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"The history of Titans is very ancient indeed. Titans have existed throughout the history of the Imperium and for long before its founding, before even the Age of Strife. Titans were in use during the Dark Age of Technology and the first Alien Wars; at that time each human colony had at least one Titan Legion, and many had dozens deployed in their defence. During the Age of Strife these Titan Legions were then turned against each other in the savage and destructive wars that tore mankind apart."
- Adeptus Titanicus 1ed

"The most sacred knowledge tells of an age of nightmare and death, when the very laws which bind the fabric of the universe were torn apart. This much we know - for twenty-five millennia Mankind ruled the stars, tamed them, enslaved them. Wonders beyond imagining were commonplace and no miracle of techno-arcana was beyond us. Our worlds were silvered jewels that glittered among the firmament, and we held in our hands the means to sunder reality itself or to remake it to the mould of our thoughts."
- Adeptus Titanicus Rulebook (2018)

"In those forgotten early days it is now unknown what enemies and trials humanity had to overcome but overcome them we did, and in icing so human colonies spread across our galaxy so that humanity was scattered across a million worlds and found treasures and horrors uncounted. In the heights of those times, lost now to all but supposition and myth, humanity made themselves as unto gods— their sciences and arts able to remake planets in the image of remembered Ancient Earth, harness the power of the stars, and rashion servants from clay and iron and give them counterfeit-life to do their bidding."
- Betrayal

"The Magos Dominus of the Legio Cybernetica are privy to many ancient secrets from the Dark Age of Technology, a time when the un-living phalanxes of Mankind’s creations shattered forgotten alien empires to carve humanity’s first empire from the stars. Although much of this lore has been lost or become expressly forbidden, such fragments of knowledge allow the Magos to fashion and maintain a small, but powerful, cadre of Battle-automata for the Imperium. Such is the nature of the dark arcarna of Cybertheurgy, however, that it is not without its risks, as what is awakened may slip the leash of its master’s control with disastrous consequences"
- Massacre

"He thought Andrioch had likely been twice this size, once. Half of it looked to have been torn away by whatever created the cliff. There were weapons in the older days that could do it: weapons of immeasurable power, tech devices employed by both the Iron Men and the alliances that stood against their cybernetic revolt.
Oll remembered the horror of entropic engines that ignited planets. Sun-snuffers that uncoiled like serpents the size of Saturn’s rings. Mechnivores ingesting data along with the cities that contained them and hurling continents into the heavens. Omniphage swarms stripping flesh from a billion bones in the blink of an eye. Those were the good old days, when war was something too colossal for a human mind to comprehend."
- Perpetual

"...LEXICUS MECHANICUS
...ENTER WORD/PHRASE/NOMENCLATURE: STC
...RETRIEVING IDENTIFICATION CODE
...RETRIEVING IDENTIFICATION FILE
...RETRIEVAL COMPLETE
STC: STC is an abbreviation of the term Standard Template Construct. STC technology was created by our forebears during the Great Colonization in the Dark Age of Technology. Standard Template Constructs contain the design patterns of thousands of different machineries and artefacts, allowing such devices to be created using almost any available resources (sometimes even wood, paper, vegetation and so forth). The most blasphemous and complex STC systems did not require any human control at all, and were used to seed a colony world before the arrival of the colonists. It would survey the local surroundings, appraise the available resources and then set about constructing hab-domes, agricultural tools, mining equipment and such like, so that a near fully-functioning colony was already in place when the settlers landed.
Such technologies have long been lost, although we continue our quest to find such a treasure. Almost all STC data has also failed the test of time, and yet we continue our search in the hope that we shall one day unearth a fully operational STC database. Much of our existing technology is derived from STC discoveries - mainly half-shattered remnants of STC-built machinery, analysis printout and frozen images on cracked dataslabs. From STC data came the many variations of the Rhino APC used by the Adeptus Astartes. The guns and vehicles of the Imperial Guard are constructed using ancient STC designs rediscovered over the millennia. The discovery of a new STC source, of any description, is a cause of great celebration for our Order. Such information can start research into new facets of the Machine God's domain, lasting centuries, even millennia and spawning literally dozens of new design concepts and functioning artifacts.
Of course, in these troubled times, the most valuable STC designs are of weapons and machines of destruction. As yet, we have relatively few examples of pre-Imperial weaponry to study, yet our oldest legends tell of STC weapons that were powerful enough to destroy whole worlds, to capture the power of the stars themselves and to tear the fabric between the warp and the real universe. If such power were ours again, we should be able to cleanse the galaxy of all the foul races set against us.
ENTRY ENDS..."
- WD 236

"The Codicier raised his hand to hover over the imprisoned weaponry. Not since the darkest hours of Old Night had mankind's mastery of the killing sciences been explored in such intimate minutiae There was no consistency of design or uniformity of function. Nothing in this vault had ever been, or would ever be, immortalised in the sequences of a Standard Template Construct. Every grip, sleeve and neural shunt that his fingers brushed belonged to an artefact that was unique in this galaxy. Each was a singular terror, born from the infinite creativity of humanity's apogee and never to be repeated since. Neural whips, lonophoric eradicators. Personality phages. Gemynd blasters. Glass-walled grenades that carried torpid, warp-borne mindworms inside. These were weapons that attacked the mind and, whether one believed in such notions or not, the soul. Built at the pinnacle of mankind's supremacy over the laws of physics, many had been constructed to eradicate not only their victim's physical body but its reflection in the empyrean as well, weapons of such unholy potency that not even the memory of the slain could remain intact.
The relic Aravain finally settled upon was a monstrous ancestor of the bolter family, massive-barrelled, fed by a multitude of plastek hoses that Redloss silently proceeded to clamp into Aravain's armour's power plant. Superficially it resembled a heavy bolter, albeit heavier, built to be wielded by Men of Iron or some other breed of upgraded soldier in the millennia before mankind had raised its transhuman Legions. The stamp it bore was recognisably Terran, though of no lore that still existed today. It was only as Redloss clamped an ammunition hopper to Aravain's girdle plate and started manually feeding the belt to the magazine that its more fundamental differences became apparent. The high-calibre shells emitted a glow that burned Aravain's psychic sight, even as he closed his eyes and turned his face away.
'Yes,' Aravain said, feeding his gauntlet reverently through the grip loop on the cannon's upper barrel and feeling its weight. His harness suspensors whirred as they spread the immense load across his power-armoured frame. 'This will put the fear of the First into them.'"
- Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First

"'Every warrior here knows his duty,' Trigaine barked as twenty knights of the inner circle of Santales levelled their forbidden arsenal and took aim.
They opened fire.
Nerve induction shredders dropped men like marionettes, purging the brains of their electrical activity with vehemence enough to shatter an empyreal reflection. Gemynd blasters and lucidiron arc rifles attacked the cerebral cortex with the ferocity of a waking nightmare, sheer terror leading the soul to loosen its connection to the mortal spiral. Missiles bearing payloads of asphyx and sinistrum compounds alongside conventional explosives spread desolation and insanity even as they tore bodies asunder.
Every blast punched deeper into the world of the unreal and Aravain felt something scream from beyond its barriers, many voiced but singular in its ability to know pain. Aravain winced, his mental barriers dimming the mortis shriek but unable to mute it entirely.
The weapons of the Santales interfered with the normal patterns of the mind. No mental shield or exercise of Aravain's could block their effects. These were weapons built by the greatest warlord-scientists of humanity's darkest age to the express purpose of overcoming such wards. They obliterated the psychic utterly, further saturating the materium with a null-effect that would take years to dissipate. As a psyker himself, Aravain fell the effects more pronouncedly than his brothers.
Dark Steed lifted off with a howl of thrust before pivoting one hundred and eighty degrees and opening fire with its own upgraded armament. Its twin-linked heavy bolters had been replaced with psionic beam weaponry - the product of an unremembered people built to resist the irresistible. By such artifice had they endured Old Night. Centuries later they had sought then to resist the Dark Angels. The weapons survived."
- Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First

"One of the first, terrible truths humans discovered when they ventured beyond Terra and into the stars is that they were not alone. Wherever Mankind went, it encountered the alien. Some civilisations were long dead, having fallen to selfdestructive hubris, natural disasters, internecine wars, or external predations. Others, though, were very much alive, and myths from the Dark Age of Technology speak of the terrifying first encounters with alien races."
- Enemies Without

"Perhaps this connection began even before humanity first encountered Askellian worlds, for the Lay of Askellios relates how the original settlers braved many Warp storms and other perils after departing Terra so many millennia ago. Unseen hands seemed to raise up eldritch barricades at every turn along their journey, and many were lost to horrors for which they had no comprehension or defences. Finally, after what seemed like ages of travel, the fleets found a serene area free of storms. It was far from their projected colonisation zone, but after so long in space, its peace projected a sense of welcome that few could refuse. Those who voiced any concerns that there might have been unknown influences guiding their journey were quickly silenced— through violence where necessary.
Over the following millennia, the humans of Askellon discovered that this serenity was not common for their stars. During the many Wars of Purgation against the xenos species who dared exist where Mankind was present, almost every alien civilisation encountered had records of the Warp and the entities that crept from that unholy realm."
- Enemies Beyond

"Many centuries ago, the daemon prince had harnessed the power of an ancient and terrible weapon, a relic of the all but forgotten epoch known as the Dark Age of Technology. The weapon was called the Bloodtide, and although none knew how it functioned, at Voldorius’s word it had slain uncounted billions of the Emperor’s subjects. In a single night, its curse had swept across a dozen worlds and reduced every one of them to a charnel house of desiccated corpses. All of this Voldorius did in the name of the fell Gods of Chaos, the ultimate enemies of mankind."
- Hunt for Voldorius