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Go for it I Imagine if the Necron lords at lest try to look a little like they used to especially the ones looking for a bio transfer host.

Leigen_Zero wrote:Yes but where all know where this is going to end up...
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Note: I am in no way trying to spark a male/female superiority flamewar with the above statement, those so inclined please do not use this post as an opportunity to do so...

This is an interesting idea. The Necron's could have had a more patriarchal society ,as has been so common through out human history, and as such women would have been viewed simply as a means to reproduction.

1. As the Necrons would no longer require to reproduce as such, they would not transfer the females over.
2. Female's became the Worlds that produces the stuffs (I think I like this one).
3. Females "re purposed" through reanimation protocols to look like everybody else for some reason.

Insensitive and not so politically correct joke:
4. Wouldn't the Tomb Worlds that cant use reason be the female Necrons? (I apologize)

For emphasis:
I am in no way trying to spark a male/female superiority flamewar with the above statement

Speaking of Inq. Valeria, I didn't get the idea that she was being scorned or used for laughs in the Necron 'dex. Actually, from her description on the Grey Knights codex, I found her to be quite a sympathetic character, commited to her duty while fighting fudamentalism within the (very fundamentalistic) Imperium.

Valeria was trolled big time by that Trazyn guy/mechanoid/thing, but if you read her entry on the GK codex you'll see that his "gift" is now part of her wargear.

So, in the end, it's Valeria who trolls back

...(probably after some unlucky acolyte or servitor opened the package for her. Yep, this is 40k after all).


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Melissia wrote:

Manchu wrote:

Agent_Tremolo wrote:I don't recall having seen female Daleks either

Tremolo wins the thread, folks. We can all go home now.

It's one of the many flaws of the Doctor Who series, yes.

[/hides to escape the pitchforks and torches]

Lol, thanks Manchu.

@Melissia: I'm not too big on classic Who, but if I recall correctly, Daleks were once a humanoid (read absolutely, completely, unmistakably human... 60s vfx, people.) race before Stavros turned them into time-travelling genocidal shaltshakers...

Well before the entire necron race was interred into necrodermis there had to be females, but perhaps they just serve a purpose that hasnt been seen yet, or they could serve as some of the other warrior classes and we just cant tell

Perhaps there's only one designed body for the transfer, and male or female they're all the same.

All I can say is, read the Codex and use some common sense.

There are no reproductive organs on the metal skeletons, neither male nor female. The deal was to make the bodies immortal, leaving everything mortal behind (including death AND birth) and also unfortunately almost all individuality in looks (hidden part of the deal). The look was influenced by the already morbid death cult in the Necrontyr society. There is no need for high heels, mini skirts, push up bras and monthly oil leaks in metal bodies made for fighting. So there aren't any.

If you want female looking Overlords, you can use the rule of the cool and use e.g. AT-43 models for that. But they are not part of the official fluff.

Kroothawk wrote:All I can say is, read the Codex and use some common sense.

And in turn, I say to read the thread.

The only people talking about boobcrons are the ones inventing strawmen to discredit the idea. What is actually being proposed would be as simple as the fluff for one or more special characters referring to them as a "Queen" before they became an undying extinguisher of life.

For reference see Cybermen.

AlexHolker wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:All I can say is, read the Codex and use some common sense.

And in turn, I say to read the thread.

The only people talking about boobcrons are the ones inventing strawmen to discredit the idea. What is actually being proposed would be as simple as the fluff for one or more special characters referring to them as a "Queen" before they became an undying extinguisher of life.

Agreed - would have been nice but it seems many of those against the concept are the ones obsessed with the boobs.............

Mjoellnir wrote:Humans cannot tell the difference for Eldar? When what the hell are 25% of Guardians, the Banshees, most Wyches and the Lhameans?O_o

Try to determine the difference between a female banshee and a male one by lookin' at 'em. Eldar are generally androgynous. Their armor has secondary sexual characteristics more pronounced than their bodies do-- look at Lilith Hesperax for example, she's fairly androgynous.

Mr Morden wrote:Agreed - would have been nice but it seems many of those against the concept are the ones obsessed with the boobs.............

Yeah, people are asinine like that.

GW's traditional viewpoint of elves has always had them be long-limbed, willowy creatures. For the females, this means narrow hips and small breasts. In a suit of armor, they'd pass for men... or the men for women, as there'd be no obvious visual physical variance.

Of course, it was once assumed that dwarven women were bearded... this was, of course, incorrect, but the men of the Empire had simply never seen dwarves in kilts before!

wouldn't a necron lord (kinda) "fall in love" with a female from another race and try to transform that female into a Pariah?

i haven't read all the necron fluff, and the necrotyr might not do that sort of thing, but since the new higher ranked necrons have gotten "personalities", wouldn't it be possible?

Dunno, how likely are you to fall in love with an orangutan?

Just because they have personalities doesn't make them likely to be xenophiliacs.

Psienesis wrote:Dunno, how likely are you to fall in love with an orangutan?
Just because they have personalities doesn't make them likely to be xenophiliacs.

That is a terrible argument. Do you realize all the different things people love/attempt to make love to/with on this planet alone?

Uhm, maybe not a Lord but...

Becoming mad for no logical reason: check
Long nails: check
Desire to wear some dead animals skin, fur, although doesn't actually need to: check

so what you're referring to, is that can fall in love or something?

It might bloom on a battlefield?

Sooo much

I’ll also have to agree that people using the “boobcrons” argument are pretty much failposting IMO.

Personally my interpretation is that fluff-wise, things aren’t 100% ruled out nor is gender mentioned specifically in any sort of detail, therefore making the idea loosely plausible (under the basis that in the new fluff, tomb worlds can be radically different from each other).

Fluff wise, something along the lines of Queen Khalida would be the best approach a female overlord. Model wise, the Queen Khalida miniature + green stuff + headswap would be the best way to approach a conversion.

i were kinda thinking about making a "female" pariah and make her count as either a lord or overlord in games. no oversized boobs though.

Good thing then that Pariahs are not in the Codex anymore

and that sucks.

CpatTom wrote:

Psienesis wrote:Dunno, how likely are you to fall in love with an orangutan?
Just because they have personalities doesn't make them likely to be xenophiliacs.

That is a terrible argument. Do you realize all the different things people love/attempt to make love to/with on this planet alone?

That doesn't make those people "normal" examples of the species. Or, hell, even "normal" in any definition of the word. While I suppose it's *possible* for a Necron to develop romantic interests in a human (though Eldar would be more likely, being closer to the same age, culturally, as the Necron)... I think it would be exceedingly unlikely.

The point was feasibility not general standard I think.

It doesn't need to be the norm, just possible.

In the end you can model what you like and do what you like.

I'm not sure that the question of a Necron Lord having "feelings" for a member of another species has anything to do with modeling. After all, two bits of plastic, or a bit of plastic with a bit of metal, don't have feelings. This, to me, seems more a fluff question...

... and, like I said, while possible, I suppose, I feel it's an exceedingly unlikely situation.

Durza wrote:
Bees. Female is the master of the hive, males are workers.

Worker bees are female, too.

Male bees(Drones) exist purely to fertilize Queens.