It definitely doesn't fit the 40K vibe for their to be a nice good little empire, especially xenos and not some off shoot of ultramarines or cadians or whatever games workshop likes. So you can see why they want to tone down the wholesome energy tau have (also they are canonically soulless and cant use the warp). There are humans that live integrated into tau society
The Taus true strength clearly lies in the dialectical synthesis of communism and anime.
I dunno, they don't have a connection to the warp for some reason and the warhammer 40k fans always interpret that to mean they're all soulless, lol - the necrons have pariah units that are also described as "soulless" and ignoring the warp, that's probably where it comes from. The tau have individuals like that one commander, at least (commander farsight). We obviously don't get to see much of their normal life and society - it's a war game, so we focus on the disciplined fire caste - I like to imagine the tau basically have FALGSC on their worlds and the same for any humans they've liberated/conquered from the imperium.
The Tau aren't blanks, though. They don't create the instinctive aura of horror and revulsion that Pariahs and human nulls do. From what I remember they have a presence in the warp but it's very faint.
It definitely doesn't fit the 40K vibe for their to be a nice good little empire, especially xenos and not some off shoot of ultramarines or cadians or whatever games workshop likes. So you can see why they want to tone down the wholesome energy tau have (also they are canonically soulless and cant use the warp). There are humans that live integrated into tau society
The Taus true strength clearly lies in the dialectical synthesis of communism and anime.
iirc the mind control stuff was also a retcon and that originally they were basically the only objectively good faction.
If Rowboat can come back to life and suddenly make the Empire good and rational or whatever BS they're doing I can have my noblebright space commies.
Only SPEHS MEHREENS.
It's basically the anime moeblob isekai waifu imperative all over again. The franchise can do more, but why? MORE SPEHS MEHREENS.
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I dunno, they don't have a connection to the warp for some reason and the warhammer 40k fans always interpret that to mean they're all soulless, lol - the necrons have pariah units that are also described as "soulless" and ignoring the warp, that's probably where it comes from. The tau have individuals like that one commander, at least (commander farsight). We obviously don't get to see much of their normal life and society - it's a war game, so we focus on the disciplined fire caste - I like to imagine the tau basically have FALGSC on their worlds and the same for any humans they've liberated/conquered from the imperium.
The Tau aren't blanks, though. They don't create the instinctive aura of horror and revulsion that Pariahs and human nulls do. From what I remember they have a presence in the warp but it's very faint.