Kuitok, a fallen world-
Kuitok still burned.
The warships destroyed in space had become countless pieces of wreckage, turning into meteor showers as they plunged into the atmosphere.
The prow of a Tyrant-class battlecruiser had crashed not far from the urban district, forming a strange mountain range of steel. Within Kuitok's City Seventeen, there was only deathly silence.
On the ground lay the remains of both armies.
The Necrons' Canoptek Scarabs worked without pause. They swiftly crawled onto the fallen Necron Warriors, devoured them, and then became more Canoptek Scarabs.
These Canoptek Scarabs gathered into black clouds and flew toward the damaged crescent-shaped warships in space, then became part of the ships.
All that remained on the ground were the corpses of human soldiers and severely damaged armored vehicles.
A squad of ordinary Necrons walked through the deserted streets under the command of an Immortal.
Unlike ordinary Necron Warriors, who had been converted directly from civilians, Immortals had once been soldiers of the Necrontyr dynasties and retained sufficient reasoning ability and military expertise.
The Immortal scanned its surroundings warily. The Canoptek Scarabs had previously reported possible biological signatures here, but it had found nothing.
Its limited mind particularly detested humans. Whether facing Aeldari or Orks, it possessed ancient tactics inherited from the War in Heaven to counter them.
But humanity was such a complicated species that it struggled to calculate how to fight them efficiently.
Radiation-soaked thieves in red robes were human; half-naked creatures living in gigantic garbage heaps were human; idiots flocking around the Tyranids were human; those wearing thick, cumbersome slabs of steel were human too...
Yet the differences between them might have been greater than those among the Aeldari.
At that thought, the Immortal felt its mind becoming inadequate again.
Then, suddenly, its sensors picked up a