Human Controlled World in the Tau Empire

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**Space Crusader**

Im trolling? You ignored the fact that Brightsword has his command taken away from him.

**Corporal_Reznov**

Space Crusader wrote:Im trolling? You ignored the fact that Brightsword has his command taken away from him.

What? I never mentioned Brightsword. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. If I have done what you accuse me of, show me where I did it.

**Space Crusader**

Corporal_Reznov wrote:
Space Crusader wrote:Im trolling? You ignored the fact that Brightsword has his command taken away from him.
What? I never mentioned Brightsword. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. If I have done what you accuse me of, show me where I did it.

Im sorry, Ive mistaken you for someone else. Bad, bad Space Crusader

**Kroothawk**

Now everyone take a deep breath and feel the pheromones. See, the Mont'au hate rage is weakening already

**Corporal_Reznov**

Space Crusader wrote:
Im sorry, Ive mistaken you for someone else. Bad, bad Space Crusader

Yeah your bad alright. Trolling me for something I never did, sheesh

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**im2randomghgh**

Corporal_Reznov wrote:
Space Crusader wrote:
Im sorry, Ive mistaken you for someone else. Bad, bad Space Crusader
Yeah your bad alright. Trolling me for something I never did, sheesh !

Or you could say "oh, that's okay"

You're asking him to re-troll.

**Yarrickshad**

Corporal_Reznov wrote: I apologize to you if you think I was attacking you. I meant in general seeing as Tau fans that I've met will ignore fluff that makes their 'Mary sue' not pure goodness whle use the same fluff to beat down on all other factions and that pisses me off.

Well you did say "you" so I'm sure you can understand my reaction but I'm sure you meant no offense my friend

. I personally don't like the idea of space hippy, love and cuddles type of Tau, how boring is that. I mean they have pulse rifles for christs sake I want to see the little blue dudes use them! I like them because they look cool, are full of sci fi goodness, big guns, a covenant of alien races which I think is great and NO SKULLS!! They also bring a certain calmness, dare I say realism, to the whole death and murder that saturates 40K, plus their first reaction isn't to blow your head off, although usually it's their second.

@Space Crusader: It's a capital offense in the Imperial Guard for a commander to unnecessarily waste the lives of his men, especially at regimental level.

@everyone. I wonder if it's possible for a Tau to commit a crime, theft, assault, murder, that type of thing or does the pheromones overcome such urges, any ideas?

**im2randomghgh**

Yarrickshad wrote:
Corporal_Reznov wrote: I apologize to you if you think I was attacking you. I meant in general seeing as Tau fans that I've met will ignore fluff that makes their 'Mary sue' not pure goodness whle use the same fluff to beat down on all other factions and that pisses me off.

Well you did say "you" so I'm sure you can understand my reaction but I'm sure you meant no offense my friend . I personally don't like the idea of space hippy, love and cuddles type of Tau, how boring is that. I mean they have pulse rifles for christs sake I want to see the little blue dudes use them! I like them because they look cool, are full of sci fi goodness, big guns, a covenant of alien races which I think is great and NO SKULLS!! They also bring a certain calmness, dare I say realism, to the whole death and murder that saturates 40K, plus their first reaction isn't to blow your head off, although usually it's their second.

@Space Crusader: It's a capital offense in the Imperial Guard for a commander to unnecessarily waste the lives of his men, especially at regimental level.

@everyone. I wonder if it's possible for a Tau to commit a crime, theft, assault, murder, that type of thing or does the pheromones overcome such urges, any ideas?

Well for one thing the pheromones is speculation on the part of an imperial observer. There is a fairly likely possibility that one-ness of community is simply how the tau mind operates, and it is just too fundamentally alien for humans to empathize with.

Anyways though, I doubt there is crime. The Tau Empire seems like the kind of place where they'd keep everyone busy, too busy for crime. Plus, with their inherent fear of the Mont'au, I doubt any tau would do anything to harm another, nor anything to slight another, as it is an impediment to the greater good.

Plus, a huge portion of crime is performed by the desperate and unemployed, which would likely not exist in the Tau Empire.

**Space Crusader**

Why is it that everytime I write something people say that I am troll? And when I try to troll they think it is a serious argument?

**im2randomghgh**

Space Crusader wrote:Why is it that everytime I write something people say that I am troll? And when I try to troll they think it is a serious argument?

Maybe you just suck at arguing?

Lol troll inception

**nomsheep**

Space Crusader wrote:Why is it that everytime I write something people say that I am troll? And when I try to troll they think it is a serious argument?

Because alll your serious arguaments tend to be not so serious = troll. and you must put to much effort into your trolling.

Nom

**Corporal_Reznov**

im2randomghgh wrote:
Plus, a huge portion of crime is performed by the desperate and unemployed, which would likely not exist in the Tau Empire.

Can I have a quote or source that says that crime doesn't exist in the Tau empire? I'm really am interested if they have managed such a thing. If I asked this before and am asking this question again, I apologize. I may have forgotten about your or hell any other persons answer.

**im2randomghgh**

Corporal_Reznov wrote:
im2randomghgh wrote:
Plus, a huge portion of crime is performed by the desperate and unemployed, which would likely not exist in the Tau Empire.
Can I have a quote or source that says that crime doesn't exist in the Tau empire? I'm really am interested if they have managed such a thing. If I asked this before and am asking this question again, I apologize. I may have forgotten about your or hell any other persons answer.

No, I don't have any quotes, just my personal logic.

There isn't enough Tau Fluff at this point to go into that kind of detail.

**Corporal_Reznov**

im2randomghgh wrote:
Corporal_Reznov wrote:
im2randomghgh wrote:
Plus, a huge portion of crime is performed by the desperate and unemployed, which would likely not exist in the Tau Empire.
Can I have a quote or source that says that crime doesn't exist in the Tau empire? I'm really am interested if they have managed such a thing. If I asked this before and am asking this question again, I apologize. I may have forgotten about your or hell any other persons answer.

No, I don't have any quotes, just my personal logic.

There isn't enough Tau Fluff at this point to go into that kind of detail.

Sp you were just speculating, okay thats alright. Just some friendly advice: keep facts and specualtion separate from each other or say which is fact and which is speculation.

**im2randomghgh**

Corporal_Reznov wrote:
im2randomghgh wrote:
Corporal_Reznov wrote:
im2randomghgh wrote:
Plus, a huge portion of crime is performed by the desperate and unemployed, which would likely not exist in the Tau Empire.
Can I have a quote or source that says that crime doesn't exist in the Tau empire? I'm really am interested if they have managed such a thing. If I asked this before and am asking this question again, I apologize. I may have forgotten about your or hell any other persons answer.

No, I don't have any quotes, just my personal logic.

There isn't enough Tau Fluff at this point to go into that kind of detail.

Sp you were just speculating, okay thats alright. Just some friendly advice: keep facts and specualtion separate from each other or say which is fact and which is speculation.

To be fair, I didn't say it was fact, I said "which would likely not exist in the Tau Empire"

**Ledabot**

Who wants to know what the "rid of the hateful reak" passage is?

It reads like this and is about Aun'va (the etheral guy)

"His presence gave the Fire caste the will to rid the Si'coa system of the hateful reek, his words sending them into a righteous rage. Upon the flanks of Mount Scion he pronounced the fate of the Orks of Waaagh! Grognik - a sentence that was efficiently enacted by ten thousand Fire Warriors."

Quite a nice passage. I gathered that the hateful reek being refered to was orks, and everyone can agree that they probably are a bit wiffy.

**Corporal_Reznov**

Ledabot wrote:Who wants to know what the "rid of the hateful reak" passage is?

It reads like this and is about Aun'va (the etheral guy)

"His presence gave the Fire caste the will to rid the Si'coa system of the hateful reek, his words sending them into a righteous rage. Upon the flanks of Mount Scion he pronounced the fate of the Orks of Waaagh! Grognik - a sentence that was efficiently enacted by ten thousand Fire Warriors."

Quite a nice passage. I gathered that the hateful reek being refered to was orks, and everyone can agree that they probably are a bit wiffy.

Just some friendly advice if you ever plan on going to other forums; Whenever you quote something or post a passage, post a source along with it like this:

Deathwatch rpg: Rites of Battle pg 138 wrote:TECHXORCISM GUN

Brutally effective against highly technological xenos races like
the Tau, these weapons are unique among other Deathwatch
weapons in their ability to directly attack machine-spirits.
Known colloquially as techxorcism guns, they fi re crackling,
bright blue bolts of energy that not only damage a machine’s
body but can harm or even drive out its machine-spirit. These
weapons can even stun living creatures if they hit exposed
fl esh, and all techxorcism weapons have the Shocking quality.
Whenever a player causes critical damage to a target with a
techxorcism gun, roll on Table 5–4: Haywire Field Effects on
page 143 of the DEATHWATCH Rulebook.

It is unknown, even among the learned enginseers of the
Deathwatch, whether these weapons are archeotech or of xenos
origin. Whatever their provenance, they have proven to be a
valuable anti-xenos tool, and are requisitioned by or assigned
to kill-teams facing known technological threats. Techxorcism
weapons affect the machine-spirits of nearly all known xenos
races with one exception. Technology fi elded by orks can be
physically damaged by these weapons, but their machine-spirits
seem to be immune to the special properties of the EP weapons.
Research done by Deathwatch Techmarines has so far turned
up no explanation for this phenomenon.

or just say where the passage came from like this: From Codex 3rd edition Tau empire pg 122.

Anyway, so the Tau call the Orks 'Reek'? Thats just insulting and gives me a reason to kill all Tau now for that insult

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**Soo'Vah'Cha**

Nope sorry the "Hateful Reek" and Orks are two seperate entries, hence the Period, basically it is he inspired them to rid the Si'coa system, and in a seperate incident he pronounced the fate of the orks from the flanks of mount Scion, two seperate events, the reek are some here to unkonwn race, otherwise they would just say Orks.

Apparently the tau word for ork is Be’gel , according to the Tau lexicon, so Reek is something else

**Corporal_Reznov**

Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:Nope sorry the "Hateful Reek" and Orks are two seperate entries, hence the Period, basically it is he inspired them to rid the Si'coa system, and in a seperate incident he pronounced the fate of the orks from the flanks of mount Scion, two seperate events, the reek are some here to unkonwn race, otherwise they would just say Orks.

Sure? If you are It appears I don't know crap when it comes to english grammar so I'll just go with what you say for this cause you're reasonable to me.

**nomotog**

Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:Nope sorry the "Hateful Reek" and Orks are two seperate entries, hence the Period, basically it is he inspired them to rid the Si'coa system, and in a seperate incident he pronounced the fate of the orks from the flanks of mount Scion, two seperate events, the reek are some here to unkonwn race, otherwise they would just say Orks.

Apparently the tau word for ork is Be’gel , according to the Tau lexicon, so Reek is something else

Maybe it was just a really bad smell and they swept through with scrub brushes.

**Corporal_Reznov**

nomotog wrote:
Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:Nope sorry the "Hateful Reek" and Orks are two seperate entries, hence the Period, basically it is he inspired them to rid the Si'coa system, and in a seperate incident he pronounced the fate of the orks from the flanks of mount Scion, two seperate events, the reek are some here to unkonwn race, otherwise they would just say Orks.

Apparently the tau word for ork is Be’gel , according to the Tau lexicon, so Reek is something else

Maybe it was just a really bad smell and they swept through with scrub brushes.

Irrelevant.

**im2randomghgh**

Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:Nope sorry the "Hateful Reek" and Orks are two seperate entries, hence the Period, basically it is he inspired them to rid the Si'coa system, and in a seperate incident he pronounced the fate of the orks from the flanks of mount Scion, two seperate events, the reek are some here to unkonwn race, otherwise they would just say Orks.

Apparently the tau word for ork is Be’gel , according to the Tau lexicon, so Reek is something else

? The tau word for orks?

**im2randomghgh**

Ork?

**Ledabot**

I loled. They could be two serperate entitys, or they could eb the same. We won't ever know inless the auther turns up themselfs and reveals all. No point arguing about it anymore inless you just want to show how big your ego is.

**Soo'Vah'Cha**

hmmm no arguing just clarification, the only other info found was on the 40k lexicanum http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Noisome_Reek , I always check abit before posting any claims or responses, so no ego its just what another source has established, same place they have a compilation of Tau words.

cheers.

**Ledabot**

Oh that clears things up greatly, and adds new Tau empire friends.

**Corporal_Reznov**

Ledabot wrote:Oh that clears things up greatly, and adds new Tau empire friends.

Um...what? The source says the Reek in that system were all killed by the Tau.

**Ledabot**

Corporal_Reznov wrote:
Ledabot wrote:Oh that clears things up greatly, and adds new Tau empire friends.
Um...what? The source says the Reek in that system were all killed by the Tau.

Oh, I didn't read it vary well did I. Nevermind.

**Masonicon**

what about Space Marines(they're live longer than anyone else in Tau Empire and other Humans), Human Psykers, and Abhumans among Humans in Tau Empire?