Lion? If you’re a human in 40k you’re more likely to be a mangy street cat forced to work in a factory processing other cats into fancy feast. Fuck yeah I’ll be the Taus little pet over that, I can work in at a space turnip farm or something, maybe they’ll give me little human treats.
“The Tau are secretly evil because they are really ruled by the Ethereal cast from behind a curtain of mystery” I say before getting my brains blown out by a commissar for not repeating the litany of sacrifice for the emperor for the 20th time of that day.