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While the majority of common Necrons are little more than obedient autonomations, the higher nobility have a complex culture inherited from their days as [[Necrontyr]]. Nobility, honour, loyalty to one's liege and pride in one's hereditary titles are all common amongst the rulers of the Necron race. Loyalty and honour are particularly emphasised to the point that over the long millennia, Necron Lords maintain a labyrinthine web of ranks, titles, and allegiances. Necron honour is usually reserved only for other Necrons, and they will usually disdain from using "distasteful" means in their many inter-dynastic conflicts such as [[Destroyer Cult|Destroyers]], [[Deathmark]]s, or [[Flayed One]]s. This honour has at times even extended to non-Necron races deemed worthy and honourable adversaries. However, more often than not, Necrons deem other races as little more than vermin worthy only of extermination.{{Fn|52a}}
There is no set system of ideology amongst the Necron race and their motivations and philosophies will differ greatly from dynasty to dynasty. Some dynasties, like the [[Kastak Dynasty|Kastak]] wish to regain their organic forms while [[Imotekh]], [[Phaeron]] of the powerful [[Sautekh Dynasty]], has embraced the machine bodies of the Necrons as superior.{{Fn|54}} Others, such as the [[Szarekhan Dynasty|Szarekhan]] and their allies, follow the [[Silent King]] and seek to achieve Necron domination of the Galaxy.{{Fn|52c52b}} Others such as the [[Maynarkh Dynasty|Maynarkh]] are hyper-violent and seek only to exterminate all organic life{{Fn|53a53b}}, while the [[Nihilakh Dynasty|Nihilakh]] are isolationists that seek to gather treasures and knowledge to themselves.{{Fn|4p}}. Meanwhile, the Necrons under the control of [[Thaszar]] act as pirates and reavers.{{Fn|4r}}
Despite there being little unity amongst the majority of the Necron dynasties, those Necrons that go against their complex codes of loyalty and honour sometimes risk the wrath of [[Triarch Praetorian]]s, which act as enforcers for the [[Silent King]] and Necron race as a whole.{{Fn|52a}}
*52: [[Codex: Necrons (10th Edition)]]:
**{{Endn|52a}}: pgs. 27-28
**{{Endn|52b}}: pg. 25**{{Endn|52c}}: pgs. 34-35
*53: [[Imperial Armour Volume Twelve - The Fall of Orpheus]]:
**{{Endn|53a}}: pg. 48
