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Do you think it would be possible for an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor to deposit his conciousness into a captured necron body? The Inquisition is known for using xenos tech, and have done some radical things in the past, but would this be too far? I would think that the ends justifies the means, and this would give the inquisitor a much longer life and would make him much more resilient.

Seems like a bridge too far to me, personally. Transferring his consciousness to a robot body or having his brain put into an augmetic servant is something I would totally buy, but a Necron body is a little too "out there" for my tastes.

If wants to be declared Diablous Extremis he could.

Why a necron body?

There are millions of different types of robotic transferables, the Adeptus Mechanicus do it all the time. Why choose the one where the metal itself can become sentient and drive you insane?

If the Inquisitor is obsessed with eternal life enough, then he may be particularly attracted to a construct which has lasted for 60 million+ years. It has indeed been in stasis, but the idea of living metal that is extremely resilient and impervious to the effects of time and doesn't require maintenance is vastly superior to anything the AdMech may be able to offer. I say go for it.

Where is the fluff that the metal becomes sentient? I know the more that a necron gets phased out, the more and more he becomes an automaton.

Oooh. That's...going to end with half a dozen other Inquisitors holding him down and firing a meltagun at him until he stops being a solid.

Could one try and do it? Sure, Inquisitors are powerful, arrogant people. He'd have to be fairly crazy and overconfident even by "lunatic Radical" standards, though, and I doubt he'd ever be able to show his face again. I don't even know how many different kinds of heresy that counts as. Whether or not it would work is a better question.

That'd make an awesome idea for a Dark Heresy campaign, though.

The problem is, he would have to gain control of one of the Bio-Transference machines that the Necrontyr originally used to transfer their population into the Necrodermis bodies. As far as we know, those were only on the various Crown Worlds of the Dynasties, and are no longer functional (following the war with the C'Tan and the Silent King's destruction of his Command Protocols).