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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
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The race remembered now only as the "Old Ones" possessed a slow, cold-blooded wisdom. Their science was such that it was indistinguishable from sorcery. Their understanding of the warp allowed them to exploit the psychic dimension to manipulate their surroundings and perform amazing feats of psychic engineering. With their knowledge of psychics, they managed to enter, map and control the vast [[Webway]] which allowed them to travel to almost any point in the galaxy in a matter of seconds.
Unfortunately, they found themselves to be nearly alone in the galaxy. They terraformed worlds which were otherwise uninhabitable and unable to spawn life. Through guidance they engineered*<sup>1</sup>: many new races from primitive stock, which they continued to nurture.
One of the few already sentient races the Old Ones encountered were the [[Necrontyr]], whose lives were short due to the deadly radiation of their world's sun. When they met the Old Ones, they developed a deep jealous hatred of them due to their near immortal lives. This resentment led to the First War. The Necrontyr's war was futile and they were forced back to a remote world in the outer rim of the Halo Stars. The fury of the Necrontyr cooled over thousands of years of imprisonment, but they turned their hatred against all life rather than just the Old Ones.
