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One of the few already sentient races the Old Ones encountered were the [[Necrontyr]], who at the time were in the midst of a slow expansion to distant planets. The lives of the Necrontyr were short and painful due to the deadly radiation of their world's sun. When they met the Old Ones, they developed a deep jealous hatred of them due to their near immortal lives. This resentment led to the First War. The Necrontyr's war was futile and they were forced back to a remote world in the outer rim of the Halo Stars. The fury of the Necrontyr cooled over thousands of years of imprisonment, but they turned their hatred against all life rather than just the Old Ones.
The Necrontyr had studied their star for millions of years. In their quest for a weapon to use against the Old Ones, they found the [[C'tan]]. Gradually they managed to talk with these ethereal creatures, but they knew they would never be able to understand the material universe without a material body. So the Necrontyr built the living metal bodies they are still adorned with. They were worshipped as gods, as their powers were far beyond anything the Necrontyr had seen before. As the C'tan became more manifest in their bodies, they began to enjoy certain aspects of life more, including pain, suffering and slavery.
Eventually, with the gods themselves at their sides, the Necrontyr were ready to begin their war with the Old Ones anew. The C'tan offered the Necrontyr escape from the curse of their short lives. Their minds would be transferred into living metal bodies, much like the Ctan themselves. Whether the Necrontyr knew what they would lose by doing this will never be known, but the process destroyed their race. They gained immortality but lost their free-will. Their minds were dulled and only a few retained any independent thought, but this was still only a fraction of what it had been. With the Necrontyr destroyed and the Necron born, the C'tan began the war against the Old Ones with their legions of undying warriors.
