The battle that had stalled flared to life once more.
All Standard Template Constructs (STC Templates) differed. The Federation Government was the only institution authorized to produce master templates. Any corporation developing a design ultimately had to submit its data to the Federation Government and register the rights before the government produced a master template. The secondary copies and single-use templates subsequently released would provide those research institutions or large organizations with a steady stream of revenue.
But the STC Template that had appeared in Commorragh was neither a secondary copy nor some other single-use template.
It was a complete master template, containing data for a biological synthetic drug known as the Panacea.
This extraordinary drug relied on genetic repair and biomass reconstruction. It could permanently cure every human disease, repair genetic flaws, and eliminate all physiological defects.
The original genetic templates for the Men of Gold of the Federation Era had come from certain humans who had taken the Panacea.
Iax's data contained no detailed explanation of how this drug worked. Perhaps technological development for machine bodies and biological organisms had followed different paths, so no one had ever considered providing the Men of Iron with information about the Panacea.
But that did not stop Iax from obtaining the data within its STC master template now.
With the relevant data stored, the Men of Iron could reconstruct this model of STC.
In fact, the Emperor had acquired a single-use STC Template for the Panacea long ago and obtained a batch of the drug. It was on the foundation of the Panacea, combined with information he had tricked the Chaos Gods into giving him, that the Emperor had successfully created the Primarchs.
The Adeptus Custodes were likewise products of that research.
As for the unfortunate Thunder Warriors, they clearly had