The birth of the entities later known as the C'tan or the Star Gods occurred at the same time as the moment of Creation itself, as they formed from the vast, insensate energies first unleashed by that churning mass of cataclysmic force. Mephet'ran the Deceiver, one of the C'tan Shards. 1.5 Biotransference and the Rise of the Necrons.1.3 The Necrontyr and the Wars of Secession.Only then would the galaxy be ripe once more for conquest and their Great Awakening commence. With the power granted by the C'tan, the Necrons ultimately proved victorious over their hated Old One adversaries, relegating that ancient species to extinction or to flight from the Milky Way Galaxy.Д«ut the suffering and destruction unleashed by the war cascaded through the Immaterium, ultimately destabilising it and unleashing the plague of Enslavers that almost destroyed all sentient life.ДЄt the same time, the ancient Aeldari - a psychically powerful species created by the Old Ones during the war - began their rise to galactic mastery.ДЄfter overthrowing the rule of their C'tan masters, the Necrons chose to retire to their Tomb Worlds and enter the Great Sleep, waiting until the plague had passed, their own divisions and discord had faded into irrelevance and the Aeldari civilisation had passed its peak. The war was fought over sixty million Terran years before the 41st Millennium. The War in Heaven was an ancient and devastating conflict fought between the humanoid Necrontyr xenos later known as the Necrons, their C'tan allies and the Old Ones. The Ankh of the Triarch, ancient royal symbol of the unified Necron Empire still used and respected by every current Necron dynasty.

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