Anyone else notice how the Halo Devices seem to be filled with Necrontyr imagery?

They come from a vanished, ancient xenos civilisation and become imprinted with memories of strange stars and alien scripts. They begin to become obsessed with immersing themselves in darkness or sunlight (solar radiation), their forms become either gaunt, emaciated corpses or scarab beetle-like,

And of course they cheat death- coming back time and time again- gaining life immortal at a terrible cost to their minds.

See that pretty much mimics the whole symbology and pattern of the Necrontyr becoming Necrons.

Is there a hidden Necrontyr link with the Halo Devices?

SJE

Nice observation. Somehow I totally did not draw that connection.

Good looking out.

Wonder if maybe the Tyrant Star is Necron related?

*racks the slide on boltpistol*

"oh dear, it seems you've found out too much...."

Seriously though, I quite like that idea, I'll save it for when its my turn to be GM

One other point of supporting evidence- Halo Devices dont work with Psykers as they already serve a master- which fits in with the non-psychic Necrontyrs hatred of the Old Ones psyker mastery.

SJE

I am not certain if the Halo Devices were created by the Necrontyr. Recall that these devices were made by a species with an amazing understanding of biology, which the Necrontyr lacked; they couldn't save their own bodies from cancer. Further, every antediluvian extinct civilisation is not always going to be them. I like the fact that we just do not which civilisation was dwelling amongst the Halo Stars.

I might add that the Halo devices do not possess the characteristics of Necron technology. The description just does not fit that.

However, it is a nice theory you have and I like it.

I agree with owen, the little story about around there seem to be filled with something other than necron imagery.

Anonymus said:

Could be the Saruthi, they are in the area as well. Scarus Sector at least.

Anonymus said:

Could be the Saruthi, they are in the area as well. Scarus Sector at least.

In the fluff, there are two alien races who were supposedly exterminated during the Crusade to liberate the Calaxis Sector. The xenos Yu’vath and the Bale Childer. Actually if you read closely the timeline does not say that the aliens were exterminated, just that their homeworlds were made exterminatus.

My guess is that the Halo devices belong to one of these aliens, but the Tyrant Star is far, far older which is why the Eldar find it cursed.

Its also possible that the halo devices were an early attempt to create the necrons; maybe this method proved too slow and inefficent, or did not yield the results expected by their creators.

There are plenty of alien empires to rise, fall, and create their own cyclopean monoliths etc. in time between the disappearance of the Old Ones and Necrons' slumber 60 millions of years ago and Eldar Empire's rise to power 1 million of years ago. Not everything in the universe has to belong or be connected to one of the tabletop races.

I think that the connection is entirely down to common inspiration: both the scarier elements of Necron fluff and most of DotDG seems to be inspired by the Lovecraftian canon.

I think that is the route I would go. The players would think it is necrons, I would harbor and nurture that idea and then bam, freak them out with something different entirely.

I think it's clearly been deliberately been left open - yes, the Halo devices could be Necrontyr. There are certainly a lot of clues pointing to that conclusion. But it's vague enough that any GM can do what he likes with it, without the players feeling cheated.