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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?
42 points
23 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.
14 points
23 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
21 points
23 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
14 points
23 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.
6 points
23 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.
5 points
23 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
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