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Can exposure to chaos corrupt the new more emotional necrons in the new fluff?

Sure they are machines but look at the dark mechanicum.

Hell, even a completely inanimate object like a bolt gun can be chaosified or possessed by a daemon.

Take an extreme example: Say a slumbering Necron ship or tomb world is sucked into the warp or completely engulfed in heavy warp storms for a long period of time. Any anti chaos technology sabotaged by a rival Lord.

Or perhaps an obliterator scrap code scenario. In the novel storm of iron even a tyranid ship was able to be corrupted when cut off from the hive mind.

Thoughts?

Short answer = Nope.

Some of the Black Crusade, Death Watch and other FFG games's fluff effective says that the Necrons give Chaos Taint the finger and Chaos hates them for it.

I dont think the Necrons have a warp prescence, like the Tau.

^Yup none at all.

Why not the Dark Mechanicus use nano tech to wage a war in the microscopic scale on the slumbering tomb of a Necron world. The Necrons have been sleeping for 60 million years and the Chaos gods have had tens of thousands of years to work out a plan. This would not rely on any kind of warp presence.

Over thousands or years the nano tech could slowly subvert the tomb defenses then the simple minds of the tomb keepers, finally corrupting and accessing the minds of the overlords as they sleep.
Maybe the Chaos gods saw the tomb world was about to enter a thousand year seismic period. They wait patiently biding their time waiting until the immense mass of the very planet cracked the tomb world open. This distracted the tomb guardians giving the Dark Mechanicus time to maneuver.

There are so many ways for the chaos gods to indirectly manipulate the material universe over the immense time periods of 40K.


I say go for it. You would have a very unique army.
Hope this helps, Vim

Because Necron technology is millions of years ahead of even the Eldar. A completely psychic race that at the height of its power commanded all the powers of the Warp at will. If the Necrons could fight such a race (and even wipe out an even more powerful race like the Old Ones), Chaos is practically nothing.

Yeah that was when they were all awake and undamaged from 60 million years or their local star systems and the galactic game of ‘Let’s blow stuff up’. They have been sleeping for 60 million years with auto defenses and Barely sentient guardians protecting the tombs. In all this time I am sure there has been more than enough opportunity for a very careful, unimaginably discrete game of subversion. The kind of games a god might play.

60 million years!

 HerbaciousT wrote:
I dont think the Necrons have a warp prescence, like the Tau.

Necrons have no presence, like a psychic blank. Tau have such an insignificant presence the gods don't even notice them.

As such, Necrons cannot be mentally corrupt. But, I believe they may be physically corrupt, though the necrodermis would just repair whatever anomaly befalls them.

IMO

You don't need a warp presence to be corrupted - I don't think rock has a warp presence (?) but it can be turned into a screaming living entity dripping corruption.

Necrons are material and so can potentially be corrupted - its not easy but no reason to say they can't given the right circumstances.

People say the same about Tau being incoruptable and thats even more wrong

Rocks don't have a presence, though they don't actively repel the warp like Necrons do.

p17 of the currrent Necon Codex confirms that the Necrons are not immune to the powers of the Warp and must in fact use Null Fields to protect them and their Tomb Worlds.

Newcrons are emotional, feeling creatures but still have no warp signature to be corrupted. Though granted in an effort to greatly simplify their lore (which was Wards goal), their lack of warp presence isn't touched upon much.

You do not need a warp signature to be corrupted physically.........

Necrons are immune to warp corruption, they employ Null Field Matrices to cut a psyker's connection to the warp because they're not immune to the aforementioned pskyer's lightning frying their circuits.
Or just simply: Chaos Necron = Chaos Grey Knight = Female Space Marine

Please state the reference for Necrons immunity to any and all forms of Corruption?

No.

Tzeentch explicitly despises them above all other races for this, among other reasons.

Tome of Fate answers the question rather well.

"They have no souls to corrupt, their every action is ordered and logical to the point of impossibility, and their living metal bodies are entirely immune to the mutating effects of the Warp."
- Tome of Fate, page 107

Necron codex pg. 17 Null Field Matrices first paragraph.

 Cyrax wrote:
Necrons are immune to warp corruption, they employ Null Field Matrices to cut a psyker's connection to the warp because they're not immune to the aforementioned pskyer's lightning frying their circuits.
Or just simply: Chaos Necron = Chaos Grey Knight = Female Space Marine

Chaos Grey Knight is possible. I converted one. Anything is possible.

Anything is not possible, you read too much new age mumbo jumbo.

 Cyrax wrote:
Necron codex pg. 17 Null Field Matrices first paragraph.

Nope that says they can't USE the warp -"to any great degree" and states they can't be corrupted by attempting to use its power as they don't have psykers - says nothing about physcial corruption - like for instance the Bloodtide that apparently was a threat to Grey Knights in exactly the same way?

What is Tomb of Fate - Google is not helping ?

another snippet from the Necron Codex:

p85 refering to the Necron use of pocket dimensions etc - "To the Demons of the Warp, such technological conjurings are merely another flavour of existance to be corrupted and devoured."

Hmm, I remember living metal having something against physical corruption but I'm not sure.

now its just Semi-sentient and capable of incredable feats of self repair.

The Old Necrons were I agree far less vulnerable having no desires or emotions but now they are just the WFB Undead - diffcult for Chaos to corrupt but possible

Tome of Fate is a supplement for the Black Crusade game line that came out last year.

It dictates that Necrons are entirely immune to mental or physical corruption.

1. I get the feeling that Necrons would be immune to indirect corruption. Necrons would never "fall to Chaos" the way humans would.

2. They are highly resistant but, as the Codex said, vulnerable to direct mutation assaults.

 Void__Dragon wrote:
No.

Tzeentch explicitly despises them above all other races for this, among other reasons.

Tome of Fate answers the question rather well.

"They have no souls to corrupt, their every action is ordered and logical to the point of impossibility, and their living metal bodies are entirely immune to the mutating effects of the Warp."
- Tome of Fate, page 107

Just to piggy back this. Tome of Fate also has an uncorrupted Tomb World in the Screaming Vortex. Known as The Pillars of Eternity.

 Void__Dragon wrote:
No.

Tzeentch explicitly despises them above all other races for this, among other reasons.

Tome of Fate answers the question rather well.

"They have no souls to corrupt, their every action is ordered and logical to the point of impossibility, and their living metal bodies are entirely immune to the mutating effects of the Warp."
- Tome of Fate, page 107

This is the answer to the thread. Anything contrary is wrong.

 Void__Dragon wrote:
Tome of Fate is a supplement for the Black Crusade game line that came out last year.

It dictates that Necrons are entirely immune to mental or physical corruption.

It's also material from a non-GW source for a game that is not published by GW, that has been shown to have glaring inconsistencies with GW-published material in other areas. It has about as much relevance as a Black Library novel does for the table-top wargame.

 Psienesis wrote:
It's also material from a non-GW source for a game that is not published by GW, that has been shown to have glaring inconsistencies with GW-published material in other areas. It has about as much relevance as a Black Library novel does for the table-top wargame.

You seem a bit confused.

I think what you meant was:

"It is also material from a non-GW source and, like most non-GW sources, makes the fluff in the codices seem even more pathetic and terrible than it already is, and being fully licensed by GW, according to every statement on canonicity, it is just as valid as the codices, and due to the vastly superior quality contained with in, it is arguably even more valid."

But humor me: What are these glaring inconsistencies?

 Psienesis wrote:

 Void__Dragon wrote:
Tome of Fate is a supplement for the Black Crusade game line that came out last year.

It dictates that Necrons are entirely immune to mental or physical corruption.

It's also material from a non-GW source for a game that is not published by GW, that has been shown to have glaring inconsistencies with GW-published material in other areas. It has about as much relevance as a Black Library novel does for the table-top wargame.

...What?

Necrons are immune to the Warp.
The Necrontyr were uplifted by the C'Tan to combat the Old Ones, who were a thoroughly psyker based society. The Necrons and the C'Tan are responsible for the Pariah gene and its spread throughout humanity. The Necrons are also responsible for the Cadian Gate, an area where the Warp is not just stable but mingles harmlessly with real space.

This is not new material.
Necrons cannot be corrupted, physically or mentally. Anyone telling you otherwise is running a fanfic.

The Necron's are an unchanging tide of metal. They have no souls, and most of their personality is reserved to the upper regions of their hierarchy. They can rust, rot and kill, but they can't feel true pleasure and change. They are an ordered race, which shuns chaos and anarchy. They are the anti-Chaos of the universe, they couldn't serve Chaos. It's not physically possible for them to do so.