Are there any origninal C'tann left?

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**chimera0205**

So the Ctann were just clouds of space dust feeding on radiation from stars before the Necrons found them and gave them bodys right? Is there any Cloud Form Ctanns out there just drifting around stars eating Radiation. I mean the galaxy us a Big Big place. Surely the necrons didnt get all of them. There has to be a couple still floating around somewhere right?

**kastelen**

chimera0205 wrote:
So the Ctann were just clouds of space dust feeding on radiation from stars before the Necrons found them and gave them bodys right? Is there any Cloud Form Ctanns out there just drifting around stars eating Radiation. I mean the galaxy us a Big Big place. Surely the necrons didnt get all of them. There has to be a couple still floating around somewhere right?

All the c'tan shards are the original C'tan technically.

**Jimsolo**

To my knowledge it's unspecified chimera, but that's a totally reasonable hypothesis.

**Dudeface**

Jimsolo wrote:
To my knowledge it's unspecified chimera, but that's a totally reasonable hypothesis.

Depending on the era of fluff there are a few unbroken c'tan out there as well. The dragon and the outsider are supposedly whole.

**pm713**

I doubt it. If you can pokeball omnipotent gods then you'd make sure you got all of them.

**Insectum7**

The old Transcendent C'tan got downgraded too, right? It's basically a C'tan shard now?

**Andersp90**

Judging buy these lines (+ the short story "Devourer") from "the world engine", I would put my money on the void dragon still being almost "whole".

Spoiler:

chimera0205 wrote:
So the Ctann were just clouds of space dust feeding on radiation from stars before the Necrons found them and gave them bodys right? Is there any Cloud Form Ctanns out there just drifting around stars eating Radiation. I mean the galaxy us a Big Big place. Surely the necrons didnt get all of them. There has to be a couple still floating around somewhere right?

Perhaps.

**Tiennos**

Didn't the C'tann start eating each other at some point? If there were some that didn't have their metal body, they were probably easy prey for the other ones...

**Waaaghbert**

As far as this article goes the Outsider as well as the Void Dragon are still fully intact C'tan.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Outsider

**Karhedron**

Waaaghbert wrote:
As far as this article goes the Outsider as well as the Void Dragon are still fully intact C'tan.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Outsider

That article is out of date as it is based on the 3rd/4th edition fluff and predates the whole C'tan shards thing. It is possible that one or both of those C'tan are still intact but there is nothing conclusive in the more recent fluff to support the existence of any intact c'tan.

Also the article is incorrect in places. The Outsider is in a Dyson sphere, not a planetoid (see the thread on Dyson Spheres).

**Andersp90**

Karhedron wrote:
Waaaghbert wrote:
As far as this article goes the Outsider as well as the Void Dragon are still fully intact C'tan.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Outsider

That article is out of date as it is based on the 3rd/4th edition fluff and predates the whole C'tan shards thing. It is possible that one or both of those C'tan are still intact but there is nothing conclusive in the more recent fluff to support the existence of any intact c'tan.

Also the article is incorrect in places. The Outsider is in a Dyson sphere, not a planetoid (see the thread on Dyson Spheres).

The last bit of the article is true though. Its from the 8th edition codex: