how far did the great crusade get?

[wise_crak]

Wow this thread makes tau seem like weaklings...ow wait they are haha!

 

Well maybe the imperium can't be bothered with them as they know the nids are over that way along with thebother threats in the galaxy and think they might wipe the tau out by themselves

 

And I wasn't saying the tyranids are just after imperium I was just wondering that the light from terra is pulling them into our galaxy so if the nids accidentally missed the mini tau empire or if they had come to blows?

 

So We have established tau = small, weak / crusade covered while galaxy and imperium still stretches through most of it!

 

Here's a thought i have heard if IG switching to the greater good think that's fair enough but surly it cant happen that often can it?

 

 

WiseyB)

[Jarl Kjaran Coldheart]

as it is, we havent destroyed them because they are a minnow in the pacific ocean.

 

I like that analogy.

 

I thought it was appropiate due to (1) the names of their craft and (2) the fact it shows just how small they are in the very, very large galaxy.

 

@wise_crack: Guardsman have turned to the greater good, but i believe those that have arent exactly what i would label as the most talented of the Imperium's soldiers.

by this i mean the greatest strength of the Guard is their faith in the Emperor. I dont mean this in a religius manner (though that does help), but rather that the indotcrined belief in the might of the Imperium allows them to achieve goals that a normal human would be unable to do. This belief in a higher power grants them the ability to resist the promises of the alien.

 

the "weaker" Guardsmen that fall to the alien's promises do so because of their faith is not strong enough. as they have weaker faith they arent as talented as the loyal guardsmen.

 

i hope this makes sense. i feel like i am rambling.

 

WLK

[Aegnor]

From the Tau's perspective, or indeed a human who is ignorant of Chaos, the Tau idea of the Greater Good makes a hell of a lot more sense than anything the Imperium has to offer. What's more, the Tau understand how a lightbulb works, and can invent useful stuff, unlike the religious crackpot Luddites of the Imperium. If I were a human in 40K who met the Tau, I'd go work for them rather than the Emperor.

 

That said, the Tau have the luxury of not being the primary target for an utterly implacable, genocidal foe that has traitors riddled through your society and the ability to appear without notice and subvert whole worlds in an eye blink. If/as they absorb more humans, the Tau are going to start to have more problems with Chaos, even if they themselves aren't directly affected.

[lee265]

The Imperium fot to third base.

 

Well it was through a large chunk of the Galaxy enlightening and liberating its citizens as it went, unfortunatly the astronomican only stretches so far andthat along with the heresy occuring about 3/4 the way through stage one of galaxy unification means some especiall twords the fringes was missed then.

Further the imperium has whole systems that either weren't explored during the crusade or haven't been checked since as there was nothing there. now many millenia later some of those systems haven't been revisited yet. so once in a while something like the tau pops up and needs cullling.

[Lord_Caerolion]

It was actually warp storms. After T'au had been discovered, a fleet to colonize it was sent, but that fleet was lost by warp storms. These warp storms kept the world hidden untill many hundred years later, when suddenly the primitive civilisation had developed into teh Tau of today.

 

Well, a combination of the two. The Reign of Blood stopped the initial colonization, and by the time it ended, the warp storms had begun, cutting off contact.

 

What's more, the Tau understand how a lightbulb works, and can invent useful stuff, unlike the religious crackpot Luddites of the Imperium.

To be fair, so does the Imperium, just only the higher ranked members of the Mechanicus. They may be dogmatic, but they can certainly do field-modifications when required, showing they have some deeper understanding. A Magos understands stuff like electrical currents and all that, they just couch it in religious terms. It doesn't stop them modifying existing rituals to deliver a different outcome.

[ShiftyWolf]

Plus the Imperium is just down right cool compared to the Tau. Having a machine god is just sweet.

Plus if you're with the Tau you probably won't have some weird servitor with a great big vox stuck in his mouth to annouce your presence everywhere. Would take one of those over a blue alien man with a.... thing.... on his face that knows how a lightbulb works anyday of the week, and twice on sunday.

 

And I haven't seen any Tau make super soldiers yet...