Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-112.207.229.75-20160517103444/@comment-22930393-20160525081852

SoulRush94 wrote:

Okay I am new to all this tread and blog discussion but I love the Warhammer Lore (Over 30GB on codex and stories in epubs and mobi ... and I still haven’t finished them all). I wanted to try the tabletop game but 1st not one soul on my country play tabletop at all and second the price on some models make my eyes wide as saucers. The point is I am reading the Horus Heresy series, The decent of angels. Early book in the series I know but I have paced my eyes in this wiki for over 2 or more years ... love the fluff.

Gonna lay it right out. I am a sci-fi adventure kind of guy and more than space marines and every IOM in general ... I love the TAU. In a world filled with hate and war in every corner only the Tau'va care to bring a semblance of order for ALL species involved without committing Xenocide or just dropping down a virus bomb when they can’t hold it (yeah I know sometimes is necessary by chaos influence and all but other time is just because they are sore losers ... bombing of Mu'gulath Bay Mont'ka Codex) and be done with it. I know the Tau have their dark secrets the Etherials so called persuasive powers and all but If I wanted to live in the 40k verse I as sure as hell don’t want to be guardsman whose life expectancy can mostly be measure in minutes but in the Tau empire where I can at least live my life without worrying about basic commodities ... IOM hive world polluted water or severe starvation by the greed of pompous nobles and the like. Well except as a Eldar, then I can just be a brooding, oracle who likes to speak in riddles because come on who does not like riddles. It’s my PERSONAL opinion and besides the battle suites are on another level. One of my main like for Tau Empire over IOM is just that the Tau ability to innovate can bring endless possibilities while the IOM and Mechanicum allies are stuck with relics who sooner or later got to break from the constant wars they are forced to participate on. Again JUST PERSONAL OPINION, although I do like certain aspect of IOM and other great factions in the verse but I like Tau more.

Back on topic, my favorite Primarch is Magnus and his story is one of the most tragic one recorded in history and in the 40k verse that saying something. Not to say Magnus was without flaws, pride being the main one but he did what he thought was best for his father and the Imperium, even when the Wolfs of Russ came to take his head. But their loyalty is not the question of this blog. The thing is the negligence and secrecy of the Emperor may be the greatest reason for the Horus Heresy. The Ruinous Powers where only able to sway Horus to their banner by exploiting the doubts and trust issues Horus already had on the Emperor of Mankind. If Horus, Warmaster and greatest of his sons knew the reason for his father absence, The Horus Heresy would never had occurred at all but this is all conjecture. What happened, happened. We can do nothing about it save enjoy the tales of mighty heroes and impossible wars that the 40k universe offers to all its readers. You are aware that the Tau have been both genetically and socially tampered with by the Necrontyr, right? That's why they have little to no presence in the Warp, they are a perfection of the Pariah gene that the Necrontyr engineered into humans. That's also why their technology advanced as rapidly as it did, influence from Necrontyr technology. This is especially apparent when looking at the Ethereal's phasing abilities which are extremely similar to Necron time/space phasing technology, as well as the similarity of battlefield tatics, i.e. long range attacks consistantly favored over melee. Moreover, the C'tan have referred to the "Dark Seed in the East" which is somewhat damning considering that the Tau Empire exists on the eastern part of the galaxy.