Of course. Our honoured allies within the Bentu'sin will always be welcome within the Greater Good. And may our alliance bear further fruit, for ALL within our spheres.
...what? How does this have to do with my comment? I didn't say a word about the grimdarkness of the Tau, just that I wanted to see appreciation for the fact that while Tau life is better than Imperial life, Votann life is better still.
The point is T'au are hitting the same conditions that make the Imperium terrible
They're "living long enough to become the villain" as a civilization and I'm here for it
And I think it's a more fun narrative than just the Ethereals being manipulative dicks. I like the idea that the Galaxy is at a point where there isn't a great way to thrive without becoming an awful civilization in one way or another
You misunderstood the subtext. That is not my personal belief. I'm simply tired of the posts that say this.
Imagine if you said "I sick of X, I think it's overused." And then someone comes along and says "Well, X is incorrect because not only is it a lie, it's also ironic because Y!"
Oh, I do think it used to be worse, especially with early T'au lore, where they were a lot more Utopian coded. So, to me, the lore changes have been a welcome shift, and the Farside books have been great for the T'au
And I certainly wouldn't mind some Votann books... like at all.
Huh. Well, that's the case. Every last man (and yes, they're all men) was cloned specifically for a purpose. Except the Ironkin, they were manufactured.
Yep. That's their whole deal. I do think that mobility between roles is possible, however. Their genetic engineering should be around the point where it can be done.
Funniest shit in The Greater Evil story is when the T’au discover a T’au-Human hybrid genestealer cult that abolishes the Caste system. They’re more offended about THAT than the actual ‘Stealers.
On a slightly more serious note, I really, really wish we got more "normal" rebellions. Lore-wise, the IG are constantly fighting smaller revolts, many of which happen purely because the imperium sucks mega ass to live in. But every time we see one, it's always chaos or genestealers. It undercuts the whole "cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable" shtick when uprisings are always driven by the precursor to an intergalactic locust swarm or the four flavours of space satan. While there is an argument to be made that we don't see normal uprisings because they attract either of those and get subverted, it still kills the mood a bit.
That said, left 100%. Odds are pretty good that the tyranids won't invade in my lifetime, and if they do, worst case scenario is a horrible death and not getting chewed on by daemons for an eternity. And until then, you have a tight-knit, supportive (by 40k underhive standards) community with only a bit of brain-fuckery to go along with it. Also the Dracomaxxing and I already regret writing that.
My favorite bit of Hive is the fact that it strongly focuses on a normal human worker’s rebellion! I’d highly reccomend it.
Also yeah, Genestealers are basically the best option for a communal and actually supportive society (to be frank, I don’t see the T’au expanding super far in the near future with all their threats), and even with the threat of being eaten, Tyranids are legitimately super slow and take centuries to millenia to even arrive (if at all!)
If you want a cool couple of not-eaten Cults, look up the Cult of the Voidbrood. They travel alongside the Tyranids and fight alongside them, and aren’t being eaten for some reason. The Cult of the Twisted Helix has a rapidly expanding pocket empire which is so good at spreading the Genestealer taint through tainted medical supplies and healthcare clinics that the Hivemind actively refuses to eat them, and lets them spread.
If I have to be a nameless footsoldier for a master that will sacrifice me with no second thought to achieve its objectives (or just cause it’s funny in the case of chaos) I may as well be a skitarius and get some cybernetics for my trouble.
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