Hi!
According to the original rogue trader the age of strife was humaities
greatest disaster. Not only was civilaztion going down the tubes but its
ability to reproduce, understand and innovate on it. It clearly states most
worlds returned to a barbaric state. Note this does not mean "tech poor",
but a state of mind of survival as its only goal. You can not innovate if
you're worried about where is dinner coming from.
Peter
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>Just one point: the Heresy wasn't the major catastrophe; The age of strife
>was. That's where the tech level took a quantum leap backwards. The
Imperium
>ha actually yet to recover from the Age of Strife technologically, they
>don't have the STC anymore which was the basis of tecnological knowledge.
>The technology is buried under quasi-religious rituals and mysticism and
>progresses only at very slow pace. The training of technician consists more
>of learning a couple of thousand pages of litanies by heart than
>understanding the REAL mechanics of technology. Only unusually brilliant
>minds can actually see through the mumbo-jumbo well enough to actually
>design something new.
>
>Jyrki Saari
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