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====The Awakening====
=====M30-M40=====When the Tomb Worlds did begin to reawaken, it was not simultaneously. Some awoke to see the [[Great Crusade]], others during the [[Age of Apostasy]]. To avoid chaos, these prematurely awoken Necrons were organized under the [[Awakened Council]].{{Fn|17a}} Most, however, awoke during the later years of [[M41]]; but even still billions of Necrons lay dormant.{{Fn|4d}} What the Imperium cannot know is that, should the Necrons ever fully wake and unite, they would face a foe as numerous as themselves. For now, the Imperium has had but a taste of the Necrons’ might, and it is fortunate for Mankind that the Necrons remain divided by madness and conflicting agendas. However, these are but the first stumbling steps of a giant as it gathers pace, and even now powerful leaders like [[Anrakyr the Traveller]], [[Imotekh the Stormlord]] and the [[Silent King]] are uniting their people under a common cause in order to reestablish the Infinite Empire.{{Fn|8b}}
[[Image:Necrons6th.jpg|thumb|right|375px|Necrons battle the [[Ultramarines]]{{Fn|5}}]]
In 744.[[M41]], the Silent King ended his self-imposed exile and returned to the galaxy after encounter with the Tyranids within the intergalactic void. He discovered the Tyranids were just one of many threats facing the Necrons. Other alien races had swarmed over their [[Tomb World]]s and the [[Warp]] now seeped across the Galaxy. He has begun a journey across the galaxy with a band of his loyal [[Triarch Praetorian]]s to reawaken [[Tomb World]]s that still slumber so they may unite against the Tyranids. The returned Silent King is careful to not reveal his true identity, even to fellow Necrons. He works primarily through [[Triarch Praetorian]]s or unwitting [[Cryptek]]s and [[Necron Overlord]]s to achieve his goal, and has steadily influenced the galaxy from one side to the other. Slowly, he has pursued his his great work from the shadows. He intends to unite the Necrons against the Tyranids while also manipulating the younger races to his own schemes.{{Fn|11c}}
=====M41: Imperial Awareness=====At least several centuries prior to the Imperial's first proper awareness of the Necrons, Imperial [[Explorator]] archeologists had known of the ancient race of the [[Necrontyr]]. To the Imperials, the Nectontyr were just a technically advanced alien empire that had spanned the galaxy tens of millions of years ago, but of which little remained. Any surface structures had long since crumbled to dust and been eroded by time, but they had discovered some ancient tomb structures buried beneath the sands. None of these initial tomb complexes encountered by Imperial Explorators were intact examples - all they had encountered and managed to record were ruinous and empty, what content they contained or if they had been plundered unclear. It was known however that this race had vanished at least 65 million years ago, when ancient [[Terra]] was still a great pre-historic jungle and the evolution of mankind was still millions of years away. Thus, this discovered Necontyr race was of little interest to those outside the dusty offices of the [[Explorator Archeos]], simply cataloged among a thousand other dead and forgotten alien civilizations.{{fn|59}}[[Image:Explorator Report Necron Remains White Dwarf 217 (UK) pg28.jpg|thumb|right|300px|<sup>Early Inquisitorial report on the Necron threat.{{fn|59}}</sup>]]The first reported contact between the Necrons and the [[Imperium]] of Man came in 897.[[M41]] during the raid on [[Sanctuary 101]]. The report specifies that the invaders might have emerged from the ground itself.{{Fn|3}} Another early instance was the destruction of the hermitage on [[Adric IV]]. It would be raids such as these which would prompt further investigation by the [[Inquisition]]{{fn|59}}, particularly by individuals such as [[Inquisitor]] [[Hoth]] who would himself investigate these twin raids{{fn|1e}}{{fn|59}}. The Inquisition, and by extension the Imperium, would soon realize that the Necrons possessed technology that could disrupt Imperial recording devices, and many places that had simply been marked as "destroyed by raiders unknown" with no trace of the attackers were now very likely linked to this new threat, ultimately leading the Imperium to now finally be aware of the Necron menace.{{fn|59}}
=====Era Indomitus=====
After the formation of the [[Great Rift]], [[Szarekh]], the [[Silent King]], accelerated his plans by creating the [[Pariah Nexus]].{{Fn|14}} This has proven controversial amongst other dynasties, most notably the [[Sautekh Dynasty|Sautekh]] and their allies. The Sautekh [[Phaeron]], [[Imotekh]], has launched an open revolt against the Silent King's authority as part of the greater [[Pariah Crusade|War in the Pariah Nexus]].{{Fn|54}}
===Reanimation Protocols===
*{{Main|Reanimation Protocols}}
All Necrons possess sophisticated auto-repair systems (dubbed '''[[Reanimation Protocols]]''') throughout their exo-skeletal systems that can repair even the most crippling of damage. While this can keep them functioning constantly, should there be irreparable damage sustained, the Necron "phases out".{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|24b}} Both their minds and their bodies are teleported to the nearest tomb complex or orbiting ship where they either remain in storage until repairs are made or a new body is forged. This act does, however, come at a cost as each act of transference leads to a decay in the Necron's engrams. As such, those Necrons that have "died" and phased out hundreds of times suffer the most for they become little more than automatons who have lost the memory of the creature that they used to be in life.{{Fn|2}} It is not a perfect process, and sometimes unsalvageable Necron remains are left behind.{{fn|59}}{{fn|60}}
==Hierarchy==
**{{Endn|1c}}: pg. 57
**{{Endn|1d}}: Cover
**{{Endn|1e}}}: pg.22
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]], pgs. 126, 128, 179
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Planetstrike]], pg. 55
*{{Endn|57}}: [[Kill Team: Tomb World]] Dossier, pg. 7
*{{Endn|58}}: [https://archive.ph/THOjJ Warhammer Community: World Championships Preview – Captain Titus battles Nekrosor Ammentar for the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar] ''(archived from [https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/fm2tm39s/world-championships-preview-captain-titus-battles-nekrosor-ammentar-for-the-five-hundred-worlds-of-ultramar/ the original] 7 November 2025, last accessed 7 November 2025)''
*{{Endn|59}}: [[White Dwarf 217 (UK)]] pg.30-31*{{Endn|60}}: [[Nexus + Other Stories (Anthology)]] - Nexus - Chapter 5
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