[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Forty K-Lorecast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Forty-K-Lorecast with me, John Barsati and Brad Chester.
[SPEAKER_01]: This guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: On today's cast, we'll be jumping back into the neck rounds with a focus on the silent king himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: His return to the galaxy to really just honestly set up a deep dive for our jumping to pariah nexus in the coming weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Spoiler.
[SPEAKER_01]: When's our podcast actually go live, H Week?
[SPEAKER_00]: Every Monday at seven p.m.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eastern, good job, Brad.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it focuses on the lore of the Forty Kay universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so smart.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of you have commented and followed it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please keep doing that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: It really helps push us out.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've grown to the number one warhammer podcast actually globally.
[SPEAKER_00]: So go team.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you like the cast, I want to hear more from Brad and I click on the link in the show notes to our YouTube page of the Forty Kay lore cast.
[SPEAKER_00]: There you'll find old versions of the show converted over to imagery.
[SPEAKER_00]: our live Q&A sessions and our other shows, the history of Forty Kay, which is also available on Spotify and coming soon, Brad and Brian hosting two old men in their handler discussing more of a competitive side of the Warhammer Forty Kay universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: In our show notes, there's also a link to our Patreon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Massive, thank you to everyone who's already contributed there.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how we're able to do a lot more.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got better equipment.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got more offerings.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's thanks to our Patreon.
[SPEAKER_00]: The R-Patreon, we only have one tier.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's four dollars and ninety nine cents US dollars a month or sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty two point eight four Indonesian rupees for those of you in Jakarta and Bundung.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't see that we have listeners there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You all thought I was in with Bali went within Indonesia.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, Jakarta has better food than it's more interesting culturally than the place people who like yoga go to go to vacation.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the fact that you can never stop yourself from alienating someone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's the problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got hundreds of thousands of listeners and I just want to start removing them one at a time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like, John picked on me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lastly, we also have a link in our show notes to our discord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please join our discord if you're looking for a place to interact more or more on more humor for DK.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's great spot for fan theories, the lower itself, literature recommendations, movies,
[SPEAKER_00]: everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's an incredible place.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also where you're going to see most announcements from Brad and I, if we're going to be going somewhere, if we've made change to our Etsy store, if we've made any changes that kind of would benefit any of you, or it's sometimes we even go there for advice on future episodes and future cast.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'd love to have as many of you there as possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: But with that,
[SPEAKER_00]: Under the cast, let's start off with a recap of the Necron great sleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've covered the Necron's in detail, but that was over a year and a half ago now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to do a kind of a short rerun through their history.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just for those who don't want to cap to go back and listen to when we were still trying to figure ourselves out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's some of our best.
[SPEAKER_00]: We thought ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, for the most part, I just say that started in help.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll edit that out.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the challenge was, it's a little bit cleaner now.
[SPEAKER_00]: The neck runs were originally called the neck run tier.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were one of the first sentient races in the galaxy that achieved high levels of technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: They probably were others, but they got killed by said neck run tier.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because neck run tier didn't master the wheel.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had faster than light travel, phase shifting for instant teleportation across the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Weapons that could destroy stars and a lot more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nano technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: They did have actual nano technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this was written in the late nineties early zeros.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necront here, though, and this is really important for the rest of this cast weren't extremely aggressive race.
[SPEAKER_00]: They viewed every other species as not deserving to live in the galaxy with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were not a benevolent race that was conquering and uplifting people.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were destroying everything in their path.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hell the grudge.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to use my turn that you hate.
[SPEAKER_01]: to a lot of moss types of anger and vengeance.
[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of spell it sent that to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I lost my Stephen Harrison readers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just quick insight as I'm making the YouTube videos guys have put in subtitles and Brad says to a lot of moss and I didn't know how that was spelled and there was no Google search that helped me with.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why the text they met like seven a.m.
[SPEAKER_00]: in a Saturday.
[SPEAKER_00]: What the hell is this?
[SPEAKER_00]: How do I spell it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, so the that frontier we're doing kind of well.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're a conqueror in the galaxy doing their thing and then they met the old ones and the old ones are definitely the most infamous species and all of the forty.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, they are and fantasy to be honest with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or for not their fantasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, fair about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's in a weird way that them in fantasies a little bit, Lou, because they are the slon in fantasy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, or at least the slon of the descendants.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were an incredibly advanced species that also had the ability to reach into the warp.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, pop the brakes on that big boy, because we need to pause talk about the fact that the warp slightly different place at this point in time.
[SPEAKER_01]: The warp was a serene endless ocean of power that they used to craft and make whatever they wanted.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they were using it pretty much at their will to do everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Recreate reality.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were actually doing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is not the warp of modern time, Forty K.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're remotely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so the old ones were the inverse of the Necron tier.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were actually not a very populous race, and they were instead spreading around the galaxy uplifting small races.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't really know, although I get to call that out.
[SPEAKER_00]: They created the orange.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_00]: The old ones are recorded as being this uplifting race, going around the galaxy and helping fledgling species come up.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only problem I have with that is only one person to wrote that down, it was the Eldar and they are one of said species.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the old ones might have been the old ones might have been horrible jackasses.
[SPEAKER_01]: True story.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they also didn't exactly treat the elder grade because they went, hey, we want you to be these poets, these beautiful people, these artists, and then they went, oh yeah, we're going to have to put that on the back part and you need to fight right now tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's to that note, let's talk about the neck around you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Necront here, while incredibly advanced, they all hailed from a system with a highly radioactive sun that left them with this busted genetic code that shorten their life spans.
[SPEAKER_00]: And somehow, despite all the technology like phase shifting, they couldn't fear how CRISPR works,
[SPEAKER_00]: They could destroy a son.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just true.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, my kid had a bone marrow transplant, which I'm not going to get into here, but that is something I've been through.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were able to handle his genetic issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the next one here could destroy a son and couldn't figure this one out.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm saying, next thing you're going to say is that in the far future, people are going to actually be able to deal with things like, I don't know, night fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's no way they could have that technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is, they skip some kind of key parts of technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, the Necront here meet the old ones and they discovered this incredibly advanced race that was on par with themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so they asked the old ones to cure them of the genetic curse.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the old ones looked at the background here and then kind of looked behind them and just saw this giant swath of destroyed world enslaved people and he's went, nah.
[SPEAKER_01]: to me if I, yes, they said no.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, the decorate here, we're doing some terrible things.
[SPEAKER_01]: But also, you didn't, you clearly have a button over there that you could fix all of our problems with our people dying.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you said, no, you got to know I'm going to attack you tomorrow morning, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, would you have it?
[SPEAKER_00]: If there's happens in the Michael Jordan documentary, and I took that personally, that's literally within that frontier did at this moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necront here to side find, we're taking that technology from you and they attack.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fun story on that, the Necront here had no access to the warp.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not warp sensitive.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't even know the warp existed.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they found out the warp existed pretty quickly when they tried to attack these ones.
[SPEAKER_01]: They found out two things existed to the warp in the web way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because the old ones kept showing up everywhere instantly to kill the shit out of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the old ones put on their boots and mighty ass kicking and sent them packing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, all the way back to the original system.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and where the old ones may have made a colossal mistake here is that they decided not to kill the neck around here.
[SPEAKER_00]: They thought that by bashing them into the corner of a galaxy, they would teach them a lesson they learned from their ways, which for the record never works.
[SPEAKER_00]: It never works ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let me recreate what happened at the neck around here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm so much matter that I was before.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm going to figure out any way possible to kill them.
[SPEAKER_00]: and also you basically hold the neck around here that might is right and they already believed that it's another even more mighter is writer and now here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, as a shirt now.
[SPEAKER_00]: My shirt is writer now because it'll unfortunately that one will get used by the wrong group and I'll have to take it down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if someone have to wreck everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: They always do it's one group and they always ruin everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, on the note, the C-tan.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know how old the C-tan are.
[SPEAKER_00]: They may have been one of the first braces in the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's impossible to know because again, the only history we have from the C-tan is from the deceiver.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're all going to kind of write that stuff off to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, maybe.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to say we got an accurate history from the guy named the deceiver.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's crazy, John.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the C-Tan were the species of energy kind of gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they had no form.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but when they started, I make sure they had no form.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their form was energy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're not even sure how sentient they really work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because at this time, were they forced a good, forced a vehicle, forced a neutral, it's unknown.
[SPEAKER_00]: They would just attach themselves to a sun and feed on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all that we know.
[SPEAKER_01]: The crazy thing is the necrature tried to communicate with them and it's ok with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: a long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: This wasn't like, hey, I figured it out in the movie.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I afternoon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: A thousands of year project.
[SPEAKER_01]: And just get them to acknowledge they exist, basically.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is funny, because they've been trying this for a couple of thousand years.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's see, we don't know how many see Tanya were originally, but we know originally the Necronti are found one of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his name was Methet Ron, which translates to the deceiver.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not a good opener, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is kind of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: They made this about in movies where some of the discoveries are God, and it turns out it's the devil.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the one they discovered first, and it's not going to end great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Long story short.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, here, if you want to know more about this, guys, you can do what you're earlier casts, but long story short, the neck run.
[SPEAKER_00]: the deceiver convinces the necrontere that they can defeat the old ones using a process called biotransference.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in biotransference and necrontere would transfer their bodies temporarily was the key piece of this into these metal husks, metal robots, which would make them immortal.
[SPEAKER_00]: And from there they could then go conquer the old ones.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was living metal that would regenerate.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like this is how you're going to win the war.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, what it actually was was a pest dispenser for their souls.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, by the way, this law is changed a little bit, because when I say it's temporary, the law does move around this a little bit, sometimes it's supposed to be temporary.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's a permanent, but it was supposed to be so bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: No matter how you want to slice this apple, this was bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about this, because the silent can kind of knew about this, but the regular people thought they were getting a flashy, cool, necron body.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was going to just be my regular self and instead you had command protocols and half your soul and or more got ripped out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, as they did this transfer the C ten not just the receiver, but other C tens came down and they actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: as floated over top of these factories, and then consumed anywhere from like ten to a hundred percent of the soul of the being as being transferred in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that actually became a better source of food for them than they'd ever had before when it was eating off the star.
[SPEAKER_00]: So these necrons now awaken their trapped in a robotic body.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're fully aware of what is transpired and that they've been tricked.
[SPEAKER_00]: But
[SPEAKER_00]: Body here is still pretty useful this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they decided to go on a vengeance circuit first after the old ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this becomes known as the war in heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at the neck runs in the C-tand, just begin assaulting the old ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: The old ones, in order to defend themselves, grab the elder who they've been molding to be this great species of artisans that were going to spread love and compassion.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's in poets.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was this giant hippie commune that was going to save the galaxy and create kindness.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the warp would never get disrupted because the galaxy would only be full of happy things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to hold them, hey, go grab a gun.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got so much to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at the same time, created or uplifted the cork.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't really know how the cork happened, but the predecessor of the orcs, but they were a lot bigger and a lot meaner.
[SPEAKER_00]: And also the Joe Caro, who just started this annoyingly forgotten part of Forty Kaylor that most of us will never let go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their lore is too awesome for us to let go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, Black Library.
[SPEAKER_00]: Magic weapon monkeys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We need a Joe Carroll Black Library book.
[SPEAKER_00]: It would be epic and I would enjoy it massively.
[SPEAKER_00]: This war rages for like, oh.
[SPEAKER_00]: hundreds, thousands, millions of years, we don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, no idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it could have been a weekend, it could have been millions of years.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't a weekend, but it was definitely not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm just saying that we don't know exactly there, because sometimes they bring it up and writing and they treated us a long time and some people write it as millions and other people write it as thousands of years.
[SPEAKER_00]: I go off that the Necron deep sleep is written to be sixty million years old and the most of the stuff of the old ones entering the galaxy is sixty five million so there's about a five million year piece there but we don't know when what happens during it is the best how I look at it but
[SPEAKER_00]: The long story of the battle is that the old ones bail out in the galaxy, but before the Necrons and the C-Tan could fully achieve their victory, the silent king decides to take his opportunity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why this matters?
[SPEAKER_00]: Necron society was structured, like that of ancient Egypt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not the real version, but the fantasy version, like all things in Forty Kay, or we talk about it being designed like feudalism in England, King Arthur feudalism, not historical writing feudalism, because that sucks depressing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the whole society was run by what was called the silent king.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's called the silent king because he never speaks.
[SPEAKER_00]: He let a triumvirate.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's him and two other people.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the other part of the triumvirate would speak on his behalf.
[SPEAKER_01]: They relate the voice of the Emperor is now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they are meant to be an equal part ruling.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just this silent king was the figurehead who never spoke.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is it's cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I've my lower standpoint.
[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: The silent king was chosen by a noble families of the Necrontere.
[SPEAKER_00]: The ideas of the both the king and the members of the triark would hail from different families within Necrontere, with each family getting its own place to have a key representative in government.
[SPEAKER_00]: In this way, there was a semblance to the Necrontere where a public
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's a dark truth to this, which is the Necrontiere of stock.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, they're insanely petty, insanely jealous.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know which is worse.
[SPEAKER_01]: The jealousy or the petty is because they've spiked themselves pretty frequently.
[SPEAKER_01]: No words willing to cut off the robotic nose despite their face, then the Necrons wear.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the issue they ran into is that in reality, the Necrontere were only looking to advance themselves and their own agendas.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't hear all the other species in the galaxy, but they also didn't care about other Necrontere's.
[SPEAKER_00]: Subterfuge murder were normal, and the truth is, only the most ruthless members of the Necrontere could achieve a high rank.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for this reason, the silent king tend to come from the exact same dynasty over and over and over again.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do want to add to that that then silent king is not a nepochile.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knew his stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had to be a badass.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had to be ruthless.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had to be wildly informed also to stay of other plots against him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he had to bow down all of the dinosaurs and get them in line.
[SPEAKER_00]: So over time, the dynasty that the Sun came from is Cizaric, SZAR, A-R-E-K-H, which has either a silent K, a silent H, or both.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: The English language is really rough with some of these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not sure if it's a silent K or the silent H is the one that I hate more in the language.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do hate both of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know we have Swedish listeners who are probably going to agree with me on this one, because I'm sure drives them insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the Cesarek dynasty became the largest and most powerful because again, every silent king came from them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they're the biggest ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the dynasty that actually interacted with the deceiver.
[SPEAKER_00]: The silent king is the one who authorized the biotransference to the deceiver.
[SPEAKER_01]: And also the most popular thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you don't understand that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can dive with this in a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the only group we know of, and I'm not going to ruin the book here, but there is only one Theron.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his name was Nefaroff, who rebelled against the C. Tan to stop the bio-transference.
[SPEAKER_01]: Read the Internet of the Divine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Read the Internet of the Divine into a no more about this story.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fantastic story.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going beyond it beyond that because there's too many spoiler pitfalls there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for the most part, people agreed to it because they were being promised immortality.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the extra piece on this, though, is that the silent king and the fairons did know that they would have more control over their populace after bio-transference.
[SPEAKER_00]: What no one knew for a call.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, sorry, the Grand Protocols.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what no one knew outside the silent king was that actually would all fall into the silent king.
[SPEAKER_00]: The silent king realized that in their hunger to destroy the old ones and seize the galaxy, the C-Tan would overextend themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: and they did.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Necrons are all about the numbers.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are figuring out they're doing the doctor's strange getting fifty, sixty-five million possible things.
[SPEAKER_01]: How will we possibly win this?
[SPEAKER_01]: And he ran every possible way that he could well screw them over.
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to take back, you like, hey,
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get this, you know, we have a chance to kill these guys and take their power and which they did enslave the Kitan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Star Gods.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Citan are star gods.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're immensely powerful.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was no way for the Necrons to get their vengeance unless the Kitan were somewhat weakened.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what the silent king realized he could do was wait.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Catan were overconfident and began really pursuing the old ones than into the Eldar to consume more and more souls.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because remember, they've just finished eating all of the Necront here.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing left for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They need new souls to consume.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Selenquin watched as they spread themselves and chased further and further.
[SPEAKER_00]: Until all of a sudden, the Necrons counter-attack.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they realized pretty quickly on, by the way, that killing a star god was not easy, but they put their entire force into this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what they were able to do was shatter the star gods into shards, but some of you GW does a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, everyone breaks into shards.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the bigger thing on the shards is they created ways to contain them and keep them away from themselves.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why when you're playing a game on the tabletop, you're playing a shard of the nightbringer, a shard of the deceiver, a shard of whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can only bring one.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's actually why you can only bring one because if you put two C-tand shards near each other, they would actually merge and that power would be so much that it would require an incredible force to undo.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they have huge, the, their huge vehicles are gigantic powered by these shards also.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cool models, by the way, when they have them lightning kept inside.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, the trends that they'd see dance school is how looking.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm talking about the actual time of the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's, they're a Titan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: The issue though is that the victory they went for was not short or easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: While the Necrons fought the C-Tan, the Eldor Cork and Jocharo were not sitting around idly.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Necrons are fighting for millennia, like this multi-front war, into the C-Tan, and to the Eldor, into the Cork.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they are taking wild losses against Katan, for like crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they did succeed.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the end, they do defeat the C-Tan.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's an issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a silent king looks around and he runs the calculations.
[SPEAKER_00]: The bread pointed out early.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all the neck runs.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you play math to a level that no one can really play math.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they realized that the galaxy belonged to the elder.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was no stopping that.
[SPEAKER_00]: The elder had the numbers, the technology and the capabilities, and trying to stop them would just be tantamount to suicide.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they needed another plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: The neck runs ran the math on the elder and realized because there are beings of flesh, they will eventually
[SPEAKER_00]: fall to anarchy and destroy themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all of us, yeah, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, who's that on?
[SPEAKER_00]: All of our simulations showed you about sixty million years.
[SPEAKER_00]: The elder would fall.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were like maybe twenty, twenty two years off from being dead as prediction by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the flip side is in Necrons are immortal.
[SPEAKER_00]: All they had to do was go wait.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the silent king devises this plan, and his worlds would use their phase shift technology to teleport into the cores of the world that were hollowed out, and they would just power it out for lack of a better phrase and hide there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this slumber and wheat for this to go away, it with an alarm clock.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the alarm clock said, sixty million years click.
[SPEAKER_00]: This became known as a great sleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: of note, the Eldar did not like this plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Eldar have spent sixty plus million years trying to find these said Necron roads and destroy them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They'll crack them in half by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Eldar were not like, let's exercise the Necrons out of the planet.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, we're going to make that planet not a planet anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they also took a lot of offense to the backgrounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're not big fans.
[SPEAKER_00]: The silent king, though, did not join his people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead, he took a small retinue, getting that word finally, of Neckron.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks John.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so impressed right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called a small retinue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then like two lines later, it's written out, well, it's of hundreds of thousands of warriors, because the silent king would not travel without a large retinue around him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's above that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not a weak person.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he went on what was described as a self-imposed exile to figure out next steps.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is described well, I think, in the infant and divine again.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to read more about what that experience was, but the transference of their consciousness to the machine bodies of the Necrons took away all their sensations outside of mental ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they couldn't taste, they couldn't touch, they couldn't smell nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: They couldn't feel wind blowing, temperature changes, food, so the only thing they had left with their minds.
[SPEAKER_00]: which is also why for the overwhelming during species, their minds were all but wiped by the CTN.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were just mindless automatons, really.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Necrons could only experience the presence of life, but couldn't interact with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what made it a lot worse for a lot of the, this goes away.
[SPEAKER_00]: This next bit varies by who you're talking to, but what else do you remember?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Sun King's, one of them, he can remember being a mortal being.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you also remember the feelings of being a mortal being.
[SPEAKER_01]: Something you always have the longing for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there was a nice one in infant divide that talk about the feeling of the sun on their back, the wind blowing those types of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now it's the digital readout.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Sun King hated this.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he wanted to reverse his process for his people.
[SPEAKER_00]: On the upside, though, they were all immortal and have an infinite lifespan, so they can kind of figure out how to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll be right back after a quick break.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he blamed himself, the silent king before he left, destroyed someone called the Command Protocol.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Command Protocol allowed him to order all the Necrons to do whatever he wanted.
[SPEAKER_00]: He effectively could throw all of the Necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: race into his control.
[SPEAKER_00]: But after the events that transpired, he felt he even deserved that power and decided to free the Necrons from captivity and then took his ship out into the dark space.
[SPEAKER_00]: He vowed never to return to the Milky Way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that turned out to be a horrible decision.
[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome for the galaxy terrible for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's be fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had a pretty good reason to return out in the dark realms of the void of space.
[SPEAKER_00]: He found something and something.
[SPEAKER_00]: is the taernids, who could it?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's odd, they're percent the taernids.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if we notice, if he calls out the taernids, but I'm saying they could be the old ones, devolved into the taernids, but that's not his idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he had fans and they were not sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so the silent king from the taernids out the dark reaches of space and knew they were heading towards a Milky Way to consume it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there is a popular fan theory on the tyrannists that the tyrannists are either devolved remnants of the old ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the enslave or plague, which has been enslavers, came out of the war of being in the old ones, damaged them so badly that they end up devolving in some corner of the galaxy into this.
[SPEAKER_00]: or the tiered is were some last-ditch effort by the old ones to save the life of the galaxy from the C-Tan of the Necrons, the ultimate bioweapon, but then again in slavery plague got a hold of them and the experiment ran a muck.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are the ultimate bio weapon.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll cover that later.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they're something new.
[SPEAKER_00]: We had to stop the tears.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the main reason why is because in order to reverse the process of biotransference, he had to have suitable host to transfer into probably humanity, definitely not tau, probably humanity, also wouldn't be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not tau.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's also a pretty big on his things to do list when you go, hey, if I free my people and the tear-nids conquer the galaxy,
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing left.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's going to be a bummer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the territory of consumer, all of the biomass within the Milky Way, which is going to make that biotransference thing kind of hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the interesting thing, the Necrons though, and this is my opinion, but I'm still right about this, the Necrons actually could have just stayed asleep and woken up and conquered the galaxy because the tyrannids don't affect them.
[SPEAKER_00]: The tyrannids that they can't consume the Necrons, if they consume a world, it doesn't really matter the Necrons or the minerals, they don't need biology.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the tear and it's consumed the galaxy, they'll run out of biomass to eat, which will weaken them, at which point like the sea tan, the necrons could just wait and attack and kill the tear and it's off.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they would inherit a galaxy that just all devoid of life and just blank rocks.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the silent king returns to the Milky Way.
[SPEAKER_01]: You up the Danny Glover, pizza V, where he comes in from community, it just sees everything on fire at everybody laying on the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: The galaxy
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, in the, in forty-k it's only war.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the math masters and Necrons got a lot right, but they missed a few pretty critical details.
[SPEAKER_00]: The song came back to a galaxy and pure turmoil.
[SPEAKER_00]: His diviners were dead on, predicting the fall of the Eldar, but they didn't predict how that fall would happen and what it would do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is fair, they don't touch the war.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard for the Necron math masters to figure out the birth of Slanesh when they don't know any of this stuff exists.
[SPEAKER_00]: They also didn't plan for the other races.
[SPEAKER_00]: And humanity's probably the biggest miss in the Necron dividing candidate.
[SPEAKER_01]: To be fair, the emperor was the biggest miss.
[SPEAKER_01]: That throws a big wrench.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a high variable that they did not throw in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Humanity was humanity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Humanity with the emperor was significantly different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly, and humanity was destroying a lot of the plans that the Necrons would have had.
[SPEAKER_00]: First off, they're colonizing worlds that Necrons are on, which isn't that big of a deal because the tumour awakens, they could just annihilate them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But humanity also had a bad tendency to screw up their colonization efforts, as we've discovered before.
[SPEAKER_00]: where they just mind a little bit too deep or destroy the planet with a bad power cell.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they're also blowing up planets.
[SPEAKER_00]: And from the Necrons, that's a big deal because humanity breed like guppies.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necrons are a limited supply.
[SPEAKER_00]: So every two more of the gets destroyed.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no replacing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necron, every Necron tier who is transferred to Necron, they don't have any more of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a permanent loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: The bigger issue though is for the Necrons is not the humanities destroying Necron worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like humanities making the warp into what it is more modern day just massively disrupted.
[SPEAKER_00]: The silent king and the Nikon's can't touch the warps.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now all of a sudden, he comes back to a galaxy that has more warp going through than he could ever even mildly consumed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Off the charts for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, because it's affecting the real world.
[SPEAKER_01]: His was it's a source of power that they use against me.
[SPEAKER_01]: He comes back to, wow, the warp is actually ruining places in the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And also, he's going back to, by the way, the Eldar weren't thrilled to see the Necrons start waking back up, so he comes back into a galaxy to an Eldar who were like, look, we've taken a big Eld, and we're in big trouble, but we will happily take you with us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, full stop.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the things are going well for us, but I'd like to also make them bad for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the older are going extinct, so are the Necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was their viewpoint.
[SPEAKER_00]: The orcs have got to be fun, where good news.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot smaller than they used to be and a lot less powerful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bad news.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's quite drilling in this quintu, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't do them with more of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're pretty ownary.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's several.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, there's also the towel, not talking to talk crap guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I am, but the towel just aren't large enough to really matter that they do the towel in Forty K. The way I look at the towel is the towel ruin people's plans.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the towel you really, really well.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not big enough to conquer anything, but they're big enough to screw up something that was really important you were trying to do in one area because the towel get involved.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are the vote ten?
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably will be in the common code access.
[SPEAKER_00]: The vote ten will be someone who will get in the way of a lot of these plans because they're just both the town of vote and just don't have the numbers that the necrons or the humanity or the elder.
[SPEAKER_01]: And just for you, John, I had to look it up and make sure I was correct.
[SPEAKER_01]: How in the necrons of many other choice?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I think both time to try to have diplomacy.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, the both times they were fighting against Tyrannians, and one time they left, and the other time they smoked showed them, and then left.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about the two worlds themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the biggest problems that Zalen King has.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necron great sleep was something that was done completely as a theory.
[SPEAKER_00]: They planned and prepared to place their entire species in deep sleep, that the Necron's only could assume it would work.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necrontier had used stasis pods to conquer out of the galaxy, but that's when their bodies were mortal.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are new robotic forms.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're basically turning off the power and then seeing what if we plug the computer back in sixty million years?
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, we have to leave the jammers on or whatever you want to call it, because they have to hide.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're looking for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can't just go, they would turn it off.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, they're right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're miles below the surface.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can blow a planet up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll do this on my way to do something else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so with all this, the awakening of the necrons was challenging really at best.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what I mean by that is, I would argue the necron awakening for the necrons at least.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would classify as a colossal failure in the way that then.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the way that they would have predicted it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The next, I'll give you that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it is not a failure.
[SPEAKER_00]: The process of it, but the Necron's plan around this whole deep sleep was the Necron's would go to sleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, sixty million years, all of the tumors would come online at once, phase back up to the surface and go conquer the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And instead, the vast majority of them, like probably ninety nine percent,
[SPEAKER_00]: I have not all fully awake.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night, at night,
[SPEAKER_00]: It happens as it gives half hazard.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some wake up fully, some don't wake up, also a lot of them are damaged.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them begin to wake up and they just feel it fully come online.
[SPEAKER_00]: So millions of years, so you're dormant really isn't ideal.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the worst parts were the flare virus and their strikers and their strikers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Both of these were completely unproductive.
[SPEAKER_00]: These appeared to be machine code corruptions, but just will happen, if you wait long enough, where worlds would come online and in the case of the flare virus, the beings only wanted to kill.
[SPEAKER_00]: They wanted to hunt down and kill
[SPEAKER_00]: mortal beings.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could not sway them, you could not stop them, and they would do that until they just died.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's the story occurs, which is basically the same thing, but with a more of a mind-corruption of focused into destroyers too.
[SPEAKER_00]: They became called destroyers, and I do it, because the destroyer occurs to happen to a Lord, and then when it happened, you became a, that one's supposed, both of these supposedly leaborers, curses from the C-ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what this leaves is a necrons society that's awakening and is disjointed, which leads us to the biggest problem, which Brad was handing on to earlier.
[SPEAKER_00]: The culture of the necrons themselves is a problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the reasons a problem is that the necrons are no different from the necron tier in that the necron tier kind of dicks.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's mind of?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean,
[SPEAKER_00]: A society that's built entirely on superiority and elitism.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess you could describe as kind of not cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Benzel Berenz and things these guys just get the shit together.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the most important thing we can tell when that crime is, yeah, from a superiority standpoint, they believe they're superior to every species in the galaxy, but they also feel they're superior to every other net crime that they meet.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necrons are loyal, not to their species, but to their dynasty, first and foremost, and then probably their actual two-world, and those two can invert a little bit here and there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We could talk with the kind of esoterically, by the way, but I said, I'm just going to talk directly about some bits from the design where trays and is a fantastic example of what's wrong with Necron culture.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's somebody doing wildly his own thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm doing this mostly because everyone keeps telling me, when you talk about Trasin, I can't talk about Trasin much as ruining that whole book.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to do it this way.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Trasin real quick, those who haven't read the book, and you all should, isn't overlord from the dialect dynasty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Trasin unfortunately woke up well ahead of his plan time.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know when he woke up, but from his collection, it's during the Golden Age of Technology or earlier.
[SPEAKER_00]: Trasin's been around for a while.
[SPEAKER_00]: Trasin awoke to a galaxy though just full of shiny new things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately for Trasin and fortunately for the galaxy he awoke with a very small tomb world so he couldn't just go and conquer the galaxy solo.
[SPEAKER_00]: In his mortal life though, Trasin was a scribe and archivist of the Necrontere.
[SPEAKER_00]: Basically he likes trinkets.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they run to be Indiana Jones but he's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that all of the Necrons do have
[SPEAKER_01]: Left over virus is from like ten.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's possible because Trasins OCD about the fact that he wants all of these things that he now considers interesting fascinating.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's not because he's trying to understand he just wants these trinkets.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have to be his.
[SPEAKER_00]: The key thing I want to point out about Trasin is Trasin made no effort at all to awaken any other two worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Didn't care, didn't care about the master plan, didn't care anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just cared about Trasin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he did something that is very British.
[SPEAKER_00]: He decided to British Museum the entire galaxy by just stealing anything and everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has built this collective pocket dimensions in which he stores things he finds interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's his hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet a very long list, guys, but the ones I like is he has a crook.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has multiple gene stealer cults, certainly he had an enslaver, a custod, the Vastroian Firstborn Regiments, plural.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the troop of Harlequins, troop of Harlequins.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not a Harlequin, troop of Harlequins, or soccer creed is currently in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: A clone of full-groom,
[SPEAKER_00]: and a whole lot more.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to dive too far into him because again, it's a very good book and it's the same reason we're not going to do much on eyes and the horn.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's because I just want you all to read them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you don't make your lives better.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to talk a bit more about a key part of his collection which really shows the selfishness of the Necrons is his Necron collection.
[SPEAKER_00]: Trasin has a significant collection of Necron artifacts.
[SPEAKER_00]: which on the surface makes sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: The archaeologists woke up.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to go through and make sure he preserves as much necrons society as possible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Strays it went to other tomb worlds, and Rob's stuff didn't awaken them often, took the means to awaken them, and stole that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he also destroyed a few of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, actually, we don't know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We used to have a trace and acquired artifacts, not by chance, in which case a Necron tomb world may have had a meteor crack that the planet opened, and he was able to go in and grab stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it also has the awake button for two or three different two worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's an important artifact.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Trasin actually might be the most chaotic neutral character in all of Forty Kay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he gives zero F's.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because he's so selfish destroys everything in his path, but it's not evil.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just got a plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the plan is, collect, that's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: M- Forty-One, though, the Necron Tomb Worlds do begin to wake in.
[SPEAKER_00]: So despite Trasin running around all over the place, around M- Forty-One, he has to slow his roll down a little bit, because all of our Tomb Worlds come online.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as a tumor was awakened, they immediately set their sights on expansion.
[SPEAKER_00]: They would be quickly conquer any interlopers, so anything on the planet or in-system, those are gone right away.
[SPEAKER_01]: The great thing for humanity, Eldar, definitely the Imperium, is the Necrons started doing what Necrons do, which is inviting, instantly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before we even knew that the Necrons existed, they were already fighting each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because the Necrons are showing up, blacking out entire systems because they can do that for communication.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, before we even knew they were there, and again, I'm saying we, I'm part of the Imperium, apparently.
[SPEAKER_01]: We started, they had already been in a huge system-wide fights with other dynasties, and they tried to compete with each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because remember when the Necrons went into the deep sleep, it was done so by the silent king.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are two worlds also that it was very strategic.
[SPEAKER_00]: The idea was they spread the two worlds around the galaxy where there was good mineral or technology or sort of resources to be had so that they would then awaken they could then utilize all those resources as a collective to raise up the species and conquer the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: But instead, they woke up without any said leader.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the dynasties just started looking around going, I'm a week first.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that dynastie over there has a bunch of stuff that would really help my dynastie out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna kill them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's exactly what they did.
[SPEAKER_00]: They went over and just started pillaging other necron tumors.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know how many necrons have been destroyed by the necrons, but it's not a small amount.
[SPEAKER_01]: They've talked about this a lot in the necron codices.
[SPEAKER_01]: especially, and they've also talked about in a couple of the actual novels, which is the Necron empires don't think anything of in the Imperium.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're way more worried about fighting each other because they think in the end they're just going to wipe out these
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're mostly true.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you look at the conflicts between the Imperium and the Necrons, the Imperium has to bring a twenty or thirty to one ratio in order to handle the Necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necrons know, oh, these things are nuts.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we need to, we'll just go destroy them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's not a we need to.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's an I need to answer to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I need to all go destroy them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the silent king returns to the galaxy and he finds his people are actually under threat, not just from the outside which he expected, but also from the inside.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is kind of a problem because the silent king's not a hugely popular figure amongst the Necrons who now the command protocols go on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now they're sitting there going, oh,
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this isn't exactly why we can, and guys, it's just the silent king implies us by his next actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: My viewpoint is only he could run back and see, good news, guys, the guy who ruined our entire species and cursed us to a crappy existence is back, and it's here to lead us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably wasn't going to go over very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but the problem is that the silent king does have something really important to tell them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he really can't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there's these things that are coming over the guys that are going to destroy all of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, too late.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything's already on fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The entire place is on fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, who broke the sky?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not in the middle of the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're at the rift at this point in time as they get on.
[SPEAKER_01]: When he starts to incorporate them, the silent king actually makes real effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He comes back before the rift is nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: He comes back before the rift, but he starts actually mobilizing and getting people together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Once we get the rift, because they have, they make in the eighth edition of night that it should go to season.
[SPEAKER_01]: They talk about the fact that the backgrounds have a plan for closing the rift.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, we're going to be getting to that on our next episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, Brad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Way to go in the foreshadow.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the silent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the silent king in effect is forced to now slow play his next move.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is a master of strategy and the first thing he does is cloak his identity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because his original plan of running back and saying, hey, everyone, listen to me was just not going to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: The necrons are way too fractured and not enough worlds are awakened, even standing as a tear.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's let alone all the forces of the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he needs to manipulate the other species in the galaxy to turn their attention to the necrons, just to position themselves as at a minimum a speed bump against a teariness to come to the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, he has to go align the Necrons as best he could, and that wants it some really serious sub-strafuge, because remember, he has no control over them.
[SPEAKER_00]: If another powerful Necron overlord detects him, they would probably try to kill him, because he's the greatest threat to their power.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I have a sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: He over.
[SPEAKER_01]: He outranged them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So badly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the silent king sends his agents around the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: While he has disabled the command protocols, he has a luxury.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knows where the two worlds are.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm actually not sure if anyone outside of him knows that because it's obviously the elder adult, but I'm not even sure if amongst the Necrons, if they know where they all are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was kind of a vibe I got from the reading, but someone can correct me if I'm wrong on that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I know he does.
[SPEAKER_00]: He does know where they all are.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he begins activating two worlds that he knew would be loyal to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, loyal is always a question, but these dynasties were loyal to him in the past during their history.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he may or may not be able to affect things during the reanimation protocols.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I say, may or may not, he totally can.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's also manipulating the reanimation to not necessarily enthrall them to him, because I don't think he had that much power, but at least to make them more loyal to him than they would have been otherwise.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think, yes, so reawakened a lot of things that were in the path of the tyrants to get them to be in the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, very much so.
[SPEAKER_00]: He also begins using cryptics and weaker lords to influence some of the currently awakened dynasties to see things in the way that would benefit him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mostly, he's just trying to eliminate the really selfish dynasties and trying to uplift the ones who are more likely to align with the Necron species as opposed to their individual dynastie, or even just their two world in some of the cases that are pretty rough.
[SPEAKER_00]: He also though, these stories that I hated is where he tries to use the roles of other species to interact with other species of the galaxy, to kind of manipulate them.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Elder ones weren't me having tried.
[SPEAKER_00]: That would have been funny if he'd been like, oh, the Elder would have been like, because the Elder really, let's just call this out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so it's written that he tries to influence other species of the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go through his options.
[SPEAKER_00]: Option one, Elder.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Option two, orcs.
[SPEAKER_00]: zero negative actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not so you actually, you'll get more diplomacy done with the elder than you own the works.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number three chaos probably not gonna go great.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the tau, which again, why bother?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's what five systems.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not gonna be enough for you to actually care.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the only thing that someone can really was trying to do is manipulate humanity because that's the only way you're gonna fight a massive horde of tyrannids is with an even more massive horde of humanity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for a two hundred years, he does this scheming and acting behind the scenes until he decides to declare himself and hi guys, I'm here to all Neckrons and tell them all to come join him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this was met been a really cool Neckron way.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the silent king comes back and says, hey guys, I'm here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready to lead you again.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the Necrondionicies went, yeah, we're so excited to do that, and immediately began skimming behind the scenes and had a killing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's one of the better parts of this is he's just like everyone's falling in line, but he's smart to go except none of them are actually falling in line.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are they damn it?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Sonic King does pull off one important thing though.
[SPEAKER_00]: He reinstalls himself as the head of the triarch.
[SPEAKER_00]: He installs two shows as the other parts of the triax.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he now has uncontested powers.
[SPEAKER_01]: But to say, it's a triar.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, well, triar.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's more like the signalling king and two wacky, waving, filial, and fatable two band guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are pointless.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they are there simply to go, yeah, what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, it's his hype group.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, silent J, woo, woo, woo.
[SPEAKER_00]: But by doing this, what does help him is that because he is now technically, he is, he is, he is the head of the triarch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nechron Dynasties can't outwardly resist him because in order to do so, he could actually turn all the Nechron's on them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They do have rules as a society.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if someone stands up against a silent king, they have to go kill the silent king themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in that process, every other Nechron Dynastie will fight them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it gives him a bit more space.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to say all that, and now we're going to talk about Emotech the Stormboard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, not on board with all of the silent King's plans to get back to even reversing this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the largest Necron dynasty in current forty.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it was historic, there's no current forty.
[SPEAKER_00]: K is a south tech dynasty.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're also one of the most awakened.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this that their forefront is the overlord emo tech known as a storm lord, and he's called that because he likes to use arcing energy attacks against his foes, which was awesome in eighth edition.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, it's really lame and tenth, but eighth and ninth he had some cool attacks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's also one of the people that's one of the few lords that's on purpose right away with I'm going to conquer the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not he doesn't fight don't get me wrong, but he's more focused on we are going to conquer pretty right away.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll be us all in that ones are afraid of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually covered in infant divine or a combat diviner.
[SPEAKER_00]: He hails from this dynasty.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when he brings up, like, do I need to go tell emo tech?
[SPEAKER_00]: People back down pretty quickly because they know, emo tech gets in a mood from time to time and it's not a happy mood.
[SPEAKER_00]: where emo text important though is that he didn't want to go back to the former form of the necrontator.
[SPEAKER_00]: He saw this new form, this necront form, as being superior, because he was immortal and with the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's also had several upgrades since then.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: But one of my favorite things on EmoTech, though, is he loves being a Necron and being able to fight his favorite form of conquering is to duel the leader of his opponents.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wherever he's fighting, this has been humans, orcs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he's pulled it off with Eldar, but maybe he has.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, my memory's not hundred percent on that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said some great tools because of the fact that he instantly heals.
[SPEAKER_01]: He regenerates and a wild rate.
[SPEAKER_00]: which is a opponent doesn't know until they hit him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what he will then do is he then beats his opponent to almost like an inch of death and then will believe a large wound on them and not kill them because he wants them to live the rest of their lives knowing that emo tech is the superior warrior.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't help though because again, it does this create people who now know how to fight the backgrounds all over the galaxy and definitely want to kill him, but that's a side note.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's also cheating the dude regenerates instantly.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's actually, they make note of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry for having a nice emotional attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's super cool, but like in his duels in the stories, he gets beat up quite a bit, but he just instantly regenerates.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he just wears people down.
[SPEAKER_00]: His entire system is I'm just immortal.
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: So, once a silent king reveals himself, emo tech, like all the other overlords fall in line, not because he agrees them, but because he knew he had to get as close as possible to the silent king.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he could kill us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, John, if you're going to stab somebody in the back, you got to be close to their back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, does help.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Emo Tech outwardly was a big supporter of the Silent King, and we're going to cover our next cast that no, because Emo Tech actually believed that he was the great unifier of the Necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Silent King had his chance and he screwed that up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, Emo Tech was going to unite the Necrons by conquering the stars with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's jump back into the silent king.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the last little bit we want to get to here are Necron Pilons.
[SPEAKER_01]: But in why they're so important, we've had Katie and we've had, we'll talk about that in a second.
[SPEAKER_01]: The silent king realizes that chaos is going to be a huge problem, huge, huge problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, warp is spilling out into the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need to put some tape on the dam, you know, if you get a fix this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and the chaos corruption, but that was disrupting humanity was just too much to make humanity useful, basically.
[SPEAKER_00]: The chaos incursions are also pushing his two worlds and tying up his forces.
[SPEAKER_00]: The chaos is also consuming the mortal vessels that he needs for his biotransferons.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he has to do some out chaos.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the good thing about silent king is that he's been around for kind of a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in that long time, early part of it, he had to fight against the warp, and he was there, and we don't know who developed it, but he was there when they developed a weapon to fight the old ones and the elder.
[SPEAKER_00]: So during the war in heaven, the Necrons developed a technology using blackstone to contain and then shut down the warp.
[SPEAKER_00]: By placing these, like, called pylons in an area, they would actually create a ferradake cage for lack of a better term here of the warp.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for those of you who did not listen to the cast, that's what was on Cadia.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Cadia had these pylons, which is why the eye of terror was what it was.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was actually a small ball of warp that was being held in place by the pylons on Cadia.
[SPEAKER_01]: When that's the story, the I have terror is a hell what was held in explosion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, and the second cadia was destroyed by Abadan exploded out and this warp went beyond the rift going through the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: The silent king knows how to build these pylons and he knows how to build a network.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he decides that, oh, by the way, this also would help against the tyrannies because the tyrannies can't use their synaps when they're in the presence of these Faraday cages.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to use that term for them to think it's better.
[SPEAKER_00]: These warp Faraday cages.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, it also would turn off the astronomical and does
[SPEAKER_00]: horrible things of the Eldar.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Eldar, if you put the Eldar near Pilons, you're basically pulling them in a sensory deprivation chamber.
[SPEAKER_00]: Forever, it is not fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the silent king did not care about any of those things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he decides, this is what we're going to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to shut the warp down and I'm going to begin by building out these pylons and I'm going to start pushing the warp back, which again, on paper sounds kind of awesome for humanity, but has some pretty negative side effects.
[SPEAKER_00]: So as you guys can guess, we're going to break there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to break there because our next few casts are going to be on what the silent king does next.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called the pariah crusade.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really a fun crusade to go into because it covers a lot of the new faces of forty k. Gilliman call there's probably some towel in there kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: but it is, it's gotta, it's gotta who's who, because the pariah crusade overlap with the start of ninth editions.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about twenty, twenty onward.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the last, to turn in the packet we used.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for the next.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was a tournament packet.
[SPEAKER_00]: The whole way we were playing the game was actually narratively tied to this area.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're gonna dive pretty, and do it more like the way we covered the war, the beast, more of a linear progression from one side all the way through.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I'm excited for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, till next week, this has been John Barsati and Brad Chester.
[SPEAKER_00]: See you guys then.