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==Overview==
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.{{Fn|4}} Eventually the Men of Iron were destroyed{{Fn|1}} by various alliances.{{Fn|4}} Not even those Men of Iron that remained loyal to mankind survived the war.{{Fn|1}} This devastation and a later a [[Malthusian Catastrophy]]malthusian catastrophe, laid the foundation for mankind's later collapse at the dawn of the [[Age of Strife]].{{Fn|4}}
In this cataclysmic war, fearsome weapons of highly advanced technology were unleashed by both sides. Massive thinking machines called [[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, ingesting data along the civilizations that contained them. The [[sun-snuffer]]s were incomprehensibly vast 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 [[omniphage swarm]]s, that in less than a solar day consumed everything on a planet's surface.{{Fn|4}}
