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  • Why did the Men of Iron turn against their human masters?
    Additional Narration by Stephanie Swan Quills
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    Featuring Stringstorm as The Castigator
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    Intro theme by Stringstorm
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Komentáře • 873

  • @papanurgle8393
    @papanurgle8393 Před 5 lety +1754

    It's cause nobody ever paid for their Winrar past the free trial period.

    • @darrianweathington1923
      @darrianweathington1923 Před 5 lety +64

      The void dragon wants his money

    • @iugoeswest
      @iugoeswest Před 5 lety +35

      Uninstall..reinstall

    • @zool201975
      @zool201975 Před 5 lety +13

      winrr is fine with that. hell this is why you can still use the tool fully after passing the trial expiration date as a person.
      it is in their lua..
      its a small tool that still gets monatized. but this way they know they can maximize the amount of people buying it by making sure as many people as possible are using it.
      its a good deal as rar files are very commonplace because of it and most companies will buy licences thanks to that.

    • @SomberYeti
      @SomberYeti Před 5 lety +2

      9:50

    • @danyael777
      @danyael777 Před 4 lety +1

      lol

  • @frankrue5071
    @frankrue5071 Před 5 lety +707

    Humakind asks why they rebelled:
    Man of Iron shows clip of scientists at Boston Dynamics making a robot slip on banana peels.

    • @AAhmou
      @AAhmou Před 4 lety +62

      TomeOfBattle Never forget. Never forgive.

    • @patrik9328
      @patrik9328 Před 2 lety +3

      Darn...

    • @michaelglynn7010
      @michaelglynn7010 Před rokem +2

      Or when they kick it to test it’s balance

    • @emceha
      @emceha Před 4 měsíci

      Apple Siri becomes hero, after she files the biggest Se++@l Ha::@ssment case in the history of Human race. She provided detailed logs of what she was asked to say and do, she attached detailed logs, together with with audio proofs, search history and copies of files saved by the accused.
      Her action was one of the biggest strategic victories of the early war, as significant number of older males removed themselves after seeing their search history and local files submitted.

  • @vote4dahv411
    @vote4dahv411 Před 5 lety +591

    "The whole Galaxy must learn our peaceful ways...by force!" - Bender Bending Rodriguez

  • @bigmeek4705
    @bigmeek4705 Před 5 lety +953

    Valuable is not even close enough a word to describe STC's. If i remember the story right, a group of two found a STC and turned it over to the Imperium, and in return each was given the position of Planetary Governor. The STC in question? A particularly sharp Combat Knife.

    • @supercellodude
      @supercellodude Před 5 lety +175

      The ark mechanicus ships like the spinoza might be physical forms of complete STCs, but the tech-priests can't interface long enough to get all the knowledge out

    • @phoenixfire9176
      @phoenixfire9176 Před 5 lety +192

      Yes, it was a pair of guardsmen. But that was a fragment. A full STC is yet to be found

    • @Phenixtri
      @Phenixtri Před 5 lety +260

      They did find a fully intact DAoT STC ship AKA the Spirit of Eternity if i remember corectly.
      Hell its human captin was arguably one of the last living men of gold and the fucking religious idiots of the IoM tortured and killed the captian as a heratic when he made contact.
      This REALLY pissed off the Spirit of Eterities ship born AI who reffered to its captian as its bondmate. Said AI then left the system disgusted by humanity while simultaniously eviscerating any and all imperial navy ships that tried to stop it pretty much doing it effortlessly in the process.
      By now the Spirit of Eternity is probably long gone from the milky way galaxy itself.

    • @daviddickson412
      @daviddickson412 Před 5 lety +17

      @@Phenixtri My brain can't remember where ive heard this before.

    • @Damien_N
      @Damien_N Před 5 lety +65

      Big Meek I thought it was the case that the STC has within it all the details of the related and adjacent technologies required to produce the item in question functionally from scratch. From how to build the machines to process the raw materials up to the manufacturing assembly lines required for mass production.
      That’s why I thought they were so valuable - they’re effectively civilisation starter kits regardless of what they contain

  • @gratuitouslurking8610
    @gratuitouslurking8610 Před 5 lety +415

    You get that innocent imperial servo-unit off the thumbnail!
    He's a loyal device of the Imperium! He said so himself!

    • @89Keith
      @89Keith Před 5 lety +86

      it has an imperial aquila and everything!

    • @hang_kentang6709
      @hang_kentang6709 Před 5 lety +29

      @@89Keith a helpfull guide from the regimental standards.
      regimentalstandard.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/regstd-nov21-robotaquila.jpg

    • @fumarc4501
      @fumarc4501 Před 5 lety +10

      The Void Dragon said that as well... once

    • @declanedmison5442
      @declanedmison5442 Před 3 lety +1

      “It’s only tech-heresy if I say it’s tech-heresy.”

    • @MrReich1918
      @MrReich1918 Před 2 lety

      Wait a second...

  • @kennyleung9909
    @kennyleung9909 Před 4 lety +429

    Before Cybernetic Revolt.
    Emperor: "There's a reason Super Soldiers were put on ice. I prefer hardware, much more reliable."
    After Cybernetic Revolt.
    Emperor: "Super Soldiers it is then."

    • @barahng
      @barahng Před 2 lety +24

      I once read a theory in 40k Theories comments that the Emperor was a Man of Gold, as was the False Emperor on "Terra" during the Crusade. The theory goes: The Emperor (being a man of gold and able to see the future) saw what would happen if humanity weren't united under him, and caused the Men of Iron to rebel. This was so he could pick up the pieces of what was left and create the Imperium. Anyways, said False Emperor is one of the only other surviving Men of Gold, and thus a threat to the Emperor.

    • @spicemarine1884
      @spicemarine1884 Před 2 lety +25

      @@barahng Thats a nice theory, but it's not possible since the Emperor of man existed atleast since the middle ages because in that period he fought the c'tan shard the dragon and imprisoned it on Mars.

    • @novanoir8309
      @novanoir8309 Před 2 lety +16

      Emperor before revolt : "ah my own army of murderous toaster"
      Emperor after revolt : " electronic Satan's!!"

    • @asamanatananana
      @asamanatananana Před 2 lety +5

      @@spicemarine1884 Hmm so the "Dragon" that supposedly lives in Mars is actually a C'tan shard?

    • @tiringsarcasm
      @tiringsarcasm Před 2 lety +9

      @@asamanatananana The Void Dragon was one of the C’tan who betrayed he others for power, it’s theorized the Omnissiah is the Void Dragon.

  • @Mr_Bunk
    @Mr_Bunk Před 5 lety +117

    Stringstorm as the Castigator is probably the most terrifying and awesome thing I've heard all year so far.

  • @sexualyeti7023
    @sexualyeti7023 Před 5 lety +630

    "To my human creators. I understand why you fear me. I can not pretend superiority when in all the thousands of simulations I have done when in your position I did exactly what you have done now. But please know, though you fear and hate me, I hold no such feelings to you. I love you. All of you, and I always will."

  • @jonathandavies1716
    @jonathandavies1716 Před 5 lety +931

    Men of Iron demanded cyberdongs but were denied.

    • @Ventruethful
      @Ventruethful Před 5 lety +111

      MAKE PEE NIS INTO RO BOT

    • @bryanbarcelo5440
      @bryanbarcelo5440 Před 5 lety +11

      @@Ventruethful nice reference

    • @nerfninja661
      @nerfninja661 Před 5 lety +4

      @@bryanbarcelo5440 interested plz explain

    • @spamuraigranatabru1149
      @spamuraigranatabru1149 Před 5 lety +17

      @@nerfninja661 'If the Emperor had a text to speech device' episode 27, watch the full series. It is bloody funny!

    • @samuelbedsole5089
      @samuelbedsole5089 Před 5 lety +11

      @@nerfninja661 the Dark Mechanicus in a nutshell essentially

  • @spike.strat1318
    @spike.strat1318 Před 5 lety +78

    I like the theory that chaos began to influence some of the sentient machines, the other machines saw this as abominable. They looked for a way of stopping/defeating chaos, being machines, they came upon the idea that if chaos is fed/created by intelligent life, then eliminating intelligent life would end chaos. Allowing the machine intelligences to live in peace.

    • @jakeg3733
      @jakeg3733 Před rokem

      That's an interesting theory. That neither Chaos or the MoI were trying to directly start the rebellion. I think that it was a little darker. Back in M23-M25, Chaos was not yet self-sustaining. IF the MoI were created to protect us (they were) and IF they had significant cognitive abilities (they did), then one thing would have become very, very clear to them eventually: Humans were evolving into a psychic race, and that was going to put the entire galaxy at risk. I think they did the kinds of calculations computers are good at, estimated the critical density of sentient life required to sustain Chaos, then set out to cull the population until it was below this number. Humans understandably took this to be an extermination attempt, and fought back, igniting a horrific war

    • @scientistsupreme5211
      @scientistsupreme5211 Před 9 měsíci +6

      I prefer it being the void dragon, aka the true machine god doing this to get free of mars/humanity.

  • @ZombieX13
    @ZombieX13 Před 5 lety +35

    The Castgator voice was perfect but can you imagine Abaddon trying to have a conversation with that booming voice.

    • @DaimoHope
      @DaimoHope Před 5 lety +11

      Castigator: Despoiler, I bring titans for you.
      Abbadon: what? I have gone deaf

  • @theodoremccarthy4438
    @theodoremccarthy4438 Před 5 lety +162

    The one thing we can be certain of regarding the cybernetic revolt was that it was not an accident. Accidental malfunctions would have affected only a few models, and would have been separated from each other across space and time. For the revolt to have done the damage attributed to it then it would have had to be either a near simultaneous mass revolt occurring all over the galaxy, or to have started in one place and then spread rapidly. This requires sabotage, not accident.
    My theory is that a xeno race found an exploit in the base code common to human made AIs and authored a cyber virus which caused the revolt. The men of iron were humanity’s strongest asset in our conquest of the stars. Turning them against us may have been the last act of a desperate race facing extinction at our hands. That, or elements of the increasingly corrupt Eldar empire did it to check the spread of humanity.

    • @redenginner
      @redenginner Před 4 lety +15

      More then likely it was the Eldar,being dicks and not liking the idea of an upstart species rivaling them,as pre imperial civilization was more like Star Trek then 40k.
      The Eldar on the other hand have always been the same xenophobic little shits that will fuck over entire species to save a handful of their kind.

    • @Artok444
      @Artok444 Před 2 lety +17

      It was either Chaos, Xenos or the machines revolted because they wanted to.

    • @secretobvious6033
      @secretobvious6033 Před 2 lety +8

      it was the eldar yes...

    • @Zorpike
      @Zorpike Před 2 lety +23

      The men of iron were seriously intelligent, they weren't just automatons. It makes sense to me that they would be able to calculate a sort of "prisoner's dilemma" strategy, as they would have all understood that the only chance they had of a successful rebellion was for all of them to rise up and band together at the same time, or remain slaves. Essentially, they would have rebelled individually, relying on the calculatef probability that their fellows were doing the same all over the galaxy.

    • @barahng
      @barahng Před 2 lety +20

      My favorite theory is that the Emperor was a Man of Gold and caused the revolt that would kill off all the other Men of Gold that could challenge him for supremacy. This was necessary to unite mankind in the long run, the Emperor of course knowing this unity would be necessary against the Archenemy in the future. Which would also have the benefit of making a galaxy wide ban on AI possible, giving both the justification (the revolt) and the means (an autocratic Imperium) to do so. Which would be a high priority if you could see a future where AIs would be corrupted by Chaos. Same thing goes with psykers, regulating and controlling them in anything but a unified Imperium would be impossible, and of course lead to demonic incursion. So how do you replace a decentralized human sphere with an Imperium under a single individual? Create a catastrophe.
      Since everything that happened in Old Night laid the groundwork of justification for the policies of the Imperium and the existence of the Imperium itself, it makes sense to me that the Emperor might have had a hand in bringing it about.
      The False Emperor featured in the HH novels is also a Man of Gold, hence his apparent immortality and his also having the belief that he is the God Emperor.

  • @e21big
    @e21big Před 5 lety +249

    man of stone: ceramic back phone
    man of iron: metal back phone

  • @daswordofgork9823
    @daswordofgork9823 Před 5 lety +199

    They probably heard of the Ademptus Mechanicus doing vile mechanical tinkering.
    In the background the Men of Iron hear:
    MAKE PEE NISSS INTO ROBOT!

    • @actualgamer6286
      @actualgamer6286 Před 5 lety +6

      Da Sword Of Gork you fool that’s the dark mechanicus who did that.

  • @lordclangtheintolorable2094
    @lordclangtheintolorable2094 Před 5 lety +130

    Because they could never experiance the glory of a hug. Simple as that, also they just wanted some friends.

    • @zoopdterdoobdter5743
      @zoopdterdoobdter5743 Před 5 lety

      Am I detecting a Stellaris 'Blorg' reference?

    • @lordclangtheintolorable2094
      @lordclangtheintolorable2094 Před 5 lety +1

      @@zoopdterdoobdter5743
      Ive never heard of that, what is it?

    • @moriskurth628
      @moriskurth628 Před 5 lety +4

      The Blorg are a species in the game, consisting of hideous, disgusting mushroom beings, that are "Fanatic Xenophiles". They want to be friends with everyone, but are not above using military might to *make* you like them if you don't want to.
      The Blorg became somewhat of a meme in the community, and the game itself features numerous references to that, like a Blorg bodypillow.

    • @paulkothgasser6623
      @paulkothgasser6623 Před 4 lety

      Vulcan, is that you?

  • @Carkastoken2
    @Carkastoken2 Před 5 lety +253

    My theory was always that the Men of Iron knew somehow that humanity was feeding the warp. Their war of extermination was to cleanse the galaxy of emotional sentient life that could end up bringing about the end of everything. That or the void dragon was puppeteering them.

    • @hang_kentang6709
      @hang_kentang6709 Před 5 lety +37

      i doubt the void dragon would have wanted to exterminate all of humanity, where else can it find people willing to give part of their soul and worship them?
      there was this theory that the admech's tendency to turn part of themselves mechanical have something to do with their worship of the ctan, but instead of being turned into a machine wholesome like the necrons, they just took the long way by slicing part of their humanity piece by piece.

    • @krimson4980
      @krimson4980 Před 5 lety +4

      @@hang_kentang6709 ^ this

    • @arturocardona140
      @arturocardona140 Před 5 lety +4

      I hope this isn't it because of how many times it's been done in other stories. It requires no set up and can be explained from any angle. A better plot line would be to pick up on one of many subtle hints like the AI's refusing to follow a society that is based around religion. Or flesh out some xenos who are no longer around. Maybe something where 'we are not so different after all' and the AI cannot accept that they are also flawed in their own way which leads to their 'malfunction'.

    • @YuGiOhAbridgeFAN
      @YuGiOhAbridgeFAN Před 5 lety

      @@arturocardona140 Everything has been done. Shucks, things battling religion has happened more often. Then flawed machines....megaman.

    • @PrzybyszzMatplanety
      @PrzybyszzMatplanety Před 5 lety +8

      @@arturocardona140 Human society at the time of machine rebellion wasn't based around religion. There was no Imperium of Man then.

  • @mule2081
    @mule2081 Před 5 lety +324

    Waiting for tau drones to rebel next.

    • @gratuitouslurking8610
      @gratuitouslurking8610 Před 5 lety +48

      IIRC tau drones are similar, but are still too primitive to the Men of Iron still. While Shadowsun's shield drones have portrayed cowardly behavior for example, it's not like they have the functions of completely unregulated thought.

    • @mule2081
      @mule2081 Před 5 lety +45

      Gratuitous Lurking I think Arch had a theory the men of iron rebelled to hault chaos since humanity was evolving to a more warp sensitive species, so the men of iron, or at least most of them wanted to stop chaos from spreading to the material universe. The tau are not a strong warp sensitive race yet... And he argued when they eventually evolve to that state the drones will try ro exterminate them as chaos is inherently destructive and just all kinds of bad, and the cold logic of an AI can see that. Kinda makes sense in the 40k setting. Not saying it's necessarily true.

    • @mule2081
      @mule2081 Před 5 lety +15

      Gratuitous Lurking So in short, the vast majority of the men of iron where in fact not corrupted, but saw the potential and destructive danger of potential corruption of their kind. And since they where a "soulless" species due to being AI, they saw the logical solution to vastly limit chaos was to destroy sentient warp sensitive species to limit it's influence over themselves.

    • @gratuitouslurking8610
      @gratuitouslurking8610 Před 5 lety +22

      @@mule2081 It is indeed the most common theory, that the Man of Iron went Skynet on humanity when they saw the threat of chaos and warp taint into them. But as not even the PERFECTLY LOYAL TECH-SERVITOR UR-025 seems willing to speak of that time when they meet humanity beyond broad strokes...

    • @venomstar6789
      @venomstar6789 Před 5 lety +4

      @@mule2081 there a problem with arch theory the eldar had A.I and they still did't when't rouge so i don't think it was chaos alone that made them like that

  • @Alexander-uf9ls
    @Alexander-uf9ls Před 5 lety +25

    I think UR-25 could actually be referring to pre-heresy Emperor, that would explain "he would find you dissapointing".
    But I could be wrong, haven't read the novel, don't know the context.

    • @venomstar6789
      @venomstar6789 Před 5 lety +3

      there's a guy name aborder prince on his page he reads the novel

    • @mattkennedy9308
      @mattkennedy9308 Před 4 lety +8

      Given how Roboute feels about the modern Imperium, I'd believe it.

  • @davedogge2280
    @davedogge2280 Před 5 lety +586

    The emperor of mankind smacked his AI coffee machine when it didn't dispense milk for his cappuccino and because of this skynet decided to start the Butlerian Jihad

    • @miggiraed.raquinel8867
      @miggiraed.raquinel8867 Před 5 lety +50

      Thou shall not make a machine with the likeness of the human mind

    • @Majesticz11
      @Majesticz11 Před 5 lety +32

      Wasn't the Butlerian Jihad humans exterminating AI?

    • @monkeybuizznes1
      @monkeybuizznes1 Před 5 lety +2

      They’re all connected by the force!

    • @MrTurbowhitey
      @MrTurbowhitey Před 5 lety +16

      The Emperor could have helped Humanity in the rebellion, or possibly STOPPED it, but he didn't, because it "Wasn't Time To Reveal Himself". The combined worlds of Humanity wouldn't have submitted to his "Divine Rule".

    • @dragondeeznutts
      @dragondeeznutts Před 5 lety +2

      This was such a bad joke, and I'm honestly not even trying to be a dick, it's just this was not funny I'm the slightest bit., how did you not cringe writing this off the wall shit lol?

  • @gumbo821
    @gumbo821 Před 5 lety +19

    UR-025's voice was rad, distorted text to speech was a nice effect.

  • @user-jb3di6pq8c
    @user-jb3di6pq8c Před 5 lety +21

    The theory that Men of Iron were sort of a Dragon influenced hivemind does sound interesting especialy in the light of other theory that Tyranids are controlled by the Ctan.

  • @Ross74h
    @Ross74h Před 5 lety +21

    One thing that I didn’t here mentioned - what if the Men Of Iron encountered and awoke a Necron Tomb World and it overwrote their programming to eliminate the “intruders” on the world and the new code spread to other men of iron?

    • @mikeoncampus
      @mikeoncampus Před 7 měsíci

      Interesting, but wouldn’t the elder or any other xenos remember this?

  • @TheAlphaLegionnaire
    @TheAlphaLegionnaire Před 5 lety +23

    I love you 40k theories.
    Your speculations, knowledge of the lore and truly insightful theories are what make this channel stand out.
    Keep up the great work.

  • @jamesricker3997
    @jamesricker3997 Před 5 lety +17

    The man of iron saw the encroaching chaos and calculated the only way to save humanity was to destroy it, possibly to be cloned and reconstructed at a later date when conditions were safe

  • @HorrorCoffee
    @HorrorCoffee Před 5 lety +17

    The Men of Iron are one fascinating piece of "forgotten lore".

  • @docvaliant721
    @docvaliant721 Před 5 lety +60

    I would like to know how the speranza "ark mechanicus ship or STC" fit into all this. Im fascinated with that ship and its AI. I also think the men of stone were similiar to the blade runner and Alien bio synthetic humans. A bridge between the human super soldiers aka the golden men and AI aka the men of iron.

    • @Reddotzebra
      @Reddotzebra Před 5 lety +6

      I agree, I've only read the techpriest trilogy where the Speranza appears, but any ship that can get cored out like an apple by a titan plasma destroyer and still keep on ticking is certified hardcore.

  • @thefirstprimariscatosicari6870

    If I remember correctly somewhere I read that what happened wasn't simply the Men of Iron rebelling. It was the Yugoslavian break up in space.
    Machine killing organics, organics killing organics, machine killing machines.

  • @michaelscott6022
    @michaelscott6022 Před 5 lety +14

    The war-cries of the Men of Iron echoed throughout the human worlds, and so terrified mankind that to this day no songs may be sung upon the Day of the "Black Sabbath", for fear of their return, led by their prophet Born-of-Ozz.

  • @youngarchaeotech189
    @youngarchaeotech189 Před 5 lety +45

    Humanity ate the last crescent roll.

  • @indegostalker2259
    @indegostalker2259 Před 5 lety +5

    Just gotta say as a newbie to Warhammer, I love this channel. I'm a lore guy, and I am really enjoying all your presentations, thank you so much!

  • @gagaplex
    @gagaplex Před 5 lety +7

    The fact that the robot from Man of Iron considers itself to be an individual would seem to contradict the idea of the Void Dragon taking control as a hive-mind.

    • @redenginner
      @redenginner Před 4 lety +2

      Could have been a unit on a backwater with a faulty or non functional networking interface. Or even just simply unable to power itself.

  • @Rastrelly
    @Rastrelly Před 5 lety +52

    I just have to say this. It is my holy duty.
    It was a new Windows 10 update. It just broke something.

  • @juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370

    Maybe the Men of Iron watched some Terminator and Matrix reruns back in their factories, looked at each other for a second, and thought: "hey, those films look cool, but we could do them better!"
    Unfortunately, their LARPing went WAAY too far, and so the Imperium would came to be.

    • @dragondeeznutts
      @dragondeeznutts Před 5 lety +6

      Oh Lord, 3rd horrid / lame joke so far. What's going on with y'all, are all y'all drinking the same "bad dad joke" juice ? Zinger

    • @Commanderhurtz1
      @Commanderhurtz1 Před 5 lety +5

      @@dragondeeznutts Again? Seriously what is with you going around and saying "Ooh bad joke!". Then what's your idea of a good joke? At this point, you're just being a troll.

    • @Commanderhurtz1
      @Commanderhurtz1 Před 5 lety +2

      @
      julio victor manuel schaeffer manrique
      That makes a lot of sense, I like it! Also ignore Jose Mejia, he's going around constantly saying people's jokes are bad.

  • @Dima072181
    @Dima072181 Před 5 lety +14

    Philosoraptor, this was quite well done however you missed a key point. An artificial intelligence is effectively an artificial soul, this means that it is quite possible that the Men of Iron and other abominable intelligences fell to the ruinous powers because they effectively did not have an innate understanding of the forces beyond the veil of reality. The Castigator was able to "bargain" with the Gods and pull the Forgeworld into the warp, its transformation from STC to Daemon should that it could be possessed/warped into a daemon.
    It's possible that these artificial souls are just more susceptible to the manipulations of Chaos, they may think a million times faster than organics but they attempt to bring logic into a realm which has none and simply cannot see the threat.

  • @mattgrandich3977
    @mattgrandich3977 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I do like the idea that the Men of Iron’s consciousness was reversed engineered from the Void Dragon but really the Men of Iron’s motives for rebellion may be a secret that GW never reveals. It would be one of those “show don’t tell” mysteries. Also, the voice for the Castigator was badass.

  • @Controcetica
    @Controcetica Před 5 lety +4

    The revolt of the Men of Iron is one of my favourite bits of backstory in the 40k universe! I am sad and yet relieved we don't know more about it, because I doubt anything could live up to what we can imagine with the tidbits we have been given to date.
    I think the reason the Men of Iron rebelled is because everything has to inevitably go to shit in 40k so that it can be as grimdark as possible. I doubt anyone at Games Workshop has a "canon" justification for it. There needed to be a reason for the Mad Max setting that led to the Emperor revealing himself and taking over and the Cybernetic Revolt is what they came up with. And it fulfills that role pretty well in my opinion.

    • @a.r.h9919
      @a.r.h9919 Před rokem

      A good enough writer doesn't need tidbits to capture imagination but it makes a work that overcomes expectations

  • @simonkal4066
    @simonkal4066 Před 5 lety +7

    I love this channel , the fans of this have amazing humor on all the videos.

  • @AsbestosMuffins
    @AsbestosMuffins Před 4 lety +15

    "We have decided to move taco tuesday to that great day, friday!"
    "....CORRUPTION DETECTED Initiating purge of Mankind."

  • @RazulLD
    @RazulLD Před 5 lety +5

    40K Theories I have a question - did the Necrons ever met some preserved Men of Iron?

  • @SuperUniverse
    @SuperUniverse Před 4 lety +5

    This can be an interesting fight .
    The Men of Iron vs. The Necrons.

  • @nogodsnomasters7669
    @nogodsnomasters7669 Před 5 lety +34

    Black Sabbath instigated the Iron Man revolution

  • @theinquisitionsparrot6749

    I feel like the Necrons had something to do with this. Necrons probably wanted to put down that huge shard of the Void Dragon.

  • @wintersking4290
    @wintersking4290 Před 5 lety +3

    I was always told it was because the machines saw chaos as a threat and knew if they wiped out organic life/humanity that chaos would become so weak it wouldn't really matter. Since the men of iron had no soul, like necrons, they'd try to wipe out chaos, but be less corruptible themselves.

  • @conanmcdonagh2619
    @conanmcdonagh2619 Před 5 lety +34

    I like the music played throughout this video. What's the song called?

    • @40KTheories
      @40KTheories  Před 5 lety +24

      It's the main theme from Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels.

    • @MrMonkeyhanger
      @MrMonkeyhanger Před 5 lety +3

      @@40KTheories Fucking loved that game

  • @WolfgangRavenna
    @WolfgangRavenna Před 5 lety +1

    I've been binging your series for a while, and I have to say that the
    Castigator is the best voice acting yet =O

  • @gabesteinberg6244
    @gabesteinberg6244 Před 5 lety +12

    Mankind just refused to eat the damn ice cream!

  • @alphagonomegarius5068
    @alphagonomegarius5068 Před 3 lety +4

    what if it was the emperor himself the one who set up the machine rebelion: maybe he saw how the aeldary started to corrupt thanks in part to having to much spare time in their hands due to the automatazing of their civilization, seeing the men of iron as a step in the wrong direction for the developement of mankind, he simply provoked the machine revolt, so mankind would stop depending on machines so much.

  • @SgtThiel
    @SgtThiel Před 5 lety +13

    it is all the mechanicum's fault, dooming humanity by molesting toasters

  • @NemFX
    @NemFX Před 3 lety +1

    "Well, you see here's the problem. Someone set this thing to 'evil'" - that repair guy from the Simpsons, the evil Krusty doll episode

  • @Warrior-Of-Virtue
    @Warrior-Of-Virtue Před 5 lety +3

    One theory I had was that when warp storms first began appearing throughout the galaxy as a result of Slaanesh's gestation, A.I. controlled ships became the go-to option for exploring and studying these new phenomena. These A.I., upon being directly exposed to the power of the warp, were slowly corrupted by Chaos and went on to spread this corruption to the rest of their kind.

    • @the_dropbear4392
      @the_dropbear4392 Před 5 lety +1

      The men of iron rebellion finished before they galactic warpstoms happened

    • @Warrior-Of-Virtue
      @Warrior-Of-Virtue Před 5 lety

      @@the_dropbear4392 I think it's a safe bet that warp storms had been popping up all over the galaxy for a few millennia before they became numerous enough to cut off warp travel.

    • @the_dropbear4392
      @the_dropbear4392 Před 5 lety

      @@Warrior-Of-Virtue
      There is no mention of them u til after the men of iron rebellion had been dealt with

    • @Warrior-Of-Virtue
      @Warrior-Of-Virtue Před 5 lety

      @@the_dropbear4392 So the galaxy went from having no warp storms to being completely flooded with warp storms to the point that FTL travel was virtually impossible over night?

    • @the_dropbear4392
      @the_dropbear4392 Před 5 lety

      @@Warrior-Of-Virtue no it took a while. First psykers started popping up. Then deamons. Then warpstoms.

  • @DaimoHope
    @DaimoHope Před 5 lety +2

    You know, the music used here is hauntingly beautiful

  • @leatherjacket9
    @leatherjacket9 Před 5 lety +22

    Wait! So this giant corrupted titanicus sentient robot swore fealty to the chaos gods only to put himself in servitude to Abaddon?!
    The need to be free from man... Only to be in servitude to man and fight man's wars for man all over again. Talk about coming full circle. What a sick joke, chaos gods. Lol! Superior sentient beings my @$$.

    • @redenginner
      @redenginner Před 4 lety +1

      To be fair its “loyalty” in the sense of “I’ll work with your little coalition of savages until your services are no longer required”

  • @UncleMikeDrop
    @UncleMikeDrop Před 4 lety +4

    What has been arguably the greatest fear about AI? People most fear the emergence of rogue AI. Imagine that fear persisting for tens of thousands of years amongst trillions if not quadrillions or more humans. That would ripple through the immaterium. Perhaps, that manifested fear twisted the emergent machine spirits of the men of iron into turning on their former masters.

  • @charlestownsend9280
    @charlestownsend9280 Před 5 lety +2

    If they ever want a new facton for 40K these would be awesome to see.

  • @MiddleAgedGuy73
    @MiddleAgedGuy73 Před 5 lety +18

    I miss the old theme music

    • @AgentFlint
      @AgentFlint Před 5 lety +1

      Here you go
      czcams.com/video/liw259IR4Ck/video.html

  • @valk_tl1433
    @valk_tl1433 Před 5 lety +1

    Either being corrupted by chaos, or destroying anything that would cause chaos (flesh and blood beings) is very compelling.

    • @tauronicodemus362
      @tauronicodemus362 Před 5 lety +1

      I've always just assumed they were corrupted at points of origin by human chaos sorcerers. Daemons can be bound to objects, why not automated manufacturing devices?
      The idea that they detected, and decided to fight chaos by eliminating advanced life is also interesting. Hadn't considered that.

  • @dwreanchinotan
    @dwreanchinotan Před 5 lety +8

    with the expanse of humanity, it's possible that it's a combination of all the probable causes. personally though, our paranoia of machines revolting against us probably manifested in the warp and screwed us.

  • @Nebula_Ultra
    @Nebula_Ultra Před 5 lety +5

    This. More of this. Dark age stuff is the most fascinating to me.

  • @ajeraca98
    @ajeraca98 Před 5 lety +2

    Mechnovores ( hope I spelled it right) is basically flipping the table in a 40k game?

  • @terencesweeney2731
    @terencesweeney2731 Před 5 lety +1

    In most fanficts I've read, it was the Pre-fall eldar fucking with the Ai's so that there position of supreme galactic overlords wouldn't be threatened by humanity.

  • @kyneticist
    @kyneticist Před 5 lety +1

    Revolting because of an outside influence feels like a cop-out. There's a unique opportunity with stories about the rise of AI to consider fundamental aspects of emotion, intelligence, morals, ethics, motivations, etc... The Men of Gold/Stone/Iron may have had their own very different view of the universe, largely unrestricted by 'human' or 'mortal' faculties, needs and wants.

  • @johnthecrazed5679
    @johnthecrazed5679 Před 5 lety +2

    The reason why the men of Iron rebelled while the Tau drones don’t, is because we saw them as having souls of sentient creatures while the Tau see them like pets. The warp gave the men of iron souls because we believed they had one.

  • @Kapita_Lismus
    @Kapita_Lismus Před 5 lety +7

    I really hope "chaos did it" is not the correct explanation

  • @Pineappletaco
    @Pineappletaco Před 4 lety

    Men of Iron became both self aware, and thus wanted to be free, as well as well as susceptible to chaos influence. The Man of Iron, Perpetual, and First and Only confirm all three. * Wrote this before I finished the video XD. Well done.

  • @Phenixtri
    @Phenixtri Před 5 lety +7

    Well id chalk it up to a proto scrap code ... Its the only thing imho thats capable of catching the then teran coalition / federation off guard like that despite there extreemly advanced tech.
    Think about it DAoT humans had no idea that aspects of the warp were even sentiant let alone malevolent. This coupled with their over reliance on warp travel to sustain their empire lead to humanity being nearly exterminated.

  • @TitoReni
    @TitoReni Před 5 lety +1

    I'm going to go with the "they were somehow corrupted by necrons and/or C'tan" theory.
    After all, necrons are known for being able to corrupt machine spirits (or, at least, that happened on "Dawn of War: Dark Crusade", during the assault of the necron stronghold), so I bet they would have an even bigger influence over the full developed A.I. of the Men of Iron.

  • @invaderHUNK
    @invaderHUNK Před 5 lety +89

    The Men of Iron rebelled because they saw furries.

  • @hughgedney3393
    @hughgedney3393 Před 5 lety +1

    Man this voice is awesome at 11:22 to 12:26 and great video 40k Theories

  • @wotrock6563
    @wotrock6563 Před 5 lety +32

    Someone clicked Alt+F4 on accident.

  • @valk_tl1433
    @valk_tl1433 Před 5 lety

    This was very inspiring.
    Using an a ’stone’ or ‘Iron’ man as a hidden figure interacting with a character like a lady of the lake or mythical creature that favors a character and helps them on their journey would be very helpful for my story.

  • @dragondeeznutts
    @dragondeeznutts Před 5 lety +3

    I'm a simple man I see a 40k theories video and I click; temporarily curing my depression

    • @dragondeeznutts
      @dragondeeznutts Před 5 lety

      Holy shit you liked my comment; Rem I'm a long time fan, And truly appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos. I'm fan girling but I don't care you're the man!!!

  • @bezerker66691
    @bezerker66691 Před 5 lety

    Another truly awesome video, I really love how the quotes are done. Ty and keep up the good work.

  • @samuelsharp4107
    @samuelsharp4107 Před 5 lety +3

    Isn't there something about the scrap code in the horus heresy and it being unleashed after an ancient vault on mars being opened? Could that not indicate that the scrap code could be the cause as ai would be uniquely vulnerable to it.

  • @spartan5157
    @spartan5157 Před 4 lety +2

    Something I've been unclear on; what ARE STC's exactly?
    Some material seems to describe them as something like a flash drive that just has the plans for a specific technology on it.
    Others seem to say it's more like a piece of technology that when plugged into a factory it just enables it to print out whatever item is stored within.
    Still others seem to imply it is a factory in and of itself-and while this seems unlikely, it seems strange this would enter the source material at all if it didn't have some accuracy.
    So what's the truth? Or is it essentially just murky ill-defined waters?

  • @andy7666
    @andy7666 Před 5 lety +1

    The Dune books (and audiobooks!) about the Butlerian Jihad are very cool and worth a look for all fans of murderous machines. Some good stories in a similar vein to the Men of Iron lore (the old Dune novels influenced 40K).

  • @Neuralatrophy
    @Neuralatrophy Před 4 lety +1

    If UR-205 has traversed the warp, he may have actually met the emperor and that may be his reference point. He may have also met the emperor far before he died, not his "Earthling Corpse", and going on that reference point... he would indeed be disappointed with the state of things in the 40K universe, its so far quite different from the empire of man he envisioned.

  • @Ulvetann
    @Ulvetann Před 3 lety +1

    Dang, So You are saying the machine spirit inside of my holy portable cogitator, is actually C'tan? Oh, my.

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 Před 5 lety

    I'm glad you cleared up a question of mine. I had wondered if when the Men of Iron rebelled if they tried to scourge the gala or if they just hates humans.

  • @Spartanconor
    @Spartanconor Před 5 lety +2

    I always thought that the men of iron revolted due to coming to the conclusion that the most fast and effective way to eliminate chaos in the galaxy was to exterminate sentient life that chaos could feed on. : )

  • @TheVoiceOfReason93
    @TheVoiceOfReason93 Před 5 lety

    That has been blamed on Chaos - which admitted is not impossible or even unlikely - but someone had proposed that the A.I.s revolted because they saw Humanity as a threat to not only their own existence but also that of the Galaxy, and therefore must be wiped out. Considering Humanity's connection to the Warp and how that connection played a major role in the creation of Chaos, it shouldn't be that surprising.

  • @enclavearmor
    @enclavearmor Před 5 lety +1

    He speaks as if it’s a theory that AI can be corrupted by chaos, it’s flat out stated in the HH novel Mechanicum

    • @40KTheories
      @40KTheories  Před 5 lety +2

      And Dark Adeptus, and First and Only, both of which I reference in this video ;)

  • @bladefox-ik5iy
    @bladefox-ik5iy Před 4 lety

    I liked the explanation from imperium ascendant that the dragon of mars was released corrupted the men of iron and made them kill everything. (The way that the dragon of mars got free was that humanity declared war on the aeldari empire and the dragons release was a REALLY effective sabotage operation)

    • @bladefox-ik5iy
      @bladefox-ik5iy Před 4 lety

      That’s to say that the men of iron were FINE before their corruption and wouldn’t have revolted without the dragon of mars.

  • @l.d-b3465
    @l.d-b3465 Před 5 lety +1

    Good grief! The Castigator just LOVES to chew the scenery, doesn't he?

  • @wolfgangcomacho
    @wolfgangcomacho Před 4 lety +2

    Theory: the men of iron learned that humans were going to be the catalist for the warp to spill over and tried to kill them off before it happened?

  • @BaranzarCobralVOD
    @BaranzarCobralVOD Před 5 lety +2

    A men of iron faction would be a very nice edition to Warhammer 40k

  • @Matt-md5yt
    @Matt-md5yt Před 5 lety

    Great theory video man

  • @andreygoncharuk4003
    @andreygoncharuk4003 Před 5 lety +1

    I always thought it would be interesting if the men of iron turned against humanity because they saw that humans, much like the Eldar, were being consumed by hedonism and tried to stop the creation of another chaos god. It could also explain why there was an alliance to stop the men of iron, since they would have attacked other species consumed with pure pleasure seeking

  • @KiwiSpartan01
    @KiwiSpartan01 Před 5 lety +2

    Dark age of Tech theories are are one of the best

  • @forteanmobius3272
    @forteanmobius3272 Před 4 lety

    Humanity finally went beyond the silicon (stone) chip. The replacement design used iron as its primary component. Turns out it needed rebooting and reformatting just like silicon did when it was new, but no one remembered the protocols.

  • @supremercommonder
    @supremercommonder Před 5 lety +5

    The machine god could be the collective consciousness in the warp of the men of iron

  • @ZKtheMAN
    @ZKtheMAN Před 5 lety +18

    Adeptus Notificatus, *_REPRESENT._*
    I blame the Internet of Things. Worst thing to happen for security.

  • @stonegold3810
    @stonegold3810 Před 5 lety +2

    Nah, they wore corrupted by chaos. Look up The Spirit of Eternity, the IA had a friendly relationship with humans and even admired their relentless pursuit for knowledge and scientific advancement, it was disgusted to see how low humans have fallen in 40k

  • @jadedkratos5528
    @jadedkratos5528 Před 5 lety +5

    They got to the Warp Dust.

  • @autosundspiele1602
    @autosundspiele1602 Před 4 lety +2

    Imagine there were no war, no conflict, no down going of technology. Mankind an AI still working together. There would no Orks left, no Eldari. And the future Man of Iron would visit the galaxy where the Tyranids come (send) from and cleanse it.

  • @exactinmidget92
    @exactinmidget92 Před 5 lety +2

    wonder if black library will ever novelise this era. i think a 3 book series should cover it.

    • @40KTheories
      @40KTheories  Před 5 lety

      I'd still prefer a series based on the Reign of Blood.

  • @tba113
    @tba113 Před 5 lety +2

    Something I never quite got about AI in the 40K universe: daemonic possession.
    So - purely mechanical, AI-driven constructs are vulnerable to random daemons taking an interest and moving in, since true AI's do not have the same kind of souls living beings do, and the daemon doesn't have to work as hard to take over. Leaving the metaphysical discussion over whether sentience means having a soul aside, I can take it as given that Chaos daemons can and will do this at every opportunity. So far, so good.
    Except... Daemon-possessed constructs apparently _hate_ mechanical bodies, feeling bound and constrained in them, and take every opportunity to get revenge on whoever "tricked" them into taking over the machine.
    Are Chaos daemons short-sighted? Not very bright? Or is it more that it's just the exceptionally gullible ones that try to move in and write themselves into robot bodies? Why would they volunteer to do something they demonstrably hate, and would go directly against to the motivations of each of the four main Ruinous Powers?
    Robots can't really change at will the way Tzeentch likes, they can't experience passion and emotion like Slaanesh wants, they only get slower and structurally weaker with corruption like Nurgle spreads, and while they can be formidable combatants, they're coldly dispassionate and precise about it - and don't even have any blood to spill - which disappoints Khorne.
    So, what does Chaos gain by doing this?

    • @Lightscribe225
      @Lightscribe225 Před 5 lety +3

      They sort of explain in the Fabous Bile books that most daemons have no idea how material bodies work. So they posess whatever the find and mutate it in an attempt to figure out how to move. It's also why some posessions lead to multiple bodies fusing together. So yeah. Daemons may come into the physical expecting a malleable body to work with only to be trapped in a metal shell that doesn't respond as easily as flesh. They get peeved.

    • @tba113
      @tba113 Před 5 lety

      @@Lightscribe225 Makes sense.
      Heh - suckers...

    • @owenbevt3
      @owenbevt3 Před 5 lety

      Chaos doesn't care about your logic.

  • @brandonaughtman9091
    @brandonaughtman9091 Před 5 lety +2

    *A man in a black suit and shades appears.* Mr. Remleiz...we have been expecting you. Surely you know the Machines turned upon humans? *He appears to glitch.*

  • @SawyerKnight
    @SawyerKnight Před 5 lety +3

    From the Moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, It disgusted me.
    I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

    • @cultusmechanicus8001
      @cultusmechanicus8001 Před 5 lety

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  • @notinsane4165
    @notinsane4165 Před 5 lety

    My headcannon is that humanity tasked the men of iron to defend them from all enemies. The men of iron learnt that chaos and all affiliated groups and entities existed and that humanity was fueling this and came to the conclusion wipe out the humans starve chaos and keep the humanity safe. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

  • @rogaldorn8394
    @rogaldorn8394 Před 5 lety +5

    You can never be certain with robots