YARRICK VS THE TAU EMPIRE! THE CONFLICT OF THE GREATER GOOD

[@burniejarvis9298]

I'm not surprised at all. As much as I dislike the Tau, they do offer the normal man a better life. And Yarrick is a pragmatic man. He wouldn't hesitate to do what he thought was best. He may not personally like it, but he is loyal to his core.

[@zanthimos]

An innocent man wrongfully executed in the Imperium?! Who'd've thunk it!?

[@sakomanlee]

Are you really surprised? I knew the Imperium didn't care about justice when an assassin was sent after the noble, pure, and innocent hero known as Konrad Curze.

[@KageRyuu6]

The comparison is perhaps more accurate than even you realize, but there is one glaring difference that can never be overlooked, only through the Imperium is the continuation of the Human species guaranteed, to serve the Tau Empire is to surrender the survival of your species to the whims of another.

[@KaiserAfini]

Whims which are stacked against you, since they think humans generating a Tau'va god is seen as heretical, with some Tau advocating for the death of theor human allies.

[@00yiggdrasill00]

It would probably be worth it if the tau could do it, survival is absolutely vital. But they can't. The tau don't have a clue what their galaxy is like. Not just the other species but it's crazed underlying rules that contradict themselves for the fun of it. The greater good is doomed. The tau will either die following it, or abandon it as they become the next imperium. Never forget that mankind once followed their path to an even greater height before it all went so very wrong.

[@antonscott1585]

In the case of the Imperium, if it survived it guarantees the survival of one species, but the extermination of all others. And as the video shows it does not care at all if it's a prosperous humanity or a suffering one, or it might prefer that humanity is downtrodden as to easier suppress them. If the Tau Empire survives it guarantees the survival and prosperity of all it's members. While self determination is good it's not offered by either side really.

[@MrVlad12340]

@@antonscott1585Imperium is humanity, simply one of its iterations. When its no longer needed it will be torn apart by the same forces that made it and let humanity “go free” even if by accident. Tau Empire will never let humanity reach its full potential, because it was not built to eventually unravel.

[@antonscott1585]

@@MrVlad12340 The Imperium is not Humanity no matter how much it tries to convince everyone that it is. There are stellar nations outside of it. Humanity is also constantly trying to escape the Imperium and when they do the Imperium brings as much fighting power it can spare to put the separatists down, beat them up and enslave any who survives. The very nature of the Imperium also breads chaos cults with their suppressive nature. The Imperium is not designed to collapse, it is doing so and when/if it does collapse all that awaits mankind then will be a thusand warlords fighting over it's corpse. If you look at it that way you might as well say something like "When the galaxy is united underneath the greater good then the non-tau may step up and take their place as our equals in the galaxy" or some variation of that. Using a hypothetical like that is a weak argument and if we delve into that the possibilities are endless. And lets also reiterate the Imperium exterminates every other sentient race it encounters, with some few exceptions with some major caviats. No matter how much of a non-threat they are the Imperium will kill all of a species if they find them and can spare the manpower. The Imperium will not let any other race reach their full potential either, because they will kill all of them. At least with the Tau Imperium most races have a future.

[@TheDukeOfDallas]

Holton - "I didn't shoot anybody, I'm a Patsy!"

[@davidmiddleton7958]

Hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm, Yarrick and the Tau? The Greater Good meets faith in the Imperium! Yarrick is a competant leader, knows how to bolster his troops morale. Know thy enemy is still important in the 41st Millenium, Yarrick has never been up against the Tau. Their weapons and tactics only known to him through Departmento transcripts. But, his record in battle is it's own story. Yarrick's life is war, so, little would be able to shake his faith!

[@Clasteau]

This is what it all became the moment Big E became chair bound.

[@evilmiera]

It was there even before. Empire is always immoral.

[@Clasteau]

@@evilmiera yeah, but I think that was the nail in the coffin moment.

[@ThelastofNazarick]

​@Clasteau an empire is not inherently more or less evil than any other form of government. There are some dictatorships that are less evil in their deeds and creations than democracies and republics. Ivan the terrible was less of a killer than the united nations murder records. Fewer people have fallen at maos hands than those of the slaver kingdoms of Africa.

[@tuehojbjerg2549]

​@@ThelastofNazaricknice total bulldhut mao killed close to 60 million the slavers dont even come close. And the United Nations have not killed anyone it is not an independent entety

[@galbert117]

Abydos? Good, SG-1 doesn't have to go save it again.

[@Carbonblak]

I'm liking the 22 mins + with the lore your doing .

[@kenrudd6362]

the greater good is coming to you at the end of my bolter alien

[@timothylyons5686]

The great Khan knew the emperor was a liar.

[@Kristian.B.Kristiansen]

He did. He was critical of all "stable" regimes and governments. Stasis was anathema to Him.

[@TheDukeOfDallas]

Funny thing that the White Scars are supposedly as fast as the Wind itself but were so slow with attempting to make it back to Holy Terra.

[@timothylyons5686]

@@TheDukeOfDallas the Great Khan and the White Scars did make it back to terra though. The Lion, Gulliman and Russ were missing in inaction

[@muhammadedwards8425]

All hail the Great Khan, the best Primarch

[@muhammadedwards8425]

​@@TheDukeOfDallasTbf, the Khan was close to Horus and grew to disagree with not just the Emperor but the Imperium itself. It wasn't his fastest ride, the only reason he chose the Imperium was because he saw Chaos as worse. I wouldn't be surprised if he would start working with Xenos and distance himself from Terra if he returned

[@Xcyper33]

You can argue Tau is the most dangerous amongst the Imperium's enemies. Not because of how strong they are, but the fact that their way is legitimately enticing in far more healthier ways than Chaos powers. They make members of the Imperium WANT to join them.

[@muhammadedwards8425]

I mean they are better in many ways to the empire. The Imperium factions are still my favorite, but Tau is objectively better to live with and under

[@davidgarcia-wb1yn]

Chaos make you WANT to join, too. And, no, T'au is not, by any measure, the most dangerous of the Imperium's enemies. Not by a longshot.

[@davidring681]

@@muhammadedwards8425 idk. Tau are very class based and they put people in segregated classes so I guess if you have nicer stuff it’s ok to be segregated but in the newer tau books they are actively killing humans due to how easy humans can be possessed and turned to chaos tho they don’t understand chaos yet. So maybe not the best place to be as a human. At the whims of alien masters with mysterious agendas.

[@carlzerris6566]

@@davidring681 To be fair the Tau killing auxiliaries were only the survivors of the Startide Ballsup. Said Tau are either reeducated or basically put in a suicide squad. Honeslty best place to be a human would probably be the Farsight Enclaves. They literally just have a world to themselves to do whatever on.

[@sardonicspartan9343]

Only tempting the the ignorant and naive.

[@akumaking1]

Isn’t Yarrick dead at this point?

[@FireRevanShadow]

Wouldn't you like to know. But all signs point to yes he is currently dead.

[@ryanperez5457]

Probably, maybe. Either way, time in 40k isn't strictly linear. Especially the order in which we may get information

[@mpbros207]

He’s kind of in the same state Ciaphas Cain is. “He’s dead” is used a lot. But nobody outside of the people who are there would know.

[@browniechann88blackie55]

Before the lions return I'm betting the inquisition made a gamble similar to the tyranids goad the orks into fighting angron trouble was it worked too well

[@gigglehurtz3167]

only until they need to improve sales.

[@Archangel1862]

Why was the Armageddon Steel Legion there? Isn’t it a PDF?

[@mill2712]

PDFs can be used and deployed as needed if the imperium deems it necessary. Especially if that PDF is a proven value asset or other more desirable assets aren't available.

[@Archangel1862]

@@mill2712 Then why have so many Imperal Guard regiments? And every thing I have heard, seen, and read never said that at all.

[@AndyDavis-j9p]

How?.... Cadians are used all over the universe not just on cadia...same with catachan.​@@Archangel1862

[@jonyoung3547]

unlikely fight considering the tau empire and farsight enclaves are half the galaxy away from Armageddon... literally on opposite sides of the ultima segmentum...

[@alastor8091]

I wonder how Yarrick fights Tau being that he's a melee Chad.

[@ForWeAreMany]

>Holton: I didnt do it >Yarrick: clearly not, too frail and weak of sight to pull it off >one Whodunnit Later >Yarrick: the investigation shows corruption within the planetary nobility. aside from myself and a fellow official, you are the only one who knows >Holton: I'm still going to die, huh? >Yarrick: Yeah, but not for the crimes you're being accused, at least internally, this is to keep up appearances to the masses, believe me, tis shit pains me greatly to tell you >Holton: well, time to practice what i preached. For the Greater good of The Imperioum, I'll lay day my life for it. *BLAM*

[@robertflynn4215]

Please sound The Moritat Protocol victorus Aut Mortis brothers.

[@Blipvertus]

The aesthetic of the Tau and their background are what attracted me to 40k. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some space marines, but the Tau just seemed more sci fi. But you make a good point, switching loyalty in the 40k universe can be extremely dangerous. Being a Gue’vesa can be deadly. But being a loyal subject of the Imperium can be soul crushing as Commissar Yarrick has learned.

[@samhobbs9116]

Any books about Yarrik?

[@chengchin5073]

Only book I know is Helsreach where Grimaldus a Reclusiarch of the BT was admiring a commissar for his faith in our God Emperor of Mankind.

[@schizeinbornheim7732]

OK new dark heresy campaign here

[@erichoughton4128]

I think the tau get eaten.

[@Spartan135]

By Nids,right?

[@erichoughton4128]

@@Spartan135 yup

[@andrewwightman8066]

Yarak in my opinion is the most bad ass un augmented human in the entire imperium the old man as they call him is respected by the Average guardsman and Chapter master alike we all know that space marines are argent especially when it comes to normal humans but when yarak talks they listen he has ernd every bit of that respect with his actions on the battlefield

[@soccerandtrack10]

22:10 if nastromo can stop, guiliman just needs to fight 1 planet at a time,then not fail like after the draft started on nastromo,and make policies to stop the fascism on each planet.

[@thug4lyfe]

The Greater Good Prevails!!!

[@Ethan-0000]

Strengfff and Fayfff 😆

[@vitaliyred622]

Bring Yarrick BACK!

[@reallyreallymacroscule]

I like this a ton cause it readdresses the flaws of the Imperium drastically, I typically hear from Imperial fanatics talking points as "Ethereals uses pheromones it isn't a true empire" but so what? Is it worser than psycho-indoctrination in widespread use. Or Psycho-drugs to break someone down past the point of being a blank canvas to become a assassin or a repentant pawn for some shortsighted gain? The Tau Empire is the closes thing we had to the Federation of Man or Human Empires that prospered and were wiped out during the Great Crusade only to become a backwater with no resources due to Terra hoarding everything like a proverbial Dragon of the Cave. Hoarding riches to itself and doing *nothing* with it other than to rest on it's degenerating laurels. And I fully expect Guilliman to fail, for it was already set to stone by letting the Imperial Creed to continue on without making maneuvers to weaken or implement a vasty overhauled Truth just like how he did an overhaul on the Astartes with the Primaris. He had to clean house with taking out Nobels without actually cleaning up their household acts and instead went on yet another Crusade which keeps getting sidetracked. If that isn't a recipe for failure by attrition I don't know what is.

[@thelardmaker6806]

That and the whole pheromone thing is meme lore if any of these so called fans bothered to read xenology which os the source, by the end of the book it showed that the necrons fabricated many of the inquisitors findings. The necrons themselves are trying to infiltrate the inquisition.

[@MrVlad12340]

You missing the core point - subjugation (willing or not) by any other species is an end of the greatest claim to the Galaxy. Imperium , however it may be, allows humanity to maintain its claim, same as all other “greater” races do. To submit to the alien is to forsake the claim and forever become a footnote in someone else’s history.

[@rodddxlprime3153]

For The _____ !!! A. Emperor B. Greater Good C. bag of walnuts. It's a gimme dude. Come on!

[@bennyb.1742]

_______ For The _______!!!!! 1. Blood 2. Skulls A. Blood God B. Skull Throne

[@erenmeydanc8954]

​@@bennyb.1742blood for the emperor skull for the golden throne

[@rodneygaul2227]

It is as grim dark as it gets Etherals use mind / pheromone control . Farsight left once he was free of the influence , but still loyal to the Tau The Wehrmacht had same problem with a failed Austrian painter in mid 1930's to 1944 Etherals came to power during a Major Warp Storm ( makes you think ) Did the Tau have a rich religious minority group in the past sacrificed for the "greater good" ?? ( their lore is not very complete ) They have the ultra cool look just like SS uniforms , Luftwaffe's planes , Wehrmacht's Panzers & Kriegsmarine's "wolf packs" & pocket battleships ( Tau are numerical smaller also ) Remember GW uses humans history for story line plots

[@Matihood1]

Comparison to nazism? Seriously?

[@rodneygaul2227]

@@Matihood1 think outside of the box for a minute , you will see it . 1939 with the Wunder weapons & being out numbered , yet took most of EU over

[@Matihood1]

@@rodneygaul2227 No. No real-life comparisons in my escapism. Get outta here.

[@rodneygaul2227]

@@Matihood1 Warhammer is based on human cultures , I feel sorry for you

[@Matihood1]

@@rodneygaul2227 I feel sorry for you for not being capable of detaching yourself. I enjoy Warhammer for what it is, without *ever* needing to draw parallels. I suggest you do the same.

[@mrpilkington9710]

One empire running off of hope and fairytale nonsense the other running off of Duty and sacrifice in a hard universe

[@oatlord]

Could have written in some faked death narrative and had him free in the end. But that's not very grim.

[@4sparta968]

Send in the female Custodes to fix everything

[@soccerandtrack10]

5:35 would the emporor be allies with the tau?...

[@johnplummer4785]

They can’t fight in melee

[@MrVlad12340]

Never. He would in fact want to wipe them out especially hard cause its a matter of “only one place at the pinnacle” and humanity’s claim to the Galaxy.

[@johnplummer4785]

@@MrVlad12340 although he is smart enough to know a tool when he sees one. He’s probably ally and then betray

[@huguesfalk5956]

That’s why the tau do not belong to w40k, they are not grim dark. Like all other factions they are not better than grey on a morale scale (other factions might be deep black) but they do not have this vibe of despair all the other factions are supposed to convey

[@letmecommentstupidyoutube1338]

The glimmer of genuine hope in a world taken by the t'au only to be reclaimed by the imperium and it's population purged, the inevitable eternal fight against internal corruption threatening to undo the strength os the t'au like the Surestrike fiasco, the warp being a destabilizing threat either though chaos or the new t'au'va and all the other stuff are not grimdark?

[@henkdevrjes9640]

I feel that that's exactly why they add to the setting. Combined with the fact that this "hope" is very small and fledgling empire that can only exist because all the darkness surrounding it is to busy destroying each other.

[@ramonserna8089]

They are not "good" per se the "Greater good" can easily turn into a totalitarian communist regime in a heartbeat.

[@frederic94000]

Speed 1.25 perfect

[@jfowler5881]

There are a lot of folks that claim that they were merely doing their duty as they performed horrendous acts - from cops to politicians to soldiers and so on. It does not make them great nor do I feel for their "sacrifice" or sympathy for them or their motivations. I have grown to dislike Yarrick after this tale.

[@gooner_loomer]

begone tourist

[@Allhailthesith]

Its too late! BOBBY G can't reform the imperium

[@dkbros1592]

Lion can

[@Spartan135]

He's more focused on keeping it not imploding or dying. any "reform" could attract Tzeentch,and then it gets chaotic...

[@lisac.4167]

Tau propaganda

[@obliviouslich1722]

Imperium: "Perhaps, if we gave our citizens a better quality of life, they wouldn't turn so quickly to ideologies of xenos and chaos?" Inquisitors: NO! Space Marines: NO! Astra Militarum: NO! Eclisiarchy: NO! Chaos Gods: NO! Genestealer Cult: NO! Tau: NO!

[@WiseStrategist]

Guilliman: YES! Salamanders: YES Old Man Lion: YES! Lamenters: YES!

[@MrVlad12340]

It does not work like that sadly, plenty of peaceful and prosperous worlds became cult infested shitholes no matter how cushy the living was. So its plainly bot worth the effort…

[@crippletime]

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