Yet by this point, the entire planet had been completely infiltrated by the T'au. Its organs of power, economic system, and culture were all under T'au control.
The PDF troops who came to their senses wanted to resist, but they could not stir up much of a wave.
Scattered resistance forces formed across the planet, made up of former PDF personnel and former Imperial Cult members.
After learning that the upper ranks and military had been infiltrated by the T'au, these forces broke themselves up and dispersed among the populace, hoping to build a resistance movement.
They did succeed. Quite a few civilians still believed in the God-Emperor. At the command of these former PDF officers, they took up arms to set things right.
This was one of the few bloody conflicts during the T'au's entire process of soft colonization.
That bloody conflict ended with a T'au massacre!
It was only because the former PDF officers had ignited this storm of resistance that many deceived Imperial citizens finally realized the planet's true condition.
The planet had been corrupted beyond recognition. The God-Emperor was about to lose one of His loyal worlds, and so the people launched an almost planetwide resistance movement.
When the T'au saw resistance, they dropped their Greater Good façade and began armed suppression.
They directly used heavy weapons to mercilessly gun down civilians protesting in the streets, killing more than ten million people.
Later, the T'au established concentration camps and imprisoned over a hundred million people within them.
Though the T'au constantly preached the Greater Good, they were, at heart, a highly aggressive race.
Those who submitted were brought into their ranks, while those who resisted were cruelly killed.
The concentration camps established by the T'au mainly held devout Imperial citizens—the so-called Old Goldnecks.
The T'au demanded