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Yo all!

I am having a big question about the way the monolith deep strikes

Does it drop from a high altitude and start floating near the ground or does it pop out of the ground and start

Floating?

Thanks for reading

I always picture it floating down and crushing that one guy verrrrrrry slowly so he feels it happening but at the same time can't do anything about it so he starts shouting for people to help him but everyone is too captivated, like watching a car accident about to happen.

I think it teleports in.

It teleports in or its already there and just emerges from the sand, i cant remember the source for the former but there is one.

They fly around after fully emerging from the ground. You see it in Dawn of War.

Cheese Elemental wrote:They fly around after fully emerging from the ground. You see it in Dawn of War.

1.) Dawn of war is not to be taken as official fluff. (GW licensed Warhammer to relic/THQ who did the story)

2.) There were already monoliths on the planet IIRC.

So if the planet is a dormant tomb world yes monoliths may emerge from the ground. However if it is not then they teleport in.

Necron Codex pg 21 wrote: Deep Strike: A Necron attack is often started by Monoliths teleporting to the surface to act as bridges for the invading forces.

Iggy, careful with the direct codex quotes. GW's law-daemons of justican chaos god of Intellectual Property will eventually take notice.

Simply: Avoid direct quotes, GW lawyers no-like. Rather you could say "Necron Codex, pg. 21"

He is right though. They teleport down to the surface. They do indeed have some on the planet, but it's more rare for that to be the case unless it is a tomb world.

Yes he's right, but to directly quote the codex is infringing upon GW's copyright & IP. So it's just safer to paraphrase.

Woops didn't know that o.o So many use direct quotes in YMDC I assumed it was fine o.o

Yea I know, I remember it was stated somewhere & Gwar! reminded me a few times. 99% of the time it's perfectly fine & no one will care but I just like to play it safe.

They teleport in, landing on top of a squad of Guardmen in the process if they're lucky...

I like to [picture them fading in lieka big scary tardis

I just thought it kinda said 'hey! I'm here!' and therefore, Children need to be taught about the interwebz.

Lorgar's_Blessed wrote:He is right though. They teleport down to the surface. They do indeed have some on the planet, but it's more rare for that to be the case unless it is a tomb world.

Now that's interesting. I always took that quote to mean they teleported UP to the surface, from their resting places deep within the bowels of the tomb world in question.

Necroagogo wrote:Now that's interesting. I always took that quote to mean they teleported UP to the surface, from their resting places deep within the bowels of the tomb world in question.

And if they aren't on a tomb world?

The Necrons have ships. They're amazingly large and can land on a planet's surface, or get incredibly too close, and still take off. They're larger than Astartes Battle barges and those can't land without staying grounded.

They don't use the warp, just like everything else Necron. They merely travel faster than anything can fathom through realspace and cross between systems like so. These puppies are filled with Necrons. When they get to a planet, they teleport down the Monoliths. The Monoliths then act as a warp gate for the other 'Crons inside.

How else could the Necrons eat through a whole galaxy? The tomb worlds are ones they stayed on since they were highly likely to grow life once more.