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>Due to their belief that all life serves the dead, the High Ruling Triarch Council decreed through the Edicts of Experminatiom that all life is to be brought to extinction, to the exclusion of those that can be proved useful to the dead.
>The first species given pardon were the Necrontyr race themselves, who's purpose is the guarding of the honor and tombs of their ancestors.
>The next to recieve pardon were the subsistence crops which feed and supplied the Necrontyr.
>The cash crop grains, rices, roots, beans, lumber, medicinal herbs, and fiber.
>The luxury fruits, berries, and vegetables.
>The third pardon were the species immediately neccessary to facilitate the life cycle of those subsistence crops.
>These would include the Scarabs and the Spyders, which served to convert the waist and inedible parts of the crops into useful fertilizer and meat.
>The fourth to recieve pardon were the auxiliary creatures.
>Wraiths, Tomb Stalkers, and Skolopendra, just to name a few, deemed employable as either entertainment, livestock, beasts-of-burden, and/or war-beasts.
>In recognition for their service to the dead, these species were glorified, taken to every world the Immortal Empire touched to serve the dead evermore alongside the Necrontyr.
>The beasts were further glorified by the creation of the Canopteks, machine inheritors of their living progenitors' form and instincts.
>Every other species on our homeworld were purged from existence, with even their historical mentioning being purged to deny them the immortality of memory.
