Editing Blackstone Fortress (section)

==In 40k==
Six of the Fortresses were left adrift in the Gothic sector, where they were found by the [[Imperial Navy]]. The Navy moved in and turned them into naval bastions for Battlefleet Gothic, despite being unable to activate most of its armament. However, [[Abaddon]] found some artifacts that allowed him to assume direct control of the fortresses and managed to swipe three of them, kicking off the twelfth [[Black Crusade]] (AKA the Gothic War). Before the Navy and the [[Eldar]] stopped Abaddon, one Fortress scoured a planet; three of them combining their beams destabilized a star, causing it to go supernova a month later and destroy the system. Afterwards the Imperial and Eldar navies then chased after the fortresses and managed to take one back, but then Abaddon caused it and the three still in Imperial control to self-destruct.

Interestingly, the fortresses SHATTERED like glasses instead of just exploding when they self-destructed.

One of the two remaining Blackstone Fortresses in Abaddon's control would later be destroyed in the ''Fall of Cadia''. Sick and tired of Creed's awesome bullshit and panicking after the Necron anti-warp pylons are activated and threaten to close the fucking [[Eye of Terror]] [[awesome|itself forever]], he rams the planet with his Fortress as a last ditch gambit to destroy the pylons and kill the last Cadian garrison. Cadia is quickly overtaken by the Warp, but [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|a substantial number of the Imperials manage to escape]].

''Rise of the Primarch'' reveals the whereabouts of Abaddon's last Blackstone Fortress. Apparently Abaddon had gifted the Fortress to [[Huron Blackheart]], who used it as a prison for [[Roboute Guilliman]] during the Terran Crusade, at least before [[Cypher]] and a Harlequin Shadowseer broke him out. Since then, the Harlequins of the Masque of the Shattered Mirage along with a rogue faction from Craftworld Yme-Loc have launched at least one attack on Huron's Blackstone Fortress in an attempt to capture it.

''Forgebane'' and current developments reveal that the Blackstone fortresses are made of a material named [[Noctilith]], also called...[[Derp|Blackstone]]. Unfortunately, silly, somewhat unimaginative name notwithstanding, this is the kind of substance that probably nobody but the Necrons really have the skill or durability to operate to its full potential effectively, let alone safely. This material, exactly the same used in several Necron structures like '''the anti-Warp Pylons of Cadia''' holds a curious but worrying property. You see, Blackstone interacts naturally with the warp and depending on the polarization it can shrink Warp Rifts and negate all Warp-related activity in the area, which is what the pylons does; or ''amplify the Warp itself'', causing all kind of nasty effects like the beams shot by the Fortress or spontaneous Warp Rifts. The funny thing is that there is a lot of stuff made from this material and caches hidden everywhere (the Shadowlight device from the [[Ciaphas Cain]] novels was very likely made from the stuff, and look how dangerous that thing was), maybe even undiscovered Fortresses. The vast majority of it is located on [[Necron]] Tomb Worlds, however, and they absolutely refuse to share it since they use it extensively in their own technology.

Recently, a newly emerged seventh Blackstone Fortress that has appeared in the galactic west. Unlike the others, this one appears to be fully active, with a highly advanced defense system and an uncanny ability to act on what seems to be its own volition. It also has a habit of catching ships in its gravity field and "consuming" them. The implications of this are uncertain but unsettling. The numerous ships the Fortress has consumed has made it a prime spot for archaeotech, attracting all sorts of treasure hunters to it. These adventurers congregate in a space-station called Precipice, where humans, xenos, and mutants live in uneasy peace as the powerful lords of the place don't like the idea of everyone killing each other. This den of scum would've probably been wiped out by the Imperium were it not for the bureaucratic deadlock where its numerous branches cannot agree which one of them has the legal right to claim the fortress for itself and the extreme difficulty of actually getting to it. Rumor has it that [[Roboute Guilliman]] is soon to make a decision to resolve the matter and thus Precipice's days are numbered.

The Blackstone Fortress novel has also raised a bit of doubt on the origins of the Fortresses, with the implications raised that the seventh Blackstone Fortress is not from the Milky Way galaxy at all, and the intelligence driving it is more alien than anything related to the Eldar. Granted, these implications came from a Daemon, who refers to the Fortress as "Old Unfathomable," and a [[Kroot]] who got his insights by eating bits of the fortress' drones. (The daemon could have meant "It is not of THIS AGE OF the Galaxy," since the warp has changed quite a bit over 65 MILLION years. No matter their claims or delusions of timelessness and eternal existence, etheric beings of chaos didn't exist during the War in Heaven).

TL;DR: Old Ones were neglectful morons. Shock.