After several rounds of fierce, cold, and calculating exchanges among the three sides, an exceedingly complex and fragile agreement was finally brought to the table. It was founded not on trust or friendship, but on mutual wariness, external threats, and cold assessments of reality.
The Imperium would reclassify the Necrons from xenos enemies that had to be exterminated to entities it would not attack unprovoked, while the Necrons would temporarily suspend all research into the Pariah Nexus.
For the Necron Tomb Worlds buried beneath Imperial Worlds, both sides would renegotiate the division of planets, while the Necrons guaranteed that they would not initiate any attacks against Imperial forces.
The main armed forces of the Men of Iron would leave the Milky Way, departing through Segmentum Pacificus.
All permanent installations and Space Fortresses built by the Men of Iron within Imperial territory would remain unaffected, and several conventional fleets would be retained to continue assisting the operation of the Imperium of Man.
In the Galactic Rift beyond Segmentum Pacificus, Iax would construct clusters of gigantic artificial planets as permanent bases for the Men of Iron, stationing a contingent of the Men of Iron Fleet there to return to the Milky Way at any time. The remaining main forces would head beyond the Milky Way to prepare defenses against the Tyranids.
Every End Bomb had to be transported out of the Galaxy.
Unless necessary, the Men of Iron were forbidden from sending any vessel within thirty light-years of any Necron Throne World.
If the Men of Iron violated the agreement, the Necrons would immediately declare all-out war on the Imperium.
For the Necrons, this agreement was full of reluctant compromises.
They did not fear the current military strength of humanity or the Men of Iron. Rather, they were deeply wary of the