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The '''Standard Template Construct (STC)''' systems were complex analytical and processing programsprogrammes, artificial intelligences, created during the [[Dark Age of Technology]] ([[M21]] - [[M23]]). They are said to have contained the entirety of human technological knowledge up to that point. Following the Age of Technology, the systems became increasingly rare, until becoming lost entirely. In the current [[Age of the Imperium]], the ancient technological knowledge survives only because it was preserved in STC hard copies.{{Fn|9}}

The Dark Age of Technology saw the original development of the technology the [[Imperium]] is now reliant on, which was encapsulated into the STC systems. Along with the creation of [[Warp Drive]] technology and the human mutants known as [[Navigator]]s, the STC systems were one of the major factors in mankind's expansion outside the solar system and his conquest of the stars. The STC system allowed disparate mankind to maintain a standard level of technology. A complete, functioning STC system was an evolved computer designed to provide construction details for [[human]] colonists, enabling them to build efficient shelters, generators and transports without any prior knowledge and using almost any locally available materials. For example, a user could simply ask how to build a house or a tractor and the computer would supply all the necessary plans.{{Fn|9}}