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This particular Necron army had a big accident, while they were at their master control unit broke down while none of the Necrons awoken. Without Master Control unit all Scarabs, Tomb spiders and Wraths around the Tomb World stop working. Some parts of Tomb World got destroyed because of lack of maintenece, but large part of Tom World survived that.

Then in 41'st millennium an Inquisitor with Adeptus Mechanicus escort discover it. Knowing about the NEcron menace they prepared for ambushes and assaults - but none came. Only after some time they discovered that Tomb World systems were turn off and Necrons in deep sleep. Inquisitor saw an great opportunity, as well as Adeptus Mechanicus. They found master control unit and after several days broken into it. They repaired it and then they use it to reprogram all the Necrons in Tom World to think that Emperor of Mankind is their God and that they should bow before his servants and serve them without question until death. After doing that the Imperials wait.

The Necrons start awaking several days after that, as soon as they saw Inquisitor and Techpriests they bow before them and swear their loyalty to them. So this is my fluff for this Tom World. They allowed full access to AM to examine their tech and to try to implement them on Imperial ships. They are also helping Imperials in war when the help is most needed, somethimes even fighting other Necrons to save Human worlds.

So what do you think?

I'm sorry but.... no. The Adeptus Mechanicum couldn't reprogram Necrons at all. Necrons have the best technology in the galaxy. The Adeptus Mechanicum's main goal is to find old things that smarter past humans built and hopefully reverse engineer them. They wouldn't be able to figure out Necron tech.

Maybe non-imperial factions should stay...

The spelling...it makes my eyes bleed!

The plot! It makes my brain bleed!

No. Hell no. I'm all for "making your army's fluff your own" but...

/douses self in gasoline
/fwootwoosh!

Hell. No. Good god, how can you even consider this?

I've seen your responses to many a threads and all you ever spew is Imperial fanboyism, and you even bring it to the Necrons? This is just ridicoulus.

Sounds pretty flaky to me.

Perhaps it would be better if the Necron Warriors bowed to the Tech Priests right before they hacked them to pieces with their flayer axes.

Ad Mech has never shown the capacity to do something like that. Another vote for... (wait for it)...

....

NO

No.

It defies all manner of canon, rewrites numerous established paradigms, changes the tone and above all, everyone hates it.

Go for it, with my blessing.

Have the Admech used these Necrons to fight the Chaos Grey Knights?

Just Dave wrote:Have the Admech used these Necrons to fight the Chaos Grey Knights?

But about your fluff....

G. Whitenbeard wrote:Sounds pretty flaky to me.

Perhaps it would be better if the Necron Warriors bowed to the Tech Priests right before they hacked them to pieces with their flayer axes.

This.

Draigo on the other hand could reprogram a Necron Tomb with a swiss army knife in his cigarette break, with a hand bound to his back, after training a Tyranid hive to fetch the stick and follow simple commands of course

I don't know?... Hmm... What if you switched out the Inqusitor and the Adeptus Mechnaicus out with Blood Angels? It would be all like ''Hey brah long time no see'' & ''Yeah man! Wanna go kill some more nids?'' '' SURE!!''

It seems plausibel.

I think it would be more likely to have them simply wake up broken, and mistake some random techpriest for their lord or something like that.

I mean, this is the 40K universe we're talking about here. Orks fly ships without fuel, Space Marines eat flesh to gain the memories of those it belonged to, and building a tank the wrong way makes it possessed by warp entities. I can live with reprogrammed 'crons, and shame on you all for attacking anything but the lad's atrocious spelling and grammar.

This makes me want to cry.

The Ad Mech would never be able to reprogram Necrons, and even if they did it would be Heresy.

its 40k, crazy stuff happens, if you want this as your fluff go for it, but in the grand scale of the now (apparently) thousands of necron worlds... why the hell not, its your game man

Ostrakon wrote:I think it would be more likely to have them simply wake up broken, and mistake some random techpriest for their lord or something like that.

I mean, this is the 40K universe we're talking about here. Orks fly ships without fuel, Space Marines eat flesh to gain the memories of those it belonged to, and building a tank the wrong way makes it possessed by warp entities. I can live with reprogrammed 'crons, and shame on you all for attacking anything but the lad's atrocious spelling and grammar.

There are somethings that have to stay untouched...
Fallen GK, Female SM, and reprogrammed Necrons are a few of those things...
Also Coa's first language isn't English so attacking his spellng and grammar is kind of a cruel move...

purplefood wrote:

Ostrakon wrote:I think it would be more likely to have them simply wake up broken, and mistake some random techpriest for their lord or something like that.

I mean, this is the 40K universe we're talking about here. Orks fly ships without fuel, Space Marines eat flesh to gain the memories of those it belonged to, and building a tank the wrong way makes it possessed by warp entities. I can live with reprogrammed 'crons, and shame on you all for attacking anything but the lad's atrocious spelling and grammar.

There are somethings that have to stay untouched...
Fallen GK, Female SM, and reprogrammed Necrons are a few of those things...
Also Coa's first language isn't English so attacking his spellng and grammar is kind of a cruel move...

This is barely even untouched, though. AdMech cultists worshipping Necron tech, Necrons waking up horribly broken... granted, the "reprogramming" bit is odd, but hey, this gak only ever stays 'canon' for an edition anyway.

Ostrakon wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Ostrakon wrote:I think it would be more likely to have them simply wake up broken, and mistake some random techpriest for their lord or something like that.

I mean, this is the 40K universe we're talking about here. Orks fly ships without fuel, Space Marines eat flesh to gain the memories of those it belonged to, and building a tank the wrong way makes it possessed by warp entities. I can live with reprogrammed 'crons, and shame on you all for attacking anything but the lad's atrocious spelling and grammar.

There are somethings that have to stay untouched...
Fallen GK, Female SM, and reprogrammed Necrons are a few of those things...
Also Coa's first language isn't English so attacking his spellng and grammar is kind of a cruel move...

This is barely even untouched, though. AdMech cultists worshipping Necron tech, Necrons waking up horribly broken... granted, the "reprogramming" bit is odd, but hey, this gak only ever stays 'canon' for an edition anyway.

Yeah and look how long it took Necrons to get this update...

I'd like to see the follow up to this where a tyranid spore is contained by an inquisitor and the inquisitor after many years of study, bio engineers some Tyranids who fight the enemies of the Emperor.

or maybe we can have some dark eldar who started a revolution on their home world and barely managed to escape its destruction and became agents of the imperium in exchange for asylum in the Imperium

or maybe some chaos marines who said sorry and maybe paid a fine and did some community service and were allowed to be space marines again

or maybe no, just no...

Deathly Angel wrote:The Ad Mech would never be able to reprogram Necrons, and even if they did it would be Heresy.

Do the Ad Mech even know how to spell "program"?

Arandmoor wrote:

Deathly Angel wrote:The Ad Mech would never be able to reprogram Necrons, and even if they did it would be Heresy.

Do the Ad Mech even know how to spell "program"?

The Ad Mech know what they are doing (kinda) it's just it is mired in tradition and ritual.
Read Titanicus. They are surprisingly competent when they are properly motivated...

gak, go for it.

Erm no.... just no.... it would be the same as let's say a new born child trying to build a fusion reactor from some duct tape and a bottle of wine.

Formosa wrote:its 40k, crazy stuff happens, if you want this as your fluff go for it, but in the grand scale of the now (apparently) thousands of necron worlds... why the hell not, its your game man

Millions my friend, the thousand worlds are just the world where the necrons are automatons because of an error, disaster, dead necron lords.

I'm personally am not keen on the Necrons supporting the false god. And even if they could re-program the Warriors the Lords are not re-programable machines. And looking at the limits of their ability to re-program humans, Servitors, I doubt they could reprogram a Necron VCR.

In my own fluff I'm sticking close the the new background. Their Tomb World was devastated long ago and many Tombs collapsed. So my Necrons all have a dirty look to them as if some have literally have to crawl out of their Tombs.

No necron reporogamming? I was thiking bout it myself. Dang.

purplefood wrote:

Ostrakon wrote:I think it would be more likely to have them simply wake up broken, and mistake some random techpriest for their lord or something like that.

I mean, this is the 40K universe we're talking about here. Orks fly ships without fuel, Space Marines eat flesh to gain the memories of those it belonged to, and building a tank the wrong way makes it possessed by warp entities. I can live with reprogrammed 'crons, and shame on you all for attacking anything but the lad's atrocious spelling and grammar.

There are somethings that have to stay untouched...
Fallen GK, Female SM, and reprogrammed Necrons are a few of those things...
Also Coa's first language isn't English so attacking his spellng and grammar is kind of a cruel move...

On the same topic, I was thinking about starting a Grey Knight successor chapter whose primarch is controlled by a Chaos Eldar Farseer and the Farseer's retinue of Warlocks disguise themselves in power armour to provide the psychers for the army. These Grey Knights are stationed on a Tau sept-world in utter secrecy in order to protect it from the oncoming horde of Tyranids, since the Farseer (whom is a Khorne worshipper) value their pseudo-democratic ideals.

In all seriousness, though:
No, you can't fault him for the grammar. Under the rules for the forum he's done what can be expected of a contributor here, in my opinion. As for fluff, it should be noted that Eldar are far superior humans, and the humans are unable to replicate Eldar technology and barely able to utilize it. As it stand the Eldar are overshadowed in a serious way by the Necrons, so for humans even to understand the Necrons enough alter, let alone control, them is not logical in the slightest. We don't even know if humans possess the correct mindset to even understand Necron technology - I mean for all we know it might require the ability to think in 5 or 6 dimensions, and even human savants struggle with 4 dimensions. (A by-product of being unable to think in multi-dimensions would be that what might be a verifiable logical cause-and-effect for the human programmers would end up doing something completely different than expected, and different again the next time the exact same steps are taken, leading to an environment where if they actually do succeed in altering the core programming, the end result would be unpredictable and downright dangerous.)

I dislike how every time someone asks if something is a good idea, you know, for feedback and criticism, there always has to be people who say, no matter how bad an idea is, "hey man, it's your game, you can do whatever you want, it's a big galaxy. Anyone who says you should is just a dumb no fun badnik"

YES WE KNOW THAT! But they are asking for feedback and criticism! They want to know what kind of reception they are going to get if they go through with it. Some ideas ARE bad, and it does not help anyone to just say "LOL, do whatever you want". Criticism is helpful as long as it isn't mean spirited, and when someone is SPECIFICALLY ASKING FOR IT you are just wasting everyone's time by saying criticism is bad.

That being said:
Yeah, bad idea OP. Obviously you can do it if you want, but it just comes off with a mary sue-ish vibe (e.g. I get the same feeling reading it as I do when reading the backstory of bad mary sues). A consistent theme of the Necrons is the ad-mechs inability to comprehend them. It is like a roman legionarre coming across a modern military computer and "reprogramming" it.

As you may have noticed, you are likely to get negative reactions from just about any player you run in to.