War Without Honour
The War Without Honour began when Nemesor Suthtis led the Necron legions of the Nekthyst Dynasty in invading a trio of Imperium factory worlds known as the Threefold Engels in late M41.[1]
The war earned its name due to the tactics Suthtis used during the invasions, as he deployed teams of Deathmarks and swarms of Canoptek Wraiths to the three worlds, in order to mislead the command structure of the Engels' Astra Militarum forces into defending strings of far-flung islands on each of the worlds. When the Astra Militarum were lured away by the Deathmarks and Wraiths, Suthtis immediately concerted his attacks on the worlds' main continents, ensuring that Engel Prime and Engel Secundus fell to his forces in a matter of weeks.[1]
Only on Engel Tertius did Suthtis encounter stiff resistance, when an embedded Regiment of Cadian Baneblades were able to turn the tide of the Nekthyst Dynasty's advance with their sheer armoured might. This ended however, when Suthtis unleashed no less than three separate shards of the Deceiver C'tan, which used their illusions and trickery to throw the Cadians into utter confusion. This allowed Suthtis' forces to destroy the Baneblade Regiment and thus ended the last resistance to his invasion and the Nekthyst Dynasty claimed the Threefold Engels as their own. The three worlds are then renamed as the Shadowed Triad and the Dynasty awakens the Tomb hidden deep beneath Engel Secundus.[1]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Necrons (8th Edition), pgs. 29–30 — A New Epoch Begins: The War Without Honour
