The Canoptek Spyder And Canoptek Scarabs! Faithful Caretakers Of The Millennia Old Mechanical Dead

[@oldered5663]

Human Tech: They don't make em' like they used to... Necron Tech: They always and will continue make 'em like they used to!

[@robertnelson9599]

Orks: It works cuz I sayz so ya git!! Tau: Innovation is key. Eldar: *implants stone with their dead sibling’s soul in a giant mech*

[@TheArchaos]

A Canoptek Spyder is a manufacture's wet dream, CnC, sintering, forge, furnace, laser cutter, stamping- all rolled into one.

[@thehappyclam3942]

And you can teach em to fetch

[@lordmaur180]

@@thehappyclam3942 and to turn biological creatures into coal and dust! Such a good boy

[@KT-pv3kl]

Its even better. Canoptek spyders and scarabs all use nanomachine tech to create blackstone hence the spyder itself is a nanomachine forge. Forget synthering think mollecular assembly...

[@snakeyman5560]

Matter conversion?

[@jintarokensei3308]

Running on hydraulix. Wet dream all right

[@Abyss-Walker-189]

3:28 to skip the ad. Remember when Raid was a can of bug-be-gone?

[@federationprime]

Nice to see the Necrons getting some love instead of the imperium and chaos. Despite all the post-Heresy history, the War in Heaven set the stage on a far grander scale.

[@jameskazd9951]

i have thought for a while that a war in heaven book series could be really interesting if done right. So many possibilities with that, but would need a good imaginative author to make it worth it.

[@adamgriffiths4022]

@@jameskazd9951 Better they didn't, you know it would be shit.

[@jameskazd9951]

@@adamgriffiths4022 I don't disagree with you really, still think it is a cool concept that i think someone like the guy that wrote Eye of Terror (Bayley i think) could write decently

[@danielhouse897]

I wish theyd flesh out the diff eras a bit more and make games for that era

[@robertnelson9599]

The different eras are too varied, GW would screw it up.

[@magisterapophis8714]

Such a wonderful construct. Builder, Destroyer, and caretaker. Also absolutely adorable.

[@colinscutt5104]

feels like my role in life

[@counterspelled7577]

Withouth the adorable part?

[@chrissmith1094]

"The rough equivalent of your Roomba carrying twin-linked MG42s while cleaning your living room" Shut up and take my money! ;)

[@FoAmY99]

Let the Fedbois come. I've got something special for them.

[@MythosTheSophist]

Arch: "These robots that were constructed millions of years ago and have been operating ever since have been running for tens of thousands of years" The worst part is: you are technically not wrong....

[@crypto1223]

Well they were made during the War in Heaven, and the Necrons went to sleep after that.

[@chidoku]

So he is technically right, and that is the best right :P

[@jellegaard]

Well to be honest he didn’t State any specified Uptime, it would make sense that a tombworld wouldn’t waste energy keeping all their units constantly online but instead cycle them around every other millenia.

[@Furzkampfbomber]

Depends on how one reads this sentence. _'They were constructed'_ doesn't have to mean that they were all _build_ a that time, but that they were _designed._ And then they were build, ran for tens of thousands of years, broke down, got replace by new machines that ran for tens of thousands of years until they broke down, got... you get the point. :D

[@TherealSBlair]

The Itsy Bitsy Spider got a 40k upgrade.

[@robertnelson9599]

What about the Megarachnids?

[@ornu01]

You can just feel the seething, murderous stare of the local Mechanicum Adept while it's pet toaster screams for the sweet release of death.

[@nicolopez2181]

*sextoy toaster

[@UGNAvalon]

I, for one, would gladly attach 2 MG-42’s to my Roomba if it meant keeping my house safe from intruding sapient toaster-worshipping apes while I took a long nap.

[@Self-Aware-Russian-Bot]

I'll take 6. I got alot of rooms in need of defense and a good vacuuming

[@wert1234576]

You didn't mention the scariest part of scarabs,they can fly (kind of) so imagine a spider made of metal the size of your hand flying at your face. I would need new pants if I survived.

[@AnonD38]

also the spider can shoot disintegration beams or release swarms of nanobots that eat you from the inside out

[@crypto1223]

@@AnonD38 Wouldn’t be Warhammer 40k if the damn repair drones weren’t armed with overkill amount of tools to kill and fix the power outlet for the Overlord’s tomb.

[@andrethibodeau3203]

Oh and they can explode. For 1d3 damage when space marines have 2 wounds. I just imagine a space marine screaming “GET IT OFF! GET IT O-“ then an explosion like a tank shell going off in his face.

[@iilil6780]

19:12 he kinda did, but i get what you mean

[@-SRM-]

Fetch me my brown pants!

[@TheHarimir]

the necrons are like a civilisation that never discovers elekticety, have barely no idea how it works but somehow manages to make a hudraulicly opperated EM-jammer

[@Muledragon]

"A logistician's wet dream" Arch sharing his fetishes with us here.

[@jmack5363]

I work as maintenance in a jail. I've had to climb inside a pipe chase to fix water leaks. Very small area and I am not a small guy.

[@lordmaur180]

It almost warms my cold metal heart to see lore about the Necrons

[@DragonfameDracas]

Ah yes, one of the most deadly janitors in fiction.

[@justskip4595]

Roger Wilco is still my favorite space janitor though.

[@ubanaga]

Necrons run on windowsXP, suddenly their evil makes perfect sense.

[@s2korpionic]

... that they can't be controlled and tracked?

[@mina7572]

@@s2korpionic based

[@wynfrithnichtwo8423]

Windows XP is my favorite of the windows os.

[@Novictus]

@@wynfrithnichtwo8423 That motherfucker is bulletproof I say!

[@eichler721]

Honestly Necrons are the OP of the current 40K setting. They wreck Tyranid splinter fleets with ease. Slaughtered a Tau planet without any difficulty. Continuously beat the Imperium and one World Engine was slaughtering entire fleets and element's of 15 Chapters like it was nothing. The Eldar fear them greatly and do whatever they can to keep them asleep. Chaos is the only one with any decent success and even then the Necrons just build null fields for the Warp and crap on them. The War in Heaven Necrons with full C'tan as so powerful its hard to imagine.

[@AnimusArcus]

I wonder why nobody has ever thought about making a game about playing a tomb mind ? As you explain it, it sounds like a ton of fun like a RTS or 4X or even a survival /builder.

[@michelveilleux2075]

The Canoptek Spyder, or as I say, the Do it all Roomba.

[@robertnelson9599]

The Roomba-of-all-trades.

[@thegametroll6264]

I do believe the canoptek constructs are one of the reasons I enjoy a well built necron army. My favorite would have to be the doomstalker.

[@donright4492]

I remember making Homebrew version of a huge Canopter Spyder with huge sharp manuals and twin EMP orbs it's role was to carry multiple scarabs on its back them use it's EMP on vehicles first before letting out all the scarabs two overwhelm and destroy enemy vehicle's I use in my games and can be devastating if used right

[@chriscalvin5083]

A roomba with mg42s interesting but terrifying

[@robertnelson9599]

Sounds like something from Bioshock.

[@williamjeffery9653]

The true Roomba of Doomba

[@trentthehehim3936]

Now I want a roomba with twin MG42’s

[@michaelkimberling7307]

We had a computer that ran Windows 3.11 we had that damn thing for nearly 10 years and it refused to die

[@steelgreyed]

Ah yes, Windows XP the single greatest operating system Microsoft never developed..... Seriously the irony that Both Microsoft and Apple both went, "okay we can't create a stable Kernal that can not be hacked inside 40 seconds.... Linux! Can we borrow your lack of corruptibility? k thanks gonna make billions now."

[@l.d-b3465]

I'd be more curious as to how the Necron built AI that *didn't* go crazy. Something of an accomplishment in 40k.

[@malaficus]

Doesnt Arch always say ai come to the conclusion to kill all human life. It is almost as if hymanity is the problem....

[@QixTheDS]

⁠@@malaficusCause they are at the moment. Destroy humans, they can’t feed chaos. Same goes for the other races but humans are metric fuck ton more numerous so they do the most. The Necrons have no soul and no ability to feed chaos. They actually seal reality off from the warp.

[@timtamthemememan5094]

​@malaficus thats where gw fucked up. They say its because of poor treatment but necrons treat theirs way worse and the ai is still loyal. Old lore had it AI that served under warp sensitive beings (eldar included) would always rebel, because the ai would come to the conclusion: warp bad and dangerous to me if gets to big - warp sensitive species feed warp - kill warp sensitive beings and problem solves itself.

[@NDA8666]

Hell yeah. My favorite scouting and harassing units from Dawn of War

[@jasondarrikson853]

@Arch if you were to do another big lore series in the vein of Vraks and Badab, I'd love to see one featuring the Necron and their fastidious caretakers. Such as the Lazar Blockade and the return of Anrakyr the Traveller.

[@bkane573]

I just realized necrons had standard imperial measurements. If they did not, everything would have failed millennia ago for want of a 10 mm socket.

[@slade4492]

After listening to this I am completely convinced that someone needs to make a Dungeon Keeper type game but with Necrons.

[@razgrizdarkheart2330]

"Your favourite RAID Shadow Legends" and this is the first recorded incident of Arch being unable to be more wrong.

[@ElvisPresleyTouchedMe]

I still have a Wang 386 in my mum’s attic. Every now & then I bring it out to play a game of Civilisation (that’s Civ 1), or continue a 25yr old game. Running on Windows 3.1, which was an update on the 3.0 it came with.

[@tangoimmortalis]

Lol, we installed Civ on the school library computers back in the day, took our teachers a couple semesters to understand it was not part of the regular software bundle that was supposed to be present. Was an artillery game called "scorched earth" I recall fondly too. Thanks for bringing back the memories o7.

[@alexrandles6813]

Every time arch says thousands of years I want to stop him and interject "millions" they have been buried for round about 60-65 million years

[@TAttila84]

Indeed

[@reddragon4482]

Video starts at 3:28

[@mark_williamh1340]

I watch the ad, all the way through, happily, simply thankful for the sweet sweet Arch-infused lore

[@Bigpandazomg]

THE BEST CAPTURE UNIT EVER

[@NornQueenKya]

Hated these things (scarabs) when the codex first came out for 9th. Just max units swarming and tieing up everything... and nothing you can do

[@youngthinker1]

Did the ad save Kibs from starvation?

[@IRMentat]

in most sci-fi these things would be the "grey goo" scenario antagonists. in 40k they are a damned guard-dog come robo-maintenance-beaver

[@franciscorui]

Also necron programing is apparently ran on trinary programing, which is an interesting concept, if a bit confusing.

[@guyincognito1406]

What’s confusing? Binary has 2 digits 0/1 trinary has 3 0/1/2 we use decimal (base 10) for our numerology 0-9. Hexadecimal uses 16… 0-9/A-F

[@thoelle5607]

At a base level, only binary programming is possible. Since you can only have OFF and ON. Open or closed, etc. That’s why trinary is confusing, because how do you add a third position to that? Trinary would theoretically be quantum computers making use of superposition which can be OFF, ON, and a third state which is both OFF&ON simultaneously. We have some computers which utilize it, but it’s stupidly complex.

[@bkane573]

We use base 10 my shined metal ass. In the English world we use a fractional system which is base 12. Base 10 for French and the countries they have conquered. (Germany, Belgium, the rest of the European Union….)

[@malaficus]

Ah window xp. So good they had to bribe/blackmail us to change it.

[@kevinbarber2795]

One of my favorite units in all of 40K. :)

[@gautierdarrambide5264]

My second army are necrons. Arch got me into them with his lore video about them. Damn you for having me squander money with your cool vids, pal!))))

[@themanfromerf]

I think sufficiently advanced technology would work a lot like living tissue. A living thing doesn't require any outside maintainence, just a constant intake of energy and raw material. Your biology is basically molecular-scale nano-technology, but sufficiently advanced technology could work on the atomic scale, or even on the picometer scale. For a gigantic, planetary complex, you might concievably need large-scale self-repair agents, but I highly doubt it. Just a failure of imagination (or deliberate cool factor) on GW's part. Necron technology could easily have multiply-redundant, atomechanical self-repair mechanisms that took advantage of reversible computation, time crystals, etc. You'd have to get around the same problems that living things have with transcription errors, attractor states like cancer, "diseases", etc., but sufficiently advanced technology could probably work all of that out. There are living things that don't age, don't get cancer, have virtually perfect immune systems, etc. Design can likely do a lot better than the random-walk algorithm of evolution.

[@campingcake]

image error at 5:25

[@christophercrawford6894]

Hey Arch somewhere down the line could you make a video on, if you were thinking of but your own set of army what figures would you most commonly find in shops or online and which figures are so rare they'll be extraordinarily expensive or you'd have to make them yourself.

[@Azzie420]

I’ve always loved bugs and spiders so I absolutely adore necron canoptek units as they’ve got cool designs such as the Engine of murder and the wraiths but the tiny guys are just as important as the big guys... you can’t have an ever resurrecting army without your support beetles

[@johnbeck1978]

it's worse when you consider that humans are a walking store house of trace metals and minerals, now take the trace amounts and multiply by the population of a hive city and you have some serious resource farming. being broken down to the molecular level to replenish your killer's stores. that's some pure nightmare fuel.

[@thegeneralscall]

The 40K universe has many things that are awful. But nothing would make me 'nope' off a battle-field faster than a wave of hand sized metallic spiders, followed by one the size of a minivan. Commissar be damned.

[@TheFatalcrest]

I wonder if it's possible to rig up these spiders to work on imperial tech....*hears a pistol click* i-i would never ever consider such heresy! They should be annihilated like real spiders!

[@doorknockerpingu6932]

No spooky skeleton tomb would be complete without scuttling bugs and spiders.

[@raisttlyn]

Have the Tau ever found Necrons? For the Tau that might bump their tech even higher.

[@robertnelson9599]

I think the Tau would have a hard time against the Necrons. Their fancy tech is not on Necron level yet. However, I don’t think these two factions have met.

[@nobleman9393]

They encountered each other several times.

[@civosborne]

Ad read ends 3:28

[@Elphazo_O-two]

10 000 years? More like millions of years.

[@karlkarlson8982]

Thanks for the video! Always happy with more necron content

[@Hidensee]

*happy touster noicess*

[@Aserbic]

Is it battle capable? It Canop.

[@Andaril2]

3:25

[@GottfriedFederEconomy]

thanks for the lore, arch!

[@MikeP5830]

Plan on watching this vid Arch, but any chance you're planning on a new campaign series? Those are your best

[@CousinJesse1]

Agreed

[@amorencinteroph3428]

As someone who just got finished with them, I need a new series to binge while bored at work.

[@Furiouspenguin27]

Starts at 3:30

[@TheInvisibleCactusYT]

Thank you

[@alberto5770]

For the algorithm!!! Congrats in the RAID advertisement too

[@TAttila84]

Thanks for the video! Do you plan to make one about The Infinite and the Divine in the near future?

[@icaruscarinae]

@Arch despite a dozen of my subscriptions having Raid ads, still not playing. However, you make the most convincing proposition.

[@Mr.Cooper1947]

Every time i See one of them my mind only thinks. "Helloooooo its zaping time ".

[@killamanjarothedm9358]

Well done. Very informative.

[@tiggalong227]

Sold I’ll take a dozen to go

[@oldered5663]

Imagine a minitank that is a smelter and a 3-D printer with laser guns!

[@robertnelson9599]

This is the starting line you use when someone asks, “What’s Warhammer 40K.”

[@Mulletmanalive]

Can anyone tell me if the fluff on the Wraiths ever had them doing maintenance by pausing into awkward locations? I have that in my mind, but can’t remember if I imagined it…

[@DankworthBalthazar]

Pausing? Did you mean phasing, as in their ability to pass through solid matter? I'm pretty sure the 8th edition codex stated that hard-to-reach maintenance was the main reason they were given the ability in the first place.

[@leopoldjenkins]

Waiting for a GW storyline where Canoptek Spiders unionise and threaten strike action.

[@swardinc]

Arch Question would it be possible to do a video on what happens after a extermnotices? Spelling that does not destory a planet does the imerial reseed it or what?

[@JeffBilkins]

One lingering question, why do they even use the Necron Warriors if they have stuff like this that is perfectly capable to run and defend the place for thousands of years?

[@malaficus]

Same reason we use infantry. More expendable. Remember that technicly necrons are not robots. There uplifted necrontyr in superior bodies. If you have trillions of self repairing warriors you dont want to waste your better stuff on minnor problems. Same thing with the imperial gaurd. Expendable troops for the meangrinder. Space marines are to valueable to waste on a minnor war.

[@TheSkyman8]

does anyone have any good recommendations for necron lore and books? i just got ahold of the ruin book and infinite and divine and was hoping for other things to look into

[@sugarsammy7209]

Still love the old black and white necron art, it actually looks scary and makes you feel dread. New necrons look like goofy shit.

[@Sara3346]

The ghost arks still look nice though?

[@kuinnamation8695]

@@Sara3346 even pimp trayzen the infinite.

[@katathoombs]

[libationes deis algorithmi]

[@TheHej2]

What wors than spiders, Metal Spiders

[@CatholicDragoon]

You drop off one of these at the local barracks I imagine that within a few hours the quartermaster would have fallen in love and would be trying to make love to the thing. Honestly, I look forward the future cybernetic spider waifus with a penchant for spreadsheets and organizing.

[@Snipermac99]

So (star trek) replicator strapped to a floating Roomba or 6 prosthetic limbs taped to a 3D printer?

[@jeffersonhenrichs3362]

Nice dude! Feeding that algorithm.

[@counterstructure4908]

Dude. In one woodshop i work the CNC run on NT and i don't think it was even 4.

[@shadowofhawk55]

Arch my respect for you has quintupled with that first. Annoying boss pick. Frell this spider to the depths of Hell.

[@overlord2495]

I feel you should have said "millions of years" with reference to tombworlds cuz these metal spookies went of the sleep around 60million years ago

[@garrettharriman6333]

What's wrong with arming your Roomba? Are you telling me I shouldn't have mounted that claymore mine?

[@Nickle_King]

This all goes to show that, even in the far far future, beware the ants.

[@meau400]

Hey those old Nokia phones will sure be working for some centuries, at least mine will.

[@davidodonovan1699]

On first impressions, at the start of this video, these spider things are giving me vibes of those eight foot wide spiders in 23 Minutes In Hell on KZbin. Having said that, I don't know what the eight foot spiders do if anything in literally Hell. Not to say I don't believe it. I've seen way more then enough supernatural stuff in my life to not be surprised.

[@habloverdi7047]

How are Necron slaves and servants treated? And are there any stories about alliances with the Necrons?

[@malaficus]

Depends on where there slaves. The lucky onces die quickly. The unlucky once. While mind scarabs taking control of your body away while you are forced to work on a gaint statue of a necron lord while being fed just enough to survive... There are no alliances in 40k. Just enemies we kill later.

[@habloverdi7047]

@@malaficus That is a very vague answer. Details. Details!! :))

[@halfdanasatru9251]

Thank You , great work . 👌👌👌

[@Mogura85]

real video starts at 3:27

[@sambakich7494]

Arch confirming that XP was the best version of Windows

[@nonamed9613]

The comment for the Algorithmus, glory to Arch

[@aslambhatti8932]

Hey Can you please tell me what is that awesome music at end of your every video

[@chriscormac231]

3:28 SKIP

[@NetMoverSitan]

Return to the mechanical undead. 6:10 - No, they're cyborgs. 13:05 - Reminds me of the All-Around Helper from the Project Moon universe, where some vindictive a***hole from one of the megacorporations that rule a megacity surrounded by wastes full of the junk that it doesn't want, decided to switch the cleaning tools with the kitchen tools of a robot helper that this megacorporation was selling, which caused this robot to kill everyone when it was on "cleaning mode" with deadly knives.

[@creakychair9387]

Arch please make a video about the Severan Dominate!

[@roastbeef4918]

Spider killing machine go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@Ju66alo4Life]

I genuinely wonder if those old computers you mentioned are still functioning lol😂

[@whisped8145]

Ah, Necron stuff, nice