Editing Unification Wars (section)

===Age of Strife===
By M23, the human federation that had spread across the galaxy was on the brink of destruction after the war with the [[Men of Iron]]. Its infrastructure and economy ravaged by the war and the loss of its entire specialized workforce. Already on it's last legs, Warp storms caused by the birth of [[Slaanesh]] separated systems from the larger federation. Cut off from the outside, falling into technological regression and vulnerable to xenos aggression, everything fell apart. This was the nail in the coffin for Terra, which was massively overpopulated and no longer had the resources of its empire to rely on, as well as the depletion of its own resources [[derp|including fucking water]].

What followed was about 5,000 years of anarchy, as Terra's once united world government quickly fragmented into dozens upon dozens of warring states. Think Mad Max and the Warring States period of China on an apocalyptic scale, where warlords and their warriors known as [[awesome|techno-barbarians]] warred against one another and subjugated and brutalized those under their domains. To add salt to the wound, chemical and nuclear wars turned the already overtaxed Terra into a barren, polluted wasteland.