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kittenslayer wrote:Now the only other scandal needs to be revealed is what the sister of battle really do during their time off....

Catholic school girls...

Clean their wargear? Pray the half day?
Kickin the space marine that put "this sticker" at their transport?
Hiding some pics in their prayerbook ?
Been all at the same hairdresser (Servo?).
Train to keep in shape? (no,no,not for the looks!).
Try to park their rhino backwards and fail?

O...K...

Maybe they go out, being groupies to Space Marine Chapters...

*Starts banging head against wall* How do threads stray so far!?!

Because no on reminds us to stay on track.

Umm, ok then, stay on track?

Right, well farsight is unique among the Tau so he fights for his own greater good.

Surely there can't be two greater goods, one has to be the better in which case the other no longer is. besides what would Farsight Fight for beyond for the heck of it?

He started to do for Tau as told by the etherals.
Then realized what greater good is.
Now he fights for tech (oh that sword!) and to hold
the aggressive funghus (orks) at bay.
Its possible some (eldar?) cleared his path to manipulate
his actions.
Conclusion:farsight fights for the fire- caste and himself.
(and perhaps his girlfriend)

maybe someone open farsights eyes to the truth. and it was greater good.

There is no "greater" good.Truth is, Tau had a civil war
that consumed their civ.The etherals stopped this with communism.
This is not great and not good.As farsight lost his illusions,
they left him for dead but he survived.Pure logic to walk his own
path from here on.

Maybe Farsight just really hates the Etherals and will always go against what they say?

Space_hoppo wrote:Maybe Farsight just really hates the Etherals and will always go against what they say?

His hatred is well deserved.To believe the lie of greater good you must forfeit any remaining brain.
He's back in reality,wishful Utopia is over.(he found a 40k rulebook,reading has killed his optimism).

Yeah, or he realised the Tau are killing people for they own good and taking over the galaxy rather than the greater good of them all.

Okay the "greater good" is something that is seen even in the Imperium. They have their own version of the greater good. To them what is "best" for everyone is for all nonbelievers, aliens, mutants, etc. to be killed. For the "good" of everybody. Sound familiar? To say that the Tau's Greater Good ideology couldn't ever work is asinine because everybody has their version of the greater good, they just don't call it that.

Exactly, maybe farsight realised that that wasn't the greater good he was made to believe 'Tau and Humans like bunny rabbits in a field of happiness' as all Tau are told that they fight for peace. Maybe now farsight went, hold on a sec they are using me! Then he got really annoyed and went off somewhere.

I'm suprised he hasn't retired, hes menat to be really old isn't he. prehaps he left the Empire because pension plans were really bad there?

He's about 200. Most Tau fight until they are 40 and die aged 60? so he's over 3 times the age of a normal tau Fire Caste

He must work now for eternity because the Tau lost his papers and now hes at 20 years "officially"

Tau year counter of service has only two numbers and he survived to long.Everytime he reached 100,he's set
to 00 and after a holiday gets invited to school

Crazy Tau. So he's past Puretides training about 3 times by now then? No wonder he's the master of Montka.

I like the idea that Tau computers can't count past 99 without resseting.

tau 1: "How many worlds have we conquered?"
tau 2: "98, 99, 0. ...0?"
tau 1: "Time for another crusade to regain what we've lost...."

So really the Tau only attack the Imperium because they think they've lost all their planets, including the home world. And thats why Communists ants shouldn't rule the galaxy

That sounds like the Tau always starting afresh every few worlds.

Severe brain damage from the Ethereal mind control that does it

Liek the necrons and their 'There is no 2' Campaign

I'm gonna write something completely random here...

Chaos. That Dawn Blade is obviously Khornate if it kicks so much ass. And have you noticed his Red Armor?! Better blood-soak that blade, kids. Oh, and his troops get free Bonding KNIVES? "Whatever it takes, my brothers, whatever it takes to spill it!"

Oh, and why is it that the Farsight council is never always around? Here's your answer:

They have little tea parties and talk about how many skulls are actually on the Skull Throne or how utterly hopeless the Greater Good is.

(Not trying to offend any Tau players out there, this is purely for bland comedy)

Umm, havent we already covered Chaos and realised it doesn't make sense? If it were Khorne surely it would be a Daemon weapon, hence have the Daemon weapon: 'i want to kill the user' thing. And red armour means nothing, Blood angels wear it and they aren't Khornate, just psycho

I dont think its a daemon weapon. Or else it would try and eat his brain, besides thats a bit out of place for a daemon weapon it was a pre humanity planet, so now Khornite could bring it there.

There were Chaos cultists on the planet at one point, so it would have been possible to get a daemon weapon there. just hard due to exterminatus that took place on it

Aye, besides if it was a Daemon weapon it would have killed him by now. They eat thier owners or control their minds

If not chaos:
eldar lost many artefacts so it is a possible option. By the looks of it won't get this elegant touch.
C'tan traded their tech to imperial assassins but this weapon looks not old enough.
Krork can take krude weapons and have an innate techbrain but they were now only orks.
Some longtime extinct race is more likely,because it got a Aegypt look and feel as in WHFB the
ancient tombguardians have ( ushabti ).


I give eldar 50%, unknown 30%, c'tan 15%, krork 5% chance to be the creator of farsights weapon.