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6/25/2025, 2:35:12 PM
>>63894101 continued
Obviously, humanity fought back. It is even likely that some alien spieces came to help humans because they thought "once the robots are done with humans, we are next on their list". The was actually lasted quite a long time and led to destruction of entire star systems.
Humans won in the end, but it was very close call. There was a genuine danger that humanity might go extinct. It was such a traumatic experience to humanity that you might say it left a racial memory to entire human psyche. It became a religious dogma, much like in Dune "Thous shalt not make a machine into likeness of human mind".
The reason why there is so little data about that era is because WE destroyed that data. We were so paranoid about AI that we destroyed our own computer systems. Imagine planet-wide electronic libraries with the compiled sum of human knowledge. Everything humanity knows... And humanity would rather burn the whole thing if they think there might be an AI hiding somewhere within all that data. Yup, burn it all, we'll figure out later what to do afterwards. Just smash the whole system.
After the war against the machines, we got hit by a double-whammy: Massive warp storms made interstellar travel and communications borderline impossible. All planets were cut off from each other (with some exceptions, were conditions allowed small-scale travel on small sub-sectors). And the warp storms lasted for 5000 years.
Whatever data and knowledge had been salvaged from the war against the machines was often lost during this 5000-year long period (known as "The age of Strife) that came after it.
Entire planetary civilizations that had survived the war against the machines could collapse into tribals-wearing-animal-skins-and-living-in-the-ruins-of-megacities -level barbarians.
By destroying our own data system, we also lost an enormous amount of knowledge and technology. WH40k level technology is pitiful when compared to what humanity used to know.
Obviously, humanity fought back. It is even likely that some alien spieces came to help humans because they thought "once the robots are done with humans, we are next on their list". The was actually lasted quite a long time and led to destruction of entire star systems.
Humans won in the end, but it was very close call. There was a genuine danger that humanity might go extinct. It was such a traumatic experience to humanity that you might say it left a racial memory to entire human psyche. It became a religious dogma, much like in Dune "Thous shalt not make a machine into likeness of human mind".
The reason why there is so little data about that era is because WE destroyed that data. We were so paranoid about AI that we destroyed our own computer systems. Imagine planet-wide electronic libraries with the compiled sum of human knowledge. Everything humanity knows... And humanity would rather burn the whole thing if they think there might be an AI hiding somewhere within all that data. Yup, burn it all, we'll figure out later what to do afterwards. Just smash the whole system.
After the war against the machines, we got hit by a double-whammy: Massive warp storms made interstellar travel and communications borderline impossible. All planets were cut off from each other (with some exceptions, were conditions allowed small-scale travel on small sub-sectors). And the warp storms lasted for 5000 years.
Whatever data and knowledge had been salvaged from the war against the machines was often lost during this 5000-year long period (known as "The age of Strife) that came after it.
Entire planetary civilizations that had survived the war against the machines could collapse into tribals-wearing-animal-skins-and-living-in-the-ruins-of-megacities -level barbarians.
By destroying our own data system, we also lost an enormous amount of knowledge and technology. WH40k level technology is pitiful when compared to what humanity used to know.
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