So it was that even before victory on Terra had been achieved the Emperor and those learned souls He had gathered to Him started to experiment with genetics. It was not enough merely to secure military victory, however - the betterment and restoration of Humanity required more. The war continued without relent until finally all of Old Earth's techno-barbarian factions, nations and fractured city-states pledged the Emperor fealty and at last Terra was unified for the first time in many millennia. Under the Emperor's rule, Humanity would be restored, intellectually, spiritually and physically to the heights it had once known during the Age of Technology, and the shackles of darkness cast aside. In general, Humans of different genders possess social equality on most advanced Imperial worlds.īy the time of the Unification Wars that established the Emperor of Mankind's rule over Terra, the Human homeworld's population had suffered through the horrors of the Age of Strife, a period punctuated by constant warfare and the use of weapons of mass destruction that had badly damaged the environment of Old Earth and destroyed an earlier Human interstellar civilisation that had once stretched across the galaxy. These periods include:Ī Human female serving as an officer of the Cadian Shock Troops, armed with Power Sword and Laspistol. However, the vast majority of Humans live under the authoritarian rule of the interstellar, theocratic empire known as the Imperium of Man.Īccording to Imperial historitors, Human history has progressed through several different distinct periods, which chronicle the species' rise to ultimate dominance over the Milky Way Galaxy and the current situation in which Humanity faces a number of extinction-level threats from Chaos and multiple, deadly xenos species. Humanity is divided into a multitude of factions, either working for or against the overall interests of Mankind in its attempts to retain control over the galaxy and survive unscathed in an incredibly hostile universe. Humanity is an aggressively violent, territorial and expansionist species that under the rule of the Emperor of Mankind has proven to possess little tolerance for other forms of intelligent life. Humans are bipedal mammals originally evolved from primate antecedents on the world of Terra who have proven to prefer highly stratified, hierarchical societies. The Human species ( Homo sapiens), also known as Humanity, Mankind, Humankind, or Man, is that collection of factions comprised of Humanity, the most dominant intelligent species in the Milky Way Galaxy in the 41st Millennium A.D. The Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn, a Human male of the Imperium of Man. Quastor General, Brantus Hurst, Departmento Munitorium Penitential Command By this token the wise know that true power lies in the mastery of blood and bone, in the very meat of mankind." By human hands alone we have remade stars in our image. No power is mightier and no force more dreadful when turned to a single purpose. " The greatest resource our Holy Imperium possesses is the fathomless multitudes of humanity itself.
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