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Originally little more than tree-beasts, humans originated from the planet [[Terra]]. While one with their ecosystem, they had no greater role defined for them by the [[Old Ones]], an ancient and powerful race that ruled the [[Galaxy]] in its infancy. However, following the destruction of the Old Ones in the [[War in Heaven (Necron)|War in Heaven]], humans went on to develop in unforeseen and uncontrolled ways as raw uncontrolled evolution took hold.{{Fn|7}} Eventually humans went on to colonize the galaxy during the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. Almost nothing is known about human civilisation in this time, having been lost in the chaos of the [[Age of Strife]]. Many of humanity's shattered colonies were reunified by the [[Emperor]] during the [[Great Crusade]], becoming the early Imperium.{{Cite Marker EndFn|4}}

The majority of humans exist within the Imperium of Mankind. The [[Imperial Cult]] preaches that humanity has a Manifest Destiny to conquer the entire galaxy, to the point where [[Xenos|alien]] species are seen as inferior and many believe are worthy of nothing but extinction.{{CMEFn|25}}

The next greatest concentration of humans exist as the Lost and the Damned, and reside primarily, though not exclusively, in the [[Eye of Terror]]. Not a coherent civilisation as such, they exist as part of a diverse and infinite collection of warbands and hosts under the leadership of [[Champion of Chaos|Chaos Champions]]. Due to the nature of the [[Warp]], some of these humans are the original Imperial subjects who sided with the [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] during the [[Horus Heresy]], though their number has been greatly supplemented by more recent humans who have turned to [[Chaos]], or slaves captured as part of the many raids out of the Eye.{{CMEFn|26}}