Explaining NECRONS To My Girlfriend

this is my girlfriend she knows nothing about Warhammer I know some things about Warhammer so we thought it would be fun to make a video where we sit down and learn about the Grim Dark World of 40K I initially thought it would be really funny to accurately recreate the Horus heresy in The Sims it it didn't go well well vulcan's on fire the prophecy is complete the moment the emperor left is when this happened there's a fucking Lake outside it's fine anyway I thought long and hard about something simple and easy to go through with somebody who knows nothing about the setting something with no background lore required or anything like that so I thought to myself why not start at the beginning and talk about one of my favorite factions the necrons my precious funny little skeleton men I'm bound to miss some details or might even be completely wrong on some things so if you'd like you can read some necron books yourself I highly recommend the infinite and the Divine and the twice dead King books also if you want to see more stuff like this consider supporting me on patreon okay without further Ado let's get into it depressing Warhammer Warhammer aot there's like an underlying theme are you ready for those I guess I'm ready for this I think I'm ready for this okay how about you introduce yourself a bit what do you do what's going on I'm Carrie I am a voice actress I make voices what do you know about Warhammer violence and armor and yeah there's a lot of that is important and the emperor and Magnus did nothing wrong okay okay so you know the base of what most Warhammer fans who claim that they know a lot about Warhammer say that the people who look like Egyptian mommies are also called the cold one we'll we'll get into that so there's also big titty Eldar girlfriend which is I'm interested in that okay well we'll we'll get there that's a little that's a little Advanced that requires a bit of context do you have you seen the characters I like playing yes that just describes them Games Workshop hire me so today we'll be talking about the necrons they are metal skeleton people yay do you know anything about necrons because you mentioned uh skeleton mummies just a second ago I know that they are like a a like a machine people they're like robots but they're not the machinists they're not people that are replacing themselves with parts they are right they're not they're not the mechanicus no they they are cyborgs there they are metal yes they are Androids they used to be uh actually Terminator rip-offs right like just blatantly so uh let's just start learning about some of them a long long long long time ago sorry a long long time ago way before humans right there were a race of people called the necron tier now the necron tier lived on a planet that was extremely irradiated and they suffered from horrible tumors and lived very very very short lives I'm talking like if you were 50 and you were a necron you were old so like Mad Max like War boys kind of vibe yeah necrons lived very very short lives but their Planet had one benefit it had living metal what like conscious no not exactly it's very malleable so if you had like a spaceship and part of it broke off it would just kind of heal itself oh like warbler yeah yeah kind of like warbla I don't know what that is it's cosplayers oh I see this looks like a very happy bacterium it's like Travis Scott he's like Travis Scott he's like one day the necron tier were visited by a race known as the old ones they were super Advanced and they were really nice and they helped a lot of lesser races Ascend to the stars and they were guiding them along the way kind of like zonai ah I see however much more than that they were immortal like actually Immortal or just live a really really long time like it's unclear deities or time Lords time Lords okay probably live a very very very long time well think of it like this the necrons see these guys the necrons the most you're living is 50 and that's if you're lucky yeah and you're not gonna get like horrible cancer tumors if these guys live even a thousand years that might as well be immortal yeah no fair enough a couple sources I've read on say differently some say that they were Immortal some say that they weren't but the big takeaway from this is the necron tier hated these guys they grew really bitter because they're like well why are you immortal and we aren't also side note for some reason the old ones they they just didn't help them out I don't know why oh maybe they didn't okay lame and so a War Began but because of how technologically advanced the old ones were it went really bad for our necron tier friends the dynasties are being torn apart that was fighting amongst themselves and uh their people were just kind of overall dying out however some of the dynasties turned to studying the Stars to find a weapon to fight back against the overpowering might of the old ones astrologian they became astrologians healers solve all the problems this is what we've learned kind of they found something called the Katan now the Katan are beings of pure energy that eat Stars delicious so do you remember that living medal from earlier yes well the necron tier actually used them to make bodies for these guys okay they called them star gods wait the things that eat the stars are the star gods or or the things that eat the Stars called the necron star Gods the Katan are also known as the star Gods okay sorry I'm dyslexic it's hard no you're fine you're fine you're fine one Katan approached the ruler of the necron tier named zaric The Silent King how come the star body looks like Jax we're not going to talk about this that's a whole other thing I'm going too far off if you want to overwhelm our audience we can have a podcast where we just talk about Vanderpump Rules but that is not today in relationship about that today two or whatever the implications of Vanderpump Rules interesting that you labeled the katanas Jacks more on that in just a minute so one Catan approached the ruler of the necron tier the ruler was named zarek the silent King they told him that once upon a time the Katan fought against the old ones but they lost and ever since they've been hoping that one day they might be able to find some allies and bring them down and if the necron tier helped them anything his people desired this sounds like it might be too good to be true this Katan would eventually become known as The Deceiver oh it's like the statue and hiteno Village that takes your damn heart the star Gods spoke of something called biotransference it's a process that creates the necron tears new bodies powerful bodies Immortal bodies now because he's a king he's got a Royal Court right right and so sarik is talking to his Royal Court and one of his advisors orokin the diviner objected and says that he foretold that the necron tier would win the war if they took this deal but they would lose a part of themselves and be doomed forever however zarek with his Splinter to dying people weighing heavily on his mind ignore the diviner and accepted the deal so so they're pretty stressed at this moment like his entire people are dying it's not great and you've basically got one soothsayer who's like ah don't do this it's bad but at what point do the like the benefits outweigh the negatives you know right yeah thus it began the necron tier were Chained and dragged to the Colossal bio furnaces that roared with the screams of all who entered burning away flesh and forging new bodies of living metal like flies the Katan swarmed the furnaces gorging themselves on the souls of the necron tier who went into the Flames this is the scare like the worst TSA experience I've ever it's not great like what if you went into the TSA and firstly they put you in Chains and they put you through like a metal detector but they let you on fire Instead at that point it's not my fault you can't put me in Chains and be like well that's sort of again he's called The Deceiver so the necrons here the necron tier went into the furnaces and as their bodies were being burned away their souls were getting eaten by the Catan right because delicious little snack and they they were eaten well let me tell you Mmm delicious delicious delicious would go great with some garlic and rosemary it was too late when Zurich realized what he had done he condemned his people to become tools of War to live without souls to become slaves for all eternity in that moment the necron tear became a memory and the necrons were born small little side note uh as they became metal Androids all necrons except for zaric had a command chip put into their head so that they were just basically automatons they were zombies right so if their souls were eaten yes were all of them eaten or did some of them get to go in these bodies Warhammer has a unique thing of like there is a slight separation of the mind and the Soul oh okay like there are races in Warhammer that are completely intelligent but they don't have souls it's a little it's a little odd what would you say in Warhammer yeah what would you define a soul as because I guess in my mind a soul is kind of like the actual Consciousness right like the spark of that is not what it is in Warhammer your Consciousness is your mind who you are is your mind your soul is like your heart pretty much like a connection to Divinity it's like you're yeah it's like your connection to Divinity your connection to the out like almost like in Final Fantasy like a connection to Ether Yes actually very similar to that with their bodies made of metal and the might of the star Gods with them the old ones were expunged from every corner of the Galaxy this is a war that lasted I I want you I want you to be ready for this okay this is a war that lasted five million years that's a bit You're Gonna Learn very quickly that Warhammer likes to take a number and just add like a couple zeros to it okay so what you're telling me is I need to work for Warhammer yes pretty much uh basically you'll have a planet who it's like oh we lost a bunch of men and like a normal fiction thing would be like we lost 200 men it's like that's catastrophic loss but in warm air it's like we lost four fucking billion dudes so it's like when you're telling a story of something that happened you're like there was like 500 firefighters that's pretty much all Warhammer is yes oh okay okay it's just exaggeration of exaggeration however exaggeration station however what's not exaggerated is that a bunch of plants got destroyed a bunch of stars got burnt out and some systems in the Milky Way galaxy just got completely destroyed So when you say the Milky Way galaxy this is canonically our universe yes this is our universe in the 40th Millennium humans as we know them existed the tagline for Warhammer 40K is in the far fun future there is only War okay so it's like Star Wars in that comparison Star Wars but your edgy teenager brother made it does that make sense Rex no okay that's not um yeah I understand yeah also this war was really crazy because they were literally using stars and planets as ammunition ah yeah like that's just hucking them at each other yeah to illustrate how strong the Katan and the old ones and the necrons were it was an absolute like the Galaxy got absolutely torn apart now in the final stage of the war Zurich began plotting to overthrow his Katan Masters he would turn the weapon that they created against them and so once the war was over with the old ones and the Katan were celebrating they're like wow it zaric led all of his people that he has complete control over turn them around and started killing the Katan slight verification uh they are beans of pure energy so they can't really die so the necrons did the next best thing they cut them into thousands of fragments and then imprisoned them like pokeballs to be used as tools of war the Osiris treatment Yes actually rude so like on tabletop you can have like a whole necron Army and then like have a Shard of a Catan in your army as well like enslaved did you just like throw down a bunch of pieces of plastic and be like these are my immortal beings get fucked that's actually more of an orc thing but I think I just described Warheads you did you actually did so after their Victory Zurich saw the Galaxy and his people broken like the Galaxy again completely messed up right so he gave one final order to transform the remaining necron cities into tombs and for his people to go to sleep Eiffel Tower yeah actually they were going to give the Galaxy some time to heal and when the time came the necrons would rise again and take back the Galaxy that was rightfully theirs and so all the necrons went to sleep waiting to be awakened in the far future all except one zaric the silent King before they went to sleep he destroyed all the command protocols and as Penance for betraying his people and making this horrible mistake that turned them into metal Androids he traveled to the very edge of our galaxy and has remained there alone so like do they like is it like go like going like do they do they dream are they conscious of that time or is it like I shut off my computer I turn it back on again the next day and it doesn't it's like a computer okay so to them it's like blip and it's done yeah okay uh and that's necron's that's their whole backstory oh wait what that's it we did it that's it so so okay cool so any questions any clarifications why why no I'm just kidding so so what leads to the like reboot obviously they all get like turned back on again well Zurich programmed that they would sleep for 60 million years because that's how he estimated like that's the time that it was to set an alarm yeah he set an alarm for 60 million years and they all got up on the first alarm that's really hard to do well some of them woke up before the alarm went off whoa yeah so some necrons uh have been walking around for a while there's a character named trasen the infinite who has a whole planet that is a museum and he's been just kind of going around and collecting things and putting them in his Museum making my way around steel and shit putting it in my fancy house yes so necrons today Zurich saw a bunch of bug boys at the edge of the Galaxy saw them coming got really freaked out came back luckily it's around the time of the Great Awakening so a bunch of necrons are starting to wake up not all of them are awake though yet if all of them were awake and they were all United under one Banner they would 100 win just they would win the Galaxy so to kind of make up for that GW has decided that necrons just kind of do a lot of Civil Wars because they're really Petty and power hungry right it's like America they got a lot of Firepower but they're disorganized and angry at each other yeah pretty much currently zarek is in a civil war with a guy named imhotek the stormlord I'm sorry Imhotep no imhotek yeah Imhotep no does he also have like walk around looking buff as hell and like sucking people he's pretty buff oh what he's pretty buff is he uh looking for his like girlfriend to put a soul in he was basically like their best General before they got turned into necrons he's never really forgiven the silent King for doing what he did so that's why he's like you're undeserving to be a ruler I should be the ruler I'm going to kill you right monarchy sounds complicated without death in one of the necron books there's a couple scenes where they go to court because because there's like a petty instance and uh they're like oh the court only the the ruling was made uh only 12 years in that's extraordinarily short oh God they also still do like theater okay well that makes sense like I I guess I they're kind of stuck in the past their people can't really change so they're like performing Shakespeare's plays over and over they're performing the the necrons here or necron equivalent of Shakespeare's plays it's like how Disney can't come up with any new movies lately yeah those plays also last decades because people don't need to go to the bathroom people aren't gonna die why not make a play that goes on for 800 years I guess then the longest play like three days long or something like that it's like there's like an opera that's like three days four actually it's called Uh de Ringo's uh nebulugan it's called I need a nap yeah that's fair I completely butchered that name bro no I'm it's German right so German operas are something else like uh anyway yeah that's that's necrons sweet hiya how you feeling how do you feel about this little short introductory into the world of 40 000 Warhammer 40 000. well I just kind of feel bad for them yeah it's it's a really tragic thing and that's most things in 40K honestly is that it's it's very Grim dark and it's really like like oh it's metal but a lot of it's just really sad I mean these guys are literally metal yeah they're literally met living metal in fact I like the idea that they can't feel time and they're told they have to go to sleep for like what was it 600 000 years 60 million oh I was just a bit off 60 million years but one of them's confused and keeps like sitting up and being like can we are we are we done yet are we done that's pretty much are We Done Yet and then one of them is like can you sleep for five million yes there's a there was actually a problem where you have to wake them up in a specific way where sometimes the necrons would try to wake they would be like Oh I'm gonna get an army and like conquer the Galaxy and they would wake up their subjects wrong they would just kind of die it's me yeah I'm one of these guys I can't get out of bed for real and if I do it wrong I can't do anything that day it's called depression well they're depressed yeah they are depressed they're all depressed I don't think I want to be a necron like cool to play but like oh so who's who's your favorite necron oh my favorite necron my favorite necron is a character named ultix he's uh actually the main character in The twice dead King books all ticks All Things No thoughts no altics just just one word no that's lime no he's coming at you all ticks old ticks old ticks old ticks like when you start bouncing your leg and you haven't done that in Forever oh it's an old tick right there and and why do you like him so in his book he actually has parts of his personality divided into different like subroutines so literally inside of his head like his compassion is talking to him his anger is talking to him but his anger is like literally a growling Beast so he's got a little T it's like what's that movie with all the emotions are like personified it's like inside out but necrons but terrifying War skeleton metal no more souls wait a second they don't need to like use the washroom or eat right nope do they sex do they have any kind of romantic do they partner up is it like polyamory is it like they can do they have relations or is it just kind of like an asexual aromantic Society they can swap files they can they can do this thing where they they they pay twenty dollars each and then they can teleport right to each other you know what they do they share their steam Pages that's what they do oh they're sharing their Library oh and so like does that happen a lot is that like most people find a partner or is that no most necrons once in a while somebody spends time with someone they're like I enjoy you let's share files so one necron uh that that good old trash in the infinite Mr steal everything on the planet he talks about how in order to be immortal you need a hobby you need something to obsess over there otherwise you're gonna go crazy no fair you should build like Warhammer or something so a lot of necrons will go into like a dynasty or have like a team of people but a lot of them are pretty alone and they just find things to do imagine being told you need a hobby and just being like I'ma just start a dynasty and I just start a dynasty you don't meet a girl like that every Dynasty um I guess I'm just curious like if these guys are you know basically Minds imported into metal how individualized are they like extremely okay so they have individual wants and needs your average Soldier not by much because the average Soldier didn't really get to keep a lot of their mind per se but if you were a necron lord like your entire personality just got like booted over so is it like a chappy situation where like it's like chappie being is dead like the say there's a necron named Jim unfortunately Jim goes into the fire Jim no longer exists but there's an upload of Jim's personality file in another robot pretty much is that kind of what's happened so like the necrons are dead in what they were this goes into how the book talks about themselves like when a necron sighs they are just exerting white noise from their vocal actuators when they smile it might just be the living metal kind of curving up slightly they don't refer to their faces as faces they refer to them as Death Masks oh interesting to all necrons the necrons are dead are there like are there like lady necrons oh of course there's trance necrons oh hell yeah I can only imagine the body dysmorphia if you lose your body you should reach the Twisted King oh no oh yeah there's a moment where a necron goes to touch their face because some say it gets into it and then they start having a panic attack because they can't feel it it kind of spirals because it's like I go to wipe the sand out of my eyes I don't have eyes I can't blink I need to breathe I don't have lungs oh god oh Jesus oh oh fuck like it's just it's it's bad most necrons just ignore it they just ignore the anxiety part that most people with mental health issues yeah pretty much one of my favorite things about the the trans necron is one character goes like Oh The Matriarch of this dynasty and then ultex looks up and he's like I thought they had a patriarch and the guy goes no that changed when it's like when you have a body of living metal who cares right yeah but that's necrons cool thanks for telling me about them absolutely how do you feel do you feel overwhelmed or anything at all no I just feel bad for the necrons yeah poor little necron boys do you have any closing thoughts don't do this don't go into a biotransference if an evil ghost tells you to do it listen this is a message to people in what was it 65 000 years forward 65 million years ago don't go in the oven it's not gonna be like Darth Maul you're not gonna get a kyber crystal they're gonna steal your soul and have a delicious snack delicious charcuterie your soul is mine idiot I might eat it I'm gonna eat it and then you can't oh no oh no you put me into a Pokeball oh Gary I don't know me neither um so who's the protagonist sorry for any background noise they're currently cutting a tree down behind my house I don't know why anyways thank you for watching this was honestly really refreshing and a lot of fun to do I'm definitely looking forward to possibly doing more in the future I hope you enjoyed it next time we'll be talking about something Carrie's more familiar with it's a little corny anyways see you next time

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Keywords: warhammer, warhammer 40k, 40k, necrons, lore, story, summary

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Length: 24min 41sec (1481 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 12 2023