Canoptek Scarab - Notable Canoptek Scarab Variants: Nanoscarabs – Necron Nanoscarabs are tiny, spider-like scarabs that specialise in repairing objects. Canoptek Spyders are able to produce Nanoscarabs from the scarab hives within them before directing them towards appropriate duties. A Phylactery carried by a Necron Lord or Necron Overlord also is filled with Nanoscarabs that will swarm over the Necron bearer's body and repair wounds at his command, or if he is severely damaged or destroyed. The Nanoscarabs will then proceed to reknit tears in his ravaged necrodermis body, bolstering his own self-repair abilities so that he may continue to fight on.Mindshackle Scarabs – A Mindshackle Scarab is a specialised Canoptek Scarab variant that is one of the Necrons' chief methods for controlling sentient alien races. At the bearer's command, a swarm of these tiny robotic scarabs bury into the victim's head and bypass his or her cerebral functions. Once in position, Mindshackle Scarabs may wait for solar months or standard years without revealing their presence, until orders are received from their controller. These interstitial broadcasts may be transmitted from even a distant star system, travelling along the cracks between dimensions. Mindshackle Scarabs can be activated either subtly to insert an idea or course of action into the victim's mind that is not completely out of character with their normal behaviour, or overtly which forces the victim to obey the spoken or sub-vocal commands of the controlling Necron without hesitation, turning the victim into little more than a puppet under the control of the scarabs' master. As such, the victim can be forced to attack his own comrades, surrender important items or information, or even fall upon his own sword. However, overt activation is extremely taxing on the scarabs and will cause them to burn out after several solar minutes of full activation. Mindshackle Scarab hives are found exclusively as part of the armouries of Necron royals, such as Necron Overlords, Necron Lords and Necron Destroyer Lords, and are often concealed under their robes or cloaks.Bloodswarm Nanoscarabs – Bloodswarm Nanoscarabs are a type of miniaturised Canoptek Scarab that are only used by the Necron Overlord Imotekh the Stormlord. When released, the chittering tide of a Bloodswarm swirls about the enemy, probing their armour for flaws and then begins to feed, breaking down the victim's armour plating and leaving it vulnerable. A single chink is more than enough for the mechanical scarabs as they burrow into the warm flesh underneath. However, these Bloodswarm Nanoscarabs have an additional purpose. The blood of the victims they spill in excess proves more than enough to attract packs of Flayed Ones, who quickly finish off whatever resistance is left.Flensing Scarab – Flensing Scarabs are swarms of specially purposed Canoptek Scarabs designed to swiftly and violently separate flesh from bone. Although they are no more than mere insects in size, Flensing Scarabs' attacks on living targets are nevertheless as deadly as they are horrific. No larger than the biting Terran insects they resemble, during the Orphean War Maynarkh Dynasty Crypteks assigned these murderous machines to larger bodies of the dynasty's troops to assist them in bloodletting and the rendering down of organic bodies for prompt harvesting.Sepulchral Scarab – Sepulchral Scarabs are a specialised variant of Canoptek Scarab that some Canoptek Tomb Stalkers, Canoptek Tomb Sentinels and Necron Sentry Pylons carry into battle. If the construct is damaged, Sepulchral Scarabs will emerge from their hiding places on the construct's carapace to quickly repair the war machine, granting it immense regenerative properties.Charnel Scarab – Charnel Scarabs are Canoptek Scarabs that have been modified and reconfigured by Maynarkh Dynasty Crypteks since their awakening before the start of the Orphean War. Created to better strip flesh from their enemies with arrays of flensing blades and serrated maws, Charnel Scarabs are able to shred and mutilate scores of living targets into a quivering and unrecognizable mass of red detritus in mere seconds. The flesh and blood of the harvest is then used to adorn the bodies of the Flayed Ones that often accompany them, and appease their hunger. However, Charnel Scarabs lack a normal Canoptek Scarab’s ability to break down matter and use it in the construction of Necron technology and devices.