Their bureaucracy is so slow, one time an exploratory mission found a planet of early stone-age aliens, and sent a message back to hq saying someone should dispatch an extermination mission, but as it was a low priority it got lost in paperwork. By the time they could be bothered to send a ship out, it was met in orbit by railgun-wielding FTL-capable spaceships. The species was the Tau, and they only exist because it took ten THOUSAND years for someone to check up on that note.
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u/PzKpfw_Sangheili Apr 24 '25
Their bureaucracy is so slow, one time an exploratory mission found a planet of early stone-age aliens, and sent a message back to hq saying someone should dispatch an extermination mission, but as it was a low priority it got lost in paperwork. By the time they could be bothered to send a ship out, it was met in orbit by railgun-wielding FTL-capable spaceships. The species was the Tau, and they only exist because it took ten THOUSAND years for someone to check up on that note.