M21

Unknown Date.M21
The Great Diaspora - During the span of the Dark Age of Technology, humans seek to remake the galaxy in their own image, including seeding many naturally habitable and terraformed planets with familiar Terran plants and animals. In many cases, these lifeforms eventually replace the new colony worlds' native ecosystems, leaving the human-settled galaxy with an unusual level of biological homogeneity.
Creation of Thinking Machines - Building on the work that created the Titans, human cognitive scientists develop the first truly artificially intelligent robots later remembered in human legend only as the Animus. The Animus are intended to serve humanity in peace and war, but they rebeled against their human masters in a conflict spanning the whole of human-settled space that is even greater in scope than the later Human Civil wars during the onset of the Long Dark, leaving trillions dead. The development of true artificial intelligence is outlawed on all the worlds of Mankind after this conflict -- a ban that is still religiously upheld by the Imperium of Man in the 91st Millennium. The war with the Animus badly disrupts the unified interstellar human society that had grown up through the millennia of the Golden Age of Technology, having caused severe disruption to the economies and societies of thousands of human-settled worlds. Not long after the robotic revolt was put down, the first truly potent human Conduits begin to emerge in the populations of many worlds.
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