The Q folks like talking about "nothing can stop what's coming", and for once they're right. Just not about what exactly is coming.

Dark Ages 2.0, a thousand years of human slavery and strife, enabled by new surveillance technology and the promise of an easy slave life for the masses. Hell, it might even last longer than a millennium: imagine if the nobility class could work out how to get an unsleeping unwavering robotic enforcers of their tyranny into every home and village.