How much do the Tau know about the Galaxy. On modern day earth

They know all the hard science stuff there is to know.

Real knowledge about the universe...not so much.

>>48518179
The Tau have "advanced" technology (in that it's generally more powerful than Imperial tech, but nowhere near the level of Imperial Archeotech) but little knowledge of the galaxy outside of their sphere of influence.

They don't grasp the scale of either the Imperium of Man or the Warp, if they even understand what the Warp is in the first place.

>>48518179
>How much do the Tau know about the Galaxy.

They think they've been making massive gains against the Imperium, which they believed to be a major foe with about a dozen worlds.

>>48518288
How many worlds have they actually take from the Imperium?

If their science is so good, how can they not know the scale of the galaxy and all the civilizations therein? Don't they have deep space probes, astronomy, etc.?

>>48518360
Being able to tell that a planet is there doesn't tell you who owns the planet. Their deep space probes are also limited by their very, very basic understanding of Warp-tech, so they're either sublight or proto-Warp probes that are very, very slow. They can't even see in the Immaterium, which is why they have to make short, shallow jumps rather than extended travel. They have some sort of proto-Gellar Field, but it's not nearly as good as the Imperial version because they don't even understand what the Warp is to begin with.

They've taken a few worlds, but most of those are still hotly contested, and the Damocles Gulf is a very back-and-forth war zone. Planets change hands frequently, with neither side really gaining the permanent advantage.

The Tau think the Imperium is throwing everything they have at them, when the reality is that most of the Imperium (barring the Inquisition, High Lords, and Space Marines) who aren't near the Gulf don't even know who the hell the Tau are. While they've recently won a pyrrhic victory in the recent Crusade, it's really just a prolonging action until the Imperium comes back in even greater numbers.

>>48518431
>The Tau think the Imperium is throwing everything they have at them, when the reality is that most of the Imperium (barring the Inquisition, High Lords, and Space Marines) who aren't near the Gulf don't even know who the hell the Tau are. While they've recently won a pyrrhic victory in the recent Crusade, it's really just a prolonging action until the Imperium comes back in even greater numbers.

So, basically, the Tau are your generic space opera protagonist that thinks they've beaten the Big Bad Empire only to discover the "mighty armada" was actually just a recon fleet?

>>48518460
Yes. The Tau as a whole aren't a threat to the Imperium, but it would take enough effort to get the manpower and resources to wipe them out. And frankly, the Tau are generally a lot less of a threat than everything else that the Imperium is dealing with.

>>48518584
That's pretty funny.

>Sorry, dudes, you're not really worth getting upset over

>>48518179
On modern day Earth, we don't really know fuck about shit.

>>48518603
Well, the Tau aren't a threat like say an Ork Waaargh! or some attack from Chaos. Well, or a Tyrnaid fleet leviathan. I imagine the Tau are kinda like the Eldar on the Imperium threat list. They're filthy xenos but they're not an immediate empire ending threat. Hell, I imagine [New] Necrons are a bigger threat.

>>48518736
Well you sound like a right party pooper

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>>48518179
They sure know a lot about mecha anime.

That legendary robot designer of theirs must be a pretty fucking huge fan of Godzilla and the like.
>Ethereals tell him to make a stealth suit.
>OKAY.webp
>Builds a fuckhuge robot carrying a massive payload that can barely move.
>Ethereals shrug and let the robot duke it out with the Kaiju... I mean Tyranids.
>Tyranids get their shit kicked in, Ethereals commend the based otaku and ask for more.

Honestly, if you don't view all of Tau lore as one massive doujin, you're doing it wrong.

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>>48519497
To be totally honest, i'd watch it. Pacific Rim but marginally more animu? justshutup.jpg

Imperial policy seemed to be 'We're gonna build a wall around the Damocles Gulf, and we're gonna make the tau pay for it'

the wall turned out to be plasma, though

>>48518288
>which they believed to be a major foe with about a dozen worlds.

Lets review this post. The Tau have a spy network that spans Ultima Segmentum. News from all the way from Segmentum Terra and Obscurus reaches the high command of the Tau Empire. It's stated that the Tau know the Imperium is a mighty empire of unbelievable size.

Lets ignore everything in the Imperium outside of Ultima. The Tau know for sure that the Imperium basically dominates the Ultima Segmentum. How many worlds are there in Ultima? Fucking thousands.

The Tau themselves have taken dozens of systems from the Imperium.

So the question here is where the fuck do you get you fluff? Your ass?

>>48518431
That's all headcanon and doesn't follow the lore.

>>48518460
Not really. Ignore everything that guy said.

>>48518834
Actually, according to the latest fluff, the Tau ascended to be a major player in the galaxy. The High lords of Terra who realized that the Tau have gone to the next therhold of threat level ,after curbstmoping the marines and getting two major and crushing victories in Agrellan and Prefectia, ordered a massive crusade to be launched to kick back the Tau acoss the Damocles Gulf. Naturally, the crusade seemingly failed and the Imperials withdrew with their tail between their legs. They left a parting gift before escaping.

Now the Tau have defended all their holdings and gains beyond the Damocles Gulf except for Agrellan which was nuked to ash. However, their holdings are cut off from the main body of the empire thanks to the Imperial parting gift. BUT the Imperial retribution have been thrown off successfully. So that's the plus in all of this mess. another plus is that the imperium has entered its final days so there won't be any more Imperial relations in the future. All the Tau have to do is consoldate their gains and figure out a way to circumvent the firewall, and hope that the local Tyranids or Necrons don't rise to be a great threaat.

So what is exactly stopping the Tau forces from being stretched too thin aside from their alien auxiliaries and drones?

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>>48520347
They need to spread out to be spread thinly.
The Tau isn't fighting a expansive war as much as a very aggressive defense.

>>48520347
According to the fluff, their forces an manpower is indeed stretched then by their wars and campaigns of expansion.

Which is why the Tau are targeting populous Imperial worlds to fix their manpower problems. Hiveworlds are a major target for the Tau for all the masses of humans that can help fuel the Tau expansion. They already conquered three Hiveworlds already. Their humans were shipped deep into the worlds of the Tau Empire.

>>48520423
>The Tau isn't fighting a expansive war as much as a very aggressive defense.

Again, this goes against their fluff as shown in the 6th ED codex. Please stop spreading misinformation, you racist. The Tau are the aggressors in a rapd war of expansion and it is taking its toll as shown in Kauyon.

>>48520485
Don't get so wound up. The Tau are still tiny fish in the big galaxy. Truth is if any of the opposing factions so much as breathed heavily in their direction, they would crumple back into the stone age. Everyone just ignores them because they're too insignificant to bother with.

In that god awful Mont'Ka release, the Tau thought they killed the King of The Space Marines.

They really, really, REALLY don't know jack shit.

>>48520485
>>48520302
>>48520166
>>48520128

This is a person who takes the Tau way too seriously. Everyone, point and laugh.

>>48520128

>Spy network.

How. The Tau don't have psykers or ways to combat Psykers asides from god-like firepower from extreme range. All it would take is a cursory sweep from a decently powerful telepath to root them out. I'm gonna have to ask you to back this up with a reference before I believe it.

>>48521107
Wrong. It's said that that it would take a massive effort on the part of the Imperium to wipe out the Tau and even then it would not be a sure thing.

Sadly your racism enables you tpo ignore what's written in the lore.
>>48521223
>the Tau thought they killed the King of The Space Marines

That's what the propaganda machine said. In the same paragraph it says that many of the Tau civs didn't buy it. Clearly, the Tau high command especially Shadowsun and Farsight who have fought against the likes of Logan and Calgar know that the hobo that was the Raven Guard Chaoter Master was nothing but a glorious human buffon.

>Everyone, point and laugh.

I would like to point and laugh at the anons here with poor grasp of the lore or those who hate a fictional faction this much that they are trying to derail discussion about them with lies. Seriously, you have issues.

>>48521254
Damocles Anthology. The story with the Gue'la and the story about Water Caste main bad guy. The anthology features Inquisitorial agents who defected to the Tau side.
The 4th ED codex where news of the 13th Black Crusade reached the Tau.
The 3th ED codex where Admech worry that Tau technology that being sold in the Imperium is bugged and sending information back to the Tau.

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>>48521455
Continued....

I would like to point that the Imperium brought their A-game in Kauyon and Mont'ka. The whole conflict featured one the largest tank battles in Imperial history. It's up there with Tallarn and whatever. In the end the Imperials were defeated. So you folks should stop with if the Imperium got serious business. They got serious and were sent packing.

Ahhh...forgot something.

The Tau used their Nagi allies to extract information from high ranking Imperial dudes. A Raven Guard had his mind probed by the mindworms and got cracked open.

An Inquisitor was revealed to have switched sides for the Tau. He had a Nagi advisor. So whether it was by his own will or is he mind controlled by the worn, it left for the reader to decide.

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>>48521499
>Imperials were defeated
The Guard and the marines were defeated.
Everything went better than planned for a certain other faction within the Imperium.

>>48521254
>All it would take is a cursory sweep from a decently powerful telepath to root them out.

In the FFG Deathwatch game, it was shown that Tau sympathisers and infiltrators are a huge problem in that RPG campaign. It lead to the blockage of whole planets, the purging of command staff several times, and the termination of millions of Imperial Guard.

So if it as easy as you say, then how come the fluff doesn't portray it as such.

>>48521574
>Everything went better than planned for a certain other faction within the Imperium.

Shhh....

FW book soon. The Tau will be taking a new Forgeworld as compensation

>>48521651
At this point, the Tau could just send a handyman over to Terra and fix the golden throne for them. Each new release is more depressing than the last, and it's been at least 15 years since things started getting depressing.

>>48521574
Didn't the Admech just fill up the cargo holds on a few ships with Tau tech and left the imperials for dead?

>>48520160
Thats cool, sometimes fanfic is so much better than gw fluff.

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>>48521651
>implying the Tau wont get stomped by rampant beep boops
We haven't even gotten to see the tech-priests deploy most of their good shit yet.

>>48521724
>Unpacks my railgun
>Deepstrikes 1000km away
>Shoots you
>psst..nothing personell gue'la

>>48521724
Rockets behind his head? how is this s´posed to work?

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Earth caste field engieers when?
I would love to be able to repair tanks like the Engiseers can for the Imperium

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>>48521711
They also got the once in a ten millenium oportunity to test out a warhead that literally set the entire damocles gulf on fire, making the Tau victory pyrrhic at best.

As I said, even better than they planned.

>>48521774
But hasn't the Tau already found a way to pass the gulf unharmed? Maybe they just, you know went under/above it since space is 3d albeit in small numbers

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>>48521805
They have but the failure rate is high.

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>>48521805
You seem to be under the impression that the admech care about this from a tactical perspective.
The point wasn't to use the weapon to combat the Tau, it was just to use the weapon against live targets. The Gulf was just a petri dish to the tech-priests, a sand pit where they could finally use the toy they'd been hanging on to 'till a rainy day.

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>>48518288
The first telling of the Damocles Gulf Crusade ended thusly:
>The Imperium had learned to respect the Tau skills of war and the Tau had discovered the true scale and bitterness of a galaxy that they had previously thought to be theirs for the taking.
And this has remained the case throughout all the editions since. That's not to say the Tau know everything, but the only chance of them thinking the Imperium has "about a dozen worlds" was before they actually realised it existed.

>>48521499
>So you folks should stop with if the Imperium got serious business. They got serious and were sent packing.

"Serious business" is "devote all their efforts to reducing the Tau to nothing." The Imperium has not done that, for the exact same reason it hasn't done it to the Orks, Tyranids, Chaos, Eldar, or Necrons - in doing so they would open up their other fronts to other threats, and would be torn apart from without and within.

The Tau have withstood a full-blown Crusade - barely - but there are much bigger things than a Crusade when it comes to the Imperium.

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>>48521455
>>48521499
Dude admit it, with the Tau's piss poor FTL tech and absolutely hilarious miniscule size, the are almost no threat to the Imperium, and if it wasn't for literally every other faction fighting the Imperium, the Tau would already be extinct.

>>48521941
That's your headcanon.

The fluff says otherwise.

>>48521455
Racism..against a fictional race..alright anon, whatever you get off too at night.

>>48521933
A massive crusade and I wouldn't say barely. The Tau tore through that crusade piecemeal. There were complications but it would have been a glorious victory if the Admech fuckery did not happen.

The point is that plenty of guys keep claiming the if the Imperium got serious, then the Tau would be toast.That's not true, clearly.

Nobody is saying that the Tau can take on the WHOLE Imperium. The Tau and Imperium do not exist in a vacuum.

>>48521979
You must abandon your hatred for blue people.

>>48521966
>Head canon
>Tau canonly have the slowest and second most inefficient FTL method of all the factions
>Tau canonly only have a couple dozen worlds in their "Empire"
>Headcanon
What I'm most suprised about is the fact that I could understand you around all that blue dick you're sucking.
btw screaming "MUH HEADCANON" doesn't make what I said any less true

>>48521941
>posting haremshit

I hope GS doesn't get a anime it certainly doesn't deserve it.

>>48518360
Are you seriously expecting from WH40k lore to make ANY sense at all?

>>48522057
dude must have a thing for communists.

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>>48522057
>>Tau canonly have the slowest and second most inefficient FTL method of all the factions

The Tau upgraded their ship engines in the TSE and have been rapidly expanding.

With their current speed they are outmanoeuvring the Imperial fleets and outplaying them.

>>Tau canonly only have a couple dozen worlds in their "Empire"

The Tau are 100+ worlds. Imperial and Tau logicians theorized that if the Tau rate of expansion continues, then they might increase their holdings by more than a double.

To put this in perspective, the largest Necron Dynasty, the Sautekh, hasa 500 worlds. See how much space they control.

Get facts instead of headcanoning.

>>48518179
Kauyon and Mont'ka give a pretty good description of this. The Tau kill the chapter master of the Raven Guard and they think they killed the leader of all space marines everywhere. They legitimately thought they could trounce the Imperium. Then the Imperium launched a counter-attack on Mugulath Bay and, while they lost, they obliterated most (or at least a large portion) of the Tau military and killed Aun'va. The only reason the Tau survived at all is because of Farsight. After that, the Tau had a better idea of how huge and powerful the Imperium is.

>>48522186
>The Tau kill the chapter master of the Raven Guard and they think they killed the leader of all space marines everywhere.

The propaganda spread this. Everyone in high command knows this bullshit and plenty of the populace.

>After that, the Tau had a better idea of how huge and powerful the Imperium is.

They already know.

And they did trounce the Imperium. Mont'ka the Tau were caught by surprise by the sudden arrival of Imperial reinforcements. They struck unexpectedly at Mugulath Bay while there was a small garrison on the planet. So you saying that the Imperials destroyed a large portion of Tau forces is kinda silly.

>>48522299
guy, get that blue cock out of your ass, it's embarassing. the tau are still incredibly insignificant on the whole. i look forward to when they actually get to face a real threat instead of the tokens they've been facing.

>>48522339
Headcanon please go.

They faced the Imperium and won a victory. Though, it was marred by the Admech weapon, a victory is still a victory. The Tau outfought and outthought the Imperials almost the whole way.

>>48522388
that's not a particularly impressive feat. the orks do that on a regular basis. come back and talk when they've actually destroyed a hive fleet, not just tendril. or put down a full waaaggghh or cleansed a few deamon worlds.

>>48522463
Actually, it is. It was a massive crusade. It had forces comparable to the forces guarding the Cadian Gate.

>they've actually destroyed a hive fleet, not just tendril

Hive Fleet Gorgon

>or put down a full waaaggghh

Great War of Confederation.
War of Dakka.
And plenty more.

>cleansed a few deamon worlds.

No daemon worlds nearby the Tau.

>>48522015
Tau get plot armor larger than a emperor titan.
>Rather young race.
>Almost no smack downs
>bad stuff has no long term complications
>tries to attack the big players
>big ones retaliate
>magically turn retarded and lose

Perfect lore. Not like the Imperium did not exterminate aggressors like that for ten millenia now.

It's almost as bad as the new AdMech lore.

>>48522082
It was mainly for the qoute and not the material. I picked it up on my latest monthly venture into /a/. So far they seem to regard him as having Doomguy levels of murderboner.

>>48522140
The fluff gets worse by the edition. GW really can't handle their own idea of making a minor galactic player playable...

>>48522587
You know, I can respond to this but I bored out my skull at the moment. Got tired of debating you for now, bluehaters.

Time for some Overwatch. Good night!

>>48522551
Gorgon was a minor fleet. And thery still lost every engagement without Imperial help.

>>48522057
Everybody in 40k has a bunch of ridiculous shit handed to them to make them cool and badass and could-totally-kick-the-other-factions'-asses. Honestly, the Tau at this point mostly just lack some kind of primordial being that will automatically win at 40k in some unknown point in the future.

>>48522607
The japs are masers at this, they make an amazing introduction to a series only to fuck up shortly thereafter.
GS is going to be another SAO mark my words.

>>48522587
This.

Granted, all the lore is turning increasingly retarded.

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>>48522587
>almost as bad as the new AdMech lore
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>>48518179
How would they know about the eye of terror?
If they observe the universe the same way we do, they just watch the light of stars that died millions of years ago.
The light produced by the EOT has not reached them yet, so they cant observe it, also its on the other side of the galaxy, which for their warp engines would be at least several hundred years of one way travel.

They may know the same phenomena we know and a bit more, but they don't know what lurks in the subspace which they only caress gently each time they warp.

>>48522587
>new AdMech lore.

?

>>48522650
>Faggot can't handle the fact that nobody's buying his bullshit
>Decides to bury his head in the sand
I hope you like chocking on that blue dick

>>48522720
Probably

>>48522809
le salt

>>48522015
>A massive crusade
It was a pretty standard Crusade. Crusades are not little affairs, anon. Just because it had the largest tank battle in the Imperium doesn't mean they necessarily had more tanks than a standard Crusade - only that they deployed them in much greater numbers.

>>48522140
>With their current speed they are outmanoeuvring the Imperial fleets and outplaying them.

No, they just operate very differently, making their ships difficult to detect. Also, since they use no Psykers to fly their ships save the Nicassar they are far more difficult for Imperial Psykers to detect.

They still have no fucking clue how the Warp works, because the Warp is literally incomprehensible to them.

>>48522388
>a victory is still a victory.

It was the literal definition of a pyrrhic victory. They won, but at an atrocious cost, and one that will take them a long time to recover from.

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>>48522749
Don't get me wrong, I loved the old relative open lore of them. The stuff of FFG were perfect for them.
Then GW came along and wrote them as: LOL SO DUMB XD.

>>48518360
>If their science is so good, how can they not know the scale of the galaxy and all the civilizations therein? Don't they have deep space probes, astronomy, etc.?

You have to remember that space is FUCKING HUGE. In fact, space is so FUCKING HUGE that it takes a ray of light over 100,000 years to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other.

The Tau FTL drive has been put at around 1/5 the speed of Imperial warp travel, but Imperial warp speeds vary considerably depending on the geography of the warp. The Imperium knows warp routes which allow them to cross the galaxy in the course of a couple of years, but local warp travel within a sector can take weeks or months. Local scale warp travel is what applies for the Tau, so this would indicate it takes the Tau months or years to travel dozens or hundreds of light years. This means it would take the Tau decades of traversing hostile, unexplored territory to travel at a significant scale. Galactic crossings the Imperium can pull off in a few years would take them centuries.

The Tau can't know much about what exists beyond their own little corner of the galaxy, because everything else is just too damn far away. Captured Imperial data stores are probably their best source of info about the wider galaxy, and those will be sparse due to censorship and general ignorance. Odds are they will assume the Imperium's claims of ruling a million worlds spread across the entire galaxy are simply propaganda.

>>48522140
>the largest Necron Dynasty, the Sautekh, hasa 500 worlds. See how much space they control.

Necrons have access to the webway. That map does not describe the space the Sautekh "control", just the space they have access to. Going by that map, their territory spans about 30,000 light years at its longest. The 500 worlds they control would be scattered throughout that space. Between those worlds will be vast tracts of space filled with Tyranids, Orks, Eldar, Humans, and random other alien races.

The Tau, by contrast, have a slow FTL drive which confines them to a small area of the galaxy. They control 1/5 as many worlds as the Sautekh, but all of those worlds are within several hundred light years of each other. The territory the Tau have access to is likely less than 1% of the size the Sautekh range.

>>48522041
But those Na'vi faggots make me rage, can I hate them?

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>>48521724
Time to unleash the Admech's Better Than Space Marines Now With Jump Packs™!

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>>48519832
>>48521809

alternate

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>>48524957
>>48521724

>Literally human brains linked to machine bodies that subject their minds to continual, unimaginable agony
>The Tau have to fight this

... Are humans the bad guys in this war? That sounds pretty damn evil.

>>48525072
Anon, in Warhammer, Humans are always the goodest bad guys. Everyone else is a different shade of bad guy, but Humans are still better than everyone else.

>>48525158

Last I checked the Tau didn't rip out your brain and shoved it in a death machine that fed off your suffering.

>>48525072
In the grim darkness of far future, there are no good guys.

>>48525184
Nah, the Tau sterilize and brain-control their non-Tau populations, and send them as first-wave troops so their Ethereal controlled Tau populaces whose lives are dictated to them from the second they are born can be sent in when there's less resistance and secure victory.


Also, the Thallaxii only cause slight and slow mental degradation. Not pain involved! Quite the opposite in fact, since the only thing that's left of the occupant is their brain, skull, and spinal cord!

The Domitar is a Battle Automata and has nothing but it's machine-spirit!

>>48525269
daily reminder that the brain has no nerve endings, just neurons, and therefore cannot actually 'feel' pain.

>>48525316

The eyes have neurons.

They kept the eyes.

>>48525184
The Tau are evil because of their incredible arrogance. They assume they know everything, and assume they can handle everything the galaxy throws at them, and that their Greater Good is the only path to existence. They are willing to do terrible things to their own people if it means preserving their ideology (mass disappearances and society-wide mind control being two major things). They know fuck all about reality, and are too blind to even realize it.

The Imperium is evil because it has to be. 30,000 years of humans getting fucked over left and right by all different threats has made the Imperium what it is, and their rules exist for a very good reason.

AI are banned? Blame the Men of Iron.

Xenos are to be eradicated or at best barely tolerated? Blame the Eldar and Orks for shaping early human-xenos relations, and how both societies nearly annihilated humanity independent of each other in the Dark Age of Technology Also blame Erebus, because everything is his fault, always

Knowledge is to be suppressed? That is because the Imperium has discovered things that Mankind literally cannot know without becoming insane due to Warp shenanigans.

Technology must be sanctified through religious rituals, and strong deviation from STC's are extremely taboo if not outright heretical? That's because building machines in a certain way literally invites Chaos to possess them and warp their Machine-Spirits to their will. Also, Machine-Spirits are a very real thing for most machines, with things like orbital stations and starships having such complex Machine-Spirits that they're nearly sapient.

Tau laugh at the level of Imperial tech, but they don't realize that the Imperium learned long ago that the road to literal Hell is paved with ignorance of reality.

>>48525158
>>48525072
Humans are always the good guys by default.

>>48525410

Humans are literally feeding people to their dead god though.

>>48525434
Compared to the rest of the setting,that's a walk though the daisies.

>>48522587
because if they lose one major war they will be wiped out

>>48525072
sounds like a soviet tank

>>48525434
At least they're humans.

>>48518179

Know about the Eye of Terror? Huh. You know that makes me think. Can you observe the Eye of Terror? It is luminous as far as we can tell but does that light follow the rules of how light works? It is light from the Warp after all.

Logically, the Eye of Terror should be unobservable because it is 10,000 years old and the Tau exist on the other end of the galaxy. Light should not have had enough time to reach the Tau. But its Warp light. By that same logic, does simple light from the Warp cause corruption in beings that observe it? Is there a wave of corruption spreading out in every direction from the Eye of Terror at the speed of light? Never really thought about the physics of it. Hell, if it works by the rules, the Tau might be able to witness The Fall from where they are.

>>48525829
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You faggots are forgetting that the Imperium is so fucking huge that they are literally sections of the empire that don't even know that they are apart of an empire or whether a central government even exists.

When the Tau Second Schism arrived, they were taking planets left and right to the point where people were throwing themselves at their feet. Its the only reason why the Imperium even got into a war with the Tau to begin with.

As long as the Tau don't engage the empire, throw propaganda and have that smooth water caste negotiation, they will just suck in planets and worlds from the Imperium of Man.

I'm just waiting until their drones turns against them.

The entire Tau Empire is the size of a smallish Imperial Sector.

>>48521754
Head retracts down.

>>48523730
I couldn't find any, so I had to produce my own.

>>48525040
Better quality, but it lacks the kek factor that the shitty shoop pic gave. I r8 8/10

>>48524957
>>48521724
What's the lore for these guys? They look baller as fuck.

>>48528045

>BEEP BOOP
>FUCK YOU
>I'M HALF SKELETON, HALF ROBOT, AND A WHOLE CAN OF WHOOP-ASS ON ANYTHING THAT GETS IN MY WAY
>I'M ALSO MAYBE SAPIENT

That's about it.

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>>48518179
>Tau
>Empire

>>48520302
>ascended to a major player
>they are a literal dot on the map

Sorry Taufag, that's just the author not knowing jack shit about scale and hyping the shit out of the faction he was freelanced for. You are not a "major player" when all of your worlds are located within such a small point you can't even discern it from a nebular on a galactic map.

>>48521499
>they brought their A-Game
>literally no orbital bombardment, exterminatus weaponry, or Imperator Titans, only a couple million guardsmen deployed

You don't even know what an A-Game is taufag. A-Game is the Abbot Crusades, when billions of guardsmen were deployed.

>>48529003
Good enough for me. Thanks.

>>48522140
The Necrons have only recently woken up dumbass, and practically every single planet in the galaxy is actually a Necron world, only dormant or dead.

>>48525072
domitar are basically the natural evolution of the tau battlesuit, which slowly kill their pilots brains

The evil you know versus the evil that hides behind a facade of righteousness. In this scenario I'd say the invading army is the one that is less morally in the right, but they're both quite evil at the end of the day.

>>48521941
>if it wasn't for literally every other faction fighting X, the Y would already be extinct.

There, I summed up 40k for you.

>>48526032
The Imperium has far more than a million worlds. The million worlds thing is part of the romantic theme of one million planets, with one million space marines. In truth the Imperium is a lot larger, and the number fluctuates constantly courtesy of crusades, rounding errors, and Orks.

>>48522057
What's the slowest and most inefficient FTL method?

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>>48530053
They're both stronger than Space Marines as well. The Domitar is a lot stronger, as well as the Castellax.

The Thallax dwarfs Space Marines, the Castellax dwarfs the Thallax, the Domitar dwarfs the Castellax, and the Thanatar is XBOXHUEG.

Pic related is a Space Marine next to a Thanatar.

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>>48525072
Heck no. The Tau are desecrating holy ground with their presence, and would most likely disturb the slumber of the machines who should just sleep naturally anyway. Why should humanity go through pain and suffering where we lose golden age technology while the Tau assault forge worlds because their lust for mechas need supplies? Remove Tau.

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>>48525829
Core lore book says:
>The Eye of Terror is the largest and most well known Warp rift in the galaxy – a permanent tear that has breached the barrier between reality and the Immaterium. Like a weeping sore on the verge of eruption, this galactic phenomenon has blighted Imperial space for over 10,000 years. At the centre of the swirling Eye is absolute Chaos, a whirlpool of energy where the creatures of the Warp bathe in those purest currents of madness that pour out from the realm of the Dark Gods. From a distance, the Eye of Terror stains the surrounding stars in a disturbing blend of colours. From Cadia, bulwark planet of the Imperium, it can be seen with the naked eye – a pulsing ocean of sickly purple. From Fenris, the icy homeworld of the Space Wolves, the Ocularis Terribus appears as a hideous wound gnawing at the sky. From Terra, if magnification could see past the pall of atmospheric pollution or the many rings of orbiting defence stations and free-floating debris, the Eye of Terror could be seen as a speck, distant, but glowering with a menacing malignancy. Even at a vast range, it is nauseating to gaze upon that throbbing light, and many claim that staring too long into that hateful abyss can lead to nightmares, blindness, or absolute madness.

>>48529982
>>48530045
>>48530123
Do you want Carnac to come back to the thread

>>48522140
>Bone Kingdom

I giggled m8

>>48530523
Big robot with big gun.


I approve.

>>48530440
watch the placement of his and, bro

most inefficient would probably be orks (because random) or tyranids (because they keep retconning how they travel through space)

But Tau are the slowest. And they've no real reason to improve, since their "empire" is so dense.

>>48530523
A buddy of mine has one of those for his Admech Army. It's big in person, especially in comparison to the Scions I was using that day. Side note, A giant robot can in fact be held down be a measly 5 guys if it continues to fail to hit them and slowly gets melta-bombed to death. That was a good day.

>>48530523
Sweet Omnissiah that thing is massive. Beautiful.