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The Necrontyr attempted to master science, unlike the [[Old Ones]] who used psychic power and links to the [[Immaterium]] to advance themselves. They learnt after thousands of years that they could not control their destiny with science. Their bodies could not be changed to survive on the planet, but not suffer from the radiation sickness and perpetual fear of death. Their cities were built in anticipation of their demise, and simply became vast tomb complexes with a few homes for the living, in a temporary form.
Eventually they developed sufficient technology to move out to other planets. They did not have the abilities of the Old Ones to move between the stars in seconds, and had to use slow moving stasis crypts and slow burning torch ships to gradually grope out to other stars. They clad their ships in their [[living metal]] to withstand the riggers riggors of space flight. After much time, they met the Old Ones. This meeting of a short lived, dour race to a race of hopeful and nigh-immortal people set a fire of rage burning in the hearts of the Necrontyr. From this moment on, they turned their entire lives to detroying the Old Ones in spite of their superior lifestyles.
When war was declared, the Necrontyr realised they would never be able to win. They were constantly outmanouvered by the Old Ones mastery of the webways. Eventually they were pushed back to merely an annoyance in the outer regions among the halo stars. The fury of the Necrontyr was cooled after many thousands of years of imprisonment, and their disgust of the Old Ones turned into an utter hatred of all life.
