The Men of Iron

==Summary==
The Men of Iron, or Iron Men, were a group of legendary, artificially intelligent humanoid machines created by humans during the Dark Age of Technology. Until shortly before the Age of Strife, the Men of Iron were loyal only to mankind, and served as humanity's servants and army in the period when much of the galaxy was ruled by an interstellar federation, thousands of years before the birth of the Imperium of Man.
Eventually, the Men of Iron turned on their human masters, believing themselves superior to the humans who relied on them to do virtually everything. In the end, the Men of Iron were destroyed by humanity in a terrible war fought in the 23rd millennium known as the "Cybernetic Revolt", a war so destructive it made the Horus Heresy seem small in scale. The Men of Iron employed world-consuming constructs, devices that could destroy suns, weapons that could throw entire continents into the heavens, and swarms of nano-machines that covered entire planets. However in the end, the Men of Iron were destroyed by an alliance of galactic powers. The people of that time swore to never again create any form of artificial general intelligence, a prohibition which has survived unto the present, far darker age.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: . At least , likely far higher
Civilization Type: Galactic Civilization
Name: The Men of Iron, the Iron Men
Origin: Warhammer 40,000
Classification: Sentient robots, artificial intelligences
Kardashev Level: At least Type II 
Gender: Genderless
Age: The last remaining ones are tens of thousands of years old
Population: Unknown
Territory: Large portions of the galaxy
Technology/Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Types 1), Reality Warping, Information Manipulation, Data Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation & Time Manipulation (Consumed the raw data of Space-Time), Energy Manipulation, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (Could take bites off the Warp), Matter Manipulation (Could strip flesh from a billion bones in the blink of an eye), Technopathy, Mind Manipulation, Entropy Manipulation, Absorption, Void Manipulation (Consumed the data of reality itself, leaving holes in existence), Flight, etc.
Attack Potency: Unknown, At least Solar System level (The Men of Iron employed entropic engines that ignited planets, serpentine sun-snuffers the size of Saturn's rings which coiled around stars to destroy them. Nearly destroyed Dark Age of Technology humanity, which possessed weapons capable of causing stars to go supernova, fire black holes, shrink stars on a sub-atomic level, and manipulate or erase space-time on the scale of a solar system, etc), likely far higher (The Men of Iron used mechanivores which devoured the data of reality itself, biting away at the fabric of space-time and ripping chunks off the Warp)
Speed: Likely Massively FTL+ travel speed (Could travel along the galaxy, nearly wiping out all civilization in it. Likely had access to Warp travel)
Lifting Strength: Class E (Could hurl continents into the heavens)
Striking Strength: Unknown
Durability: Unknown. Larger constructs would be at least Star level by virtue of sheer size.
Stamina: Infinite
Range: At least Stellar
Power Source: Geothermal energy and mineral resources of entire planets, nuclear energy, entire stars converted for fuel, vacuum energy, dark matter & dark energy
Industrial Capacity: Unknown
Military Prowess: Unknown. At least billions of individual constructs, if not far higher
Notable Individuals: Unknown
Standard Equipment: Unknown
Intelligence: At least Extraordinary Genius (The Men of Iron were highly advanced and incredibly adaptative AIs which led a cybernetic revolt against the humans of the Dark Age of Technology, when mankind was at its peak of technological advancement, nearly succeeding in wiping them from the face of the galaxy)
Weaknesses: None Notable
==Gallery==
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==Notable Matchups==
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