Message from @Lucienne d'Anwyl
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but metal isnt exactly easy to come by
you think they just have huge amounts of it lying around?
the only reason metal was so easy to come by during the industrial revolution
was because they mechanized mining
and they knew how to use chemical solutions to refine ores
the romans had none of that
likewise i dunno if a weaker metal like copper would be able to take the strain
Okay but they'd have probably been able to get there
So what you are saying is, go back in time and save rome?
as an aside
yo didnt even have copper plating
on the underside of boats
until well after the 1700s began
Could they make giant steam-drawn scorpion
metal only became super in demand
when cannons came about
cuz those *had* to be made of metal
But having a ship part need to be metal should have a similar effect then
@leavethisbotnet youd need wheels for that
rubber wasnt thing yet
and even if it was youd need a metal undercarriage
40k had a skynet scenario though
ai became malevolent
i got corrupted by chaos
And they have to keep up with slaanesh
so anything linked to AI was corrupted
it had nothing to do with inherent problms with ai
true
40k empire of man still uses ai
not true ai
it's based of human brains or its very simple
not cogniscent maybe
no
machine spirits are explicitly ai
just really non sentient varieties
And where they're closer to sentient they have shrines, priests, and on-staff chaos repellents
the other problem with their tech is the the machine cult
they stop them from redeveloping things
Redeveloping things leads to slaanesh influence