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Ok, the eye of terror opened in like m30 when slaanesh was born, at least in the universe's timeline.

But the necron pylons held it in check for 10,000 years.

Uh, the necrons went to sleep 60 million years ago, the the eye didn't open till after they've been asleep for 60 million years. So, how did the necrons put up pylons to contain the eot 6o million years before it opened?

Did they know it would happen? Did elder see it coming and move pylons to cadia? Did the eye just open in a spot covered by necron pylons?

Necrons have defense protocols for certain situations that allow them to awake under some circunstances, So a quick answer may be some Dynasty awakened after the Eye of Terror creation and reacted putting some safety backup systems around (Aka the pylons)

It's likely that the Necrons either built them during their war with the Old Ones/ various things the Old Ones up lifted irresponsibly or given that they have tech that can live scan the entire galaxy and saw a warp storm brewing and did their best to keep the universe from falling apart. It's been implied more than once that the Necrons have tech that lets them mess around with time, so it's possible that they might have seen a worse future and did their best to prevent it.

We've got emergency dams and levees in place where there hasn't been flooding for years, if ever. Becuase we put the emergency structures in place where flooding is likely to occur in the future.

Seems likely the Necrons put those pylons (which appear to have SOME form of warp inhibiting effect) in places where the Warp was likely to manifest. Psychic floodplains, if you will.

Necrons didn't build the pylons to contain the eye. It's probable they were trying to push any warp activity out of the milky way entirely. But the sectors of space they covered the least with pylons were the ones where the Necrons were the weakest in military terms, which (given they were at war) would have been the Eldar home worlds. And hence millions of years later, that's where the risk of a giant warp conflagration was the strongest.

Cadia's destruction was probably one part of the block removed, but that's probably a coincidence more than anything, and it's possible the psychic shockwave of doing so damaged the pylons across the now current location of the Cicatrix Maeledictum.

I agree, the EoT is centered on the old Eldar empire. The Necrons were likely trying to contain the Eldar's psychic activity since this was the area of their greatest advantage over the Necrons.

Why the Eldar never bothered dismantling them in the intervening aeons is harder to understand.

 Karhedron wrote:
I agree, the EoT is centered on the old Eldar empire. The Necrons were likely trying to contain the Eldar's psychic activity since this was the area of their greatest advantage over the Necrons.

Why the Eldar never bothered dismantling them in the intervening aeons is harder to understand.

The Eldars whole sthick was they they had no Fs to give by then so probably stopped caring. leading to the whole slannesh thing.

 Desubot wrote:

 Karhedron wrote:
I agree, the EoT is centered on the old Eldar empire. The Necrons were likely trying to contain the Eldar's psychic activity since this was the area of their greatest advantage over the Necrons.

Why the Eldar never bothered dismantling them in the intervening aeons is harder to understand.

The Eldars whole sthick was they they had no Fs to give by then so probably stopped caring. leading to the whole slannesh thing.

Or they simply didn't know about them. The Eldar were isolationists and rarely left their little corner of the galaxy. MANY tomb worlds went unnoticed, the orks grew in ever increasing numbers, and new empires spawned like DAOT humanity, and the Eldar gave zero feths because they thought that it was all beneath them.

 Jimsolo wrote:
We've got emergency dams and levees in place where there hasn't been flooding for years, if ever. Becuase we put the emergency structures in place where flooding is likely to occur in the future.

Seems likely the Necrons put those pylons (which appear to have SOME form of warp inhibiting effect) in places where the Warp was likely to manifest. Psychic floodplains, if you will.

Wins the thread!


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 Karhedron wrote:
I agree, the EoT is centered on the old Eldar empire. The Necrons were likely trying to contain the Eldar's psychic activity since this was the area of their greatest advantage over the Necrons.

Why the Eldar never bothered dismantling them in the intervening aeons is harder to understand.

Maybe getting near one affected them badly somehow. Like cylons and certain radiation.

The pylons were part of an abandoned necron project to completely seal the warp away from the material realm (5th ed necron codex, original and best . )
Any effect on the Eye of Terror is complete coincidence.

It's also important to remember that the Triarch Praetorians and Canoptek constructs have been awake and active-ish the whole time. The Silent King left them to watch over things and take action as needed.

It's entirely possible that the Praetorians saw the Eye of Terror form and woke up some Crypteks to build some Pylons. ...or that the Pylons were already there and that some Canoptek constructs are responsible for maintaining them.

It's not like the Necrons ALL went to sleep and have been absent.

Given that the eye opened at the heart of the eldar empire I’d say the location of those pylons make sense. I wouldn’t be surprised if the pylons where actually there to distrupt old one activity. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the eldar where created in an old one strong hold that later became their capitol. Can’t say for sure but the pylons very likely have an entirely different reason for being there then the eye.

One thing's for sure, given the necron animus towards the eldar the EoT was the best thing that ever happened to them.

Was the original intent of the pylons to stop the eye of terror... or was it just a general anti-warp / anti-psyker thing?

They could have been built for one thing, but been useful for preventing the warp from consuming Cadia. I could have been accidental? They could have been built just to annoy the Psyker races such as the Eldar as the Necrons saw them as abominations (didn't they?)

If the Pylons are of Necron origin, the presumption is that they date from the War in Heaven so would not have been to contain the Eye but more likely the Eldar.

We don't know exactly when the Necrons started awakening (although the Silent King never went into Stasis). It is possible that the Cadian pylons were constructed by early awakening Necrons immediately post-Fall.

We're looking at it from a "Why was there a Pylon right on the edge of the Eye of Terror?" perspective.

But, what if the Eye of Terror grew until it met something to contain it? Wouldn't that be likely? Under that theory, it wouldn't be surprising at all.