Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20130821214539/@comment-14745711-20130906083003

I personally think that you can have both sets of the lore if you look at it this way; the 4th edition lore was the necrons while they were just begining to come back to life; dark, grim and cruel. While the 5th edition necrons are the necrons now at their height once again; powerful shinny, and rather exotic. But really you just have to decide about the C'tan, which do you prefer, that they be the masters, or that they be the lions on chains.

Either choice is very different to the other and so there really is the simple fact that some of the lore is lost but there is no need to chuck it all out, just make some allterations to the layout and you can include a lot of it.