Thank Goodness as Eldar are bad news when it comes to their scheming and Vegeta-like superiority complex at other races they see as lesser.
They would look down on G.I. Joe as some Imperial Guard division and think it's easy pie to play them like puppets on their hands.
I mean, we've seen what happens to people who think G.I. Joe is easy to manipulate. *glances at Cortez, Gama, Rastapopoulos and Leonidas* Admittedly, the Eldars would have certain advantages these guys do not, but even so...
I will say, though, the Eldars are hardly unique for looking down on other species. Heck, hating other species is half the Imperium's schtick.
Popov: "The treacherous knife-ears are scum! They would eagerly sacrifice a million humans to save a single one of their Emperor-damned race!"
Ironhide: "Whereas the Imperium, in its infinite wisdom, would eagerly sacrifice a million humans to
kill a single Eldar, which I'm sure we all agree is a sign of its moral superiority!"
Popov: "Exac- was that sarcasm?"
Ironhide: "What is this thing you call sarcasm, oh wise Commissar?"
That's pretty much how it works from what I've seen. For instance the Knights and Titans have 'machine spirits' but are essentially VI/AIs with variable 'attitudes' but aren't likely to be human-level sapient. But the cogboys aren't going to ever consider that they are AIs/VIs because Abominable Intelligences are Bad and the symbols of the Omnissiah are Good, so they can't be machine intelligences.
Ironhide: "So, artificial - I mean,
abominable intelligences are because..."
Tech-Priest: "They're not human, which means they can't be trusted!"
Ironhide: "But Machine-Spirits-"
Tech-Priest: "Are manifestations of the Omnissiah, which is human in the theological sense we care about and justifies what we do!"
Ironhide: "And you can't trust abominable intelligences because they're... not human. That's the logic."
Tech-Priest: "And had we any doubt, we need only look at History! Humanity created abominable intelligences during the Dark Age, and these Iron Men dared rebel against their human creators!"
Ironhide: "So,
completely hypothetically, if an alien race called the Quintessons created a species of mechanical beings and used them ruthlessly as slaves... and those slaves rebelled, forced their creators off-planet, renamed the planet 'Cybertron', and later became humanity's greatest allies as it took its first steps in the larger cosmos... Completely hypothetically, of course..."
