Lion? If you’re a human in 40k you’re more likely to be a mangy street cat forced to work in a factory processing other cats into fancy feast. Fuck yeah I’ll be the Taus little pet over that, I can work in at a space turnip farm or something, maybe they’ll give me little human treats.
The caste system is fine given how good they are in every single other way. What matters is quality of life and treatment. They’re doing fine compared to anyone else is this hellverse.
I’d criticise the caste system a lot more if it actually manifested in anything visibly horrible for anyone living under it but it doesn’t as far as I’ve seen. Any critique of it is a criticism from the perspective of what human caste systems have been for people living in them rather than what the Tau one is actually producing.
True, they only real criticism of them is their attitude to Chaos(as until ‘recently’ they haven’t had to deal with it much as the T’au race’s souls are not ‘bright’ in the warp so not good Daemon chow, unlike some of their auxiliary races),
The 5th sphere expansion encountering T’Au’Va a Warp entity/god formed from the belief of the psychic auxiliary races in the greater good with many T’au considering it an abomination(as T’au consider the Greater Good purely a philosophy not a religion) leading to a new faction of T’au who are intent on ethnically cleansing the empire of all non-T’au species may take that in an interesting direction
They’re better guys, but as its 40k there’s no good guys
i tend to see them as a deeply flawed federation due to space wizard fuckery (Imagine if Q wanted to collect blood for the blood god) that still tries their best.
i have a proxy where a tau fire squad is being lead by an auxiliary with a picard head
he also has worf with a batleth cause one of the heroes has a knife or something. i imagine the enterprise would immediately join the tau or maybe aeldari to try to find a way back home and tbh if theyre gonna throw trek into the dumps with nutrek they may as well do a silly crossover like this
That’s awesome.
Personaly having T’au Etheral only high-leadership precludes them from being a federation analogue, imo the Interex and Disporex were much closer to the federation, shame they where just fodder to show the downsides of Emp’s xenophobic vision during the Great Crusade