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so i learned in the lastest episode of TTS that there was a planet called caldera where exodite eldar and human population lived together and the exodites protected the humans and were seen as saviors by the humans. of course the imperium exterminatused that gak cause of fething course they did. i also know that the Necron Tomb on Gorka Morka inexplicably took a liking to the humans (digganobs) on thr planet and protected them from the orks. not to mention of course the Tau take in humans. are there any other examples of xenos taking in and protecting humans?

Oh yes, the GSC are very fond of humans.

There are no GSC. That is just an unsubstansiated rumour.

Didn't Saim-Hann try to protect the Imperium in the most recent campaign?

It didn't turn out too well for them.

Also - Kroot like humans. I'm fairly sure they find them quite tasty.

Not taking in, but Eldars help Gaunt and friends against Chaos forces in one of the early book

Bharring wrote:
Didn't Saim-Hann try to protect the Imperium in the most recent campaign?

It didn't turn out too well for them.

Also - Kroot like humans. I'm fairly sure they find them quite tasty.

The vigulus thing. Yeah, they assassinate a chaos sorceror who worships the local big volcanon. Apparantly later on it would be bad for the eldar. (If you read some of the later incerps of the battle the tzench volcano worshippers loose, it was very close, they would have won if the sorceror leader was there.) But some same hai gets killed by the imperium and it is blood oath time baby!

Orks protect humans all the time!

Protect them from a monotonous, painful, pointless existence that is.

A few quick points:

Rather than believe what someone else says, go and read the books yourself. It was during the Great Crusade and there were many cases of humans & aliens living together (and exterminatus wasn't a thing then). Also, Caldera is a special case due to Vulkan.

The Tau have sterilised their human followers, often without their knowledge. That's not exactly helping them, is it?

(Sorry if this comes across a bit aggressive - that's not my intention)

That is not the first reference to Exodites and Humans living together. I was just reading the first lore on Knight titans.

Pretty much the exodites settled the seeded worlds and created Knights to herd the dinosaurs and set up a system of Lords per se.

Then the human colonists arrived on many of the planets these same dinosaur herds exixted. They mimicked and copied the Exodites.

Then the Age of Strife came. During that time the Knight Worlds had 'non' weapon' titans for the lower classes to herd the dinosaurs while the Knight nobles hunted the carnasaurs that would predatorize the herds.

Eventually the Emperor's Crusade reunited the Knight worlds but conflicts with the Exodites still occur. Even times both live in the same system or on the same world. Did not sound too peaceful, but I assume over thousands of years there had to be times of cease fire or outright peace.

 admironheart wrote:
Eventually the Emperor's Crusade reunited the Knight worlds but conflicts with the Exodites still occur. Even times both live in the same system or on the same world. Did not sound too peaceful, but I assume over thousands of years there had to be times of cease fire or outright peace.

If they both still live on the same worlds I'd guess conflicts are quite ritualized. They don't go all-out war on each other, it's small skirmishes to (mostly) scare off rather than kill between lower ranks and honorable duels (with the option of conditional surrender) between nobles.

An easy example in the 41st millennium, is the Watchers in the Dark. They willingly work alongside the DA to fight Chaos since the days of the Great Crusade. And as a bonus the DA dont try and purge them!

I really don't think you can ever consider Eldar as "protecting" humans. In almost every case there is an alternative motive for their "protection". Like needing them as meat-shields later, or foreseeing one of their decendants being important centuries later in ensuring Aeldari survival somehow.

At the end of the day, Eldar protect Eldar interests only

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I like to think some dark eldar view themselves as shephards and will protect their flocks from which they draw their prisoners.

 Galef wrote:
I really don't think you can ever consider Eldar as "protecting" humans. In almost every case there is an alternative motive for their "protection". Like needing them as meat-shields later, or foreseeing one of their decendants being important centuries later in ensuring Aeldari survival somehow.

At the end of the day, Eldar protect Eldar interests only

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i think the exodites a bit difrrent from the craftworld in terms of disposition and tolerance. given that they did everything in the power specifically to shed themselves of the fethed up pre callapse eldar culture would it really be too much of a stretch to say they shed the racism and tge eldar superiority complex as well. or at least that some groups pf exodites did.

A lot of the Horus Heresy novels have xenos "protecting" humans. Many of these cases were regarded as enslavement by the Imperium. Since humanity was exploited by xenos races, the Imperium doesn't differentiate between the two.

 Galef wrote:
I really don't think you can ever consider Eldar as "protecting" humans. In almost every case there is an alternative motive for their "protection". Like needing them as meat-shields later, or foreseeing one of their decendants being important centuries later in ensuring Aeldari survival somehow.

At the end of the day, Eldar protect Eldar interests only

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Pretty much.
Harlequins sometimes fight daemonic invasions that threaten human worlds. In this case they do it because they hate Chaos, not because they really care about the humans on the planet.