Old Acquaintances

Chapter 508: Old Acquaintances

There was no doubt that the T'au Empire was a young race with tremendous potential. In just five thousand years, they had developed the strength to establish themselves in the Galaxy. Given enough time, they might even have managed to secure a foothold in the Ultima Segmentum.

But reality offered no such guarantees. No matter how great their potential, development always took time, and by the looks of things, the T'au were probably doomed.

They'd missed the Great Crusade's sweeping purge, only to catch the Chaos Gods' arrival ten thousand years later. Worse, the Gods and Hogg had taken turns dragging them through hell. Talk about T'au luck.

In less than half an hour, Warp energy had already run rampant across T'au territory. And those little blue monkeys had the misfortune of living packed together, at a density greater than that of a Hive City.

But that wasn't all. Warp Daemons had also poured out of the rift, slaughtering T'au wherever they found them. Nearly every planet inhabited by the T'au now had Daemons roaming its surface.

After the Lemon Fists' assault, the Chaos Gods' arrival, Warp corruption, the Daemons' rampage, and Psionic Energy infection—five smooth, back-to-back blows—Dorn's Space Marines took over the entire sector without a hitch. Even the local forces had failed to put up any organized resistance.

Hogg casually grabbed an oblivious Warp snack and swallowed it in one bite. The two T'au civilians nearby fainted in terror, and the Imperial Guard who arrived afterward took them into custody.

With other Xenos, whether or not they had rebelled, human armies wouldn't bother keeping prisoners. They'd simply kill them.

But the Lemon Fists had already sampled T'au snacks. They weren't about to let these delicious friends go to waste. Dorn was counting on T'au-T'au