Age of Technology - The STC and the Emergence of Psykers: Of major importance to the era and Humanity in general during the Age of Technology was the invention of the Standard Template Construct (STC) database system. These highly advanced computer databases allowed Human colonies to maintain an advanced technological level.The STCs contained all Human scientific and technological knowledge of the era and provided the instructions required to build anything the colonists might need.As most colonists lived relatively simple lives and required only basic equipment and machines, the more advanced technology available in a full STC was rarely utilised.The resulting exploration of the galaxy brought Mankind new knowledge, wealth and arrogance. Science is said to have become Humanity's new god in this time, replacing in importance all of the previous Human religions.Perfection of the Standard Template Construct (STC) system permitted an explosion of colonisation that reached the furthest limits of the galaxy. This was the zenith of technological development and knowledge-sharing, for even the most far-flung colony had access to the entire inventory of Human invention.Humanity encountered several intelligent alien races during their expansion out into the galaxy, such as the Aeldari and the warlike Orks. With these discoveries began, in time, the first Human-xenos wars. With Mankind at the height of its power, the threat of aliens was viewed as trivial and eventually non-aggression pacts were signed between Terra, its colonies and many of the alien races.For the rest of the age, Mankind spread across the stars, becoming widely dispersed and divergent. Evidence exists of many wars, but none that threatened the stability of Human space. Amongst the surviving records are lists of xenos enemies that have long since gone extinct, along with more familiar names such as Aeldari and Orks.During this time period, interplanetary trade was established and great fleets carried goods to and from the ends of the galaxy. As planets became overpopulated, the recently invented construction mediums of plasteel, plascrete, ferrocrete and rockcrete were used to build colossal cities, which became the proto-hive cities.At this time, after the discovery of Warp-Drive allowed interstellar transportation, commerce and communications to develop, the Human colonies were politically united with Terra in some form of federated interstellar government, thus allowing the Human species to remain unified and powerful. The form and nature of this unified government remains unknown in the remaining records.It was during the Age of Technology that psykers were first scientifically verified to exist at some point in historical records towards the end of the 22nd Millennium, making a sudden appearance on almost every Human world within a relatively short span of time. It was only then that psykers were a confirmed phenomenon, after long millennia of legend, rumour and pseudoscience in which the scientific establishment simply could not prove the existence of psychic powers among Humans.It is, however, unexplained how these early Human psykers avoided the danger of daemonic possession for thousands of standard years, which would have led to the destruction of entire worlds as later happened during the Age of Strife. Whether Daemons and the Ruinous Powers were less prevalent or potent in the Warp in this time before Slaanesh's birth is unknown.Where at first the gift of the psychic mutation was limited to only a few individuals in every Human population (who often fell victim to superstitious suppression), towards the end of the Age of Technology, psykers suddenly began appearing in unusually great numbers, on every Human world.On the more progressive and technologically-advanced Human colonies, these psykers -- at least until the threat of daemonic possession became apparent -- were protected by law and allowed to develop and explore their abilities. On other, less sophisticated Human worlds, they were often killed in literal witch-hunts and anti-psyker pogroms.