The Old Ones, the Necrontyr, and the C’tan

The Old Ones, the Necrontyr, and the C’tan stand at the center of the galaxy’s earliest great conflict in Warhammer 40,000. This episode explores the ancient Necrontyr, a short-lived species whose resentment of the long-lived Old Ones helped ignite a war that would reshape galactic history. It introduces the C’tan, star-born entities whose alliance with the Necrontyr promised victory and immortality but led instead to biotransference, the transformation of an entire civilization into the machine bodies of the Necrons. Listeners will learn what is firmly established about this distant era, what remains obscured by myth and fragmentary memory, and why modern Necron accounts can be unreliable after millions of years of damage and political revision. The episode also examines the Old Ones’ use of psychic species and the early conditions that would contribute to later catastrophes. This is the foundation for understanding the War in Heaven and its enduring consequences. Visit ImaginedBattlefield.com for more military and science fiction.