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I've read the page for Necrodermis and read a lot of the page on Necrons and I've found no answer. Can necrons/necrodermis rust?
Necrons sleeps in timefrozen stasis crypts. But plenty of problems couldve happened to a tombworld that had lost power to the stasis generators, but with the necrons still in hibernation mode despite being exposed. Power issues from earthquakes, tectonic shifts, eldar raiders. Forcing a possibly increasingly corrupted MCP to try to maintain its charges in a futile fight against entrophy itself. Earthquakes could even have breached the failing tomb to the elementsOxygen is amazing at binding to things, and entropy is a bitch. The question isn't so much whether Necrons CAN rust, but how long it would take.
Quite frankly, with their extreme abilities in material science and some basic maintenance alone (oil them regularly and the oxygen won't REACH the metal bits), that would be a very long time indeed. And the time it takes to get some proper oxidation done on a Necron gets far, far longer when you realize Necrons don't actually have a good reason to keep oxygen around. It's not like they breathe the stuff. All oxygen does is enable annoyances like Eldar and Orks.
That does also mean a Cryptek or two might just not have bothered with keeping the anti-oxygen maintenance going while he slept ("seriously not going to waste the oild, the Tomb is sealed, no oxygen here, things will be fine for another few thousand years" ) with the Tomb springing a leak rust might have gotten a chance to play ("Where'd all the damn oxygen COME from?" )
The word "living" here is used to describe its properties, its ability to repair damage unlike ordinary metals. But it is no more living than any other metal in actuality, as it has been revealed to be based on nanotechnology. It simply appears to regrow as the nano cells realign themselves to their designated configuration.The necrodermis is "living" metal, so theoretically it could get "sick" like a former of skin cancer that would manifest itself as rust
There you go. Nurgle would have a field day.The necrodermis is "living" metal, so theoretically it could get "sick" like a former of skin cancer that would manifest itself as rust
The word "living" here is used to describe its properties, its ability to repair damage unlike ordinary metals. But it is no more living than any other metal in actuality, as it has been revealed to be based on nanotechnology. It simply appears to regrow as the nano cells realign themselves to their designated configuration.