[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Forty K-Lorecast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Forty Kaylorcast with me, John Barzati and Brad Chester.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is round two that hopefully during this round, my child will not again take out the power plug that goes to the router.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we don't lose it, twenty minutes in.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: Today's cast, we're doing a dive into the events of the Nephilim War, which later became known as the Pariah Crusade, AKA the start of ninth edition.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know where I wanted to start talking about things almost immediately after the Horacee, and I got put in time out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Brad's pitch was, we finished the Horace Heresy, so the oldest, well, not the oldest, but some of the oldest parts of the lower head.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can we share the new stuff now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, well, it involves entirety of characters who no one's ever heard of.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, they'll figure it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can we do the new stuff now?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to stay at what's happening here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not following all your complaints.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what today's going to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a awakening.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is an era of forty k known as psycho-acadying.
[SPEAKER_00]: These were codex supplements, which a lot of us have some strong opinions on a couple of them launched between October, two thousand nineteen.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to do more and more on this because I think you are mostly too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really agree that some of the best
[SPEAKER_01]: lore has been written in the gathering storm and psychic awakening supplements and the continued supplements that are coming out for the game.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they had the writers have done a great job of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's important to cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely fantastic job.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just the rule writers with some of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, back, it didn't pull up the brakes, big dog.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to talk about the rules during these
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I try to think was it, although the Harley Quinn one was a white dwarf, where your Harley Quinn troop master just became the greatest melee fighter in the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me just talk about re-reliable two of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: With the story, it was like, oh, what battle round is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've got fourteen attacks now, whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know it gained, I think the gain is strength and attack for each player.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, yeah, he stayed in the transport till turn three and then decided to just yellow everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second awakening was a backdrop of the great rift split in the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was really well written because it was to Brad's point.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was talking about how each faction of the game stepped up to take it either to take advantage of it or to try and stop the rift expand.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the rift would be when Gabidan broke through Cadia and the eye of tear expanded and effectively cut off the galaxy for the most part.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the last book that came out in the series was the Necron book, which is our main focus here, and it focused on the nephilim sub-sector and its role in the endominus crusade.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, to Brad's point where we're discussing here is when the rift happens, of Katie of Falls,
[SPEAKER_00]: the Eye of Terror explodes, this jump, you can see just look up map, look up, forty K map, and you'll see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's effectively cutting, not necessarily in half, I would say the upper third of the galaxy, it rips the straight across them.
[SPEAKER_00]: As it went through, it created effective in many dark age of technology for a lot of the worlds, because worlds were totally cut off from them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Except, I'd like to learn the dark age of technology where it was like, we can't really communicate and there's raiders,
[SPEAKER_00]: This dark age of technology included giving demons free reign into the material.
[SPEAKER_00]: You also still have Drew Carrey, who just like, well, that's just fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was, it's not a great moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Carrey, we're not on the side of let's try to stop anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were just on the let's take advantage of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: The reason it's called psychic awakening, though, is that with the rift coming into the galaxy, it quadrupled quintuple it massively increased the overall psychic powers of people within the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: So everyone, even people who were not for sensitive became for sensitive and those who were for sensitive became astronomical.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was an extensive notion of power that rips through the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so for example, the L-DAR, the L-DAR found themselves more power there before, and this is the backdrop for you need being born.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would argue probably you need doesn't get born without this occurring, and because of this power load aside from you need, just regular craft rolled L-DAR.
[SPEAKER_00]: were much more powerful than before.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they were able to actually fight back.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of the craft rules start to improve well during this era because they're overpowered by the second forces.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sans the fact that demons and cast started showing up everywhere because cast was used to have to kind of peek out or be summoned or have great things happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: The rift gave them such a huge staging point of wherever the hell they wanted now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, except the best example of it is the is ball where the tyrannids were about to consume ball as the tyrannids were closing in the last pieces of the bloody angels defending ball.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's when the rift rip through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kabanda and all with the blasts came.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Kabanda did not he was not being subtle with this maneuver came in and ruined a high fleet.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there was no one, no summoning ritual, he was just able to do it because the rift happened to pass nearby.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the same time, I would argue that this is the reason why we see so many of the demon primarks now, as we've talked before, used to be what Angron would die.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would disappear for ten thousand years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now he's gone for like eight hours, sometimes even less.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you roll the three sexes, give me a few seconds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he pops back off, but it's because this rift has messed with the blend of reality and your reality.
[SPEAKER_00]: The issue though is it also is affecting the orcs who have become extra ordering.
[SPEAKER_00]: Riled up irritated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, riled up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And even the town got a psychic awakening book.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was also them in James they're called and they got shadow sun back.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the fifth sphere of expansion, I read the book, obviously.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're going to probably cover a lot of the psychic awakening in the future.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to do a little bit of the backdrop here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The most important part of the psychic awakening, though, is the resurrection of Gilman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or if we're talking the narrative of forty K, that's the biggest one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Gilman at the stage were here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's now gotten back to Tara.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's met with the Emperor.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's declared himself the Lord Commander of the Imperium.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a special light of that he is because he is definitely lacing up his boots and mighty ass kicking.
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not always he doesn't have a heel suit hold up the ad mechanism.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll make a bunch more because one pair is not going to be enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need this to be standard issue gear.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get out then.
[SPEAKER_01]: He also organizes
[SPEAKER_01]: I would argue that he organizes the biggest crusade since the original crusade.
[SPEAKER_01]: The endominus crusade might be larger if you're just talking.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think not.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would actually, I would say I think it's larger.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's less space marines, obviously, but overall forces it's larger.
[SPEAKER_00]: because he took the entirety of the Imperium and went on giving everybody a purpose because well we're getting invaded from well east west south north and everything else and also up and down that's the thing to yeah I will say he does have if you guys listen to the sisters cast the luxury of having the sisters who seem to outnumber the space marines by thirty to one anyway and can also wear power on her and shoot boulders so
[SPEAKER_00]: These were options.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yet, to Brad's point, the endomness crusade launches itself out of segmentum solar, and the idea was to first halt the advance of all the enemies of mankind, and then start reclaiming the worlds that sort of systems that were lost, most of just the ineffectiveness and the fallies, the lords of terror, who are once again not important because Gilman is here.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good Gilman's here, and so the lords of terror have now moved back to being more what they were when the emperor was arrested.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're there, but Gilliman will come back and slap you with a power fist, which means you will actually cease to exist.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think one of those weapons in the game Quake just explodes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the first thing Gilliman does is he divides his fleet into three things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Primus, secundus, and turshius, and he sends them all out each to perform a host of tasks.
[SPEAKER_00]: They all had a list of things they were going to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's not long before they find themselves getting reassigned, but like Gilliman to do things that he discovers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to talk about one of those right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pull him sector.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Nephilim sector is out in the bottom right part of the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: as the galaxy is burning.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what I do mean burning.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are calls coming in from everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: The astronaut choir on soul was becoming over on the request for aid and actually astrapasem cells were dying.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say there's there's they were actually killing astrapas because they were doing so much connection.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, we're receiving because they're always always having astronauts dying trying to send a message because they have to get through the warp.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so hard to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: These ones had so much overload.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like a computer that overheated.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was noted at some point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually fairly quickly that there was one sector that wasn't crying out at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But more importantly, it wasn't even communicated.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the net phone set.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is a big deal because it is home to a lot of giant high worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is kind of like if you played Mass Effect three with sanctuary where you just it was just too quiet something's off.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So all around the Nephilim sector, though, the systems are burning, like the rest of the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: If these worlds had fallen to chaos, to orcs, or the like, even tyrannids, they're what if they had just dressed call coming out?
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing came out.
[SPEAKER_01]: It had been multiple distress calls, and we got nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: No matter what, there was still it had been automated distress calls, the initial when they made contact distress calls, other worlds coming out, but they got nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Imperium sends a battle group to go handle the situation, because they knew this is off, but they all knew that whatever is there is probably not a good fit.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they said they fold that over out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: All around the Nephilim sector, though, and this is important.
[SPEAKER_00]: The worlds were burned with the rest of the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe actually a little bit more than they should, because for an area that's not in direct touch of the rift, it was almost too hot to be a hot zone, because it sits a little bit below into the right of the main part of the rift.
[SPEAKER_00]: But upon arriving in the system, is they found the imperial worlds were either in full revolt or under full assault from Zenos, but not named Zenos.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I say Zenos, I don't mean orcs or Eldar Jucaria, the great numerous extras, Zenos, the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's because these revolts, these invasions were much more akin to the attacks of the Crohn's and Arda Monta that we covered at the start of the war of the beast.
[SPEAKER_00]: because the Zenos that were attacking the Nephilim sector, we're just trying to get.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're outside of something behind them.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's something the rear window that was scarier than going through in period defenses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it was the same with the Imperial rebellions.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Imperial rebellions were not some ambitious planetary governor or general trying to seize control of a planet.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't chaos, cultists, or geese or patriarchy trying to seize the planet.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was people rebelling to try and seize the ships to get off planet.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll do more on this widespread rebellion a little bit later in the heresy, but this had drawn the attention of the sister that battle, which is somebody that you don't want to get the attention of when you're in rebellion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so the order, our martyred lady ordered, showed up, and we get to more of them in a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for now, I'm going to focus just my battle group in their experience.
[SPEAKER_00]: So upon arriving in the sector, this battle group, which is called Collaties, found something kind of awful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Upon arrival, they found it easy to get there, never a good sign.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because with the opening of the Great Rift, this is also called, by the way, the circuitics maledictum, the warp is a nightmare throughout the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Warp travels insanely turbulent.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like flying a plate of a thunder.
[SPEAKER_01]: And entire sectors were cut off.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is almost ready before the birth of Slenech when you had just crazy rolling in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and the stories are coming out of this is that when a fleet would try and translate out of the warp back into reality, upwards of ten percent just wouldn't make it out the other side.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were doing short jumps.
[SPEAKER_00]: But however, this battle group, when they get to the edge of the Nephilim sector, they found the calmest warp basically in human history.
[SPEAKER_00]: My research recorded human history because you know, it might have been some nicer events earlier.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a flat ocean.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's a catch.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the catch is, while the warp is calm, it's because it was no longer there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the, you know, the Astropath and the Psychers were not super excited to be cut off from the warp.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they were literally screaming.
[SPEAKER_00]: And some of them dying, not because they were being attacked by the warp because they couldn't see or communicate in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are stories of psychers falling to the ground and choking to death as if they were drowning.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they literally died, not like, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, this isn't even just a thing for the psychers though, because they couldn't translate in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Warp engines would just fail and just not be able to go or interact with the warp at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you, you would actually try to translate into the warp and just, if it was fire up into wooden work, when my favorite story is was one of them actually did do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: They'd be able to translate into the warp and as they went into the warp, their galer field overloaded and they just looked at it and they started looking around waiting for the demons to come murder them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: and they just traveled through the warp with no problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then came out the other side.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, that must have been a fun moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the group master of the fleet colladies was his old rugged veteran named Marlin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he just looks around, sees all of this and goes, yeah, this is not natural.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go find the disturbance and I'm going to destroy it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was just saying, he'd pure imperial form
[SPEAKER_01]: What's causing this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's not try to figure out what's making the warp calm.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not natural.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's blow it up for sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a hundred percent prime imperium there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what's gets crazy about this story.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a really well written book.
[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, this is fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: As they get further in, they discover endless abandoned planets.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when I say abandoned, I mean, we're talking more like, they, the earth stood still.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I can't know not that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was just, there's no, because that one, people are still around.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's just, there's nobody there, healthy for twenty eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got a massive fact again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: When the collectors pick everybody up, there's structures, we're still there.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just nuts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything's gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: So as the battle group arrives, the system.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was true that they didn't find anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: They found a wall that blocked them off from me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so once they made it to the first space stations, they found them abandoned, not a single human there.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were servitors, but they were just standing around in a permanent rest mode.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was food on the tables.
[SPEAKER_00]: That obviously, it was rotting away at this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's no signs of a struggle, no signs of a fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they did notice all the spacecraft were missing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the conclusion was everyone just left.
[SPEAKER_00]: So then, of course, they go planet side.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we get planet side, a lot of the same stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are high worlds, not maybe not necramunda, high world.
[SPEAKER_00]: But these are still high worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's no one there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the sum of stories I love is like the machinery, because the machines spirits are still going.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're still functioning.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're airplanes that are flying around in the sky.
[SPEAKER_00]: Still just flying around forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's kind of, you don't use fuel guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are endless fuel cells.
[SPEAKER_00]: The creepier ones, was they would find on the ground, crashed vehicles, what?
[SPEAKER_00]: As if the pilot just stopped carrying and just drove into a wall.
[SPEAKER_00]: They all turned off.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right after this, though, doesn't take long.
[SPEAKER_00]: They notice that the people who are going down to the planet, they don't feel right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't feel right.
[SPEAKER_01]: These guys were just losing their mind with an overwhelming sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: of just something's on me anxiety paranoia.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't stop moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't rest.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't sleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't do anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: They wouldn't eat.
[SPEAKER_01]: They wouldn't do anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they weren't also weren't accomplishing anything either.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they were just spashing out.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the medical term.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so this is called this stealing and it started as an overwhelming sense of anxiety and paranoia.
[SPEAKER_00]: The soldiers, they couldn't settle down.
[SPEAKER_00]: They couldn't get rest.
[SPEAKER_00]: They couldn't sleep.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just something was wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, but over time, it gets worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of them just started wandering off.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not so much like a zombie wanderer, but just like, hey, I don't like being here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm leaving a banding posts doing what they can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Others would just sit down and say, I'm not getting up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not doing anything leaving me alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the longer they were on the planet, the worse it got.
[SPEAKER_00]: This became a huge issue because commissars are a thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And commissars don't ask you to do stuff twice.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the competition.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the second time they ask is followed by a bulltist on the back of your head.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think there are commissars who are present here, who had current level kill counts on Imperial soldiers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess is insane, but even the commissars began struggling and say, beginning suicide because they don't, they find and weakness in themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Imperium starts losing a battle to occupy an empty world that has no enemy combatants.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, luckily, any good battle group has an inquisitor, and they had a woman named Draxis.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is awesome, by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's a one.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's a playable model, by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's one of the weird dragon on her arm.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's really good to, you find her in Custone's Army's all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her rules are mad, but I can see how he'd be helpful in Custone's stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's like four up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Devours versus infantry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's helpful.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's one same, but two.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can each load out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like her rules.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's an incredibly powerful siker.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's not in the data.
[SPEAKER_00]: So she, what she was able to sense was that the world had been severed from the warp.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it wasn't that the warp was a calm ocean here, but rather the warp was being trapped behind a wall and couldn't get to the planet.
[SPEAKER_00]: what Dr. Axis found was even more concerning was that she couldn't find any reason why.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because as we said earlier, there's no signs of struggle, there's no battle.
[SPEAKER_01]: But even more whack is, hey, let's go look at the security cameras and all of them were corrupted with no information.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's no data.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing anywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't find anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this couldn't happen by accident.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, drags this as part of Ordozino's.
[SPEAKER_00]: So she knew there was something alien going on here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she didn't really know how the Necrons were doing it, but she was pretty sure it was the Necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, so we'll go ahead and jump at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's obviously the Necrons guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I might write you a novel.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's real.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's also a titled Necron episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: As the battle group presses forward into the sector to find the cause, this disturbance gets worse and worse and worse.
[SPEAKER_00]: The point where space marines started struggling against this.
[SPEAKER_00]: The space ships themselves, it was permeating even into them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So soon, the number of sanctioned psychers, Astropas and Navigators began to deplete because they started just dying until themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: So much of that, the commander, Marin, had to assign body guards to each and every psycher in the fleet to stop them from killing themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they eventually enter a system called Zidos.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in Zidos, they get it's really strange to read out from one of the planets called Mezmok.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this battle group has a van garden of ultramarines.
[SPEAKER_00]: They deploy down into the planet to survey the situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what it says in the book, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says they deployed down into the planet to survey the situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: I took offense to this because they're surveying the situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're saying, giant pie lawn, bigger than the Pentagon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's my point.
[SPEAKER_00]: They say they serve it and they found it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They found something that was two miles or so wide.
[SPEAKER_00]: So three and a half kilometers and ten miles high.
[SPEAKER_00]: So sixteen kilometers up and they had to land in a plane.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't look for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's sort of just going, oh, it's right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also made entirely out of blackstone.
[SPEAKER_01]: which also gives bananas energy off of anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're just like, yeah, we found it by what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Looking down, you didn't need a survey party to go down.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can see it from orbit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Needless to say, the Imperium was like, that's probably the issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so Commander Marin orders the attack.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he decides we're going to destroy the Pylon as we're going to hunt down every other Pylon destroy them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he puts the Collin all the ships in the fleet arrive and they would then destroy the Pylon.
[SPEAKER_00]: However,
[SPEAKER_00]: Eluminator, Cisarras, had a different opinion of what they should be doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: If someone in discord could give me the Jordan meme with Zares and I took offense to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's talk more about what this Pylon network is.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Pylon that Marron found was one of hundreds, maybe thousands in the system.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a project by the silent cooking and illuminator.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go with Cesaros.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not easy to pronounce Necron stuff, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I apologize.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of silent letters.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm rockin' with Cesaros.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cesaros.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the goal of the silent king and Lumière Cesaros is to shut down the work in the region.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is because the silent king had a problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, he had a lot of problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: But one was bigger than the rest.
[SPEAKER_00]: The tyrannids were upon the galaxy and they're more on their way.
[SPEAKER_00]: The necrons are not awakening as planned.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, many two worlds were lost at planetary destruction.
[SPEAKER_00]: Others were lost to other necrons.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is fighting as a big wheel as we said the last cast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the Necrons have no stance right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: The current amount of Necrons versus the current amount of tyrannies in the galaxy, Necrons loses automatically.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the silent king needed the species of the galaxy to fight the tyrannies while he musters his forces from their deep slumber.
[SPEAKER_00]: But every time that they fight the tyrannies, the tyrannies win,
[SPEAKER_00]: and then feeds the tyrannets because each road is full of biomass.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he needs to figure out a way to kind of bolster his forces.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, good news for him around this time, Gilman also realizes the tyrannet thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It starts exterminating worlds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he starts doing a lot of worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but that's a very recent thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The tyrannes have been doing quite well up into this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: The biggest problem though for the silent king is just how active the warp is in the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is causing even greater strife, so it makes it so the human worlds are easier if the tyrannists are conquer.
[SPEAKER_00]: If an imperial world was just fighting the tyrannists, they could probably hold out or at least leave more of a pyrarch victory where they could destroy the planet on the way out.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the problem is that Terran's are hitting worlds or strife and challenges had already appeared.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the chaos has already gotten in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the lot of times these imperial worlds are fighting multi-front wars against chaos and tyrannies.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Terran's or ex-people, anybody, Dark Elder's been raiding you.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's so many other things going on here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Silent King needed to do something to stop the warp.
[SPEAKER_00]: And good news, he has a very long hatred for the warp and the technology to do something about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: will be right back after a quick break.
[SPEAKER_00]: He grabs, scissor us, and it's at the motionless plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quick note and says are us because what he's wanted by favorite Necron characters.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a cryptic with the Necrons and the cryptics are scientists for like a better phrase.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're responsible for all the technologies, all the advances, as well as for seeing the future.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're cryptics.
[SPEAKER_01]: They also do on-site repairs and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Forgot about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're cryptics.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't love them in the new Necrons, but in eighth edition, cryptics were fun to have in your army.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's also a badass.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a giant walker.
[SPEAKER_00]: The CISERAS is super cool because CISERAS is also the person who oversaw the creation of the Necro-Germus that became the Necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: The biotransference obviously was a CTAN thing, but CISERAS was also part of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the most powerful cryptic in all of the Necrons, and so the silent king grabbing him probably helped.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, get together.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in charge of every advancement that they had at the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and they've ever had.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Pylon network within the Nephilim sector is both vast and complicated, and this is created by Cisirus and the Silent King.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because Pylons don't work by this placing one somewhere, then another one equidistant, like cell phone towers, do where they can bounce signal.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is more complicated.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're actually trying to, the way I look at it is that the warp is more like, it's up in a Morphus blob.
[SPEAKER_00]: So just putting up a wall around it, they'll still find a way through.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you have to kind of shape it and continue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like all this stuff quite a bit because of the fact that while the necrons don't access the warp, they know and understand the warp by mathematics.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to shut it down by tech.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this part about everything that they're doing and they're talking about, they're predicting the expansion and decline of the work by using their own technology.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's wild.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they learned it during the war and the.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so each world throughout their network could have one or many pilots.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them are massive miles high.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, one point six is your conversion for kilometers, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because America's cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do one point six.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in other places, they have a cluster of smaller pylons, a range in a certain pattern.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the overall effect is the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a ferritate cage for the warp and built throughout a system.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the larger the network is, the more the control.
[SPEAKER_00]: What it does in a positive is it's several of the connections from the emitarium to the material.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it does its devoid for all things warp sensitive in the area, as well as making the area completely unacceptable to the warp.
[SPEAKER_01]: If the Necrods weren't such terrible people, this is actually a really good idea even for the appearance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is this has potential and we're going to get into that more later with call when we talk it to be a more than next episode where call discoveries is not where it goes, but can I have it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like I know we're fighting against this guys, but like he's not wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just keep some of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not all of it, but just I'm keeping it these.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the Silent King's plan is first to control the sector this way and they begin to spread it across the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he was not just severing the war, he was trying to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was trying to use these sectors of no warped, also muster his own force.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's I'm saying, there's still trying to conquer the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the necrons, and they talk about this a lot in the actual supplement books, where the necrons are fully confident that they're just going to shut the rift off.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not going to, yeah, it's not like we're limiting the rift.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were going to close it period and they were, which by the way, they're confident.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if I, there's been a few other people in the psychic waking, so I had a similar plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Netherlands is one that's actually working.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rest of them were like, well, do the all these rituals and stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're kind of like, yeah, we're just going to put a cage around it and shove it into a corner.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're like, yeah, and not caring.
[SPEAKER_01]: You guys are dancing around with sticks and chicken blood.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to actually put some tech up here.
[SPEAKER_00]: There he is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I look no warp.
[SPEAKER_00]: The reason this was happening in the Nephilim sector is this was actually an air that had a lot of non-awakened tomorrows.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what the Sally King was doing was he was building this up so that he could awaken tomorrows in the section unmolested by chaos and other forces.
[SPEAKER_00]: What he didn't want to have happen was, have is the Necrons come up, fight the tyrannids, defeat the tyrannids, but then be too weak to conquer the rest of the galaxy, like what happened with the C-Tan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether they did defeat the C-Tan, but the Eldar and Cork were just too powerful and they had to go hide.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this time his plan was I'm making sure I've got all my forces and probably going to go a little bit slower.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to start in the section and we're going to expand out and be in concrete.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a flaw in his plan, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the flaw in his plan is simply the Necrons are not warp sensitive.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they don't understand what cutting things that are warp sensitive off from the warp does.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about what's been the thorn in the sound leaking side the entire time, which is he doesn't get
[SPEAKER_01]: the Imperium.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like all of his tech and everything else he figures out, all of the other races, and then the Imperium keeps doing, but you guys are doing well in spite of yourselves, I don't understand it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What he really couldn't foresee was the amount of aggression the Imperium would show towards what he was doing, because my assumptions, my son can be perspective, hey, I'm shutting the warp off, so no more demons.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's cool with that, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And unfortunately,
[SPEAKER_00]: The side effect was pretty significant.
[SPEAKER_00]: As I say to Brad with a pile of medication behind it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We think a side effect's Brad.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are real and not great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So as the reports start coming back to the Imperium about the Nephilim sector, it's immediate interest the AdMAC.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, and we're going to do a deep dive later in the cast and some of the stuff of the AdMAC and the Necrons, it is quite funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the Caladies battle fleet, as always, is traveling with a full complement of AdMAC.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were there to harness what was left of the technology, as well as to aid in the divination of what it was going on in an area that involved technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: and send all the reports back to Mars.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the key part right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: The mechanicum had been studying black zone pylons around the galaxy forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: They never could fully understand the technology because it was both too advanced as well as too alien for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But also it was too old.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of the pylons, the Adnec had found were built sixty something million years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: They knew what Blackstone was, which is appearing by the way, calls knock-to-lift, knock-to-lift, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't understand it at all, though, because they're using it as a nullifier, or at least the Necrons and this thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's also a wild synergistic amplifier of the war.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, also.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the only thing they did know is that extended exposure to blackstone has bad effects when organic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bad, because the thing was, but let's get into this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So whatever they've encountered had been around for sixty million years.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, it was kind of low energy stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they were aware that it would slowly, and in fact, lobotomize beings that were around it because you would eat your soul.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was slow for people to go on Katie, which obviously had these, their life spans was shorter than then time it would take to lobotomize them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when the admet get to naffelin, these things are happening in hours, weeks at most.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's because the difference is that it has a sixty-five or sixty million-year-old pylon that's on low energy output.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one's at full power.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's new batteries.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and they are just watching this thing happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the admet are mildly interested to say the least in this.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, the stilling also has a big problem on how the material actually functions and interacts with the material.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm about to cover some stuff guys that was in the new Silent King novel.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to spoil the whole novel for you, but some of the stuff is in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are massive reveals.
[SPEAKER_00]: Deal with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: GW in those books amidst that all humans, all beings, have a soul.
[SPEAKER_00]: The soul that you have sits effectively in the in material and is an energy output of what you do in the material.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is how the warp gets affected by actions in the moral realm.
[SPEAKER_00]: This explains why beings like humanity and being of the elder are able to affect the warp so much more with their actions than the Necrontier did back when they were drumming around.
[SPEAKER_00]: The more it disturbs it, the more it goes there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it also works the opposite direction.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if a soul is inclined to the warp, it can affect it back through it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like we've discussed before, when corn has a champion, he will provide blessings.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's how he can reach through the warp into the material and make someone better.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zinch probably did the same thing where it would give some knowledge or some insight into someone that it wanted to affect.
[SPEAKER_00]: if the mortal vessel then becomes so inclined.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's also the more that you interact with the warp, the more that the warp interacts with you, and the strengthening of that bond, though.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you change things in reality, and you mirror in the mirror world, which would be the immaterial, you affected in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you strengthen that connection through just your actions.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you sever that connection, you are a husk of yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're a soul as husk, because you lost your connection to yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the case of like psychors, this picture is obviously a lot stronger, but it's affects everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: And where this matters is it put the pylons in place and the network active, the mortal being no longer has connection to its own soul.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is why these people were just freaking out so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've now taken away emotion, both good and bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's really good explanation of what it's like being on the blank because we've heard for decades now about
[SPEAKER_00]: in GW lore.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're around a black, you're just uncomfortable.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't feel well.
[SPEAKER_00]: This explains it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's because you're being severed from your actual soul in your feelings.
[SPEAKER_00]: So joy, fear, sorrow, ecstasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're all fleeting.
[SPEAKER_00]: You get them for a moment, but it's those motions sit more in your soul, which is in the immatarian.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you never get to really feel a fullness of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go on the next.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is why you'd hunt them down as her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's go in the next one.
[SPEAKER_01]: To the Necrons never have souls, then.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even when they're in Necrons here.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what they're, it's really, they are looped to that part.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Put them what do they see?
[SPEAKER_00]: Tant eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is because, well, the C-Tant had no access to the warp either.
[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe there's maybe the Necrons here had a different version.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it would make sense because there's other species in the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: The towel are not the force sense of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe there's some energy level or just different beings or different things who knows.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's how it's written.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what happens for humanity, elder by the way, also get exposed to this, which they are not huge fans of, but it's a being, you don't know what's wrong with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just know something's wrong and you don't like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But effectively, one of two things happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: You either freak out and try to leave or you just give up on life.
[SPEAKER_00]: The ones you try to freak out and leave, that's great.
[SPEAKER_00]: But a lot of others, this is what's happening with a commissar is having to kill everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: People just sit down and they wouldn't eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: They wouldn't drink.
[SPEAKER_00]: They wouldn't move.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just died right then and there.
[SPEAKER_00]: This, by the way, total surprise of the Necrons had no idea this is going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: This falls into the category of oopsie.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you remember, they also think that they are going to get the Imperium before they start attacking them on their side.
[SPEAKER_00]: By doing this is awesome, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's why I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is this is that thing of a dog or cat, bring you a dead bird.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so proud of themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Check out this thing I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: We should eat this dead bird together because we're a best friends.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Imperium just went very quickly bad dog and got a rolled up newspaper.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say the Imperium made when it hit him with a rolled up newspaper.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Mechanicum were behind the person hanging with the rolled up newspaper saying,
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to eat some of that bird.
[SPEAKER_01]: What also where did you get that bird from?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the other more birds over there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to spend some time now on ad mech and the neck runs.
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, this is really more fresh out of the latest books, but it actually, I went back and checked the old code access after learning this and it does hold up.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's just showed up.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the crazy part, even though they've been in the game forever, if the actual, the lore of when they showed up, it's like yesterday.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it's the Necrons first contact with mankind was eight, ninety seven of them, forty one.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're at nine, nine, nine right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe a little past were less than, we're like, what, a hundred and three, a hundred and ten years of Necrons being around.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, their first interaction dates back at least ten thousand.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and this is because the Mechanicum had discovered them and kept it a secret.
[SPEAKER_00]: that they had discovered these two worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: To most of us to a casual observed, the thing about a two-world is that when the Necrons would teleport down below surface, he wasn't everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just all the bits that mattered.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there were like old and mostly pyramids that were sixty million years old that did have some leftover tech.
[SPEAKER_00]: They looked to the casual observer like a mountain or a giant landmass, but the ad-mac exploratory fleets were finding them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And thanks to excavation, chats with the L.D.R.
[SPEAKER_00]: maybe even some random interactions with awakened necrons, cough, cough, what's sitting on Mars, the void dragon on Mars, cough, cough, possibly the entire origin of the machine spirit, cough, cough.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, the mechanism are highly interested in this rate.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are motivated on this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for the last ten thousand years or so, the mechanism had been plundering necron two worlds for all sorts of technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they started off plundering all the stuff above ground, but over time discovered that there were actually stuff below ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: This changed a lot of their stuff, because much like trays in the infinite, if they could open these two worlds and loot the sleeping catacombs, they could get everything there, but with the mechanical we're doing, is they were then bringing Melta bombs afterwards to blow up all the evidence.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that way the Imperium couldn't find out what they've been up to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, this is my statement.
[SPEAKER_01]: This didn't come back to bite them several times though.
[SPEAKER_01]: because as they're stealing things, the actual two more defenses would start activating.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The initially, the early bits, this weren't that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was rates, scarabs, and spiders.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the first few I'd met got the butts kicked pretty bad by those things, but then later they're like, oh, yeah, hey, bring guns.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's also a important bring the pickaxe, but also bring guns.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at some point during M- Forty-One, the world's start becoming an issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because up until like seven hundred of M- Forty-One, the reawaking process hadn't been triggered in mass.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now all of a sudden it's going.
[SPEAKER_00]: So stop me if you've seen the sci-fi film before, where the tomb awakens and comes fully online before you finish your plundering.
[SPEAKER_00]: This might come up, so all of a sudden power supplies, phasing technology, weaponry and more,
[SPEAKER_00]: These are now accessible because the two worlds powering online, but so are the defenders.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the ad mech has to start looting these worlds faster and faster and faster.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happens is kind of funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: The ad make realize, effectively, like the timer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he'd go to high smoke.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to say, but I love it because of the fact that they go, they always react this amount this time.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they get wildly overconfident.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they just start sending people out to get this.
[SPEAKER_01]: They go, all you have to do is wait ten seconds.
[SPEAKER_01]: The camera moves here and you duck under here and you do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's a scene in the silent king that they talk about.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's where a bunch of Necron warriors are behind an impenetrable force field.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's they know if they'd hit the force field a certain way.
[SPEAKER_00]: They become a threat.
[SPEAKER_00]: The warriors will march out.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just slaughter the warriors.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how they've been doing stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Any of us who played video games in the nineties is how you beat every boss.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go back.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hit a once.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go back.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go to the right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hit a once.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just in repeat.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you would win every single time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm less the Lord awake, and this became the bigger problem for the advent, because for a while in the early stages, they were able to just kind of wreck the two worlds, and before, by the time the Lord had awakened, all the forces were destroyed, the advent could loot the place and blow it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: But communication happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: Other two worlds are waking up.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not aware of.
[SPEAKER_00]: And suddenly, in the middle of the awakening process, the two world makes the adjustment and turns the Lord online.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or the worse yet the overload online.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, all those useless thralls have a genius at the helm.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love everything about the fact that they originally classified the necrons as a low tier, you know, species that wasn't a big deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: because the Necrons were, and this was also a mystic admiq made, as the Necrons were discovered.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great point, Brad's making.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Necrons were classified as a tier-three zino, which means local threat, nothing beyond that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So effectively, don't go to an active Necron world and you're fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they did this because the mechanic didn't want the acquisition or the lords of Terra to launch an attack on the Necrons because they needed to pillage more technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, enough two worlds came online, and the days of looting the catacombs became kind of the inverted, became the days of the advent getting their butts kicked by the Necroft.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very badly, by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, absolutely correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: The advent exploratory fleets.
[SPEAKER_00]: just kept pushing their luck on these two worlds, taking too long to break into vaults or spend too much time looting and the alarm had been raised and they would have total losses.
[SPEAKER_00]: No way of escaping because when the necrons show up by the way, they don't show up slowly.
[SPEAKER_01]: The better part was as they, the, and I started to show up, and there would be fully operational death stars in orbit out in systems ready to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, hey, we're going to sneak in and take all this stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're like, yeah, we're going to destroy your entire fleet right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so this starts really with the silent king coming back in seven, forty four, but it's more when he ascends to control the necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's in nine hundred of them forty one.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's in a full necron awakening really takes off because now it starts happening quickly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now two worlds are turning on in what used to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, let's say it was ten hours before now it's ten minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're just come online, but more importantly, other necrons are showing up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, this is in some of the novels where you're the ad maker on the planet, engaging, working through it and all of a sudden, all the alarms go off on the ship because there's an entire necron fleet in orbit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because remember, the necrons have phase shifting technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they can appear in mass and, you know, you're having a grand old time.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're fighting mindless warriors easily, and all of a sudden an overlord in a catacom command barge comes down with a bunch of not mindless ones, where he's still mindless, but under his control.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they start going from doing the blurcrop, tomb raidering and stealing stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're starting off with stealing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they're waging a war in secret, of course, because they still want to steal of this stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they graduate to Holy God getting wrecked by the Necron.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because Necron entire dynasties are showing up overhead going, yeah, quit stealing our shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: To having to
[SPEAKER_01]: never before seen tale between your legs, having to tell Gilliman about what they've been doing, because it's a real big problem, because the Necrons took huge offense to what they were doing, and were following them back to wreck other imperium worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: As a really cool scene in the book, by the way, guys, we're Gillman literally makes the head of the admec,
[SPEAKER_00]: apologize to the imperium and effect and tell them all the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who, by the way, did not know he was going to make her do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a good scene.
[SPEAKER_00]: But on that note, let's get to Gilman, because he's the last thing we need to cover before we jump into the Pariah Crusade.
[SPEAKER_00]: At this stage in Imperial history, there had been conflicts with the Necrons, but they've been scattered.
[SPEAKER_00]: In addition, most of the conflicts with the Necrons were against individual two worlds where there were nowhere into your full strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's caveat that a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of the recorded interactions with the Necrons were with non-folio-waken tumors.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even the battles they lost.
[SPEAKER_00]: The folio-waken tumor is kind of hitting the LDR during the fall.
[SPEAKER_00]: The architecture technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, actually at the fall, where they were just getting near the LDR.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just delete all of that for more of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we don't know how many times Necrons wiped out and exploratory fleet, but it's more than zero.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the only group that has deep knowledge that Necrons is the AdMac.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for the last twenty to fifty years, the AdMac had had to come to terms the fact that they were losing a war against the Necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the bigger problem with the AdMac had to be a Gilman with is not
[SPEAKER_00]: The, hey, we picked a fight that we can't win.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you help us out, which is how it started?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually, we picked a fight with what might be the greatest foe in the entire galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we don't just need your help pulling our asses out of this fire, but if we'll do something about them, they're going to kill everything in the entire galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So all of a sudden, this Necron conflict goes from a small little area to a full-blown galactic war.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's because the ad-mic pop up the map to Gilliman, and just, because it comes with, well, where are these Necrons?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I've heard of them, I've read all the data on them, how bad can it be?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's pretty bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was check off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, a bunch of those two worlds were heavily populated imperial worlds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because what the thing was that Ad Mac had looted these worlds of technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: and you know, five thousand years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Imperium set settlers there and built stuff on there.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is all LV for twenty eight basically.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a they discovered the entire galaxy is LV for twenty eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is kind of a nightmare because in that crown forces are now spinning up much like what we saw in war of the beast where the small or conflicts went from hey, there's a lot of orcs here to hey, there's a lot of orcs here to
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, it's way too many orcs here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone do something about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the mechanic him go to Gilman and say, please help.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, they had call, and call is the progenitor.
[SPEAKER_01]: You really glow this over the G-man was putting in a pants angry about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was, but the good news for them is that they had call, and call is the reason G-man's a lie.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's a little bit of this there, but the bigger piece those actually
[SPEAKER_00]: G-Man trusts call, and he knows call will tell him the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: So call comes in with the full truth about how massive this is, how many Necron tomb worlds are literally on key imperial worlds, and that this
[SPEAKER_00]: conflict the necrons is completely unavoidable, and the conflict will be on scale or on par with what he's currently doing against the tyrannics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because remember the whole thing of the abdominis crusade for the main pieces of it was the tyrannics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gilman got back to Terra, looked up and discovered there was a high fleet
[SPEAKER_00]: be lining towards terror itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the first thing he was doing with the primus secundas and terminus fleets were to control some of chaos.
[SPEAKER_00]: But a lot of it was to push a tear in its back.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's just told, oh yeah, the tear in its erection number two, these guys are number one threat.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Gilman looks at all because he is the greatest military mind of this era, just
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not wrong because the lines, not a wake yet, and I don't think Gilman is better.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perse I think Gilman is better.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's referred to bait for a different day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gilman calls Fleece Primeras, secondus, and tertious to join him in an all out of salt and nephalum sector because he realizes the amount of effort the nephalum sector means this sector is important to the necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if he can get there and demolish it,
[SPEAKER_00]: He can at least back foot them for a little bit, and then move his forces elsewhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: The goal for Gilman really at this point is whack a mole galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He needs to get everything in the entire galaxy a bit more stable, so he can start picking some fights and taking some key players out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately for Gilman, he has no idea of the size and scope of what's about to come into play in the pariah crusade.
[SPEAKER_00]: With that, we'll break because next week we're going to kind of just do a linear run through the Pariah Crusade, which when the Imperium breaks into the system takes some pretty serious losses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Discover that the Sisters of Battle are pretty badass at this thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Spoiler alert, the Therodake Ages don't affect your faith in the God Emperor.
[SPEAKER_00]: That comes from somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, once again, this is a battle, best fighting for us, the entire Imperial Galaxy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I say it as someone who doesn't play sisters, but anyway, I'll see you at the end of the game, by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's exceptional.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, this is a Necron force that's there been recorded before.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of just, just a little side of everybody, the Necron codex is started in third edition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fourth edition, fourth edition, fourth edition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Third, yes, third edition.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they added a few models here and there until we got to about eight edition, in which they, I would assume they had less than twenty five day to see cheats in eight edition.
[SPEAKER_00]: The start of night edition, which was the launch of this crusade, they got quite a lot new stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was timed up very well from a plot stand point that, oh yeah, this stuff had always been there, but those two worlds hadn't fully awakened yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now, I think the Imperium is hitting a Necron forest that Louie has not even the ad-mected military have evolved some things of that nature coming out.
[SPEAKER_01]: because it's all the things that they have, the shards contained in.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they have their most powerful stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wasn't going to be just wandering out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Destroyers, the Hexmark destroyers come into this.
[SPEAKER_00]: The weird tall thing with the long legs and the eye, whatever that's called.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like necklines.
[SPEAKER_01]: The war of the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I like Necrons, but I actually like the older Necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like Grey Tide Necrons.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what if I want to eighty warriors at you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'll shoot them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They come back to life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: This has been John Barsati and Brad Jess.
[SPEAKER_00]: See you on next week.