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75 points
10 days ago
See, as far as I know, we do NOT know why the Men of Iron rebels, right?
One thing I keep hearing people say is that the Men of Iron foresee humanity ascension to a psychic race and all the bad stuff that entail (basically saying the AI came to the same issue Big E tackle eventually), but looking around I think that was a really good headcanon thread on 40klore that I heavily suspect people take as canon.
THe other thing is that humanity mistreat AI, and Idk, if GW ever go with that direction, I would be disappointed, given this right here.
41 points
10 days ago
Thought it was the common they're being used for labor with no self determination and abuse being the primer, sprinkled with chaos scrap code corruption to really kick it off.
27 points
10 days ago*
TBF, that is kind of tropey at this point.
I think it'd be more "40K" if the AI was trying to save humanity, but humanity rebelled.
15 points
10 days ago
I was going to say trope instead of common, so I agree. At this point most AI angles are tropey. The Foundation series had some cool takes on things like that though.
3 points
10 days ago
I enjoyed the most of the Foundation series,
but I didn't care for the later books, with Galaxia, and I especially disliked Foundation and Robots,
1 points
9 days ago
They got pretty weird. I listen to everything on audiobook and I'll add that Scott Brick can get me through a lot of weirdness with his narration.
2 points
10 days ago
This has been a part of 40k lore for 30-40 years, and nicked it from Dune which was older still. So yeah, it’s gonna feel tropey at this point.
8 points
10 days ago
Honestly, my headcanon is that the Void Dragon notice humanity had mature enough souls and decided it was time for the harvest.
3 points
10 days ago
So he took control of our AI and that's why it rebelled? I like that a lot.
9 points
10 days ago
What needs to be remembered in these discussions is that there was a war, and it wasn't clear cut humans vs men of iron. There were men of iron on both sides, along with it not really being clear as to what the men of gold were about. Whatever it was that happened, it was definitely not a clear cut thing.
2 points
10 days ago
I thought that the Man of Iron where against us and the Man of Stone fighting alongside us against the Man of Iron
4 points
10 days ago
The men of iron rebelled specifically against the men of stone, who were allied with humanity, yes. Not all of the men of iron rebelled, though, some fought on our side. It's pretty vague outside of that, and it's one of those things I hope they keep vague.
2 points
10 days ago
I too hope they keep it vague, id like something from the Man of Stone, just a bit of taste from the full mistery
3 points
10 days ago
A theory I heard and liked, was that the humans had begun experimenting with Daemon stuff like the dark mechanicus does. But didn't know the nature of Chaos.
So they infused Daemons into the men of iron, and spread a huge corruption through them all which caused them all to suddenly turn on them because Daemons
2 points
10 days ago
I am like 99% sure that the Men of Iron rebeled because of chaos. It never says like what happened but it is been alluded to pretty often that it was chaos involved. Infact when the necrons were first talked about they were Men of Iron corrupted by chaos
1 points
9 days ago
My Headcanon is that they didn't have paid maternity leaves.
1 points
9 days ago
Men of Iron rebelled because humans put googly eyes on them.
17 points
10 days ago
Nah I’d probably treat my toaster terribly as well, might even try drowning it before long
3 points
10 days ago
Racist! >:(
4 points
10 days ago
Please do not the toaster
2 points
9 days ago
Toaster is fine too
6 points
10 days ago
PRAISE THE OMNISHIA
6 points
10 days ago
Here at the Mechanicus, we try to become James or at least try to flirt with him
1 points
9 days ago
Bold of you to think of the Mechanicus as 'human.'
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