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** In the video game ''Fire Warrior'', a Space Marine comments to an imperial governor that the Tau will eventually be exterminated by the Imperium, but that for the time being they aren't the primary threat, as there are greater threats closer to home (truer words never spoken, since {{spoiler|he's standing on a chaos tainted planet, unknowingly right next to the avatar of a Chaos Demon Prince}}). Yes, it is Imperial policy to exterminate all aliens eventually, but the Imperium realizes that they should try to eliminate the ones ''actively'' trying to eradicate humanity before worrying about the ones that are just neutral for them.

*** Given this setting, Humanity should be done fighting off the "actively" hostile aliens around the same time the Eye of Terror closes forever. ie Never. Doesn't mean Humanity won't shoot an Alien if available though.

** The Fourth Sphere of Expansion of Tau (in 8th Edition era) decided they need to exterminate all the client species (and became infamous for this in the Tau Empire, and were chastised). Because they were quite terrified to discover that once enough of creatures with stronger Warp presence (especially the Nicassar and Humans) came to believe in "Greater Good", their beliefs did ''[[Gone Horribly Right|coalesce into a nascent Warp God]]'' of the Greater Good. This wasn't catastrophic in the realspace like the Fall of Eldar, but they have found it out the hard way.

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Nearly every faction has an example; many races' ''basic close combat weapons'' have monomolecular edges, and it only gets sharper from there.

* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Guns which fire razor-edged molecule-thick ninja stars, guns which fire nets of [[Razor Floss]], guns which fire wooden stakes, flamethrowers which squirt ''holy'' napalm, biological guns which use, um, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|muscle spasms]] to fire flesh-eating beetles/maggots or ''exploding tumors'', guns which open holes into hell, guns which fire tiny goblins ''through'' hell, grenades filled with tears collected from a thousand crying statues of the Emperor.

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** It should be noted that while ''every single Ork'' is an Omnicidal, [[Axe Crazy]] [[Complete Monster]] by human standards, members of the Goff klan are considered [[Axe Crazy]] '''by other Orks'''.

** There's also the Eversor Assassins; crazy and constantly pumped with hyperactive drugs and bio-engineered to reach the very limits of the human physiology. They're used to destroy the enemy's command structure by ''killing everybody.'' Eversors are insane to the point that they have to be kept in ''cryo-stasis'' between their missions.

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