- 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
Yeah I always point that out when people call them ‘space commies’ and such, no faction in 40k is the ‘good guys’, there’s also the 4th sphere expansion faction who want to purge the T’au empire of all humans and other auxiliary non-T’au races(because they are more physic than the T’au race and their belief in the ‘greater good’ as given birth to the Goddess T’au’va warp entity which they consider an abomination as the GG is meant to be a secular materialist philosophy and not spiritual/religious)
Still the quality of life for the average human citizen or auxiliary in the main T’au empire is much better than that of the average hive-worlder or guardsman in the Imperium, its only when you take the threat of Chaos into account that you can argue the Imperium is ‘better’(for humans at least)
But getting off track with tangential opinions here, I only meant to comment on the varying relations to AI between factions as why imo the T’au’s approach to AI is healthier than that of the LoV
In the future I hope we get some more canon info on the Demiurg, who are squats that have joined the T’au empire(or are at least mercenaries for them like the Kroot are) and their specific use of AI, could be an interesting avenue to explore some of the issues around artificial life
I would argue the tyranids are about as close as you can get in terms of being “good”. Just an intergalactic force of nature consuming anything in its path indiscriminately for survival.
Not so good for non-tyranids, but I see what you’re saying that their motivations are hunger and survival and not anything inherently malicious. however the same(lack of inherently malicious motivations) can also apply to several other factions or at least sub-factions within those
And the lore on this point is fuzzy and as been retconned several times, but its often implied nids were a created bio-weapon species rather than a natural evolution/force of nature
Even if that’s the case the fault would be with the creators. The tyranids couldn’t be held responsible for being created the way they are. But yes, they are bad for anyone who’s not a tyranid obviously lol
True, I’m just saying they’re not necessarily a ‘force of nature’(in academic terms, rather than as a simile or metaphor i.e. ‘like a force of nature’), not that being so or not affects the maliciousness or lack thereof of their motivations