Priesmal wrote:The United States ....

Priesmal wrote:The United States as a nation is relatively young compared to others around the globe. Our "culture" is close to that of the Tau as well, assimilating peacefully when we can and forcing with military might when others are in the way of our "manifest destiny". (Note: this is not meant to become a political commentary, just noting similarities.) Technologically speaking it is hard to match the advances we have made. It isn't from some outside sources influencing the Tau, it's the "Tau" Empire itself and its practice of assimilation. America is at its best when we are embracing our internal different cultures. They are doing the same.

I voted for Chaos though because in the end Tzeentch is just crazy and convoluted like that.

Either that or they were bred as just a different flavor of food for the space bugs.

ImpGuardPanzies wrote:

Priesmal wrote:The United States as a nation is relatively young compared to others around the globe. Our "culture" is close to that of the Tau as well, assimilating peacefully when we can and forcing with military might when others are in the way of our "manifest destiny". (Note: this is not meant to become a political commentary, just noting similarities.) Technologically speaking it is hard to match the advances we have made. It isn't from some outside sources influencing the Tau, it's the "Tau" Empire itself and its practice of assimilation. America is at its best when we are embracing our internal different cultures. They are doing the same.

I voted for Chaos though because in the end Tzeentch is just crazy and convoluted like that.

Either that or they were bred as just a different flavor of food for the space bugs.

Russia matched it. Lol, but we sold it to them, and they copied us. All the un nations coppy each other. Weird isnt it?

Papaskittels wrote:I think they are secretly scaven that paint themselves blue like smurfs

Atre wrote:

Priesmal wrote:The United States ....

Woah, be careful throwing that kind of opinion out into the internet... It's really likely to kick up a firestorm in most places. Most of your first paragraph is incredibly inflammatory to one viewpoint or another ("best when embracing different cultures" being the exception).

Sorry to go off topic - I just want to give a friendly heads-up that extremely rose-tinted geopolitical views are are not best used for an internet simile.

DeepBeige wrote:I recently read through a Dakka Thread stating that the Tau obtained their technology unreasonably fast and that because of this they are illogical and (fluff wise) cheesy and overpowered. At first it just seemed like some hate at all yall Tau playas so I figured I'd just ignore it, but upon some degree of further thought I realized that it really is pretty true. It doesn't really make sense for the Tau to have advanced so rapidly, and honestly, it doesn't make much sense that they've managed to avoid any level of infighting and still have souls.

It is occasionally hinted at that the Ethereals receive their crazy mind control powers from some outside source. It is also unlikely that the Tau have just gotten too lucky to have developed such a sizeable and peaceful empire with just them and their buddies. I've heard it mentioned before that it's all possibly some elaborate scheme developed by Chaos, but I think that's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

I personally believe that the Tau have obtained their sudden unreasonable technological advancements and cold, logical, communist utopia with the aid and guiding of the Old Ones.

Their rise to power coincides with the return of the Necrons, the immortal enemies of the Old Ones. They have basically the same attitude towards the whole emotion thing that the Old Ones did, and they were magically protected by a warp storm for thousands of years just in time to avoid an exterminatus. Further note that warp storms rarely protect an area and instead cause some manner of chaotic sillyness.

Ahhh dude have you read the xenology book by black library they do autopsy reports deemed heresy on xeno subjects, and the one on a tau ethereal basically states that there society runs without infighting due to some kind of pheromone gland that the ethereal's possess which makes the lesser casts submit to them without question, it goes on to explain that this renders the ethereal's just as corrupt as the imperium as there isnt really any democracy there effectively subconsciously brainwashing others, and apparently some humans are susceptible to this pheromone as well. This combined with there incredibly quick technological growth / resistance to chaos / there relation to necrons smells of the old ones to me. Its probable that there another race the old ones seeded before they where wiped out to take on the necrons, perhaps even chaos at some point in the future as there pretty much bred to adhere to "the greater good" and are all but immune to warp influence.

Thoughts?

1hadhq wrote:Chaos would generate more chaos worshippers, so rather unlikely as guiding hand behind them.

Who played with genetics and loved order?
Right, the old ones.
They may have deceased, but a last effort thing could happen still. Either the last of them or his/her assitants. You know the little helpers every aspiring ruler of the Galaxy has...
I'd vote for old ones / influenced by old ones.
Simply for the fact of using the warp to shield them, focusing on biology for control instead of psi/tech, creating Tau as uninformed minions still happy to serve,
placing Tau in a good starting position as their home is close to lots of other inhabitable worlds.

DeepBeige wrote:I recently read through a Dakka Thread stating that the Tau obtained their technology unreasonably fast and that because of this they are illogical and (fluff wise) cheesy and overpowered. At first it just seemed like some hate at all yall Tau playas so I figured I'd just ignore it, but upon some degree of further thought I realized that it really is pretty true. It doesn't really make sense for the Tau to have advanced so rapidly, and honestly, it doesn't make much sense that they've managed to avoid any level of infighting and still have souls.

It is occasionally hinted at that the Ethereals receive their crazy mind control powers from some outside source. It is also unlikely that the Tau have just gotten too lucky to have developed such a sizeable and peaceful empire with just them and their buddies. I've heard it mentioned before that it's all possibly some elaborate scheme developed by Chaos, but I think that's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

I personally believe that the Tau have obtained their sudden unreasonable technological advancements and cold, logical, communist utopia with the aid and guiding of the Old Ones.

Their rise to power coincides with the return of the Necrons, the immortal enemies of the Old Ones. They have basically the same attitude towards the whole emotion thing that the Old Ones did, and they were magically protected by a warp storm for thousands of years just in time to avoid an exterminatus. Further note that warp storms rarely protect an area and instead cause some manner of chaotic sillyness.

Thoughts?