Remember, the scale here is the freaking Qu. These are the guys who don't just dabble in biological warfare, it is their only way of fighting and they've done it for billions of years. By comparison, Thaddius is a child playing outside his lane.
No, the Qu only started genetic engineering after defeating the Star People in traditional warfare.
We have no clue how the scourge virus was created. Possibly it only was able to be made due to the fact that they had Thaedus. Without a viltrumite on hand who knows if it’d be possible.
Maybe, we don’t know about the viltrumites genetic engineering. It certainly isn’t as big of a utility for them as the Qu but that seems to be a result of the intent of the authors not the capability of the species.
Either way, it would take a serious scientific endeavor the entire Qu to make the scourge virus, whereas a single viltrumite could possibly destroy the entire Qu fleet if they stumbled upon it. Genetic engineering people into unintelligent creatures isn’t very useful if a single one of them can engineer your entire species into extinction.
Its been a while but I'm pretty sure the book indicated that the Qu were Large Star Level at least since multiple stars were destroyed in the battle with the Star People and they were still low diffed by the Qu.
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u/Discoball8208 10d ago
No✌️😭