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>be the oldest race alive
>tried to outlive your ancient enemies creations
>something goes wrong and your tomb worlds don't wake as supposed to
>only times you do wake is when the kids are loud on your lawn so you shoo them away because they were literally made to kill you
>when you realize how infested the universe is with them you realize that all the tomb worlds are in grave danger (pun intended) so you decide to go around and kill the younger races
>other awakened tomb worlds had the same idea and now that silent king is gone the only thread that united the dynasties is also gone so power vacuum demands only one can rule because vendettas and dynasty pissing contest
>your people are literal metal zombies so the only ones with any motivation to do anything are the higher classes of people who still have some sentience left and maybe even more
the necrons make perfect sense to me, the mechanicum servitors and the necron foot soldiers are literally only different in the fact that necrons do it better, that's one intentional(?) irony i think they made and how humanity is just as "xeno" as the necrons on mars, the only reason mars is tolerated is because the imperium needs them because any knowledge outside of some age old codex's is heresy to most fragmented factions within the imperium