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tauman942 · 1 year

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Summary Lieutenant Mahin and Commissar Rembault of the 1012th Cadian regiment, are fighting the treacherous xenos called the T'au on the world of Kupa V. After annihilating a platoon of human collaborators, and shooting the survivors, one of them is somehow still alive. Sergeant First Class Rokken "Rokk" Tamaguchi. Who is this strange human soldier? What is his story? And why is he now fighting for the T'au Empire?

Artwork: 1) Imperial Guard Sketch by Salvador Trakal 2) Cadians Karl Kopinski, Games Workshop

Excerpt ‘I’ll ask again, what’s your name?’ said the Commissar lighting the tabac stick for herself.

‘Sergeant First Class Rokken A. Tamaguchi. Ident number 456-789-22010,’ he replied, looking at the commissar with his one good eye, the other having been glued shut, by dried blood.

‘Unit sergeant?’

The prisoner took in a breath, coughed, and grunted out, ‘2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, of the 7th Mu’gulath Bay Regiment.’

‘I guess it takes a commissar to get these traitors to talk, uh ma’am?’ said the sergeant.

The prisoner turned and glared up at the sergeant with his one good eye.

‘Got a problem, heretic? Want a boot up your arse?’ shouted Demin getting ready to kick the prisoner.

‘Hold on, sergeant!’ shouted the commissar with the tabac stick still between her teeth. Getting up, she shooed away the small crowd of guardsmen who were gathered around the prisoner. Then, pulling the sergeant aside, she asked, ‘So, Sergeant, tell me What-the-Throne is going on here?’

The sergeant straightened his back and looking off into the desert said, ‘There was a firefight. We over ran their position. Shot all the survivors, including the wounded. Then two hours later this heretic here…’ Demin pointed at the prisoner. ‘…Comes staggering out of the pile of dead bodies holding his head in his hands. He’s gibber jabbering away in that Blue-fish talk, “Tiki-tak ching-chang-chong oola-la-la!” So we gave him a rifle butt to the stomach, bound his hands, and sat his traitorous backside on the ground.’

‘Did you interrogate him?’

‘We tried. But he just wouldn’t answer. So we gave up, figuring he didn’t speak any Low Gothic.’

#once a cadian always a cadian #wh40k lore fiction #games workhop #cadians #imperial guard #astra militarum #wh40k t'au empire #gue'vesa #sergeant rokk tamaguchi #fighting for the greater good #we got puppies #n.y.a.b.x.t.t.

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alternativeminiatures · 10 months

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Source @ChumiiCham

These chaos-taus (Chaus? Thaus?) look fucking fantastic.

#warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #wh40k #chaos #tau #t'au empire

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soraka-in-warhammer40k · 2 months

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T'au Waster Caste: "With the power of delicate diplomacy and masterfully conducted negotiations another planet has been brought into our Empire without the need for senseless and wasteful bloodshed. Not a single shot fired! Now THIS is how you do this properly and most important of all: peacefully."

Meanwhile T'au Earth Caste, collectively:

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #htp #tau empire castes have clashing cultures and they are all another favor of insane #T'au Empire

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bastard-pyro · 9 months

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Newsflash, the Admech have an augmentation to make them more racist.

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An excerpt taken from Fire Warrior, by Simon Spurrier, and published by Black Library on September 2003. The text reads as it follows:

of sophistication. Like some energistic equivalent of the gantry surrounding the powercore, the ship's logic engine was a structured gem: a perfectly aligned arrangement of operative tiers and commands, symmetrical and cohesive. Had his sense of awe been complete, he suspected, he might actually be impressed by the technology's complexity. As it was, the puritens surgery released a stream of disapproving endorphins into his mind, filling him with revulsion and making him all the more aware of the xenogens blatant disregard for the proper obeisance owed to the Machine God.

#warhammer 40k #black library #games workshop #wh40k #t'au empire #T'au #admech #adeptus mechanicus #Fire Warrior (novel)#Fire Warrior #great book if you want to to read about a psychopathic kid with a gun #little guy two-shots a space marine after nearly dying

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potpourrifandoms · 2 months

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Even more out-of-context pages from my silly little passion-project Warhammer Comic, featuring some of the early years of my Water Caste boys <3

More comic can be found here, here, and here if you're not too concerned about lore-friendliness and want to see the weird doodles I do when I'm bored. Have a lovely day!!

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alex-leweird · 3 months

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Twitter doodles I forgot to post here 2

#warhammer 40000 #warhammer 40k #wh40k #t'au #t'au empire #slaanesh #Slannesh #nurgle #Chaos #chaos gods

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elan-ta · 4 months

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Okay so I'm late to this party on this one But I, too, love the new Ethereal model:

However, I just wanted to point out something I've not seen anyone mention yet. See, as a certified they/them user, I immediately picked up on the article's very specific choice of words when introducing this model:

I've seen a lot of people jumping to calling them "she" and diving into resolving old debates of female t'au anatomy (which, for the record, I would also like resolved lol). But what do we think about this model maybe being an example of a canonically nonbinary t'au? Or one that just, doesn't fit in with the human concept of gender at all?

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #warhammer #t'au #tau #tau empire #t'au empire #ethereal

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springtag · 10 months

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I drew a Tau because I like these fuckers

#art #40k #tau empire #warhammer #wh 40k #t'au #t'au empire #warhammer 40000 #wh40k art

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commodoresigma · 3 months

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[original drawing date: 28th Feb 2022]

Couple of T'au characters - Commander Bloodflower, the Shas'O in charge of my Optimised Stealth Cadre (which is a lot of XV25s and XV95s), and Knight Brightspark, a character my dad made for a story he wrote. They're both from the same Sept, which he made, I named, and we've both worked on.

#my art #commodoresigma #fanart #warhammer #warhammer 40k #wh40k #t'au empire #tau #o'kisun'yi #el'ol'saro #alien #alien girl #warhammer oc

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thesixthchaosgod · 8 months

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To follow up on the post I made yesterday as people have been liking it more than I expected. Yesterday I said this

So here's the Ethereal I talked about

The colored art is probably slightly altered or something to enhance it idk. But this comes straight from the 3rd edition Tau codex.

He definitely seems to have a similar type jump pack that Xv8 crisis battlesuits have, hard to see but armored legs too I think, even more douptful the arms are armored too??

Idk folks all I'm saying is it would be quite dope to have in miniature form! (especially since they gave only one back for the 7? Or so they removed...)

#Tau empire #T'au #Tau #Lol #warhammer 40k #Wh40k #Tau Ethereal

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katjapetersart · 21 days

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A concept for an ancestor of the t'au, considered an important step in their evolution similar to the first apes to humans. A social ruminant about the size of a bulky deer that eats a wide variety of tree-like plants and fruits on a savannah/forest edge.

The younglings are very bipedal, the adults bi-quad. They will return to bipedalism to graze, to display and importantly to look for predators. They have a ranking order in the herd, and the adults take turns watching for predators.

The heavy thorns on the trees they feed on give their hooved hands an advantage: they can delicately and safely 'pluck' leaves, fruit, and buds to bring them to their mouth.

Their crests are useful for intraspecies communication through scent and pheromones. It also allows for loud, low honks that spread well over long distances. They are also part of the mating display.

In time, the clade becomes less relient on leafy greens and more omnivorous. As the clade becomes more derived and you come closer to t'au, they become more lithe and fully bipedal, with dextrous grasping hands and a strict social order. The young are born live and suckle milk-like sweat on 'suckling patches' near the wrists of adults. They mature away from suckling quickly.

#worldbuilding #spec evo #spec worldbuilding #fan spec evo #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #wh40k #warhammer #t'au #t'au empire #traditional art #art #artists on tumblr

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tauman942 · 1 year

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Summary The date is M41 0.999.245.7 and the Gilded World Aureum of the Dovar system has just defeated a traitorous rebellion organized by the treacherous T'au Empire. With Por’O’D’iste, the organizer and plotter of the rebellion safely in custody; Lord Governor Quinctilius Publius Varus and Lady Adriana Deza de Torquemada of the Order Famulous celebrate their victory. However, can they trust their ally from the Farsight Enclaves, Shas'O'Vi'xitomata?

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“Aureum the Glory of the Empire!” i.e. the Hohenfriedberger Marsch

The blue sky thundered with the roar of Thunderbolts fighters and columns of black smoke rose from all across the city, as the open-topped limousine carrying Lord Governor Quinctilius Publius Varus sped towards the palace. The PDF troops that lined either side of the white stone pavement shouted their “huzzahs”, dipped their regimental standards, and tossed their shakos into the air as his car passed. A regimental band played the anthem, “Aureum Gloria Imperii!”, or in Low Gothic, “Aureum the Glory of the Empire!” As they rode past the troops Varus smiled at the corpses of traitors and heretics that hung from the palace ground’s ancient statuary. ‘What tasteful displays!’ he shouted to his aide-de-camp. ‘They’re quite the decorative arrangements don’t you think Van Bibber?’

#Naiveté #wh40k lore fiction #imperium of man #t'au empire #farsight enclaves #wh40k t'au empire #wh40k farsight enclaves #PDF #imperial governor #n.y.a.b.x.t.t.#steven payne #Youtube

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beastalchemistva · 3 months

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New Warhammer 40k lore video out today! This one delves into the intriguing caste system of the T'au Empire!

Thank you to the amazingly talented @rowscara for drawing the character illustrations! Check out her Carrd here: https://rowscara.carrd.co/

If you enjoyed the video then please leave a like, comment, and subscribe!

#wh40k #warhammer 40000 #t'au #t'au empire #caste system #lore #youtube #Youtube

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soraka-in-warhammer40k · 10 months

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I'm always fascinated when someone at the club rants about "how they just invented T'au to cash on them anime weebs", completly oblivious to the time and culture of their creation. So T'au came out first in 2001, and were obviously conceptualized some years prior, which puts them into the late 90s in their original design. This is slowly hitting "the majority of the populance has no relevant internet access whatsoever" levels of "barbaric analog ages".

So imagine where GW sits in the late 90s - its a small studio somewhere in England barely coming to touch with the first elements of the internet, with the most dominant medium being television which... is not really about "exotic" shows from the other end of the world? Those get ported over when they have proven to be a hit in their own country mostly.

And without the internet as we know it today, the anime community just... did not exist. You have to understand that the whole concept of online anime culture centred around piracy, fansubs, fanart, and the creation of the term "weeabo" was a mid-to-late 00s thing, and it took almost another decade before "weeb" was somewhat reclaimed and no longer an online-slur.

There was a whole generation that grew up with (often horribly localized) japanese shows on TV (Pokemon, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon) which came over with some delay to their release in Japan. By the time this generation came to congregate into online spaces and form any sort of fan-identity and culture, the T'au and their battlesuits had already been a design over a decade old.

"But wait isn't Gundam from the 70s"? Yes, that is totally correct. However, this is the one glaring mistake people make: you cannot compare modern day media content circulation around the globe to the analog ages. Those of us who remember these barbaric analog times know how it was: you just did not know stuff existed. If it was not in the newspaper or on the telly, it might as well not exist unless you knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy.

Sure, the Internet was slowly becoming a thing that found widespread use, but it would still take a while - not to mention the technical limitations. No streaming episodes. You start the download (if you can find someone who hosted the file of a series you had to know even existed first) somewhere around lunch, to hopefully get something to watch in the afternoon. Oh and also that blocked the household's phone-line and if the download cancelled for whatever reason then it was back to square one. Under such conditions, the online community we know today could simply not exist, as the alternative was importing stuff from the other end of the world for quite the money, or hoping a really shoddy localized VCR-tape ended up at your Blockbuster-equivalent.

Of course there was anime before that time, even those regarded absolute classics in the west, but those mostly achieved that rank over here in retrospective. When in the late 00s people wanted to watch stuff and had the ability to do so they shared what was considered "the classics" first (shared to the best of their ability with one episode cut into 5 parts on youtube with sometimes very questionable subtitles).

So even if we assume there was someone at GW in the 90s who was a total "proto-weeb" and Gudam-fan, there was literally no reason to "make knock-off Gundams" because the miniscule western wargaming audience SIMPLY DID NOT KNOW THE STUFF.

You can't make a marketing ploy to reference something your average consumers have never heard off. If anything, the creation of the T'au as a robotic-centred faction was inevitable: they needed a design that could hold their own in the setting, but Necrons hogged the full-robot niche, Imperials were weird cyborgs, Orks the "madman-scrap-tech", and Nids the "biotech". The only thing left here was "not full robot but also very clean and efficient" - and just like that, the Battlesuits and Drones were born.

It was only in later years when the Internet had come into full swing where they decided to go full-suit with releases such as the Riptide, but if we talk about the OG design of T'au and the first decade? Nothing to do with anime or "fishing for weebs". The fish would not be coming to that spot for almost a decade, and it would take a bit more before their numbers were plentyful enough to make it worth casting a line out.

#random rant #wh40k #T'au #tau empire #warhammer 40k

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assistant-honcho · 14 days

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If i had infinite time and money for kitbashing i would make a Necron army whose phaerakh has specific damage from the great sleep that caused her to lose her belief that Necrons are the superior race. As a result, some T'au Ethereals were able to convince her to believe in the Greater Good. The warriors and stuff are all subservient anyway they'll fall in line and help the T'au out.

#196 #warhammer 40k #wh 40k #40k #necrons #tau #t'au #t'au empire #wh40k #kitbashing

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potpourrifandoms · 11 months

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Behold! The first minis I’ve ever painted! I thought I’d start with some drones (stealth drones, I think?) as practice before I do anything else. I don’t know if they look good or not, as I don’t know a lot about miniature painting, but I love the little guys anyway. Their names are Droney and Maximiliano. :)

Also, because I love both the T’au Sept colours and drawing clothes, here’s some T’au fashion design because I couldn’t help myself. Sorry.

Some very fancy Ethereals

Water caste, my favourite :)

Some Earth caste friends

The Air caste are very tall and thin.

No Fire caste because I didn’t feel like drawing armour, and I still haven’t got any good ideas for what alien sci-fi parade/dress uniforms might look like. And also because they’re my least-favourite caste.

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