Bemusements of the Bored

You brought me to this. Hooray for inter-blog debates.

Anyways, I believe the Tau are good and idealistic, possibly the nicest race in the universe, but only because you hear of them within their culture, but practically never from any other race’s point of view. They’re based after the Communist Regimes of the 1900’s, where the people were kept in line simply because they were brainwashed and none knew the real story. In Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, when you beat the Tau campaign, there’s a tidbit of fluff in there about them integrating the Imperial Guard armies into their ranks (and they looked awesome at that) but they ‘mysteriously’ never really procreated, and were killed off in a generation or two because of sterilization programs. I am a Tau fan, but I can’t just say they aren’t pure good. Something is happening in there that we don’t know about.

Also, I just want to put in my ideas about Commander Farsight (non-40k fans can stop reading now). I don’t believe that he’s being corrupted by Chaos, since the blade he wields is obviously of Chaos origin. I heard somewhere that Tau have practically no (none at all, maybe) psychic imprint on the Immaterium. The Chaos Gods are aware of them, but can’t ’see’ them. That’s why Tau need to take advantage of a race they subjugated to travel through the warp, and even then, they ’skim’ across its fabric. I just think that Commander Farsight realized that the Ethereals are taking advantage of the Tau, so he killed the ones in his fleet. Maybe the Ethereals have some psychic or pheromonal thing that allows them to control the Tau. Something sinister, because, as you said, the artwork in recent works has grown a lot darker and more grim concerning the Tau.

Anyways, enough rambling from me. I heard you got a Canon EOS 400D. Is that true?