do tau fug or they still lay eggs

>>49015345
Why not both?

>>49015345
Have they ever laid eggs?

>>49015417
they do in the original fluff but they retcon it

>>49015345

How do you get eggs if you don't fug?

>tau
>hair

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>tau
>breasts
>sexual dimorphism

>>49016852
Birds and reptiles fug, but water-borne creatures tend to lay eggs and then the male cums on top of them.

>>49017039
>breast
Hey thats just the universal blueprint.
Its like all have light sensing eyes, want to walk on two legs.

>>49017039
It is the will of The Old Ones

>>49018306
Iirc the tau they dissected in xenology was female and had nothing indicating there was any breast tissue. Tau don't nurse or even watch after their own young. Eggs would make the most sense since it allows the females to spend less time pregnant and more time doing their caste specific duties

>>49015436
>>49018402
There is nothing that states that they lay eggs or don't have breasts. The xenology is dubious canon since the "female" image has plenty of mistakes and most notable is the I-slit.

A recent novel "Blades of Damocles", showed that majority of the Tau are reproduced in a method similar to the Dark Eldar minus the hyper accelerated growth and pain sponges.

It's worth mentioning that Kor'sarro Khan recognized that Shadowsun, who was in full armor and wearing her helmet, was a female by his examining her movements.

How did he deduced this?

>>49018544
Like Sherloc Holmes deduce things. Author know this, so his character also know this.

>>49018358
Seriously, with that explanation every alien men and women can be sexy to corrupt honest guardsmen of the watch.

>>49018584
Even other guardsmen

>With Sicarius so keen to take the vanguard, Numitor took stock of his surroundings, the better to watch for potential ambush. He paused at one of the porthole windows as he walked past and peered inside. The sight beyond filled him with an unnameable loathing.

>A quartet of wide pillars rose up to a cloud of ivory-hued vapour. Girdling them at six evenly-spaced heights were wide, splaying wheels with spokes that leant gently downwards, each turning slowly in contra-rotation to the one below. Upon each spoke was a curving, glass-fronted pod. Inside each was the barest flicker of movement. Something tiny was twitching inside each of the containers.

>Incubator carousels, each with an infant tau lifeform inside.

>Four pillars, four castes. Presumably the geometric markings adorning each pillar corresponded to the elements that made up the tau race. Their newborn were engineered, then, rather than raised from childbirth by natural parents. Just like these tau to pervert the miracle of life into an automated process, thought Numitor, no doubt as far removed from their own natural life cycle as they could possibly make it. To a warrior from the traditionalist arcologies of Calth, the notion was disgusting in the extreme.

>One of the nearest pods revolved so it sat directly in Numitor’s line of vision. The tau inside it was no bigger than a bolter clip, its thin limbs crossed across its chest like the relief sculpture upon a Blood Angels’ sarcophagus. Unlike a human infant, its head and limbs were in perfect proportion to those of adult tau life forms. Humanoid, but so very far from a true human that it made the sergeant feel sick to look upon it.

>>49018622
>There was other movement too, in the back of the chamber, a flash of white in the far reaches of the room. Numitor itched with the urge to act, his blood singing as his augmented nervous system dumped a fresh batch of stimulants into his veins. Out of the ivory mist came a disc-like drone, larger than those he had encountered at the reservoir. It had underslung manipulator limbs, scopes and syringes, somehow reminding Numitor of an Apothecary’s narthecium and reductor. One of the appendages contained a milky fluid that dripped from a long valve-tipped pipette.

>Numitor half-saw and half-felt a blue line of light flicker across his features as the drone’s sensor array scanned him for an identity match. His hand was already reaching for a grenade when the machine’s alarm rang loud, its limb-apparatus jerking in automated panic. The infant tau in the pods started squalling as one, their meditative repose replaced by clawing, thrashing frenzy. They hammered tiny fists on the glass fronts of their incubators, the sound rolling together into the far-distant rumble of wars to come.

-"Blade of Damocles"

Here is an excerpt of marines tumbling on a Tau nursery.

No mention of eggs.

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>The universe groaned as scything waves of light emerged from the praetorians’ covenant rods. Weeping humans, eyes and mouths wide, desperation spewing from their wretched faces, erupted into clouds of burning ash. Other bodies were dragged out of buildings by unthinking, unfeeling warriors and lined up in rows for incineration. It was endlessly fascinating, Anrakyr mused, that life always followed the same paths. They were fleshy and pink or brown, all colours drawn from the same palette. Some were tall. Others were short. Female and male. But they all followed the same template.

>Two legs. Two arms. One head. How unbelievably common. The universe tried to impose order, from the eldar to the necrontyr to these human dregs. Two by two. A curious coincidence or evidence of some great plan? That it all led to entropy and disruption, to chaos, was an eternal shame. Only the necrons had refused such predestination, electing to take a different path rather than walk down the road that led to destruction.

-SOB: Devourer

Humans, Eldar, and Necrontyr seen to be drawn from the same template.

Two eyes, two arms, two legs, and 2 boobs

Why would the Tau be different?

>>49018636
>-"Blade of Damocles"
fuck that book and the guy who wrote it

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>>49018744
You wot mate I will cut ya, I will.

>>49018755
Phil Kelly is a worse writer than Matt Ward. At least some things Ward touched were good, Phil Kelly just shits up everything.

>>49018544
Presumably because the hips are aligned and shaped differently in Tau females, to allow a sensibly sized birth (or, given the thing about "do Tau lay eggs?", egg) canal. This, much like it does in humans, will force a different gait and distribution of mass.

Basic anatomy, that.

>>49018636
So,they are viviparous,but turned to genetic engineering for reproduction. I can see our own civilization going that same path,honestly.

>>49018662
The Old Ones did it,though 40k has shown a number of non-humanoid species,like the Laer or the Sslyth (though the latter have arms). Not counting Tyranids here 'cause they're extragalactical.

>>49015345
oh, shit, whats the website that sells these, i always forget.

>>49018897
Why would Khan know about this stuff?

>>49018979
Space Marines know a great deal about most arts of war, including how to properly dissect information about the opponent's biology and technology from observation in movement.

I don't like it as much as the next guy, but remember that all Astartes actually have improved mental capabilities and can simply be hypno-indoctrinated with basic information in a tenth of the time it would take to learn normally.

>>49018909
The Laer are chaos-touched though, so might have been more humanoid in the past

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>enter xenos detention facility
>see this
wat do

>>49019153
Embrace greater good.

>>49019163
execute the traitor

>>49019153
do the emperor's work

no mercy, no respite

Vat grown clone race.

>>49019153
Her head is exposed, she's a female Fire Caste and thus incredibly weak, and as Tau she has poor eyesight and reflexes.

Break her neck or die trying, For the Emperor.

>>49019182
20 credits on the thin one

>>49019193
Faliure is not an option

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>>49019153
Give her the big load of micro missiles to the chest.

Fucking lesser races.

>>49019153
rant and rage over not having any armor to protect her vitals
but hey at least it's not boob plate

>>49018622
>Bolter
>CLIP
Author discarded

>>49018490

How do they do it?

>>49019269
Huh?

>>49019296
Look up test-tube babies

>>49019335

Bolters use magazine the anon is a /k/ autist

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>>49019335

>>49018662
>Only the necrons had refused such predestination, electing to take a different path rather than walk down the road that led to destruction.

Oh the irony.

>>49019296
Similar way we can do it. The technology exists, it just isn't used (with possible exception of some secret lab in China) because ethics & cultural tradition.

>>49019585
>because ethics & cultural tradition
Well, that and because it's pretty much unnecessary. Why spend billions on fancy cloning tech when people can just fuck and make more humans for free?

>>49020198

This. Most decisions are driven by cistern efficiency i.e. how cheap we can do it.

>>49018944
wargameexclusive.com

>>49019269
>>49019374
>>49019378
He was using a Mauser-pattern bolter, a semi-automatic with a 20-round, en-bloc clip the size of a W40k rulebook

>>49016879
>doesn't know Tau have hair and even beards

Next you'll tell me they don't have hooves but feet.

>>49018622

So he walks in on a Tau nursury, they basically do a much less severe version of what the Kriegers do, and it's seen as a "perversion of life" and total heresy? That's ironic.

>>49021876

They have ungulate feet. They are not hooves.

>>49023309
Kriegers already think of themselves as sub-human. It's not such a huge jump for some random spess mahreen to also think that Kriegers are sub-human (because they've thrown away one of the things that makes them human, namely sexual reproduction), and by extension that all sophonts that use cloning or test-tube nurseries are sub-human.

Also, Space Marines are indoctrinated to think that most xenos species are literally scum, so that all of their actions are unnatural, perversions of human actions, otherwise gross or some combination of the three.

>>49020198

Because it is not economically viable to have many kids today. In ages past, it was both cheap and a necessity. Today nothing is more expensive than raising a child.

>>49015345
Aww, her eggs look like little human skulls! That's so 40k!

>>49023961
No, they aren't that expensive if you don't feel like investing a lot in them for their future - like parents before child labor was dropped.

Poor people still tend to have more babies.

>>49018490
I don't believe the I/Y slit was ever for male/female that was just the fan theory because of Shadowsun's model. I recall another source saying it was an aesthetic mutation common on certain Sept worlds

>>49023309
I'm just honestly surprised they didn't burn it down

the last story I read where marines got into a nursery involved a lot more flamers and explosives

maybe it happened latter in the book, idk didn't read it since I can't be bothered to deal with more tau wank

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Why would Tau have ever laid eggs? It makes no sense - they've always had hooves and their ancestry is from animals similar to bovines, like very early humans are similar to apes.

Let's face it, at the end of the day 40k is a fantasy setting in space, no mattter how much has changed from the Rogue Trader days. The 'aliens' are about as aliens as elves and dwarves are to humans.

>>49023896
It's ironic because most space marines couldn't care less about sexual reproduction, or humans in general. And now that I think about it, certain chapters do the same shit to make more marines and servators, fucking hypocrits.

>inb4 Salamanders, yes I know. They the bomb.

>>49024148
because egglaying is fukken hot?

>>49024148
The thing is that Tau don't have a fantasy counterpart since they came much later after 40ks initial split and blatant inspiration from fantasy. Plus they may not have evolved a womb that allows a baby to survive within it. It's essentially unique to mammals on Earth after all and not even all of them can do it.

>>49024078
>I recall another source saying it was an aesthetic mutation common on certain Sept worlds

You recalling wrong.

The recent Ghostkell releases had two separate Tau heads. In the WD description it was said that these two heads were male and female. Guess which had the Y slit.

>>49024229
Oh well there you go then.

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>>49024217
So not having a womb automatically equals laying eggs, does it? They might not have anything earth related at all with that argument. For all we know, they have to put their infants in tech bubbles since the tech bubbles were just woven reeds.

They're so humanoid and like humans in many respects, I can't really think they're anything more than barely not human. GW doesn't even really try to make them crazy different.

>>49024282
Maybe they are biologically marsupials.

THAT is what the headslit is for!

>>49024282
I don't agree with the theory myself and would agree that Tau should give birth "normally".

>>49024384
>Maybe they are biologically marsupials.
>THAT is what the headslit is for!

Those two statement don't really relate to each other at all, Anon.

>>49024417
Headslit is birthing canal, confirmed.

>>49024384
Storing babies inside of their heads...? Well, why would male tau have a headslit?

>>49024411
Anything else feels like it's trying too hard to make the Tau really alien. Even a few breeds of Tyranid can biologically reproduce.

>>49018622
>engineered babies
>>49019182
>clone race
Why genetically engineer soldiers with bad eyesight and no melee ability? If they are so techy and so hive-minded, why wouldn't they become a race of super-smart brutes in a generation?

>>49024462
>Well, why would male tau have a headslit?
Head dong? Or he carries the eggs for awhile like a seahorse?

>>49024513
Wouldn't the females lack breasts if the males carry and nurse the young?

>>49024532
He just carries so the egg is warmed by his thoughts of righteous space communism. Children don't need teats, they are nursed by pure tauism. The tits are just for fun.

>>49023961
>Today nothing is more expensive than raising a child.

Like 80% of the cost in raising a child today is the College.

>>49024532
>breasts are for breastfeeding
Or they could be sexually dimophic fat stores. Otherwise they would only be "full" during nursing anyway.

>>49024459
Still not following you here. Why would them being marsupials instead of mammals make that the case?

>>49024683
But then in all likelihood the males would be the ones with tits so they could puff them up to attract females.

>>49019181
>no mercy, no respite

yeah, no mercy on that face-slit you mean

>>49015345
>Shows image of a creature with a navel and milk-producing breasts

>Doo day ley egggz?

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>>49019222

We are of one mind, brother.

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>>49015345
Tau get chirped by Kroot, that's how they mate.

>>49023309
>So he walks in on a Tau nursury, they basically do a much less severe version of what the Kriegers do, and it's seen as a "perversion of life" and total heresy? That's ironic.

Just like how heresy means you get blammed, yet the Martian worship of the Omnissiah gets a pass, or how being mutants can get you wiped out, yet space marines and other mutants get a pass.
Hypocrisy is all over the 40k universe, it's a big running theme.

>>49026547
ha ha I wonder what Tau eggs smell like

>>49026743
Don't Kroot have some really alien backrub mating?

>>49017039
Tau are supposed to be descended from bovines - hence the hooves - so are mammalian ish

>>49018602
Especially other Guardsmen.

>>49019153
Extract the information needed for my Inquisitor.
Hey, it's a living.

>>49015345
Why have I allowed the allure of Heresy to infest my dick? Why did you let this happen, Anon?

>>49027275
XENObovines, they may have resembled earth bovines, but that doesn't mean they lay eggs

>>49026547
that's a third party model, I don't think we know if they have navels OR breasts

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>>49030706
Guardsman Anonius. We need to talk.

>>49031649
I know why you're here, damnit. Just make it quick, and make those fuckers pay for corrupting the good men of the Emperor.

>>49024163
The point is an alien did it so its instantly bad because its an alien who did it. The imperium loathes aliens because they are inhuman and different, but they also hate aliens who mimic or resemble humans in anyway because they see that as a mockery of humanity.

Xenos literally can't win

>>49024495
Maybe Tau genetic structure is hard to tamper with. Besides, thats what targeting computers and kroot are for.

>>49031852
At any rate I don't think turning the tau into Spess Muhreens 2.0 would go over well.

But by the Emperor the reaction from people would make it worth it.

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>>49030882
Hold up, hold up - do you think bovines lay eggs? You know what a bovine is, right?

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>>49032807

>>49032807
Sure! A bovine is like a chicken only it's a cow and when you crack open the egg there's delicious milk all ready for your cereal!

>>49032835
But anon, milk doesn't come in eggs.
It comes in plastic bags.

>>49015345
Is that an official miniature?

>>49032850
Shut up, Louis Pasteur, you're wizard ways of making milk "safer" using condoms doesn't play here!

>>49026638
>>49019222
I thought Eldar liked Tau.

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>>49032850
Say that to my beak and not online.

Also stat me I guess?

>>49032807
They aren't bovines, bovines are an earth animal

>>49033556
Bovine is a general classification of animal. If something fits the mold, it can be put into that category.

>>49033556
Long go in ancient times the Emperor seeded cows on an ancient world knowing they would one day develop into something that could challenge his sons and foment their growth.

Boy was he wrong!

Alternately the Tau evolved from one of the lost Primarchs, Christopher Poole Moot, who mutated cow traits. He just cloned himself a bunch of times to create an entire race, then doubled his X chromosome for the chick clones for diversity/boredom making his own Rimmerworld. The rest is just a phony tale of being an ancient civilization of space commies for shits and giggles. It's really the ultimate troll on the universe.

>>49032901
Not much, if at all - they think the Tau are a naive race, even younger than mankind, and far too young to possibly understand what they're up against. They respect their technology and potential, but they don't think they'll last.

Also, I cannot emphasize this enough - the Tau try to spread the Greater Good all the fucking time. To everyone, by every Tau. You probably couldn't get with a Tau girl without every date consisting of Greater Good propoganda.

And they want to be treated as the head of the Union of Greater Good Galactic Powers. So imagine how grating that must be for the Eldar, a race that consider themselves so superior to everyone else, to have a very, very inferior race trying to become their boss and spread their hokey new cult.

>>49024282
God damn it, he's done art all over the place, hasn't he?

>>49034304
I don't know who the artist is, so I can't commiserate.

>>49033803
If we could just off the Ethereals, then within a few generations we'd have a fantastic slave race.

>>49035522
Are you kidding? It's only because of the Ethereals that they got past medieval tech and aren't squabbling amongst themselves.

>>49017039

Isn't the slit on their foreheads dimorphism? Males have an I while females have a Y

>>49018636

Nurse drone is kind of cute

>>49018781

Not sure what is so wrong with the excerpts posted. It fits perfectly with the Tau being ruled by an authoritative state.

>>49020198
>>49020489
>>49023961
There's also autism\brain dev concerns. Another example is that with lesbians who have had sperm made using their spinal fluids you tend to get Downs behbehs.

>>49019181
No rubber

>>49015345
I'm not sure if they do, but uh... Images of some Tau sexings would be nice. For uh. Science.

In the missionary position between male and female, preferably. Pls no hate ;-;

>>49015436
wat?
no
sauce or gtfo

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>>49036378
There's a warhammer thread on /aco/, you might get lucky. Please report to your local Commissar afterwards.

>>49024495
>Why genetically engineer soldiers with bad eyesight and no melee ability? If they are so techy and so hive-minded, why wouldn't they become a race of super-smart brutes in a generation?

I really sick of you idiots. Test tube babies are not clones you idiot.

They take the eggs from females and throw them in tubes of Jizz. It's the same process as regular conception but INSIDE TUBES.

>>49018636
>No mention of eggs.
Obviously they already hatched. Yes, this logic is flawless!

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>>49033803
>I have followed the myriad potential futures of the Tau with great interest. Though barely even striplings compared to us, I feel a strange protectiveness towards them. In time I believe they will exceed even our greatest feats and master the darkness within their souls.

-Eldrad Ulthran, Farseer of Ulthwé Craftworld

>‘The Tau are young, yet their fire burns hot enough to reduce the stone hearts of ancient empires to ash. To underestimate them is to invite the cold grasp of death.’

- Irolac Dawnslayer of Craftworld Ulthwé

I hope liars like you don't last. I mean what's wrong with you. Every Tau + Craftworld Eldar relation barring that one time with iyanden was positive.

Why are being such a racist against blue people? They don't think they will last? Eldrad and (picture related) believe they will.

>>49036560
Where is the egg disposal unit? Why didn't the marines find any eggshells in the immediate vicinity?

>>49036584
Nurse drone is very thorough. You should see her on nappy duty!

>>49036328
oh, can we have the source on this ? using spinal liquid for reproduction sound nasty.

>>49036566

>They don't think they will last? Eldrad and (picture related) believe they will
Muh shadow in the warp and hive fleets. The Great dragon blackens the skein and hides it's future.

>>49036328
>lesbians who have had sperm made using their spinal fluids
wait, they actually made that "make sperm from stem" idea?

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>>49036566
I admit, part of my mistake is forgetting that some craftworlds will have different views - Ulthwé is far more willing to work with/manipulate other races, where a Craftworld like Biel-tan wouldn't like lesser races much at all, and most just wouldn't really have a particular reason to care either way. I spun things in too far of a negative light, where it should be more neutral, with some positive vibes.

Still, a few quotes aside, at least one of them from all the way back in 3rd edition, Tau and Eldar relations haven't always been good. The Iyanden incident you refer to was the one where they attempted to experiment on recovered wraithguards and spirit stones, right? There was also a time where they were drawn into attacking an Exodite world, in what had turned out to be part of a Dark Eldar trick. Overall, the Eldar don't really care for the Tau - they don't want anything to do with the Greater Good, and the Tau are impudent in their naivete. They have future potential, yes, but they also have problems, and aren't really much of a threat or worth opening up relations to. Sometimes the Eldar and Tau do fight, but they're quickly wrapped up skirmishes, the Tau being eager to extend the olive branch afterwards, and the Eldar just brushing them off.

tl;dr we were both wrong, the Tau aren't outright hated by the Eldar, but they aren't buddies either. It's middling with some good leanings.

>>49036901
>tl;dr we were both wrong, the Tau aren't outright hated by the Eldar, but they aren't buddies either. It's middling with some good leanings.

No, you are wrong. Period. Like I said Tau relations with the Eldar except Iyanden has been positive. It's good that you admired to your racism. Identifying the problem is the first step to fixing it.

There is also other examples in the Dawn of War games where the Ulthwe Eldar there were very lenient towards the Tau in their victory and cared about the relations between their species.

While they are not officially allies, they are on friendly terms with each other at best or icy neutral at worst. I never said anything otherwise.

>>49036901
i really like the imperial costume. seems really comfy.

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>>49036566

Seems Ulthwe have a pretty good relationship with the Tau.
Just look at them getting on.

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Tau, Eldar crossbreed when?!

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>>49036947
What about the Exodite world that got destroyed that I mentioned? I can't find the source off-hand, so I can't give any more details, but I know it exists in the lore and you can find it in some codex if you look. I'm pretty sure they weren't Iyanden.

And I think you have to put anything from Dawn of War into question, since it also includes the Tau sterilizing humans where that's not mentioned in any other part of the lore.

I think trying to say that the Eldar are friendly with anyone is really not recognizing what the Eldar are like. It's more icy neutral with some friendliness. Better than Eldar and human relations, to be sure, but not particularly amazingly good.

Though admittedly there is a problem in that half of the Tau lore is about their interaction with the Imperium, and perhaps Tyranids or Orks. There's actually very little concrete lore examples of Eldar and Tau doing much together.

>>49036978
The coloring is obvious wrong. That picture in the previous codex wasn't colored. It clearly was suppose to represent the Iyanden and Tau war.

Anyways, like I said, Ulthwe fought the Tau in the Dawn of War games. Their gentle(ish) behavior towards the Tau contrasts the brutal curbstomping they inflicted on the other factions.

>>49037070
Did the picture in the previous codex leave out the eye of Isha on that Eldar tank too? Because that is pretty damning evidence that that's Ulthwe, colors aside.

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>>49035522

The imperium has more assassins then tau have etherals.

Send em in.

>>49037092
The Eldar forces are just testing out their shield tech with the Taus help.

They are not firing back.

>>49037053
>since it also includes the Tau sterilizing humans where that's not mentioned in any other part of the lore.

Not really. It has the IMPERIAL narrator speculating that the decline in human population might be because the Tau sterilized the population. The only likely culprit is the single gender education camps he mentioned a sentence ago.

>What about the Exodite world that got destroyed that I mentioned? I can't find the source off-hand, so I can't give any more details, but I know it exists in the lore and you can find it in some codex if you look. I'm pretty sure they weren't Iyanden.

It was a Maiden world. The Dark Eldar baited the Tau into nuking a Maiden world. This pissed Iyanden and sparked a revenge strike on the colony of Kel'shan. The Tau retaliated and drove off the Eldar but the Eldar returned with a greater force and a war was started between them that ended when both realized that they were tricked by the Dark Eldar.

Iyanden disengaged and went after the Dark Eldar while icily ignoring the Tau calls for friendship. The Tau 6th ED codex mentions that relations with that craftworld remain difficult, IIRC.

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>>49037115

>>49037118
That's hilarious.

>Aren't you two fighting?
>Nope, just live fire weapons practice.
>But that guy's dying.
>No, he's only pretending.
>That Battlesuit is on fire.
>It's meant to catch on fire from time to time.
>Your Fire Warriors have been slaughtered - look at all the bodies!
>Perhaps they should have been Water Caste, they are such good actors! This was a fun exercise today.

>>49037053

>Tau sterilizing humans

That is implying that the female humans did not go for superior tau dick.

Or for that matter the males going for tight tau puss.

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>>49037092
I see no eye of Isha. The Picture wasn't even colored in the previous dex.

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>>49037170
That's a dark Yellow.

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>>49037130
And Here it is the source is from the Iyanden supp.

>>49037115
They wouldn't dare. If they send assassins in the required numbers and even a small percentage of them found love on the battlefield with an Ethereal it could be disastrous for the Imperium of Man!

>>49037166
>Superior Tau dick

They're shorter, smaller, and weaker, even the Fire Warriors. And considering that they probably won't have sex outside of government-regulated breeding, they'd make horrible lovers.

>Tight Tau puss

Now you're getting it. Small and short is cute and sexy with females, and inexperience is far more endearing.

>>49037193

>They're shorter, smaller, and weaker

And yet still kick imperial ass on a regular basis. Enough to stop full on crusades and make the imperium rage quit and entire sector.

wimmins love invader dick.

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>>49037211
It's because of their technology, not because of physiological superiority. It's part of why they prefer long range in the first place - they'd be slaughtered in melee, since even the average Guardsman is bigger and stronger than they are. Between expansions, most of their fighting is defensive. You might argue about stamina, but again, horrible lovers - they wouldn't know to try and hold back. And at least in humans, dick size is correlated with height...

Keep dreaming, Tau boy. Maybe if you're lucky the local Sororitas will run out of cute choirboys and figure a Tau will be shrimpy enough to stand in. At least the ladies will be well loved.

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>>49037239
A single non-augmented Tau warrior held off a group of Dark Eldar Beastmasters and their beasts with a sharp stick.

He later became a famous gladiator in the Dark City with many kills to his name.

>>49018636
>Phil "enemy of the empire" kelly
>black library Tau

No.

do eldar fug or are they too pussy slaanesh might be watching

>>49031769
Yeah but thankfully nobody takes their opinion seriously. It's like if some meatheaded G.I told you you're gay for studying biochemistry. They wouldn't know shit, so their opinion is discarded.

>>49036978
>floating rocks in the background

Are they fighting over Pandora or something?

>>49037579
The Warlocks and Seers are using mass telekinesis to literally crush the Tau

>>49037115
That black bar looks too much like it's just censoring the eversor's junk. And that's what everyone's screaming at

>>49018909
How about the Saruthi? Basically asymmetrical in all they do and make.

>>49019153
Try to hit on her with my bayonet

>>49037193
Perhaps they need government regulated breeding because they are so good at fucking that they'd do it all the time if they were free to do so?

>>49037824
Or its because the tau are supposed to be a dystopian society based around order and control.

The "We" to the Imperiums "1984"

>>49026743
>GREENED

>>49037686
I dunno,I think their current shape and idiosincrasy have to do with the influence of the Necroteuch on them. Anyways, I think the "humanoid" template present in most of 40k's species is either product of the Old Ones' design (which,now that I think about,we don't really know how they looked) or evolutionary economy,though some species' existence defy this.

>>49019585
>The technology exists
I thought we never actually developed it and stopped trying after the first successful big mammal birth died minutes after birth.

>>49037115
who the fuck sent a Culexus to assassinate a member of the race with the second least presence in the warp?

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>>49037115
But what happens when the kroot start eating all your pariahs, Imperium?

>>49024495

Maybe their genetic structure isn't amenable to that, like they can't trigger genes for huge musculature without triggering genes for anti communal thought or some tau downs syndrome. Maybe they have some concept of racial purity like every other race in 40k.

>>49040275
The same ocurred to me. I personally think a Callidus would have been the best option, but maybe sending a Culexus was a matter of symbolism. They're scary as Hell, and even if the Tau have little to null Warp presence the Culexus still can fuck their minds up.

>>49037579
> We must secure the Unobtainium!
> Why? What does it do?
> I DON'T KNOOOWW!

>>49040147
Humanoid form is pretty damn useful. Relatively tall enough to have a decent awareness of our surroundings, majority of sensory organs up top to make use of this. We don't really need more legs. Our arms in a different position would cause structural issues in operation. Very useful hands for tool construction/grasping/manipulating our environments.

Really one of the big issues in our design is that having all our weight, er, weighing down on us can lead to spinal issues later in life, as well as knee issues. But age takes its toll in many ways.

Not saying it's the be all,end all of evolutionary paths, but we've gotten exceptionally good mileage out of it. Imagine if the dolphins turn out to be as smart as us, it's not like they can build with those flippers. Of course before the end of the world they'll just fly off on their own after thanking us for all the fish.

There are certainly other forms that would work but for all around utility and tool use I think we'd find that any other form would be roughly analogous in many ways.

There is a lot of variety in a universe like ours, but still a lot of the same basic evolutionary pressures.

>>49040294
I once thought about non imperial assassins, the tau one was a stealth special variant with drone controller specialised in hacking and spying, thought stealth sniper drones does get target dead.
Also an elite kroot that is both rambo AND a predator.

>>49040417
> Dolphins takeover of the world failed by lacks of hands.

>>49033161
Large magical beast

>>49040516
>The Greater Psionic Lords of Cetacea will into being a lesser race of ape-men things to do all their work for them
>Humanity has been subconsciously rebelling by fucking up the oceans

>>49040634
>Large Majestical Beast
There, far more accurate.

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>>49037115
wew

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>>49040745

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>>49018636
>Numitor corners a Tau diplomat
>she tries to convince him to spare her as there is no honor in killing a defenseless and innocent diplomat
>while he is thinking this over she is secretly reaching for a hidden gun
>just before she could shoot him Sicarius storms in through a wall
>curb stomps her without breaking stride
That scene was just so 40k tier awesome

>>49019269
Clip and magazine are interchangeable in the 40k universe. It probably started because the original authors didn't know or didn't care enough about the difference, but now everybody uses it like that. Even Abnett, who seems to grasp military stuff, and Zhou, who actually served, do it just to fit in with the rest of the authors. Plus the more synonyms you use the fancier the writing.

>>49024108
I fucking hate the Taufags and their circlejerks, but Blades of Damocles is a decent read with little Tau wank. The only problem is that the main characters are all established in the 40k lore and it's impossible to kill them, so Kelly had to make up some bullshit excuses everytime they met.

>>49037260
And a single Commissar caused the destruction of a very powerful Cabal in the Commoragh with his rebellion.

>>49040830
>And a single Commissar caused the destruction of a very powerful Cabal in the Commoragh with his rebellion.

Source?

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>>49041019
The short story Hellbreak by Ben Counter, in Let the Galaxy Burn and Dark Imperium anthologies.

>>49019153

Flee! she's somehow gotten ahold of two of their accursed pulse rifles and is blowing holes through carapace armor! A commissar might not like hearing that I ran, but Fug dat, I'm with the fucking inquisition! I've got to get a weapon or something if i'm going to deal with that!

>>49024148
Oh god, those fetlocks do something to me

>>49041226
>pulse rifles

Those are fusion blasters, she can only kill two of us!

>>49023983
>Tau evolves to lay eggs that look like human skulls
>They know that humans wont crush human skulls
>However, they do not realize that humanity and other races often uses skulls as Decroation
>Cue Tau baby's hatching out of a Orkz boss pole, a Space Marine's belt, and Khorne sitting on a Tau Baby throne

>>49041267
Fine! you get to be one, and uh, someone else to be the other.

>>49040830
>I, CATO SICARIUS, HAVE ONCE AGAIN SAVED THE DAY BY SLAYING A DANGEROUS TAU COMMANDER AND SAVING A FELLOW SPACE MARINE

>>49037649
The Tau, much like those aliens from Rick and Morty, cant stand nudity.

>>49037824
The breeding is government regulated because they need to maintain Caste purity. They don't even form permanent bonds with someone they bear a child with. It's literally eugenics.

>>49040830
Zhou served? I had no idea.

It's kind of sad to think that there's any sort of pressure to conform with the Black Library authors. It means that they'll keep on spewing out bolter porn instead of daring to make really interesting stories and novels.

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>>49037239
I mean cmon just look at this brave guardsmen overpower this disgusting orkoid. He is most definitely the superior lover. What do Tau babies have to compete?

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>>49037649
>Evesor.
I'm pretty sure that's a cullex assasin.

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>>49041845
Culexus are cute, but Callidus are cuter. And are more effective against a variety of targets beyond pyskers, and function more like the traditional idea of assassins while being able to use a variety of weapons as needed.

>>49041816
I feel bad by the run of the mill guardsmen who try to do this
I feel impressed by the Scions who probably do this and succeed.

>>49040275
They still have souls, thus a Culexus is pure horror to them.
Also they use AI, Culexus seem invisible for those.

>>49040348
No organic race has a low enough warp presence not to be affected.

But yeah Callidus would work better, Tau have no failsaves in their strategies. A single Callidus can wreck them beyond anything else.

>>49040275
They sent "all" four assassin temples. Ironically the Culexus is the one that succeeded.

>>49019153
>>49015345

Top tier advertisement. bought 5.

>>49041816
>Not doing the Ork hunter
>not AAARGH them

Do you even I6 charge?

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>>49040830
>I fucking hate the Taufags and their circlejerks
Assuming you're only talking about /tg/ here, are you sure you don't just mean Carnac anon? He's even in this thread and all you replied to him twice.

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>>49041781
Yeah,so it's even more fucked up that they caught him stealing a whole page's worth of content from some war vet for one of his 40k books.
Actually now I remember that one of the ending blurbs about the authors says that one of them is still in the military. It's probably Zhou, but I can't find any mentions of him still being active so it's possible some other writer is also a militaryfag.

>not just bolterporn
Let's be fair, both The Beast Arises and the Horus Heresy are the biggest series from BL and they have a small amounts of bolter porn compared to most other 40k works. Yet people seem to have aneurysms about them.

>>49042542
I'm talking about the Taufags who constantly have to wank their faction while accusing all other factions of all kinds of shit and projecting against anyone who doesn't agree with them 100%.

Carnac doesn't circlejerk shit, he just inserts himself into any lore discussion he knows anything about. Tbh the only problem I have with him is when he autisticly latches on to a single codex sentence that makes a giant sweeping generalization about something.

>>49042875
It's mostly because they're creating heug things happening just for the sake of heug things happening. Kind of like Gav Thorpe's DA series - you have an entire planet getting invaded by a huge fleet of Nurgle-aligned Fallen, and Typhus himself, on top of many other things, but at the end of the day nothing is really affected beyound it being revealed that the modern Dark Angels are the cause of the Fallen being scattered thanks to an ancient time travel device in the Rock.

So on one hand, they destabilize things as they were and create a whole bunch of new things. But they're brought in so suddenly and cause such decisiveness in the community, and are never really brought to a conclusion that anyone finds satisfying. If it was all for the sake of focusing on character development or story development, that'd be cool, but it tends to never have a meaningful impact, you know?

>>49042875
>I'm talking about the Taufags who constantly have to wank their faction while accusing all other factions of all kinds of shit and projecting against anyone who doesn't agree with them 100%.

That sounds exactly like him. Faction/character power wank and self-righteous accusations are both things Carnac is pretty (extremely) big on. I don't think I've ever seen any serious Tauwank here that he wasn't behind - definitely not enough to leave any lasting impression.

Of course, on the flipside, a lot of the people he jumps in to correct and/or argue with do tend to be wrong, or outright making stuff up, especially where Tau are concerned. Though it's usually aimed at their power level and relevance - e.g. "Tau Empire is only a dozen worlds", "Tau don't even think hive worlds are real" - as opposed to something like this thread's premise which is just bizarre.

If an Eldar craftworld is behind the creation of the Tau, and the Star Cluster where they live in, which one would be the most likely creator, and for what purpose?

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>>49015345
>Sexy unofficial 40k miniatures

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>>49043347
I can't believe I'll actually whiteknight for him, because I fucking hate name/tripfags and Carnac is almost one with his distinct style. Shit, sometimes I even think I should just rename my 40k images because I have a distinct naming system for it. And having an identity on 4chan is cancer imo. Except for Oppenhaimer, but he only does it on relevant /k/ threads about nuclear stuff.
Look m8 I'm a complete Imperialfag and Taufags piss me off so badly. But Carnac isn't one of them. Sure he pops up in lore discussions to argue with people. But I've never gotten a wank feel out of him, I think he just enjoys 40k lore and likes to correct people when they are wrong. And as far as I've seen, he never wanks and just provides concrete fluff. Again, the only problem I have with him is when he stubbornly refuses any kind of claim if it contradicts a single sweeping sentence. And the only times I've seen him get personal with insults or self righteous is when someone repeatedly ignores him posting actual fluff or attacks him instead of his arguments.
And I actually completely agree with him on his stance about the lore. Headcanon in 40k is encouraged and I do it too, but bringing your headcanon into lore threads is stupid.

>>49044846
Sometimes a beautiful pair is better for squad morale than a Commissar.

>>49045321
What about a Commissar with a beautiful pair? Or maybe a beautiful pair of Commissars?

>>49044864
It's just stupid when it goes every which way. You can always find some bit of lore to support even the stupidest of headcanons, and for less stupid stuff like 'who makes best allies for who' it's more difficult to come to any reasonable conclusion.

>>49017540
So all fish are technically virgins forever?

>>49045338
This beautiful pair of Commisars. Do the individuals compromising this pair each posses a beautiful pair?

>>49026982
>Martian worship of the Omnissiah
The Machine God is just an aspect of the Emperor (yeah right)
>space marines and other mutants
Astartes aren't really mutants. They are designed while abhumans and shit are just freaks of nature/chaos.

>>49046026
A pair squared?

>>49037170
>posts a shit tier resolution picture to support his point.
Kill yourself tau lover.

>>49040294
Then this helps against Chaos in the long run.

>>49037131
The Ethereals using Geass fuckery is ridiculously in character for them.
It's probably whats actually happening.

>>49046026
Only one each, they only make the beautiful pair in pair.

>>49047197
> Just as the Emperor intended.

>>49047197
What's the punishment for being caught starring at a commissar's monoboob?

>>49036872
>>49036634
Kind of. It's an incomplete seed that results in a completely dysfunctional human but it's still a human.

>>49040275
>>49040348
because the etherium makes culexus assassins completely invisible to all sensors, including mechanical ones

He literally walked on board one of their transports and went straight to chairman not-Mao without anyone noticing him.

>>49019153
shoot at it until it dies

>>49041295
Perfect. Even better infiltration method than the notion of invisible Tau assassins.

Fluff it.

>>49047589
>tau hand out skull eggs as anonymous gifts to unsuspecting enemies
>eventually hatch into adorable blue babby things
>become favorite pets
>eventually grow into blue titty monsters
>become favorite waifus
>manipulate their "owners" into doing anything they want
>how the Mega Milk Caste takes over the Warhammer universe

>>49047495
You say that now, assassin, but you'll just end up waifuing it like every other time.

>>49015436
There was nothing in the original Tau codex fluff saying that. Even Xenology stated nothing about eggs.

>>49018544
He was perving on her pert blue arse...

>>49041816
See, this shit works if you're a Catachan Jungle Fighter, but doesn't if you're a Necromundan.

>>49051408
it is not that uncommon to have a necromundan ganger retire at WS6, S5 and I7

largely because people can't do shit to stop them

>>49041485
"NOT NOW CATO!": Inquisitor Clouseau

>>49033161
Dear god Emperor...

>>49032888
>>49032850
>>49032835
Fucking kek

>>49041295
>Ork boss has never seen a Tau
>assumes the Tau is a weird Work
>other Orkz wary at first
>disbelievers get the fist
>soon all Orkz around them think it's a weird blue ork
>Tau is raised by Papa Warboss to be a mighty Ork
>so many other Orkz think its an Ork
>all Ork weapons work for tau orkzborn
>one day they fight the Tau on a planet
>Tau Orkzborn leads a beginning skirmish
>Tau are disrupted and eventually routed
>Orkzborn sees dead bodies of Tau
>realizes something isn't right
>confronts Papa Warboss
>Warboss admits he knew Orkzborn wasn't an Ork
>lied to his horde
>"Papa how did you know"
>"I Neva saw non' me boyz with no tit nor nose. They ain't too gud at thinkin' much"

>>49032888
Reminds me of this old chestnut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk1lHX7-vg8

So many debates back in the day over whether there could be "boy cows". They're bulls, dammit!

>>49040269
http://www.iamnotthebabysitter.com/researchers-japan-successfully-gestate-goats-synthetic-wombs/

http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2016/05/04/new-method-allows-first-look-at-key-stage-of-human-development-embryo-implantation/

>>49041968
Nah man, Cullexus and Eversor #1

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>>49052090
Culexus is literally best against pyskers. It's not bad for him to have a specialization, but that makes him less flexible if you aren't using him against Eldar, heretical pyskers, or for some reason daemons.

Eversor is only when you want to fuck shit up, and in a really messy way. I don't think you can even trust him with weapons aside from what he might come with.

Callidus can sneak in, stealth around for days or months, and kill their target at the exact right time, using whatever's available if their weapons aren't - a hairpin in one story, a gun that's handy, anything. There was even an old story where a Callidus assassin used polymorphine itself to kill a Genestealer patriarch. They're also useful for non-assassin roles, like kidnapping a baby.

>>49052250
And vindicares are good only for artillery spotting.