Canoptek Spyders

Canoptek Spyders are Necron units with a documented construction role: they can build Tomb Pylons anywhere on the map. Each Pylon creates a new patch of Power Matrix and serves as a translocation target for forces coming from the Tomb Citadel. The faction preview places this tool inside the Necrons’ answer to rapidly changing battlefield hotspots and their otherwise slow overall movement. It does not publish a Spyder weapon, attack role, cost, production source, build time, movement speed, durability or unit cap. Its established identity is mobile infrastructure deployment, not a complete combat profile.

The Necron preview explains the Canoptek Spyder as one part of a broader mobility design. Necron armies are characterised as relatively slow, so their advanced technology supplies ways to reach distant parts of the battlefield: Spyders establish Tomb Pylons, Translocation Science moves a limited group to a visible destination, and the Monolith deploys reserves through its Eternity Gate. That is design context rather than balance history. The source gives no earlier Spyder version, changed construction rule, patch adjustment, removed ability or date for a tuning pass, and none should be inferred.

The documented sequence begins with a Canoptek Spyder constructing a Tomb Pylon anywhere on the map. The new Pylon creates a patch of Power Matrix and becomes a destination for forces translocating from the Tomb Citadel. This connects the builder to the Necron faction’s method of answering distant or shifting battlefronts, but the source does not state a preferred location, safe timing, number of Pylons, escort composition or build order. It also does not say that the Spyder itself teleports units. High-level use can therefore explain the infrastructure chain, while leaving all unreported execution details open.