Editing Xenos (section)

==The Other Side==
The irony of the setting is that, from the perspective of most of the Xenos species in the galaxy, the Imperium of Man is as dangerous and constant a danger to their existence as the Orks or Tyranid. From the Great Crusade onwards Xenos species such as the Tarellians, Demiurg and Eldar have been powerless to do anything as the Imperium constantly expanded its borders, genociding more and more Xenos every century, pushing them further and further out as all resistance in the face of the Imperium proved utterly futile.

Thus to the Tarellians, Hrenians, Tau, Galg and many more the Galaxy is a terrifying place since most of it is the Imperium, an all-powerful empire devoted to the relentless expansion of its domain and extermination of all other forms of life. For over 10,000 years, some of these species have watched Imperium has steamrolled everything in its path, and it has simply grown from strength to strength, [[Plot armor|overcoming all enemies and expanding its borders continuously]], dooming to extinction untold numbers of sapient species and creating a galaxy where Xenos mostly live in hiding or cling to the frontiers, with the exception of the Orks (who are having the time of their lives), the Necrons (who are a superpower on their own, albeit highly divided) and the Eldar to a certain extent (both Imperium and Craftworlds are pragmatic enough to know that they don't need to destroy each other when greater dangers exist, with alliances between the two being unusually common and frequent, most recent example being Ynnari).

Not for nothing are the zones which contain the most Xenos limited to areas which the Imperium considers outside their control, the [[Ghoul Stars]] and Eastern Fringe for example. In the galaxy of the 41st Millenium to be born a [[Grimdark|Xenos is to be born within a Galaxy where the most brutal and vicious empire in history is determined to kill you, your family and everyone you've ever known, because it considers your existence as an insult to mankind]].

To compound this fear for the Xenos there is also the fact that, as a species, humans always seem to outcompete all other species at everything. Due to their '''MASSIVE''' numbers(surpassed only by [[Orks]], [[Tyranids]] and ALL [[Necrons]]) vaunted position within the setting and [[Plot armor|general favouritism]] directed towards the Imperium, and more importantly the Space Marines, they are unfortunately burdened with the dubious honour of always being [[Mary Sue|the best at everything]]. No matter [[Shadowsun|how stealthy a Xenos might be]] there is always [[Ravenguard| a human stealthier than them]], no matter [[Imotekh the Stormlord|how skilled a commander]], there will be a [[Creed|human]] more skilled than them, no matter [[Eldar|how strong a Psyker your entire specie is supposed to be]], there will be [[Malcador|multiple]] [[Mephiston|human]] [[Magnus|psykers]] within the setting stronger than you could ever hope to be. If your specie's entire shitck is "[[Tau|the reasonable man in an unreasonable universe]]"? There will be [[Roboute Guilliman|someone]] more reasonable than you, with a [[Belisarius Cawl|a human scientist]] being more rational and making more progress than [[Earth Caste|your entire scientific group]].

The 41st Millenium is a dark and foreboding existence for the Xenos, one where the most bloodthirsty and xenophobic species in the galaxy is set on conquering the galaxy, eradicating all other life in it and, worst of all, looks set to achieve this no matter how stiff the resistance, the only delay being a ten thousand year long civil war on whether they worship the greatest tyrant in history or eldritch horrors that eat souls. Considering this it is hardly surprising that Xenos would rather side with the [[Tau]], who offer surprisingly lenient membership into their Empire, or the [[Sautekh Dynasty]] who, though making subjugated nations vassals, still permit them to exist. Of course one could also just be Orks and not care about it at all and have a bloody good larf out of all the figthing. Or be a Tyranid drone where all you really care about is the next all you can eat buffet.

From a meta perspective, Xenos also suffers from mankind's inherent human bias:
*Most authors don't like them that much or writing about them (it doesn't pay as much as writing Imperium books and it's harder than writing humans or [[Space Marines|people that shouldn't act like normal humans but do anyways]] and writers are humans too, with their own preferred factions and characters), so authors tend to prefer the Imperium.
*They don't get much written about them and the Imperium gets more stuff 
*Imperium stuff sells more and has more variety, and as such has more fans (if you hate an Imperium book, there's hundreds more by multiple authors you could like. If you hate an Eldar or T'au book, there's only a handful and they're all written by [[Gav Thorpe|the]] same [[Phil Kelly|guys]]) 
*Authors and fans like the Imperium more...
*Repeat until the ratio of Imperium to non-Imperium stories is 10/1 at best (as of October 2022, Imperium has roughly 500 pieces written on/about them by Black Library, Chaos has around 50) and 100/1 at worst (Necrons have 5). [https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/1469gs4/in_the_best_case_scenaario_it_would_take/| Some dumbass on reddit did the math] for the year 2022, and it would literally take a full century for Xenos to get as many Black Library stories as the Imperium has, and that's the very best case scenario, where BL ''completely'' stops releasing Imperium stuff for 98 years. So yeah, Xenos will never get many good books.