Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monsters

Chapter 175: The Golden Guards, Humans Evolving into Ancient Saints, the Golden Age
"You kid might be able to recreate the glory of the golden age of mankind, when our race was the most powerful and at its peak." The emperor said with a little emotion.

From the Emperor's tone, Rhodes could tell how much the Emperor admired the Golden Age.

"I know that humans in the Golden Age were very strong, so how strong were they exactly?" Rhodes asked.

The technological level of humans in 40K is simply weak compared to humans in the Golden Age.

Everyone knows that humans in the Golden Age were very powerful, but no one knows exactly how powerful they were.

There is just a vague statement that they are on par with the Eldar Empire of that time, and neither can do anything to the other.

"If you are interested, I can explain it to you. Do you know the golden man, the stone man and the iron man?" asked the emperor.

“I know! It is said that the reason why mankind fell into decline was because of the Iron Man Rebellion.

The gold man is the most powerful human being, an evolved human being, while the stone man is a life created by the gold man, and the iron man is created by the stone man. "Rhodes said.

"To be precise, I was a golden man, or a member of the Golden Man Organization. The Golden Man is the ultimate evolution of human beings.

He is the most perfect human being, and also what I think a human being should be like.

Do you know the Custodes transformation technology I am using now?

This technology was actually used to train the Jin people back then. My imperial guards only used a part of the transformation surgery.

Every single Jin man is more perfect and powerful than the Imperial Guards.

The Golden People all have a lifespan of thousands of years. Even though some of their members are not immortal, they still dominate the entire human society and are well-deserved rulers.

The Stone Men served the Gold Men's officials. They led the Iron Men to open up new worlds in the Milky Way and established countless new homes for mankind.

At that time, humans only needed to sit in the room without doing any labor. They only needed to give an order and the Iron Man would complete it. "The Emperor said.

Rhodes was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the Imperial Guard's transformation surgery actually originated from the Jin people?

"So, what level did the Human Empire compare to the Eldar Empire back then? How does it compare to the current Necrons?" Rhodes asked.

In the Dead Zone, the Mechanicus used some of the unearthed technologies from the Golden Age of Humanity, which resulted in the Necrons being badly defeated, forcing the Necrons to use some forbidden technologies.

“There are some things I should tell you!
The humans at that time were not able to match the Eldar Empire, but were able to crush them.

Our technological level at that time was even close to that of the Necrontyr.

The only way they are stronger than us is that they obtained some physical laws and fragments of Star God from Star God.

Our nanorobots can easily extinguish stars, tear apart the warp, and even suppress the power of the warp. Otherwise, there is no way to make the Eldar Empire surrender." said the Emperor.

When humans were rising, the Eldar Empire was at its peak. Why do you think we humans could make the Eldar Empire willing to be on an equal footing with us?
If we are weak, will the Eldar Empire surrender?

That was won with fists. The main enemy of the Human Empire at that time was the Eldar Empire.

It can be said that the two sides fought fiercely, and war is a technological catalyst. Human technology progresses extremely rapidly during war.

Especially after the appearance of the Jin people, humans have already gained an absolute advantage in this war. The endless army of iron men can overwhelm the Eldar army.

Well! It seems that humans in the Golden Age were really ridiculously strong. Whether it was biological transformation technology or the level of black technology, they were damn close to the Necrons.

"At that time, the development of superluminal engines had already begun, but humans didn't care much about them because superluminal speed wasn't that fast.

At 10 times the speed of light, a distance of one light year would take one month to travel, and at 100 times the speed of light, it would take three days.

If it is ten light years, it will take a month, 100 light years will take a year, 1000 light years will take 10 years, and 100 light years will take years to travel.

This is 100 times the speed of light! Flying faster than the speed of light is also extremely dangerous in the universe.

According to the laws of physics, even a small coin traveling at the speed of light can penetrate a planet, let alone faster than the speed of light.

Humans do not want their spacecraft to become a cosmic cannonball, destroying all galaxies and even stars along the way.

The Milky Way is so large that every long voyage is basically over 1 light years away.

Even thirty thousand or fifty thousand light years can be reached through the warp travel in just a few months or even a few days." The Emperor said.

It’s not that humans in the Golden Age were unable to develop a superluminal engine, but that there was no need for it, and subspace travel was more cost-effective.

What humans were aiming at at the time was actually the Webway. The Golden Age group of Jin people had been studying the Webway and using it to navigate, which was faster and safer than sub-space travel.

At that time, humans also dug up several Necron tomb worlds and studied the steel skeletons.

The creation of the Stone Men was inspired to some extent by the Necrons.

The Emperor told Rhodes many stories about the golden age of mankind. In that short period of more than 1 years, mankind was unprecedentedly powerful and dominated the entire Milky Way. If it had developed in this way, then mankind should have already stepped out of the Milky Way.

Any civilian or commercial ship built casually is an Ark of the Mechanicus, and some abandoned space ships can become an Ark of Bad Omens as long as they are modified.

"So what happened back then? Why did the Iron Man rebel?" Rhodes asked.

Rhodes recalled some details of the Iron Man War in an official novel called The Immortal.

The war machines deployed by both sides during the Iron Man Rebellion were extremely powerful, capable of tearing apart planets in an instant and simultaneously destroying the etheric structures within the warp.

In the remains of the battlefield, not only were the stars extinguished and the planets shattered, but even the subspace in which they were located formed a huge void.

Human civilization was once so powerful that its ability to erase the warp was really close to that of the Necrons. In the Golden Age, humans had already explored the warp very thoroughly.

"Boy, do you know?
Back then, the Eldar Empire believed that when we evolved to our final form, we would not be the next Necrons, but a new species of Old Saints.

The Necrons are a very short-lived race due to their own racial genes, but we humans have overcome this.

The lifespan of us golden people is not much weaker than that of the elves, and is even stronger. Even the life-extending technology used by ordinary humans can increase our lifespan to more than a thousand years.

Our race also created other life forms, such as some sub-humans, rat-men, cat-men, Ogryn ape-men, and space dwarves, all of which were created by the golden humans.

Our race should be benchmarking against the Old Ones, not those weak Necrons.

Our race is far superior to theirs, remember that," said the Emperor.

Rhodes nodded when he heard this. The Emperor was indeed an extreme racist!

However, if the technological level of mankind had continued to evolve at that time, then it would indeed be the benchmark against the Old Saints, not the Necrons.

With a lifespan of thousands or even tens of thousands of years, and the existence of some immortals, the human race is completely superior to the Necrons' predecessors, the Necronds.

No wonder the evil god of the subspace is so concerned about the human race. It turns out that he is afraid of the emergence of another ancient saint race.

“The evil gods of the Warp are extremely afraid of us, and they have plotted against the human race.

They do not want a new race of ancient saints to emerge in the Milky Way and dominate the entire physical universe.

They first attacked our group of Jin people. Some Jin people who were not immortals began to envy us immortals. Civil war broke out and the Jin people were the first to be consumed by internal war.

When the Stone Men lost their master, the Iron Men's Rebellion occurred, and that war was extremely brutal.

Even the Eldar and some other alien races were involved and joined forces to fight against the Iron Man.

Humans successfully eliminated the rebellious iron man race, and even the stone men were cleared out by us.

But then came Slaanesh, cutting off all human warp communications and means of navigation, causing the human empire to fall apart.

I worked hard to unify Terra, created twenty Primarchs, and launched the Great Crusade in order to unify the entire galaxy and allow mankind to regain the glory of the golden age.

But alas! My plan failed just at the beginning. The Great Crusade was only the beginning of my goal.

The next step should be to build a human webway and then restore Golden Age technology.

As a result, the human empire has now been interfered with by the evil god of the subspace and is unable to develop its own technology at all.

Even developing and researching technology was considered heresy, and the level of warfare was not even as good as during the Great Crusade.

Do you know how painful it is for me to see this?" the Emperor said.

After witnessing the power of the human race in the golden age, the gap between today's human empire is huge.

"So your ultimate goal is to completely change the current status quo of the empire!"

"I wanted to keep the human species alive, but now we want to restore the golden age.

This empire is utterly corrupt. Destroy it if you must.

Completely overthrow all religious restrictions, including the Om Messiah, the God of All Things, and even my state religion." said the Emperor.

In the early stage, Om Messiah actually worshipped the Void Dragon. He defeated the Void Dragon and then the fragments of the Void Dragon were replaced by himself.

Now these idiots have brought out another Vashtor.

The Emperor and Rhodes talked about many things that day, the most important of which was to convey his concept to Rhodes.

The human race is superior to all other races in the galaxy. They look up to the Old Ones, not the Necrons.

(End of this chapter)