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I would say Eldar, actually i stick by it being the DawnBlade, the 100th sword of Vaul if you ask me.

Farsight trains with this dawnblade against orks,so he can battle C'tan?

Orks and C'tan are not really the same, he most likely doesn't even know about the C'tan.

eldaR tricked him to fight orks,they wanted farsight to have CC expierience.

Seems like a Eldar trick to me...

First etherals told him to obey and do this and that. He pulled free.
Now eldar lead him to their goal.Maybe he will find out about?
We could have a new thread then: Angry shas'o always angry

Eldar are possible, since he DID get his Ethereals killed when he was getting the Dawn Blade.

According to the Farsight fluff in Codex Tau:

"In the ruins of a pre-human civilization, the Tau forces engaged an unknown enemy and the Ethereal caste leaders of Farsight's expedition were killed."

He works for the Cabal from Legion, obviously, realizing that the Ethereal caste are selling the Tau and their allies into the same bloodbath that Humanity inherited after the Heresy. Having failed to achieve Humanity's sacrifice on the altar to stop Chaos, the Cabal is placing all their hopes on the Tau to pick up the gauntlet, but the Ethereal caste is too obtuse in their ways to sacrifice the Greater Good for the greater good. Farsight makes good his name by being the one Tau commander that's always been able to see the bigger picture, making him eminently useful to the Cabal as means of rallying the Tau into their anti-Chaos war. The Ethereals, realizing that Farsight is taking orders from a non-Tau agency, have castigated him in an attempt to discredit him, but news of a major Fire Caste commander being subverted by aliens not part of the Greater Good would be crippling to the Tau propaganda machine, so that part they have to keep silent about. Now they seek to replace him in the hearts of the Fire Caste to keep others from following his lead, while Shadowsun is under standing orders to kill him if he makes a move against the Ethereals.

My .02. Take it as you will.

I like that idea, it makes sense I guess. the only problem is the only reason the Cabal wanted to have humanity destroyed was to stop Chaos. the tau, having nearly no warp presence wouldn't stop Chaos by being sacrificed. Unless just fighting Chaos is what the Cabal wants-seeing as now only the Ctan have the power to stop Chaos

The cabal can't convince a C'tan to form a alliance.
They tried to work with secrets and lies against tha imperium.
All of those plans failed. To combine forces its necessary to tell the truth.

Now Tau are their desired puppets?
Can Provide an advantage when your fighter is not seen in the Warp.
Is actually difficult to fight against warpcreatures for Tau,no psi power
means also no anti-psi defense. Perhaps the evil Plan of those cabal is to
shoot down every possible victim of the Warp?

They don't need psi stuff, they have the space pope. Good for all your demonic possesion problems.

Ratbarf wrote:They don't need psi stuff, they have the space pope. Good for all your demonic possesion problems.

Tau get not possessed because they use their space pope's "powers" ?
Are they not obssessed by greater good,wich leaves no space for greater evil?

1hadhq wrote:The cabal can't convince a C'tan to form a alliance.

What I meant was not that the Ctan would work with the cabal, if it still exists (heaven forbid) but that they have the power to shut off the warp via the great works, inadvertantly accomplishing the cabals aims to destroy chaos. And inadvertantly kill most of the galaxy with it...

What I meant was not that the Ctan would work with the cabal, if it still exists (heaven forbid) but that they have the power to shut off the warp via the great works, inadvertantly accomplishing the cabals aims to destroy chaos. And inadvertantly kill most of the galaxy with it...

The C'tan are not expected to let anyone survive in this galaxy.For them any living creature
is food to be harvested. No need to save others from chaos.
C'tan will also fight against Warpspace because this is a work of the old ones,their ancient foe.

But by saving others it lets them eat thier souls, instead of the Chaos Gods when the being dies, such is how the warp works

When the C'tan are fully awakened they close those warp breach with null-shields for sure.
After that they disintegrate the nids to claim all lifeforms as their prey.
Who can stop them? :S

The grots and disgruntled Squat allies?

Maybe thats who farsight works for! It makes sense, they gave him a big sword because they were to samll to hold it themsleves!

Storm Lord wrote:The grots and disgruntled Squat allies?

I believed squat are dead? Grots will kill C'tan for sure,if one absorbs a grot he cannot stop
the grots cowardness and paranoia taking control.

Grots, they are closest related to the brain boyz/ old ones. But they are too weak to be taken seriously. Then we shall make the C'tan fight grots, and they will be grots as well.

After all C'tan turned to grots,Farsight herds them to the next Ork warboss for
eternal humiliation(get kicked around,no holidays,no payment).

The oldest grot lived to age 9. Before it was sat on by his master and fed to a squig. What a way fr the C'tan to go.

C'tan: high to rise - deep to fall.

When chaos is handled and also the C-tan , whichjob for farsight then ?

Pest control. vs the Nids that is

A annoying decision for the etherals if they must follow farsights advice how to handle the nids.

The tau think the Nids can be taught the Greater good for crying out loud! The Ethereals are going to get the race killed!

Farsight,as the saviour of Tau, stops imperials today and the ethereals think they won but when they are
unwary he opens the cordon and a imperial expedition fleet bombs the etherals out of existence.
Then farsight returns to tau-space and takes over command of his race.

Well, it does make a lot of sense, but whats to stop the Imperial killing him first? They aren't 'racist' they hate evryone equally-so wouldn't leave farsight because he let them through so to speak

As able tactician he will evade the space route where the imperials come in.
Before the fleet reaches his homeland he would also call his firewarrior comrades and some other
former friends to leave at given emergency transport options.

Even able Tactitians can get caught out, take Horus and the Lowering of his sheilds at the battle of Terra. farsights following the same path when you look at it. But I can't imagine Aun'Va killing him and being stuck in a chair forever. No, wait, hes already on a porta loo...