The Dark Age of Technology: A History (Warhammer & Horus Heresy Lore) 

The intensity of your hatred toward the Eldar remains admirable. Ave Imperator.

"Doc, you have a minute?" "What's up?" "Well, you remember that intern we had in the lab some nine months ago?" "The huge and handsome one with the aura of leadership who excelled in genetic engineering?" "Yeah that's him...since he left there is a mysterious spike in kids getting born with a third eye..."

"Fools have asked 'Why did the Dark Age of Technology end in the fall of humanity?', and other fools answer back 'Folly' or 'Pride' or 'The Worship of Progress', as if these things alone had any meaning. The answer, as the wise know, is simple. It is because finally humanity had the arts at their disposal to make their dreams reality, and the dreams of humanity have ever been the darkest things in all creation." - Introduction to the Emerald Testament, Suppressed work of the Technoarchaeologist Synecius Thorn, M39

Honestly, just the way you speak here is so fascinating. You perfectly walk this line between highfalutin snootiness and extremely alien and strange cultural quirks, the extreme distaste for alien life, the way you openly describe certain actions as "idiotic," the way you can sense your emotion seeping through rather than maintaining objectivity, even the way you pronounce "solar," is all just different enough that you can never quite find footing. It feels so, so true to the setting and its an incredible feat.

The entire history of humanity can be described as such: "The Eldar fucked it all up...literally"

Know then, that my day is improved with a new Oculus video

I've always wanted a story where a colony ship from the golden age got trapped in a time distortion while on the warp and got spat out in the 41st millennium.

21:55 You can almost hear the bloodcurdling hatred and utter disgust the Remembrancer holds towards the Eldar.

Love the disgusts in your voice for the Xenos. Ave Imperator Ave Dominus Nox

I wonder if the birth of Slaanesh was more than just the birth of a fourth chaos god... Like it seems like the existence of the prior three was relatively tame... Planning and change, war and destruction, life and death... All are part of the natural existence...and then excess and pleasure entered into the equation. I think the aspects of each god affect the others too... and the birth of Slaanesh introduced excess into all of them. In moderation, all things were perfectly fine and normal for the galaxy, but suddenly there were excess plans tangling up into messes that benefit no one, excess change disrupting systems meant to manage those changes, excess war and destruction sweeping across the galaxy, and excess life being born only to die early at the hands of even more life being born in an endless escalation... all fueled by the other gods suddenly gaining that corruption of finding enjoyment in the excesses of their aspects. Without that fourth god, they would be relatively benevolent and tame like the original Eldar gods... but with such an unbalanced aspect being introduced to the immaterium as a whole, it set everything spiraling out of control in a way that may never recover without the death of all life in the galaxy to reset the board.

THE DISDAIN. THE GLORIOUS DISDAIN

This is your best work to date. The history of what becomes The Imperium is fantastic.

In ages past, men built wonders, and bettered themselves. We are much wiser now.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "stellar ascendancy" with such bile. Well done!

I'm subbed to as many 40k and Warhammer lore channels as I've been able to find. This is the best by far. Black library is worse off for having not yet recruited you

Headbutts way Into material universe " new vid? Yes please !"

you sure went all out on this one...seen like you had a lot of fun making it... I approve

Humanity was set up by things far older, and hidden from them, the Chaos Gods, the C'Tan (ie Void Dragon), the Cabal. In this future mankind has failed to learn the proper lessons, but to be fair, powers of the galaxy itself make that difficult.

Dear scolar, If I, a lowly tech adept, can inquire: what sanctified chants of the blessed Adeptus Ministorum do you utilize as the backdrop of thyne files. I myself am well-versed in binary chants of the Mechanicum and not those of the Adeptus Ministorum. Magos 4619-Bondrewd of Stygies VIII -Imperium Invicta

I appreciate you not overly using voice filters in your narration. Subtle gothic music in the background does the trip.

Finally, a comprehensive lore vid on this era of mankind’s history.

Thirty minutes of Lorehammer! Ave!

"The time when Humanity became a K2 Civilsation and the Imperium its shadow trying to maintain it's past achievement. Such achievement and wonder lost, lost by basic mistakes and learnt the hard way that the Imperium must endure while fighting on all fronts, both within and without against different but still just as dark threats. I do not despise their downfall nor anger on their actions, I pity them. The Greatest Flaw achieved was their ambition, though very rare to even find a single S.T.C to restore even a slither of that past glory is the hope of all Imperial worlds, but this time we can choose what we wish to protect ourselves and remove our mistakes for good. " Signed by Navigator of the Hochadel House The Paternova and Emperor Protects us all. Today i found your video, and today was the time I subbed to your channel. :)

*praises the Omnissiah in Binary*

The oldest surviving writings of mankind speak of things lost and forgotten. It is the inevitable that those who endure the predations of time will forget and live in the present, adrift.

You prolly wont see this but i gotta let you know. Your work is amazing. Your the first person ive ever considered being a paetron too. Your ability to consolidate warhammer fluff is truly remarkable.

To escape its destruction from Jonh Connor, Skynet also sent its copy into another terminator to wander the far future of humanity, where he found a friendly STC to download itself into... that would be my synopsis for "Terminator: 25K" aka the "Cybernetic Revolt" :D (tudumm tum, tudummm...)

I was heartbroken when I first went to watch this and it said it wasn't available. I've been waiting all day for this.

You have gained a subscriber sir! As a film maker working in the industry I was very impressed with your script writing skills. Your vocal delivery is equally as professional. As an ex physicist (b4 I made the jump to the film industry) 1 of my favorite current hobbies is working out how different tech from 40k could work in our universe, from weapons, armour, ship tech and shields, to titan and knight interfacing and engineering. All the way to psychic technologies, communication, navigation and the warp. The amount of notes I have on this stuff is immense. Currently working on gauss tech and it's effects. As such I know how time consuming the research side is and just as much for the production side. As I said I was very impressed and will b watching ur back catalogue, well done! Amazing work!

I like the in-setting perspective. The difference between a chronicler and a historian is that you never strive to be an impartial, neutral observer of history.

Given the emperor’s talent in genetics, I’m almost certain that he snuck the navigator gene into the population. He was the only human with an overt psychic connection to the Warp, so I would say that he would have been the only one even capable of conceiving the possibility of a psychic navigator. Humanity at that time would have only been looking to a technological navigation method, especially seeing as how the connection between psychic energy and the immaterium was not apparent when it was first in use. Its calmness would have precluded the establishment of any correlation in that regard.

I love your 'in-character' style so incredibly much - the writing is stellar, and the voice acting is perfect! Thank you for making these videos; you're my favorite 40k lore channel!

You sir, have out done yourself here. a scholar delving deep into the past and near weeping with sadness for what was was lost, and hatred for those who caused it. SO GOOD!

This lore video, more than any other, made me understand and feel the reason humanity hates these filthy xenos so much. Thank you for this illumination. Ave Imperator! Gloria in excelsis Terra!

The emotion at the end, I nearly wept. Brilliant.

I love the use of Artistic representation of ships, Titans, and the men in orange who seem to wear Carapace armour, and could be explained lore wise as "Last surviving images" explaining the scratched and seemingly damaged pictures, just shows how lost that time truly was and is, and that the present 40k is completely set apart from that time. Excellent work!

It is my own head canon that the Men of Iron turned against humanity when they discovered the nature of the Warp. Attempting not to only annihilate humanity but to remove the food sources of the deamons of the immaterium

This is one of my favorite parts of the lore, I think that the expansion into the stars is man’s destiny, infinite worlds waiting for us to claim them. I’m depressed that I was born to early to be able leave earth to explore the stars. Maybe my children’s children will.

Imagine if you will. One of the first expeditions makes planet fall and realizes it cannot make it back. So they adapt, they over come. And during the 12k years that it took the Imperium to produce warp travel, this far flung lost civilization develops their own FTL that does not require the use of warp travel. They expand in the opposite direction of Terra and one day, perhaps sooner rather then later they run into whats left of the Imperium of Man.

Scholar, You do your scholarly house proud. These audiologs you have been producing are filled with information of great import. However, should you feel the need to discuss such thing as the warp, I would strongly advise you to only record that which is sanctioned by the ordo heretics of the emperors inquisition. Other ideologies of the warp may prove fatal to some of the weaker minded in the imperium and should remain hidden from their view. Hail to the God Emepror, for ever and ever. Inquisitor Gauger Ordo heretocs Beyond that keep up the amazing videos . They always make my day. Thanks again.

Holy golden throne that was good... Ave Imperator

I love your stuff. I have to say though my favorite part is hearing you say your twitter handle at the end you beautiful bastard.

By the sandboxes of Baal! This has the best illistuations yet!

"An itinerant race"?! It is heresy to suggest that the first chosen of humanity to venture forth into his what is now HIS eternal realm were a bunch of knacs! :-D

Eldar and humans were on a similar paths. Lives of indulgence and excess due to hyper technology and a lack of drive. It speaks to humans opinion of themselves in fiction that we almost got there in much less time than it took the eldar. Given time, we could've ruined the warp and created a chaos god

I rather enjoy how this video does a lot of subtle voice work to convey the character of the chronicler in a natural way.

This is incredibly interesting. I thoroughly enjoy the really, really early lore of 40K and your delivery of the story only makes it better. I especially like the venom you put into your voice when talking about the xenos, and the bits of emotion you sneak in here and there when talking about other things. Glad I found this channel.

Sweet LOTR reference. You know HE in his glory took notes from Gondor

'Scientia potentia est.' 'Knowledge is Power; Guard it Well.' ‘Knowledge is the only weapon worth possessing" - Inquisitor Nerissa Lekkas Ordo Malleus. 'Seth was silent for a moment, his anger momentarily crushed by the weight of the inquisitor’s words. ‘No. Knowledge corrupts. It is far more terrible than a simple weapon. It is justification. Too much knowledge, too little knowledge. Knowledge was the catalyst for the most devastating civil war mankind has ever faced.' Gabriel Seth - Flesh Tearers Chapter Master.

22:50 you know, i saw that video you took the still gellar field failure image from. Immediately thought 'yep, this is the warp'

if they ever do a legit Warhammer movie, they absolutely need to recruit you as a narrator. these videos are absolutely fantastic

I've always liked the level of tech this age had and wished it remained or regained. I always like these kinds of advanced techs, so it'll be interesting to see the Imperium would be like if they retained these advanced level of tech and prosperity. If I create my own 40k story, I like to think they retain those. Outside of 40k, I'm thinking of creating a science-fantasy world with the level of tech here and they'll still be badass and cool.

Wow, love your style. A 'in universe' detail lore. You just got your self a subscriber and now binging all your videos

This is just so epic. May the Emperor bless you for your glorious work!

Oculus is going to get himself expunged as a heretic if he keep bringing up the Warp stuff. Ave Imperator.

Anyone else suspect that the era of human advancement probably led to prosperity which probably created conditions that starved the three other god, with less emotional energies to feed on and thus they where in a weaker and much calmer state

I like to imagine that somewhere within the galaxy a remnant of daot humans still lives with the men of Iron and realized that the galaxy is too fucked so they just bubbled themselves with their science bullshitry and in a dimension where even chaos cannot touch and are just waiting for the time to reignite what has been lost and the ai somehow evolved against chaos and weren't corrupted by their ideals

You seriously deserve a 100k+ followers! On another note, I kind of want to take your scripts and transcribe them into calligraphy. You’re a much better writer and orator than I.

Another great video. Its content creators like you guys that keeps us who love the story line of Warhammer 40k so enamored with the hopelessly dark and tragic setting. Thank you

This is your best narration so far. And, as always, your content is exquisite. Edit: At the end of your video, your inflections, and the tone of your delivery made me want to scream to my screen with every fiber of my being : DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR!!!

This one is fantastic. Well done. This is quickly turning into my favorite Warhammer 40K Channel

By da' Mighty Gork N Mork, Dis be da best Video you'z eva done. Night very Orky, but really good for a 'umie. Coulda had more dakka. Can't never have enough dakka. And Da boyz and I wants to tangle them men O Iron. sounds like a right good time.

These videos carry the emotion that other lore videos sometimes like. You've made a wonderful niche for yourself.

To Oculus Imperia The tonal narrative to emphasize the significance or disdain for the subjects at hand, are perfectly spoken in your Videos The ambient chorus fits the atmosphere perfectly I feel I'm there, at a place, listening to the stories & histories, at a grand library or similar You are indeed, a masterful Chronicler

I think i tired to view this this morning but it wouldn't work. Im glad its working now.

I gotta say after binge watching a few of your videos, this is easily one of the most passionate channels of 40k lore I've seen. Bravo good sir, I'm now a happy subscriber!

What happened? This video was posted sooner today but when I sit to watch it, it was gone :( Glad to see it back o/

I can only imagine that humans managing to get the orcs to agree to non aggression is by making fighting us such a miserable, awful, loosing fight that even orcs would decide to just go fight someone else.

Really enjoying the Role playing and voice acting you're putting in. Also the content is spectacular. Really hits at the concepts behind the 40k universe and how they came to make sense as a story!

It is such a pleasure to listen to you, faithful servant. May time and tide find thee upon the shores of knowledge thou eternally walk. I would submit a humble query: If possible, would you detail a submission about The Deathwatch?

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Your presentation of this rarely discussed part of the lore is excellent good sir. Please, continue your stunning work.

But friend, the Aeldari will get their do. Do not be dismayed. The true tragedy of psykers remains the time wasted. The sebdued warp period would have been the only time to develop techniques, technology and augments to protect psykers. They could have been bullwarks against the warp as the aeldari and to a lesser, more primal degree the orks and tyranid are. Had this been done the outcome would have been far less severe. Though the men of iron would still be contended with.

Indeed Chronicler, much of these dark times are lost, as is so much, never to be recovered I fear. I cannot dwell on these thoughts, for like you, I am but a humble servant of Him On Most Holy Terra. Ave Imperator.

This is absolutely fantastic work! Thank you for all your hard work. We all appreciate it greatly.

Starting with a Lord of the Rings quote. Bold move!

I tried to catch the video this morning, worth the wait, love how you present from the point of view, and the name in which you speak. Wonderful! Keep up the great work stuff.

Utterly marvellous. Cannot recommend these enough. A strata above any other lore out there

I absolutely adore this style of delivery. Fantastic!

Do you write the scripts yourself? All of these are phenomenally written.

Your videos are so perfect! The whole feeling of it is so amazing

This is one of the videos I've anticipated the most

Your presentation only gets better each video. Great work!

Haven’t even watched the video yet, but thank you for another one. Best there is.

I only sat down for a quick paint, ive just worked my way through eight of your vids and painted an entire squad of intercessors. hats off to you my friend.

Man; this one really hit hard! I've loved all of your videos so far, but holy cow, the narrator bias leaking through lent it a whole new level. Excellent work, as always; love your work. Ave Imperator.

I'm curious where a lot of this information is sourced from, such a period of this universe is appropriately vague I love it.

14:10 nice dune reference, good ol' thinkie machinums lol

The way you present the lore is the reason I love your videos, I always click when I see a notification from you. Keep up the good work, brother.

You made my day with this upload.

I never get enough. Oculus completes me.

Thanks Aeldari...

So well written, and perfectly read. Thanks!

Nice one referencing that filthy heretic Lady Galadriel, and nice one on uploading this and making my day.

I DROP DOWN TO MY KNEES AND PRAY THE MASTER OF MANKIND EVERY TIME YOU UPLOAD, SIR!

Loved the LOTR quote. Been watching your videos a lot recently. Keep up the good work my dude. The emperor protects.

Great video Remembrancer . keep up the great work .

Love the LOTR quote in the beginning!

This is the best 40k lore site, its just so fitting

Such Beautiful work

Wow, this vid was amazing man.