(An extra update with thanks for the donation from .The Group Owner's Mother lv37 Author's Adoptive Father 04 Goddess T'au'va Dunking Throne Empress.)
On the surface, Sweet Star's Tau-ification Process had taken only a little over sixty years, but the T'au had actually spent more than a hundred years preparing for it!
For over a century, the T'au had sent spies to infiltrate Sweet Star and study its terrain, culture, production, and political structure.
Meanwhile, the T'au had also stolen DNA samples from the Planetary Governor and senior planetary officials, creating identical clones of them.
After climbing out of their nutrient tanks, these clones lived aboard T'au warships and received a T'au education.
When the T'au decided the time was right, they pulled a switch, deploying Stealth Battlesuits to slaughter all the senior planetary officials before installing the clones in their places.
Having spent a full century studying local production and daily life, the T'au found governing remarkably easy once they took control of the planet's leadership.
With the upper ranks replaced, the rest was simple.
First, they passed laws restricting the Imperial Cult's local growth, eventually driving it off the planet altogether.
Later, under the pretext of attracting outside investment, they brought in the T'au and sold sugar to them to improve the lives of local farmers.
Then more and more T'au arrived, and the locals went from wary to welcoming.
The T'au paid several times more for sugar than other people from the Imperium. Selling to them earned the farmers several times as much, so why wouldn't they?
Next, the T'au introduced advanced industrial equipment, sugar-processing factories, fertilizers, and pesticides.
After that, the T'au began building schools and hospitals, opening new sugar-processing plants, and becoming local landowners.
Once these methods had gradually desensitized the local farmers to their