>>5249429>Support>>5249442Indeed.
We could do what the Imperium did to befuddle the Tau. Completely annihilate planets in their entirety. This shocked the Tau who couldn't understand how someone could waste entire planets for no reasonable gain.
Except in our case, we are just doing some pre-emptive crust cracking to gain access to those delicious minerals. A proper mining world.
This will slow down their efforts to just reclaim captured worlds, and save us the manpower having to garrison the molten rocks or barren planets whose atmosphere's have been burned away by viral bombing.
We'll save our invasive efforts for planets who are perhaps particularly suitable for life by being ideal biomes or are human occupied planets.
Russ can help us take over those planets of value that would just lose too much from orbital bombardment.
