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The rebellion of Men of IronCybernetic Revolt{{Fn|Note4}} was an event in [[human]] history that predated the [[Imperium]].

The [[Men of Iron]] were sentient machines that having served their human masters for millennia, 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 [[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.{{Cite this}} Eventually the Men of Iron were destroyed{{Fn|1}} by a galactic alliance, that consisted of mankind and likely various [[xenos]] species.{{Cite thisFn|4}} Not even those Men of Iron that remained loyal to mankind survived the war.{{Fn|1}} 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]].{{Cite Fn|4}} In thiscataclysmic 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 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 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, that in less than a solar day consumed everything on a planet's surface.{{Fn|4}}