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While the Necrons are not effected by the energy, anything organic is struck by despair, lethargy, exhaustion and also causes a [[psychic]] dampening effect. These effects are stronger on the Nexus' worlds and the constant drain of the Stilling can eventually drive some of its victims to commit suicide. Most of its victims, however, eventually collapse and remain still until they die. The population of the [[Imperium]]'s worlds in the Nexus suffered this fate, which the [[Indomitus Crusade]]'s [[Battle Group Kallides]] discovered when they entered the region. The Stilling also effected the Battle Group's warships, causing their engines to draw on more power to function and caused their [[Geller Field]]s to collapse. Miraculously this did not allow [[Daemon]]s to invade the warships, but this was the few hardships the Battle Group was spared. The Stilling otherwise had a horrific effect on the Battle Group's forces with only its [[Battle Sisters]] being unaffected by it. This led to horrific causalities caused by suicide or executions carried out by [[Commissar]]s after many stopped following orders or said the Battle Group was doomed. The Kallides' [[Psykers]] seemed to suffer a stronger reaction to the Stilling, whose psychic dampening effect also caused them to struggle to make their powers work. They described a feeling of constant drowning, which eventually led many of them to commit suicide. When their numbers became extremely low, the Battle Group was forced to assign bodyguards to protect the psykers from themselves.{{Fn|1a}} The effect was even more pronounced upon [[Aeldari]], the [[Ranger]]s of [[Alaitoc]] in the Paraiah Nexus were overcome: lapsing into fugue states with some hallucinating [[Daemon]]s and falling into paranoia. Psycho-reactive Aeldari equipment malfunctioned, psychically activated systems failing and [[Longrifle]] targeting errors – worst of all [[Waystone]]s failed to properly capture dying souls, appearing milky and dull and emanating an aura of melancholic laziness. The spiritual dangers of the anomaly eventually forcing an [[Alaitoc]] retreat in favor of smaller clandestine strikes designed to releive [[Imperial]] forces.{Fn|2}}