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beast_gts wrote:

Tiennos wrote:
Now if genestealers could steal some ork genes and evolve to reproduce via spores, that would be a terrifying threat...

They do - but other Orks tend to notice somethings not right with them and deal with them before they become a problem. One of the Cain books has Ork hybrids hiding on a space hulk, keeping away from the rest of the Orks on board.

I wasn't thinking of hybrids, more of purestrain genestealers just popping out of the ground where another genestealer has shed some spores some time earlier.

 Bilge Rat wrote:
Yes, the same box on page 14 of the Genestealer Cult codex says that Eldar have too long a life cycle and that orks are somehow able to sense the 'wrongness' of their infected mates.

Some good points here. I like the idea that Ethereals can't literally sense a problem but that they will notice when others aren't being subservient enough.

I read it was Tau tight breeding control that made it difficult of genestealers to get a grip.

Tau cities have fairly high social controls, not like the impiral ones woth deep underhive, vast areas to hide and masses of areas deep and hidden from enemy eyes and areas isolated, or divided into personal mini kingdoms.

Tau, are fairly "modern" Drones, and without thousands of years of layers and adhoc construction.

There a much more ordered society and more like perhaps a ant hill than a chaotic mass?

Cults and genestealers throve in the chaos, not the order and control.

I don't think a Tau genestealer hybrid would be bad... It actually would be quite a fish ant!

Has not much to do with the T'au-Stealers, but there's a novel about a Genestealer infestation of a craftworld... I liked it definitely

And as I see it, if the gsc are able to set foot in the aeldari society they could also be able to breed some three armed fishhybrid firewarriors...

nareik wrote:
I don't think a Tau genestealer hybrid would be bad... It actually would be quite a fish ant!

Wow, that took me a while

Nibbler wrote:
Has not much to do with the T'au-Stealers, but there's a novel about a Genestealer infestation of a craftworld... I liked it definitely

And as I see it, if the gsc are able to set foot in the Eldar society they could also be able to breed some three armed fishhybrid firewarriors...

Oh lord that was bad. The gsc can't set foot in any Eldar society that craftworld was a weird pre Path ship.

pm713 wrote:

Nibbler wrote:
Has not much to do with the T'au-Stealers, but there's a novel about a Genestealer infestation of a craftworld... I liked it definitely

And as I see it, if the gsc are able to set foot in the Eldar society they could also be able to breed some three armed fishhybrid firewarriors...

Oh lord that was bad. The gsc can't set foot in any Eldar society that craftworld was a weird pre Path ship.

Nontheless it was an eldar society / craftworld? (no need to argue, if weird or prepath)
As I said, I kind of liked it... of course I understand, that my opinion is no measure for anybody else. Just read the thread and felt like I could contribute some information.

But yeah, I can't imagine, that such an "invasion" could be possible on one of the big craftworlds...

The reference to the Tau World that was infested is in the Codex. They got nosey and wanted to see how GS propagate. They learned the hard way, and the Fire Caste got brought in.

I was alluded that the Ethreal that declared the populace efficient and clean was 'extremely eccentric'.

Also, that Craftworld was one that was weakened and it's infinity circuit all but destroyed. When the Brood Mind sprang up after infection, it created a psuedo-infinity circuit using the overall telepathy, even going so far as to warp the Craftworld's Avatar of Khaine when they summoned it by fusing with the Patriarch. It became an Genestealer Pavatar of Khaine or something.

Yeah the implication is that the 'extremely eccentric' ethereal Aun-Ghol (great name) was under mind control, and the planet is probably still infested.

Cuz they look terrible in jeans.

I’ll see myself out.

 Manchu wrote:
Cuz they look terrible in jeans.

I’ll see myself out.

That joke just got a planet infected by nurgle. Extermioused and invaded by tyranids in in a day lol

The interesting take on this is the multi-species genestealers at the Tyranid Biodiversity Project. So you should check some of those model and to me they’re official.

I figure it may be related to why Tau are resistant to the influence of Chaos. They don't really register in the Warp, so the Tyranids and their GSC pals don't sense them as strongly to infest them in the first place. Plus all the reasons people have been saying about how tightly controlled and regulated their society is, and the general lack of discontent. Again, same reasons a Chaos cult wouldn't really get started there (so no Tau summoning Daemons, for example).

I think it's actually due to Genestealers having an innate dislike for unnecessary apostrophes.

As others have said, the Ethereals' control over the Tau has been heavily hinted (if not outright stated) to be biological in nature.

This makes it much harder for Genestealers to override the will of the infected victim.

Operation Blackseed. You should read Deathwatch: Shadowbreaker.

It's implied that due to the Tau's lack of or small warp presence, when they are infected and produce hybrids, they are genestealers outside of the hive minds control, potentially blanks to the hive mind in some regards. This then means they are biological weapon platforms. I get the impression (it's not fleshed out in the book) the Tau can then use them for some purposes known only to themselves to combat the hive mind - this will probably be covered in the next book in the series I presume.

The experiments conducted by the Tau above are in conjunction with an ordo xenos inquisitor.