Cirrikan delicately placed the last focusing crystal fiber into the Staff of Light he was rebuilding. The four-armed cryptek activated the small yet incredibly powerful energy source of the staff, which hummed to life with eldritch energy. Satisfied the weapon was working properly, Cirrikan completed the weapon by calling upon the highly complex fabrication functions of his hands which far outstripped the capabilities of whole swarms of canoptek spyders and scarabs. His hands allowed him to easily create complex and powerful technology from the simplest raw materials shaping them on the atomic scale. This was evidenced as he forged the Staff's phase blade seemingly out of thin air.

Once the staff was completed, Cirrikan handed it to the Necron Lord of Kronus, who took it and gave the weapon a few experimental swipes. Satisfied with the workings of the new weapon as it interfaced with the Necron Lord's systems, the Necron Lord gave a nod to the cryptek before teleporting away. Upgrading the staff was significantly lesser ability of the Cryptek, it was just one of countless other abilities which fell under his unique study as a "Technomancer." Considering his position as a cryptek, the title seemed like an exercise in unnecessary redundancy but it belied far more in regards to this particular cryptek.

Regardless of the numerous specializations of the cryptek conclaves, the repair and maintenance of Necron technology was second nature to each. Cirrikan took that several steps further with his ability to invent, create, and manufacture new technologies based upon the need or his desire. The ability to create or discover was now lost on most of the cryptek conclaves, say for a few…

When the Silent King sent the whole of the Necron race into their tombs to slumber, Cirrikan's research outpost was a bit more active than other tombs. While other Necron tombs were placed into a state of perpetual maintenance at the hands of the canoptek tomb spyders and the scarab swarms they controlled, Cirrikan tweaked the adaptive sub-routines to implement a system of constant subtle improvements.

When the cryptek emerged from his 60 million year hibernation, he discovered the fruit of his adaptation. Many aspects of the Tomb had been improved, the Spyders, scarabs, even the cryptek himself! His tomb spyders had improved maintenance efficiency by replacing unnecessarily complex systems with more durable and simple ones. This simplification had opened up new opportunities for improvements, which the spyders capitalized on.

Due to the fact that the warriors had such low-quality necrodermis bodies, they recalled very little of their lives before their biotransference. The canoptek spyders considered this to be incomplete information, a problem that needed to be fixed. Initially, the spyders struggled to reconstruct the data until their adaptive processes came to the conclusion that part of the problem was that the data was incompatible with the hardware in which the memories had been implanted. In order to rectify this, the spyders turned their attention to studying the race that had come to reside on the planet: humans. Creating scarabs with powerful scanners, the spyders studied the humans without discovery.

They soon understood the electrochemical impulses of the organics and it seemed that this format of "hardware" was compatible with the data. That was the breakthrough the spyders needed. Taking the small sleeping contingent of necron warriors, they implemented a technological system that imitated the observed organic processes. The incomplete data began to reconstruct itself. Once the spyders were satisfied with the reconstructed data, they put the newly upgraded Necron Warriors back into stasis until their designated time to awakened came.

When Cirrikan awoke, the first thing he noticed was the feeling of air moving over his necrodermis next thing was an emotional response to the sensation.

He thought the breeze felt nice.

Nice?

The cryptek moved his hands to touch his body.

His four hands…

This is unexpected but not unwelcome.

The cryptek now sported four arms and numerous new means of sensing the world around him. His inquiries to the outpost's Nodal Command Network yielded the extensive logs of the spyders and their activities while he slumbered. His enhanced processes absorbed the data quickly and efficiently, The cryptek was very much pleased as well as surprised at the changes that were made. The nodal command network informed him also about the status of the warriors. They too expressed their pleasure at the changes, specifically the reclamation of who they were.

This change brought about something else… the cryptek's integration into the warrior's command network. Cirrikan was now in equal standing to a Necron Lord in regards to them. This was a problem. When they eventually reintegrated themselves into necron society, to say the least it would be frowned upon, perhaps holding the cryptek in contempt of any court he was asked to join. To rectify this, the cryptek directed his spyders to modify the warriors further creating a sub-nodal command network which he was part of in the capacity they desired while simultaneously applying upgrades to their respective minds and bodies. Simultaneously, he directed the other spyders and their scarabs to reconfigure the outpost into a spaceworthy form. He had the canoptek wraiths phase freshly made canopek leeches into the wall's where they integrated with many systems. Other crypteks would consider such an endeavor beneath them and nobility would consider it a waste of time. But for a cryptek of Cirrikan's caliber, their pride was their work and his was repair, maintenance, construction, manufacturing, modification, and development of necron technology.

Synchronizing every spyder, wraith, leech, and scarab, Cirrikan united them all in mind and purpose. In the subfunctions of every system, the technomancer shaped and bent them to his will.

Restructuring…

Repurposing power infrastructure…

Integrating sentry turret defenses…

Fabricating anti-gravity systems...

The research outpost shifted and reshaped. Necrodermis flowed like water as a once-static structure became a unique vessel.

Power matrix forming…

The green crystalline lattice formed between the reformed upper prongs of ship. Eldritch energy flowed into the cryptek ship. The ground shook as the vessel struggled to break free of the ground. The organics nearby looked up from their primitive lives to witness the monolithic structure rise from the ground.

The newly created vessel broke the atmosphere and soon it's internal power systems began to build. Cirrikan was an unknown genius among even the crypteks, one of the few gifted with the knowledge on how to create Dolman gates, having been used by many of the C'tan to create their respective projects. Unfortunately the cryptek lacked the materials or the power to fabricate them. He needed a tomb world… an active or waking one….Cirrikan tapped into warriors original nodal command network and patched it into the communications systems.

… he found it, the ship's systems calculated a course around the sun to the waking tomb world. He may not have had a dolman gate but what he did have was the knowledge of how to harness the mass of a star and how to use it's gravity to his advantage. Cirrikan repurposed the stasis tubes, expanded their capacity, and hardened their internal structure. As the vessel accelerated towards the star, the process began.

The Necron vessel skirted close to the star and began to scoop up the star's mass drawing and compressing it into the repurposed stasis tubes. The principle the cryptek was operating on was not that different from the creation of an Æonic orb, only in this case it was creating eight of them for the purpose of generating the power needed for what he was about to attempt. As the vessel absorbed more mass, it accelerated exponentially but did not break the gravitational pull of the star. The cryptek channeled the gathered mass into two separate reactor units, one was channeled into the phase-shifting units from integrated canoptek wraiths and the other was channeled the the ship's aft.

Once the vessel reached escape velocity, the cryptek activated both the phase shifter's reducing the vessel's mass to zero while simultaneously detonating the mass from the second reactor in what could only be described as a cone of nova fire.

The theoretical principle at work, the vessel accelerated to FTL speeds hurling at an incredible velocity.

Destination: Tomb World 34279

Ultima Segmentum designated world: Kronus