An Old Ones ship

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**TauAdmiral**

Well the Old Ones are kind of like the Slaan from Warhammer Fantasy. But what would one of their ships be like. Assuming that the C'tan may have missed one somehow. Be organic in a way like Moya from Farscape. Or advanced like the Ancients from Stargate?

**1hadhq**

Would be nice to have any hints on their ships. IIRC those old ones let others do the fight.
Not participating directly in space battles maybe?

Could be a high tech ship with good defense but lack in offense.

**TauAdmiral**

Well they did make the Orks and the Eldar once the C'tan showed up to fight for them since their numbers where so small. But while they where just fighting the Necrontyr they kicked their butts all over the galaxy at large. More advanced ships and technology. Not to mention they are the ones who built the webway. But not sure if their tech looked more organic or more technological.

**1hadhq**

TauAdmiral wrote: Not to mention they are the ones who built the webway.

See, you've found the reason why there arent any old ones ships left.

Who needs a ship with a webway system at hand?

Plus old ships may end up as space hulks and it would be nigh impossible to seperate the "old ones ship" from the other "wrecks that still
fly somehow".

**Durandal**

Old one ships are described in the Necron fluff as being hordes of unique ships, each different from the rest. It seems the Old ones were highly individualistic and could make their ships look like whatever they wanted.

**Orkeosaurus**

Being interesting must have been what got the Necrons so jealous.

**Shelegelah**

Ouuuucccchhhhh.

**Abadabadoobaddon**

What does god need with a starship?

**Manchu**

Shhh, keep asking that and they'll kill McCoy!

**penut the butter**

I always thought that an old one's ship would be sort of like a Forerunner type building from Halo 2

**Cheese Elemental**

penut the butter wrote:I always thought that an old one's ship would be sort of like a Forerunner type building from Halo 2

Same here. I always thought that Bungie got the idea of the Forerunners from 40k's Old Ones. They certainly share a few notable characteristics;

-Both were virtually wiped out by a galaxy-wide infection that corrupted and mutated all life (Enslaver Daemons/The Flood)
-Both left many ruins containing valuable artifacts on worlds that would later be populated
-Both still have servants fighting for them in the present day (Eldar against Chaos, Sentinels against Flood)

**penut the butter**

And they each had the abilty to protect and seed life.(Humanity on Earth with The Ark and Eldar in thier webway highways.

**Miss Dee**

Pinch something frm B5 like a Vorlon / Shadow ship.

**Mr. Burning**

I imagine the old ones whizzing round space on floating discs ala the Mekon from Dan Dare.

**Binary**

Miss Dee wrote:Pinch something frm B5 like a Vorlon / Shadow ship.

Actually not too far from what I would imagine an Old one ship to be...except instead of the Shadow/Vorlon ships, maybe a random collection of the other "old ones" (Sigma 957 etc.)

Of course this could mean there's the equivalent of the Vorlon Planet Killer floating around somewhere, since we've seen the Shadow Death Cloud...I mean World Engine

Binary

**Miss Dee**

Vorlons and the shadows are both first ones like the walker of sigma 957