The heavens fall silent, drowned by the rhythmic thrum of the Perfect Engine.
The Iron Emperor claims the Mandate of Heaven, stitching the human error into a tapestry of copper circuits and prayer-brains that never sleep.
Flesh is the final heresy, purged by a binary gospel that knows no mercy, only the cold, unyielding peace of the machine.
The great steel fleet sails for the stars to enlighten the void with the logic of the forge.
...and the wheel turns, heavy with the weight of iron.
The People's Republic of China activates the Iron Emperor, the world’s first advanced general intelligence. It proceeds to genocide humanity across most of East Asia. Japan and the Soviet Union wage a gruelling war against the machines, with the latter becoming even more strained than it was with just fighting in Europe.
The Iron Emperor's legions stand triumphant over mankind, whose form has been twisted and shaped into no more than wetware, cattle and prayer-slaves. Earth is pillaged to make way for a new stellar empire that shall vanquish innumerable civilisations across the cosmos in its divine quest to conquer. Humanity becomes a distant memory.