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 Andersp90 wrote:
 1hadhq wrote:

2. almost crossing the galaxy in no time as necrons


Where is this mentioned in the 3rd edition codex?

Page 25.

Pages 24 to 26 = history.
Page 57 has the impressions of the imperial navy about movement of necron ships. Another page i would suggest to read.

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on the forum. Obviously

Oh yeah, so it does.
"Ships that could cross the galaxy in the blink of an eye"

Which would imply that the Inertialess drives used by the Necrons came after contact with the C'tan, as surmised. Prior to that they used torch ships.

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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Oh yeah, so it does.
"Ships that could cross the galaxy in the blink of an eye"

Which would imply that the Inertialess drives used by the Necrons came after contact with the C'tan, as surmised. Prior to that they used torch ships.


Guess so. My bad.

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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Oh yeah, so it does.
"Ships that could cross the galaxy in the blink of an eye"

Which would imply that the Inertialess drives used by the Necrons came after contact with the C'tan, as surmised. Prior to that they used torch ships.

Wow, that changes things. Pretty conclusive evidence that the Necrons had some way of going fast without webway stuff. While “in the blink of an eye” isn’t specific enough to compare to the actual numbers given for other methods of FTL travel, it’s fairly intuitive to connect “Necrons had something called an inertialess drive as their primary method of travel” and “ships that could cross the galaxy in the blink of an eye” to conclude that the inertialess drive was a piece of FTL technology that was used during the War in Heaven. The NewCron lore is infuriatingly vague on the topic, however, and doesn’t shed much light on how the Dolmen Gates worked.

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 Andersp90 wrote:
pm713 wrote:
Oh good. They doubled down on the stupid to the max policy.


Pretty much every scrap of 40k lore was "stupid" at one point in time until it became "the lore".

40k is just 30+ years of retconns.



Except this is particularly stupid, as prior to the Dolmen gates the Necrons didn't need to hijack the webway. They had perfectly fine FTL craft that highlighted how advanced they were and that they didn't need space magic bs to get around. Even ignoring that, its been established that the necrons are masters of dimensional manipulation; why not use that instead of using Eldar tech? Its just dumb.
Retcons are crap in general, and the the Dolmen gates are particularly crap.


Indeed, it was one of the things that made them awesome and different. They didn't much about with that stupid warp nonsense and had proper FTL like any good sci fi race.

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