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You He did not quite understand why the Flameburst Commander had added that meaningful remark at the end.
Before he could ask for details, the Flameburst Commander waved him off to carry out his mission.
After leaving the Hive City, You He went to his quarters in the military camp outside it and assembled 1,000 infantrymen.
These 1,000 infantrymen had been fully assimilated into T'au society. They wore T'au combat uniforms, carried Pulse Rifles, and even spoke the T'au language among themselves.
Culture and language had a powerful influence on the way a person's face developed.
According to one theory, different cultures shaped different mentalities, which in turn directly altered the body's hormone levels.
Different languages also used different facial muscles to produce their sounds, so speaking one language over a long period could change a person's facial appearance.
These assimilated humans looked markedly different from humans who had grown up in the Imperium of Man.
The culture and mindset fostered by the Greater Good were relatively gentle, and the assimilated humans' expressions looked gentler as well.
Moreover, because T'au pronunciation differed from Gothic, long-term use of the T'au language caused human faces to grow longer.
As a result, the thousand-odd human soldiers present all had long faces with very soft features.
People who grew up in the Imperium of Man mostly had square, stern faces that looked as though they had been carved with a knife. One glance told you they were not to be trifled with.
There was no helping it. The cultural foundations and living conditions of the two races had shaped them that way.
The Imperium of Man was already an empire in its