faffing just means generally ineffectual activity.
Like, if you told 100 of your lower-ranked corpmates that you want a 100 ship fleet assembled in one hour, and then the designated time arrives, and nothing has been done to organise that, then you could say “you’ve done nothing but waste time faffing about!”
Why? Because THE MAN says so?? Trying to suppress alternative grammar? Napkins can go jackin’ about if he wants, and you can’t tell me ‘jacking’ isn’t masturbation. This just more evidence of your pathetic cover-up!
Well … they do seem to be doing a lot of testing and messing around. Maybe if you let the Drifters establish a bunch of hives in Delve they’d speed up their timetable?
This is possible. We are living in the beginning of the End Times, and in the End Times, all of mortal creation is going to be made a place of pain and torment as it is destroyed, somewhat like Hell — or like the Abyss. Watch for the True Ark, for within it (and perhaps nowhere else) salvation is carried.