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Cleaning up the mess left for me
During the [[Age of Strife]], the STC systems lapsed into disuse and decayed, becoming increasingly unreliable and quirky. On some worlds they were maintained, but most suffered damage by enthusiastic software specialists or subsequent jury-rigging. Hard copies of the information they contained survived much longer, and were frequently copied and passed down from generation to generation.{{Fn|9}}
Some [[Imperial]] historians have theorised that scientists during the Age of Technology foresaw the coming of the Age of Strife, and created the STCs to ensure that their knowledge would not be lost to future generations.{{Fn|3}}{{CME}}
===The Age of the Imperium===
Probably the most significant find of an STC fragment was by [[Magos]] [[Arkhan Land]] in [[M31]]. This fragment contained the templates for the construction of the now famous [[Land Raider]] Main Battle Tank, and the [[Land Speeder]], all named in honour of their discoverer.{{Fn|4}} An intact, functional STC is so rare in the [[galaxy]] as to be regarded as almost mythical.{{Fn|1c}}{{Fn|3}}{{CME}} Nevertheless, even a rumour that such a system has been found is enough to prompt a Mechanicus expedition to locate it.{{Fn|5}}
According to [[Mars|Mars']] archives, [[Magos Dominus|Archmagos Dominus]] [[Cawl]] has recovered more STC patterns than any other Magos in history.{{Fn|30}}
*Sometime in [[M31]], the [[Magos]] [[Arkhan Land]] discovered within the [[Librarius Omnis]] the STCs for [[Land Raider|Land's Raider-Pattern Main Battle Tank]], [[Land Crawler|Land's Crawler]] multi-purpose heavy utility vehicle, the Mars Universal Land Engine (the basis of the [[Onager Dunecrawler]]), and the information on rare anti-gravitic plates used in [[Land Speeder|Land's Speeder]], all of which are named after him.{{Fn|15}}{{Fn|16a}}
*During the [[Great Crusade]], the STC for the [[Leman Russ Battle Tank]] was discovered by the [[Space Wolves]] after they had destroyed the [[Noman]] [[xenos]]. They named the fruits of the STC in honour of their [[Primarch]].{{Fn|8}}
*After the [[Battle of Sixty-Three Nineteen]], 3 new STCs were recovered from the planet [[Sixty-Three Nineteen]], by the [[Luna Wolves]] Astartes Legion.{{Fn|12}}{{CME}}
*Two STC fragments were captured from the [[Auretian Technocracy]] by the Warmaster [[Horus Lupercal]] prior to his rebellion against the Imperium. One for a new pattern of '''[[power armour]]''', the other for lightweight '''solar generators''' capable of "supplying the power needs of an Epsilon 5 pattern forge complex".This technology was gifted to the Fabricator-General of Mars at the time, [[Kelbor-Hal]], to secure his loyalty for the rebellion. The Technocracy had fully functional STC machines, although they were destroyed to prevent the [[Sons of Horus]] from capturing them.{{Fn|25}}
*In [[M36]], the STCs for weapon suits known as the '''XV Bellam Ravager''' and '''Thermae Missile Suit''' were discovered by the Adeptus Mechanicus, but proved too difficult to reproduce.{{Fn|7}}
*In [[M36]], the STC for a larger chassis of [[Land Speeder]] was discovered; this would be used to create the [[Land Speeder Vengeance]] and [[Darkshroud]] variants.{{Fn|27}}
*Following the [[Age of Apostasy]] the [[Centurion]] [[STC]] was discovered.{{Fn|7}}{{CME}}
*Between 322.M39 - 384.M39, STC database fragments, known as the "[[Aegis Data Fragments]]", were discovered in the [[Calixis Sector]] during the [[Angevin Crusade]].{{CME}}
*Sometime prior to 189887.[[M39]], [[Archmagos]] [[Plosk]] recovered five first-generation STC printouts.{{Fn|18a}}
*In 992.[[M41]], the STCs for most of the [[Astraeus Super-heavy Tank]] were recovered by the [[Minotaurs]] chapter Astartes during the [[Perun Cross Incident]].
*In 992.[[M41]] began the [[Scouring of Johan's Eden]], resulting in the recovery of three STCs.{{Fn|31}}
*In 999.[[M41]], an original '''STC Titan''', a "''Castigor-class autonomous bipedal weapons platform, created for fire support and siege operations''", was discovered on the planet [[Chaeroneia]]. It was quite larger than an [[Imperator Titan]] and of superior technology. The Titan, and its STC A.I., were destroyed by a force of Grey Knights, although some data fragments remains were collected by the Adeptus Mechanicus.{{Fn|3}}{{CME}}
*While connected to the Machine Spirit of the [[Ark Mechanicus]] ship ''[[Speranza]]'', [[Archmagos]] [[Lexell Kotov]] discovered that the ship contained a complete and still updating STC database containing all the knowledge of the [[Men of Gold]] and their ancestors. He theorised that all Ark Mechanicus ships contained such a database, but that the priesthood have been unable to access the files. This information was wiped from his mind upon disconnecting from the ship's Machine Spirit.{{Fn|19c}}
*An unknown time before the events of [[Priests of Mars (Novel)]], Magos Ozimandian unlocked the STC engine fragment of [[Beta Umojas]]. This lead to a 5% paradigm shift.{{Fn|19a}}
**{{Endn|1c}}: Chapter 23
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Monastery of Death (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Dark Adeptus (Novel)]]{{CME}}- Chapter 15
*{{Endn|4}}: [[White Dwarf 245 (UK)]], pg. 21
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex Imperialis (Background Book)]], pg. 42
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition)]], pgs. 16-17
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Index Astartes: Centurions]]{{CME}}(E-Book Edition) - Origins
*{{Endn|8}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Seven]], pg. 81
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]], pg. 271
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Space Hulk: Deathwing]], Chapter 4
*{{Endn|11}}: [[Necromunda: Gang War III]], pgs. 6-7
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Horus Rising (Novel)]]{{CME}}- Chapter 6
*{{Endn|13}}: [[Adeptus Mechanicus: Skitarius (Novel)]]{{CME}}
*{{Endn|14}}: [[Adeptus Mechanicus: Tech-Priest (Novel)]]{{CME}}
