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The Necrontyr's planet of origin was barren and radiation-blasted, making it incredibly hostile to life. Their bodies were ridden with radiation sickness and they lived a morbid life, constantly fearful of their coming deaths. Their cities were built in anticipation of their demise, little more than vast tomb complexes with a few temporary homes for the living.{{Fn|1}}
The Necrontyr attempted to overcome their mortality with scientific means, but realized after thousands of years that their bodies could not be changed to survive on the planet. Instead, they developed spacefaring technology, though of a much slower and more uncertain nature than the methods of the [[Old Ones]]. Where the Old Ones were able to move between the stars in seconds, the Necrontyr had to use slow-moving ships, equipped with [[stasis cryptscrypt]]s, to reach out to the stars. They clad their ships in [[living metal]] to withstand the rigors of space flight.{{Fn|1}} Despite establishing interstellar colonies, the Necrontyr still could not escape their genetic curse and continued to die quickly from tumorous growths.{{Fn|3a}}
===The Meeting of the Races===
