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The tau have taken many human worlds, so it seems only reasonable that the populations of said worlds produce psykers, which if untrained can pose serious safety risks to the world at large. How exactly do the tau deal with this?

Execution probably.

Mass murder. Just like any good communist would do.

Maybe dissection to try to learn about it even.

Make the kroot eat them to breed kroot pskers!

shoot them with guns

They might try re-education camps. Tau would probably love to create an Astronomican and start using the warp. They will probably need it to build the fourth sphere.

They simply cant

alex0911 wrote:
They simply cant

Sure they can. Round up all of the weird people making stuff move with their minds, dig a giant hole in the ground, line them up in front of it and then have a Fire Warrior Squad unload on them. Like any totalitarian government would.

 TheCustomLime wrote:

alex0911 wrote:
They simply cant

Sure they can. Round up all of the weird people making stuff move with their minds, dig a giant hole in the ground, line them up in front of it and then have a Fire Warrior Squad unload on them. Like any totalitarian government would.

Nah they will reflect bullets... Anyways taus dont dig hole man

Jaxler wrote:
The tau have taken many human worlds, so it seems only reasonable that the populations of said worlds produce psykers, which if untrained can pose serious safety risks to the world at large. How exactly do the tau deal with this?

They don't. The Tau don't understand the risk that they pose. Of course, other humans do, and so probably burn them at the stake as witches.

 Psienesis wrote:

Jaxler wrote:
The tau have taken many human worlds, so it seems only reasonable that the populations of said worlds produce psykers, which if untrained can pose serious safety risks to the world at large. How exactly do the tau deal with this?

They don't. The Tau don't understand the risk that they pose. Of course, other humans do, and so probably burn them at the stake as witches.

Eventually enough gak will happen to where they'll need to do something. The real question is how do the cover it up or explain it. Tau aren't stupid enough to not put 2 and 2 together when you have some guy shooting mind bullets and makinging lightning come out his finger tips. They aren't just going to go "that's unpossible der hur... Must be imagination" before getting their brains fried out of their ears due to the aforementioned lightning.

Just ask the nicassar

I figure they probably leave it to the human populations to sort out. If the humans burned psykers before, they probably still do so. If they relied on Black Ships, the Tau might utilize the humans for research purposes or just execute them or something.

The Tau seem to be fairly hands-off when it comes to species-specific quirks like highly corruptable psykers.

The Tau don't understand psychic powers, an untrained psykers can't really do much interesting stuff apart from moving some stuff around. While the Tau are probably aware that Humans can be trained to use these characteristics as destructive weapons, their lack of understanding of the specifics of Warp stuff probably leaves them with no idea of how dangerous untrained psykers can be.
Of course, the local Human populations will deal with them as they always have (Burn the witch!), so it is also not really a Tau problem. Non-Imperial Human worlds do not get swarmed in Daemons all the time, so Humans must have effective ways of dealing with psykers apart from the Black Ships (and even in the Imperium, as the Black Ships can't be everywhere at once).

From my understanding of it:
When the Tau take over a non-Tau populated world they do not rule it directly themselves, but find some proxy. This proxy either requires them for survival or at least understands what it costs to go against them, but in any case is someone they can easily control and replace if need be. Not only are the vast majorities of the day to day affairs run by this non-Tau proxy, but many of the original Laws and Traditions are also kept in place. The ploy is to keep the world functioning more or less the same as it did before as this has the benefit of lulling the non-Tau population into a more lax state and doesn't disrupt resource supply as much. Over the course of a few decades, if not centuries, the existing culture can be gradually replaced with something more 'pleasant' to the Tau while the world still willingly gives over resources to their empirical overlords.

An exception to this is anything that goes directly against the 'Greater Good,' which is probably a fairly long list that includes "free speech..." but what human world understands that concept anyway?

There is always the presence of an Ethereal overlord that does offer 'advice' to this Proxy in a handful of situations, and I feel this would be one of those times. The Ethereal caste already knows about the Threat of the Warp and, while they are suppressing the knowledge, have ruled it as 'can never co-exist with the Greater Good.' They would insist that the proxy deal with the problem using a heavy hand, or keep the matter secret if the proxy does not already know about the threat of psykers in the non-Tau population of that world. It is entirely possible that a few would be taken for study but those would be short lived due to the threat they pose to those trying to study them.

Unlikely the Tau military will be involved, they are not allowed to know about the threat.

LockeWatts wrote:
Make the kroot eat them to breed kroot pskers!

Reminds me of a Rogue Trader campaign I'm in - our Navigator is a Kroot from a clan that specifically hunts and devours Navis Nobilite households.

 Iron_Captain wrote:
The Tau don't understand psychic powers, an untrained psykers can't really do much interesting stuff apart from moving some stuff around. While the Tau are probably aware that Humans can be trained to use these characteristics as destructive weapons, their lack of understanding of the specifics of Warp stuff probably leaves them with no idea of how dangerous untrained psykers can be.
Of course, the local Human populations will deal with them as they always have (Burn the witch!), so it is also not really a Tau problem. Non-Imperial Human worlds do not get swarmed in Daemons all the time, so Humans must have effective ways of dealing with psykers apart from the Black Ships (and even in the Imperium, as the Black Ships can't be everywhere at once).

Actually the Ethereals are quite aware of the uses of psychic races, and they are aware of how the imperium respond to psykers. As such they guard the nicassar race closely to keep them out of imperial hands. If they could find a way to train human psykers, I'm sure they would use them accordingly.

As far as I understand they don't really have any true comprehension of Psykers. So most likely they just treat them like any other citizen, in that they leave them alone if they aren't doing anything wrong, but come down on them if they do anything that poses danger to their surroundings. It's probably just a matter of a Psyker bursting people into flames is treated identically to someone using a flamer to do the same.

Then again, they might take some of them into special areas in order to study them in various ways, whether those ways are fatal to the psyker or not.

It is in general a logical problem with 40K that unsanctioned psykers are supposed to be extremely dangerous, yet there are huge numbers of human worlds outside the Imperium that seem to have no problem with them.

Probably a case that they're potentially VERY dangerous if something goes wrong or they kick up a fuss, these worlds get lucky but the IOM would much rather not take that chance.