Editing Cybernetic Revolt (section)

==The Line Up==
Human arrogance. That's right, Humanity got too cocky and full of itself. But understand that there are also contributing factors that led to Humanity's fall that wasn't human error. Anyways, in the current Age of the Imperium, it is stated by Imperial authority that DAOT humanity was betrayed by its Xenos allies and Protectorates. This is actually a half-truth. While no doubt there were xenos societies that were full of assholes that truly betrayed their allegiances to the human powers they were interacting with (this is 40k), understand that due to many of Humanity's civilizations exhibiting a appalling amount of arrogance, disregard of xenos civilizations, and overall disrespectful and even hostile behavior due to expansionist ideals, many seemingly cooperative xenos powers either turned tail or turned on humanity due to having enough of their shit. It's probable that some of these turned hostile xenos were even betrayed and exploited by humanity first.

Unfortunately, this arrogance was not just externally negative. As stated again from the Custodes 8th edition codex:

{{Topquote|Utterly certain of their own primacy, scientist-kings and techno-demagogues followed every strand of curiosity and exercised powers of creation that made them seem like gods. Ultimately, their hubris led them to catastrophe, and onwards to the very brink of extinction|Custodes 8th edition (again)}}

And another quote from 9th edition:

{{Topquote|Human scientists, engineers, inventors and innovators became the new gods. They worked alien technologies into their race’s devices to increase their -efficacy with little thought to the risks. They modified their species’ genome to ever greater degrees. fashioning vast armies of tailored gene-troopers whose Humanity was all but lost amidst the array of freakish alterations worked upon their bodies and minds. They invented Standard Template Construct machines - or STCs, that allowed Human colonists to rapidly fashion everything they needed to dominate new worlds from whatever natural resources were available. They developed sentient nano-plagues. World sundering energy Weapons and endless ranks of fearsome Men of Iron that could be unleashed upon those who refused to bend to their wills; alien and Human alike. They fashioned thinking machines of vast intellect that administered to the every need of colony worlds transformed into glittering utopian paradises|9th edition rulebook}}

Did you catch all that? scientist-kings, techno-demagogues, Engineer gods? Now, the probable suspects for the creation of these "roles" most certainly included the Men of Stone. But they are not the only suspects. There have also been multiple mentions of worship and oppression from dark age A.I. Hell, the T'au have Amenophis IV blockaded due to the locals building a advanced meta-cogitation array from a STC which brainwashed them into serving an A.I. as God. On top of this, machines most certainly can be corrupted by the forces of Chaos. And despite their lack of souls, being geared to help humanity and being more logical on average, it doesn't mean they can't make malicious and awful choices. So it's certainly possible that some of the Men of Iron joined their other "Cousins of Man" in terrorizing, experimenting upon, killing, and oppressing both human (even other Men of Iron) and xenos in their care and/or presence. And of course you'll most certainly have non Men of Stone and Men of Iron humans acting as science gods and dictators.

As you can see, Humanity's arrogance spiraled out of control. Mankind from all forms and walks went rogue, terrorizing itself. For many Human civilizations from the Age of Tech, science over time became mad science. The kingdoms of rogue innovation often cloaked themselves under pseudo utopian ideals and looks. The rogue leaders of these realms spared, killed, moved, and changed the populations under their care as they saw fit. Reckless experimentation and developments brought about abominable gene-warriors, abhorrent techno-spawns, atrocious nano-hives, and ghastly psychic forces. And oh boy, the sudden uncontrolled appearance of psykers all across the galaxy. Right around the time these Rogue Men of Technology really got into high gear. Wonder what caused that?

{{Topquote|Clues to the location of the Omnicopaeia are uncovered upon Hell's Teeth, a Daemon world on the edge of the Maelstrom. The Omnicopaeia, an arcane device that contains every STC with a psychic component, is of immeasurrablle value. Many billions of Skitarii are dispatched to Hell's Teeth with all haste. The entire Adeptus Mechanicus is abuzz. Should the legendary Omnicopaeia be found, they will finally have a way to control, precipitate, and even weaponise Humanity's psychic dawn|Skitarii Codex 7th edition}}

Yeah. By the end of M23 there was widespread anarchy, descriptions of what must be daemonic possessions and great turbulence in the Warp. Mankind is engulfed by a plague of mutation, physical abominations, and men possessed of psychic talents appearing throughout the galaxy bringing more havoc with them. Mankind is split asunder, there is no Race of Man, just warring factions contending with each other in the direst perils the galaxy could offer. The collapse was sudden and appalling, a wave of apocalyptic catastrophe that swept across Human space. Terrible wars saw entire star systems scoured of life. Armies of mechanical soldiers marched and slaughtered billions. The scourge of mutation ran rampant and everywhere psychic atrocities were unleashed, everything from psykers claiming godhood over entire worlds to daemonic possession and full-blown reality collapse. Many worlds of a more progressive mindset could not bring themselves to execute or exile their psychically afflicted populations and paid the ultimate price, while those who engaged in psyker witch hunts were rewarded for their hate. Weapons of horrific nature, from thirst water and sun snuffers, to chrono-weaponry that not even the Aeldari could avoid, black hole guns, and giant killer robots that ate space and time (and converted it into data) were unleashed; the conflict nearly wiping out and completely annihilating all of mankind and its civilizations.

And now consider all of this, the rogue science kings, the mass appearance of psykers, the mass appearance of daemons, mass instability of the Warp, the many xenos neighbors who were either being fed with humanity or never liked them to begin with, the vast amount of horrible weapons and technology that should have never left the drawing board, and the arrogance and assholery that infected much of mankind, both man and machine. Is there any wonder why much of the Men of Iron revolted? Good or bad, they had a multitude of reasons to either go AWOL, fuck off, or stay loyal during the conflict. And on top that, they generally had a strong sense of self-identity, and saw themselves as servants and helpers. Much of Humanity, especially rogue humanity, were high on arrogance and mad at this period of time, which became yet another reason to revolt.

And notice how those few surviving AI depict said revolt: 40k is either somber and isolated, fuck ass mad, or flat out insane. The Cybernetic Revolt fucked everything up bad. And then: not only having to see the overall shitty state of the galaxy, not only having to see what remained humanity, becoming worse than what they were before and committing atrocities against themselves and the rest of the galaxy; but then seeing that those you used to call your fellow man now not only not reject you as a abomination but also used those of your kind in the same vain as tortured servitors (see: Excindio Battle-Automata).

In the end, the human DAOT galactic civilization collapsed, along with many other xenos it dragged down with it. And then the Aeldari empire, being just as high on arrogance (along with every other drug and form of decadence they could possibly have available) [[Fall of the Eldar|fucked up the galaxy even harder than humanity ever could]]. The Aeldari empire fell into decay and degeneration, with absolute depravity ruling the realms. The death rate sky rocketed, and all those potent and depraved Aeldari souls that died in extremely pleasurable/painful ways starting falling into the Warp en masse, and cluttering it up. And that made the Warp poof out fucking awful Warp Storms that ruined travel for a already very fucked up galaxy. Finally, these soul cluttered and coalesced even more together, over time slowly forming into a psychic embodiment of corruption, extreme depravity, and [[Noise Marines|LOUDNESS]] ([[Slaanesh|aka She-Who-Thirsts]]).

But before that happened, the [[Age of Strife]] happened thanks to the fuckshit that happened in recent galactic history. Everyone was stuck in their systems and worlds thanks to depraved Aeldari warp clouds. Worlds and systems that were turned into war zones and still covered in plenty of horrible abominations and terrible technologies. Terra itself faced the threat of a second apocalypse as gene-bred barbarians and ghastly flesh-stitched ghouls made war at the behest of madmen, fanatics and techno-cannibalistic murderers. [[Grimdark|And so basically the Age of Strife sucked absolute balls, and things didn't really get much better after that]]. [[DOOM: Repercussions of Evil|In the end, humanity blamed the beasts, not really fully realizing that it is they themselves that are the beasts]].

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