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Do Necrons still use phase technology?

Yes actually they do.

They have phase shifters (on both lords, overlords, and wraiths)

and Phase Claws (on wraiths)

I believe the hyperphase swords also use phase technology.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Yes actually they do.

They have phase shifters (on both lords, overlords, and wraiths)

and Phase Claws (on wraiths)

I believe the hyperphase swords also use phase technology.

Well, someone said Necrons don't use Inertialess Drives anymore but I always thought Inertialess Drives were a form of phase technology.

Bumping for answers.

Inertialess drive uses super science of unexplainableness. It does seem to have been retconned out.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Inertialess drive uses super science of unexplainableness. It does seem to have been retconned out.

That's a shame I always liked how Nercons were unique in the way they space traveled not using warp travel or the webway), plus it made them seem really advanced.

Sadly, the new codex states that the Necrons basically conquered portions of the webway from the Old Ones/Eldar and thats how they get around so fast. This was the only new lore added by the new codex that I whole heartedly do not like. Necrons having a means of faster than light travel that the other races could not comprehend, much less copy was one of their best advantages story wise in my opinion.

TheCrazyCryptek wrote:Sadly, the new codex states that the Necrons basically conquered portions of the webway from the Old Ones/Eldar and thats how they get around so fast. This was the only new lore added by the new codex that I whole heartedly do not like. Necrons having a means of faster than light travel that the other races could not comprehend, much less copy was one of their best advantages story wise in my opinion.

Yeah most of the other fluff I was okay with but getting rid of inertialess drives was just plain insulting to the Necron mythos.

Actually, some people on other threads are making strong cases how frictionless necron drive must still exist. It's possible it has not been really retconned.

Anyways, although it's never been explained I believe it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Seconding KamikazeCanuck.

It has never been stated the the webway is the Necrons only method of travel, and there are numerous reasons to believe this is not the case.

They had a galaxy spanning empire before they had access to the webway, you don't do that without FTL.

There are tomb worlds isolated from the webway that still conduct interstellar travel and interact with the rest of the galaxy, though it is implied they are somewhat crippled compared to worlds with webway access.

The Necrons needed webway access to be able to actually fight the Old Ones, who had been fairly untouchable up to this point.

The main thing you can infer from the fluff is that webway travel just happens to be superior to whatever other forms of travel the Necrons have available. Being that it was the Old Ones primary means of transportation and can potentially allow you to travel across the galaxy in minutes, totally undetected in perfect safely and appear at ground level on just about any world in the galaxy, possibly even behind enemy defenses, this isn't really saying much. Necron FTL could be orders of magnitude faster and safer than warp travel and it would still be vastly inferior to webway travel.

Of course, with the webway current state, it's paths in tatters, an unmapped unimaginably complex maze of dead ends and daemonic incursions, with most of it's portals lost or broken, Necron FTL is suddenly a very useful trick to have available.

I can't see how crossing the galaxy in minutes is better than instantly. Unless I missed something Necrons could teleport to any teleportation node (usually a monolith or a tombworld in the case of phase out) instantly, so how it the web way better?
As for space travel, the only reason I can come up with that the 'crons would need access to the web ways would be to take care of any thing (Old Ones or eldar or what have you) that are hiding there.

However I guess arguing the point is pointless since GW can do what the want, weather it makes sense or not.