{{NecronsPortal}}{{redirect|align="right" style="border:1px solid black; background-color:#707070;padding:5px;"Necrontyr|[[Image:Frontpage-image-small.jpg]]  [[Portal:Necronsthe language|Necron Portal]]Lexicon}}The '''Necrontyr''' were an ancient race of humanoids now long extinct.{{Fn|1}}

==History=====Origins===*{{Main|Infinite Empire}}The '''Necrontyr''' are an ancient and long-extinct race s planet of humanoids. The planet they originated on origin was barren and radiation-blasted, making it incredibly hostile to life. It was so hostile to have plasma storms and atomic winds scouring its surface. Life on the planet was harsh; lives were short and uncertain. Their bodies were ridden with radiation sickness and they lived a morbid life, constantly fearful of their coming deathdeaths. Their cities were built in anticipation of their demise, little more than vast tomb complexes with a few temporary homes for the living.{{Fn|1}}

The Necrontyr attempted to master scienceovercome their mortality with scientific means, unlike the [[Old Ones]] who used psychic power and links to the [[Immaterium]] to advance themselves. They learnt but realized after thousands of years that they could not control their destiny with science. Their bodies could not be changed to survive on the planet . Instead, they developed spacefaring technology, though of a much slower and not suffer from more uncertain nature than the radiation sickness and perpetual fear methods of deaththe [[Old Ones]]. Their cities Where the Old Ones were built able to move between the stars in anticipation of their demiseseconds, the Necrontyr had to use slow-moving ships, and simply became vast tomb complexes equipped with a few homes for [[stasis crypt]]s, to reach out to the stars. They clad their ships in [[livingmetal]] to withstand the rigors of space flight.{{Fn|1}} Despite establishing interstellar colonies, in a temporary formthe Necrontyr still could not escape their genetic curse and continued to die quickly from tumorous growths.{{Fn|3c}}

Eventually they developed sufficient technology to move out to other planets. They did not have the abilities ===The Meeting of the Old Ones to move between the stars in seconds, and had to use slow moving stasis crypts and slow burning torch ships to gradually grope out to other stars. They clad their ships in their [[living metal]] to withstand the riggors of space flight. Races===After much time, they the Necrontyr met the Old Ones. This meeting of between a short -lived, dour race to and a race of hopeful and , nigh-immortal people one set a fire of rage burning in the hearts of the Necrontyr. From this moment on, they turned their entire lives to destroying the Old Ones in spite of their superior lifestyles.{{Fn|1}}

When war was declared, the Necrontyr realised they would never be able to win. They were constantly outmanouvered outmanoeuvred by the Old Ones ' mastery of the webways[[Webway]]. Eventually they were pushed back to being merely an annoyance in the outer regions among the halo stars[[Halo Stars]]. The fury of the Necrontyr was cooled after many thousands of years of imprisonment, and while their disgust of the Old Ones turned into an utter hatred of all life.{{Fn|1}}

Due to === The Star Gods ===As their sun being what has star had haunted them for so longtheir own existence, the Necrontyr have studied the suns stars in an attempt to understand more of how they worked and to try to find something they could unleash on the Old Ones. Eventually, they found something so ancient as to predate even the Old Ones. This sentience fed on the stars they orbited but had little conception of the universe around them other than satiating satisfying their need for energy. This was the weapon they needed to fight the Old Ones, and win. Their etheric form made them invincible to conventional weapons. They were named [[C'tan]], or Star Gods.{{Fn|1}}

How the Necrontyr managed to communicate with these beings is unknown, but the Necrontyr knew these beings the C'tan could not understand the material universe without a physical, material body. So they made bodies for these creatures out of their living metal, allowing these bodies tangible manifestations to expand and change at the will of being. Supposedly, '"translucent streams of force' " were seen as the first being of the C'tan moved across the incorporeal starlight bridge into the bodies body forged for themit.{{Fn|1}}

The first being lifeform to come across the starlight bridge was [[Aza'gorod]], the NightbringerNight Bringer. As the creature became more manifest and intelligent, the Necrontyr fell in awe of their discovery. Shortly after this, began to worship the C'tan were worshipped as gods simply because of for their supreme powerspower. The And the C'tan turned the Necrontyr into slaves and enjoyed ruling over them with cruelty and distrustdisgust.{{Fn|1}}

=== The Necrons Rise ===Soon the Necrontyr were ready to begin the battle anew with the Old Ones. The C'tan then made a proposition to the Necrontyr, one that they could not refuse. They offered : immortality stability for the their race. Their cursed flesh would be discarded in favour of bodies like their gods', made of living metal. Their bodies old forms would be consumed and their minds transferred into the new metal bodies skeletons with which they could continue the war with the Old Ones. Whether the Necrontyr knew what the consequences of this were is unknown, but their entire race was purged, when they were transferred into the metal bodies. Their minds were dulled and they were drawn forced into eternal servitude. Only a few of the Necrontyr retained any form of independent thought, but it was much albeit far reducedfrom their past intellect. The Necrontyr were no more, and the [[Necron]]s were born.{{Fn|1}}

During the [[CategoryAge of the Imperium]], the Necrontyr became one of a thousand dead or forgotten civilisations that interested only the offices of the [[Explorator]] Archaeos.{{Fn|2}}  ==Society and Culture==Like the modern [[Necrons]], the Necrontyr were organised into a feudal [[Necron Dynasty|dynastic system]] which all pledged fealty to the [[Triarch]], which was led by the [[Silent King]]. Necrontyr society was defined by a rigid system of honour, oaths, and obedience to ones liege. The society was divided into three social classes: The nobility and [[Cryptek|priests]], the soldiery, and the commoners.{{Fn|5}} Necrontyr society was highly ritualistic, and even wars were said to be dominated by formality and procedure.{{Fn|3c}} Inter-dynastic conflicts and civil strife were a constant concern for the civilization, as reflected in the [[Wars of Secession]].{{Fn|4}} Due to their short lives and sickly nature, Necrontyr society was dominated by death. Morturary cults and funeral rituals including embalming and mummification were prominent.{{Fn|3a}} Upon waking each morning, Necrontyr had a practice known as the '''Rite of Expiscation''' wherein they would check their bodies for any signs of cancerous growths which heralded their imminent deaths. There was an entire sect of priests dubbed '''Onomancers''' developed to treat their affliction, to no avail.{{Fn|6}} The Necrontyr put particular emphasis on the astrology, divination, and zodiac constellations visible from their homeworld. Constellations used in their zodiac mysticism included ''Hept''{{Fn|3d}}, ''Thot''{{Fn|3f}}, ''Vokk''{{Fn|3g}}, ''Thuselah'', and ''Kasteph''.{{Fn|3c}} These were used in hand symbols by their priests and could also express ideas. Later, [[Cryptek]]s utilized these zodiac hand signs to channel their techno-arcane abilities.{{Fn|3d}} Before they encountered the C'tan, the Necrontyr had a pantheon of Solar Gods.{{Fn|3e}} ==Technology==It is known that in their ancient past, the Necrontyr constructed platinum sailing barges to navigate the waters of their homeworld.{{Fn|3b}} Before the coming of the [[C'tan]] the Necrontyr were a highly advanced civilization capable of establishing an interstellar empire. While not capable of matching the [[Old Ones]], they were nonetheless masters of [[Materium|Material]] technology. Though by the time of first contact with the Old Ones they were still utilizing relatively slow moving [[FTL]] that required the occupants to be stored in stasis crypts for extended voyages. Yet even before the C'tan appeared, the Necrontyr were already utilizing technology such as [[Living Metal]].{{Fn|1}}  Over the course of the long [[War in Heaven (Necrons )|War in Heaven]] and with the aid of the C'tan{{Fn|1}} the technological abilities of the Necrontyr and subsequent Necrons greatly accelerated. By the end of the conflict the Necrontyr, now as mechanical Necrons, were wielding the very energies of the universe and creation, and upon their [[Necron Revolt|revolt against the C'tan]] utilized arcane weaponry that shattered the star gods. Today, most of the technologies wielded by the Necrons are inherited from their [[Infinite Empire|empire]] millions of years ago.{{Fn|5}} ==See also==*[[List of sentient species]] ==Sources==*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition)]], pgs. 24-25*{{Endn|2}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120609195650/http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1280011_BFG_Necron_and_Tyranid_Fleets.pdf Battlefleet Gothic - Necrons], pg. 72*3: [[The Infinite and the Divine (Novel)]]:**{{Endn|3a}}: Act 1 Chapter 3**{{Endn|3b}}: Act 1 Chapter 5**{{Endn|3c}}: Act 2 Chapter 1**{{Endn|3d}}: Act 2 Chapter 3**{{Endn|3e}}: Act 2 Chapter 4**{{Endn|3f}}: Act 2 Chapter 5**{{Endn|3g}}: Act 3 Chapter 8*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Necrons (5th Edition)]], pgs. 6-12*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Necrons (8th Edition)]], pgs. 9-11*{{Endn|6}}: [[The Twice-Dead King: Ruin (Novel)]], Chapter 2 [[Category:Extinct Species]][[Category:Necrons]] [[de:Necrontyr]][[fr:Nécrontyrs]]