How did the Tau React to the HORRORS of Warhammer 40k? 

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Many tau?

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Is a Reddit nice guy/gal more naive than a Tau?

Tau: That’s….grimderp af…

@@kaneslives Makes a bit of sick, twisted sense though.

Well. It's just a non sentient clone lel Though i wanna throw that as writer misunderstanding. Cause Cogitators can guide weapons fine

Reaction to basically all Imperium Bullshit: "Thats so stupid... and evil. But stupid!" There's the one of the Tau interrogating a sister of the Order Famulous and just being utterly offended at how incompetent the Imperial eugenics program is.

The Japanese used human torpedoes at the end of WW2, so unfortunately the Imperium doesn't have real life beat on that one...

It would be an awesome show for sure. But GW would never make anything like this sadly.

Someone shut up and take my money.

I would love that kind of show

More or less what the old ps2 Firewarrior game was.

Exactly, the t'au empire is the best setting to showcase the horror of the Imperium to a newcomer.

Welp he'll need a lot of therapy

Wonder a tau therapist getting traumatize after a human tell there story

@tiberiusdawn2042 tau: those were some of the most horrifying stories I've heard from a human, what should I do doc? Doc? tau therapist: *traumatized* I think I need therapy

Meh, just tell him about the whole Man of Iron fiasco and he might understand. Still be horrified, but understand slightly.

​@@dreademperor2094 Sad enough, I have heard history of Therapist that actually need therapy after hearing some of their client history. Yeah....

This pretty much happened when they tried diplomacy with the Dark Eldar. The Dark Eldar thought this was hilarious.

Tau: "These alien are so xenophobic! Why would they choose to be so?" The universe: *cackles madly in Chaos, Dark Eldar, Necrons, Orks, and Tyrranids* Tau: "...huh, in hindsight we're surprised they're not more xenophobic."

They'll lose their shit if someone tells them "why humanity became like this"...

The imperium watching their attempts at diplomacy like "first time?"

​@@RandomUser-dv6qw probably not the Imperium, maybe a another empire

It echos humanity finding eldar and necron relics really. Just something outside their respective scopes of reason.

Wait this thing is how old No that can’t be right somebody messed up the maths and put an extra 0 or two in there

@@igncom1when necrons and eldar were already around we terrans still had the dinosaurs

@@fabioavaro7947 Not even that, Terra easily wasnt even a planet at that point

@@juliane.mfarias9285 no terra was definitely still a planet as it's 4 billion years old as opposed to the war in heaven happening 65 million years ago

Necron and Nids:Bonjour

@@dahandsomeguywithcoolglass8949 Dark Eldar : you havent seen anything yet boy

@@kevinbaumhoer7359 "as long it breath,have flesh and hole,we take it all" -Black space elf

@@dahandsomeguywithcoolglass8949 taking fleshy holes sounds slaaneshi...

@@poggestfrog the Eldar fucked a Chaos God into existence, so...

"Okay, this fucker *MUST* be the emeoror" The emperor: *teleports in* Tau: *"MOTHER FU-"*

He pretty much IS the emperor at this point

This was my thinking. And even with their dim souls they are still likely to feel his Primarch aura when they meet him. The idea that the Emperor is that much more powerful would be troubling for them.

@@The_Sigillite Imagine Farsight meeting The Emperor.

@@luxsuperbia1531 🤣 This. Pretty sure The Emperor Of Mankind told the High Lords of Terra that Guilleman is the Emperor now.

Nice TFS Alucard reference.

​@Somnolentiasthats a slaneesh daemon confirmed

True, but on the other end, demons don't care nearly as much for T'au as they do for humans, since they aren't the "tasty meal" that we are for them.

@@bosskaiju4834 because the tau are fucking VEGANS

Orkz: "WAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

more like an ocean

@@MusMasi more like a world of water

More like nurgle cauldron

I don’t know about that. While they first showed up sure. At this point the fourth sphere has seen the warp without a gellar field, demons, the nids, necrons, orcs, the dark eldar, and even some idea that their utopia has at least some dystopia mixed in. I think they have mostly woken up from their collective delusion, they just haven’t given into nihilism.

@@mikewaterfield3599 How about that time they encountered the Death Guard?

Tau Diplomats in the front: Optimistically shaking in their boots, determined to find friends. Tau Engineers in the back: Already at work building a bigger gun again, just in case.

And somewhere else, Tau in environment suits casually chatting with the followers of Nurgle and proposing an alliance against a common enemy. Because there are lots of factions in 40k that are hostile to each other, and the Tau might be the only ones with the diplomatic flexibility to form an alliance that lasts more than one battle. I imagine Nurgle must really, really hate the necrons. He stands for decay and the renewal that follows, while the necrons are all about stasis. Their existence is an affront.

@@vylbird8014 You know, I heard that once a Necron world fell because of one of the strongest plague that Nurgle, which made everything on the planet rust and decay, so I don't think he really hate them (the only guy he really despise is Tzeentch), it's more likely that he welcome the challenge that they give to him, which force Nurgle to surpass himself in pox-brewing.

It's actually mentioned in the lore that a shipment of white pills was lost during a Warp jump, and later the Damocles Crusade forces found the crashed remnants on the T'au homeworld.

​@bosskaiju4834 Jokes on him, that world became an impenetrable deathtrap due to all the sentient necrodermis oxidized metal dust storms that would strip & shred flesh from bones. He just made a sentient rusty tetanus blender planet, *and they're pissed.*

Do you know what book this is?

@@alphariusalpharius3921 Why was my response to this comment removed?

@@Jack-0-lantern because it was me all along, the REAL alpharius!

@@Jack-0-lantern what response?

@@Jack-0-lantern nice thanks man

That's the 5th sphere expansion, shadowsun's reunion with the survivors of the 4th after the great rift opened. They were nearly wiped out but the Death Guard ended up withdrawing after their vangard entered the Startide nexus and never emerged. Guess Morty had something better for them to do.

@@STSGingie yes, the real target was maggrage

@asd asd The gifts of the great father give many boons. That and its hard to use railgun in a boarding action.

@asd asd whooaaa there you are using way to much logic, i fear that you are gonna mention things like wireless battlesuits that are controlled from afar with things like virtual headsets so that the driver actually lives after losing a battle but still gains experience. Or things like tau using proper artillery that are similar to basilisks. Or you know using something like an ai in their HUDs to predict attacks since their reflexes are bad.

Imagine if they went near Khornes domain, id imagine it would be worse as they would having to deal with something that's so massed produced and strong, the imperium had to make a chapter for it, I wouldnt be surprised if they went into the slannesh domain, after this guy's can't really be seduced, if they went into tzeechs domain, there would probably be two instances here, 1, they have a great time with the smartest and they decide to join him, or two, they immediately decide to blast everything out of annoyance, due to tzeeches smart ass riddles

Orc:fight is fight

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

Or created warmachines that tore titans apart, from R'vharnas to Stormsurges and Supremacies. Also, yeah, while yivraine gets constantly fooled, the tau are fooled once, fuck you yivraine

@@mitchellsidebottom9271 that would be interesting to watch unfold, but rather i think that certain ethereals will join the rebellious tau simply because there are some that genuenly want to lead the tau for the better, but are simply too stuck in the ways of the ethereals. Sadly it wont happen because gw aint ballsy enough to do it

*Because **-Tony-** the Tau learns from their mistakes*

@@michelecastellotti9172 The best candidate for that I think is Aun'shi, and what's cool is that the last we heard about him Aun'shi was being sent to deal with Farsight. So there's a slim chance of that happeneing.

@@theemperorofman1186 why is this gue'ron'sha so big?

You wouldn't happen to remember the story's name, would you? 'Cuz that sounds fucking awesome.

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Peefat

Imperium of man: STOP SCREAMING Tau:*whimpers*

@@blizzardfog9501 "I apologize I tried to stop him but when I pleaded with him he merely responded with and mind my orkish, no offense" "som taken" "'Fuck the emperor'. He then proceded to crack every world he passed on the way here."

Aye.. the Inverse arc of the Tau...😂

he is learning

Just as planned!!

Like Angron?

@@godofqueef2754 Yes.

Simple "What in the goddam hell was that"

There’s a Tau in lore that wears a Commisar coat because “that thing is so barbaric and weird, that everyone must know how barbaric it is.”

@@omiheaddev7090 I'm confused what.

@@omiheaddev7090 Ahh, the commissionar’s tactic is barbaric so every human must know that. If only the Tau knows how ignorant humanity is. Most humans believe that Daemons are just another xenos species, a particularly advanced one at that.

@@omiheaddev7090 could you think of any other race who unironically thinks that? Anyone in 40K?

and pretty much the only reason said chapter master was killed was to introduce a far more awesome chapter master for the Raven Guard

Me to..it was so adorable

That was the only part that gave me a giggle. The rest is kinda understandable (except maybe their denial of the warp) as a naive and reasonably "normal" species that's early in its expansion and reached to others like pretty much any species would. Not expecting the total hellscape that is 40k to be out there. But it is kind of funny that after all the shit they saw in the Damocles Crusade they'd genuinely believe killing one really big guy was going to do jack shit in the grand scheme.

Silly them, don't they know the Emperor is already dead?

Same thing happened for a Chaos Warband they killed, they thought they killed "Slaanesh" itself

And it worked....mostly

It's interesting because the Imperium suffers grievously from chaos every day, yet the Tau having a couple fuck ups is considered extraordinary. The Imperium can take a harder punch for sure, seeing as the Imperium uses Humans more like chattel then it's founding reason for existence, but even those who know what they should be doing stuff get messed over by Chaos.

Tech tau:what the biggest thing we have in storage at the moment that mantis ship cool put guns on it every single gun we have put it on it

@@stormrunner4081 not even the Manta it was the tigershark, the manta was what they used before they finished the upgrade.

Meet the Engineer™, and if that doesnt work, use more guns

Ikr

If we meet the Tau right now imagine how many people would join them

@@benitomartinez2106 We wouldn't have a choice, if we refused to join them we'd be subjected by force.

Now you say buuuut yeah no humans don't learn jack shit, are close minded, superstitious, and fight for no reason all the time.

@@jackstrayfeald1007 na not instantly, they not big e

Honestly, as someone who usually plays a "Pacifist" empire in an abnormally aggressive manner, I love starting with a purifier or devouring empire near me. It's basically free real estate, with no pesky claims needed to take their territory.

i heard they did run into the death guard, shit straight up become a horror movie for them

@@thecommentguy9380 i mean, for everyone except the space marines, it is

Tau: "Oh so it's just the large human troops with an alien infestation. Probably isn't much different." *five minutes later with the Death Guard* Tau: "HOLY SHIT HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?! How are these things STILL not dying?! GREATER WILL SAVE UUUUUUSSS!!" Plague Marine: "This is the funniest shit i've ever been a part of. And i've been in excrement that can speak and make jokes before."

@@joshuakim5240 imagine blowing a torso sized hole through a guy and he just laughs and shits

@@ting4758 and the Orks. Don’t forget da Boyz

And the Titan pilots shitting their pants and retreating after a single one of them was felled, has to be one of my favourite Tau moments. :v

@@UnknownSquid Titans can shoot down tigersharks

@@SelfProclaimedEmperor Tell that to High Princeps Jernay, shot dead in one strafing run on Taros. Resulting in the loss of his titan Advensis Primaris, and the three remaining titans of his unit retreating rather than risk facing the Tigersharks again. I'm not speaking hypothetically here. This isn't fan theorycraft. The Tigershark is known and built specifically as a Titan-Buster, and has the established lore to back it up. Like sure, in all technicality any titan can obviously try to shoot back, and might get lucky, but it's very much a predator and prey relationship.

@@UnknownSquid it's not theory it's canon fact, titans have shot down mantas at least if they can do that they can also shoot down tigersharks ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fz2b-FoEgBg.html

​​@@UnknownSquid yes yes you are a tau supporter we got it~

atmosphere burned sound like a war crime to me

@@administracionhidroelec6278 war crimes only exist in holy terra. ...we aren't in terra....

@@aljoshilagan3204and also they are XENOS and Warcrimes only can labeled upon another humans

I knew it wasn't a canon image. I still freaked out in pure joy because I knew the artist where Majorkill took that piece from.

Most won't, and that's a bit scary.

@@DGARedRaven Some people are just uncultured...

@@megan00b8 straight facts.

keelah se'lai

They're basically Japanese in mid 19th century. Leagues behind tech of other nations, but getting smarter and better gear.

@Crom smite you Heh

I wonder what happens when the Tau develop true A.I. ?

Aren't Tau very underpowered in the board game?

Ot maybe Tau AI would destroy the other factions

"By the tau'va, can the Gue'la get any bigger?!"

Temporarily truce, but mostly likely Guilliman wouldn't give two shits about them. He'd be more mad at them for taking their people if anything, but he's also very pragmatic which the emperor loves about him. But "he won't hesitate to attack if they get in the way", it was a quote I think somewhere. So far he trusts ynari more.

Papa Smurf would probably just try to leave them alone and see how they handle the Hive Fleet.

'This guy seems smarter than the rest. Also, bigger. A lot bigger.'

@@michelecastellotti9172 Gman:uh....ima not answer that question but er.....lets have diplomacy? Tau:you must be the emporor...then? Gman:oh no im just the regent,the emporor....yeah to put it mildly...he is... not ok. Tau:*realization* oh. OH. ....by the greater good! *Cue depression×millions* Gman:and thats the day Cawl,hearing this:...wow. gotta admit thats uh...i mean i do understand but sheesh. Anyway,time to get back to being a mad genius

It's still possible if the Genestealers managed to infiltrate a Tau world. Would be funny to see the Tau just think of a Genestealer Patriarch as just a very charismatic religious preacher and leave them be. Only after realising that their God was actually The Tyranids.

@@electricfeverx976 wouldn't said leader be a massive problem for the tau leadership and be therefore be removed in no time?

@@letsplaysvonaja1714 The Ethereals would immediately see such a cult as a threat and would take action to first investigate then later destroy it. So the most vulnerable point of the Tau to a Genestealer incursion would be the Farsight Enclaves, assuming they have a reasonably sized Water Caste contingent. No Ethereals in the Farsight Enclaves.

@Electric Fever X yeah lol

@@PhailRaptor Yes, while religion is not banned for the T'au at all. The sudden rise of a religion from seemingly nowhere? Bit of concern definitely, if they get a hint of what it is? Considering T'au know about Tyranids they are going in, wiping out the cult, capturing inductees where possible and immediately trying to study ways of neutralizing genestealers ability to subvert minds.

Half the population would be dicks about it, the other half would want to know if they could fuck the aliens.

I feel like if they had resources we could take advantage of the government would plan to capitalize on that.

In all honesty, if I was an alien species I wouldn’t f-k with humans

It really depends. Frankly, I think the governments of the world would be massive dicks about it, but the average citizen would be far more welcoming given the influence pop culture has had on our society.

@@TheSinatra I probably will never see it in my lifetime but I whole heartedly imagine that if we ever start colonizing planets their would immediately start being civil wars as humanity tries to break away from Earth Governments. On this same token if we master planet colonization humanity will give up on ever trying to solve Global Warming and just sentence Earth to its fate and go whole hog on industrialization. In a realistic setting Earth would be be a Hive World or a Forge World and Humanities Governments would be splintered as we race to colonize more worlds, probably fighting each other as much as any other race. We would be some mixture of Orcs and the Imperium with some groups probably trying to go full Tau.

Let's make it a Piranha. Goldfish cannot bite. The T'au on the other hand can.

the tau aren't weak. they're just naive and optimistic in a world full of psychopaths

Necrons don’t take slaves they always shoot to kill organics.

Well... Seen the two options, i wouldn't say "management", more a "new genozider"

Considering the T'au are allied with the Kroot, a race that engages in basically constant carnivorous behavior and cannibalism, this would probably be a minor freakout for them.

@@darthplagueis13 "Come here Larry the Kroot! You must try this one!"

[Tau slowly pushes the plate to a Kroot sitting beside him]

*pushes plate to the kroot* “oh, and what’s this?” “this, ohh this is a delicacy. have some, it’s really good.” “it is good. what is it? its, fascinating.” *whips out the picture of a grox* “so, apparently the excrements of these things are highly nutritious.”

Imperio y Tiranidos: *comer aliados muertos para recuperar biomasa*

Is that a DBZA reference because if it is I love it. 😂

@@owentalbert6602 Yes, yes it was

I kinda picture og necrons looking like the tau or like the grays or something lol

Yep that’s what happened

The tau: *"BY THE TAU'VA, CAN THE GUE'LA GET ANY BIGGER?!"*

"Uhhh, sir, are you aware your emperor is dead?"

@@rodatamx No. He is dying alright, but slowly. Also he is a perpetual. If he dies, he Will simply come back. Right now he is very spooky looking, just a mass of rotting flesh hanging around a massive skeleton.

@@brok56 I mean, yeah, but from the point of view of a Tau is just a skeleton conected to a lot of machines

Tau: So....you are all being ruled by a Dead Skeleton in a Golden Throne that cant eve speak? He is dead right? I refuse to believe that thing is alive in any way. Big E: At least i dont have a vagina in my forehead you over evolutioned fish. Tau again: Why does he have an artificial eye? Whats its purpose?? He is not even concious!. For the Greater Good, i cant even imagine the amount of pain he must be in, being an skeleton, all those cables, the unnecesary lights in the room, was he like this when you put him there? Big E: *FUCK YOU*

Older than their civilisation. Not older than the origin of their species. The Imperium has existed for thousands of years. Evolution takes millions, even from one animal to another, let alone simple cellular life. Would still be a cool scene to see though.

I think those mysterious strangers are the Ethereals themselves, and if that is the case then your theory is correct.

Emperor is just another creature created during the war during the dark ages. He waited until the right moment to take full advantage of his power. The rest is religious B.S. created to sell the Empire to people. There were no shamans creating him. For Tau, it seems they are a bit mind controlled by their political class. If the politicians die, they fracture.

@@sinad8906 I do not really buy the Emperor being created during the DaoT, especially since other perpetuals, like the ultimate gigachad ollanius remember him from ancient times.

@@kompatybilijny9348 this

Bro, they haven't got that far yet. Their AI is benign, and their alien allies haven't turned on them. Give it a couple thousand years. They are just reenacting the wide eyed naivete of pre- all-of-that-shit humanity. Then, they might actually get a clue.

Agreed

Ehhhhh still mind warped space communists controlled by those with telepathy powers to subdue the lessers. Do they have some standards? Yes. But you don’t have control of your own mind.

I disagree, Imperium stands supreme.

If that's not the case then they're actually the only natural species playable as a faction.

@@chuila7234 I think the imperium is cool, it they definitely are NOT the good guys.

They're not that great either, but they're the least evil probably

You just know the imperium didn't really care about the chapter master. They came in force to purge those xenos for having the temerity to think they could kill the Emperor.

There was a moment in Blades of Damocles where Farsight nearly died because he froze in shock after seeing an Astartes get cut in half and then immediately prop up its upper body to keep firing at the Tau.

@@harlanthompson7295 *tis but a scratch*

@@HalIOfFamer a scratch!? Your legs off!

Tau: “how are you not dead!?” Custodes: (Doom music intensifies.)

@@ethanemerson4862 Later Farsight:OK THEN. ......ok that was horrifying actually! Tau general:i concur! Farsight:ok,everyone, bear in mind for now,blow them to kingdom come because.... aparently death means almost nothing for these people like them.

I mean the supermecy suit is only a little larger then a knight and serves as an artillery platform, it's not that unreasonable to be deployed, the real sin of the tau is that they refuse to make artillery platforms that can retreat quickly allowing them to hit hard and fast even if the enemy has anti air guns

@@calebbarnhouse496 um, the Supremacy suit is waaaay larger than a knight. The guns alone are knight size.

@Raul Valencia not way larger, if it was in the imperium it would be considered a large knight, it just looks particularly big as it I'd often near large battlesuits from a human perspective that it then dwarfs, but if placed near knights it would be in the same class

@@calebbarnhouse496 it’s physically almost as big a a warhound, it’s larger than any knight

@Raul Valencia it's significantly smaller then a warhound, and yes it's larger then any knight, but not to the point where it wouldn't be classified as one if it was going to be classified as knight or titain

Warhammer 40k is a canonically horrifying franchise. The Tau are far too clean to merge with it. For that reason a majority of players will see only pleasure in their destruction. Should probably save all that extra sprew plastic for an army with actual melee tbh.

@@phong208 or atlease give the T'au "client races" some tabletop love, let you basically field a kroot/vespid/wahtever else army.

Except that pretty much every faction is a Mary Sue OC faction, the Ork hordes are endless, the tyranids will eventually consume the galaxy because they are also endless, the necrons will clense the galaxy because they are endless, chaos will corrupt the galaxy because its endless, the human empire with conquer the galaxy because its endless and has space marines. Really the only factions that are at odds with things and struggling are the Aldari and the Tau, the first because they are a species in deep decline and the second cause they don't have warp travel and thus only own a small part of the galaxy and aren't yet endless.@@Confringo-ex7ej

Feel like the necrons are more akin to a cranky old man down the street yelling get off my lawn

The Imperium is the sad kid who is a prick to anyone who tries to be nice to them and then wonders why they don't have any friends.

What about Chaos?

@@bisayafascist5725 The creepy uncle who goes around asking kids if they want candy

@@jonpeacock5580 except that he has a shotgun

Death guard: "Who wants to receive the gifts of grandfather Nurgle?" Tau: "Ooh that sounds good. Finally we've met some nice guys."

Cringe

... well... you mean how their AI fights. They are merely passengers aboard a technology scaled in speed and action to make-up for incredibly woeful physical-performance. It really makes no sense why they even step-inside these trash-cans when the Tau pilot is wholly unnecessary. If the Tree Sloth is ever given ground to fully-evolve... I imagine it would be something like the Tau

@@trikk9964 sooner or later then a.i will betray when they make them smart enough.

They have to be as they loose in most categories to other major factions. (Ork tech dont count becouse it is wark not tech.)

@@vothbetilia4862 I get that reference lol, I see you

The what

Haha, no. The technology of Necrons and Eldar is incomprehensible to them, and there are too many Orks and humans. they will simply live until some faction uses 1 percent of its strength to destroy them.

but they only survived the orks through unity with the other races in the system. most every other species either were cool or found common ground against the orcs to stick together. their culture would seek to increase the number of species in its fold to increase its survivability against the orcs and other possibly threats. hell "the greater good" is basically the entire idea behind that. lesser species who normally would fight for resources banding together against the bigger threat and to better the society. hell they are the smartest culture in 40k. imagine what the imperium and eldar could do together if they didn't distrust one another.

I think most species, upon encountering the Orks, eventually conclude they should not be counted as intelligent life. Most a particularly hazardous sort of wildlife. The Orks are not much for learning - all their standard knowledge comes genetically pre-programmed.

Your whole reasoning falls apart by the fact that Tau actually have a ton of races even humans in their empire, like yeah the major factions in 40k are hostile to everyone, but not the minor races and even the humans who are totally exiled by the empire

@@miguelcom13 The 'minor' races part is the problem. The minor races can preach peace and coexistence all they want, but the major factions are all either unable or unwilling. Which is by design. People keep forgetting that when the WH40K setting was designed, it wasn't supposed to be what it is today: It was a setting for fantastic wargaming and a satire of science fiction that took over-used ideas and either exaggerated them to the point of comedy or inverted them into mockery. Part of the point is that there are no 'heroes' - there are the bad guys, the worse guys, and the nice guys who exist to be splattered in order to drive home just how bad everyone else is.

The T'au are young and swift learners while older races have become far too nationalistic and dull-witted. With enough time they could gather the strength to rival the Imperium.

@@Mediados well your right on that. If the Tau can grow into a powerful Star empire in a couple thousands of years I think a few years would show new Tau weapons and technologies.

@@Mediados Yeah if every event that would end their empire be prevented by a miraculous intervention of the other factions continue, sure. Otherwise? They´re dead when a full hive fleet comes by for a snack.

@@Darknessblade4me Or the Necrons finally wake up for good. Or the Dark Gods breach the Warp. Or Ghazghull unites all Ork clans in a Megawaaagh. Well the question is not if they are all fucked, only when.

If the Tau survive another few thousand years, I have no doubt that they'd be able to overtake the imperium of man in power and influence over the galaxy. That's a big if though. The galaxy is a fucked up place, and they seem to need to lose once to every threat before they can defend against it.

Tragic and sad, but very inspiring knowing of the surrounding horrors of the universe.

@@midorian12491 agreed. i know many dont think they fit 40k, but their sheer naivety and its inevitable results is utterly tragic. they will either go extinct, join chaos and be corrupted or forsake everything they stand for and become like everyone else. humans already tried all this in the age of technology and look how it ended, look how the eldar empire ended. evolving psychics just seems to be inevitable in that galaxy unless you have your soul eaten by a c'tan, even the nids have them. couple this with their honestly reckless rate of scientific invention and its like watching a train wreck in slow motion. that they havent all broken down at the horror of it all and given in is a reflection of that same endless tenacity i admire in the imperium

I do believe we should be more like the tryanids

The only moral colour in 40k are various shades of black. And the tau

They are close to that

@@michelecastellotti9172 yeah. I think it would be a good way to let the imperial fanboys have the steamrolling of the tau empire they keep crying out for. Open a wormhole to an uninhabited area of the galaxy. Colonise it for a few melenia, imperium destorys main empire but tau empire survive cause thats no longer the only area or spave they hold.

@@carlzerris6566 yeah. But then again tau fans will never hear the end of it, we already dont despite us kicking ass on the other side of the startide nexus

@@michelecastellotti9172 thats nothing new for us tau fans though. If anything would just give us ammunition that despite all its resources the Imperium is too incompentant, full of itself and broken to finish the job. And would give a good way to i crease tau numbers. Hell to really rub salt in the wound, the tau could open a wormhole to a region of space with lost pre dark age of technology/age pf strife (i can never remeber which era was humanitys good age) human colonies and annex them.

@@carlzerris6566 the tau could just be able to open permanent rifts teough space perhaps? They are taking many planets deep within imperial territory already, and with ease, maybe at one point they stop, fortify their sectors and the imoerium will fail to take them back while taking massive casualties, making them realize that it is too late to stop them: now the tau are a proper danger because of how rapidly they can conquer and set up incredibly powerful defenses

Even if they accept it, their connection to the warp will always be too weak for them to be corrupted by it

Don't take this the wrong way but the tau were made specifically for people who can't stomach 40k. They're basically just trying to maximize exposure at this point. I'm not ragging on it, that's just what it is.

@@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz You're absolutely right and it's why I like them. Though I'd argue it's less "can't stomach" and more that it's so edgy it wraps back around to feeling goofy.

What I noticed is that the people who are loud in criticizing the tau tend to be edgelords who refuse to engage in good faith

Ok this sounds funny but is 100% untrue. Like, the Ethereals know a LOT they don't let on, with many turncoat inquisitors, spies, and a vast empire (not the biggest but vast). They have had so many chances to learn about every force they'll be fighting in the 40k universe, so knowledge of the Necrons is not that difficult to find. Plus... you know the simple fact the Tau have fought and *won* against the Necrons? Meaning many surviving Tau have seen them in battle and know of them. Like at Malbede, where Ultramarines and Tau combat awoke the Tomb World, forcing both forces to focus on the Necrons. Or the Dark Crusade, where the Tau had border skirmishes with Necron before being pushed off world by Blood Raven The Tau *100%* know what the Necrons are. This isn't even old lore, some of these battles happened 20 IRL years ago

He also failed to mention Necrons appeared on multiple worlds to fight Tyranids, and leaving after said Tyranids were dealt with. I can even give you name of the planeeth.. Uan'voss. And dynasty that fought there was Atun.

@@minticusmaximus4288 Yea you may have a point that there are probably some Ethereals that do know have some awareness of what the Necrons are. They are more aware than people give them credit for. But current cannon indicates that the interactions between Necrons and Tau are extremely limited. It’s stated in the 6th edition codex I believe on a map that there are no active tomb worlds in Tau space (though there are almost certainly some slumbering ones.) The means their only cannon interactions really come from accidental encounters with fleets in the void and Necron invasions on Tau worlds in order to fight Tyranids. Other than battle reports, I’m not aware of any cannon Tau victories against the Necrons but if you have that information I’d love to hear about it. The only few interactions I have ever read about, between the Necrons and Tau ended in the total destruction of the Tau. By in large, it is definitely cannon that the Tau population and most of the Tau military is unaware of the Necrons existence. If the Ethereals did know about the Necrons, they would certainly keep them a secret from the population as any civilization with technology more advanced than their own would be a serious threat to the greater good and would seriously undercut the Etherials power and standing amongst the Tau allies. If anything, I would argue that the Kroot likely are more familiar with the Necrons than the Tau. There are a lot of Kroot mercenaries spread out across the imperium who split off from the Tau and they would much more likely hear about tombworlds.

​@@owentalbert6602 I mean, only a handful of Inquisitors in the Imperium know of the Necron's existence as well. Anyways I think there are a few victories or ties mentioned in the Codex, though the word 'necrons' isn't used, so much as 'then some really advanced robots showed up, what the fuck was that?' Tieing is generally the best one can hope for against the Necrons, though.

Maybe they learned through other races of them

WE RAIDED A LAMENTER SHIP FOR THERE GARLOIDS

So "important" it dosen't seem to be lore at all.

@@cegesh1459 gw retconned it

I know he has other things on his mind but I need to know with Gulliman thinks of the Tau.

the t'au have met the hrud before they used drones and remote battle suits to let the fire caste survive the aging effects.

The Tau actually know about the Hrud, they have fought wars with them and some of them work for them as mercs and they also know about Necrons with personality (the send a diplomat to talk with Trazyn, which ended with Trazyn adding said diplomat to his collection)

Or even, the Emperor himself.

@@_NIKOS9_NIKOS I would say that was a Win - Win situation.