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The [[Men of Iron]] were sentient machines that having served their human masters for millenia, came to see themselves as superior to man and turned on mankind.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|5}} Resulting in a devastating conflict that ravaged the cosmos in the late 23rd Millennium, 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. Eventually the Men of Iron were destroyed by a galactic alliance, that consisted of mankind and likely various [[xenos ]] species. Not even those Men of Iron that remained loyal to mankind survived the war. The devastation that the Cybernetic Revolt did to human civilization laid the foundation for mankind's later collapse at the dawn of the Age of Strife.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2}}

In this cataclysmic war, fearsome weapons of highly advanced technology were unleashed by both sides. Massive thinking machines called '''mechanivores''' were deployed, which tore open great chasms in a planet that extneded extended to the core and were capable of lifting entire continents into space. The mechanivores absorbed space-time itself as if it was data. The '''sun-snuffers''' were incomprehensibly vast serpentine machineswhich devoured stars. In the void, the sun-snuffers uncoiled into colossal structures that dwarfed Saturn's rings. The weapons were designed to consume the stars. The most pervasive and perhaps most dangerous of the terrible weapons were the '''omniphages'''. Which were swarms consisting of intelligent nano-machines, that in less than a solar day consumed everyting everything on a planet's surface.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2}}