'Indeed, a C’tan Shard’s abilities are limited only by two things: its imagination – which is immense – and glimmering memories of the being from which it was severed. Whilst no individual C’tan Shard has full recall of the omnipotent creature it once was, each carries the personality and hubris of that far vaster and more puissant being. Though a C’tan Shard has the power to reduce a tank to molten slag with but a gesture, it might simply not occur to it to do so, as its gestalt primogenitor would have tackled the situation through other means, such as by devolving the crew into primordial ooze, or deceiving them into attacking their own allies.'
Codex: Necrons (8th ed.), pg.68 (also Codex: Necrons (5th ed.), pg.40)
'...the longer these wilful beings spend outside their prisons, the more clearly the fractured memories of their past begin to manifest, and the more rapidly the Necrons’ hold over them begins to degrade.'
Codex: Necrons (8th ed.), pg.68
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