Old Night: The Age of Strife

Old Night, also called the Age of Strife, was the long collapse that separated humanity’s technological golden age from the rise of the Imperium of Man. This episode explains how Warp storms, the emergence of psykers, political fragmentation, technological failure, war, and isolation shattered interstellar civilization across thousands of human worlds. Former colonies were cut off from one another for generations, sometimes preserving fragments of advanced technology and sometimes descending into radically different societies. Listeners will learn why Terra itself became a battlefield of competing warlords and why surviving human cultures developed independently across the galaxy. The episode also connects Old Night to the growing psychic instability that preceded the birth of Slaanesh, while avoiding the assumption that a single cause explains every regional disaster. In Warhammer 40,000 lore, the Age of Strife is the great break in human continuity: records disappear, worlds vanish, and the civilization that later emerges under the Emperor is built from fragments of something far older and more advanced. Visit ImaginedBattlefield.com for more military and science fiction.