I realized what I hate about the Tau in 40K, Veeky Forums

Food from other worlds.

The Tau are still in their Lenin Era. The imperium, the Eldar, the necrons all decayed over thousands of years of brutal war into the monsters they are today. The Tau will follow if they can survive. The cracks are allready beggining to show.

Aun'va is dead (who was a big dick). Aun'shi is gonna take charge hopefully (dude is a bro). So refirms to the better might be on their way.

>since it mentions Tau colonists being already there
Tau colonized an imperial border world, in an attempt to assert dominion over it. Brings military forces to bear before the opposing power can reinforce their position.

Literally imperialism 101, and unsurprisingly written by the british. The imperium being xenophobic (despite being the ones to send a diplomatic envoy) doesn't change who the aggressor is in the story.

>may I remind you that the Tau and Empire have been in a state of war?
Yeah, and funnily enough nimbosa was the first instance of either side in the conflict going traditionally warhammer overkill and genociding the population of a planet.

Which leads right into brightsword's fate, which has since been printed in the main codexes in addition to the whole "nuh uh that doesn't count because gav thorpe proved me wrong" novel. Tau have ALWAYS had more going on under the surface.

Put your name back on so my filters can catch you, TIDF.

Personally I like that the Tau aren't as grimderp as everything else. I'm glad they added a bit of dystopia to them, when they first released they had very few downsides, but them being this dynamic, optimistic race offsets the rest of the factions for me.

The only reason they're niave and relatively utopian is because they've essentially been protected from the rest of the galaxy by a warp storm and then the sheltered by the bulk of the Imperium from most of the truely nasty shit.

I don't think they need to become a pastiche of islamic gommunism just because the Imperium is a pastiche of other kinds of despotism.

Explain Chinese great leap forward and the subsequent famine due to the lack of sparrows to eat locusts.

>unable to breed outside

So, if I understand you correctly, you're saying recreational sex with gue'vesa, to promote integration, would be encouraged due to the zero risk of offspring?

Anons ITT already gave excellent answers.

I only add one little thing: 40k is a grimdark setting, right?
If there is a faction, this Tau, that is too good to be true... now that is the secret: you don't know what's really going on with them.

It's creepy because we don't know how the Ethereals really rule them.
Psychic stuff? Nope.
Hormones? Nope.

We just know that something is not ok.
Knowing how every other races are fucked up in 40k, there MUST be something with the Tau, too.
And that's it.
It's a mystery. Maybe one day we'll have the answer, maybe not.

Will the Emperor ever recover?
Were have the Tyranids actually come from?
Who / what were the Old Ones?
And finally: why are the Tau so not-grimdark?

The answer for all of that is: we just don't know.

>Tau colonized an imperial border world

Prove it from the 3rd dex.

>The imperium being xenophobic (despite being the ones to send a diplomatic envoy) doesn't change who the aggressor is in the story.

And the diplomatic envoy was a sham. The Imperium were just stalling for time. And again, state of war so it doesn't matter who is the aggressor anyways (Iy was the Imperium because they started the whole war in the first place).

>Yeah, and funnily enough nimbosa was the first instance of either side in the conflict going traditionally warhammer overkill and genociding the population of a planet.

What does that have to do with anyway? And Brightsword (It's a clone, not the real guy) went rogue and genocided the populace on his own. He was going get punished for that but the Ethereals decided to politically assassinate him according to the novel.

>Which leads right into brightsword's fate, which has since been printed in the main codexes

Look man. This is like the second lie I catch you in. Not a single one of the codexes mention what happened in the Kill Team novel. They all say that Brightsword (clone) was recalled for censure. That's it.

I loved the story that accompanied that pic. My favourite thing about the Tau is finally having a chance to see the Imperium engaging in diplomacy, something they just can't do with other races, aside from very occassionally with the Eldar.

That diplomat was trying to pretend that the Imperial Fist's captain next to him was just a regular imperial guard soldier and that all of humanity's 'warrior caste' were that fuckheug.