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As an aspiring Chef, I suppose I'd be earth caste. Then again considering that it can be considered artistic if you're good enough at it, as I plan to be, I suppose I could be Water Caste eventually.

Though I'd fully expect, and deserve, to be put to the blade by the Angels of Death; the Fist of the Emperor; the Saviors of Humanity; the Space Marines.

Monster Rain wrote:Though I'd fully expect, and deserve, to be put to the blade by the Angels of Death; the Fist of the Emperor; the Saviors of Humanity; the Space Marines.

To hell with that. The only person who gets to kill me is me and i don't want to kill me. Give the choice i'd probably try to blow the living hell out of every last human... which is most probably why i wouldn't be allowed to join the Tau empire... go figure

Hurm, I wonder how far new fluff will take the whole insidious side of the tau. Honestly it would be a little a lame if they made them grim dark as well. Can't we have at least just 1 semi-normal faction? Also I hope they stay naive, that's the most endearing part about them.

purplefood wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:Though I'd fully expect, and deserve, to be put to the blade by the Angels of Death; the Fist of the Emperor; the Saviors of Humanity; the Space Marines.

To hell with that. The only person who gets to kill me is me and i don't want to kill me. Give the choice i'd probably try to blow the living hell out of every last human...

Indeed.

Just because one makes use of "aliens" doesn't mean one likes or trusts them. And with the Tau doing such things as mind-control on a certain insectoid race, I don't think they should be called beneficent.

Melissia wrote:Just because one makes use of "aliens" doesn't mean one likes or trusts them.

Damn, and I hear thought after those probes they did on me we were all friends... I think I need a hug now...

Ethereal Caste

So i can stand there and watch.

Monster Rain wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:Though I'd fully expect, and deserve, to be put to the blade by the Angels of Death; the Fist of the Emperor; the Saviors of Humanity; the Space Marines.

To hell with that. The only person who gets to kill me is me and i don't want to kill me. Give the choice i'd probably try to blow the living hell out of every last human...

Indeed.

You know you make it sound so much worse when you say it

purplefood wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:Though I'd fully expect, and deserve, to be put to the blade by the Angels of Death; the Fist of the Emperor; the Saviors of Humanity; the Space Marines.

To hell with that. The only person who gets to kill me is me and i don't want to kill me. Give the choice i'd probably try to blow the living hell out of every last human...

Indeed.

You know you make it sound so much worse when you say it

I'm just high on life, friend.

Not trying to upset anybody!

Monster Rain wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:Though I'd fully expect, and deserve, to be put to the blade by the Angels of Death; the Fist of the Emperor; the Saviors of Humanity; the Space Marines.

To hell with that. The only person who gets to kill me is me and i don't want to kill me. Give the choice i'd probably try to blow the living hell out of every last human...

Indeed.

You know you make it sound so much worse when you say it

I'm just high on life, friend.

Not trying to upset anybody!

If i get arrested by anyone for this i'm taking yo down with me. Just so you know i'll PM you if it happens

purplefood wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:Though I'd fully expect, and deserve, to be put to the blade by the Angels of Death; the Fist of the Emperor; the Saviors of Humanity; the Space Marines.

To hell with that. The only person who gets to kill me is me and i don't want to kill me. Give the choice i'd probably try to blow the living hell out of every last human...

Indeed.

You know you make it sound so much worse when you say it

I'm just high on life, friend.

Not trying to upset anybody!

If i get arrested by anyone for this i'm taking yo down with me. Just so you know i'll PM you if it happens

See that you do.

By high on life I mean I have that special kind of buzz that you get when you drink the exact correct amount of good Cabernet Sauvignon, just so no one thinks I'm promoting illegal behavior of some sort.

Well, first off, I would be a human resistance fighter, but I think that kinda breaks the poll. (Would be right with Melissa. Save my an autocannon/ something with bullets)

But in the Tau society. Air. Tall dude who wants to fly aircraft (Helicopters for the Airforce). Would fit right in.

fire caste

spreading the Greater Good with the Greater Gun

ethereal or water really. I'm training to be a teacher atm (so that would suit the water caste) but i can be fairly commanding when needed (lets face it teachers need to be) so that would fit the ethreal caste.

A lictor or deathleaper, hiding on a sept world, and munching on some tasty tasty fishmen... then hiding form their gunz.

Seriously, though, Fire Caste- its fun to use those cool mech things, and then getting out and killing stuff with WAY too much fire!

Do you think earth caste would use stripped down battle suits for heavy lifting? That would be cool.

That sounds like the last scene of Aliens. Fork lifts to the max!

A little bit of all the castes, but likely the most accurate one for me would be air.

It makes you wonder how tau organize humans into their castes, humans really don't fit into a single caste very well.

I guess you would just look at their work background. So remember, when joining the tau, don't forget your resume.

Melissia wrote:Just because one makes use of "aliens" doesn't mean one likes or trusts them. And with the Tau doing such things as mind-control on a certain insectoid race, I don't think they should be called beneficent.

There's no proof of that.

The Tau do not directly mind control the Vespids; they distribute the helmets that allow Vespids to mindcontrol each other. Not ethical, certainly, but it's not a case of Tau mindcontrolling other species.

purplefood wrote:Also the IoM has xenophobia as their official status when in reality they are far more flexible and even help/enlist aliens whereas Tau have being nice as their official status but Xenophobia is sort of an undercurrent with them.

The IoM is still amazingly xenophobic. Sure, individuals might recruit xenos, but the entire philosophy is against non-humans. Most of the military can't stand even looking at aliens.

The Tau's greatest amount of xenophobia is cultural xenophobia; they believe that the philosophies of others are inferior and dangerous, and try to force on them their own. Even then, the Tau are still less culturally xenophobic than the Imperium.

Remember, if you're alien, the Imperium kills you, while the Tau ask you to join their side first.

Asking someone to join your side before you try to kill them doesn't make you any less worse than just trying to kill someone.

purplefood wrote:Asking someone to join your side before you try to kill them doesn't make you any less worse than just trying to kill someone.

It makes you slightly less worse, since at least you give them the choice of living on your side.

If you were some random alien species, who would you rather have arrive on your planet: The Imperium, or the Tau?

Im fond of mooching, so ethereal caste..

Go forth my blue worker drones go forth!

Crap I accidently clicked Air Caste, I'de say I fit into Water Caste better, oh well too late now, Manta here I come!

As a cook and SCA member and something of a marksman. I think I'd be earth.

Air is a close second though I like flying stuff.

By the way I can still be human right?

Fire Cast! Big awesome gun thats a heavy bolter? Plus the armour is quite slimming

Shadowbrand wrote:As a cook and SCA member and something of a marksman. I think I'd be earth.

Air is a close second though I like flying stuff.

By the way I can still be human right?

SCA=Sexual Compulsives Anonymous?

Anyways I would probably be a water caste as I am good at art.

I'd be in the Death Caste.

Killing Tau.