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Without having read much lore about cult mechanicus I have wondered. Wouldn't the cult practically worship the Necron race? From what I understand if Cult Mechanicus they worship the spirits within machines, but isn't that quite literally what the Necron race did? It would seem to me that putting your soul into a mechanical body would be almost like transcendence for the cult.

If there is lore that refutes this then please pardon my ignorance.

There is strong hints that the a portion of the Mechanicus, which is seperated in many sub-cults, are indeed enthralled by a C'Tan, the former masters and now slaves of the necron race. Of course, this doesn't mean that the entire cult is worshiping necrons or C'Tan. There is also strong reason to doubt that those who «worship» the C'Tan are aware of what the creature is or what it represent.

 Dragoon65 wrote:
Without having read much lore about cult mechanicus I have wondered. Wouldn't the cult practically worship the Necron race? From what I understand if Cult Mechanicus they worship the spirits within machines, but isn't that quite literally what the Necron race did? It would seem to me that putting your soul into a mechanical body would be almost like transcendence for the cult.

If there is lore that refutes this then please pardon my ignorance.

The official line is that the Necron method is xenos technology and therefore unclean and heretical, according to what I remember (I want to give Faith and Fire as a source, but I'm not confident enough about that assertion).

The unofficial truth is that for every xenoheretical technology, there is an obsessive techpriest.

Have fun reading the sources of this article

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Dragon_of_Mars

If following that logic they would worship Men of Iron and imperial Robots as they are complete machines. No, like anything else their faith is complicated. They hate 'souless' machines and xenos tech, so like others have stated they hate necrons, which to the tech priests are just soulless robots.

Like any religion, the machine worship of the AdMech looks united from the outside but is actually quite fractured within. This is even pointed out in the Cult Mechanicus codex with the Fulgurite/Corpuscarii entries (although their differences are over something else). Overall, however, xenos technology is considered heretical but there are some groups who desire to study xenos technology for whatever reason. The main group listed in the codices is the forgeworld Stygies VIII. There are also Tech-Priests in some of the Ciaphus Cain material that believe Necrons are holy. And then of course you have the ones that decide their a strong, independent Tech-Priest who don't need no religious dogma and go join the Dark Mechanicum and do whatever freaky experiments they want.