<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/31.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496495.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496495.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496515.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496515.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496519.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496519.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496523.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496523.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496530.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496530.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
If they conquered the entire galaxy and then wiped out or neutralized all the current threats (included non tau allies) I can imagine them turning on their own. As if they ever could but lets just say so.

Like you know that backwards sept they currently have.. sterilized.. and then maybe that lazy sept there sterilized.. Anyone like Farsight might get a dyson sphere prison imposed on them to contain their discordance with the current greater good. I think in the end you would just have the ethereals. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496613.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1496613.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?

Due to short warp capability, I imagine that each planet would be more suitably able to defend it self against invasion than Imperial planets and their PDFs could do. The rate of expansion would allow solid supply lines and well built up defense per conquest causing a more (IMHO) stable empire than the Imperial Empire (?).]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1497131.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1497131.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
Chaos will collapse because there will be no negative emotions.

The Emporer will be resurrected to lead the humans and be their living god, if he likes.

The Orks, Tyranids, Necrons, and Dark Eldar will be obliterated.

Everyone will live happily ever after as long as they toe the party line.
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They are most likely to just turn their attention to improving their technology to try and make life easier. They can still aim for the greater good without war. At sometime they may try to go to another Galaxy and it's impossible to know whether they find one.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1498024.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1498024.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1498056.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1498056.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
sexiest_hero wrote:If the old ones could fail so would the TAU


Its quite likely that the tau were a last ditch attempt by the old ones at creating the perfect race, so the tau could actually succeed.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1498120.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1498120.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1498276.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1498276.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
4M2A wrote:Aside from peace, they may have a small civil war, but it won't last long. Tau physicaly can't refuse an order from an ethearal even if they want to (which they don't because the idea of no ethearals terrifies them). The other races may rebel but the have to be really stupid to try it. They would be entirely wiped out. The only reason farsight is able to carry on is because for some reason the Tau don't seem to mind that he has run, also it hints he has something alien controlling him. No normal Tau can rebel for any long period.

They are most likely to just turn their attention to improving their technology to try and make life easier. They can still aim for the greater good without war. At sometime they may try to go to another Galaxy and it's impossible to know whether they find one.

I don't think the whole pheromone control theory has been proven in the fluff just yet ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499167.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499167.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
Retribution wrote:
4M2A wrote:Aside from peace, they may have a small civil war, but it won't last long. Tau physicaly can't refuse an order from an ethearal even if they want to (which they don't because the idea of no ethearals terrifies them). The other races may rebel but the have to be really stupid to try it. They would be entirely wiped out. The only reason farsight is able to carry on is because for some reason the Tau don't seem to mind that he has run, also it hints he has something alien controlling him. No normal Tau can rebel for any long period.

They are most likely to just turn their attention to improving their technology to try and make life easier. They can still aim for the greater good without war. At sometime they may try to go to another Galaxy and it's impossible to know whether they find one.

I don't think the whole pheromone control theory has been proven in the fluff just yet


Im pretty sure it has but i cant recall where.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499169.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499169.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499199.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499199.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
corpsesarefun wrote:
Retribution wrote:
4M2A wrote:Aside from peace, they may have a small civil war, but it won't last long. Tau physicaly can't refuse an order from an ethearal even if they want to (which they don't because the idea of no ethearals terrifies them). The other races may rebel but the have to be really stupid to try it. They would be entirely wiped out. The only reason farsight is able to carry on is because for some reason the Tau don't seem to mind that he has run, also it hints he has something alien controlling him. No normal Tau can rebel for any long period.

They are most likely to just turn their attention to improving their technology to try and make life easier. They can still aim for the greater good without war. At sometime they may try to go to another Galaxy and it's impossible to know whether they find one.

I don't think the whole pheromone control theory has been proven in the fluff just yet


Im pretty sure it has but i cant recall where.

I know it's alluded to A LOT but i don't think it's definitive, i hope 5th edition clarifies it ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499227.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499227.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
1. Warp travel. They can only make short leaps into the warp. It would be incredibly hard for them to protect all their worlds with their fleets. Sooner or later, worlds will rapidly collapse and the Tau would be too late to save them.

2. Their empire is a speck in the galaxy. If they mounted a full-scale crusade, they would get annihilated. The Imperium would get ticked off and just obliterate them like they should have 6000 years ago.

3. The Imperium, the other aliens, and Chaos. Imperium could crush them, Necrons slowly but surely destroy them, Tyranids devour them (especially if an entire hive fleet attacked them), Orks could completely WAAAAAGH! them, and Chaos would just easily crush them (I'm a Chaos follower, I have to say that hahaha). I don't think the Eldar or Dark Eldar would be a threat to them that much, cuz they're just too few of them.

Like I said, the Tau controlling the galaxy just can't happen. Anyone who refuses to submit to the Greater Good would fight back and eventually defeat the Tau.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499271.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499271.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499333.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499333.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499457.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499457.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499555.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499555.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
- most sentient life would be Dead , cause all the major and numerous Powers wouldn't submit to the graeatar good.
- so we Look at a galaxy without humans, Orks , tyranids, necrons.
- eldar won't share the lead, so they may have also died out.
- Chaos joining the graeatar good? Safe to assume theyre gone.
- conquer=war, lots of Dead burning Worlds.
- much less inhabitable planets.

What we would get if T'au ruled, is a nearly lifeless Galaxy ,speckled with some T'au strongholds and some Minor races ( "allies" ) somehow surviving. Maybe a few anti-graeatar good rebels, too.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499622.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499622.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
Retribution wrote:
corpsesarefun wrote:
Retribution wrote:
4M2A wrote:Aside from peace, they may have a small civil war, but it won't last long. Tau physicaly can't refuse an order from an ethearal even if they want to (which they don't because the idea of no ethearals terrifies them). The other races may rebel but the have to be really stupid to try it. They would be entirely wiped out. The only reason farsight is able to carry on is because for some reason the Tau don't seem to mind that he has run, also it hints he has something alien controlling him. No normal Tau can rebel for any long period.

They are most likely to just turn their attention to improving their technology to try and make life easier. They can still aim for the greater good without war. At sometime they may try to go to another Galaxy and it's impossible to know whether they find one.

I don't think the whole pheromone control theory has been proven in the fluff just yet


Im pretty sure it has but i cant recall where.

I know it's alluded to A LOT but i don't think it's definitive, i hope 5th edition clarifies it


Only the book Xenology presents a theory about the pheremone control.

As with all GW fluff it is plausibly deniable.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499745.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1499745.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500065.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500065.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500102.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500102.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500115.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500115.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
Kilkrazy wrote:
Retribution wrote:
corpsesarefun wrote:
Retribution wrote:
4M2A wrote:Aside from peace, they may have a small civil war, but it won't last long. Tau physicaly can't refuse an order from an ethearal even if they want to (which they don't because the idea of no ethearals terrifies them). The other races may rebel but the have to be really stupid to try it. They would be entirely wiped out. The only reason farsight is able to carry on is because for some reason the Tau don't seem to mind that he has run, also it hints he has something alien controlling him. No normal Tau can rebel for any long period.

They are most likely to just turn their attention to improving their technology to try and make life easier. They can still aim for the greater good without war. At sometime they may try to go to another Galaxy and it's impossible to know whether they find one.

I don't think the whole pheromone control theory has been proven in the fluff just yet


Im pretty sure it has but i cant recall where.

I know it's alluded to A LOT but i don't think it's definitive, i hope 5th edition clarifies it


Only the book Xenology presents a theory about the pheremone control.

As with all GW fluff it is plausibly deniable.

It's actually mentioned explicitly in their 4th edition Codex, and goes on to say that an Ethereal can easily order a lower Tau to kill himself ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500727.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500727.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
ShadowAngel159 wrote:Tau controlling the galaxy? I severely doubt that. Multiple problems with this even REMOTELY happening:

1. Warp travel. They can only make short leaps into the warp. It would be incredibly hard for them to protect all their worlds with their fleets. Sooner or later, worlds will rapidly collapse and the Tau would be too late to save them.

2. Their empire is a speck in the galaxy. If they mounted a full-scale crusade, they would get annihilated. The Imperium would get ticked off and just obliterate them like they should have 6000 years ago.

3. The Imperium, the other aliens, and Chaos. Imperium could crush them, Necrons slowly but surely destroy them, Tyranids devour them (especially if an entire hive fleet attacked them), Orks could completely WAAAAAGH! them, and Chaos would just easily crush them (I'm a Chaos follower, I have to say that hahaha). I don't think the Eldar or Dark Eldar would be a threat to them that much, cuz they're just too few of them.

Like I said, the Tau controlling the galaxy just can't happen. Anyone who refuses to submit to the Greater Good would fight back and eventually defeat the Tau.


Yeah thats what I was thinking. They would be rather difficult to wipe out, as they are well defended, but they can't really expand much. There's an Ork Waaagh! hitting them one way, and a Tyranid Hive Fleet hitting them from another.

It would take quite a bit of effort to destroy the Tau Empire, but that doesn't mean no one can do it. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500778.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1500778.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
Imperium-crusade fleet. Macharius could have taken the tau worlds in a very short period of time.

tyranids-obvious hive fleet, the tau havent fought anything serious yet

eldar-I think if the eldar wanted to they could really hurt the tau. And tau have no psychic knowledge, so they couldnt realize eldar were pulling strings until its too late.

orks-big waaagh wipes them out.

The only reason the tau have survived is because ultramar has kept a lot of pressure off of them. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1502015.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1502015.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
Retribution wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:
Retribution wrote:
corpsesarefun wrote:
Retribution wrote:
4M2A wrote:Aside from peace, they may have a small civil war, but it won't last long. Tau physicaly can't refuse an order from an ethearal even if they want to (which they don't because the idea of no ethearals terrifies them). The other races may rebel but the have to be really stupid to try it. They would be entirely wiped out. The only reason farsight is able to carry on is because for some reason the Tau don't seem to mind that he has run, also it hints he has something alien controlling him. No normal Tau can rebel for any long period.

They are most likely to just turn their attention to improving their technology to try and make life easier. They can still aim for the greater good without war. At sometime they may try to go to another Galaxy and it's impossible to know whether they find one.

I don't think the whole pheromone control theory has been proven in the fluff just yet


Im pretty sure it has but i cant recall where.

I know it's alluded to A LOT but i don't think it's definitive, i hope 5th edition clarifies it


Only the book Xenology presents a theory about the pheremone control.

As with all GW fluff it is plausibly deniable.

It's actually mentioned explicitly in their 4th edition Codex, and goes on to say that an Ethereal can easily order a lower Tau to kill himself


It says "it is speculated..." (by Imperials). That's hardly rock solid proof.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1502027.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1502027.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
Kilkrazy wrote:
Retribution wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:
Retribution wrote:
corpsesarefun wrote:
Retribution wrote:
4M2A wrote:Aside from peace, they may have a small civil war, but it won't last long. Tau physicaly can't refuse an order from an ethearal even if they want to (which they don't because the idea of no ethearals terrifies them). The other races may rebel but the have to be really stupid to try it. They would be entirely wiped out. The only reason farsight is able to carry on is because for some reason the Tau don't seem to mind that he has run, also it hints he has something alien controlling him. No normal Tau can rebel for any long period.

They are most likely to just turn their attention to improving their technology to try and make life easier. They can still aim for the greater good without war. At sometime they may try to go to another Galaxy and it's impossible to know whether they find one.

I don't think the whole pheromone control theory has been proven in the fluff just yet


Im pretty sure it has but i cant recall where.

I know it's alluded to A LOT but i don't think it's definitive, i hope 5th edition clarifies it


Only the book Xenology presents a theory about the pheremone control.

As with all GW fluff it is plausibly deniable.

It's actually mentioned explicitly in their 4th edition Codex, and goes on to say that an Ethereal can easily order a lower Tau to kill himself


It says "it is speculated..." (by Imperials). That's hardly rock solid proof.

He said the theory was only mentioned in Xenology, i merely showed that it was also brought up explicitly in the Tau Codex itself ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1504301.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1504301.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505008.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505008.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
Kilkrazy wrote:Xenology goes into quite a lot of detail about it, involving the Eldar and some other bunch of aliens.


The Quorl(sp?). The Quorl queen is where the pheromone crystal in their forehead comes from.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505020.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505020.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
The speculation is that the Eldar got through the warp storm, through one of their gates, captured some Tau and make them into Ethereals by genetic engineering and gave them the pheremone organ.

Why they would do this and how they would maintain control over the Ethereals is a matter of speculation. The first Tau codex contained a quotation from Eldrad saying he liked the Tau. Possibly the Eldar want the Tau to build up as a potential ally.

Of course Xenology like all GW fluff is plausibly deniable. The research is done by some bloke who has gone mad before the book's author arrives on the scene. The Tau's feet are different to normal Tau feet as shown in other fluff. There is a big plot twist at the end, which throws everything into doubt.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505071.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505071.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505080.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505080.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?


the game stops being fun anymore.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505119.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505119.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505172.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505172.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
Platuan4th wrote:I thought part of why they did it was because of the speculation that they were one of the Old Ones last ditch anti-Chaos efforts(evidenced by their little to no warp signature and lack of psykers). And since the Eldar were essentially the Old Ones favorite foot soldiers...


I agree. Given the Eldar's mastery of and vulnerability to psykiks and penchant for long term plans, raising up a vigorous warrior team with massive protection from psykiks to act as a flank guard is a clever idea.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505258.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505258.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good?
I think we would have technological advancements in the like that we have never seen before. Think for once, even just a century of time where all of our efforts ARE NOT thrown completely at the safety / defense of our massive empire, and it's population.

]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505261.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505261.page GMT What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505919.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505919.page GMT Re:What happens if the tau conquer the galaxy for the graeater good? Nothing sinister behind the motive, no mistreatment, no hate, no bigotry. Although billions would probably die from being stuck in their old ways, it would be better in the long run.

The only problem would be races subsumed with warp connections. Obviously the runious powers would do their most to attract them, even for a brief second and cause them to fall. However if Tau society is as fair as I think it is then this shouldn't be much of a problem as everyone should have what they want.

Another problem might be the Fire Caste finding out that the Ethereals have been manipulated by the Eldar (if this is indeed true), perhaps feeling tricked or used. Although I think they would probably thank the Eldar for helping unite the Species in it's darkest hour. The Tau are too nice to do anything else. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505988.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/289983/1505988.page GMT