The Care and Culling

The Care and Culling was a semi-successful political assassination plot from Aeor during the Age of Arcanum.

Age of Arcanum
Some time pre-Calamity, a number of aeormatons with caretaker abilities were gifted by unknown politicians in Aeor to various rivals across the world, often in the guise of an olive branch. These aeormatons were actually sleeper agents, and many of them eventually killed the people to whom they had been gifted. This event was later known as The Care and Culling. The plot was not entirely successful, and there were a number of survivors. However, as a result, the exchange of Aeorian technology became extremely rare. It is believed that this is why scavenged Aeorian technology comes almost exclusively from the crash sites in Eiselcross.

Campaign 3
Imahara Joe owns a book on ancient arcane technology and relayed the history of the event to Bells Hells, as the most likely explanation behind FCG's behavior.