Zarathusa - History: When the War in Heaven threatened to destroy the Necrontyr, Zarathusa and his citizens abandoned the inner worlds of the system they knew as Perdita, destroying the Starflame's vast solar harvesting network and leaving only the solar mirror core intact, ready for the time when they would return. Before Zarathusa entered his crypt for the Great Sleep, he set traps for the unwary, and awaited the time when he might return and reclaim the glory of his people.Machines built to last for thousands of Terran years were forced to endure millions, and one by one Zarathusa's defences decayed. By the time the Necron Overlord awoke during the coming of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan, the twin stars of the Cryptus System had grown old and swollen, their rotten nuclear cores pumping out endless streams of hard radiation. More worryingly, the worlds Zarathusa had so carefully scoured clean of life, and laced with traps, were now overrun with Humans.When he gazed through the great oculus of Perdita, it was upon the filthy, crowded cities of the Imperium that his mechanical eye fell. To add insult to injury, Mankind had subverted Zarathusa's prized solar mirror. Like simple-minded savages they crawled across its surface and poked at its superlative inner workings, unaware of its true and glorious purpose. Though Zarathusa himself had not escaped the long sleep unscathed, and his own delusions of grandeur had become magnified, he set about reclaiming his star system from savages and aliens alike, now titling himself "the Ineffable."During the course of the Shield of Baal campaign, Zarathusa allied himself with fellow Necron Overlord Anrakyr the Traveller and Commander Dante of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter in order to stop the consumption of the Cryptus System by Hive Fleet Leviathan. Zarathusa defended the gas giant Aeros, commanding the Mephrit Dynasty's formidable air fleets to secure air superiority and take control of its fuel hub whilst Anrakyr and Dante fought to secure the Magnovitrium system-inwards in order to channel the sun energy captured by it.Together, the Necrons and Imperial forces managed to pull off their daring plan and detonate Aeros like a planetary bomb, annihilating most of the Tyranids in the system and severely weakening the Cryptus tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan. Zarathusa and his forces escaped the explosion unscathed, the inertialess drives of the Necron's Tomb Ships easily outrunning the shockwave of the detonating gas giant.In the aftermath of this Exterminatus event, the Blood Angels departed to reinforce the defence of their homeworld Baal against the remaining and oncoming Tyranids, whilst Zarathusa most likely has begun to reclaim the Cryptus System for the Mephrit Dynasty.Zarathusa is now among the ambitious Mephrit Dynasty nobles who are striving to become the high commander or senior nemesor of its forces. Each noble is trying to prove their supremacy to their dynasty through military victories and deeds of grandeur. In truth, however, the first to reclaim the Mephrit Dynasty's ability to murder stars will surely reign supreme. It is for this reason, that several contenders have now turned to the Technomandrites for aid.Zarathusa is said to be a detractor of the message of the Silent King Szarekh since his return to the galaxy to unite the Necron dynasties against the Tyranid threat.