The Nicassar A Tau Client Species Of Flying Psychic Pancake Bears! Warhammer 40k Lore

[@xion0713]

At this point Arch could tell me that magical purple unicorns were a vital part of the Necron infrastructure and i'd believe him

[@defectiveindustries]

Gauss tech comes from Unicorn farts

[@Kyeudo]

You didn't know? Those are what Necrons use as reactor fuel.

[@scurvydog20]

@arch I think we found the April first episode

[@slb797]

Its the only logical explanation of Necron logistics!

[@robouteguilliman6662]

@@KyeudoNecrons throwing all of Equestria into the furnace to keep the lights on

[@SuperPyst]

Fans: "We want space rats" GW: "best we can do is space bears"

[@myliqlanier6329]

We do have space rats! But they're all stuck on a planet that makes you stupid... I wish I was joking

[@someshtbaglcpl5455]

KISLEV

[@ivanivanovic5586]

Didn't they used to have the space rats(before the current iteration hrud took on the name)?

[@envynemo4170]

one page rules has got space rats

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

We have beast men at least

[@LetholdusKaspyr]

My headcanon is that these guys are basically interstellar hippies. They have all this psychic power, but no drive, no passion. They devote their lives to checking out what's over there. As such, the Chaos gods find them useless and disgusting. Like hippies.

[@robertnelson9599]

Brilliant

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

You know the fallen empires in stalris? I figured these pan cake bears are one of those.

[@Rakiarmas]

Khorne: UUUUGH! It's those dam space bears again.

[@LayannaNelson-zh9wh]

Now we need a giant multicolored bus floating through space.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

@@LayannaNelson-zh9wh do they take children on field trips too?

[@VoiceOfTheEmperor]

So... Zoran finally found his people?

[@osvaldojaviergalleguillosh8402]

Holy shit lol😂

[@MrPlainsflyer]

Zoran the Space Bear

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

Ice cream sandwiches for the blood god!

[@jabiraidan]

Idk who this Zoran character is but I wonder which section of space the great A'tuin is floating around

[@defectiveindustries]

Don't tell the Black Templars You know how they feel about furry things

[@saulschimek7680]

Or Magnus for that matter

[@jaybatsford]

"Avenge me Brother"

[@TheEldritchGod]

AVENGE ME BRUTHER! AVENGE MEEEEEEE

[@Jay_76]

"Psychic Pancake Bears" Arch? More like giant, sentient, friendly, psychic, Tardigrades.

[@SnlDrako]

Tardigrades are nearly indestructible. These little shits would be damaged by farting in their general direction. Literally. Not because of the shockwave, but one of the many, many, many problems with spending generations in essentially sterile environment is that their immune system must be close to shit tier, if anything, so the bacteria present in the fart could probably wipe out a good chunk of their population.

[@nogitsune4452]

"Also cute and fluffy!" -Stitch

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

I can spell pan cake bears easier so I like that name more

[@javik1929]

tradigrades are actually called "bärtierchen" in german which means "(diminuitive) bear animals"

[@andreasmuller4666]

Psychichly active, giant, fluffy, pancaked space tardigrades that are also peacefull. This has to be one of the most wholesome species in 40k or maybe the only one still getting out and about.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

I like the 40k space orangutans that are good with tech.

[@andreasmuller4666]

@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus they do build a lot of weapons though, so not exactly all that peacefull. But yeah Jokaero are pretty cool.

[@maninthemask6275]

While all other races of 40k are in the grimdark these guys are in the Star Trek universe just being friendly, and exploring space.

[@Snootenhoff]

Pancake Bears! flying here and there and everywhere, space adventures that's beyond compare, they are the Pancake bears!

[@NumptyMcGlumpty]

bastard, i just sung that

[@aliastheabnormal]

RIP Pancake bear guy.

[@MaticustheRed]

I have not thought of that cartoon in so long lmfao.

[@VioletDeathRei]

I love how T'au have become the dumping ground for every interesting Xenos GW comes up with under the premise that "They befriended them." _"Sir are you sure that species is capable of conversion let alone diplomacy?"_ _"By the Greater Good it will be when I'm done with it!"_

[@TheFatalcrest]

😂 im just imagining the tau probing one's brainwoth a electrode and forcing them to understand there language

[@umngyr]

i would like to think that the tau shooting back at the orks is basically just them engaging in ork diplomacy.

[@genericpersonx333]

In fairness, GW wrote themselves into a corner years ago when they pretty much made the Tau the ONLY major faction that does not end up killing everything else by design or neglect, so where else can GW put new minor species in without them being worked up as a big faction?

[@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120]

@@genericpersonx333 oddly enough... the dark eldar, comorragh is incredibly cosmopolitan and has an amazing variety of horrifying xenos species.

[@aliastheabnormal]

@@umngyr That is ork diplomacy. Period.

[@DCJMS]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Nicassar homeworld is a Daemon world & that's why they are so dedicated to being nomads

[@UGNAvalon]

Craftworld bears? 😅

[@AlessandroRodriguez]

I was just here, waiting for the most obscure piece of fluff from the 40K universe, and Arch Delivers. Comments for the algorithmic gods

[@revermen3580]

Tardigrades are really just itty bitty Nicassars.

[@vilwind3522]

Warhammer even has Care Bears ... you can see the 80's-90's influence.

[@tanall5959]

Flying pancake bears are precious and must be protected at all costs!

[@asdasd-ty9se]

*subjugated in the name of the god emperor

[@jeremyfeldmann7969]

How do they taste when cooked

[@indv11]

Meanwhile, the Orkz: LOOKS LIKE MEATS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!!!!

[@asdasd-ty9se]

@@jeremyfeldmann7969 honestly depends on what they’re eating, and I highly doubt they’re eating the right stuff to taste good

[@victorrosenheart8036]

No, give them to Drukhari!!

[@WizardJim]

My theory is that the Nicassar are a species of Wyrds - stable psykers with only one power that they can effectively use at will without danger, like 40K X-Men. As outlined in the old Inquisitor rulebook. Nicassar are all telekines, and *only* telekines, lacking the kind of flexibility of a human, eldar or ork psyker to evolve their powers in any direction like a wizard, but able to use what limited power they have with impunity.

[@60sSam]

Tau Scientist: "So you can propel the ship...with your mind? How?" Space Pancake Bear: "Don't know, it just works."

[@garywyse3904]

Someone wake up Dan Abnett, 30k still has a bit of juice left in it, pancake bears being brutalised during the Great Scouring is a possibility and could be canon.

[@_Carlos]

The Emperor shaking one oh the hands of the Space Tardigrade and agreeing to overlook them in the great crusade so that 40K can happen

[@sadwingsraging3044]

​@@_CarlosSuffer not the xenos to escape being used as rugs.😌

[@naughtymonkeyowrath7560]

Flying pancake psychic bears...only the Tau...FML. Hail Arch.

[@_Carlos]

The Ethereals must have reacted to the discovery of the space pancake bears the same way the Administratum reacted to Kreig rejoining the Empire.

[@ornu01]

Ah, the Tau. Wacky, wacky Tau.

[@thexenoist3493]

I believe in Shadowsun the Patient Hunter a Nicassar was able to use it's psychic power offensively against Nurgle daemons.

[@CyrodiilCome]

Yeah, she was able to be steady surge of power from god of Tau to undo nurgle stuff.

[@DarkVeghetta]

I'm chuffed to have lived long enough to finally see Arch making the videos he mentioned back in ye olden days of the _fabled first intro._ I can't quite recall when he first mentioned the space-pancake-bears, but I seem to remember dinosaurs walking the Earth at the time.

[@potandpoliticswithmr.broph1420]

I don't know the canon answer but my head canon is the Tau use their shield technology to create a really fine pointed teardrop shaped shield arrangement around their ships using horizon drive to deflect debris particles like sloped tank armor. I also like to think every once in a while the angle is just right or the shield flickers and they get turned into confetti by random space dust.

[@benjaminstorace6699]

Arch fading out instead of the music just adds to the goofiness of this whole thing.

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

The rest of the Inquisition is hauling him away for questioning. Again.

[@DetectiveLance]

The Nicassar: how Chaos Daemons are kept out of the Tau Empire.

[@whitemale2230]

I like to think the Nicassar use Tau-made drones for everything like heavy lifting and mining. As for their resources, they probably get new provisions and oxygen from the Tau merchant fleets. It would make better sense if they had more types of ships, like a giant hydroponics greenhouse ship that produced oxygen and food.

[@DocWolph]

The Nicassar are psychically benign to such a degree that the Warp really does not care even though they can clearly see them. This is similar to how some animals in nature just do not drew the attention of others despite be "ready meals on the hoof". This would genuinely be something for the Imperium to look into.

[@frazergreen6786]

I wonder what they'd taste like, may need to ask a Mortifactor

[@TKUltra971]

i've been dying to know more about the pancake bear men. and lo and behold.. arch delivers.

[@trixus4768]

Desmond, the Moonbear! "How did I get here?!" THE END 😂😂😂 (I wonder who will get this reference😂)

[@gorvarhadgarson5227]

Asdf movie!

[@UGNAvalon]

Part 2: _Nom’d by Tyranids_

[@Yellow13Firestorm]

Part 2 *B O N E S*

[@japatryk7795]

I like trains 🚅

[@j.redbeard99]

A good day is better because I now know about the flying, psychic, pancake, bears!

[@blah7956]

The Cain novels featuring the Tau would be more hilarious if they were included

[@Makorze]

Until they meet Jurgen and the Water Caste start struggling to translate thier sheer confusion and morbid curiosity of seeing a blank.

[@barryward2128]

Don't know about the other cain books but that first one is already pretty damn hilarious without the weird bear thingys

[@Makorze]

@@barryward2128 What's interesting Is that Nicissar know about human pskyers but give very vague/cryptic answers to the Tau - even Ethereals cant get a straight answer out of them on the subject, no doubt they dont want to risk he knowledge of Chaos corrupting then.

[@mykelengieza7057]

Lol ..this is what I tell my friends when they have a sore throat...USE A SANIWIPE WHEN MEETING LONELY TRUCKERS AT REST AREAS...FIRST DAY STUFF....

[@dualityomk9854]

Great way to sell us that you're a seasoned lot lizard

[@TheFatalcrest]

Arch just really really needed directions

[@Zach-er1rm]

This is why I follow Arch's content. Nobody else does these barely known races!Thank you so much.

[@NavisNobelite]

Some more lore. The Dhow is one of the most well armed escorts they have. In battle they are absolutely vicious and more durable than any other escort in the game! Slow, but insanely maneuverable.

[@Fulgrim2]

*Looks at the title card art* Arch I think you’re a bit early for April fools day.

[@blairscartoonshistory7477]

When I saw this I had to check if the Nicassar were really apart of 40k lore

[@viorp5267]

oh no, they not only are real and exist but also are some of the strongest psychers in the galaxy. Their space ships don't have engines. They are moved solely via telekinesis

[@NewGuy2534]

All I can imagine is the bear from Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law as its own faction.

[@HellsAsylum]

Me before watching the video: Man, april fools is early this year. Me after watching the video: Flying psychic pancake must be protected at all costs!

[@cortholiopezorama8879]

“We like to go fast. We are pancake bears.”

[@Juanconstantine]

Bear 🐻 pancakes 🥞 making bear 🐻 pancakes, bear pancakes that's what I'm going to make. Bear pancakes 🥞!!!!

[@mrbloodmuffins]

The closest thing the Nicassar have to an offensive weapon is the selfie stick which, while never intentionality used as one, does frequently cause great annoyance among intelligent life that they come across.

[@DizzyDisco93]

I'd like to think they have plenty of pictures of pancake bears doing duck faces

[@captain0080]

I've been exposed to enough Internet to safely assume they originally were someones inflation furfy fetish.

[@NetMoverSitan]

2:46 - Even at most, that would make the Tau barely a snack for daemons. Clearly the Tau understood how knowledge can be power, much like Magnus the Red (e.g. Spiky Tits) the Thousand Sons and the Blood Ravens (e.g. the Bloody Magpies) 9:00 - Probably for the best as it could lead to abominable intelligence. 13:09 - Perhaps it works by moving the universe around the ship? The Aether Drive might be slower by a factor of 5, but the time it takes to get to places is more consistent, rather than random, like it is with what most other species deal with, regarding Warp travel. The Tau might also supply what they need, while they supply the intel.

[@Anaught-tbrk08]

I just keep expecting them to be a Tzeentchian trap species.

[@oliveragag8576]

If the Kroot can get their own expanded model range then so can the Nicassars!

[@Belial1125]

How the fuck you just drop psych flying space bear pancakes on us without warning...

[@LethargicGM]

That's the best way to present them.

[@osvaldojaviergalleguillosh8402]

😂

[@lynxia1464]

Said the Imperial governor to the Tau water caste representatives 😆

[@DarkVeghetta]

You've had nearly a decade to prepare! No, really, Arch mentioned eventually making this video several years back and now here we are.

[@franzlechner6659]

Old lore floting bears. New lore avian . I demand owlbears!!!

[@ravageMK2]

So, basicly, the 40K equivalent to the "Flumpfh" from D&D.

[@BardicGM]

I really want to know what the guys at GW were drinking/smoking/snorting in the studio to come up with these things and can we get them some more of it? The current team could use the boost.

[@TheCreepyLantern]

that fade out at the end adorably sounded like Arch just cheerfully wondered off, still talking to us

[@viorp5267]

Finally, we learn about the absolute KINO of 40k

[@sasha1mama]

Actually, regarding the Horizon Accelerator, all they'd need to prevent the aforementioned death by grain of sand is to have an electromagnetic ramscoop on the front of the ship. Big net of projected EM that nabs all the little loose bits and spacejunk and funnels it into a material forge that basically burns it for fuel. It's how Terrans first crossed the gulf to Alpha Centauri (and later blew up half of it) in the Man-Kzin Wars books, and for its time, that setting was bone-hurtingly scientifically-grounded. So it's not that big a stretch.

[@stain1095]

All hail the pancake bears

[@robertocarlosvillanuevaver9689]

Thanks for keeping the Pancake lore in despite the lore changes.

[@dnillik]

If the Tau want high speed space flight like the imperium they just need a to have a Kroot shaper eat a navigator

[@carlolazol3209]

Honestly the bit where they aren’t kidnapped by Tzeentch and turned into a fluffy disc is the most egregious bit.

[@andrewgrinn3435]

Never heard about these species, I learned something new. Thank you.

[@sqocks8254]

I did not expect something like this to be a thing, but I approve. ^^

[@matthewdeleon382]

I imagine the nicassar have some measure of self sustainability on board their space ships. Greenhouses for growing food and water recycleing for starters.

[@FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL]

BFG needs to come back and with pancake bears

[@gorvarhadgarson5227]

Ah fitting, Tuesday was Pancake day!

[@tneal89]

I quite like that nearly every faction is reliant on the warp for travel to a certain extent, and that you have to reach the technology level of the Jakaru or maybe even the Necrons before a better alternative becomes available.

[@jabiraidan]

This is by far one of the strangest pieces of Discworld homages, a fluffy version of A'tuin with little more living on its surface than fleas.

[@shmee123ful]

Vulcan, probably: 'i wish to pet this creature' also likely why the imperume left them alone, is their utter disintrest in combat and passive nature i doubt even the most blood thristy of primearcs would even bother culling them.

[@jasonsantos3037]

Very interesting about the space flying pancakes pulled bears. 🌌🥞🐻‍❄️

[@rustyschackleford4762]

I love this. I love everything about this.

[@VictorianTimeTraveler]

They're like a giant tardigrades

[@fumarc4501]

The Nicassar remind me of the Skywalkers from the Chiss Ascendancy. They don’t know other force abilities, but they’re used to help navigate their ships in the particularly turbulent star lanes of their home system(s).

[@zanard33]

In the grim darkness of the far future, there are also furry things.

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

I could see the Orks running into these guys and being phenomenally bored with them. Not really putting up much of a fight and just sorta drifting around. So I could easily see the Orks just fucking off and leaving them alone after killing a couple 😂

[@LayannaNelson-zh9wh]

That's basically how Warhammer Old World Orks work; if they come across a settlement that isn't fighting back, they'll just loot the place and leave.

[@sigmundfreud7903]

Would have been more hilarious if this was a special weapon used by the inquisition.

[@g00fysmiley]

a black library aurthor got high, stepped on a gummy bear and began contemplating what if this flat bear was psychic and how could it fit into the universe. Mescaline is a hell of a drug i guess.

[@AdjutantReflex0]

Hope he at some point goes over the Rak'Gol from the Koronous Expanse An alien race that even the Orks think are absolutely bonkers!

[@sir-meatsheild]

Flying pancake bears are magic, Magic is hersey, cleanse & purge

[@MrPlainsflyer]

Bhahaha! Are you serious?!?!

[@ValgusOrdo]

Not gonna lie, when I saw this video I didn't immediately click it, but switched to my calendar app to see if it had suddenly become April Fool's Day.

[@michaeltalpas]

I like to think that peaceful species are actually quite common, it's just that they usually get rolled by whoever finds them first. I guess 'were' quite common would be a better way to say it.

[@zaqzilla1]

I'm guessing the Nicassar have stumbled onto a few Necron tomb worlds by accident.

[@envynemo4170]

finally more tau lore.

[@BeastofCaerBannog]

When i saw the thumbnail and title for this i felt the need to check the ingredients of the 7Up i was drinking......

[@kronos661]

Arch. May you be blessed plenty by the algorith and new subscribers. We know you deserve it.

[@Rakiarmas]

The Nicassar: Test the limit of your imagination.

[@oliveragag8576]

Clearly the highly psychic Nicassars are the real reason why the Tau goddess awakened.

[@Zarken26]

@Arch - out of curiosity have you ever done a video on how a Space Marine chapter is created, the logistics of building a new chapter and how a codex compliant chapter is structured? Also, I know you have done a video on the Imperial Navy, but didn't see anything about the types of ships and their weapon loadouts like in the Tau video. That would be cool too, I do love the Imperial Navy.

[@nyxorelius]

Someone was hungry when they created this creature

[@Motleydoll123]

i wonder if the horizon drive and aether drive could be maybe used in tandum in a small capacity. the aether drive primed and used first to create a temporary warp bubble of unreality that they can then use the horizon drive into for a split second, massively accelerating the ship in a relatively stable fashion, but with some potential disasterous risks if the timing of the activation of the horizon drive is done too late, as the subsequent innertia would cause the ship to be a shredded by the harsh reality of realspace. many a ship of the tau has likely been shredded by a ill timed horizon drive activation before they worked out a kind of way to either automate or sync the 2 drives together.

[@billyholland5156]

The Nicassar likely just mine asteroids and comets for the resources they need for resources.

[@flindude2681]

Tau Client Species Of Flying Psychic Pancake Bears.... this obscure and very important. It does seem kind of odd that with aliens with these crazy powers how they are not more dominant but tau like humans it seems to be being the jack of all useful trades and having more and bigger guns (tanks, flying tanks, or mechs) means you get to run the empire of aliens, or be the empire that replaces them.

[@1998topornik]

Creator of these things must have some good stuff.

[@99gummybear99]

What would be cool is IF the Tau can figure out how to reliably block psychic abilities. Maybe new type of drone or battle suits however they are extremely rare due to certain required resources.

[@matthewharr6881]

the tau drives ones faster than the other allow for a longer dive into the warp

[@matthewharr6881]

The Nicassar interestingly are limited to telekinesis and the newer Tau dives use a combination of antimatter and matter to distort the space they move through more to gain greater speed in their dives but this process also damages the dimensional space separating real space from the wrap

[@codyopperman5930]

Maestrom 2, eletric Boogaloo

[@vlaandhael]

not gonna lie, if the space bear are tardigrade, aka water bear, im super dow

[@DARKthenoble]

Who is to say Nicassar aren't already exploring the warp? Every ecosystem needs its prey after all.

[@martinmortyry7444]

The "implode into chaos" part could actually be a part of their backstory. Perhaps they travel through space all the time because their planet fell to Chaos, and they risk it happening to any planet they have a large population on for an extended period of time? Frankly, that would be a very 40k fate, and would make the Nicassar something more than adorable allies of The Tau.

[@TheSILENTBOB180]

Maybe they are all god emperor level psykers, and just make people ignore them and scare the chaos gods.

[@Snyperwolf91]

"Sir i dont understand if they wanna work with us or not ." "Let me handle this ! Flying pancake bear do you and your species wanna work with us or die-err i mean getting a friendly peaceful silence ?" * Bear growls * "Aha !! I take that as a yes !!" "How did you know ?" "They ate my Honey-cream-cheese-sandwich of friendship . Now those our new brothers !! " The T'au . The most naive idiots you find in the dark age of the 41st millenium . Grimdark about their understanding of consequences but bright about forced "companionship" .

[@desperado3236]

So these guys are basically psychic tardigrades (water bears) in space.

[@rootsnootthnute8598]

They're not really retconned, a bear can have a beak as easily as it can have six or more limbs and no eyes, because they're not actually bears, just like how Kroot aren't birds, and Orks aren't fungus. I'd argue the Niccasar are more like big tardigrades, hence the beak-like mouth parts, but they're not arthropods of any kind. No alien can belong to a clade from Earth, since they evolved from alien strains of life, which developed their own weird clades.