Once the many Necron Dynasties properly understood the catastrophe that was the Tyranid invasion, events began to unfold.
Vast numbers of Necron fleets began gathering under the orders of Silent King Szarekh.
Faced with this cosmic calamity, the Necrons felt as though they had returned to the War in Heaven.
But the many problems caused by their long slumber, along with the consequences of losing the command protocol, soon began to emerge.
Only the Sautekh Dynasty still had a respectable number of ships.
The fleets and fighting forces of the other Necron Dynasties all seemed somewhat diminished.
Even so, some dynasties had sent no fleets at all, the largest among them being the Nihilakh Dynasty.
Phaeron Krispekh kept a firm grip on his treasure guard.
He was willing to send his invincible guard to slaughter humans and expand his territory.
But that did not mean he was willing to send his armies against those bugs.
Still, to avoid being held accountable by Szarekh, he took some valuable items from his vault and handed them over to the Silent King.
Over a hundred Tesseract Vaults containing C'tan Shards, along with dozens of ancient war engines used during the War in Heaven.
Krispekh also withdrew an enormous fleet from a dimensional warehouse and handed it over to Szarekh.
They had so many ships that they did not even have enough personnel to crew them. Giving some away hardly hurt.
The Nihilakh Dynasty possessed nearly seventy percent of the wealth of the entire Necron race, all of it acquired during the great plunder at the end of the War in Heaven.
Perhaps Trazyn's obsession with collecting was a trait shared by his dynasty.
If something was valuable, the Nihilakh Dynasty had it in its vaults.
They even had numerous spare units of dimensional