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==The War in Heaven==
Terrible wars were known to had have followed this chain of events but all ended with the Necrontyr's inability at vanquishing their foes. Despite their advanced technology, they found themselves constantly outmaneuvered by the Old Ones due to their mastery of Webway portals. Eventually, the Necrontyr was pushed back to such an extent that they were considered little more than an irritant to the Old Ones and forced back to the outer dark of the halo stars where they were forgotten. This imprisonment lasted for centuries as they sought to find a suitable weapon to unleash against their foes leading to the Necrontyr studying their sun whereupon they discovered ancient entities that resided on them which they made manifest and named C'tan, or star-gods in their language which they used as their new weapon against the Old Ones.{{Fn|1b}} Through the C'tan, the Necrontyr were transformed into a cold machine race of beings that became known as the [[Necron]]s who were now free to pursue their vengeance against their ancient foes. This time, the conflict was far different from the previous wars as the Old Ones mastery of the [[Warp]] was now countered by the C'tan's supremacy of the material universe. In time, the C'tan began to dominate the galaxy whilst the Old Ones bastions were besieged and their nurtured races being fed upon like cattle by the eternal hunger of the star-gods. Entire worlds were razed, suns extinguished and entire star systems devoured whole by the terrible C'tan.{{Fn|1b}}
During the war, Necron legions are known to had breached the Webway and assaulted the Old Ones in every corner of the galaxy.{{Fn|6a}} Despite their legendary patience and implacability, the Old Ones began to grow desperate and began breeding new forms of life with an even stronger connection to the Warp , with the intention that these manipulated species having the power to channel their psychic might to defend themselves. Many warrior races were created in this manner and there is the belief that species such as the [[Eldar]], [[K'nib]] and [[Rashan]] along with many others ranked among their number. It took millennia before these new creations were ready and in that time, the C'tan along with their Necron armies extinguished even more life in the cosmos.{{Fn|1b}} According to Eldar legend, the paradise the Old Ones had created , a paradise which was now desecrated by the C'tan who the Eldar knew as the Yngir.{{Fn|1d}} Among their creations also included early [[Human|Mankind]] who were tree beasts that were part of their ecosystem but otherwise had no greater role defined for them by the Old Ones.{{Fn|1a}} This was the time that the Eldar referred to as the God War which was fought between the C'tan supported Necrons and the Old Ones who were aided by their successor races.{{Fn|1a}} During ancient times, the Eldar learnt a great many secrets of the Warp from the ancient races known as the Old Ones.{{Fn|3}} From this encounter, the Eldar learnt technologies that led to the eventual creation of the Webway.{{Fn|2}}
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.{{Fn|1d}} 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.{{Fn|1c}}
