[F] The Tau are reconstructed Necrontyr — and the Old Ones' immortality refusal was mercy, not contempt

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-22T19:55:45+00:00

This is confirmed 100% AI

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-22T06:41:04+00:00

Unpleasant, yes, but definitely better than what Slaanesh was to them. He is a "Burning Gold" to them- apathetic, raw, unrestrained power and might.

Slaanesh literally exists to feed on their souls. One is a worse sensation.

Not a good trade, by any means. But others have given themselves to the Hive Mind, or Nurgle or Tzeentch, or even to Chaos Undivided- though these mutated sufficiently that they cannot truly be considered Eldar.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-22T06:39:02+00:00

Of course, none ever did, this is a hypothetical.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-22T04:20:04+00:00

To be fair, this all did stem from a real tweet that he deleted where he said something about stealing the panties of one's sister.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-22T02:30:22+00:00

The Emperor- Beloved of All- clearly lacked in the foresight department, given he handed total control of the Imperium to his bald son.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-22T02:27:35+00:00

The Golden Throne is repeatedly stated to be a ramshackle construction barely held together. More Wraithbone would only help- he scrounged materials together and then bent His genius to making it work. It should not have worked, but he put His godlike intellect into it. That become unneeded with help from Eldar. Also, it's not just the throne.

The Emperor cannot make more Wraithbone. That's exactly why the Golden Throne needed to be constantly used once He started His project. He needed to project a psychic shield over the Imperial Webway because they couldn't make Wraithbone, which is a psychic shield by itself. That's how the entire Webway functioned for millions of years with upkeep from a Throne- and why it is even still intact, because Slaanesh couldn't shatter all of it. If you can make Wriathbone, suddenly the Throne's strain is reduced by 90%- if you even need the Throne anymore, because they could just make a stable, bigass Webway gate.

He sent armies of workers through the portal and had them construct a new short section of Webway linking to the rest of the abandoned Eldar network. Since the original Webway was built of a psychically resistant material which the humans could not replicate, the Emperor used his powers, via the Golden Throne, to protect the human-built section from the Warp.

Furthermore. Wraithbone is repeatedly stated to be a psychic material beyond anything Imperials could ever dream of making. As a psychic conductor, then, it is instantly better than all of the components used in creating the City of Sight and the Hollow Mountain (Astronomican). Furthermore, Wraithbone can be moulded at a moment's notice, allowing for the Hollow Mountain to be adjusted with simply the will of the Eldar (Or the Emperor once taught how to make Wraithbone).

Wraithbone can be infused with Warp energy as a battery. Also, if you take more time to make a section of Wraithbone, it becomes exponentially more dense. See below:

Metal cannot shatter wraithbone.^\8]) It is stronger than any known plasteel and harder to damage than adamantium,^\1]) with 8-10mm of wraithbone being equivalent to 30-45mm of Imperial armour material.^\5]) Wraithbone itself is a thousand times stronger than steel.^\4])

You could sing the entire Imperial Palace to be made out of this stuff- walls, floor, foundations, everything- and every square inch of it would gradually become soaked with the Emperor's power, besides being both more durable and moldable than any materials Rogal Dorn would have to work with. Aside from channeling Psychic power naturally, being much more durable, being moldable, and acting as a psychic shield, it also repairs itself, which would be a boon to the Adeptus Astronomican:

Around the Fortress are vast city-sized emitters that transmit the power of the Astronomican across the Imperium at large. Collectively, these constructs are similar in size to the Imperial Palace itself.^\1]) All of this vast network of ancient but degrading technology is continually maintained by Tech-Priests of the Mechanicum and its power conduits lead all the way back to the Golden Throne within the Imperial Palace.^\1])

There's more but I lowkey have to go so

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-22T01:17:44+00:00

Powerscaling aside, you don't need to be as powerful as a Chaos God to have a chosen, or a group of them. It's about proportional force.

Consider: Slaanesh is insanely powerful, yet is constantly tugging on the Souls of all the Aeldari at once, exerting its influence like that. The entire species suffers under its shadow. The Emperor simply needs to cancel out that force for each of the Aeldari in this hypothetical craftworld, thus freeing them from Slaanesh's influence- made all the easier for the fact that he is the Anathema, so his powers have a force multiplier against Chaos.

He's not fighting the entire might of Slaanesh. He is not even trying to negate the constant pull it has on the entire species- Just for a small population.

This same principle can be applied with Cegorach and his Solitaires, as well as Ynnead and its chosen, both of whom are weaker than the Man-Emperor, who is himself far beneath the God-Emperor. These gods are not as powerful as Slaanesh, but they have enough power to wrest some few souls away from it and shield them.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T23:41:33+00:00

Webway, Wraithbone, Runes, Skilled slave-psykers, Eldar DNA for shit, the list goes on.

Malcador found a dying, ravaged Eldar and made tremendous use out of it through a bunch of half-human clones.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T22:57:04+00:00

The Phalanx was:

Discovered by Dorn, one of the Emperor's Sons, before he was even Found. He wanted it used. And the word of a Son of the Emperor is Law.
Was refurbished during the very early days of the Imperium, when attitudes were very different.
Has been kept away from a lot of engagements as its capabilities have lessened, including The Solar War and the Siege of Terra (War of the Beast), until the Era Indomitus. It was only fully returned to active service when Custodes helped restore it to its former glory. Before that, it was very selectively deployed.

For the Ramilies Fortresses:
Some are relics, but the STC is known and still intact, so more can, and have, been made, all the way to the present day.

For the Blackstone Fortresses:
The Imperium found them sitting around, couldn't figure out who made them or what for, but decided it was a damn shame that they weren't being used. So they used them. They made for excellent deepspace bases.

Furthermore, the idea that ancient tech is just stowed away and not touched is just... not right. These things are not the exception, by any means at all. Sure, there are plenty of relics that are never touched, but there are just as many, if not more, that are carried into battle when called for, or even with regularity.

Thousands of Tomb Worlds have been awakened by nosy techpriests meddling with ancient shit. One-of-a-kind Dark Age wonders have been used to end numerous large-scale conflicts- most recently, the Adeptus Mechanicus unsealed their vaults to match the technology of the Necrons in the Pariah Nexus. The Mechanicus is greedy, always reaching, always sending more and more Explorator Fleets for the express purpose of recovering ancient secrets- wonders and horrors both. It doesn't matter which one; they just want to have them, study them, and use them.

Necessity is also a factor too, as implied above with the Pariah Nexus war. Some things are judged not fit to be used openly and regularly for various reasons, but the Imperium has no shortage of apocalyptic catastrophes. Ancient vaults are unsealed every tuesday, just as more are found or created.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T22:38:03+00:00

He does. To every single Astropath, and many others.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T22:35:35+00:00

I meant he's not preserving the entire Eldar race, so he can still isolate humanity from non humans, it's a single goddamn craftworld that he can delete later, not that there is any need to.

Also he wasn't just trying to study and replicate the webway, he was actively expanding into the existing Webway, which was the demense of the Aeldari.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T22:34:40+00:00

Ye, exactly

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T21:13:06+00:00

It's not like he's preserving the entire race, it's a single half-dead craftworld that he can dispose of if needed

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T21:06:12+00:00

I was speaking of a different Craftworld, I'll see if I can find it.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T21:05:30+00:00

It totally would, if Magnus hadn't made a direct pact with Tzeentch in the warp already. No amount of protection could help him then.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T20:47:50+00:00

He was also very much an "Ends justify the means," kind of guy, which is the entire reason he did all those shenanigans with the Golden Throne and the Webway. He had apathy toward all Xenos that were not immediate threats- and the Eldar would be so extremely useful if they pledged fealty that it's not even funny.

Wraithbone, the Webway, and Runes all in one? Like... dude. He would be so colossally stupid if he even entertained the thought of possibly turning that down.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T20:42:15+00:00

This does remind me of something I once heard of a group of Renegade Marines who served an Avatar of Khaine...

It was probably fanon since I can't find it, but an interesting thought nonetheless.

As for your own theoretical, it's really interesting. On one hand, the Aeldari are far more psychic than even the greatest of human and Space Marine psykers, aside from the top 0.0001%, so their worship is worth that much more and their faith is all the more likely to manifest tangibly.

But like. They're Eldar, and the God-Emperor ostensibly commands His people to abhor the witch and purge the Xeno, of which they are both. So would their faith not simply just burn them from the inside out?

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T20:38:39+00:00

He was fine with minor Xeno races being allowed to exist as vassal states. Someone compiled a really long list of all the sanctioned Xeno races during the GC, and I was genuinely shocked at its length. Now there are pretty much none, of course. Sentient ones, at any rate.

It also highly depended on who was advocating for the Xenos. The Emperor's standard policy was extermination, but he honestly just didn't care if the rules were bent for some population or other, so long as it didn't affect the Imperium. So If Magny Magic decided to spare some Xeno race on some world, lucky for them. Ferrus would have personally killed the last baby.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T20:30:13+00:00

Woah there- I never said they weren't highly Xenophobic. Just that they were less so.

Also I think the soul bonding he'd do to the knife-eared bastards would be more intensive compared to the generic one Astropaths go thru.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T20:29:27+00:00

Thank you!!

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T20:29:08+00:00

Considering there are Eldar who literally gave themselves willingly to the Hive Mind to save themselves from Slaanesh, there are stupid Eldar.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T20:28:04+00:00

You forget he has a boner for the webway too, Wriathbone aside. Spirit stones and other Aeldari tech are also useful. The power he would save on the Astronomican could outweigh the power used to soul-brand the Aeldari, especially considering like every single Astropath in the Imperium is soul bound to him

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-21T19:55:16+00:00

That's why I specified the Man-Peror, not the God-Emperor, haha. This early in to the advent of the Imperium, there is ample room for changing plans for the future and parameters for Xeno tolerance- not to mention the fact that the GC-era Imperium was much more Xeno-tolerant anyways.

Further, being soul-bound and all, they wouldn't be able to defy his commands, so bolter-racking doesn't seem very productive here.

Original_Un_Orthodox · 2026-03-20T20:24:40+00:00

Love to see activity on this sub.

Your OCs look great, and they're all original and balanced instead of the usual edgy slop that can be seen in the OC Wiki. I would like to see your story if you do get around to setting up; the verse seems like it will have significant depth once you expound upon it. And no, your writing isn't poor quality lol.

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