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Here a short wiki article on how Necrons began:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrons
Basically they started with a handful of units in 2nd edition, were blown up in 3rd edition to a small but complete Codex (like Grey Knights and more or less Sororitas). Since then they are waiting to gain some weight to become a standard sized Codex. They are still waiting.