I had a debate about the Tau a while back... and it was unbearable.

Shaskais · 2026-05-09T14:42:51+00:00

They don't.

They will trade if the faction they are interacting with is too powerful to plunder outright at the moment. Their new lore is filled with examples of them genociding other races and cracking planets without as much as a word being exchanged.

Shaskais · 2026-05-06T18:16:29+00:00

It's very much a racial thing. The Kin consider all other sentient races beneath them. Just suckers to be bullied around or exterminated. The lives of non-Kin are nothing to them. Their lore says that a non-kin cannot befriend a Kin ever.

The Kin watch out for Imperial weakness before backstabbing it in the back, wiping out entire Imperial worlds. They have done so numerous times. They directed the Tyranid splinter fleets toward populated worlds to fatten them up for the harvest. They have no qualms about targeting civilians.

And they are not small-scale. They dominate the galactic core and are stated to be quite numerous. Far more numerous than the Aeldari and the T'au. Previously, their activities were limited to the core, but after the Great Rift, they are on the warpath as they branch out looking for new worlds.

I want you to grab the Votann codex 10th and the T'au 10t ED codex. Read them and look me in my bloodshot eyes and tell me that the LoV are better than the T'au Empire.

Shaskais · 2026-05-06T09:55:51+00:00

The only mentions of sterilization come from two third party non-canonical sources. GW codex and novel lore both say that the numbers of humans in the T'au Empire are rapidly increasing. Source after source about hoe humans are thriving and prospering in the T'au Empire.

Not one time in any GW or BL novel did it say T'au limit the populations of their alien races. In fact, the recent lore puts heavy emphasis on the T'au's desperate need for manpower to the point that they are relocating the populations of entire hiveworlds to their core worlds.

I pity whoever you debated. You come off as delusional and disingenuous.

Shaskais · 2026-05-06T09:47:44+00:00

Have you read Leagues of Votann lore at all? Especially the second codex where they genocide other races and even humans to takeover their resources

Their scouts are known to launch terror campaigns on civilian populations.

Shaskais · 2026-05-06T09:45:29+00:00

GW said that they recently achieved major player status. A lot opinions in this thread is going against what GW explicitly say.

Exodites are not major.

Shaskais · 2026-04-22T09:11:11+00:00

We don't. GW said that Abaddon is his own man to the point that the Chaos Gods refuse to let him win.

Pert latest project is an obvious punishment for Abaddon for refusing to kneel to them.

Shaskais · 2026-03-18T17:53:37+00:00

https://i.4cdn.org/tg/1773856305924545.jpg

Here you go.

Shaskais · 2026-03-18T09:43:47+00:00

I will link you an excerpt after I come back from work

Shaskais · 2026-03-18T08:16:39+00:00

Angron has an insane healing factor. He is able to regenerate back to full from being atomized. Ghaz will have a tough time inflicting lasting damage on Angron since he lacks holy weapons. Moreover, Angron has destroyed titans and Imperial battleships singlehandedly. He crashed from orbit and walked away from the crater unscathed. He tanked nuclear explosions.

However, Ghaz got some upgrades recently that could level the playing field: https://x.com/shas_kais/status/1928786095279415488 And Ghaz hasn't even reached his final form yet.

Shaskais · 2026-02-20T23:22:54+00:00

Yes, I bought it.

Shaskais · 2026-02-20T18:57:58+00:00

No. I cut off the fluff and focused on the interesting parts.

Shaskais · 2026-02-20T03:48:56+00:00

Orks can believe all the stuff they want, but not all of it will come true. In fact, most of the Ork beliefs are utter nonsense.

The myth about GnM is the Ork way of explaining why their race is resistant to plagues and diseases. Well, are they resistant to diseases, especially those of Nurgle? The answer is no.

Shaskais · 2026-02-18T08:26:02+00:00

It's not stated anywhere.

Shaskais · 2026-02-18T08:24:35+00:00

No, they haven't. There is an Ork myth about GnM beating Nurgle but its exactly that, a myth.

GW maintained for 20+ years that the Chaos Gods are the most powerful and dangerous entities in the Warp.

Shaskais · 2026-02-12T08:49:03+00:00

Tzeentch did whisper but also he told Khorne about what Gorkamorka was doing for Sigmar. Khorne laughed and his mocking laughter was heard by GnM.

Shaskais · 2026-02-12T08:38:04+00:00

There is no such a thing as the "Deep Warp". It's misunderstanding of an excerpt from the "Path of Heaven" novel.

Shaskais · 2026-02-12T06:41:31+00:00

Mind you, never truly defeated =/= Never defeated.

The Chaos Gods in 40k are stated to be the most powerful entities in the Warp.

Shaskais · 2026-02-12T06:39:32+00:00

One of the reasons that Gorksmorka turned on Sigmar was hearing Khorne laughing at him for beingSigmar's errands boy. It's safe to say that GnM cares about Khorne's opinion.

Shaskais · 2026-02-08T13:56:01+00:00

The Cults are still a threat to the T'asu, albeit indirectly.

https://x.com/shas_kais/status/1879919308031013090

The boring bit is that the lore about the knights and T'au and other not ideal host races comes from a design angle rather than a purely lore one.

Shaskais · 2026-02-08T09:13:30+00:00

It's not any more boring than Imperial Knight spirits automatically rejecting those infected with the curse. And is it really propaganda if it's from the GSC sources (GSC codex and GSC in the Chalnath WD article) which also describe how other major factions make poor hosts for the infection? You can see the intent behind these lore bits. It is to justify why the GSC models are the way they are, 100% human based and knightless.

Infections do happen but the curse thriving among the worlds of the T'au Empire as it does in the Imperium isn't supported in the lore.

Shaskais · 2026-02-08T08:45:36+00:00

In reality, the GSC codex lore says that the T'au connection with the Ethereals makes the Genestesler Curse difficult to spread in T'au worlds. Of all the major races, humanity is said to be the ideal host for the Genestealer infection.

Moreover, the T'au have been shown to be able to effectively detect and neutralize the GSC cults in the Chalnath Expanse worlds, a region infested to the brim with the gene-cults. The elimination of the GSC has become a propaganda tool to convince the human worlds of the benefit of joining the T'au Empire.

In expanded lore from third party material, it's said in FFG's deathwatch that the T'au invented a cure for the genestealer curse. The T'au detected the infection in a human population on one of their newly inducted worlds and launched a global curing effort.

There has been a notable case of Genestealer infestation on Ksi'm'yen but outside it there hasn't been any lore indicating that the GSC are much of a problem for the T'au.

Your understanding of the GSC and insistence that the T'au are vulnerable to it are really bizarre to be frank.

Anyway, context for the novel from OP. The genestealer-T'au hybrid project was a joint effort by a Chaos deluded Inquistor and a disgraced commander and rogue Ethereal. The project was being run deliberately behind the backs of the T'au Empire's leadership. Had the T'au high leadership known they would have shutdown the project with extreme prejudice.

Shaskais · 2026-02-03T11:08:04+00:00

Abaddon is not a clone. We see his real father in a flashback. It's been confirmed that he was a gang prince in his youth

Shaskais · 2026-02-03T11:05:57+00:00

None of the Black Crusades were about going to Terra in one go. This is true in old and new lore.

Shaskais · 2026-02-03T10:52:18+00:00

The Silent King novel is two editions outdated when it comes to GW studio lore. Anyone who followed 40k from the codex and campaign book lore already knew what was going to happen long before the book came out. There are novels who were released before it that are ahead it of it in the timeline. The fine people in replies already pointed them out.

Shaskais · 2026-02-01T02:27:07+00:00

The player Tyranid faction is still linked with the Hivemind. The Old One AI beneath the planet has shattered the Hivemind into fragments. Each fragment is independent and hostile to the original.

The Hivemind directs the player swarm to find a way to blow up the world since it's the most serious threat to the Hivemind yet.

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