The Tau Caste System | Warhammer 40k Lore 

Competition breeds progress Always has, always will

Tau Caste system unironically makes them more efficient, more rigorous as a species. The Ethereals are shady of course but their society has been performing well, so i suppose they're that much wiser as a leader

​@@JabberwokeeNot competitive behavior necessarily, sometimes cooperative behavior is just as helpful and innovative towards helping progress forward.

Considering technological progression speed up the fastest in times of war for us. I would agree there is probably some kind of competitive factor in there society to achieve the level of technology they have so quickly.

@@Jabberwokee As history showed us, the greatest competition for progress is war.

Rock And Stone!

He’s trying to speak to me, I just know it

OLL gitz fall unda da gitz cast, ya git! Das woy deyz gitz!

Well, greetings Raven.

Have you listened to Baldermort's videos or A Vox in the Void?

Thank you!

It’s very Gundam/Mecha

Which reminds me of an Eldar who once read the Space Marine codex and said it’s decent but too strict and not flexible.

Yea but like there's no hive cities so I'll take it by default lol

And yet the aristocratic “caste in all but name” system of the imperium is any better? 🤔

Thank you! I do aim for a nice balance between the depth of the lore, and general "followability". I don't want anyone to be overwhelmed, or pushed away from silly details, so I'd rather keep it fairly digestible, and then if people want more, they can delve into the novels and stuff.

ROCK AND STONE

The dream (delusion) of every technocrat.

Same I love them

Yes It'll be soonish, maybe within a month? Not sure of how much I'll want to rewrite, but theres a couple chunks which I wasn't happy with in retrospect, so it'll be a tiny bit different (not overly, just that I want to rewrite the chaosy bit)

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Respect

ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE

I don't believe they do.

The thing is that the T'au in the Enclaves seem to have become segregated. Every planet that we know of seems to have only a specific caste that lives in it with a very tiny minority of the others, not because Farsight putt that in place but because each planet was more appealing the certain castes. So, while Farsight "probably" doesnt have a problem with different castes cross breeding, it's gonna be a while before we see hybrids becoming prominent

Yes they do but the casts aren’t segregated. Individuals can move cast as they see fit, and there are no ethereal.

It's the same people that call Tau, Communists, because they don't know how to properly identify Ideologies.

Altough Tau have their problems, for me, among mindless orcs, arrogant aeldari, zealous humans, ruthless necrons and bloodlustful tyranids, they are the only race, that if necessary conditions would be met, would creat peaceful and thriving societies. The only good guys in whole 40K franchise.

If you think the Tau are good, you really haven't been paying attention.

@@TheRealMichaelHwhy? What have the Tau done?

Mm.

The Overmind just has so much personality that the human brain can't comprehend it.

Om nom.

They don't have any personality Tyranids. As of now you can't even make a book about them alone being the main character/s since they have no individual characters. But this might change like Necrons did years ago and became interesting

My guess would be that their bones bend a lot before breaking compared to other tau. They can handle extreme G force for a minute or two but that flexibility means they can't handle "normal" gravity for hours on end without either deforming or snapping under the continuous pressure

necrons are anti-life ,they would never fight alongside eldar ( created by the old ones to fight necrons ) nor any other "living" race . Also an inquisitor is heading your way for speaking heretic thoughts

The Ethereals would demand the emperor submit to them though. And given how the Emperor first created the Imperium to get rid of aliens dominating humans...

You mean why does every race except Tyranids look like humans? In other words, “humanoid” ? Because that’s what we’re familiar with

Bc humanoid aliens are easier to work with from an out-of-universe perspective.

Tau = Space communists?

@@jelluhfelluh I think so. But I am sure, that if we ask a communist, they will claim it is not real communism, and real communism have never been tried :p

What did jell say?

@@haraldbredsdorff2699 It's literally not though. Communism requires a classless society and democratized workplace and government. Tau have none of those. Go read a book. Also, no communist group ever used the slogan "For the greater good." Ironically, JFK basically said this when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

@@dangerousdays2052 It literary is, in every attempt done. Even Marx divide society into cast systems. Why do you think, you have The Party on top, the "working class" (that is really just the bureaucracy) bellow, followed by the citizens (that is the working class that was treated as slaves by those above), and at the bottom, the castlees, the "traitors", the ex-elites and those with jobs the party do not value. (people that nobody cared if got abused or killed, in some cases it was even encouraged) Marx whole idea, was just Plato's republic, but replacing the philosophers on top with "the working class" that is really just the marxist philosophers. And it always turn into tyranni that the marxist call "not real communism" or "fascism", because in a system where most people are not allowed to work based on what they value, only what the Party value, you will always need to use force, to make people even bother to work. So, it moves from "communism" to a fascist society, and then all the communist invent excuses, because they are unwilling to admit their ideas do not work in the real world. I do understand, you will be unable to understand any of this, because of your brainwashing, that make you just like the Tau, brainwashed by their Ethereals, but I write this, so other people can read it.

I mean if I remember correctly, they do to an extent. Within the castes you can easily reach the highest positions of that class if you’re skilled enough. The draconian rules against muddying the castes is odd because there’s no real explanation for what when there are jobs or positions where castes overlap. This is partially because the lore about the shunning and punishment for showing interests in other caste skills comes from Phill Kelly, the mind that tried to say that the Tau fought the Damocles Gulf Crusade without FTL.

All the more reason Farsight has done away with the rigidity of the caste system, people can move between them and presumably interbreed as well. Because people doing what they want to do with the mindset of the greater good without being a slave to the system deciding what the greater good is, are more productive than those doing what they're told to do because their philosophy and the guys in charge say to.