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>Approaching the shard, our minds were assaulted by the Outsider with madness.
>The shard taunted us with flashes of our mortal lives, and the souls it stole from us.
>The things the shard showed us, and the way it showed them, made us realize the Outsider wasn't simply enraged by our betrayal, but terrified to the limits of cognitive capasity.
>When it had eaten pieces of its brothers, the pieces did not digest within him.
>Instead they lingered on, driving the Outsider to madness.
>The struggle of the consciousness within himself drove the Outsider's great awakening to basic Necrontyr empathy and morality.
>The rest of the C'tan never developed either, as they had no childhood in which to temper their selfish impulses to find higher purpose beyond instant gratification.
>The guilt over what the Outsider had done to the Galaxy's mortal creatures and to his own C'tan brethren drove the Outsider to flee from galactic affairs is an attempt to seek penance in isolation.
>The Outsider, with his newfound mental maturity, was not blinded by ego like the rest were.
>The Outsider saw us for what we were; The monsters it created.
>He knew what we were going to do him if we could.
