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 Ninjacommando wrote:
If you don't have a Psyker you cannot enter the warp.

Hmm? Ships can do that just fine - a Navigator only makes it possible to jump much longer distances. You can do jumps of 4-5 LY by calculating things, a Navigator who actually steers the ship through the Warp can pull off 5000 LY jumps.

Check the link Lockark posted.

 Psienesis wrote:
You do not require a Psyker to enter the Warp. A Warp Drive does that for you just fine. All a Navigator is for is to steer the ship once you're in the Warp, but he/she is not responsible for moving the vessel into the Warp.

BFG fluff states that if you do not have a Psyker you cannont enter the warp.

Tau took Imperial warp drives they found, made exact copies of them and gave them all the power they could handle, and never once entered the warp.

Spetulhu wrote:

 Ninjacommando wrote:
If you don't have a Psyker you cannot enter the warp.

Hmm? Ships can do that just fine - a Navigator only makes it possible to jump much longer distances. You can do jumps of 4-5 LY by calculating things, a Navigator who actually steers the ship through the Warp can pull off 5000 LY jumps.

Check the link Lockark posted.

Fantasy flight Rogue trader RPG..... yeah

There's nothing psychic involved with a Warp Drive. I think you are misinterpreting BFG's intent behind that dubious statement, because a ship does not require a Navigator to traverse the Warp, just make a long-distance jump.

 Psienesis wrote:
There's nothing psychic involved with a Warp Drive. I think you are misinterpreting BFG's intent behind that dubious statement, because a ship does not require a Navigator to traverse the Warp, just make a long-distance jump.

So the Imperial Warp Drives that the tau made exact copies of would of allowed them to enter the warp, however the BFG tau fluff stated that without a psyker they could never enter the warp.

Imperial ships enter the Warp all the damn time without a Psyker is my point. One does not *require* a Psyker to enter the Warp, though one *does* require a Navigator (or something like it) if one wants to make a long-distance Warp journey. That the Tau don't have psykers is irrelevant. They use a different method for traversing the Warp because they don't have Navigators.

Neither do Eldar, for that matter, which is why they use the Web-Way gates.

So my Chaos Tau have turned BECAUSE they have a smaller signature in the warp. My fluff is that the leader of my warband is a Sorcerer who found himself on the wrong side of a deal with a Demon Prince. Now he wants to build up enough followers to allow himself to escape what is essentially an indentured servitude but every time he amasses too many marines/cultists/ what have yous, the DP notices their souls in the warp and wipes them out while mutating the sorcerer a littke as a punishment. So my own little "flufftification" is that the sorcerer is manipulating the Tau because they are essentially invisible to the DP in the warp.

 Ninjacommando wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
You do not require a Psyker to enter the Warp. A Warp Drive does that for you just fine. All a Navigator is for is to steer the ship once you're in the Warp, but he/she is not responsible for moving the vessel into the Warp.

BFG fluff states that if you do not have a Psyker you cannont enter the warp.

Tau took Imperial warp drives they found, made exact copies of them and gave them all the power they could handle, and never once entered the warp.

Spetulhu wrote:

 Ninjacommando wrote:
If you don't have a Psyker you cannot enter the warp.

Hmm? Ships can do that just fine - a Navigator only makes it possible to jump much longer distances. You can do jumps of 4-5 LY by calculating things, a Navigator who actually steers the ship through the Warp can pull off 5000 LY jumps.

Check the link Lockark posted.

Fantasy flight Rogue trader RPG..... yeah

I have not read the BFG, but in the new tau codex it says that the tau don't have any knowledge or understanding of the warp and found the human warp drive unfathomable.

It does say on the warhammer 40k wiki that the warp drive was invented before the navigator and the navigator was created to make long safer and more accurate jumps. So it was done without psykers.

@Swastakowey
I like that! I think that might me something I use, could be funny for the tau in my army to be more hard core for chaos than the actual chaos marines.

Tycho wrote:
So my Chaos Tau have turned BECAUSE they have a smaller signature in the warp. My fluff is that the leader of my warband is a Sorcerer who found himself on the wrong side of a deal with a Demon Prince. Now he wants to build up enough followers to allow himself to escape what is essentially an indentured servitude but every time he amasses too many marines/cultists/ what have yous, the DP notices their souls in the warp and wipes them out while mutating the sorcerer a littke as a punishment. So my own little "flufftification" is that the sorcerer is manipulating the Tau because they are essentially invisible to the DP in the warp.

This is a fluff explanation why a Chaos sorcerer might want to have Tau worshippers (the easy part), not why Tau would fall for Chaos (the tough part).
Read the novel Fire Warrior about a Daemon Prince desperately trying to corrupt the one in a million emotional Tau that might be susceptible to Chaos, but fails miserably.

 Kroothawk wrote:

Tycho wrote:
So my Chaos Tau have turned BECAUSE they have a smaller signature in the warp. My fluff is that the leader of my warband is a Sorcerer who found himself on the wrong side of a deal with a Demon Prince. Now he wants to build up enough followers to allow himself to escape what is essentially an indentured servitude but every time he amasses too many marines/cultists/ what have yous, the DP notices their souls in the warp and wipes them out while mutating the sorcerer a littke as a punishment. So my own little "flufftification" is that the sorcerer is manipulating the Tau because they are essentially invisible to the DP in the warp.

This is a fluff explanation why a Chaos sorcerer might want to have Tau worshippers (the easy part), not why Tau would fall for Chaos (the tough part).
Read the novel Fire Warrior about a Daemon Prince desperately trying to corrupt the one in a million emotional Tau that might be susceptible to Chaos, but fails miserably.

I don't know about fire warrior novel, but to me the tau are not immune to chaos. Its just that chaos has no interest in them. The one time they showed interest in them is with farsight and they succeed with what they were trying to do which was to show farsight that everything he believed in was false and then he does what no other tau thought possible he broke away and formed his own empire where tau society is not the same as within the main empire. Chaos also created doubt within farsight about the ethereals which could cause this doubt to spread like wild fire. Also chaos can do what it did to humanity when it was at its height during the golden age of technology and corrupt the A.I. causing a blue men of iron incident and then the tau are in the IOM state.

P.S. on your post about the female space marine and the others. First not yet , has been done grey knights omnibus, there is one sister worshipping slaanesh, last one again yet.