The origin of the Necrons reach back to the early days of the galaxy. A race called the Necrontyr evolved under a harsh and unforgiving sun who's intense radiation both spurred on evolution, and cursed the Necrontyr with short and painfilled lives. Despite their great advances in science, they were unable to find a cure for their racial curse, and so decided to explore other worlds.

Evetually the encountered the race known only as the Old Ones. The Old Ones were very intelligent, magically gifted, and had very long lives. The last factor, combined with the speed and ease the Old Ones had expanded into the galaxy, sparked jelousy and hatred in the Necrontyr. They turn their entire civilation to the destruction of the Old Ones.

The Old Ones were able to push the Necrontyr back until they were a mere annoyance clinging to a portion of the galactic fringe. There, over long millenia of imprisonment, the Necrontyr grew to hate all life.

In time they discovered energy being feeding off older stars. Beings as ancient as the stars themselves and possessing awesome power. Somehow the Necrontyr were able to contact these being which they called C'tan (Star-gods in their tongue) and convinced some of them to place their essence into artificial bodies made from Necrontyr 'Living Metal'.

The C'tan incarnated in this way were for the first time able to percive the material world. Such were their power that the Necrontyr soon fell to worshipping the C'tan. Now armed with weapons of godlike power and ships capable of crossing the galaxy with ease, the Necrontyr were ready to renew their war upon the Old Ones but the C'tan had another boon to offer their worshippers. They offered the Necrontyr a path the immortality and stability theit race had always craved. They would replace their cursed flesh with bodies of living metal.

Whether the Necrontyr truely realized theprice they would pay for this is unknown, but the entire race was purged becoming the Necrons, ghostly echoes of their former selves, only their intense hatred of the living remained.

The Necrons besieged the Old One's strongholds while the C'tan rampaged through the galaxy. Planets were razed, suns extinguished, entire starsystems destroyed. Finally, the C'tan turned on each other, devouring one another until only a few remained.

The old ones had engineered lifeforms that were natural psychics, and with these races in the forefront, the Old ones pushed back the Necrons once more. But the constant death and warfare had corrupted the warp, and now daemons burst forth across weakened barriers to hunt both sides.

The C'tan decided to sleep for millenia in hopes that these threats to their power would die out. And so the last 4 C'tan and the Necrons retreated to their Tomb Worlds to await their awakening, while the Old Ones, their resources streached beyond the breaking point, faded away into the mists of time.

Now the Necrons have awoken, and seek to harvest all life as tribute to their gods.
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Now bringing this over to the Spiral. The Necrons could be ancient servitors of the Big Bad. Awoken by the stirring of their master, they can start suddenly popping up through out the galaxy to wreak havoc. The C'tan are easily tranlated over to HBs.

>something travels from the Darkvoid to the Core. I haven't pinned down what it is except that it wants to feed on all the radiation and that it's massive, about the size of Jupiter. It hops from star system to star system using the radiation of each sun to feed itself for the next step. <

Well Drakensis, the C'tan known as the Nightbringer may do for that. "The Nightbringer is the ultimate in implacable destruction." It's supposed to be the one that killed/ate most of it's brethren and caused so much destruction that it was imprinted on the collective psyche of thousands of species that never actually saw it. Humans call it the Reaper.

"For many years I have tried to visit your fair city, BUT YOU HAVE ALWAYS SHOOTED AT ME!" - Don Karnage (Tailspin)

>> >something travels from the Darkvoid to the Core. I haven't pinned down what it is except that it wants to feed on all the radiation and that it's massive, about the size of Jupiter. It hops from star system to star system using the radiation of each sun to feed itself for the next step. <

Well Drakensis, the C'tan known as the Nightbringer may do for that. "The Nightbringer is the ultimate in implacable destruction." It's supposed to be the one that killed/ate most of it's brethren and caused so much destruction that it was imprinted on the collective psyche of thousands of species that never actually saw it. Humans call it the Reaper. <<

O_o I like it. That soulds rather promising. I was envisaging something like the 'God' in Authority 9-12 but this would make it much more personal.


drakensis

Of each thing ask what is it primary motivation, what is it nature, and most importantly, what sort of damage will it cause if thrown at a Visigoth with great force. -- From the unrecorded Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

And the C'tan (before the Necrontyr enabled them to take physical form) where stellar parasites. They literally fed on stars. While they tend to think the lifeforces of living beings are delacasies, if they want a quick recharge, a star's gonna do the job much faster, and the core would be an all-you-can-eat-buffet.

Now in it's physical form it's pretty big, estimate at least 12 feet tall. and while their physical form can be destroyed (releasing a nasty little explosion in the process) the C'tan will be able to reform it's shell after a while. The suckers are all but unkillable. (unless you're capable of doing a good impression of a god yourself)

"For many years I have tried to visit your fair city, BUT YOU HAVE ALWAYS SHOOTED AT ME!" - Don Karnage (Tailspin)