>>315015413
>focusing on portraying the necrons as mindless binks that just serve the C'tan as slaves
well theres no reason this has to be so limiting anyway
c'tan isnt a single entity or at least its sufficiently vague that they couldve made it not so and, to that extent, you can have all the factionalism and internal conflict you want with the necrons through the c'tan. The actual motivation of the c'tan is still very nebulous and i wouldve much rather had this be expanded to make the necrons really unique, like they were, than literally but the c'tan into a box and pretend they dont exist
iirc the slient king came back because he met the tyrannids and his goal is to go around waking up the necrons to go btfo the nids before sleepy time again
>>315017065
>if mechanicus would study necron tech for long enough
i think this would ruin a lot of the mystique and fantasy elements of 40k (which is something gw seem utterly bent on doing for reasons entirely beyond me)
40k isnt hard scifi at all - the warp is literally magic. To even assume that whatever makes the necrons would could be recreated or work without c'tan is to reduce it to being just a machine you could copy but this isnt in the spirit of 40k at all and, i might add, its boing
a chaos bolter, for example, isnt just different because of its mechanisms; its different because its been corrupted and warped by the warp
>the thing is how will they gimp them
>implying theyll bother to even explain it
the necrons literally have time travel and are totally unstoppable in lore terms
the most gw do to explain it away is just say 'but they dont because they dont feel like it'
they were always one of the most poorly explained and developed races but at least they were shrouded in mystery to distract from that. Now they just dont make sense