Warhammer 40K: Necrons Are Kidnapping Humans
In the latest glimpse into Psychic Awakening stories, Necrons are kidnapping humans. But why, and what are they doing?
The Psychic Awakening stories continue to roll out, giving us a glimpse at what might lie in store for the new boom as the big metaplot of the event grinds slowly onward. Much ike with Vigilus and its collection of fiction, these stories serve up little nuggets of narrative that help frame the coming conflict.
Before we’ve seen the nefarious schemes of Magnus the Red, who had been luring psykers to a trap, or watched horrors lurking in the shadows of the warp loom larger. It’s almist always from the perspective of hapless humans, about to meet their doom. And this most recent story is no different, taking us to a remote mining outpost that has uncovered something terrifying.
Which seems to happen all the time in the grim darkness of the distant future. It’s a special kind of hazard, workong a mine. You dig too greedily, too deep and uncover a daemon. Or your equipment and relative isolation makes you vulnerable to infiltration by Chaos cultists. Or Genestealer cultists, who use their alien instincts to soup up mining vehicles and make them combat worthy. And that’s not even mentioning the normal hazards of being a miner, which are already pretty terrible.
Even worse when you consider that the most valuable mines are always on top of something dangerous, like a death world, or, as we’ll see in this story, a Necron tomb complex.
Here’s a snippet that reveals some “Pariah” like powers.
Could this be some curse spat from the Great Rift? thought Laria, steadying herself as her head spun and the numbness crept up her legs. Was that what was draining her strength and numbing her thoughts? It was a horrible, insidious notion, but even this didn’t stir more than the faintest emotion in her now.
This comes as the precursor to an attack, but it’s a curious thing.
There are no emotions, no terror, all that we see is the idea that this is somehow wrong, but the characters are suppressed by some kind of dampening field that drowns out their wills and leaves them all but empty husks, watching the world happen to them with deadly result.
If that’s not some Necron inevitability nonsense, I don’t know what it’s. The question remains though: what are the Necron planning?
