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I am just wondering what kind of tech did the humans have during that time period?

Pretty friggin' good. The Baneblade was considered a light tank for starters.

Well, the Baneblade isn't exactly the height of human ingenuity ( yo dawg, i like huge, easiy to hit tanks...let's build a Baneblade! ).
The Valdor's lasercanon is a piece of DaoT tech and so are warpdrives and plasmaweapons. In fact most of the current Imperium advanced technology seems to come from
the Dark Age of technology or is at least based on fragmented knowledge found from that time.

I remeber reading from somewhere that in the DAoT there used to be anti-grav units which worked really well and could be on par with Eldar tech and they were used for landspeeders. In 40k, there is only one landspeeder that uses DAoT tech left.

Basically the kind of tech you'd find in a utopia set in the far future. Teleportation, exceptionally powerful energy weapons, commonplace anti gravity, physics defying architecture, exceptionally advanced medicine, genetic engineering, etc.

somecallmeJack wrote:Basically the kind of tech you'd find in a utopia set in the far future. Teleportation, exceptionally powerful energy weapons, commonplace anti gravity, physics defying architecture, exceptionally advanced medicine, genetic engineering, etc.

Pretty much.

Jack's pretty much got it. Mankind has lost far more than it has gained since then.

They had pretty much the same tech that they still have now, only a lot more of it, and it all worked reliably. Plasma wepaons that didn't overheat. Jetbikes. Antigrav vehicles all over the place. Teleporters that wouldn't make you appear halfway into a wall. A gun that shot lightning bolts and shuriken.

And was on fire and had t*ts.

They probably also had an Internet, or something very similar to it, within entire Sectors if not Imperium-wide. As it is now, only certain systems have anything approaching it, and it's mostly supported by Astropath. Bunch of stuff that would be Star Trek-shiny in comparison to the grimdark they have now, especially in the medical and science fields.

Civil liberties.

I sometimes envision 40K as what would happen to Star Trek if the Federation became a galaxy-wide slum...

Psienesis wrote:I sometimes envision 40K as what would happen to Star Trek if the Federation became a galaxy-wide slum...

Actually, the late 70s TV show Blake's 7 is what would happen to Star Trek if the Federation became a galaxy-wide slum.

40K is what would happen to Star Trek if the Federation became awesomely grimdark. Or maybe grimdarkly awesome.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Dark_Age_of_Technology


Mankind was at its peak of technological prowess. Rivaling even the Eldar level of technology(psychic abilities excluded)

squidhills wrote:Actually, the late 70s TV show Blake's 7 is what would happen to Star Trek if the Federation became a galaxy-wide slum.

The awesome late-70s TV show Blake's 7.

lyrken wrote:I am just wondering what kind of tech did the humans have during that time period?

They were more advanced that Tau.
Nuff said...

Brother Coa wrote:

lyrken wrote:I am just wondering what kind of tech did the humans have during that time period?

They were more advanced that Tau.
Nuff said...

they are now *ducks



seriously, they are currently. Sure, the Tau have a more equitable distribution of technology accross the board, but the Imperium has more advanced technology.

the Imperium has Psychic based technology, which the Tau will NEVER be able to have. this includes the Warp Drive, which leaves the Tau stuck in their little sector of space(unless they manage to find a FTL method that doesn't use the Warp)

Mankind also has computers which will never rebel. the Tau use true A.I., which will come and bite them in the butt eventually.

Grey Templar wrote:
they are now *ducks

seriously, they are currently. Sure, the Tau have a more equitable distribution of technology accross the board, but the Imperium has more advanced technology.

the Imperium has Psychic based technology, which the Tau will NEVER be able to have. this includes the Warp Drive, which leaves the Tau stuck in their little sector of space(unless they manage to find a FTL method that doesn't use the Warp)

Mankind also has computers which will never rebel. the Tau use true A.I., which will come and bite them in the butt eventually.

I got stormed because of that, they called me a hater...
Just peace of advice, don't target Tau - they are watched over by MODS....

Grey Templar wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

lyrken wrote:I am just wondering what kind of tech did the humans have during that time period?

They were more advanced that Tau.
Nuff said...

they are now *ducks



seriously, they are currently. Sure, the Tau have a more equitable distribution of technology accross the board, but the Imperium has more advanced technology.

the Imperium has Psychic based technology, which the Tau will NEVER be able to have. this includes the Warp Drive, which leaves the Tau stuck in their little sector of space(unless they manage to find a FTL method that doesn't use the Warp)

Mankind also has computers which will never rebel. the Tau use true A.I., which will come and bite them in the butt eventually.

The Drive isn't psychic based. It's a dimension jump drive that pops you into the Warp, where distances are more of a concept than a rule.

The IOM uses Psykers to navigate in the warp, but they aren't the drive tech itself.

Tau drives (from what i've heard) skip across the warp like a stone over a pond which makes them very short ranged but a lot more reliable (tau don't tend to lose whole fleets to the warp, for example, just because the Astronomican flickers..) .

The Necrons don't have Psyker based tech either, and they do ok. They basically do FTL instead of wormhole travel. It's concivable that the Tau may find a non-warp alternative.


Tau haven't had a tech rebellion yet. It's not inevitable unless James Cameron or Asimov is involved somehow

Think of all current Imperial technology, multiply it by 10, and humanity had full understanding of its functions.