Roughly 60 million years ago Aliens existed. They lived short painful lives because they evolved on a radiation blasted planet and often died of cancer before the age of 30. They called themselves the Necrontyr.
After such a long time on these horrible planets their genetics now naturally produced cancers. They eventually advanced thier technology enough to go into space and look for alien life and potentially a savior of thier cancer ridden bodies.
They encountered the godlike race known as the Old ones. Beings of immense power creatures that could create life.
They begged these Old ones for help Please cure us of our ailments. To which the Old ones said to disappear from thier sight for they did not wish to see such flawed beasts.
The Necrons after having thier only hope for a cure to thier painful lives gathered together and did the only reasonable thing. They declared war with them. Every individual nation of Necrontyr gathering together under the Banner of thier new elected leader The silent king in a war of bitterness.
And proceeded to get destroyed and exiled back to thier original planet.
In the world of warhammer there is a hell called the Warp, itis not the hell we typically envision. It's more of an afterlife, a place where souls end up. While you and I know of hell as a place of horror and punishment, the warp is not like that. It's energy but a different kid of energy formed from thoughts, feelings and souls. In other words psychic energy where the souls of dead sentient creatures go. No laws of our physical reality apply there.
It is like sailing the sea in a pirate movie. To jump from your ship would be certain death. To stay in the sea for too long could drive a man insane and there are many dangerous things lurking in those depths. Yet the sea is not evil, it simply is..... mostly.
There are more malicious beings in those waters, areas you do not sail towards. This is known as the realm of Chaos. This is a special place in the warp lead by 3 Chaos gods.
KHORNE--> The god of war, combat, murder and honor
TZEENTCh---> God of change, mystery and deceit. A confusing paradox of lies and magic
NURGLE---> God of rot, disease and death. All things rot in the end and Grandfather Nurgle will welcome you with open arms.
These 3 ruled thier own realms in the warp. Sending thier followers against each other in The Great Game. A contest between to decide who is the most powerful of them all.
Hell exists and it is parallel to our realms and in there these 3 fight to have control over it.
But our reality has gods as well, rulers of the physical world, our normal reality they are called The Ctan. And they eat stars
These star gods saw the plight of our poor Necrons and how the Old Ones cast them aside. And said "You know what you guys want immortality ? We will make it happen. We are the Gods of the Physical, of real space. We can give you a cure"
Being offered mercy and assistance for the first time the necrontyr jumped at this. And then they ate all their physical bodies and souls. The using that fuel turned them into robotic automaton, leaving them with a hollow shell of a intelligence left but technically immortal.
With the power of a whole species worth of immortal robotic slaves The Ctan turned thier guns to the Old Ones and hunted them into extinction. The Necrontyr now the soulless undying Necrons got thier wish at the price of thier souls.
But with time the selfish Ctan turned on each other, fighting each other for glory and to stave off their boredom. With this the leader of Necrons Szarekh, The Silent King, the person who doomed his people when he jumped at this deal waited, planned , buying his time until he saw the perfect opportunity. And turned his legions of undead robots against the Star gods in a full rebellion.
Gods may not be able to be killed but they can be broken. So Szarekh blasted the Ctan into thousands of shards and locked them away in vaults.
But after fighting in a war where gods walked the field for millions of years the Necrons were weakened. And they knew they had made a lot of enemies. So the Silent King decided to command his people to hide within their Tomb Worlds and hibernate to wait until the galaxy was weak.
This covers the 1st part of my overall timeline of 40k and for the next part I shall be covering the story of the Eldar(Space elves). If you wish to find out stick around until the next part next Thursday.
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