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If their current form is any indication, I imagine they had large flat faces, barrel like torsos, and stood slightly stooped. Given their homeworlds unstable sun, they probably had skin with dark pigments, possibly even scales or chitinous plates. At a guess from the teeth, it looks like they were herbivores, which makes the flayed ones even more grotesque to the other necrons. What do you guys think?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8067204.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8067204.page GMT Did the Necrontyr have tails?
On the other hand the Necons saw their bodies as diseased prisons. You could also make an argument that they'd pick the physical form of a species they felt was more 'perfect' in a fit of self loathing.

I'd personally go with the first explanation, but it could go either way.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8067261.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8067261.page GMT Did the Necrontyr have tails?
If anything, the Overlords would be the best indicator of what they looked like before transference, having the luxury of taking a body without the constraints of being intended for warfare.

Any extrapolation on how they looked is kinda of moot. Did they have skin? If so, did pigmentation serve as their main form of UV defense? Why the Hell couldn't they devise a technological counter to radiation - or just live beneath the surface of their planet?
The Necron origin story has a huge load of holes. I wouldn't worry much about it.
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So it's not a sex thing.
Given its presence in Crypteks and Praetorians I'd imagine that either there was a caste (or castes) of Necrontyr that had kept or developed tails or that the tails are symbolic and represent something like wisdom.
Maybe some combination, perhaps all Necrontyr had small vestigial tails and long ones were considered a sign of wisdom, and so smart guys and guys the Triarch think you should listen too were given long tails like Buddha statues with big earlobes.

And I don't think they were Herbivores, front facing eyes is typically a predatory adaptation, and if I recall correctly the Flayed One Lord from Fall of Damnos can remember enjoying hunting when he was still alive. There's also the time they decide to go hunting Space Marines in their own locked down Fortress Monastery, which they probably wouldn't have bothered with in they had been herbivores. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071110.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071110.page GMT Did the Necrontyr have tails? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071119.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071119.page GMT Did the Necrontyr have tails? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071202.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071202.page GMT Did the Necrontyr have tails?
Might be a comment on their perceived uber-masculinity.

Might be that they did have tails. We have no idea what a living Necrontyr looked like.

Maybe only their females had them? Maybe the Praetorians are like an elite, all-female Necrontyr combat unit.

Maybe the Cryptek designing the bodies prior to Bio-Transference was akin to Bob Ross, and just wanted to have some happy little tails, right about there?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071760.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071760.page GMT Did the Necrontyr have tails? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071924.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8071924.page GMT Did the Necrontyr have tails? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8072179.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8072179.page GMT Re:Did the Necrontyr have tails? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8076093.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/660946/8076093.page GMT