"Today we can but begin what must surely be a long and arduous task - to assess and describe the Steel Daemons, to confront them and ultimately to bring them to battle. We can but add guesses to our too scant knowledge, to reconstruct their weaponry, their fighting methods, their strengths and vulnerabilities. All this we must do, and quickly, lest we perish without ever recognising our peril"
Inquisitor Hoth
The Necrons, an alien race ancient beyond imagining, are awakening from their sixty-million year dormancy to plague the living once more. Thousands of immortal, soulless warriors have risen from dusty stasis-tombs, intent on preying on the teeming species of the galaxy.
Their miraculous technology was far in advance of any contemporary equivalent long before the Eldar, reckoned the oldest among races, had even come into existence. Although the Imperium of Mankind has only recently acknowledged the Necrons’ reappearance, their monstrous gods feasted upon colossal stars before the planets themselves were born.
Once a proud race whose empire spanned the stars, the Necrons now exist purely to serve their omniscient masters, inescapably bound to the malignant will of the ancient deities that granted their immortality. At the vanguard of their forces are the Necron Lords, their tattered shrouds flowing in an unearthly breeze as they silently compel their skeletal warriors forward.
Alongside them march the eldritch monstrosities and war machines of their race, some mercurially fast and utterly lethal, some as ponderous and inescapable as death itself. The Necrons specialise in terror attacks, striking without warning, slaughtering their prey and disappearing without trace. The purpose of these attacks is unknown, but their total and devastating efficiency is without question.
The Necrons have no dealings with any other species whatsoever. To the Necrons, each population is another target to be harvested at the whim of their masters. To their gods, races such as Humanity are mere cattle; at best pawns for their internecine wars, at worst prey to satisfy their unquenchable thirst. The menace of the Necron expansion grows with each passing year and will soon reach catastrophic proportions. This could spell the doom of Humanity, for the core of the Necron threat nestles like a cancer within the heart of the Imperium itself.
Currently there are no notes or details on Necrons but they will be put up soon (as soon as Codex: Necrons is released!)