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[[Image:TombWorldArt.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Surface of a Tomb World{{Fn|18}}]]
'''Tomb Worlds''' are the worlds which have been inhabited by [[Great Sleep|dormant ]] [[Necron]]s for millions of years.
==Overview==
Many [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] personnel sent to these planets for exploration are often never heard from again; the vile Necron inhabitants never having truly left over the millions of years they had been in stasis.{{Fn|7a}}
[[Image:NecronTerritory.jpg|thumb|right|Necron Tomb Worlds across the galaxy]]
In absence of an active Necron population, most Tomb Worlds are managed by a master control program who oversees its slumbering denizens. This program oversees the Tomb Worlds swarms of [[Canoptek Construct]]s which serve as laborers, caretakers, and defenders.{{Fn|20a}} While some Tomb Worlds are obviously alien in nature and home to great Necron cities{{Fn|18}}, others are hidden and their structures and inhabitants may be entombed deep beneath the surface or even isolated in pocket dimensions{{Fn|13b}} that prevent their discovery by subsequent civilizations.{{Fn|20b}} The hidden nature of Tomb Worlds was in part enacted to protect them from marauding [[Eldar]] sixty million years ago.{{Fn|7c}}
===Types of Tomb Worlds===
|Unknown
|Base of the [[Awakened Council]] in [[M31]]
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|[[Bellicas]]
**{{Endn|7a}}: pg. 14
**{{Endn|7b}}: pg. 22
**{{Endn|7c}}: pgs. 7-8
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Caves of Ice (Novel)]], {{Cite This}}
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Echoes of the Tomb (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|11}}: [[Codex: Necrons (7th Edition)]], pg. 13
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Revelations (Comic Series)]], Issue #6
*{{Endn|13}}: [[The Infinite and the Divine (Novel)]], **{{Endn|13a}}: Act 1 Chapter 4**{{Endn|13b}}: Act 2 Chapter 4
*14: [[Severed (Novella)]]:
**{{Endn|14a}}: Chapter 2
*{{Endn|18}}: [https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=580990 Magic the Gathering Tomb Fortress] (last accessed 28/6/2024)
*{{Endn|19}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2]] - Mission: Dawn's Descent
*{{Endn|20}}: [[Codex: Necrons (8th Edition)]]
**{{Endn|20a}}: pg. 6
**{{Endn|20b}}: pg. 11
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