Editing Dark Age of Technology (section)

= Why not everything may be as good as you think... =

{{Topquote|Fools have asked ‘why did the Dark Age of Technology end in the fall of humanity?’, and other fools answered back 'folly’, or 'pride’, or 'the worship of progress’, as if these things alone had any meaning. The answer, as the wise know, is simple. It is because finally humanity had the arts at their disposal to make their dreams reality, and the dreams of humanity have ever been the darkest things in all creation.|Introduction to the Emerald Testament, suppressed work of the technoarchaeologist Synecius Thor}}

One of the things people have a tendency to forget is that the idea of progress and the development of technology don't immediately equate to civil rights, empathy, peace, tolerance and the likes, take any given time in history and you will see regimes using and abusing their scientific, industrial, methodological and technological edge to conquer, enslave, oppress and ruin entire parts of the world, you only have to remember the nazis upper hand in military field technology or the soviets being the first to put a satellite and a man in space, virtually all euroamerican powers used developments in naval technology, steam engines, weaponry and geographic knowledge to grab large pieces of land, kill and/or enslave the natives and churn out resources to the metropolis, often with masses of people getting impoverished due unfair competition, changes in industry and abusive monopolies.

Humankind expanded across the galaxy at a fast rate while machine learning did the job to create new weapons, better technologies and the like, but it only may take a corrupted elite to have control over technology or let it slip in the hands of hardwired AI to unleash hell, the narrative of the Great Crusade reveals worlds were, without the intervention of warp powers or xenos species, the population has been reduced to an state of mere raw resource for maddened AIs.

And what of the xenos species which received this wave of hominid flesh and self-enhacing machines? People think all humans from the Dark Age of Technology may be of an enlightened sort, perhaps a majority yes, we dare to believe like the AI from the Spirit of Eternity that humanity has managed to become the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals, but it only took just a small bit to be rotten apples to plunge entire sections of the galaxy into ruin and mayhem, with tens, perhaps hundreds of peaceful species who may only want to trade or just be left alone crushed by tides of spacial-data destroying machines and unending tides of automata.

Many people have argued why the Emperor didn't reveal himself during the Dark Age of Technology, when humanity may have been at their peak technological capability and in the intellectual position to deal with the warp as an actual existential threat, wouldn't they be reasonable enough to understand what awaited them down the evolutionary line? Wasn't the Emperor in the position to foresee the corruption of the Eldar? Or perhaps man truly grew proud and drunk in power, turning true his darkest dreams, given the chance and without a strong cultural background on empathy and decency what do you think the results would be? [[/d/|Do we even have to]] [[FATAL|check the media]] [[Racial Holy War|of our own age to imagine what these false-gods may do given the technological capability?]]

Ultimately it may be that mankind, given the chance, may have persevered and lift itself by their own hand from their weaknesses and pettiness, perhaps without the Eldar falling into decadence, without the Men of Iron going rogue, without the epidemic of psychic mutation humans may have somehow be capable to afford the evolutionary jump needed to free themselves through technological means from their own base instincts and wickedness, but perhaps not, as it is, the Dark Age of Technology remains a fable of the follies of progress without the criteria and foresight to make it sustainable, as Stan Lee wrote "Paradise unearned is but a land of shadows".

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A pretty retarded and nonsensical Fanon timeline of the Dark Age of Technology, which makes Matt Ward's creations seem amazing and logical by comparison. http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/155-homebrew-40k-fluff/211473-fanon-history-dark-age-technology.html#post2375305