How did the Galaxy React to the Awakening of the Necrons? | Warhammer 40k Lore

g'day guys and gal when the necrons begun to wake up it was the rudest awakening for both the necrons and the entire galaxy the necrons had gone to bed predicting the elder empire would eventually fall then they would wake up and just clean up the scraps they didn't expect the existence of a literal hell full of demons mankind going guerrilla mode the elder still going pretty strong or an endless swarm of cosmic space bugs of death for the galaxy they were also pretty blindsided by the emergence of the solar space egyptians with technology so advanced that if it weren't for the necrons constant pettiness and infighting likely would have already reduced the galaxy to ash needless to say no one was particularly happy with how things turned out but that doesn't mean everyone's reaction was the same some became incredibly curious with the necrons and started to try and learn from them others waged vicious wars against them some even saw them as the messiah regardless it makes for great 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two new models to the pack that all current stl holders are getting for free 24 hours guys and gals don't miss out today i'll go over how each faction within warhammer 40k reacted to the awakening of the necrons let's get into it starting us off with the imperium of man and its various sub-factions because as we know mankind is the greatest race ever despite being on the same side the various imperial sub-factions struggle to always agree on stuff rarely ever having a united front for the space marines the awakening of the necrons introduced a new threat that must be destroyed and they have done so with ruthless success they spent an entire space marine chapter destroying a necron world engine the black templars have been fighting against and even occasionally beating immotek the stormlord pretty much every interaction between astartes and necrons results in epic destruction but not every during an engagement between the blood angels and the necrons the necrons called for a parlay and actually pursued a peace treaty with the blood angels so that they could defeat a common foe that being the tyranids after all the necrons may be massive [ __ ] [ __ ] but they have sentience and can be reasoned with in fact most high-ranking necrons have colorful personalities and are not needlessly vicious or genocidal unless they're fighting the orcs it also helps that the silent king lord of the necrons was wearing a mask moulded into the likeness of sanguinius and he claimed to have even been mates with the primark this is probably [ __ ] but it did the trick and the two factions fought alongside each other guardsmen are downright terrified of the necrons with the inquisition keeping the existence of the necrons a secret to avoid morale issues commissar kane has fought nearly every enemy the galaxy has to offer multiple times and he says with absolute certainty that the necrons are by far the most terrifying this is coming from a guide that has fought tyranids gene steelers and demons in melee combat the sisters of battle reacted similar to the space marines except a bit more are sister of battley that meaning there would be absolutely zero chance of any form of parlay between the two factions as the nuns with guns would rather take on the necrons and tyranids simultaneously rather than do anything remotely logical the mechanicus however have lubed up their hydraulic [ __ ] and are living their best life despite how hypocritical it is for them to want to study necron technology considering nearly all other xenotech is heresy they do it anyway and cause a shitload of problems like a fat chunk of awoken tomb worlds are a direct result of mechanicus expeditions as such despite the fact that the mechanicus are probably the most open to the necrons and their technology they end up fighting the most battles against them they just can't keep their shiny mechanical hands to themselves probably one of the funniest reactions from humans to the necrons was when trezin fought off orcs that were attacking a human world he didn't do it because he wanted to save the humans there was just an artifact on the world he wanted to protect and the orcs were gonna [ __ ] it up none of the humans knew what a necron was to them they had just been saved by tall metal men hence they built a statue of tresin chapter master of the silver skulls astartes who led his tall and slender marines into combat to save them the inquisition caught wind and was going to destroy the statue but rosin stole it for safe keeping before them overall the imperium sees the necrons as another existential threat to add to the pile however as they are a lot more workable than tyranids and orcs there is the occasional golden nugget found in the law where the two sides aren't trying to kill each other what about the elder after all the elder and necrons were sworn enemies during the war in heaven surely they wouldn't be too stoked about their awakening yeah they [ __ ] weren't they knew the necrons were still out there and even destroyed some of their tomb worlds while they slept however with the size of the galaxy the arrogance of the elder and some cloaking tech the necrons were mostly left alone during their slumber upon their awakening most elder craft worlds have been avoiding their tomb worlds however a few have renewed their war against the necrons in earnest and target them specifically surprisingly however the necrons and elders don't hate each other as much as you might think they see each other more as worthy rivals rather than these inferior enemies they've even teamed up on occasion to take out tyranids and chaos forces who they both see as the greater threat to the galaxy at this time after all both elder and necrons are old intelligent races they don't have the suicidal religious zeal that the imperium has so they are able to prioritize their greatest threats the dark elder are avoiding the necrons necron slaves aren't a thing you can't just [ __ ] them well at least not to non-necrons plus if a dark elder is hit with a gauss weapon they will be atomized and unable to be brought back from the dead so yeah not ideal exodites and necrons are kind of similar in the fact that as long as you get the [ __ ] off their lawn they will leave you alone to be honest i wouldn't even be surprised if the exodus didn't know the necrons had woken up and yeah who the [ __ ] knows what the harlequins think the tau are both in awe and horror of the necrons to explain the necrons despise the tyranids as the tyrionians are stealing biomass that the necrons need if they want to return to flesh and blood as such it's common for necrons to flank and attack tyranid high fleets that are in the process of attacking tower worlds sometimes the necrons will then genocide the tower for a laugh other times they will then leave them alone in peace so for the tao the necrons are like these godlike beans that will either save their world or save their world then destroy it for the lols it's a genuine flip of the coin which is why the tao have such a conflicted opinion of the necrons and their awakening the orcs reacted happily enough necrons are another enemy for them to fight and they don't have any memory or records of the war in heaven so they don't recall the old rivalry they once had unfortunately for the orcs the necrons do remember and they are [ __ ] pissed orcs were built to fight necrons and they caused a lot of damage necron battle tactics and weaponry also counter the orcs pretty hard no bodies left over means no spore spreading a preference for ranged warfare means a lot less melee combat for the orcs so whilst the orcs reacted well to the arrival of a new enemy and will engage necrons with relish they prefer to fight other less complicated enemies like humans the tyranids had a pretty interesting reaction although they cannot feel fear when they arrived in the galaxy they actively avoided necron tomb worlds after all the necrons are a very very hard counter to the needs they don't use the warp so the shadow on the warp does nothing they have no biomass so the tyranids can never gain a profit from attacking them necron weaponry completely destroys biomass so the tyrionides can't even eat their dead even on the very rare occasion that a high fleet has been able to overwhelm and beat a tomb world they still walk away poorer as a result of it as such the tyrionians actively avoid the necrons as much as possible and probably find it a massive pain in the [ __ ] arse that the necrons have chosen them as their main target i'm telling you the necrons will be the ones to save the galaxy from the needs what about chaos how did they react not [ __ ] well the necrons are the only faction right now that can genuinely pema be chaos they have fought warp gods warp entities and warped powers before triumphing over all chaos is like a [ __ ] version of what the old ones were capable of and it's confirmed that if the necrons put their mind to it they could have closed the eye of terror pretty easily they just didn't seek house as a big enough threat to warrant the effort chaos knows the necrons are not an ideal target they are incorruptable and deadly with a lot of anti-warp weaponry a [ __ ] combo to fight against if you're a horny little demon as such there isn't much stuff in the law about the two factions interacting beyond the occasional ppu ultra xin and fabius striking a deal so overall the galaxy isn't too stoked about the necrons people either reacted with fear anger disgust or curiosity the necrons counter the nids and chaos which makes them ideal allies for the imperium but the imperium is super racist and the necrons are massive [ __ ] so that hasn't worked out so well i think the biggest surprise i got from researching this is the fact that whilst the necrons and elder definitely despise each other there seems to be this rivalry which has created this unspoken mutual respect they'll never admit it but the way they describe each other doesn't sound like something you'd say to an ant under your boot more like an ancient foe who has bested you in the past and you're kind of salty about it in any case there are much bigger fish to fry in the galaxy beyond a dying race of space elves or a bunch of grumpy soulless skeletors who want people to just get the [ __ ] off their lawns if you enjoyed the video and you want to support the channel then patreon is the place to be we're only one development give you access to a boatload of battle mace 40 million titties hit the subscribe button and hit the real subscribe button for more reaction content join the discord for more memes and i'll see you on the next one peace [Music] you

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Length: 10min 50sec (650 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 10 2022