Oh lord, Titan-grade servos could probably wrench a supercarrier in half

Things tend to get REALLY efficient per power unit when they get big

So you have a starship-grade plasma reactor pumping untold petawatts in to giant servos, Titans don't move slow because they're limited to that speed, they have to move slow because their structural components wouldn't be able to handle the level of acceleration they're theoretically capable of.

Also I'm pretty sure Titans exploit the shit out of a-grav systems

I would think they don't unless he have to, but then again titans are the kind of thing the Ad Mech pulls out all the stops for, so I guess they wouldn't hold anti-grav back

Yeah, a titan is essentially a physical manifestation of the Omnissiah, so not putting all the cool stuff in them is tantamount to heresy

Remember, Titans were built by Mars shortly after the Dark Age. They still had all that sexy Dark Age tech and knowledge to build giant war walkers with. So even if they don't know how most a-grav shit works, they do know the *exact* blueprints for each Titan hull, and just like STC tech all you have to do is follow the instructions. No understanding of the background theories and technologies required.

But, credit where it's due, the AdMech aren't dumb. They do actively maintain an understanding of scientific theories several orders of magnitude more advanced than anything we know now.

They just make dumb choices with that knowledge, like most intelligent people do.

Also because the last time mankind went on a spree of inventing, it caused the age of strife

Not really.

They built ONE technology that caused their downfall. General Artifical Intelligence.

And then, based their entire society on the exploitation and subservience of sapient beings.

Sapient beings that also happened to be GIANT FUCKING WAR ROBOTS

Hey now, nobody knew the war robots would go bad guy and start killing things. That's just rude of them to do it to begin with

Well, that's true. Obviously nobody could forsee AI robots going batshit and killing everybody. That'd be a good premise for a show or movie or something.

It did take time though for it to happen, and chaos probably was involved somewhere, considering how fucked Mars was before the Mechanicum decided it hated being normal

@RoflTank The running theory of why the Tau AI bots aren't killing everyone and everyone else's robots with AI are, is because the Tau are the only faction without a connection to the warp, which they are actually actively trying to achieve now.

Technically Tau AI is also pretty rudimentary. Drones are essentially retarded puppies that get a little smarter with a bunch of other drones nearby, whilst their AI personality stuff is just emulations of dead people

The Tau can't travel through the warp. They kinda just skip off of it. They're trying to figure out how to travel through the warp which means they'll figure out navigators and some derivative of psykers

And yeah they're basically just dogs, but that's still an intelligence that can be manipulated

The entirety of the Imperium's AI got fucking whacked, so I don't see why Tau puppy AI wouldn't

Unless GW plans to rewrite the rules on the AI being corrupted and bring back a lot of 30k Robots for AdMech armies and Detachment groups

Because... The AdMech had *a lot* of robots

Technically the Tau did go through the Warp, which is what happened to the fourth sphere of expansion. The ethereals were excited about this dope new superfast FTL tech, rigged up an entire fleet against the engineers wishes, and well, said fleet tore a hole in reality when it jumped to the warp

Well yes, but they don't travel through it in the sense that everyone else does

They hop in and out of it

Their conventional FTL is skipping, I'm talking about some of the new fluff that was in the Tau book

Instead of constant exposure, which would bring attention, and get them promptly ripped to shreds

An engineer made essentially a full on warp drive and it worked pretty neatly in Tau space, but he warned against using it immediately

The survivors of the fourth sphere made a colony, and the resulting hole in reality that turned out to link the two different regions of space is stable enough to travel through

The fourth sphere survivors don't trust auxiliaries at all though, and the windows stay closed when you go through the gate

If the Head-Commie Ethereals were excited, what did the Engineer know that they didn't?

"Hey, I'm not sure its a great idea to go full ham with this still barely tested thing."
"Fuck it, we're the Tau Empire, we'll do good."
*an entire fleet disappearing later*
"Why is there a hole in reality here?"

commies will be commies

*ThE gReAtEr GoOd*

Tau aren't Commies, they're high tech India

>High Tech
>India

Even in the 41st millennium, this will not be the case

No, the Tau are most certainly space commies

The greater puss

But its a caste based society with strict divides and your caste determines your purpose and role