In what order do necrons awaken in a tomb world?

[Octothorpe]

Looking at trying to make some fluffy army lists for a narrative campaign, but there's one point where my Google-fu fails. What's the progression in between 'everhthing is asleep except canopteks as the warriors start waking up' and 'the army is fully mobilized and kicking the Invaders off the planet'? Is there any indication as to which units generally wake up before others, or is it more of an everything wakes up at once after the process gets started sort of thing? I've tried searching various forums, but apparently I'm having trouble finding exactly the right keywords.

 

Thanks

[shandwen]

Books seem to show warriors being the earliest ones, and it being a mess from there (order by story plot).

[Commander Dawnstar]

I can't tell you in a grand overarching sense, but one of the three plotlines in Devourer touches on this a little bit.

 

One of the main characters in Devourer is the High Cryptek to the Kehlrantyr Dynasty. We're shown her awakening, then she awakens her Lychguard and they depart to awaken the Dynasts from their Long Sleep. They encounter Necron Warriors while on their (excessively long) journey along the memorial processional and through the domains and research laboratories of other Crypteks on the way to the dynastic palace chambers. On arrival they go to wake the Phaerakh first, then the lesser dynasts, the "false Necrons" made to house the simulacrums of those who lived before the biotransference process was perfected, and lastly their Lychguard.

 

It bears mentioning that this is all taking place in a time of crisis and thus that might not be the standard protocol, but it sounds reasonable enough.

 

My best educated guess would be that the system is designed to engineer a situation wherein the dynasts awaken to find a tomb world already in a state of relative readiness. The lower Necrons are awakened in bulk by a combination of canoptek units and automated systems while the Crypteks rise and go to their stations. Those Crypteks then begin the process of awakening the more advanced Necrons, returning power to their vehicles and heavy constructs, and then ultimately awakening the dynasts to take charge. I wouldn't expect everything to be active by the time the dynasts rise but I'd certainly assume they'll have most things at their disposal in some quantity. It wouldn't at all surprise me if the heavier vehicles and constructs are slow to become active in any real numbers and if vast numbers of their infantry remain in cold storage even as the dynasts begin to assert their authority.

[Tyriks]

Yeah, the fluff usually depicts it as being a bottom-up process with the exception of Crypteks.

[NTaW]

The Codex says that there's a "master program, whose complex decision matrix allows it to calculate an efficient response to any perceived threat". This implied to me that what awoke first was heavily influenced by the Cryptek(s) who programmed it and what level of threat is perceived, so you get to make up whatever works for your situation.