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Hearts of iron 4 space marines3/1/2023 ![]() Unfortunately, this was only the beginning of Mankind's misfortunes.Īs Humanity became widely dispersed across the galaxy during the Age of Technology, the ancient Aeldari Empire began its decline the great success of the advanced Aeldari species had led to decadence and hedonism on a grand scale. The damage to Human interstellar civilisation was catastrophic and shattered much of Humanity's power across the galaxy. The war against the thinking machines was eventually won by Humanity, but at great cost. One of the reasons Humanity was so successful at conquering a large part of the galaxy during the Age of Technology was the development of the artificially intelligent humanoid constructs known in ancient texts as the " Men of Iron." These powerful and fully autonomous labour and combat robots won many wars for Humanity, but for some reason turned against their organic masters at the end of the Dark Age of Technology. Its invention was followed by an unprecedented expansion of Humanity throughout the galaxy. The Standard Template Construct database library, or STC, had been perfected by Human scientists and engineers to allow rapid colonisation of new worlds using the standardised designs for a common suite of advanced technologies held within it. The Adeptus Mechanicus of the 41st Millennium have made finding a complete, untainted STC system their ultimate goal and are willing to go to any lengths to find even the smallest fragment of lost archeotech contained within an STC database.ĭuring the so-called " Dark Age of Technology" Humanity had reached its technological peak. The STC systems lapsed into disuse or the knowledge they contained was fragmented or lost outright. ![]() The Age of Technology ended in inter-Human war and anarchy, at the start of an era known as the Age of Strife, when massive Warp Storms cut off interstellar travel and communications across the whole of the Human-settled galaxy. Other notable developments include the first appearance of the Standard Template Construct (STC) system and the artificially-intelligent Men of Iron, powerful, fully self-aware robots and artificial general intelligences. The greatest extent of Human interstellar space exploration and colonisation across the galaxy took place during this period after the development of the Warp-Drive that allowed faster-than-light space travel. The Dark Age of Technology saw the development of the specialised psychic mutants known as Navigators and the earliest use of the Warp for interstellar space travel and astropathic communication by Human beings. and ended in the 25th Millennium, and was marked by rapid fundamental advances in science and technology that first transformed Humanity into a true interstellar civilisation. The Dark Age of Technology, also called simply the Age of Technology, is the name given to the period of Human history that immediately precedes the Age of Strife. These tragedies, alongside the traumas of the Horus Heresy, brought into being the Imperium's extreme intolerance towards outsiders and Human genetic difference, its ingrained hatred for psykers and aliens, its knee-jerk rejection of political change, and an appreciation for ignorance and backwardness over the advancement of science and technology. It was also the sheer amount of suffering and death that defined the Age of Strife that would shape the later culture of the Imperium of Man. It was in reaction to the horrors and loss of life that befell Humanity during the Age of Strife that the Emperor of Mankind first decided to unite all of Humanity beneath His enlightened rule, building the foundation of what eventually became the Imperium during the Unification Wars on Old Earth starting in the late 29th Millennium. This is due to the data having been lost over vast amounts of time, the sheer chaos of the period, and censorship by various Imperial authorities who seek to prevent the people of the Imperium from learning more about the rampant uncontrolled psykers and daemonic Chaos incursions that afflicted many of the Human worlds of the period - including Terra itself. These events killed tens of billions of people and pushed Humanity to the brink of extinction.Īccording to the "official" histories of the Imperium, the precise details and dates of the Age of Strife are not known. It was in this time that the great Human interstellar civilisation created during the golden age of the Age of Technology collapsed into isolation, constant warfare, disease, rampant mutation, famine and a host of other terrible tragedies. and ended in the 30th Millennium with the birth of the Imperium of Man. The Age of Strife, also sometimes referred to as " Old Night" based on the name for the era on Terra in older Imperial histories, is the name for the chaotic and highly fragmented period of Human history that began roughly in the 25th Millennium A.D.
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