Techno-barbarian
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Techno-Barbarians originated in the Dark Age of Technology. It was a period in which humans spread to the stars, colonising many thousands of habitable systems. It was the dark age which spawned the fabled STC (Standard Template Construct) systems which are rumoured to contain the sum total of human knowledge to that point. Inevitably, the powers of technology caused massive conflicts which reduced many planets to rubble (for example, the Blood Angels home planet, Baal Secundus, was reduced to a radioactive waste during this period) and reduced humanity to superstitious savages living among the relics of their lost glory.
It was these people who became the techno barbarians - men who viewed technology as an almost magical force. They clung to the vestiges of civilisation, using them without truly understanding them. The Emperor of Man arose in the later part of the Dark Age of Technology. He single-handedly reconquered the warring techno-barbarian tribes of Terra and forged them into a single group capable of re-inventing interplanetary travel systems. The Emperor proceeded to reconquer Mars, whose population were, and still are, the most superstitious of the barbarians. They have since become the Adeptus Mechanicus, and with them at his left hand and the Space Marines at his right, the Emperor hurled humanity out of the barbarian age and into a dark future with a vengeance.
