The Silent King - The King Who Ruined the Galaxy

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0:01 - Intro
1:16 - WarThunder Sponsorship
2:42 - Lore
14:16 - Do or Don't - Silent King
22:51 - Conclusion
23:36 - ELDAR SWEEP

Music:
FTL: Faster Than Light - Space Cruise, Mantis (Explore), Engi (Explore), Milky Way (Explore), Rockmen (Explore), Zoltan (Explore), Colonial (Explore), Lanius (Battle)

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War Thunder is a highly detailed vehicle combat game containing over 2, 000 playable tanks, aircraft, and ships spanning over 100 years of development. Immerse yourself completely in dynamic battles with an unparalleled combination of realism and approachability.

[dueinuremom]

The idea of the silent king removing battle shock is funny to me “unit 7731498, stop being a pussy.”
“Yes sire”
*proceeds to unmake a space marine

[Brainflayer]

- Curses his entire race
- Breaks Warhammer
- Shatters Gods
- Refuses to Elaborate
- Leaves
- Comes back to warn the primitives about the bug monsters
- Finds a cool chair
- Once again refuses to elaborate
- He sleep

[sirunklydunk]

Minor correction, Szarekh wasn't the King who started the War in Heaven, he just inherited it meaning the whole conflict wasn't even his fault

[psychetitan]

Small note: the deceiver was not called the deceiver by the Necrons until after Biotransference. To the Necrons he was called “The Messenger” while to his C’tan siblings he was called the deceiver

[xnikolasbs]

It is virtually Impossible Zharekh was the Silent King who declared the war in Heaven. We know from the Infinite and the Divine the war lasted five million years in total and even assuming the first phase where the necrons were defeated was a very small portion of that, it it could still be thousands of years. Meanwhile Necrontyr very rarely lived to be 60 IF they were the highest royalty.

Zharekh was probably the guy who got handed a dumpsterfire of an Empire by his forebears and in his despair and wish to save his people, he agreed to Biotransference.

[Zanzabarchocolate]

I always imagined that Szarek didn't declare war on the Old Ones and instead he was the last of a long line of successors to the one that did. He ended up inheriting the mess his predecessors started and was desperate for an out, and so went with the C'tan as it was perceived as his only good option. The war likely lasted longer than the average Necrontyr lifespan, so the Silent King who started the war saw his race unified, said "I got mine, " and died before having to see the terrible end.

[thethghostface]

"...I made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don’t expect to be forgiven..."

-Excerpt from Szarekh's final 'speech' before departing the galaxy

[Vernafveik]

Necrons are cursed with being so overpowered and cool the writers have to either:

Never let them get involved with anything

or

Force them to lose through the power of plot convenience

[MrJinglejanglejingle]

Lore Positives: He's the man behind everything in 40k
Lore negatives: He's the man behind everything in 40k

[DarthSidian]

He's actually quite compelling as a character. He also really fucking hates bugs.

[alanolex]

Much like how every sentence hyping up Nagash must end with "Such is the power of Nagash." Any and all sentences hyping up the Silent King must end with "For he is the Breaker of Gods."

I don't make the rules that's just how it is.

[jacksonmacpherson]

Nice to have a character who, just for once, is the catalyst for everything going wrong but goes "My b guys ill try and fix"

[martinconway]

Two things I noticed: Necrons absolutely do go mad over time, it’s only the most “obsessive” ones that can maintain their sanity over the thousands of years. That’s why Trazyn is pretty sane compared to most. The Silent King ignores this because his body is absolutely perfectly made, no mechanical or psychological degradation whatsoever.

Second, as per the new codex, The Silent King has ordered the creation of the Pariah Nexus, seemingly to contain the Great Rift, and to separate the souls from mortal bodies.

[chronovac]

Local Necron nerd checking in. As far as what he's been doing, he is the driving force behind the Pariah Nexus, aka the "Warp be gone" field in the Nephilim sector of the galaxy that prevents Chaos from manifesting entirely and screws with the Nids at the small cost of slowly sucking away the souls of those inside not strong enough to resist it's pull, but that really isn't a problem for the Necrons. Originally it was just the one but as of the new Codex there appear to be more popping up around the galaxy, implying that he plans on implementing it on a larger (perhaps galactic) scale. Also, since the new codex has come out, the rivalry between Imotekh and Szarekh has begun to ramp up into what many believe to be the beginnings of a civil war, though it has yet to heat up into outright fighting. This is assumed to be the next direction the Necrons will take plotwise.

So, for what is arguably the most historically important figure in the setting, he has a grand total of 1 and half plotlines going on. Not much but it's better than the purgatory the Ynnari and Votann have been left in I guess.

EDIT: As of the new Crusade book, the civil war between Szarekh and Imotekh is officially underway. Feeling the heat of having to fight 3 enemies at once (Imotekh, Imperium with a whole new crusade force led by Cawl himself and now Vashtorr is showing up), Szarekh is beginning to unveil some of the weapons from the War in Heaven he had stowed away. This causes Imotekh to proclaim Szarekh "dishonorable" as he himself is strictly abiding by the codes of warfare as proclaimed by Necron law, causing some, like Orikan, to defect to Imotekh's side. And now, the Pariah Nexus is a 4-way shitshow of Imperium vs Chaos vs Necrons vs other Necrons.

[InquisitorXarius]

The Silent King, when one of my favorite 40k characters. Something tells me the story we are told about the war in heaven is not the whole story of the matter.

[TheLionElJonson]

I agree with you saying the Necrons are underutilized. They're basically irrelevant to the plot in the modern era of 40k. If they never woke up and just stayed as a historical race with their relics spread over the galaxy, you'd barely feel the impact.

[generalsmite]

Actually, the silent king has done something. He did the Pariah Nexus which was supposed to lead to a big story event with G Man but is likely to go nowhere and hasn’t been touched

[alistairo]

A note on what you were saying at 8:50 about the soul: in The Infinite and the Divine, Orikan and Trazyn both make reference to the idea that the necron can no longer engage in art. Whether it be the ceramics that Orikan smashes or the stage play of another species, they could not engage with it in an artistic way because they ultimately lacked any sustained feeling. They could replicate things at the technical level, sure, or criticize them and extrapolate their meaning, but it wouldn't feel like art to them. Conversely, we know that the Eldar are possessed of incredibly large souls to the extent that art and culture are experienced to a higher level than any human. In humans you have a bit more of a spectrum from psykers to blanks. These 3 perspectives sort of give an interesting idea of the soul in relation to its "size" in 40k. It seems to me that the Necrons being soulless isn't just like not having an organ, it's their ability to have any emotional grounding outside of their ingrained power structures or personal obsessions. They're always just smart enough to know what they've lost, but they are never even able to remember the feel of it.

[ForgottenHonor]

Necrons seem to have the opposite problem in 40k than the Eldar. The Eldar are relatively popular but are pretty much only used rarely in the lore and only to be the punching bag for whoever is the protagonist. The Necrons aren't played that often, oddly, but in ANY lore they are just as terrifying and OP against anyone they come across as they should be considering they went toe-to-toe with the Eldar, the Krorks, and the Old Ones in the War of Heaven and nearly won! At least, that's what it seems like to me...