Best Place to Live in the 40k Universe

[Deadlift]

I'd give my arm to be a space marine so I'd most likely be an Iron Hand. C'mon which of you hasn't held a power drill and wished it was a bolt gun ?

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Not only are Tau not "good guys" - they're optimistic, but that's different from being good - they're not communists either. That's the one that gets my goat.

[LordGrise]

Not only are Tau not "good guys" - they're optimistic, but that's different from being good - they're not communists either. That's the one that gets my goat.

Uhm... compared to everyone else, yeah, they are the good guys, at least the Farsight Enclaves are.

[eldargal]

Not really, shades of grey. They aren't as bad as certain elements of the IoM or Chaos but they aren't 'good' either.

[chicop76]

Ummm. Compared to everyone else they are. At least they don't go around sarcrificing their people. Eldar and Tau are pretty much the only good guys. If you just skim the humanity fluff you can see them as good. Just ignore any freedoms here and there, and heaven forbid you are a psyker.

[eldargal]

Ummm. Compared to everyone else they are. At least they don't go around sarcrificing their people. Eldar and Tau are pretty much the only good guys. If you just skim the humanity fluff you can see them as good. Just ignore any freedoms here and there, and heaven forbid you are a psyker.

You can't see the IoM as good and you can't really see the Tau as good without ignoring quite a bit, like the fact worlds don't get a choice about joining the Empire, rebelling populations are sterilised and resettled (possibly killed too sometimes) and they have a brutally rigid caste system and control is maintained through pheremonal manipulation by the ethereals. That last one may not apply to the Farsight Enclaces but everything else does as far as I know. Tau aren't good, they are just a little less brutal than most otgers.

[Finnegan]

Eldar and Tau are pretty much the only good guys.

No human from settlement visited by Biel-tan Swordwind would call eldar "good guys"

But yes, comparing Eldar and Tau to other races of grim and dark 41st millenium... They're pretty nice (especially for their own species).
Also, we have to remember that rigid Paths of Craftworld Eldar or Tau caste system (which we, humans, may find so unnatural) are part of their way of life and such factors won't be so onerous for member of that races, born and rised in their own culture.

[jgebi]

For me atm I'd want to be a necron overlord, to still retain almost everything I was but not have to feel would be nice and the arcutecture would be so wonderful also I'm a tech man so being able to manipulate the very atoms that make something would be kinda fun while I seek for a way to bring my race back to mortality idk it just seems so poetic in the end looking for your lost soul in a galaxy of lost souls.

But also I wouldn't mind being one of the emperors chosen praterons would be cool, the best gear as powerful as any lord and as skillful to also before the heresy just so I could see man kind at it's height also I'd get to see the face of the emperor and maybe even his primarchs

[Ravingbantha]

And no, Tau aren't communists, they're more like utopian socialists - for utopian socialists class struggle or political revolutions aren't necessary to implement their ideas; people of all classes (and races, in case of 40K universe) might voluntarily adopt their plan for society if it were presented convincingly, etc. This is closer to Greater Good ideology than communism.

No their Communists, Socialism is where the government only controls the essentials of life power, education, and the general infrastructure. Communism is total governmental control of everything, socialism is simply part of the Marxist path to Communism. With Communism, People are born into classes and will live their lives in those classes (look at the 4 casts of the Tau), with the idea that people are to be bread in such a way to better improve their ability to do their jobs (Karl Marx and Eugenics go hand in hand). Within a Communistic society you have the Ruling Elite (Air Caste), the Military structure (fire Caste), and then the commoners which are broken into two sub-sects with there being a few intelligent ones that make up the Upper lower class (water Caste) and the rest comprising of the average laborer (earth Caste) The idea that the greater commue is more important than individual right 'For the greater good'. One simply has to look at the old USSR to see how Communism works. Both the Empire of Humanity and the Tau empire are Communistic societies, the only difference being the Tau empire is comprised of beings that apparently didnt mind surrendering their freedoms (more of a Star trek feel to it's communism), where as the Empire of mankind is abit more rebellous in the complete surrender of their freedoms.

[Dave Mcturk]

My matriarchal Craftworld.

her craftworld ?

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