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“While you can reason them as Gods, they are not.” Malcador swept his hand across the field in a showman’s demonstration, “There is another side that claims they are however the manifestation of all sentient thought, but they would also be wrong. As both you and I know answers are always more convoluted and wide than what we humans want.”
With those words he raised a finger, “At the beginning, when they were born, these entities were much similar to what man first thought. Or atleast, that is what the Emperor understood as he watched their gestation within the Warp. He had shown me great records of their existence, where they infiltrated even some of the first civilizations of mankind. But back then they likely were what the people who worshiped them thought they were, semi benevolent gods.”
“That is a damning thought, Malcador. You tell me that they have been with humanity since the beginning.”
“In time they changed, as I learned from both my readings and talks with the Emperor. They began to grow more and more powerful as both humanity and all other civilizations suffered their initial growth. They realized, these entities, that certain actions made them stronger and thus they fed upon them. Gone was most worship of them from humanity though, through the guiding hands of the Emperor and mankind naturally eradicating their existence wherever they saw it.”
“I take its similar to how the Knights of Dutonis eliminated their psykers wherever they were found.” TalOS suggested only to get a nod from his fellow.
“Back then I believe the Gods did not care, for they were getting fat off of what mankind was already doing. Even when we reached the stars we suffered plague, war, and change of all kinds.” Malcador admitted before he spoke, “But when humanity began to move towards its next step, when humanity was at the luxurious heights of the Golden Age of Technology, things began to change. I believe the Chaos Gods realized they were starting to become weaker.”
“Weaker? If the dates you refer to are correct this would be the AI rebellions.”
“Indeed.” Malcador said solemnly, “It was also during this time that humanity was about to reach the next step of their evolution. Naturally, without even the intervention of the Emperor, mankind began to develop psykers.”
“And the AIs rebel.”
Malcador gave a solemn nod to those words.
