimed by whichever Dynasty arrived first.
For a time, the Milky Way grew even more chaotic.
Necron Dynasties that had once been occupied with all manner of infighting temporarily set aside their disputes.
Every day, the Imperium detected large numbers of Necron fleets appearing throughout the Milky Way.
Many Imperial Worlds suffered as a result.
All the major Dynasties, whether neutral or already aligned with a faction, dispatched fleets across the Milky Way to seek out Dynasty Worlds that had yet to awaken.
The Necrons thought little of the Imperium of Man's technology or its so-called wealth.
But other Dynasties of their own kind were another matter entirely.
As Dynasties large and small awakened, chaos rapidly spread.
The Phaerons of some smaller Dynasties went to the Court of the Necrons to accuse larger Dynasties of disobeying the Silent King's orders and attacking them while they still slept, rather