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Tau Conspiracy Theories
Jaldon
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:28 pm 
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I blame Ork fungus from the long lost age of (B Horror Movie music starts here) When The Ork Brainboyz Ruled The Universe

An infant Tau playing innocently in the woods comes across the last of the fungus that made the Brainboyz what they were (instead of the weedy Grotz they are now), eats it {WHAM} he becomes the first Ethreal, and ..............

Well the rest is history, right :wow:

Couldn't help myself :;):

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RedDevil
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:27 am 
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So you're saying the Ethereals are just perma-stoned, and the rest of the Tau follow them cause they "want some of what he got!"?  Hehehe.  :p

I hadn't thought of the Pylons before, but wasn't their effect more to dispel a warp storm rather than to create it?  Also, I really don't know, but it seams that few races would have the power to create a 6000yr long warpstorm so strong that it could not be navigated.  I mean even the Eye of Terror can be navigated, and thats a pretty crazy warpstorm.  But like I said, I really don't know, so it's possible!

Probably the safest bet is this:  GW themselves didn't even know when they wrote the Tau codex, so in typical fashion, they just left possible seeds laying all over the place to develope later.  And confilcting fluff?  They do that all the time!  The latest fluff ususaly explains away the old fluff by claiming it was inaccurate information from Rogue Traders, or some such thing.  Usually they write the fluff from the POV of the Imperium, so they can even say they got it wrong on purpose, just to show that the Imperials didn't know for sure at the time.  Sneaky way to CYA, if you ask me!:laugh:

Still, the Demiurg side of things is one that I havn't heard of yet, and it could have some potential in the end.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:38 pm 
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I have been thinking about this. I would say that the Ethereals are refugees from another galaxy, fleeing after the Tyranid invasion. They find our galaxy, they settle on the rim, and instigate and guide the development of a race to counter the coming Tyranid invasion.

This new race obviously cant rely on Warp Travel or presence, as this becomes impossible with the Hive Mind, and it should deal in technology and firepower to halt the bug tide. It will also need to unite the fractured races to stand a chance.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:17 pm 
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Nice theory, Cybershadow. But aren't they a little late or are Kraken, Behemoth & Levethian just small vanguard fleets....!

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:01 am 
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Not really.  When did the first Hivefleet show up?  Wasn't it early M41 (about 1000 years 'ago')?  The Tau are following the 'historical' human tech progression, and are 500-1000 years ahead of us now (if that).  The Mon-tau, the terror, was in the black powder era, which was developed and deployed in militarily significant quantities roughly 1000 years ago.  This puts the arrival of the Etherials at roughly 2000 years before the 'present' time (sometime in M37/38?).  That's not implausible.

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Quote (blackhorizon @ 12 Dec. 2005 (22:17))
Nice theory, Cybershadow. But aren't they a little late or are Kraken, Behemoth & Levethian just small vanguard fleets....!

Yes, it is theorised that the initial three Hive Fleets are actually the vanguard tendrils of the main Tyranid fleet which is on its way.

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RedDevil
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Which is a scary though in of itself.  Basically, unless there is some new superweapon devised, the Tyranids are the only race that have a credible shot of "conquering" the galaxy IMO.
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If you are correct(?!), C/S ... a Coalition of Imperial Humans (IG, SM, [Squats] ), Eldar and Tau (with Auxilia) could possibly defeat the 'Nids ? ???? ?Of course Orks, Chaos and Necrons would still be around fighting with everyone ! :laugh: :alien:   Either way a lot of life forms are going to die ...  :cool:  :blues:




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PostPosted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:37 am 
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I could almost see arguments fo orks, chaos and necrons siding against the nids, if not actually *with* the allies.

Orks: "bugz iz bad and hs too many leggs. An' anyway, 'av yoo seen da size of dem biotitan's teef?" (n.b. this came up in an epic game once...). If, as I once theorised while drunk, Gazghull and his accomplice who's name I can't remember at the moment who built the Tellyportas are the first Brainboyz to return (which makes a ceretain amount of sense in the light of half a bottle of vodka) then they would certainly put a large amount of effort into defeating the bugz.

Chaos: Tzeench is far too clever to let the nids take this galaxy as it has trouble (to say the least) corruping a hive mind. Likewise Slannesh, especially after a light chat over a cup of tea with Tzeench. Khorne would delight in the slaughter of the wars, but wouldn't neccesarily make the corrupted turn on their friends, especially if it got entire forces at once. It would simply become Khorne vs nids instead (and if anyone can beat the nids fo close combat enthusiasm it's Khorne). Nurgle would either delight in the new and interesting diseases the nids could develop, or would despise them for developing resistance too quickly and not enjoying the pustules enough.

Necrons: If nids don't taste good to C'tan the will certainly do their best to wipe them out! Or possibly, if as was suggested earlier, they went into hiding to avoid wiping out all life in the galaxy, they would simply dive straight into the heart of the hive fleet looking for lunch and be the only ones who COULD defeath them! The only things that worry me about this are: what happens when the necrons decide that biotitans are a useful shape and fit flux weaponry to them, and what hapens whn the nids figure out living metal? (hey, that could explain why my heirophant is unpainted...)

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Since when are the Tau ahead of the humans tech wise? I think they are comparable, (if that), but have more widespread common use, whereas the great unwashed of humanity doesn't nessecerily get it depending on their tech level.

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Tau is more advanced:

Grav launchers, Tracking Systems, Devilfish, this already 300 years ago (Damocles) in 40k History.

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RedDevil
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Eh, if we're talking advanced, as the MAX tech each side has then I would say they are equal, with the tie-breaker to Imperial technology from the Golden Age.

Stuff that you will actually see outside of fluff, and in common use?  Yeah Tau are definately using high tech more commonly than the Imperium.

Case in point, no way the Tau could make the Imperial throne that houses the Emporer.  THAT is technology, but there is also only one, so its not something that you will ever see in the game :p
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Case in point, no way the Tau could make the Imperial throne that houses the Emporer. ?THAT is technology, but there is also only one, so its not something that you will ever see in the game :p

True, but there is also no way that the Imperials could either! The difference is that the Tau are moving forward while the Imperial are stuck static at best.

Besides, who said that the Tau were more technologically advanced?

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The Tau may or may not be more advanced then the Humans ?  IMO they are ... However ... on the battlefield, they too are tactically superior in their tactics and troop employment; IMO ...  Remember France '40 ... the Germans were tactically superior to the France, Brits, Belgiums, Dutch, etc. ...  The rest is history !   :;):

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