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The other day I read some non-official description of the C´Tan Necrodermis, and it was quite similar to the usual description of the silver hands of Ferrus Manus, do you think that there could be a link there? I think it´d be interesting.
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Well, Ferrus Manus got his silver hands while fighting a Silver Wyrm. The only way he could figure to beat it was to wrestle it down and hold it into a magma flow. When he withdrew his hands, they had become living metal.

 

I have seen conjecture before that the Silver Wyrm was a Necrontyr construct, thus making Ferrus' hands necrodermis.

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It's even mentioned, in Fulgrim, that Ferrus was able to forge weapons and the such just by using his hands. For example, he apparently made a custom gun for Vulkan but he didn't accept because he felt uneasy that it had been forged by unnatural ways.
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Yea....Pasanius is a weirdo now.

Necron arm, cuts himself, gigantic enough to have to have mishmash Power/Terminator Armor.

Strange Ultramarine...

 

Heh, that just put me off EVER reading the Ultramarines series...

 

As for Manus' hands, there is plenty of room for it NOT to be Necron. Medusa was, in the past, a heavily industrialised planet with some very advanced robotics in use. It's not completely unbelievable that a branch of humanity could have managed "living metal".

 

There's also the idea that Asirnoth was not living metal in the first place, just a robotic dragon, and that fusion with a primarch's flesh caused the alloys to "live"...

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You're not missing too much. The book contains less Ultramarineishness than my glass of water....

 

 

 

 

........which ironically now that I think about it, a glass of water does sort of technically have a bit of.... but you see my point....

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As for Manus' hands, there is plenty of room for it NOT to be Necron. Medusa was, in the past, a heavily industrialised planet with some very advanced robotics in use. It's not completely unbelievable that a branch of humanity could have managed "living metal".

 

Read the book Iron Hands, at the start Gdolkin (stories hero & future Iron Father) fights, to all intents and purposes, a Necron Wraith as he's wandering across Medusa to be selected to join the chapter

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That's the bit I'm referring to. You only have a description of the robot and its purpose, not its origin. On top of that, the books is goddam awful. (there's also the whole "what is and isn't canon from the Black Library" can of worms)...
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Hmm I thought that was a servitor?

 

As for the hands- there is speculation that they were from a C'tan construct yes- but Games Workshop have stated that the necron codex was mostly unwritten when index astartes (the first book to mention the hands) was released

 

But its all good fun to come up with your own backstory about it

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As Medusa was industrial, it would not have been hard to create living metal. We basically have living metal now; artificial sensory/motor neurons and "smart alloys" (for those who don't know, these are alooys of metals, usually titanium and nickel, that can return to their original shape under pressure or heat).

 

For the void dragon theory, it may have been, as Kaptin Badrukk (Ork Freeboota captain) managed to kill the void whale.

 

FOE

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It depends on what you mean by living metal. Metal can never be alive in the truest sense (it does not, never has and never will move, reproduce, be sesnitive, grow, respire, evolve or noursih itself. these are the factors of life). But in a fantasy setting, who knows whats possible ;)
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For living metal, think of the T1000. The Imperium has nothing like that, or anything that resembles that from the STCs. The Necrons were more technologically advanced (at least in a number of ways) than the Old Ones, so don't expect the Imperium to reach those heady heights.

 

I would tend to lean towards the EC's explanation - one of the C'tan "bodies" were killed (and the C'tan energy went back to a tomb world somewhere) leaving necrodermis permanently on Ferrus Manus' hands. The problem is that no C'tan is supposed to be awake at this point (Deceiver and Nightbringer come much later, Void Dragon is on Mars and Outsider has yet to wake).

 

The solution might come from the rumoured retcon, with Necron Lords able to take on the "spirit" of the C'tan (much like the Dawn of War game), which could... just... work.

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