The necron threat

[Hashulaman]

When all the tomb worlds DO awaken and the rest of the C'tan are awake, exactly how screwed is the galaxy?


I also ask how it would have turned if the eldar were still at their peak and the necrons all woke up

[Hive Fleet Hydra]

Um, Eldar at their peak, I'm guessing would own Necrons, as the Necrontyr stopped reproducing when they became Necrons. Eldar were huge back then.


Also, the galaxy is screwed. The Orks, Tyranids, and Necrons would dominate the galaxy until they wiped each other out.

[Black8]

Humans would be wiped out, tau would probably last a little longer but they would go the same route eventually. Eldar would then fall, they don;t have the numbers to pose a credible, long term threat to necrons, same with DE. Orks would probably hold out a real long time, crons wouldn't be able to kill them fast enough. IMO the only things that would be able to stand against the necrons long term would be the gods of Chaos and their guys and the Tyranids.

[Tutankhankh]

If the 'crons started at the opposite end of the galaxy from the Tau, they would outlast the Imperium. Otherwise, sheer amount of worlds would probably turn out to be far more important than anything else.

Otherwise, the galaxy would be no more screwed than it is now. You can only be so screwed, and the 40k 'verse is already pushing 101% of the possible.

Chaos? Orks? 'Nids? 'Crons? Bad enough. Impending failure in the Astronomican, cracks in the Tau command structure and the Eldar people dying off faster than they can reproduce? Icing on the cake. But then you consider the fact that the 'nids may be trying to escape something worse, that there are rumours of at least two C'Tan unaffiliated with the 'crons stirring, that the Warp seems to be starting to act up again and that all of the so-called "Good Guys" hate each others' guts?

Yeah. Screwedness is measured on a scale from 0-10, but this one goes to 11.
To quote somebody: "There's a God of Hope. And the God of f-ing Hope is evil."


EDIT: Hive Fleet Hydra: They tried. Who do you think are responsible for the fact that the Necrons are dormant? But they only did it with great sacrifice, and they only managed to defeat them, not destroy them.

[Kid-Blue]

Originally Posted by Black8

Humans would be wiped out, tau would probably last a little longer but they would go the same route eventually. Eldar would then fall, they don;t have the numbers to pose a credible, long term threat to necrons, same with DE. Orks would probably hold out a real long time, crons wouldn't be able to kill them fast enough. IMO the only things that would be able to stand against the necrons long term would be the gods of Chaos and their guys and the Tyranids.

Um...what about the Astrates, dont count them out, they would kick some butt and take some names, especially if anything came near Terra. Could you imagine of Nids, Orks, and Crons teamed up and made a move on Terra, you would have the Inquisition, Imperial Guard, The Custodes, Mars, and possibly every legion of space marines there to protect the Emporer?

Im not saying that if they kept low on the radar it couldnt happen, but you cant count out the human ability to gang up, or the Astrates ability that at the end of the day they are all still brothers.

but thats just my two cents.

[Alzer]

There are more Necrons than Marines sorry Mindrot, they wouldn't stand a chance. Necrons were beating back the Eldar at the peak of their power.

If the C'tan came back to power, they'd close off the warp from the materium. Humanity would be blind crippled and broken, tyranids wouldn't be able to function, Dark Eldar would be trapped. Chaos would be taken completely out of the picture.

If the C'tan wanted Terra destroyed there's nothing the Space marines could do. Not all million odd of them. Each Tombworld holds more Necrons than there are marines.

Eldar would be the first to die. Once this occurred the warp could be closed of efficiently, Chaos Tyranids Dark Eldar and the Imperium would all fall immediately. Tau would be ripped apart before they knew what hit them and the orks would be the last to go.

Necrons had Enslaved the galaxy, remember this. The imperium ha a loose hold on a sparse chunk of it but nothing more, at current the Necrons are just building up, brushing their teeth in the morning after a short breakfast before they go out for a morning walk.

Remember the "evil" forces of 40K all have the potential of a complete doomsday, there's the potential for each of them to destroy all other forces. If the Necrons took power the other races would be hardly able to stop them. Same goes for the Tyranids arriving en mass, a Black Crusade breaking through, the orks gathering together into an end all WAAAGHH etc...

As for the Eldar being at full power... They where loosing, horribly when the Necrons went to sleep however if the Eldar where at full power during their awakening they could perhaps do more to close them off but it's hard to say, the Talismans of Vaul where sorta the Eldar's last resort and they've been broken/lost for the most part.

[Kid-Blue]

True, my point was that it would not be easy brother =P since we were talking all the forces of evilness.

for one, if you read the books, the Imperium knows how to disable Tyranids in order to eliminate them. Orks and Necrons have numbers and they would probably end it all.

Chaos Marines and Chaos in general would not survive if humanity were to go away. What are the chaos gods with no one to worship them. If chaos has no means to put its influence and presence into the world, what good are they?

Tau would be tricky, as the Tau have the firepower to deal with the stronger Necrons for a while, but couldnt last forever. PLUS tau have the emp grenade, which hints that they could develop emp technology further to disable the mechanical necrons.

[magila]

I think the Imperials would pull through... because humans always win.

[Leech]

If the C'tan were all to wake up they would have to work for some time to close off the warp, if they can do it at all. Their plans to do this could also be thwarted, in the past they lost the galaxy so they have no guarantee even with all of their armies to get it back. The C'tan also don't seem to like each other. The reason they are nearly extinct is that they decided to eat all their friends. I think if the C'tan and their various minions all woke up they would cause lots of problems. However they are too arrogant for their own good and this is what got them before. There is also the problem of increased psychic activity around. Psychic energy can kill a C'tan and not only the Eldar know how to use it, as in talismans of Vaul. In truth compared to Chaos and Tyranids the Eldar are limited in the control of psychic energy. The Eldar are not formed of psychic energy like the Chaos gods and have to Hive mind like the Tyranids. Both of these forces would see the C'tan as a threat and start cooking up ways to deal with them. They are also both forces the C'tan have no real knowledge of or experience with. Overall I think the C'tan could certainly stir up lots of problems but absolute conquest isn't likely. Each C'tan setting up their own little empire and getting more than they bargained for because they slept late is likely.

[Hive Fleet Hydra]

FYI: Tyranids don't NEED the Warp. THey actually smother it to prevent communication. And its also been predicated that the Tyranids encountered so far are around 0.000001% of the actual Tyranids.