Tau Battlesuits - When science goes to war l Warhammer 40k Lore

[@srbrant5391]

Even the Adeptus Mechanicus are impressed by T’au technology, though they find the T’au’s total ignorance and disregard to the ways of the Machine God to be disgusting in the extreme.

[@Elrond_Hubbard_1]

The Adeptus Mechanicus loves all that machine-god crap, the facts are on the table on this issue. The T'au have created power armour and weaponry that can go toe to toe, and even surpass sometimes the highest levels of current human technology. That's fact one. Fact two - The T'au don't believe in or give two sh*ts about a 'machine god'. Conclusion. If the Machine God was a real thing, then it would matter whether or not you believed it and took action on it. Like the Machanicus, constantly anointing guns with oil and incense and praying over it. By comparison alone, the T'au don't do any of that and their machines are just as good if not better, and also they're _getting_ better, whereas the Imperium's tech is going backwards. So if there really is a machine god, at the very least it doesn't favour those who believe in it, clearly. Even if you think it's real, you're better off ignoring it maybe, like the T'au do. Copy what works, y'know?

[@gabrielsmith771]

@@Elrond_Hubbard_1womp womp xeno lover

[@fireborn]

@@Elrond_Hubbard_1They don’t matter as the Grandfather will still welcome them to his garden in time.

[@hehitmeinthekneegur1551]

I love how there is an acute thinking down below then there is 2 replies of full retardation.

[@Razzy1312]

@@gabrielsmith771 We live for the greater good, you're beholden to and demagogue.

[@teknofreak2387]

Imagine being an alien with advanced technology and a cast bred for war enhanced by technology just to be beaten to death with a shovel by some mute guy in a gasmask

[@furiousfilth1768]

Never underestimate the mute guy….. especially with a shovel.

[@genericscout5408]

That's cause Imperial shovels are made out of super alloys that can increase force projection by 20x. Strong enough to cave in parts of modern tanks.

[@AshtonCoolman]

Krieg aren't even mute. They're just introverts

[@gstvntt]

By far the best chance at a decent and meaningful life in all of 40k

[@stanboyd1]

depends on your caste, you could be deigned to just clean toilets your whole life.

[@1LLog1K]

_inhales..._ *"H E R E S E Y ! ! !"*

[@ChosenTripster01]

"decent" yes "meaningful" no :p

[@itsuk1_1]

@@stanboyd1 still better than 99% of the imperium civilian

[@ForbiddenCloudGaming]

obligatory "but their actions aren't their own!" comment.

[@mrbuck5059]

If i was living in the 40th millennium id be with these guys. Id betray the crappy Imperium. Humans did it to themselves.

[@galomir833]

Inquisitor want to know your location (already have it)

[@jacksoncordray1593]

they sterilize you. all of the client races of the tau get sterilized upon entering the tau empire, aside (presumably) from kroot mercenaries, as they are hired

[@teknofreak2387]

You will be thought controlled. At least in the imperium you can think free. You shouldnt say what you think though😂

[@ranger36100]

Heresy

[@hypothalapotamus5293]

Traitor Humans: We love you Tau. Tau: Congratulations. You have been promoted from devil men to friendly devil men.

[@andrewzoleta129]

Orks clearly have the best technology

[@tonecruise8277]

X-WEE battlesuit!

[@jrr7031]

Yea! What the hell is that?!?!!?!??!

[@asamanatananana]

He flip flops on pronunciations all the time. Says something one way, then 5 second later the same word completely different.

[@hydra7094]

@@asamanatananana its almost like its not real person ...

[@1LLog1K]

Weeeee! Antigravity!

[@1LLog1K]

​@@asamanatananana like cust-ōds, instead custodé-s

[@Jimmy-p9n]

I like that they don't waste their best battlesuits on those with less experience. Best kit for best o' the best

[@creightonleerose582]

Akin to the German crews recruited to run the heavies/Schwere Tiger 1's during WW2....

[@GlorinMF]

Yeah, only way up is to prove yourself, no preferential treatment based on other factors

[@night8285]

Can you give me examples? I'm new to Warhammer lore.

[@Jimmy-p9n]

You'd think the TAU would eventually win if they keep creating new tech

[@mellasio3911]

you think human DINT invent this in the past ????? what did happen with the technological advance race( in 40k) ....????? human at the pick was better that eldars

[@heisnotlongbutthin]

Nah the imperium, although completely incompetent has a million planet's, 30.000 of those are Hive worlds. If we do some very conservative math, the imperium has (to deal with) 10. billion new Borns a day. Even if you arm only 1% of those and just with spears I don't care how advanced the Tau are they cannot produce enough ammo or energy for their weapons to deal with the imperium.

[@jesperengelbredt]

@@heisnotlongbutthin Depends on the tech. For example, if the Tau developed technology that could block imperial spaceships from moving in large areas of space, like a kind of artificial warpstorm, not even the custodes themselves would make any difference since they wouldnt be able to even reach the fight. The Tau could simply cover their entire territory in such a field and slowly expand it to where they want to expand their empire.

[@heisnotlongbutthin]

@@jesperengelbredt Yeah that is a fact. But in case the imperium ever decides to do something against the Tau can at least surround Tau Space to make 100% sure the Tau are not able to put up new warpstorms. IF the Tau can decide were to have warp storms and don`t need to be anywere near AND those starts are impenetrable - that means the tau are already the strongest race and nobody other than chaos can beat them.

[@mellasio3911]

@@jesperengelbredt mate ...dosent ..tech can be corrupted by chaos ......you know what they pary , tech adepts , because chaos corruption is chaos spores and can only be purge by devotion and stuff related with emperor ...read about the time when they found that super advance TITAN and they burn it coz was corrupt , they are couple example for time when emperors presence clence the machine ...i think was when the astronomicus was corrupt ...and ruin storm and stuff like that ....read about mephiston who can travel almost freely in search of lost brothers to the thirst and darkness ....so na TAU .....IS JUST FOR FUN THERE

[@vontheunknown7982]

The Tau themselves, now have a Tau goddess, which may cause problems even could cause a Tau civil war, But what do you guys think?

[@lbxlunchbox2309]

Slanessh will be thrilled.

[@Elrond_Hubbard_1]

Need more information. Is she a Goddess in the sense of like a Chaos God, or does she physically exist in real space as an entity, like The Emperor? What is she exactly?

[@BurgerofMan]

Really? I had no idea, thanks.

[@satch5471]

​@@Elrond_Hubbard_1basically the greater good given a form, but its because of the humans in the tau empire that believe in it. Funnily enough it kind of looks like the emperor.

[@DustinWebb82]

I just want new tau lore. 😂

[@_Reverse_Flash]

X-PeePee Batlesuit

[@seanbrazell7095]

When Belisarius Cawl secretly creates an alien race he doesn't fu*k around. ☝️😉

[@Wonderpalm1979]

Hail Tau'va

[@conanq10]

Out of curiosity, why do you pronounce XV ex wee?

[@TheDukeOfDallas]

*Space Marine In Thumbnail* _Pffffttt! Ti's But A Scratch!_

[@dunnobutwayne]

Chaos Tau would be frigging cool

[@dirtyblonde1011]

Khorne IS actively trying to get Farsight to serve him...apparently, the sword he uses is khornate in nature(?) due to how it steals life force of those killed and adds it to the wielder's life span

[@Mr.Rhox69]

For the greater evil!

[@Azubrael]

That is not going to happen. Tau souls don't give as much value in the warp as Humans or Elves.

[@galomir833]

If I remember During a test of one of our warp drive they forgot the gellar field and somehow partially survive because they emit so little soul that most demon did not even see them

[@mykelengieza7057]

ALGORITHM

[@nogamenolife705]

Its all a load of wee.

[@Critterfurr]

Favorite channel on KZbin

[@EwanMiller-q9d]

The narrator is absolutely brilliant ❤

[@21beal21]

lol its a bot

[@findstr.s-hi-c._w]

Yeah!? Yeah!? WaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH!!

[@MechArenaChiller]

I am from adeptus mechanicus who are the noobs who say we are impressed by tau ? No one is impressed by tau.

[@genericscout5408]

Ciaphas Cain is one example of people impressed by Tau tech. Tau have better uniform tech than the Imperium.

[@MechArenaChiller]

@@genericscout5408again No one Cares Imperium IS manpower nothing to do With tech...

[@genericscout5408]

@@MechArenaChiller Imperium have on average 7 battle ships for an entire starsector. They're lacking manpower now too. All the Tau have to do is make it so each of their planets make 3 ships and they can outnumber entire crusade fleets of the Imperium. The Imperium will need an entire great crusade fleet just to take out the Tau. Something that the Imperium would rather use to hopefully retake some of the dark imperium.

[@NobleUnclean]

@@MechArenaChiller The Imperium are so dysfunctional and idiotically theocratic I have no doubt they would outright reject the Tau's assistance, even if they somehow knew how to completely repair the Golden Throne. The Imperium are fading into ruin twice the speed that the Tau are advancing. All the Tau really have to do is be patient - the Imperium is doomed to destroy themselves. Likely from their own absurd dogma, plucking failure from the jaws of success.

[@michaelbarnard8529]

You would think that technologically advanced engineers would know better than to wast time with humanoid vehicles, and just go with tank shaped ones.

[@Nidkidful]

In the Taros Campaign, it was specifically mentioned that the Tau eschewed larger humanoid war machines than the Broadside, instead using aircraft like the Tigershark AX-10 and Manta as titan hunters.

[@genericscout5408]

Humanoid weapons are sci fi. Also in 40k human shaped things are more manuervable.

[@wiredvibe1678]

Humans are very versatile.

[@richardvaldes3959]

HOLY MELEE

[@KubanaHAFANANA]

OK .. warhammer fluff - more and more op stuff :D

[@typhusthetravler]

X-WEEB

[@kitharrison8799]

Underrated 👍

[@fireborn]

Iron Hands space marine: The flesh is weak! Tau commander: Yes, it is! /opens fire/ Iron Hand: /grins under helmet/ Tau: /splattered/

[@The_Goon_Father]

X-weeeee

[@michaelhband]

👍👍👍

[@rabbidjeremy9193]

Weeeeeee.

[@mcchuggernaut9378]

"Dense, durable, and incredibly light-weight" - Yes, this is made-up space magic, but something that is dense cannot also be light-weight. Physics doesn't work that way. The denser an object is, the more matter is crammed into a given space. This is why a square foot of gold is incredibly heavy (Or "massive" - weight only applies in a gravity well, while mass applies universally), and a square foot of Styrofoam is not. Ideally, to make armor, you want a material that is as light as possible while being as tough as possible - again, gold is dense and heavy, but also very soft. Steel is much lighter than gold, but also way tougher. Now we humans have developed advanced ballistic materials like Kevlar, carbon fiber, ceramic plates, etc... The Tao would be using advanced material science to make light but tough armor, not dense armor.

[@Victor-vj5ds]

You can theoretically make something denser by decreasing the space between the atoms while also having a very light nucleus. Shifting the position of the atoms will effect the crystal structure of the solid so who knows what actual results will be. Their is also the fact that you can migrate atoms into an existing solid and fill voids within its molecular structure making it more dense but also heavier.

[@mcchuggernaut9378]

@@Victor-vj5ds "You can theoretically make something denser by decreasing the space between the atoms while also having a very light nucleus." - That's....not how it works. Crushing smaller atoms closer together just increases density again. You can crush atoms together until they fuse, even to the point that you get pure neutrons (Like in a neutron star) but a teaspoon of that stuff weighs the same as Mount Everest. You cannot, I repeat, cannot, make a less dense material by physically crushing "lighter" atoms or molecules together. - Take some bubble wrap that fills a certain volume of space. Then take the same volume of space and fill it with popped bubble wrap. This has increased the density of the popped bubble wrap by shrinking the space between the atoms of the plastic that make the wrap. Now weigh the popped wrap: it will weigh much more than the same volume of the un-popped wrap. This is middle-school level physics. Higher density = more mass/weight for the same amount of volume occupied.

[@Victor-vj5ds]

@mcchuggernaut9378 i know exactly what you are talking about, thats why i mentioned atom migration in solids just making things heavier. Of course crushing atoms together makes them denser. But if you took regular elements that are light like hydrogen and Lithium and crushed them into a structure thats not possible with our current understanding you can make something thats very dense but RELATIVELY Light. Some exotic meterials theoretically exist on the surface of neutron stars where iron atoms are crushed into an unbelievably strong structure billions of times stronger than steel.

[@the_smog581]

Shut up

[@mcchuggernaut9378]

@@Victor-vj5ds No, you do not understand the concept of "density". Density is the amount of mater contained in a given volume. Things that are light yet strong have less mass but a structure - either chemical bonds or physical structure like a honeycomb, which allows this. And in order for mater in the state you suggest, which may form on a neutron star, to exist, it would require not only a density where it weighed the same as an entire mountain, it would instantly, violently, exit it's state without the incredible gravitational force required to hold it together. So unless you are able to manipulate gravity locally to the point of that of an effing NEUTRON STAR, you couldn't form these materials, and even if you could they would weigh so much they would instantly slam into the surface of a planet and sink through it's crust to it's core. On top of that their localized gravity would suck everything surrounding the object into them like a miniature black hole on their way to the local planet's core, or to the point in space they occupied. Even further, a neutron star is the heaviest state of matter possible without a collapse into a black hole - it is literally a mass of neutrons, and elements like Iron cannot exist under such gravitational forces - they break down into protons, neutrons, electrons, and neutrinos, and the free protons undergo "Electron Capture" to become more neutrons. Look, what you are proposing is not possible. Even funky in-between states of matter like "Ice 3" require pressures and temperatures that can only exist in very special places like the outer cores of massive gas giants or in tiny spaces inside very specialized and hardened lab machinery, and the second you try to take the materials out into lower-gravity/pressure/temperature environments they cannot hold their form and decohere, violently. Ordinary water is a funky thing when you freeze it - it's structure re-forms and it gets hard, much tougher than water, but it gets LIGHTER because it is less DENSE per the same volume, which is why ice floats on water. And you cannot solve this problem by "using lighter atoms" as you put it. Take 3 jars of equal volume. Fill the jars with marbles and glass sand. Use larger marbles in one jar, sand in another. Weigh the jars - the one with smaller marbles will be heavier than the large marbles, and the sand will weigh the most. Why? smaller marbles can fill a space with less space between them than the large ones, but sand leaves even less empty space, yet they all fill the same volume. You cannot make a material lighter by making it more dense. This is a fundamental law of nature.

[@cameronway7037]

use your own voice, bruv

[@cassobandz]

Who voice is this? lol

[@ericgerroir7763]

I love it. So easy to fall asleep to

[@cameronway7037]

@@ericgerroir7763 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5TRlmecqbxkhpo

[@JKavanagh-tq8rp]

Use your own handwriting, ron.

[@cameronway7037]

@@JKavanagh-tq8rp 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖘𝖎𝖌𝖒𝖆𝖗

[@dkongplay4861]

oh ja. Nennt es Warhammer 40k Lore aber nennt keine Quellen. Und dann erst die Miese KI Stimme. Daumen runter!

[@ImperialIterator]

Working on improving the German audio at the moment (:

[@AGPMandavel]

He didn’t comment on the German audio

[@mad8764]

Boring plot armor for boring race

[@heisnotlongbutthin]

Sure sure Tau are cringe and all that. But Commander farsight has an awesome lore don't you think 🤔

[@mad8764]

Sorry but i cant find anything awesome in Tau​@@heisnotlongbutthin

[@Volvith]

@@mad8764 Then you're either just not interested in that aspect or the lore, or not looking hard enough (or really at all). Is the T'au existing convoluted? Yeah, i don't think anyone will argue against that. But there are absolutely interesting bits of the lore. If you don't like it that's fine, but objectively stating that there's nothing awesome/interesting in T'au lore is just disingenuous.

[@SarsTheSecond]

@@mad8764 and you can in lab meat called Space MArines? Braindead mucle mutants on steroids.

[@aprince1250]

​@Volvith why is the Tau's existence convoluted? I'm not very knowledgeable on 40k lore and would be interested to hear your explanation.

[@imagmahd7307]

My guy you’ve put Astartes armor as the thumbnail, scraping the bottom of the barrel for effort.

[@damianluther7191]

you're tripping 😂

[@imagmahd7307]

@@damianluther7191 Nah nigga im right

[@michaelhband]

👍👍👍

[@Eleonora_16p]

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