The Necrons currently fought on two main fronts. One was their war against the Imperium to construct the Pariah Nexus, which was the secondary front.
The primary front was the civil war between the Silent King and the Storm King over control of the Necrons. This was the war that drained their reserves the most.
The Phaerons who had raised objections all felt that the Storm King would be a difficult issue to address. After all, it concerned supreme authority over the Necrons.
But the Silent King apparently thought otherwise. Without even a second's hesitation, he said, "I will transmit the entire proceedings of this meeting to the Storm King over an encrypted channel."
"I believe... once the Celestial Orrery is activated, fighting between the Necrontyr will no longer have any meaning. The Storm King will make the right choice."
The name Celestial Orrery seemed to possess a magic of its own. After a brief moment of stunned silence, every Phaeron and guard present knelt at once, paying the Silent King their highest respects.
According to legend, the Necrons possessed a star chart that not only marked the positions of every planet, star, and nebula in the Galaxy, but also changed with the passage of time.
It was the ultimate star chart, an invaluable tool for interstellar travel.
Yet the Celestial Orrery was far more than a mere star chart. Its wielder needed only to lightly touch the corresponding position on the chart to trigger a Supernova Explosion in a star and destroy an entire star system, regardless of time or distance.
Of course, since it had never been used in the new millennium, everyone assumed these were exaggerated rumors.
In fact, they were true. The Celestial Orrery had been invented to establish mutually assured destruction with the former Ork