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>extremely mundane by our standards today, just to show how fucked levels of technology across the Imperium are.
Exactly. STCs were basic ultra-reliable stuff to get new colonies up and running.
In one case, a pair of guardsman were given a planet each as the reward for discovering the STC for what became the basic combat knife used by the Astartes.
>Fereyd laughed. ‘Sixty years ago on Geyluss Auspix, a rat-water world a long way from nothing in Pleigo Sutarnus, a team of Imperial scouts found an intact STC in the ruins of a pyramid city in a jungle basin. Intact.
>You know what it made? It was the standard template constructor for a type of steel blade, an alloy of folded steel composite that was sharper and lighter and tougher than anything we’ve had before. Thirty whole Chapters of the great Astartes are now using blades of the new pattern. The scouts became heroes. I believe each was given a world of his own.
>It was regarded as the greatest technological advance of the century, the greatest discovery, the most perfect and valuable STC recovery in living memory.’
It's just a knife but it's simple to make and it's the best damn knife you ever saw