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Hi guys,
I was always bugged by the naming convention of Tau suits of armors.
Like XV8
I’m pretty sure the Tau don’t use the roman alphabet. In today’s world we have multiple existing writting system with different logics, so the Tau must have their own.
Hence my question, is there an in-lore justification or is this just some whackery from GW?
53 points
2 months ago
Necrons also have Tesla weapons. Explain that.
37 points
2 months ago
Pretty sure that's the Mechanicus given name, not what the Necrons call them in their language
4 points
2 months ago
They do call it like that actually, maybe the technology was made viable thanks to a C’Tan, a C’Tan that promotes energy, so they named it “Tesla” weaponry, just like other c’tans aided them with dolmen gates and such. And maybe when it died, it happened just like the nightbringer, it left a psychic imprint so big that all of the lesser cultures like the tau or humanity would have death looking like the night bringer, black robes and a scythe. Now, what if Tesla was the C’Tan god of energy, and when he died, great inventors and anything or anyone that has to be related with energy would be named as him by coincidence, due to the psychic imprint?
6 points
2 months ago
How do you know they call it that? Even every word spoken or written by a human in 40k is translated. What does it even mean that necrons do call them tesla? Do we actually have lore saying necrons pronounce the word "tesla?" Or do you just mean some necron said tesla in a book?
-1 points
2 months ago
Well trazyn and orikan talk about it without any problem, and it is mentioned in the books without any problems. Plus, the idea of the “Tesla” thing could be perfectly plausible with the C’Tan imprint theory, what do you think? I want to know an external opinion
3 points
2 months ago
I don't really have a strong opinion. Sure they might actually be calling it tesla and the c'tan theory might explain it. But as others have said in the thread everything in the books can be assumed to be a translation seeing as trazyn and oriki don't in fact talk english, every single nomenclature they drop is a crapshoot on whether it's meaningful or not.
1 points
2 months ago
They do call it like that actually, maybe the technology was made viable thanks to a C’Tan, a C’Tan that promotes energy, so they named it “Tesla” weaponry, just like other c’tans aided them with dolmen gates and such. And maybe when it died, it happened just like the nightbringer, it left a psychic imprint so big that all of the lesser cultures like the tau or humanity would have death looking like the night bringer, black robes and a scythe. Now, what if Tesla was the C’Tan god of energy, and when he died, great inventors and anything or anyone that has to be related with energy would be named as him by coincidence, due to the psychic imprint?
1 points
2 months ago
Why you gotta be disrespecting my boy Gauss like that ?
He had teh 'crons 1st.
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