Originally posted by NemeBro
[B]Yeah man, cause alienating a section of the fanbase is a totally cool thing to do.
Shit happens breh.
And they DO have a drive beyond killing everything all the time, the only people who think that never actually read much Necron fluff. Do they enact raids to kill? Yes. But they also take entire populations, for an unknown purpose, speculated to be to create more Necrons.
Semantics.
They perform surgery on the very field of battle, on live victims. They also are the only faction who have a work in progress plan to destroy Chaos, do note I don't say kill the Gods or a God, like the Eldar have, but they plan to sever the Materium and the Immaterium forever (Well, this is more the C'tan's plan, but they are the masters of the Necrons so it counts).Thematically, the Necrons served a purpose no other faction did. They, and the C'tan, were beings with no psychic presence at all, in fact, they were anti-Warp, and with the creation of the Pariah Gene, the C'tan wished to make beings of anti-Warp, pure Materium and soulless like they, the ideal of the galaxy, perhaps the universe. Beyond that, they were enigmatic, a looming threat that was implacable in body and in will, and terrifying to fight. Now they are cartoon villains. Hooray.
Semantics.
Also, what problem do the Necrons share with the Tau now?
They're redundant. They are the same silent foreboding "mysteeeeerrriousss" force that can not be reasoned with can not be influenced or bought or intimidated blah blah blah. Arguing that the way they go about being this foreboding mysterious race is pointless, because it doesn't change the fact that they are. What difference does it make if instead of converting a planet's population to biomass, they instead take them away to turn them all into Necrons, for example? It's the same end result. What difference does it make if instead of eating everyone in the Galaxy they want to kill everything and destroy the warp? It's the same end result. etc etc.
Should they be turned into cartoon characters? 'course not. But I think they could do with having at least some of their characters having enough humanity in them to, say, write a book about them. Currently, you can't.