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The third edition Tau Codex said that he found it ion "the dead world Arthas-Moloch. If there was a chaos cult there, was it made dead by Exterminatus after the fact, or was the world already dead when the cult was active on it? Or is this another fluff inconsistency?

Now after read the book Xenology (i can't spell) In the book they did dissections of Xenos and with the tau it was a eternal and they found a little crystal in there forehead it was some kind of a gal which puts out scents like a queen ant for mind control of the species didn't Farsights eternal died in a battle ? maybe the mind control scent is now gone and thats why he's AWOL

... Its Etheral first of all. And yes his etherals did die on Arthas Moloch. In the fluff I read the Scythes of the Emperor killed the cult on the planet then did that exterminatus thing.

OR maybe it's a Tzeenchian blade. Tzeench schemes for the heck of it, so it would be reasonable for him to cause trouble amongst the Tau. Maybe the Chaos gods hate them for not having any Psykers to corrupt.

Or maybe the Ethereals are preventing the Tau from being psykers, its all possible

My bad

No, Tzeench seems the best bet for me, he may want to use Farsight's Tau to overthrow the Ethereals so Tzeench would have an entire race at his disposal.

Maybe, but as you said earlier the Tau have no psykers to corrupt, therefore even if farsight did overthrow the Ethereal chaps then none of the Chaos Gods would really be able to exhibit any control over the Tau in the end.

Importantly who made the Tau in the First place? As that might give some answers to different stuff

a remaining Old One will do,
because they created many folks
todo their wishes.

maybe it was the old ones but the races the old ones created were highly psycic (eldar and orks) so why change that in the tau

the Tau should glue together the
other races with their "greater good"
when solo action by eldar,ork or
humans failed them.Tau in their
servant mood are more controllable.

It's possible that the Ethereals are the ones responsible for suppressing Tau psychic abilities.

What the real question is who made the Ethereals or where they came from. In the fluff the tau were at war all the time until the ethereals came

1.the etherals were enhanced leaders inserted from
outside and would be Tau before.
2.a speedup in evolution and technics is also external inducted.

Only ancient and fixed on subordinates to do their cause
races will fit.
Old ones - High possibility
c'tan - max be
Third Party??

Am I the only one a little worried by how the Tau social system is like the Eldars?

Confused, Ok I'll explain, the Eldar have the Paths to stop them 'going insane or something' and the Tau have a very similar thing, with Tau following only one thing-ie war, diplomacy, Etherealness. Anyone else think maybe theres a connection?

Also what bugs me is that the Tau were forced to 'hyper evolve' by warpstorms that surrounded the planet, or so I belive, (correct if wrong) and the warp=psykers, so why the hell did the Tau not gain any? It makes no sense!!!

he tau were cut off by warp storms but it doesnt mention anywhere that the stroms made them evolve any quicker than they would have normally

even so, the warp storms cut off surely would have had some backlash on them, afterall if you sit under the sun too long you get burnt, if you sit under the warp too long...you...*trails off*...I'm not really sure how to finish that sentence...

Well the warp storms didn't affect them they just cut em off and they did not "hyper evolve" they were just able to advance their technology without outside interferance which would have severely slowed this process if not killed them off entirely. Because of this they had all the time in the galaxy to focus on their research and technology without fear of attack. hence them being one of the most technologically advanced races in the game...er galaxy.

those warpstorms didn't came without reason.
someone wanted them to be Cut off.

Maybe, but then again maybe GW just pulled that out of their a$$ to explain why they are super advanced.

Well Ethereals came from SOMEWHERE... please don't say 'when a boy and a girl like each other a lot...'
I personally think that they were engineered by Tzeench to make the Tau his personal toolbox. But maybe he lost control and so he corrupted Farsight.

The only problem with that theory on Tzeench, (or whatever spelling) is that it is well known he really likes his psykers and sorcery, and doesn't seem such a huge fan of tech.

Another theory I've been working of is that the Tau are actually the pre-necron necrontyr. my reasoning being that when the Necrontyr were losing against the Old ones (before the coming of the Ctan) they were pushed back to the edges of the Galaxy, ie the Eastern fringe.

There rapid rise of Tech the Tau had would also tie in with this, as the Necrons used a hell of a lot of tech and science to try to beet the old ones originally. And if the Ethereals really were Old ones then they might be trying to stop a re-doing of the First war in the Heavens. (The name of the Necron/Ctan vs Old ones war, not the Eldar parody of it)

Farsight having escaped the Ethereals began the path of the Necron (Well he is sealed inside his armour...) which would tie in with the Ctan phase sword he may or may not be carrying.

Thats my most recent theory, let the ridiculing begin

where did you get tfarsight was trapped inside his armour from i dont think ive heard that before

Dunno, just seemed appropriate somehow that he doesn't get out of it much

necron theory: nice,but they were active last time 60.000.000 years ago.so first start as a little blue
One and then rise to 2 metre tall skeleton?
explorers have seen tau in their halfanimal-form
only a few thousand years earlier than 40k,wich
means they had short "real"time to evolve.
If there was a connection planned,i think it will
end with Tau using machines and suits overtaken
by necrons, enslaving them in their own technology.

as to them being in "half animal" form that is a bit exaggerated. The codex merely states that they were animalistic (that is a paraphrasing) They could have changed slightly over a few thousand years, humans have so why not Tau? To say that they went from an animal like physical appearance to a more humanoid appearance is a bit of a stretch in my eyes.

Polonius wrote:
Second, part of working in secret means lying, and having shadowsun publicly disown the works of Farsight is a very public way to show that the Ethereals don't support what farsight does. It does not show what the actual relationship is between Farsight and the Ethereals.

Either Farsight is working secretly for the ethereals, or he's working in such a way as to further the overall goals of the Tau. Shadowsun wasn't sent to bring him in, but she did lead the third sphere expansion, while Farsight has gone all Col Kurtz and is plowing through the orks near the damocles gulf.

Thats a point, has the Tau Empire actually done anything to stop farsight, or bring him in, after all a deserter to the Greater good can't be good to the Ethereals ideals or moral can it?

i think the tau are a bit preocupied by nids and orks and trrying to expand to be imenslly bothered with a small group of renegades

mentioned in c:Tau is that firewarriors can get to enthusiastic about fighting,Perhaps farsight walked this way to long.a weapon of unkwown origin could change
the mind of its wearer,but those who created it must not
command farsight today.

dmkjesus wrote:i think the tau are a bit preocupied by nids and orks and trrying to expand to be imenslly bothered with a small group of renegades

True, they aren't the Imperium,(yet), who as soon as one man goes renegade every gun within 5 lightyears is called in to take him down...