Codex Necrons, 3rd ed., Page 3 by Graham McNeill

Welcome to this first installment of Oldex, in which I adapt the wonderful fiction from out of print Warhammer 40,000 codexes and other rules books into audio stories.

First things first: thank you ever so much to Graham McNeill, the very author of this and so many other stories I grew up reading.

Graham took the time to tell me the specific authors of the individual pieces in 3rd edition Codex Necrons after I sent him photos of them *all* from my own copy.

As you may know, codexes generally only give a list of authors at the start and do not attribute which piece of fiction was written by who.

As I'm adapting individual pieces I felt it only right to try and credit the specific author of a piece, rather than say 'it's either the work of Andy Chambers, Pete Haines, Graham McNeill, Phil Kelly or Andy Hoare.'

Thank you Mr. McNeill, I feel honoured you have taken the time to help me, and it's a testament to your character that you made the effort for someone you don't know from Jack.

You can and should follow Graham McNeill on Twitter here:

https://twitter.com/GrahamMcNeill

While you're about it, visit his website to see the vast plethora of work he's accomplished:

https://graham-mcneill.com/

Since, thanks to Graham, I have all the authors for the Codex Necrons 3rd ed. fiction, this first phase of Oldex will be focused on that book, and I am glad that the opening story in the codex is by Mr. McNeill, as I wanted the first video on this channel to be one of his.

Why Necrons? I'm a necron boy at heart. I love all the other factions - I also have Space Marine, Genestealer Cult and Imperial Guard forces.

As someone with a couple of chronic health issues who has been let down by people in power, however, I relate to their story of being horrendously ill and raging at those who are in a position, but refuse, to help or betray them. There is something awesome and inspiring about enslaving the very gods that tried to devour you. I probably have an unusual view of the necrons though, don't I?

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You can talk to me about 40K and which middlehammer/oldhammer lore I should turn my attention to next at https://twitter.com/RJBayley or [email protected].

This production, like all of Oldex, is entirely unofficial and uncommercial, from an out of print publication, is a derivative work with all copyrights owned by Games Workshop and is a celebration of the hobby.