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By the time the Old Ones marshalled their forces, there were only four C'tan in existence but much of life in the galaxy had already been extinguished.<sup>1-p31</sup> Eventually, the hot-blooded Young Races were unleashed which sent the Necrons reeling as the power of the Warp was an anathema to them and they struggled to contain the advance of this new offensive. In response, the C'tan unified for the first time in millions of years and began the great warding which was to seal the Empyrean from the material universe forever thus countering the magicks of the Old Ones. However, a seemingly unforeseen side effect of the Old Ones began to manifest in this era as the Young Races growing pains disturbed the Warp itself with this formless energy coalescing and older warp entities become predatory as the Empyrean began to become a more hostile environment. From cracks in reality, the denizens of the warp sought entry into the material universe which forced the Old Ones to bring about the emergence of new species to defend their last strongholds. Among their creations included the greenskinned hardy [[Krork]] and the technology mimicking [[Jokaero]]. However, it was too late by this point with their intergalactic network being breached with their greatest works and places of power being overrun by the horrors of the warp created by their own creations. Among the most insidious of these entities were the [[Enslaver]]s who dominated the minds of the Young Races in order to create portals for more of their kind. The Enslaver Plague became the final blow for the reign of the Old Ones who scattered and forever broke their power.<sup>1-p25</sup>
It would be the implacable onslaught of the C'tan combined with the mistakenly unleashed Warp-spawned perils that ultimately led to the Old Ones being defeated, scattered and destroyed.<sup>8-p6</sup> The surviving C'tan and Necrons had the pleasure of seeing the demise of the Old Ones civilisation whilst they themselves retreated into stasis until the cataclysm ended.<sup>1-p25</sup> In the power vacuum following the war, the lesser creations of the Old Ones such as Mankind were known to had continued to develop but in unforseen ways.<sup>1-p9</sup> The mantle of galactic dominion would eventually pass to the Eldar who had fought alongside the Old Ones during the war. This species would survive where the Old Ones did not and would see the Necrons depart into the Great Sleep after they had turned against the C'tan.<sup>8-p6</sup> Legends continued to speak of the Old Ones with the rune-singers of [[Craftworld]] [[Kaelor]] depicting the Webway as being a construct of this ancient progenitor race who used it to travel through the stars.<sup>7-p151</sup> It is rumoured that the Empathic Obliterator used by the [[Necron Lord]] [[Trazyn]] the Infinite may be constructed from technology designed by the Old Ones.<sup>8-p59</sup>
==Notes==
*<sup>6</sup>: [[Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition)]], pg 8
*<sup>7</sup>: [[Eldar Prophecy (Novel)]], pg. 151
*<sup>8</sup>: [[Codex: Necrons (5th Edition)]], pg. 6 -7, 59
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