'''Cybernetic Revolt'''[[File:UR025Art.jpg|right|thumb|[[UR-025]], perhaps the last surviving Men Man of Iron from the Cybernetic Revolt]]The '''Cybernetic Revolt''' was an event in [[human]] history that predated the [[Imperium]].{{Fn|4}}

==Overview==The [[Men of Iron]] were sentient machines that having served their human masters for milleniamillennia, came to see themselves as superior to man and turned on mankind.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3}} Resulting in a devastating conflict that ravaged the cosmos in the late 23rd [[M26|26th Millennium]], {{Fn|1}} known as the "Cybernetic Revolt". It was a war that extinguished untold numbers of lives and destroyed the economic and political unity of human colonized space. {{Fn|4}} Eventually the Men of Iron were destroyed {{Fn|1}} by a galactic alliance, that consisted of mankind and likely various [[xenos]] speciesalliances. {{Fn|4}} Not even those Men of Iron that remained loyal to mankind survived the war. The {{Fn|1}} This devastation that the Cybernetic Revolt did to human civilization and a later a malthusian catastrophe, laid the foundation for mankind's later collapse at the dawn of the [[Age of Strife]].{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|24}}

In this cataclysmic war, fearsome weapons of highly advanced technology were unleashed by both sides. Massive thinking machines called '''mechanivores''' [[mechanivore]]s were deployed, which tore open great chasms in a planet that extended to the core and were capable of lifting entire continents into space. The mechanivores absorbed space-time itself as if it was , ingesting dataalong the civilizations that contained them. The '''[[sun-snuffers''' snuffer]]s were incomprehensibly vast serpentine coiled machines which devoured stars. In the void, the sun-snuffers uncoiled into colossal structures that dwarfed Saturn's rings. The most pervasive and perhaps most dangerous of the terrible weapons were the '''omniphages'''. Which were swarms consisting of intelligent nano-machines[[omniphage swarm]]s, that in less than a solar day consumed everything on a planet's surface.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|24}}

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook]], :''The Journal of Keeper Cripias'', pg. 278 *{{Endn|2}}: [[First And Only (Novel)|First and Only]] by [[Dan Abnett]], {{Cite This}}Chapter Twenty-Three*{{Endn|3}}: "[[Dark Imperium (Anthology)]] – [[Ancient History (Short Story)]]" by *{{Endn|4}}: [[Andy ChambersPerpetual (Audio Drama)]]