Peer into the into the bizarre culture and motivations of the Necrons
in this great novel from Nate Crowley.
After centuries of exile, the necron lord Oltyx has at last been granted
the thing he has always craved: the throne of the Ithakas Dynasty.
Kingship, however, is not quite what he had hoped for. Oltyx's reign
begins aboard the dying battleship Akrops, as it lumbers away from the
ruins of his crownworld. Behind it is a hostile armada of unfathomable
size, launched by the barbaric alien war-cult known as the Imperium of
Man. And within the Akrops' sepulchral hold, an even greater threat
festers: the creeping horror of the flayer curse. Faced with such
overwhelming odds, Oltyx begins a desperate voyage into a darkness so
profound that salvation and doom look much the same. If he and his
dynasty are to make it through that long night, Oltyx will have to
become a very different sort of king.