Talk:Dark Age of Technology

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This page is full of factual inaccuracies. For example,

"During this time, the war between the Old Ones and the Necrontyr was reaching its final stages." - The War in Heaven had ended almost sixty million years earlier!

"For Humanity, the beginning of the Age of Strife meant the beginning of the hibernation of The Dragon and the loss of all STC systems." - This is pure speculation. The Age of Strife was caused by a number of factors:

1) Artificial intelligences rebelling against their human masters and the subsequent destruction caused as weapons of mass destruction were unleashed (I admit this may be connected somewhat with the C'tan, since these sentient machines may have been created using reverse-engineered technology plundered from tomb worlds).

2) The emergence of untrained psykers (for a number of possible reasons, such as the growth of Slaanesh in the Warp or the machinations of the Old Ones), leading to yet more conflict and the collapse of previously stable civilisation. The existence of psykers, in turn, led to devastating incursions by daemons.

3) Connected somewhat to 2), widespread Warp storms across the galaxy. These prevented contact between human systems and contributed to the collapse of advanced civilisation.

Also, the article states that the Dark Age of Technology spans 25,000 years, but Keeper Cripias' account in the 3rd Ed. rulebook has it lasting only from the 21st-26th millennia. The author has it confused with the Golden Age methinks.

Permission to chop out some of the speculative and downright inaccurate material? 129.11.76.230 14:11, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've trimmed the article down and rewritten a large portion of it. Please improve if you think it needs it! 129.11.77.198 13:05, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for this – it certainly needed doing. I've tweaked some formatting a bit, but that's about it. At this point, I'll give the usual plugs for creating yourself an account and WikiProject Warhammer 40,000. Cheers --Pak21 13:21, 13 June 2006 (UTC)