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No, that was the Ullanor crusade iirc

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Ullanor_Crusade

The Ullanor Crusade was a vast Imperial assault on the Ork empire of the Overlord Urrlak Urruk during the Great Crusade of the late 30th or early 31st Millennium

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

Xyptc wrote:

 PhillyT wrote:

Oh and then there is the whole countering the combined might of the chaos gods thing.

I'm not so sure how much stock I put in that. The galaxy seemed to be fine before the Emperor turned up...

No it didn't, it's only thanks to the Emperor that an extremely powerful C'tan, the Void Dragon, was locked up on Mars IIRC.

You are referencing Mechanicum, and it is not clear on what happens. It depicts a stylized vision telling the tale of a hero and a dragon doing battle on Earth, the hero vanquishing the dragon and the dragon being imprisoned. All of this is in the context of "there's something locked away on Mars", and since the old Necron book hinted that the Void Dragon was imprisoned on Mars it's not hard to put two and two together. If you stop and think about it for a few moments though, a lot doesn't add up about that. Which is why the vision is instantly stated to be very surreal and unreliable, definitely not a factual and realistic documentation of what happened.

Anyway, lets just (for the sake of argument) go with the idea that the Emperor locked up some aspect of a C'tan on Mars... so what? The galaxy has been full of psychic races for sixty five million years. Chaos didn't overtake the galaxy before. In fact, aside from the birth of Slaanesh, the Chaos Gods only became truly powerful after the rise of humanity (or the Emperor).

Agreed Xyptc, I personally never bought into the VD being imprisoned on Mars despite the implied reference in Mechanicum.

And iirc theres no mention of it in the last of the Cron dexes?

 Ratius wrote:
No, that was the Ullanor crusade iirc

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Ullanor_Crusade

The Ullanor Crusade was a vast Imperial assault on the Ork empire of the Overlord Urrlak Urruk during the Great Crusade of the late 30th or early 31st Millennium

Horus saved The Emperor at the battle that began the Ullanor crusade.

 Ratius wrote:
Agreed Xyptc, I personally never bought into the VD being imprisoned on Mars despite the implied reference in Mechanicum.

And iirc theres no mention of it in the last of the Cron dexes?

The 5th Ed Codex: Necrons only lists the names of a few of the C'Tan, but the C'Tan Shard unit entry is named simply that. You then buy different powers for it (depending on how many points you want to invest in it), and the Void Dragon's control of machinery and such is one of the available powers, though it's not specifically named for the Void Dragon. Of course, none of the Shard's powers are named for a specific C'Tan, so make of that what you will. What is stated, though, is that the C'Tan were all sharded by the Necrons, except one which was actually destroyed, giving rise to the Flayer Virus (which is apparently an actual thing, either some sort of bacteria or virus, or perhaps a code-script, as Eldar have used it to infect Necron Tombs that they discover).

The fact that the Necrons made a bit of a trip to Mars suggests that there is, indeed, something of interest to them to be found there, though what it is is not explicitly clear. As with many things in 40K, there is much implication, little hard facts or outright revelations.