Eternity Gate (Necron)

An Eternity Gate is an arcane piece of Necron technology only ever found mounted on the frontal hull face of a Monolith. Indeed, it is the Monolith’s greatest and most fearsome weapon, for it is capable of opening a dark portal and transporting Necrons to the battlefield to cause fresh havoc, and its shimmering energy field is nothing less than a captive wormhole bound into the very heart of the Monolith. With a simple mental command, the Monolith’s crew can transform the Eternity Gate into a portal of exile, and those that fail to resist its pull are sucked out of reality entirely; banished forever to a temporal prison from which there can be no escape. Alternatively, the Monolith’s crew can use the Eternity Gate as a form of dimensional corridor, pulling squads of Necrons from elsewhere on the battlefield, orbiting starships or even far-distant Tomb Worlds and deploying them to the Monolith’s location; as well as significantly aiding the repair processes of transported squads when it does so. So is the Monolith rightly known as a forerunner to disaster; for where a Monolith teleports onto a planet’s surface, an invading Necron army is rarely far behind…