"The revered Silent King opposed our hostility toward the Orks. His concerns were certainly well founded. Orks are not conventional life-forms; they are the last weapons of war created by the Old Ones. Once all-out war begins, it will inevitably bring about a repeat of the War in Heaven."
"Even if we commit everything we have, we may not defeat the Orks. They grow stronger the longer they fight. What we fear even more is that they might scatter their spores throughout the Galaxy... If Orks are everywhere in the Galaxy, no race will be able to contend with them."
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"We do not know how the Aeldari learned of our plan to deal with the Orks in secret. By any logic, there was no possibility of it being exposed. Could their Warp gods truly be omniscient? No, that is impossible. No being can be omniscient, much less omnipotent."
"The Aeldari offered to help us of their own accord... They said their gods had foreseen the future. To prove that future in which Ork civilization collapsed, they even provided us with the relevant technology and... some of their own people to study."
"This was an extraordinarily difficult concession for the arrogant Aeldari. Could they truly be so certain?"
"Because we cannot use psychic power, verifying the Aeldari technology took a long time. But... the final result proved the Aeldari correct. We also developed a new temporal technology and a corresponding rank-Chronomancer."
"After dozens of glimpses into the river of time by our Chronomancers, we confirmed that the Orks' civilization really did perish in the future. Their hierarchy no longer had Brainboys to lead them, and their empire soon fell apart through infighting."
"So, guided by that future outcome, we launched a new experimental program