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Had a question about Necron reconstruction. I know after a battle, damaged Necrons are teleported back to wherever they came from for repairs. My question is, how damaged can a Necron be before it is beyond recovery? I understand that if a limb gets blow off, or if it gets cut in half, it can be repaired back to full, but what if it takes a direct hit from a missile and, say, explodes into a thousand pieces? Or if it gets vaporized by a direct hit from a plasma gun? What if a big 'ol ork uppercuts one then stomps on it and grinds it to dust? I imagine a higher tier necron is capable of greater reconstruction, or more worthy of more attention, I should say. Like a Lychguard could come back from more damage than a warrior could. Or is the opposite true? Since they are more advanced technology, they are more difficult to reassemble?

Furthermore, at what point does the actual consciousness entombed in a Necron soldier die? It's been my headcannon that they essentially "black out" when their shell is heavily damaged, and then wake up again when they are repaired. Then if they aren't repaired in a certain amount of time, or deemed un-repairable, their consciousness slips away into whatever afterlife comes for Necrons. That's completely headcannon though as I have no real idea what happens. Its possible their consciousness lives on, trapped forever in their wrecked metal shell. But even that would decay eventually and their consciousness would have to go somewhere. Or just fade away into nothingness, I suppose. Any info would be welcome!
   
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Kapuskasing, ON

That's an interesting question and I'll wager sources very on this. From my understanding necrodermus is a metal that will regenerate like skin cells with the capability of coming back from far more trauma then ordinary skin cells. But yes there does seem to crop up the odd bits of fluff in which they do get scrapped enough to not come back including orks. The phasing back trick occurs for the whole necron force present when too many casualties are received. I'm not entirely sure which parts of oldcron fluff is ported over to newcron fluff either. Nor am I sure if I'm recallin one or the either for that matter, however I am fascinated by this question and my curiosity must be sated.
   
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 Apocros wrote:

Furthermore, at what point does the actual consciousness entombed in a Necron soldier die? It's been my headcannon that they essentially "black out" when their shell is heavily damaged, and then wake up again when they are repaired. Then if they aren't repaired in a certain amount of time, or deemed un-repairable, their consciousness slips away into whatever afterlife comes for Necrons. That's completely headcannon though as I have no real idea what happens. Its possible their consciousness lives on, trapped forever in their wrecked metal shell. But even that would decay eventually and their consciousness would have to go somewhere. Or just fade away into nothingness, I suppose. Any info would be welcome!


Bear in mind that Necrons don't have an afterlife, no more than a damaged screw or a stone turned into sand would have. That's the great tragedy of their race, they lost their souls in the Biotransference process, and now they're just deadly computers; so, when one is destroyed for good, thats it. No soul, no afterlife.

What is more, only the upper echelons of the Necrons have circuitry complex enough and were storaged in extasis cripts good enough to retain conciousness and personality; I couldn't say if Inmortals or Warriors are sentient, or self-aware.


PS: I find the Necron fluff (specially the Newcron fluff, with their time gadgets and quantum bul**itery) but I really like this part of the history of 40k. How a race made a pact with the devil to win a war, and won it, but losing themselves in the process. The awareness of the tragedy by the leaders of the race, and their guilt as the lower classes were now mindless robots because of their pact. IIRC, in the Necron fluff they described Biotransference from the point of view of a ruler individual (I don't remember if it was the Silent King) and he says he feels "empty" after the process; the C'tan fed on the souls of an entire race, and thus became much more powerful than they were before.
   
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IIRC Gorkamorka had Necron skulls lying around in a some of the art, so from that you can assume that decapitation is probably fatal for at least warriors (other necron types didn't really exist back then).

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Eye of Terror

If Ultramarines: Nightbringer is to be considered canon to Necrons, then large Necron constructs have a core that if removed will cause all necrodermis that are or was part of the whole to rust and degrade.

I don't know how much of an implication this has, but it's something.

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Dorset, England

'Dead Men Walking', a story par excellence on the Necrons, has melta guns putting them down for good by turning them into metal soup. However they can be resurrected from even this state by a Lord using a resurrection orb tying in with the way the I'll be Back rule operated in 3rd edition.

So it seems to truly destroy a Necron it must be almost atomised, or its associated Tomb Wold destroyed instead.
   
 
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