The existence of Warp creatures and the dangers they posed to the Human mind were then barely understood. Human civilisation was torn apart as local factions and pocket empires fought for control in the shattered realm while others, utterly cut off from aid, succumbed to the horrors of planet-wide famine, insanity and worse - the perils of the Warp. The different worlds found themselves constantly at war.ĭuring this long, 5,000-year-period of anarchy, fear and violence, Old Earth's once unified planetary government had completely broken down and been divided into dozens of warring, backwards states of so-called "techno-barbarians."Ĭontinuous warfare raged across the surface of Terra for 2500 standard years, beginning in the middle centuries of the 27th Millennium.Īcross the galaxy things were little better, as the Human colony worlds, bereft of central authority or protection, and with the web of support and supply that had maintained the threads of civilisation cut, fell into anarchy and war.
This was due to the massive Warp Storms that swept the galaxy as the Immaterium was roiled by the millennia-long gestation of the Chaos God Slaanesh and the turbulence that marked the decay of the Aeldari Empire before the Fall.ĭuring this dark time, Terra sometimes held sway over the Sol System, while at other times the rulers of Mars or Luna were dominant. Thus was the Dark Age of Technology forged and for millennia it reigned, until almost at a stroke the dominion of Humanity fell and was undone in a maelstrom of brutality and ignorance and untold billions died, their screams unanswered and unheard.ĭuring the turbulent era known later as the Age of Strife or by some as " Old Night," the Sol System and Old Earth, or Terra as it is now known, and the nearby star systems that had been colonised by Humanity during the Dark Age of Technology were effectively cut off from interstellar travel or communication with each other. In the heights of those times, lost now to all but supposition and myth, Humanity made themselves as unto gods - their sciences and arts able to remake planets in the image of remembered OLd Earth, harness the power of the stars, and fashion servants from clay and iron and give them counterfeit-life to do their bidding. In those forgotten early days of the Age of Technology it is now unknown what enemies and trials Humanity had to overcome but overcome them we did, and in doing so Human colonies spread across our galaxy so that Mankind was scattered across a million worlds and found treasures and horrors uncounted. By the late 29th Millennium, it had been nearly three hundred Terran centuries since Humanity first left the polluted, used-up carcass of what was once known as Earth for the unknown bounties and perils of the stars beyond the world of its birth.
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