>>96432088
Why should Tau pay anything they have a society wich isnt assfucked by centuries if not millenia of being retarded. They got plasma weapons as the lowest level standard gear, they seek allies wherever they can avoiding the need to fight for planets, their politics arent based on a fuck you got mine mentality.
>Easily destroying the chapter master of RG, off-screen essentially.
As if, that happened fully onscreen with the book describing the fight in its entirety.