- live in an impenetrable fortress from which they launch raids on the innocent, never suffering the consequences of the evil they commit
- ruled by the most cruel and decadent amongst them, but don’t do anything about it because they dream of being on top of the horrific pyramid of torture and pain one day
- innately cruel and horrific society where seeing others suffer is the only source of pleasure
- slavers
- violence is the only language they understand
- sense of racial superiority
- entire sectors of society dedicated to coming up with evil and sadistic weaponry with which to commit war crimes
- hopelessly addicted to drugs of all kinds
- complete lack of compassion
- piracy
- love to torture
This is actually impressive. I can’t believe I never made the connection. Does that make us the Orks? Might be a bit tortured but there could be something there vis a vis critical mass and the Waaaaaaghhhh and the power of belief could be applied to pessimism of the intellect optimism of the will. Revolution is only possible if enough of us believe it is possible. Obviously the Tau are the one good faction but iirc they ret-conned the part about them being commies and it was revealed they are all under some sort of mind control which was such a dumb “twist”.
Orks are nazis and Tau are NATO. Can provide better explanations with citations if you want.
The Tau were never commies because the caste system has always been a part of their foundation. Their best analogue is probably the Incan Empire, safety, security, and plenty as long as you are comfortable in your spot on the hierarchy. Also the whole mind control thing has always been largely imperial propaganda. The newest Tau book, Elemental Council, provides strong explanations for why the Ethereals are followed without resorting to mind control nonsense.
Oh neat. Any place someone on a tight budget might find said book for relatively cheap? (Bonus points if audiobook ADHD brain must save that amount of mental energy for reading theory and posting).
Epub (Sorry it’s not Catbox - it seems to be down for me right now. Use an adblocker and use your discretion.)
Audiobook (1gb m4b)
Same caveat as the other link - I’m not familiar with this site etc. etc. but I can upload it somewhere else if you know of a better site.
Now where do I go to collect my points?
All canon I don’t like is imperial propaganda
This is unironically how GW decide to retcon the necrons
Actually true
I apply this to any media basically. The author said some dumb shit? No he didn’t. The sequel revealed this thing was way less cool than you imagined? No it didn’t, what sequel?
This is even true canonically, there’s no omnipresent narrator in 40K and even 1st person PoV can actually lie or be lied to.
There’s this ttrpg that I’ve been running for my friend which is so perfectly awful I’ve been treating the entire book as a hostile source written by the villains to besmirch the good name of the obviously heroic faction.
RaHoWa lol
I mean honestly if it’s all just fiction then who cares
‘This guy wrote down his imagination and his imagination has more validity than my take on his imagination’