The dark void.
A silent, dead star system far from living life.
A pale blue star flickered with a 'cold' light, its weak radiance shining upon the surrounding planets like the eternal ghostly fires in a tomb, revealing infinite cold and silence.
No minerals, no promethium, not even sufficient solar energy.
This star system, located somewhere unknown in the galaxy, had never even been stepped upon by Rogue Traders.
The pale blue star rotated slowly, and its planets revolved around it once more.
It seemed like just another perfectly normal rotation, yet in this nameless star system, a ghostly green shadow flickered across the dark void.
Then, the shadow flew toward a planet that, despite already being cold and silent enough, was even further from the star, before suddenly vanishing into the void.
From the outside, the planet looked no different; aside from being a bit too far from its star and a bit too large, it seemed like a perfectly normal, silent planet commonly found throughout the galaxy.
But if the Adeptus Mechanicus were here and paid a little attention, they would discover that this planet could actually ignore the laws of the physical universe, forcibly floating in an orbit where it should never have appeared.
In other words, this abnormally massive planet was either man-made or had been dragged here by some entity!
And that vanishing ghostly green shadow also disappeared directly above this silent planet, as if teleporting.
Then, deep within the planet's core, an eternal, dark green glow emitted a cold light, illuminating the boundless, towering Obelisks below.
In this world that had slept for unknown years, the empty, desolate streets outside the Obelisks were tinged with a quiet stillness.
Until that ghostly green shadow suddenly swept across the sky of this Necron world.
Green light lit up one after another on the Obelisks, and stone doors receded to both sides; within the darkness of the doorways, endless ghostly green eyes gradually lit up.
Then, the orderly marching that permeated the entire core world, accompanied by the sound of Living Metal treading on the ground, completely shattered the silence of this world.
On the endless streets as vast as plazas, infinite phalanxes of Necron infantry marched out one by one from the densely packed Obelisks.
Massive war machines, also flickering with green light, floated into the air once again after tens of thousands of years.
Necron Overlords stood atop their own tombs, holding scepters and looking down at the vast armies that had slept alongside them; high-pitched commands occasionally echoed amidst the silent marching, stirring up an even greater, orderly resonance.
Then, following the direction of the army's advance, the Necron Overlords, who were powerful enough to lead an entire world on the outside, all looked toward the end of the long street.
There stood the largest Obelisk in the entire world, perhaps even the entire galaxy; the green light from the surrounding infinite Necrons converged into an ocean, finally concentrating in one place to reignite it.
As this Obelisk lit up, the endless Necron army instantly halted their steps, and numerous Necron Overlords raised their scepters, kneeling on one knee before the Obelisk.
Because...
The Silent King has decreed!
This was no ordinary tomb world, but a Crown World fortunate enough to become the Silent King's resting place!
Inside the central Obelisk.
The 'commotion' outside seemed not to have fully awakened the being sleeping within.
In the vast, empty hall, there was only a brilliant galaxy that seemed to be generated from the void, without any projection equipment.
Surrounding it stood Crypteks, while the Techno-priesthood Minister strolled through the star-river holding a scepter, a pair of green eyes constantly scanning, as if he had truly become a giant comparable in size to the galaxy.
Then, as if discovering something, the Techno-priesthood Minister stopped his steps, reached out, and gently...
Pinched out a star.
The surrounding darkness immediately emitted light, and only then could it be seen that the walls were actually covered with boundless 'coffins' imprisoning endless giants; as the Techno-priesthood Minister extinguished the star, these coffins began to extract terrifying energy.
Although no sound came through, the giant shadows within the coffins revealed a painful struggle.
This time, at the peak of the deep darkness, the existence named the Silent King finally opened his eyes.
The green light around him floated up automatically, and the Techno-priesthood Minister and Crypteks immediately bowed respectfully toward the throne.
Then, ignoring the pain of the ctan shards and without asking his Techno-priesthood Minister why he had extinguished a star...
Before the Silent King's eyes, there was only a projection that played repeatedly.
It was a planet covered in Warp demons, with infinite demons blotting out the sky.
In orbit, the Necron fleet surrounded the Tomb Ship, constantly raining down Necron divine punishment upon the earth.
Then, a figure in golden light raised his hand and threw a spear, crashing down this ancient Tomb Ship.
The image repeated silently; even though the Silent King had a mountain of things to do upon waking, and even though the human named Guilliman was destroying his great plan to completely end the Warp...
None of that mattered as much to the Silent King at this moment as the image before his eyes.
Until, after watching his Tomb Ship being smashed for the nth time, the Silent King finally seemed to accept this reality.
If the scout ship he sent out hadn't brought back more information, when only text-based reports had returned, the Silent King's first reaction would have been whether some escaped C'tan had returned!
But now the Silent King knew that the one who did all this was not a familiar enemy from the past, but...
A human named Sith!
The light of the surrounding ctan shards dimmed again, and that star on the brilliant star map truly went out in the projected galaxy.
The Techno-priesthood Minister led the Crypteks to slowly move to both sides, and the Silent King, on his floating throne, slowly ascended along the darkness overhead.
Then, the top of the central Obelisk grew brighter, and deep within the personality cores of the surrounding infinite Necron army, a new name was implanted:
"Sith!"
Along with this name, there was also an image that made the eyes of all Necron Overlords, Crypteks, and Necron Captains suddenly light up.
In that image, it was this human named Sith who destroyed their ancient pride with one hand: the Tomb Ship!
Then, the Silent King's decree echoed throughout this awakened Crown World.
"At all costs..."
"Exterminate Sith!"
...
In a certain Webway that did not exist in the physical universe.
A Drukhari / Dark Aeldari shuttle suddenly opened a passage and flew into it from the physical universe.
As a Webway technology created by an ancient civilization, this place could perfectly avoid the encroachment of the Warp and provide the Aeldari with one last relatively safe refuge.
Now, deep within the Webway, the Drukhari / Dark Aeldari shuttle swept past quickly until its rival, the Craftworld Aeldari, appeared ahead; only then did the shuttle slow down slightly.
Then, the two enemies looked at each other; the Craftworld Aeldari not only did not attack but instead took the initiative to open the gate to their own Craftworld.
Behind the gate, what came into view was an Aeldari Harlequin pacing back and forth with several Pirate Princes.
For the Aeldari, who were constantly hunted by Slaanesh, directly showing emotion was a great taboo.
But this Harlequin simply couldn't care about that; he just watched the dispatched Drukhari / Dark Aeldari return, and a look of relief immediately appeared on his face.
Then he went to meet them and spoke hurriedly:
"Quickly, Lady Yvraine, we must know all the information about this 'Sith' now!"
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