I know how the IoM holds back Chaos! (40k-related)

[DocHorror]

There was a brief note in a White Dwarf or something about some archeotech-explorers who found an STC that solely produced an improved combat knife and how the new pattern was in use by a third of all Astartes Chapters. The explorers themselves were given Governership of several planets.

It was actually in First & Only (Gaunt's ghosts #1) where this was mentioned.

That would be covered in the '..or something' part...

[SirNitram]

Don't we all just wish that they'll find a STC and build something better?

They did, but it can only make pocket knives (The best in the Imperium, multiple SM chapters now use them )

Standard Template Constructor, not ST Construct. The true STC could be programmed to make more than a pocket knife.

[The Grim Squeaker]

Don't we all just wish that they'll find a STC and build something better?

They did, but it can only make pocket knives (The best in the Imperium, multiple SM chapters now use them )

Standard Template Constructor, not ST Construct. The true STC could be programmed to make more than a pocket knife.

I thought that there was no difference, only that the STC degenerated over time from lack of repair or fumbling with most of their technology/plans degenerating or the STC themselves being destroyed

[technomage]

A Standard Template Construct contains all of the knowledge of Man at the time of the Dark Age colonial expedition's departure from Earth. That is, it's an AI computer that had all of the knowledge of Earth at the time that it's particular group of colonists left. They don't build things, they just tell you how to build things.

An STConstructor is a different kettle of fish.

You know, I wonder if these things might be overrated anyway Humanity didn't begin colonizing other star systems until the 15th Millennium, and the Dark Age of Technology (and true pan-galactic human civilization) didn't start until the 20th, thanks to the invention of Warp drive. These things might have been largely obsolete by then. How do we know anyone ever bothered to update them?

And I can just see what would happen if a working one was found. Either the IoM will screw up and let it's enemies destroy or steal it, the Techpriests will put it in a temple and start worshiping it instead of using it, or someone will ask it a question, get an answer, and when they find no trace of ritual, tech-worship, and no sign of the Machine God, they'll destroy it themselves as being contaminated by Chaos or some other such idiocy.

[technomage]

My first Ghetto Edit:

Another check of the Critical Hit timeline shows that STCs were perfected during the Dark Age, so I suppose that ones from the later eras of colonization would do some practical good for the IoM.

But still, only if the IoM or the AdMech didn't screw it up, which it would, somehow.

[NecronLord]

Another check of the Critical Hit timeline shows that STCs were perfected during the Dark Age, so I suppose that ones from the later eras of colonization would do some practical good for the IoM.

But still, only if the IoM or the AdMech didn't screw it up, which it would, somehow.

Yes. There are a small cadre of monks who possess a fully functional STC archive. The Imperium ballsed it up, and the monks kept it in secret.