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== Overview ==Essentially mindless feeding machines, these constructs mind Tomb Worlds and perform a variety of other tasks.{{Fn|1a}}Their basest instincts are to repair and reproduce.{{Fn|9c4c}} In battle they fly ahead of the main army in swarms so thick that they've been known to blot out the sun. They appear out of nowhere, deadly, but making no sound except for the rustle of carapace over carapace. While Scarab swarms have no direct weapons, their claws are sufficiently sharp to slice through an enemy's armour. Because of their size they can find cover easily, but when in swarm they are vulnerable to massed ordnance. They may be armed with [[Disruption Field]]s for attacking heavily armoured targets.{{Fn|1a}}

Scarabs are capable of breaking down essentially any material into energy. This raw energy is stored in their mechanical guts and is used to create matter.{{Fn|9d4e}} Scarabs have been seen burrowing through the crust of planets to mine the welling magma from a world's mantle.{{Fn|9e4d}} They use this to reproduce at an astonishing rate, creating never-ending swarms that devour all in their path.{{Fn|44a}} Some claim to have encountered worlds entirely dissembled by them, having become a ball of endlessly recycling scarabs. A living metal planetoid that continues to fight against the crushing gravity of their own collective mass.{{Fn|9c4c}}

A scarab's ability of flight is enabled through the use of [[hyperplastek]] wings{{Fn|9a4a}}, [[contra-grav]] engines and [[anti-grav|gravitic impellers]].{{Fn|9b4b}}

*{{Mainmain|Mindshackle Scarabs}}*{{Mainmain|Cortical Subjugator Scarabs}}

*{{Mainmain|Bloodswarm Nanoscarabs}}These tiny Scarabs are used by [[Imotekh the Stormlord]] to draw [[Flayed Ones]] to a target.{{Fn|77a}}

*{{Mainmain|Countertemporal Nanomines}}These nano-scarabs are used by [[Chronomancer]]s as a minefield to temporally assault their enemy.{{Fn|7a7b}}

*{{Mainmain|Canoptek Reanimator}}These nano-scarabs are used to heal Necron structures and units. They are commonly employed from [[Canoptek Reanimator]]s.{{Fn|7b7c}}

*1: [[Codex: Necrons (5th Edition)]]:

*{{Endn|2}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Twelve]] , pg. 105

*{{Endn|4}}: [[Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work (Novel)]] :**{{Endn|4a}}: Chapter Fifteen**{{Endn|4b}}: Chapter Sixteen**{{Endn|4c}}: Chapter Eighteen**{{Endn|4d}}: Chapter Twenty- Two**{{Endn|4e}}: Chapter 15Twenty-Five

*{{Endn|7}}: [[Codex: Necrons (9th Edition)]] :**{{Endn|7a}}: pg.32**{{Endn|7a7b}}: pg.61**{{Endn|7b7c}}: pg.93