Editing Alternate Heresy: Derailments (section)

== Grand Tech Steal ==
In this timeline, Imperium of Man actively steals technologies of other species - and a lot of them. In fact, in this timeline, Mechanicus and Techmarines are more thievish then [[Blood Ravens]]. In particular, Techmarines play a big role in this process.

You see, in canon it was said, what [[Space Marines]] can acquire knowledge and memories of other beings by eating brains of said beings - including academic and technical knowledge, and knowledge of how to do magic. This fact was ignored and forgotten by both most authors and most of the audience. '''But in this timeline, it wasn't forgotten'''.

Due to ideological concerns, Mechanicus and Techmarines usually only eat tasteless protein paste or intravenous feeding. But when '''technological progress of entire Imperium''' is at stakes, Techmarines could convince themselves to eat brains of xenos. After they did it, they acquired knowledge to use and create tech of said xenos - what they proceed to write down and distribute. That also allowed to get knowledge of Chaos followers without also getting insanity. Chaos Hereteks and Warpsmiths also did that tech steal shenanigans.

As result, both Imperium and Chaos use a mix of their own tech and '''all''' technologies of organical xenos. Even those who have tech wired in their genes - like [[Orks]] and [[Tyranid]]. Basically, technologies of every major faction of organical beings was stolen; [https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Template:Important_Species_in_40k technologies of minor xenos species] were also stolen. More over - [[Jokaero]] (and other such super-developed species) tech also was stolen - and due to the fact what techmarines used it more rationally than [[jokaero]] themselves, now ships with firepower of entire fleets and soldiers with more firepower than larger titans '''are now norm'''. The only technology what wasn't stolen that way are technologies of fully-mechanical species, such as [[Necrons]].

More over - many of those species could properly understand their own technologies and actually move science forwards, so now can do humans. They also did mixing the technologies together, getting powerful, unique combined tech what is greater than sum of it's parts and what couldn't be done by xenos (as they only have their tech - not tech of everyone at once). Ironically, the only technology humans don't truely understand is ''their own ones''.

While Imperium and Chaos of this timeline are nowhere near as powerful as one seen in "The Imperium of Machines" and "The Imperial bright future", they are still a force to be reckoned with. They have accumulated tech of all organic species, including super-advanced ones like [[Jokaero]], making their units a lot stronger than units of other factions. Because they also stolen tech of likes of [[Orks]] and [[Hrud]], humans are also now capable of making all their tech of scrap - making their technologies dirt-cheap. [[Tyranid]] and [[Genestealer_Cult]] tech allows to modify bodies and rapidly reproduce. As result, humans field enormous hordes of heavily mechanized units, each one of those capable of taking an army on it's own. Other factions are in huge trouble, as they don't have anything to counter this overpowered amalgamation.

For other possible methods, you can use psykers to read the mind of xenos in search of tech. Also, said psykers can take control of xenos and order them to say all their knowledge. You could also turn xenos into servitors without erasing their academic knowledge - so they could tell you. Also, Chaos could drive xenos mad, turning them into chaosites - so they then could give the tech, in glory of Chaos Gods.