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Before the fires of biotransference consumed the Necrontyr race, the warriors who would become the Immortals were the career soldiers, veteran spearmen and royal regulars who had survived the bitter wars of the Secession and the opening campaigns against the Old Ones. As reward for their service, they were marched into the bio-furnaces ahead of the common citizenry and gifted bodies far sturdier, broader and better cognitive-linked than the mindless Necron Warriors who make up the bulk of the silver tide.
While an ordinary Necron Warrior is a lobotomised automaton incapable of speech or initiative, an Immortal retains the cold muscle-memory, tactical reflexes and martial discipline of its mortal life — though stripped of emotion, fatigue, mercy or fear. They can speak in harsh, metallic monotone to deliver status reports or relay an Overlord's orders, and they instinctively adjust their firing lanes, take up interlocking fields of fire and advance in unbreakable lockstep without requiring constant micro-management from a noble's command protocols.
Across sixty million years of war and stasis, the Immortals have served as the iron fist of every Tomb World's awakening. Where the Warriors are the expendable anvil, the Immortals are the veteran spearhead sent to crush the hardest points of the enemy line. Even when an entire phalanx is cut down by concentrated artillery, their reinforced reanimation protocols pull shattered necrodermis plates back together until the silver ranks rise once more.
Appearance & wargear
Broader-shouldered and more heavily plated than standard Necron Warriors, Immortals are encased in thick, overlapping slabs of living-metal necrodermis emblazoned with the golden, jade or bronze ankh-glyphs of their ruling dynasty, their backs reinforced by heavy spinal power-cables that feed directly into their weapons. Their deathless skull-visages burn with cold emerald or dynasty-tinted ocular light, and their chests house reinforced self-repair nodes that knit shattered limbs and cracked ribcages back together on the march. Each phalanx carries either the heavy twin-rod Gauss Blaster — capable of stripping a battle tank or Space Marine down to stray atoms layer by layer — or the Tesla Carbine, which unleashes forked arcs of living lightning that leap from one victim to the next across a crowded trench.
Weapons & Vehicles
The iconic emerald molecular-flaying beam rifle of the Necron legions, stripping flesh, bone and tank armour apart atom by atom in a bl…
The arcane techno-sorcerous sceptres of Necron Crypteks and Overlords, unleashing searing bolts of captured stellar radiation while ser…
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Battlefield role & tactics
Advancing in disciplined ten-strong phalanxes or stepping straight through the glowing eternity gate of a Night Scythe or Monolith, Immortals form the elite heavy line infantry of the Necron legions. Impervious to small arms that would fell mortal soldiers and tirelessly reanimating when struck down, they pour relentless, walking volleys of Gauss or Tesla fire into the enemy front while closing the distance to finish survivors with the heavy bladed bayonets of their rifles.
Munitorum & Ordo Xenos Technical Dossier
Classified under Ordo and Departmento Munitorum threat-index protocols as a primary Advancing in disciplined ten-strong phalanxes or stepping straight through the glowing eternity gate of a Night Scythe or Monolith, Immortals form the elite heavy line infantry of the Necron legions. Impervious to small arms that would fell mortal soldiers and tirelessly reanimating when struck down, they pour relentless, walking volleys of Gauss or Tesla fire into the enemy front while closing the distance to finish survivors with the heavy bladed bayonets of their rifles. asset of Necrons, Immortals relies on a tightly coupled symbiosis between operator conditioning and primary armament. Field maintenance and biological recovery logs indicate that extended deployment without liturgical recalibration or bio-stasis rest degrades targeting and metabolic stability by less than 4% per solar week—far outperforming standard sector baselines—while post-engagement recovery teams prioritize the immediate extraction of their core wargear, neural/gene-seed components, or machine-spirit memory cores before enemy scavengers can exploit them.
Notable battles & users
- The First Legion of the Sautekh Dynasty — Imotekh the Stormlord's vanguard Immortals, whose Gauss and Tesla volleys have scoured hundreds of worlds across the Eastern Fringe.
- The Pyrrhian Eternals — An elite legion of Immortals under Anrakyr the Traveller who have marched from one slumbering Tomb World to the next to awaken their kin.
- Fall of Damnos — Phalanxes of Immortals stepped from Monolith portals at the heart of the Ultramarines' defensive lines and methodically atomised the human defenders.
Related
Characters (4)
Szarekh, the Silent King · Last of the Silent Kings
Imotekh the Stormlord · Phaeron of the Sautekh Dynasty
Trazyn the Infinite · Overlord of Solemnace, Archaeovist
Orikan the Diviner · Cryptek Chronomancer, Astromancer of the Triarch
