Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130130174042/@comment-5880884-20130314093024

That's impossible. Firstly, the emperor can't die as GW would never allow it. In the scenario that he really dies, the tau are still severely lacking in 2 areas, namely good warp drives and psykers. Only when they have overcome these then can they even hope of conquering the galaxy as they would first have to be able to travel to all parts of the universe quickly, and they need psykers to combat chaos and psychic powers/sorcery of hostile races. Psychic sorcery and chaos are the greatest threat to the tau though. The new born imperium had to break even the edicts of the emperor himself to combat this threat with the creation of psychic librarians.