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>As the Necrontyr spread across the stars, they took their assumptions of death with them.
>They discovered planets with new unrecognizable sapient life.
>By the compulsion of their morality, the Nectontyr set about the extermination of every discovered world's life, but not before combing it for useful organism which could serve the expanding Dynasties.
>The amount of feral worlds they crossed in need of sterilization defied the Cryptek's statistical estimations, which lead them to the suspicion that a higher intelligent seeder species was at play.
>Their assumptions were confirmed at the first encounter with the self proclaimed Old Ones who fashioned themselves as the gods of all life.
>In acknowledgement of their omnipotent power to modify life at will, the Necrontyr humbled themselves before the Old Ones, begging them to take the Necrontyr on as one of their mortal subjects in exchange for the secrets of Immortality, or at least relief from the pain of their last years.
>The Old Ones judged the Necrontyr as unfit inheritors of both, due to their opposing philosophies reguarding life and death, condemning the Necrontyr species to eternal suffering.
>The Necrontyr, consumed by envy and indignation, declared war on the life-gods, determined to bring the Edicts of Experminatiom passed by their ancestors so many generations ago to their final resolution.
>If the Old Ones would not serve the living, then the Necrontyr would make the Old Ones join the dead.
>The war was posthumously named "The First War in Heaven", though the Nectontyr of the age knew it as "The Last Cleansing".