6: The Horus Heresy Book Nine - Crusade, pgs.Astra Militarum Navis Imperialis Adeptus Astartes Adeptus Mechanicus Collegia Titanica Militarum Tempestus Questor Imperialis Legio Cybernetica Adepta Sororitas Adeptus Custodes Adeptus Arbites Sisters of Silence. 1: Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook - The Journal of Keeper Cripias. He therefore destroyed the device before Dravere or Heldane could acquire it. Gaunt, however, vehemently resisted the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that had been on a Chaos-tainted planet for thousands of years. Lord General Militant Hechtor Dravere and the Radical Inquisitor Golesh Heldane were intent on seizing control of the device, believing they could create an army of conquest allowing them to usurp control of the Crusade, and ultimately the Imperium. Discovery of the STC Spoiler!Ī Standard Template Constructor that produced Men of Iron was discovered on the planet Menazoid Epsilon during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade by Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt of the Tanith First and Only. These were used by the Ironwing element of the Dark Angels during this time. Since then, labors which require mechanical intelligence or extra-human strength are performed by servitors, designed to perform pre-programmed tasks, but without independent intelligence, and carefully monitored by Tech-priests.ĭespite the ban on AI, during Great Crusade the Emperor took the tortured and neutered remains of the Iron Men and fashioned them into the Excindio Battle-Automata. 
Effects on the ImperiumĪfter the revolt of the Men of Iron, the use of artificial intelligence was banned as an Abominable Intelligence. The Men of Iron seemed to practice a faith similar to the Mechanicum, as one of its surviving constructs UR-025 states it has met the real Omnissiah (considering the Emperor false). However in the end, the Men of Iron were destroyed by an alliance of galactic powers, and even the Men of Iron who retained their loyalties to their masters did not survive the destruction brought on by the war.
The Men of Iron employed world-consuming constructs, devices that could destroy suns, weapons that could throw entire continents into the heavens, and swarms of nano-machines that covered entire planets. What followed next was an apocalyptic conflict known as the Cybernetic Revolt, a war so destructive it made the Horus Heresy seem small in scale. In M23, they turned on their Human masters, believing themselves superior to the Humans who relied on the Men of Iron to do virtually everything for them. Until shortly before the Age of Strife, the Men of Iron were loyal only to Mankind, and served as their army. During the Dark Age of Technology, the Men of Iron were created by the Men of Stone to aid them in colonizing the Galaxy.
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