Speaking of Xenos. Here have some:
Diplomacy
I took a long long sip of my recaff while looking at the ship displayed on the monitors of the council room. As I savored the familiar bitter taste, while wishing my reputation would allow me to replace it with amsec instead, I considered the best course of action we could take here. Best for me that is.
Thanks to the enhanced sensors deployed throughout the solar system by the borgs, we had detected the ship several days ago and had been monitoring it's approach ever since. From my dim recollections of half ignored lessons back in collegia, this looked to be a Tau ship. A small race of xenos who took a cruel delight in pretending at a facade of goodness in order to deceive the unwary.
Because of this facade they would doubtlessly try to open communications with us and engage us with "diplomacy", which would add consorting with xenos to slackenburg's charges of heresy, and while I didn't think that would make us any worse in the eyes of the imperium, it probably would affect my position in the eyes of the God-Emperor.
'However', I thought to myself while hiding a slight smile in my cup. 'Maybe I can use this. If i can get them to declare war on us, a nice distracting cold war that i can use to distract everyone, then perhaps the imperium will leave us alone to fight it out between us. Meanwhile I can use it as a justification to get a load of new spaceships produced, one of which I can take out and have "go missing" as I slip off to a nice quiet back world on the other side of the galaxy.'
'Yes that sounds like a plan' i thought to myself, with a long forgotten ember of hope starting to stir in my chest. 'Now all I need to do is to offend a load of false righteous xenos in diplomacy in such a way as to not be obvious to everyone around me. Shouldn't be too difficult.'
Slackenburg Announces Glorious Alliance with the Tau Empire!
Thanks to the amazing diplomatic skills of the Liberator Slackenburg no longer stands alone against the brutal fist of the imperium. Seeing through the lies and slander fed to him by the forked tongued imperials the Liberator realized that our new allies are just like us and that we can all work together to forge a future of freedom and prosperity for all of us!