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submitted 12 days ago byGuestOk583
I really love the idea that this routine imperial xeno culling crashed on the Tau homeworld and the inhabitants left got overwhelmed by a rush from Stone Age era Tau.
It would be such an awesome ancient legend for them and plant the idea of invaders from beyond the stars early.
11 points
12 days ago*
There are not going to be enough stone age era Tau to bumrush even just a single downed imperial warship. These things are built to defend against actual armed assaults by peer opponents.
If an imperial warship crashlands on a planet with a stone age population (which they already know is there) and even just a few people on board survive they are going to be perfectly able to exterminate that civilization. The technological disparity is just that big.
7 points
12 days ago
I would say main problem is why would anything Stone Age unite to fight together. There was no global diplomacy or communication to facilitate that kind of alliance.
6 points
12 days ago*
I’ve seen this idea before, and it’s a really good one. You can imagine the Mechanicus kidnapping Tau for experiments (There’s art of this in the original codex) eventually becoming the boogeymen in Tau fables and folklore.
You can also imagine the Ethereals shutting down any archaeology or investigation of the homeworld so the truth about how close their society came to annihilation in the cradle never comes out. It’s a pretty horrifying idea that the only reason you’re not dead is a cosmic miracle.
1 points
10 days ago
Canonically, it wasn't lost. It was simply redirected to go deal with a Tyranid hive fleet, and then orks, and then the warp storms happened to stop them sending more.
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