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The alphanumerical designations for vehicles are fairly recent, I don't believe they were a thing before the 6th edition codex at the earliest.

Battlesuits were always like that though, with names like XV-8 Crisis Suit, at least as long as I remember.

They used to just be called "Devilfish", "Hammerhead", etc etc.
Also, when discussing where community memes came from, deep lore explanations of name origins isn't really important.

 Sim-Life wrote:
The racism comment are hilarious. I've used /tg/ since the day it was created and not once have I associated the T'au fish meme as being racist nor have I seen anyone do so. This is the kind of thing Extra Credits got in trouble for a while ago for assuming that everyone thinks evil orcs are analogous to black people.

I know, cramming racism into everything is so ridiculous.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Just jumping on this one, can someone also explain where the whole "Blood Ravens are thieves" meme comes from as well?

In the Dawn of War games you unlock relics, these relics are often from other chapters. So you might find Guilliman's sword or Dorn's helmet or whatever.
Hence the Blood Ravens have been stealing other people's relics.




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40k has a lot of memes. Some of these memes have been around for so long and have lost so much humour that people forget or don't even realise they're memes.

I had a discussion with someone the other day that genuinely believed if Orks painted themselves purple they turned invisible.
It's bizarre. I thought that was a relatively recent meme and was so obviously an absurd meme. But nope, that was proper canon to this guy.

 Irbis wrote:

 kirotheavenger wrote:
I had a discussion with someone the other day that genuinely believed if Orks painted themselves purple they turned invisible.
It's bizarre. I thought that was a relatively recent meme and was so obviously an absurd meme. But nope, that was proper canon to this guy.

Funnily enough some GW writer repeated that recently, by ignorance or on purpose, dunno, but it's literal canon now

Really? I'm intrigued, sauce?

Tau were originally conceived as the 40k counterpart to Lizardmen. The 4 castes came out of the earth/wind/water/fire, plus overlords, they didn't start by copying castes per-say.

https://gavthorpe.co.uk/2017/06/26/the-origins-of-the-tau/

Yeah, they actually started as Gav Thorpes personal faction before he even worked at GW!
Although the concept evolved into something quite unrecognisable, only keeping the 5 caste system.