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The Stilling is the Imperial name, for the deadly malaise that was given off by the Blackstone Pylons the Necron used to create the Pariah Nexus.[1a]

While the Necrons are not effected by the energy, anything organic is struck by despair, lethargy, exhaustion and also causes a psychic dampening effect. These effects are stronger on the Nexus' worlds and the constant drain of the Stilling can eventually drive some of its victims to commit suicide. Most of its victims, however, eventually collapse and remain still until they die. The population of the Imperium's worlds in the Nexus suffered this fate, which the Indomitus Crusade's Battle Group Kallides discovered when they entered the region. The Stilling also effected the Battle Group's warships, causing their engines to draw on more power to function and caused their Geller Fields to collapse. Miraculously this did not allow Daemons to invade the warships, but this was the few hardships the Battle Group was spared. The Stilling otherwise had a horrific effect on the Battle Group's forces with only its Battle Sisters being unaffected by it. This led to horrific causalities caused by suicide or executions carried out by Commissars after many stopped following orders or said the Battle Group was doomed. The Kallides' Psykers seemed to suffer a stronger reaction to the Stilling, whose psychic dampening effect also caused them to struggle to make their powers work. They described a feeling of constant drowning, which eventually led many of them to commit suicide. When their numbers became extremely low, the Battle Group was forced to assign bodyguards to protect the psykers from themselves.[1a]

The Battle Group eventually discovered that the Stilling was caused by Blackstone Pylons they found on the Pariah Nexus world Mesmoch. This discovery, however, led the Necron to attack the Battle Group, which was unable to properly fight back due to being struck by the Stilling[1a]. Kallides' forces were defeated as a result, which caused the Battle Group to suffer nearly crippling losses. In the aftermath of the debacle, the Battle Sister Ephrael Stern was allowed to lead a desperate counter-attack on the Necron held world Cherist. Her forces contained a large number of Battle Sisters, whose Imperial Faith was so strong, that it lessened the impact the Stilling had on the forces fighting beside them. This allowed Kallides' forces to defeat the Necron on Cherist[1b] and afterwards, the Battle Group realized that their faith in the Emperor was the key to victory. Soon Kallides' Battle Sisters, Black Templars and Preachers were distributed across the Battle Group, to ensure its faith remained permanently roused. The Necron's leader, Szeras, refuses to believe that Kallides' faith is protecting them from the Stilling and has ordered its forces captured. He plans to experiment on them in order to determine the true cause of the Battle Group's new found resilience. Inquisitor Lord Kyria Draxus, meanwhile is searching for a way to stop the Stilling by seeking out how to destroy the Blackstone Pylons.[1c]

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