Enslaver plague
The Enslaver Plague was an event in Ancient History more than 65 million years ago which, through the manifestation of Warp Entities (of which Enslavers would be the most remarkable) would provide the means to end the War in Heaven.[1]
History
The coalesced souls of the war-slain Young Races experiencing the intense emotions of the pain and destruction of the war attracted predatory elder Warp Entities which sought the cracks in reality created by the energies of Psykers to find new ways into the Material Universe, a proverbial Pandora's Box that would lead to the end of the Old Ones.[1]
Of these horrors, Enslavers were the most proficient, dominating the engineered Young Races of the Old Ones and using their psykers to open gates through which enslavers could be brought forth.[1] This epidemic would not only threaten the foothold the Old One forces had recently gained in the war, but rather all sentient life in the galaxy[1]. The Old Ones' galactic civilization collapsed as their strongholds were invaded by the Enslavers, their psychic guardians and servitor races were psychically enthralled or destroyed.[1]
In desperation, the Old Ones created newer creations to defend their strongholds, the green-skinned Krork and the technologically-adept Jokaero but these new bioweapons would arise too late to stop the flood of Warp Entities from overrunning their great works and places of power.[1] Seizing on the opportunity, the forces of Necrontyr hunted the defeated and scattered Old Ones, finally destroying them,[2] but not before their C'tan masters would realize this plague would spell doom for their 'cattle' as well.[1]
The C'tan hatched a plan for survival intending to let the Enslavers make a wasteland of the galaxy and putting themselves in stasis protected by their Necrons. Instead, this plan would spell doom for the C'tan when the Silent King Szarekh turned the Necrons upon the C'tan[2], rebelling against their masters and reclaiming their freedom by imprisoning the C'tan within Tesseract Labyrinths.[2]
It is unknown what ended the plague itself. In its wake the Eldar Empire would rise, and Szarekh would order the necron forces (weakened by their rebellion) into stasis out of fear of conflict with the fledgling empire.[2] But it is certain that the plague ended the War in Heaven.[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition), pg. 26
- 2: Codex: Necrons (5th Edition), pg. 7
