For Szarekh knew that, as with all flesh and blood civilizations, the Old Ones would soon die off, and the Eldar and their ilk could not last forever. The Necrons would retreat back into their ancient homeworlds, now called Tombworlds, where the Silent King's people would stay in stasis and slumber deep within highly fortified subterranean chambers until a time when the galaxy would be once more ripe for reclamation. As the Eldar-led counterattacks fiercely increased, the Silent King and the Triarchs decided upon a bold plan. The Silent King realized that in their weakened state the Necrons would be unable to defeat the combined forces of the Eldar, the Orks, and the remaining Old Ones. Though successful, the rebellion inflicted catastrophic casualties on the Necrons. Of course, the C'tan could not truly be 'killed' in the traditional sense, so using his people's most advanced technologies, Silent King Szarekh ordered that all the C'Tan were to be shattered into hundreds of pieces and imprisoned in multi-dimensional stasis cells called Tesseract Vaults, as revenge for what they had done to his people.

Then, in a succession of climactic battles at the cost of billions of converted lives, the Necrons finally slew their own gods. While feinting deference and gratitude for many decades, Szarekh had been secretly planning to overthrow the treacherous otherworldly beings, waiting for the moment they would be most vulnerable. Their unlimited scientific progression gave rise to technologies far beyond the understanding of most races of their time period having the ability to build structures that could relocate across continents in mere moments, creating vast engines of destruction that could destroy whole worlds with a single stroke of a hand, and producing pocket dimensions that could transverse the very fabric of reality itself.ДЄs the Old Ones were nearing defeat, the C'tan began to celebrate their victory to come, and that was when the Silent King used his command protocols over his people to turn and strike at all the C'Tan simultaneously. As time passed, the Necrontyr were able to unlock many mysteries of the known universe. It was not long before the Necrontyr escaped the confines for their solar system and began to colonize the stars, eventually building a colossal galaxy-spanning empire. The conditions of their world forced the Necrontyr to advance rapidly in scientific development, discovering space flight and FTL travel far sooner than most other life in their galactic epoch. Their homeworld was a harsh desert planet continuously bombarded with lethal radiation from their dying sun, giving their people short and painful lifespans. Sixty million years prior to the events of the 41st Millennium, before the evolution of mankind, the Necrontyr were a flesh and blood race of great builders, learned artisans, and powerful rulers.

White dwarf magazine necron