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== Revelations from recent STC recoveries ==
Scientific discovery after a dark age can be equal parts research and archeology, as a culture reclaims knowledge it has lost. The [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] is particularly interested in finding new STCs to fill in the gaps of their knowledge, to de-mystify parts of their manufacturing rituals, and to issue new and improved tools to the Imperium, and are willing to pay handsomely for even a fragment of an STC. Basically, if you find the STC for a better toaster you're set for life; find one for an entirely new weapons system and you'll probably end up being made governor of an entire planet (What would happen if you found a complete working one I wonder......).

Among the recent discoveries from recovered STCs:
* The Land Crawler all-terrain soil cultivator vehicle (if by "recent" you mean "late Great Crusade era")
* An artificial sweetener that doesn't have an aftertaste like foot sweat
* The Castigator-class [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)|Titan]] ([[Grimdark|whose STC turned daemonic]], sidenote however that some Knight houses still possess some schematics but keep them close to their hearts...because using them to fuck the enemies of Man is beyond their severely limited comprehension. Or the designs will turn on you and murder everyone you love...)
* Cultural archives badly lost over the years but basically going back to before M0
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-oBEGF7uwE Jodorowsky's] [[Dune]] (holy fuck watch it)
* The HXT-37 voltage transubstantiation cable for using 'AA' batteries in 'AAA' music players
* The 58th flavor of Heinz's ketchup
* Daemon-corrupted [[Men of Iron]] ...err maybe this wasn't such a good find. Cue [[Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt|Ibram Gaunt]] {{BLAM|BLAMMING}} said STC.
* A simple (durable, cheap, [[monowire|mono-molecular]]) combat knife. Two IMPERIAL GUARDSMEN (!) found it and were rewarded with a planet each!
* [[Leman Russ Punisher]] and [[Leman Russ Eradicator|Eradicator]] (actually a case of "hey! Look at this Ancient technology I just... found. I didn't invent it at all, really")
* Various life extension methods like better juvenants, etc
* [[Helmets]] manly enough for space marine commanders
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* Kamikaze neckbeard powered toaster ovens ([[Caestus Assault Ram]])
* Baby's First [[Thunderhawk]] (affectionately called the "[[Stormraven Gunship]]" by some.)
* Super Baby-Carrier 40,000 (incomplete STC fragment, but they still managed to build the [[Nemesis Dreadknight]] out of it...)
* Miracle chocolate that somehow only manages to go to women's lovely parts. Extensively eaten by [[Boone]]
* Apparently the Butcher's Nails, further Mechanicus analysis suggests it's just a modified first generation console which [[Rage|forces the implanted subject to play old games with terribly mapped controls over and over again in his head]].
* Panacea - see the sad story below
* [[Dreadclaw]] [[Drop Pods]]. Something wasn't right with these folks [[Machine Spirit]]. Maybe they really were alive?
* [[Imperial Knight]]s
* [[Crassus Armored Assault Transport|Praetor missile launcher]]
* [[Nephilim Jetfighter]]'s engine
* [[Space Marine Hunter|Hunter]]
* [[Immolator]]
* A toothpaste that 10/10 dentists reccomend
* [[Astraeus Super-Heavy Tank]]
* [[Goliath Truck]]
* All of [[House Van Saar]]’s tech. Though they have to pretend they’re just sitting on a hoard of archeotech to avoid being discovered and targeted by the Imperium or Mechanicus.

Notice that most of the vehicles in this list did not exist until later editions of the game. This is how [[Games Workshop]] and [[Forge World]] justify adding units to armies (Imperial armies, anyway) -- they existed all along, it's just that the Adeptus Mechanicus only recently re-discovered (or "re-discovered" ''and most definitely did '''not''' invent'') the STC pattern encoding them. Basically, you can know how to build the vehicle, but if you don't know what programs it uses or, possibly, what specific materials to use for more sensitive components, it isn't going to do jack, or worse, it kills you, on top of the normal logistical challenges of getting the machining and tooling ready to build a new machine on the kind of scale a galactic nation needs. Even Space Marines need Billions of Rhino Tread links.

Of course, any time that a real game-changing STC comes along, something bad happens and it gets stolen, lost, destroyed, or corrupted, because [[grimdark]]. For example, in the 5th edition [[Dark Eldar]] codex, [[Asdrubael Vect]]'s Ex, [[Lady Malys]], tricked some [[Orks]] into attacking an Industrial world that had been fortified beyond belief. Every hive on it was crammed with guardsmen, and even titan legions and Admech forces were present because they had found an STC called Panacea that would allow <strike>billions</strike> <strike>trillions</strike> <strike>quadrillions</strike> the whole of humanity to be cured of disease and poison (hint: Panacea is a literal ''cure-all''). The Dark Eldar attempted to steal it by luring an Ork fleet to the planet where the Orks pretty much crushed all resistance (quite literally - by crash-landing on it), allowing the Dark Eldar to effortlessly take the STC (after the Orks stole it first, go figure). Of course the Dark Eldar don't use the same technology (and could not care less about cures for ''human'' diseases anyway), so at the moment it's collecting dust in Malys' Trophy Room, rather than alleviating the grimdark. At this point, we can only hope that the Dark Eldar manage to provoke the Imperium into launching a full crusade against [[Commorragh]] and rescue the STC in the process...<s>yeah, right.</s> [[Asdrubael Vect|that did happen]] before this incident, though.

Of course, this would all be doomed to fail once the [[Death Guard]], [[The Purge|Purge]], and all the other forces of [[Nurgle]] surprisingly come to the aid of the Dark Eldar. That, or they'll just intervene in a desperate attempt to destroy this particular STC. After all, a literal cure-all being distributed across the galaxy would be a catastrophic blow against the Plaguefather, and it would weaken him to the point that plot development would be necessary, something that GW will avoid at all costs.

As a side note, Magos Delphan Gruss is an explorator who is convinced from studying STC legends that there exists an artefact called the Omnicopaeia. Rumoured to be either a data storage device containing either every STC invented or every STC related to psychic powers, it was rumoured to be on the Daemon World known as Hell's Teeth in 998.M41 with billions of Skitarii mobilized for a recovery operation.

With the reintroduction of the [[Squats]] as Leagues of Votann, it’s revealed that the Votann that play a central part in their culture are basically massive versions of the STC AI cores in the Ark Mechanicus ships that they call [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/22/the-leagues-of-votann-are-coming-but-what-actually-is-a-votann/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=warhammer-40,000&utm_content=blpregallery230422&fbclid=IwAR3W7xpTaRA3WxzWNc0-rbNDz7e5K5goZy56Md1t_jcCR_HjwkaObCsAqdQ Votann] in front of outsiders and [[Votann|Ancestor Cores]] when among only their own kind.