I feel like we've gotten most of our dice' worth out of these. Let's move on and see their tech.
Probably should only push our luck so far
move on, they are already good enough
Let us move on!
Evolution has rendered the Xenos
Iron-Willed and
Cunning even as it has left them
Delicate and
Weak but adaptation of the flesh is not the only form of progress. Even the lowest of species possesses some amount of shared understanding but does theirs have any merit?
2
The Xenos were
Stone-Age Primitives by the time they were encountered by the Astartes. There are many reasons this could be the case. Perhaps they only recently reached sapience, saw no need to innovate when photosynthesis rendered them near to post-scarcity, or in a cruel twist of fate their planet simply lacked the mineral resources to propel them forward.
Even at the lowest level of organization, with a certain amount of intelligence some form of civilization is inevitable, accompanied by their own set of deviant morals.
What ethics do the Xenos hold to?
9,4,7
The Xenos are a
Hive Mind, each sharing their consciousness in a pool. This renders them remarkably efficient in some ways but deficient in others. There are several forms this may take and they might attempt to conceal it from outsiders, but this is entails a fundamentally alien psychology. Notably, it trends toward
Materialism in the willing disbelief of forces outside of their whole and healthy
Xenophobia, in wariness of that which it cannot know as it knows itself.
10,2
5,2,5
1,5,1
6,8,4
The Xenos
broke apart into three "factions" some time ago, broad trends amid their scattered tribe equivalents.
The first trend toward
Fanatic Militarism in that they live and breathe to fight and kill, as any Xenos doubtless desires to, and nonsensical
Egalitarianism that has them insisting on an absurd, horizontal power-structure. It appears that they have votes among themselves. Almost surreal.
The second trend toward
Fanatic Authoritarianism in that each tribe has a single chieftain figure who seized their position to rule with an iron-fist and goes unquestioned by their charges, and some degree of
Militarism to enforce and expand their dictates. Reasonable, from an Imperial standpoint. Though they don't have much to fight over. Prime sunning grounds, perhaps?
The third trends toward
Xenophilia in that they insist on loving and cherishing outsiders alongside themselves, as equals, no less, free to mingle their very culture with their own,
Pacificism, a belief of nonviolence in protest to what they see as their kind's senseless horror, and
Materialism, disdaining superstition that can't be proven. They are naive, laughably so, but that could be taken advantage of.