What if the Tau are so advanced because they found a 100% complete

Wasn't the Tau homeworld obscured by a Warp storm for a while at some point? I thought the warp sped up time on their planet, allowing them to advance rapidly from the galaxy's point of view.

>>50353431
>their civilization expanded from rocks and stones to mecha-wielding galaxy conquerers in but mere milleniums.

That's how humans did it too. This really shouldn't be the surprising part. What should be shocking everyone is how the Imperium hasn't managed to even accidentally advance for 10k years.

>>50353431
Dude, a complete and incorrupt STC would allow you to dump ore and trees in one end and shit a singularity projector capable of wiping out fleets out the other, with literally NO technical knowledge required of the operator. Tau are not even remotely close to the weaponized timetravel bullshit that DAoT humanity rolled with.

>>50353431
If they did then they have completely redesigned the blueprints heresy, becase the Tau don't really have anything that resembles an Imperial Knight, and they date back to the Dark Age of Technology.

>>50353531
Was Golden Age humanity comparable to or more advanced than The Culture?

>>50353636
Not even close. They were more like Star Trek level but without reliable FTL.

>>50353636
Based on what I've heard, no, but they were pretty balls. Don't listen to >>50353674. They were much more advanced/dangerous than Star Trek.

>>50353674
Then how the hell would they be making singularity projectors?

>>50353505
Well, the AdMech (or sections of it) actively work against inventing new technology, because it is seen as heresy against the Omnissiah.

>>50353674
I don't know about you, lad, but retrocausal singularity cannons are a fair bit more advanced than gridfire.

>>50353750
It's a difference of scale. Singularity and time-warp weapons (the latter of the two shifts an entire ship a millisecond into the past, where it catastrophically intersects with itself and suffers the wrath of CLANG) were top-shelf equipment, reserved for fleet centerpieces and installations of extreme importance such as Luna and Mars. They didn't have the resources to deploy them in a widespread fashion, instead "merely" fielding Warhound and Reaver Titans with bigass lasers and plasma weapons as primary battle tanks.

The Culture, meanwhile, can pretty much shit out whatever technological abominations it likes in whatever quantity they want. They have not only the tech to build it, but the tech and infrastructure to do so effortlessly.

>>50353431
>in but mere milleniums.
Wait, I'm confused.
A few thousand years isn't enough time to progress?
Shit, someone better tell historians that.

I just figured they were a civ that got some good bonus techs from early huts and managed to maximize their science yields and bonuses, with a few relatively friendly city-states nearby.

Still trying to culture-flip the neighboring wide-civ, though.