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

metal wheels

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

like predator tanks with a lascannon turret was tech heresy

then they found the STC

and they said it wasn't anymore

Nurgle is a better deal for the empire than slaanesh is

plus the machine cult hoards STC's and tech

The machine cult develops thiga

They just keep development in the hands of the higher ups

The mechanicus uses genuine robots too

Not servitors genuine artificial constructs

Your average person in 40k is way too dumb to let play fuck-fuck games with advanced technology, sad as it is to say.