It is a link to other raids, to other sites of destruction where raiders leave no trace and where records are wiped across an entire planet. It is a momentary visu al reco rd of t he attac k, ye t it is a li nk in a c hain of events that extends across the galaxy. Raiders marked with Necrontyr runes and indecipherable inscriptions of Necrontyr design have been captured on a brief visual scan. Now, suddenly and unexpectedly, a chance encounter has brought the Necrontyr to the attention of the powerful and great. Like a thousand other dead civilisations and forgotten races the Necrontyr are of interest to few outside the dusty offices of the Explorator Arch aeos. Best analysis indicates that the Necrontyr vanished from the galaxy more than sixty million years ago, when the planet Earth was little more than prehistoric jungle, and Mankind’s evolution lay millions of years in the future. What their purpo se or conte nt mi ght ha ve b een, or if they were plundered and emptied by others in antiquity, is all impossible to say.
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Those that have been explored and of whic h reco rds exist, are all ruino us and empty. No intact complex has ever been discovered. Only deep under the sand have the Necrontyr’s inexplicably strange tomb-temples partially survived. They and their works have crumbled to dust with the passage of eons. Any surface structures that may once have existed have long since disappeared from Necrontyr worlds. Little remains now of what must once have been a technically advanced empire that spanned the galaxy. F or centuries the Explorators of the Imperium have known of the ancient civilisation of the Necrontyr – a race that became extinct tens of millions of years ago. They simply disappear and are never seen again. All that is known for sure is that the objective of these raids appears to be the seizure of Imperial citizens – but for to what hideous use the captured men, women and children are put remains terrifyingly unknown.
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What is more, the frequen cy of such encoun ters seems to be increasing, though how or why this should be happening is unknown.
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Even more worryingly, the encounters that have taken place with the Necrons have occurred all over the galaxy, without any discernible pattern as to when or where the Necrons will strike next. Fortunately for the Imperium all of the Necron fleets encountered so far have been small in size, and what should happen if the Necrons should ever attack in force remains to be seen. In every encounter so far the Necrons have only been defeated by superior numbers of enemy ships, and wherever the numbers have been even the Necrons have prevailed. All evidence points to the Necrons being old beyond the memory of anything living and their technology, although idiosyncratic, is superior to that of any other race, including the Eldar. There are also anecdotal accounts of space battles between the Necrons and Eldar, Ork and even Chaos space fleets. And of the human colonists in the system there was not a single trace… Since then there have been a further 27 recorded encounters between Imperial Navy ship and Necron raiding fleets.
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By the time a full Imperial fleet could be despatched to the Yuctan system the Necrons had disappeared. At the time of the attack the depot was being used by small Imperial squadron consisting of the Dauntless class light cruiser Altho ugh sparsel y inhabite d, the system includ ed an Imperial Naval depot. M40, when the first recorded incident of a Necron ‘harvest’ took place in the Yuctan system close to the Eastern Fringes. Whenever such incidents were investigated nothing could be found of the perpetuators, and no useful evidence could be collected pointing to their nature or origin. More often than not all that remained of the Imperial craft whic h enco unter ed these strange ships was the scattered wreckage of its remains, and the only clues to the nature of the enemy were garbled distress messages speaking of alien ships using weapons of quite terrifying destructiveness. From time to time reports were made of strange space craft encountered on the edge of newly discovered systems, which appeared derelict at first but when approached became active.
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Until very recently almost all contact with the Necron’s had been limited to battles fought on planets against small forces of Necron troops.