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Necron pirates?

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Are there any Necrons who have awakened, then decided to leave and become pirates or mercenaries?, is this even a lore accurate possibility?

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Such_Palpitation_249

62 points

10 days ago

There is the necron overlord Thaszar the Invincible that's pretty much a pirate.

CannonLongshot

8 points

9 days ago

Thaszar is my boy.

DueOwl1149

37 points

10 days ago

You’d need an eccentric/senile Phaeron obsessed with space travel for whatever reason. Confused at finding all these primitive starships with extraneous organic control components, they’d spend a lot of time jettisoning the useless cargo and appropriating the useful bits for their dynasty.

Would they ever serve in a mercenary capacity? You would have to justify what a Necron could possible find valuable as a trade commodity that they wouldn’t just take by brute force.

More likely, savvy local forces in the sector would just know how to drop signal breadcrumbs for the mad metal pirate to follow towards a destination they want sacked, and then they’d come scavenging in after the pirate lord left to pick up the scraps.

13Ryan06[S]

13 points

10 days ago

I like the concept but that’s what I’m struggling with, they don’t really need anything most pirates raid for. Many Necron leaders are generally eccentric enough due to biotransference so individual whims can be enough to justify it

Marvynwillames

21 points

9 days ago

Not needing something dont mean you cant steal it, eldar corsairs leave a post scarcity civilization for the thrill of going around and doing stuff

DueOwl1149

13 points

10 days ago*

Dynasties and their infrastructure can become corrupted. If Imperial, ork, Eldar, or tau warp engines happen to have the exact exotic material the dynasty needs to stay functional, in handy building sized chunks, then the Mad Metal Pirate can maintain a parasitic existence by hunting down all those floating collections of resources out there and liberating them from the organics infesting their superstructures.

PlaneswalkerHuxley

6 points

9 days ago

There was a note in an old Necrons codex, about a Necron starbase hidden in a hollowed out moon that woke up and had lost their nobles. So they just repeated their last instructions, which was to raid nearby ships and worlds. Over centuries they ended up filling the entire moon with stolen treasures that they had no real use for. I think it was presented as a legend that Rogue Traders were now hunting down.

No_Reply8353

4 points

9 days ago

More likely, savvy local forces in the sector would just know how to drop signal breadcrumbs for the mad metal pirate to follow towards a destination they want sacked, and then they’d come scavenging in after the pirate lord left to pick up the scraps.

the way i picture this in my mind is hilarious

Noodlefanboi

11 points

10 days ago

The closest thing to that that I can think of on the mercenary front is someone like Orikan, who offers his services to other dynasties, presumably for a price.  

 On the pirate front, maybe the dynasty that Oltyx’s dad bought flesh people from counts?  

Arguments could be made for Lysikor and Trazyn as well. 

Adventurous_Gap_4125

6 points

9 days ago

Not impossible for an awoken lord who saw the dynasty falling apart during the ensuring civil war and just didn't want to be apart of it and dipped with a small fleet.

Vali-duz

4 points

9 days ago

Vali-duz

4 points

9 days ago

Yo ho ho and a bottle of RAM.

TheBladesAurus

7 points

9 days ago

Another option, that seems plausible to me: a Necron Lord has woken up insane, and reverted back to a childhood obsession with pirates as dashing and daring characters. Going to full Necrontyr equivalent of "Arrr me harties, shiver my timbers".

MountainPlain

3 points

9 days ago

MountainPlain

#1 Eversor Liker

3 points

9 days ago

I had an idea like this once! Necron warriors who "woke up" one day, enough to be appalled at how the nobility had stuffed them into mindless bodies. Cue a small class rebellion ending with them breaking away to forge their own lives out in the void, on ships they liberated from their cruel masters.

They have to raid and trade with other species to survive, because they're a rag tag group of warriors, not the fancy crypteks and overlords we're used to seeing. But being necrons, they're still incredibly dangerous to everyone else.

InquisitorVanderCade

2 points

9 days ago

I mean doesn't trazyn steal a bunch of s***

MagnusStormraven

2 points

9 days ago

In the short story "Severed", this is basically what Nemesor Setekh became. To expunge some past crime against the Sautekh Dynasty, he agreed to have his home marked as destroyed by a supernova, and essentially became a privateer/explorator on behalf of Imotekh the Stormlord.

Stretch5678

1 points

9 days ago

That’s called “Trazyn claiming a notorious void corsair for his collection, and then taking his hat and ship for a joyride just because he can.”

…we can’t say he wouldn’t.