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

The forehead pussi

It gets the guardsmen every time

Implying the commies didn't have strict roles that kept the peasants peasants, the militants militants, and the farmers farmers

As well as the leaders the leaders

Hypothetically you could get out of castes and get somewhere else though. Commies try to pretend everyone is equal, whilst hindu caste society is 'you are a slave to your caste, and the priests are the highest caste'

Commies only pretend everyone is equal in propaganda, which the Tau aren't afraid of with them recruiting all species (and making other species infertile so they can't reproduce and ruin the pure Tau race of space commies) and controlling them with the "Greater Good" and everything is just and equal and everyone gets the same greatness no matter the tribe they're from.

Lads we took over general

We're in hobbies

Yeah but, general is 40k now too yeet

@RoflTank I 'member in the priests of mars series

a warlord titan leaps over a canyon