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circa 60,000,000 B.C. - The Necrontyr wage war against the Old Ones out of jealousy over that ancient species' long lifespans and extraordinary accomplishments, a conflict later called the War in Heaven by the Eldar. The Necrontyr begin to lose this war because of the Old Ones' psychic abilities and more advanced technology and contact the intelligent energy beings called the C'tan for aid. In turn, the C'tan have the Necrontyr create exoskeletons for them from the living metal called necrodermis so that they can interact with solid matter. The C'tan also trick the Necrontur into transferring their own consciousnesses into robotic bodies created from necrodermis which ultimately results in their becoming the C'tan's new race of non-sentient slaves called the Necrons. The newly-created Necrons then purge almost all life from the Milky Way in order to feed the C'tan.
The Old Ones' civilization collapses under the assault of the Necrons and that ancient species seemingly dies out. The amphibious Slann, the premier servant species of the Old Ones, presciently warn the Eldar of their own fall to Chaos millennia in the future.
10,000 B.C. - The last Ice Age on Terra comes to an end and the Neolithic Age begins. The Agricultural Revolution is initiated in the ancient Middle East in the region that will be called the Fertile Crescent. Humans first begin to settle in towns and give up their previous nomadic hunter-gatherer existences.

8,000 B.C. - 1400 A.D. - Birth of the Ruinous Powers within the Warp known as Nurgle the Plague Lord, Khorne the Blood God, and Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways, in that order. These entities, colloquially called the Chaos Gods, were created and empowered by the collective psychic imprint of humanity and the other intelligent races of the Milky Way Galaxy on the once tranquil Immaterium, transforming it into the daemon-haunted nightmare that is the Warp of today.
8,000 B.C. - 1400 A.D. - The Eldar learn the arcane secrets of Warp tunnel technology from the Old Ones, who created them to serve as a psychic warrior species during the War in Heaven, and proceed to construct the Webway by "structuring" certain portions of the Warp.

8th Millennium B.C. - Birth of the future Emperor of Mankind somewhere in central Anatolia after all the known shamans of the Earth, those few members of humanity blessed with psychic abilities at this point in mankind's history, collectively commit suicide and combine their life energies within the Warp into a single soul that is reincarnated in the body of an extraordinary human being, the most potent psyker in the Milky Way Galaxy who will prove to be immortal. The future Emperor will help guide humanity throughout the long millennia to come, often taking on the identity of some of the most famous personages in human history in order to move the species along a particular path. It will not be until the terrible times of the Age of Strife almost drive humanity to extinction that the Emperor decides to take a more active stance in human affairs to help guide the race through the terrible birth pangs of becoming a fully-psychic species.

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