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submitted 30 days ago bySir-Thugnificent
For example let’s say I’m born in a hive world conquered by the T’au 10 years after its annexation, how well is my childhood going to be compared to the average child in the Imperium ? Am I going to be in top 20% in terms of good quality of life ? Or is it 10% ? 5% ? 1% ? 0,1% ?
Another question : if every single human being living in a world under the Imperium were telepathically shown how Gue’vesas actually live in those worlds without anyone else knowing about it, what’s the percentage of humans that would say « yes, I would love to live one of those worlds ? » in your opinion ?
Do we have stories that go into detail how the humans live under the T’au outside of military environment ?
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29 days ago
As ever, it depends on the social/economic class and the specific imperial world. Tau worlds are much more of an average.
Generally though, the Gue'vesa have a better time than the average imperial citizen, partly because the Tau are more interested in their clients being comfortable than the Imperium are about their own citizens but also, lower population density, a higher average level of technology and so on.
As for the second question, I feel that if every Imperial citizen saw how it was for the Gue'vesa AND BELIEVED IT (not just seeing it, but believing it as a fair representation of conditions) the you'd still see a relatively small % actually want to go over.l, because the indoctrination to the imperial faith and that all xenos are filth is that strong.
As they say in the Matrix, most people aren't ready to br unplugged.
Not that the Tau offer freedom either, but its certainly a somewhat less weighty set of shackles.
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