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Connections between the Necrons and the Emperor


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With the new fluff about the Necrons building Dolmen Gates to link to the Webway - and the material in Collected Visions about an ancient gate unearthed in a Terran desert- maybe that's a Dolmen Gate, that the Emperor's trying to make use of, to link to the Webway so he can start building his own webway passages to the main body of it?

They can't access the whole webway, it says that safeguards in the webway try to close down a Dolman Gate as soon as it opens, so the Necrons can't really rely too much on it. Also when the Eldar inherited the webway from the Old Ones they couldn't maintain most of the safeguards so they cut away the infected parts the necrons were using.

So i guess the Necrons can only get to certain places in the galaxy and can't get to Eldar craftworlds/planets or the DE City.

In the spirit of what has already been stated: you all know who'll be in the next Necron Codex? The team that'll dismantle the galaxy, SG-1 Necronified. Meet Colonel Jack O'Neill (Pariah), Teal'c (Necron Lord), Daniel Jackson (Dunno), and Major Sam Carter (Tomb Spyder). And yes, they will bear similarity to their SG counterparts.

I do not have the new codex, but I just found this interesting quote on the Lexicanum about Trazyn the Infinite:

 

His collection includes the fabled Wraithbone choir of Altansar, the preserved head of Sebastian Thor, the ossified husk of an Enslaver and a giant man wearing baroque Power Armour.

 

I am particularly curious about the preserved head of Thor (where did he get the head of an Ecclessiarch from?) and the giant in power armour (a primarch?)

Baroque is European 17/18th Century style. Which Primarch or marines wear that kind of armour? Would be cool if it was a Primarch though

 

"Baroque" in this sense is one of those Games Workshop stock phrases/words that they use to illustrate something being ancient or elaborate. You must have noticed obscure adjectives like "eldritch", "cyclopean," "striated," "coruscating," and phrases such as "crushed behind their own defences," appearing regularly in Gw writing. It has no connection to the cultural movement of seventeenth century Europe. In this context I think we can just assume it to mean elaborately decorated armour.

Baroque is European 17/18th Century style. Which Primarch or marines wear that kind of armour? Would be cool if it was a Primarch though

 

Baroque in this context just means "almost exaggerated, extravagant, complex ornamentation." Just like WH40k is often described as a "baroque universe," by which they just want to say that the drama, tensions, story-lines, characters and events are extravagant, overly elaborated, over-the-top dramatic.

wait Necrons use the webway now? :) what is happening to 40k :(

 

Matt Ward happened. He can write the rules but his fluff is just... let's just say it feels like he's beating some of my childhood friends. Blood angels and Necrons allying together? Grey Knights bathing in the blood of Sisters?? Just wow...

Despite an in-thread warning the very next post was deliberately off topic so I'm assuming this thread is no longer relevent so has gone off topic due to there being nothing else to discuss, therefore I am closing this thread down.

 

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