Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24.177.35.35-20130905071358/@comment-8881468-20131014014732

Kadjah Thoris wrote: All hell breaks loose yes - but: the Tau are a small empire, cut out the Imperial bureaucratic middle men and local support is likely to improve immensely. Remember the WHOLE Imperium doesn't respond to any challenge mostly it's the local Sector or Sub-sector or even  system resources that take it on. Cutting off the head of such a humumgus body might make much less difference than you think. It is not impossible that certain planets will never even notice. Tau Empire stillcannot outgrow it#s lines of communication and response, which will always make it local.

we are talking about threats like big WAAGH!S, Black Crusades or the Tyranids as main problems.. I am not denying the ability to react on a local level (even though the sector also would not be able to really go for faster than light travel via warp navigation or astropathic communication and you know how big sectors are?

@TalikvaxElexios  we are talking lightyears and hundreds of worrlds if we say "a little"

problems: imperium does never accept defeat (see sabbat worlds crusade f.e. is an effort to REGAIN lost territory) they might retrat officially but will come back, nobody leaves a human settled planet in the hands of abominations, heretics or foul xenos.