all remembered the horrors of entropic engines that ignited planets Sun snuffers that uncoiled like serpents the size of Saturn's rings mechor ingesting data along with the cities that contain them and hurling continents into the heavens omnipage swarms stripping flesh from a billion bones in the blink of an eye when war was something too colossal for the human mind to comprehend the warms heresy is a smaller thing you've probably heard that artificial intelligence or abominable intelligence is outlawed in the Imperium in fact most citizens would view this kind of tech heresy as something akin to Witchcraft AI is so vile that of course the Imperium uses far more pleasant Alternatives like ctors the neara Mindless fusions of Flesh and Robotics created by the tech Priests of the adeptus mechanicus often growing the organic materials in Vats on Forge welds or sometimes they use donations from Heretics or criminals the reason the Imperium uses these and abhors true artificial intelligence is because in the poorly remembered distant past the men of iron nearly wiped out our entire race they came from the Dark Age of Technology when Humanity scientists engineers and inventors were our gods and the men of iron were created to serve our every need but they would turn on their creators and so the cybernetic Revolt began and whilst we're talking about Metal Creations that may well change your life let's talk about the sponsor for today's video displate displate makes these one-of-a-kind metal posters and with over 1.5 million designs you will be a able to display your passions and if your passion just so happens to be Warhammer 40K well then good news because they have a partnership with Games Workshop so if you plan on picking up some of these yourself use discount code s223 for up to 33% off they've sent me a bunch to try out and I don't know about you but I think that wool is looking a little bear it's so easy just wipe the wool place the protective leaf and then the 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caused by slanesh beginning to just at by the 25th Millennium there was such a tumult in the warp that travel between systems was all but prohibited and additionally it had the impact of causing psychers to start to appear in larger numbers unchecked some of these beings even claimed godhood over entire worlds however I believe that the warp storms and Pyers alone would not have been enough to cause the complete collapse of Humanity's first Galactic Empire at its peak but we were reeling the details are unclear however there are references to a galactic Alliance that formed in response to the rebelling men of iron they won the day but at a great cost and our Empire was weakened to such a state that the warp storms and Rising psycher numbers all but assured its destruction although the Imperium understands little about the cybernetic Revolt the impact of this great war is still clearly noticeable however by the time we get to the 41st Millennium the threat of the men of iron has long since been vanquished or so we thought during the Sabbath world's Crusade on menzo Epsilon colonel commissar ibram gaun of the tanith first and only would discover an STC a standard template Constructor intact the secrets of originating technology had been lost to mankind for so long since the Dark Ages the Imperium even the adeptus mechanicus could only manufacture things they had learned by recovering the processes of the ancient STC systems from scraps and remnants of shattered SDC systems on a thousand dead Worlds the Imperium had slowly relearned the secrets of construction of tanks and machines and laser weapons every last fragment was priceless to find a dedicated Constructor intact was a find made once a generation a find from which the entire Imperium benefited but to find one like this intact was surely without precedent all of the speculation had been correct long ago thousands of years before chaos had overwhelmed it menzo Epsilon had been an Arsenal World manufacturing the Ultimate Weapon known to those lost ages the secrets of its process and purpose were contained within those million and a half algorithms etched into the wide floor the men of iron a rumor so old it was a myth and a myth from the oldest times before the age of strife from the Dark Age of Technology when mankind had reached a state of Glory as the masters of a techno automatic Empire the race that had perfected the standard template construct they created the men ofion mechanical beings of power and sentience but no human soul heretical devices in the eyes of the Imperium war with the self-aware men of iron had led to the fall of of that distant Empire and if the old deeply Arcane records helan had been privy to were correct that was why the Imperium had outlawed any soulless mechanical intelligence but as servants implacable Warriors what could not be achieved with men of iron at your sight so when gour Came Upon This standard template weapons maker he discovered that Lord militant Hector R and the radical Inquisitor goes heldane sought an army of men of iron Not only was such a heresy completely unacceptable to God but as the device started to produce automatons something was clearly not right a newborn man of iron the first to be produced by the STC after its long Slumber as soon as it appeared the others those loosed and those still caged began Keening in a long continuous pietus whale that was at once a human shriek and a rapid broadcast of machine code sequences there was something wrong with the newborn it was malformed grotesque compared to the perfect anatomical symmetry of the other Iron Men a good head tuler it was hunched blackened one arm far longer than the other draped and massive the other hit iously vestigal and twisted corrupt horns sprouted from its overlong skull and its eyes sha a deadened yellow oil like stingy pus wept from the eyce sockets it shambled unsteady its exposed teeth and jaws clacked and mashed idiotically not only were these foul heresies now being produced but the device had been sleeping here on a chaos polluted world for thousands of years the STC and therefore its Creations were corrupted this was a threat to the Imperium that g simply could not allow and therefore along with the other members of the tanith first and only he destroyed the device before it could be claimed or do any more damage I can't really stress enough how closer cool this was for the Imperium of man without the actions of gaun and the tanith first only an army of men of iron tainted by chaos could have been Unleashed upon our galaxy 17,000 years after they were defeated the men of iron would have finally claimed a victory furthermore the danger posed by these dreaded silica Ana has still not entirely passed for the Imperium 025 is a man of iron and as far as we know is untouched touched by the warp it has avoided detection for thousands of years recently by passing as a semi-autonomous robot belonging to a magos from the Forge World of Riser 025 now seeks to uncover the secrets within that rarest of Starships a Blackstone Fortress A Relic from the Galaxy's ancient history they are said to have been wrought by the great weapons Smith vul the Smith god of the Eldar to the eldari it is a Shard of his divinity still hanging in the stars to the Imperium it is a Starship of incredible power but to 025 it is perhaps a kindred spirit for they are both thinking machines abandoned by their creators and 025 wonders if like itself The Fortress had outgrown its Masters to uncover the secrets within 025 pretended it had been sent by its master and joined a group to explore vul's Talisman this man of iron can sense the pain that the Blackstone Fortress feels as it's being scavenged 025 greatly admires this incredible creation outside of this however it has a strong sense of superiority over other sentient or semi sentient machines for example it views the imperium's Dumber inferior machines in a way that it imagines human explorator might feel when they stumble across deviant evolutionary branches of the human race on Distant Worlds at one point it encounters three Tech Priests of Metallica who requisition the robot as they explore the Blackstone Fortress for themselves however when the opportunity presents itself the man of a firstly dispatches the far inferior castellan robot and then two of the tech priests before the Lone Survivor attempts to dominate the man of iron with the feeble technology of the Imperium subordination imperatives leapt in frantic spikes from the magos they found no purchase on U2's tightly encoded soul I demand you desist the MOs said when his technological Arts failed him Stand Down Machine by the machine guard and The omnis Sire stop you know nothing of either said 025 I have met the omiah the actual one not the Earthly course he would find you extremely disappointing if 025 had had the capacity to sigh it would have done so this situation is nonoptimal I attempted to provide you with an Avenue of withdrawal you would not listen I regret your deaths sincerely but you leave me no choice you are willfully blind as to my nature but your comrades would have outed me in time this is unacceptable choice you have no choice you are a machine I am not a machine as you would understand said 025 I am not a slave I am not a thing I am beyond and above you it leaned forward until its ceramite face was close to the Moses I am a man of iron the look of pure fear 890 321 gave was gratifying and I am free it crushed 8903 21's skull in its Fist and dropped his corpse on the floor The Companion Way rocked snuffling things things were clambering out of the water drawn by the scent of spilled blood 025 strowed past the OS nosing at the corpses and headed back the way the party had come it had a long walk home this was not the first time u25 has come close to detection but as you can see it takes as few risks as possible as it knows all too well how the Imperium would hunt it with extreme PR udice nevertheless its reluctance to kill the Moses here was certainly surprising one might assume that an unthinking machine would have no problem with killing Organics and so the exact motivations of u25 will be interesting to uncover in the future it was always said in the Old Law that some men of ion refused to turn on Humanity perhaps 025 didn't initially join its kin in the Rebellion perhaps it even fought with the humans and that is one of the reasons it was able to survive for so long the final machine we're going to look at is very different to these other two examples for now we talk of the Chaos Android it is described as one of the ancient machines that plagued Humanity which therefore suggests some connection to the men of iron though at this point in time we're not quite sure it does stand apart from the other machines looked at today primarily because the chaos Androids were used to house demons however given how intriguing it is I thought it was worth exploring a Chaos Android has found its way into the hands of members of the dark mechanicum gifted to them by fabulous bile in return for their support and the dark mechanicum have great plans for this machine they came in in pairs or alone heading for the great Forge fan until eight figures clad in Black were gathered there around the sarcophagus granted to Kari enas by Fabius B they greeted one another with the secret codes of their order then took up their appointed spots eight of them in a circle the zero position unoccupied this was the way it had been since the days of their founding their leader the first among equals colombari anas held wide his arms and let out a long stream of bin in Praise of the dark Gods his fellows joined and slowly ponderously the stasis casket opened inside was an Android of terrible aspect skull-faced and Grim fashioned of black metal not dissimilar to a necron in fact but entirely of human make behold the form Immaculate colombari anas in toned behold the Android of chaos it was dead inert the neverborn it had been made to house was long gone back into the warp yet a hint of power clung to it and as the Disciples of nulla discovered as they examined it it was fully functional replete with forgotten Technologies made by hands unknown for purposes long forgotten now it was theirs and by their Arts of sorcery and science would be restored the vessel must be prepared Kumari cou make it fit so that our Master might live again it looks like someone is about to return to Warhammer 40K personally I believe it will be Kel Boral the fabricator general of the mechanicum during the Great Crusade who sided with the warm kelbor how's fate is currently unknown but I suspect we will see him fool after the heresy and then we will see him return due to this incredible machine I think the setting is building towards a Resurgence for the dark mechanicum no doubt led by vtor the arane himself 025 declared that he has met the true omnissiah Perhaps it is vtor to whom he refers the dark mechanicum do not sh away from using AI like their cousins in the adeptus mechanicus do it looks to me like the Imperium is going to have its handsful in the future fighting against some form of abominable intelligence but I'll be interested to know what you guys will think of this I will just note that I know some people would have wanted me to cover the accendo battle autometer in this video however I didn't cover them for two reasons number one they're all dead by the time we get to the 41st Millennium the last most of them died fighting against Conrad Kur during the Horus heresy from what we know and that is actually a topic I've covered before in quite some detail I will put a link so you can find that video but that is it for this video I hope you enjoyed it please do like and subscribe and if you feel like supporting the channel you can do so by clicking the join button on the page and get access to some extra content but thank you 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