Age of Terra

2020-04-08T19:03:04Z

2601:143:8001:3360:A0A2:DF84:7981:F78E: Anna Komnene wrote the Alexiad; changed italicization to correctly reflect this and to parallel the Sophocles citation.

{{topquote|Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.| ''Alexiad'', Anna Komnene, quoting Sophocles' ''Ajax''}}

The Age of [[Terra]] is NOW! It is the age you, lovely readers all, are currently living in so you too technically are part of the history of the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe and part of the reason why the galaxy eventually goes down into its deep [[grimdark]]ness. Google, Facebook, and all the rest are doing their part to bring us to the next stage, the [[Dark Age of Technology]].

We'll let you absorb that for a moment.

In all seriousness, the Age of Terra is the period in the 40k timeline from year 1 AD to year 15,001 (so a long time). It is the age when [[humanity]] moved from primitive origins to a state where they had developed sublight drives and were spreading out from the solar system to colonise the galaxy.

Almost nothing is known by the [[Imperium]] of these early times (Jesus is mentioned in the [[The Last Church|fluff]] as an 'ancient religious leader' but no details) and barely nothing survives of that period. So the idea of preserving things is obviously [[heresy]] (in the Imperium yes as anything that contradicts official records is BURNED!). However that's more of a post-heresy thing. During the great crusade [[Malcador]] had a museum of age of Terra artifacts and many of the Horus Heresy books make passing reference to things from that era although in somewhat corrupted form. While Christian (known in 40k as catheric) teachings were definitely actively supressed by Big E (along with every other religion), snippets of plays and philosophy at least survived enough to be referenced in the 30k era. (in ''Prospero Burns'', the remembrancers are confirmed to have 3 of Shakespeare's plays, although such is their misguided approach to information retrieval that they assume the 3 they found must have been all of them).

Considering all that happens, it is perhaps best for everyone reading this to stay in the current time. At least we don't have [[Chaos Gods]] to worry about. Yet....

According to Fear To Tread, some kind of [[Call of Cthulhu|apocalyptic shit happened before M7.]]

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