With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

Wait, why is he worried about that? Bo'ok and him are at most friends, right? Will that question his impartiality?

Also, do you have plans for this Paul to clash with imperials at one point? Him and his team forced to work with an Inquisitor, Paul spitting facts...would be hilarious

 

And (because the universe loves it narritivium) the Inqusitor is CIAPHIAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!

 

P'Aul dressed just as he said he would earlier, eh? Formal robes, then. No doubt they do include a decent pair of trousers. Let's hope it makes a suitably good impression on the top Tau.

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Honestly, if they can't mingle and share information in the most central leadership facilities in the Empire, then where could they?As for the clothes... Yes, I can see the tailors shuddering at preparing billions of outfits for various sizes and body shapes.

...So he is officially a 'rookie' cadet? Amusing.

I suspect subsequent rank increases will be quick. Given some of the things he deals with, he might need the higher authority.

Including the verbal kind, please. This is not a place to unleash your... Unique... Sense of humour.

Oh, he's already picturing P'Aul as a monkey, isn't he? Let's hope it doesn't drive him bananas.

Logical enough.

...Does she at least have a modesty cloth covering them, or is she staging a frontal assault on your eyes?

No doubt the council have been discussing them in depth while they waited.

Just a little more fancy and heavily decorated setting, eh?

Here, though, in the heart of the Empire... I suspect they need the reminder of who's in charge...

Not that they really need it, given P'Aul's Ring. Though it'd likely be bad form for him to sue it for anything more than simply interfacing with the desktop.

And someone, somewhere, is not going to have a fun day...

...Ah. Should they both be bowing, or...

...Or perhaps you count as window dressing, so to speak, being the lesser partner.

Well, for a start... Most of the demons they'd have encountered would have been monomaniacal aspects of their God. Slaughterers uninterested in talking. Seductors who found the Tau not that into them. Plaguebringers caught off guard by Tau medical science. Tricksters who find the Tau largely ignorant and uncarign of their plotting...

In other words: Trust, but verify. With extreme caution, and plenty of prejudice if things go bad.

...Much like some Pauls. Especially those with Orange Rings. Feeling a bit of kinship with them, then, P'Aul?

...Which raises the question of just how 'alive' those engrams are in the Warp. What with magical technology being an actual thing around here.

...Well, for a given amount of 'hostile'...

Oh, P'Aul definitely feeling a bit of kinship with Faultless, given that reasoning, eh?

And actual evidence would probably be locked up deep in inquisitorial databases. The kind that don't get passed around freely.

...Now, now. It might not be as bad as you think it is.

Well, this is off to a pleasant start. No-one's shouting, anyway... Not yet at least. Still, I foresee some of the questions being rather probing and uncomfortable. Let's just hope Bo'ohk doesn't end up putting his hoof in his mouth answering any of them. At least P'Aul's Ring can hide any signs of worry, like the sudden flop-sweat he might have broken out in at that last question.

 

accept -> reject

 

And you won't find any either.

Because extermination of hostile xenos races has been a thing since the Emperor set out to put humanity back together after the Eldar fucked the Men of Iron rebellion into existence.

 

Vaermina, that’s definitely not true. Extermination of xenos was definitely common in the Great Crusade, but it wasn’t near-mandatory like it is now. For example, when Fulgrim’s fleet met the Laer (Slaanesh worshipping aliens, though obviously the Imperials didn’t know what Slaanesh was at the time) it was considered as a serious option that they should make them a protectorate of the Imperium, because they were strong enough that it was believed it would take an unacceptably long time to conquer them, and they didn’t seem particularly hostile.
The only reason they did get genocided in the end was that Fulgrim was a xenophobic asshole (although, of course, it was actually not a terrible decision given that they were Chaos worshippers).

‘have’

 

Usually I'm against dipping into other Paul's because there's little investment beyond the initial interest... This is not one of those times.

 

Thank you, corrected.

No, that's correct, because it's writted caste'saal.

That's fine, I'm writing in English.

No, he's refering to a location, like a temple or other sacred site. Those are far more common than living saints.

No, because they're not accepting it.

Where?

 

"How can I put this delicately... How about this: What is the difference between my penis and a joke?"

".... I'm sorry?"

"Sometimes Aun'ul Bo'ohk can't take a joke."

 

Yeah. Imperial Protectorates are sometimes created if the Imperium judges a species to be enough of a non-threat to human interests to let them continue existing. Which generally means confining them to their homeworld or home system and never letting them leave.

But being granted the status of a Protectorate doesn't necessarily mean you won't get exterminated if someone feels like doing so. I don't recall the name, but there was this one species they created a protectorate for. They found out the members of this species could be "processed" into an anti-aging remedy that significantly extended your lifespan. But it also turned out that when this remedy started to wear off there was a pretty nasty "snap back", and that the more you used the remedy the shorter the duration before you'd need to take another dose.

So the Imperial officials exploiting the species to extend their lives decided to just keep processing them for as long as possible until the entire species was used up. This despite the fact that doing so was actually super illegal. With the penalty for doing so being death.

So even with a death penalty as punishment they still managed to harvest the entire damn species.

EDIT: Checked. They were called Adarnians.

 

Replacing ‘having’.
It would become ‘questions I had on whether tau females have mammaries.’

 

The narrative says that it "answers the question".
It didn't actually say whether the answer to the question was yes or no, so we still have no idea if Tau females have mammaries.

 

Wait. Which Tau is P'ol trying to date? I thought it was the Fire Caste one.

 

Thank you, corrected.

The Fire Caste on is Kais, so no. He's trying to date Tsua'm.

 

double 'if'

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Extermanitus isn't near mandatory now.

 

Well, alright. I admit that was something of an exaggeration. Although I was referring to total genocide more generally, rather than specifically using Exterminatus to destroy planets.

 

So I just realized we’re coming up on WTR’s ten year anniversary! Any plans Zoat?

 

Drink. Cry. Wonder despairingly where the time has gone.

 

That's not really near mandatory either.

The only species they tend to do that too are one's that are utterly horrible, relentlessly attack the Imperium, mess around with Daemons, or get corrupted by Chaos.

 

I know exactly where the time has gone.
Don't despair.
It never existed.

 

Like I already said, I admit that was something of an exaggeration. The modern Imperium doesn’t have the resources to kill all xenos even if they wanted to.

 

irrelevant

 

"meetings" I think, unless it can be a mass noun in British English?

I think you might have meant "proscribed" (forbidden) instead of "prescribed" (commanded). Stupid English words!

 

Guardians: "We don't understand."

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Poor, poor Hinon.

 

me?