Wait, so where did you get the bit about no threatening Ork WAAAGHs? Cuz', you know, far as I'm aware, they've nearly lost the entire Empire to Ork WAAAGHs in the past(The War of Dakka is fucking up Farsight; Scraghurtz nearly ) They haven't
died entirely to a WAAAGH, but neither did humans. I know at least one world the Tau had was a Tomb World that woke up(Kronus, if nothing else, considering we're taking the ending for the Tau victory as canon, apparently), Hive Fleet Gorgon, Damocles Crusade...sure, no Chaos, but they also don't get psykers or Astropaths. Astropaths is the real shitter there.
So yeah. Don't gimme that. The Tau don't get a God-Emperor or Primarchs to hide behind while they start their own version of the Great Crusade. That's what the Sphere Expansions have basically been. Far slower, but they don't have Titan Legions or STCs or Space Marines to back them up, and they can't just connect to a world already full of Tau and say 'Oh hi guys'. They have luck on their side, sure. They're kinda the equivalent of the 'plucky new kid' or whatever. More than kinda, if I'm honest. If you wanna blame their advancement on 'oh it's only because X' you can, but...
Also, I don't believe that that's true, Loud Whispers, about humans needing to worship something. Need something to give them purpose, sure. Only a few Space Marine Chapters truly
worship the Emperor, it's just that Chaos is the only thing you really hear about because heresy is quashed as soon as it's found, most cases, and Chaos is the only one of those that truly presents a threat and can spread easily in the indoctrinated worlds of the Imperium of Man.
Also, everyone always talks about the Kaurava incident, leaving aside that any other faction would have slaughtered them all or enslaved them or something.
That's why you also kill the other factions; what's the problem? Would you rather take a lobotomy and forced labour or death, or would you rather be TAKTICUL METAHL DEEP STRIKE
I was, in fact, including the Imperium of Man in those 'any other faction'. Applying to be a Space Marine is almost always a failure, what with the 0.1% success rate. I would rather not have hate and rage inscribed into my bones, actually
. Don't know where you're coming up with lobotomies from, though. Forced labor I can see, with the 'reeducation camps', though I have doubts as to much actual hard labor they would have. Don't have much need for it, after all. Sterilization, sure. But on the other hand...if you look at the Taros Campaign, where the humans were supportive of Tau rule, rather than of Imperial rule, things went much better for them.
Humans in the Tau Empire actually tend to be treated fairly well. Still second class citizens, but at least it ain't hive world conditions of wretched poverty and whatnot. As time goes on, and they become more integrated into the Empire, odds are those conditions will only get better.
The human place in Tau society is only needed for as long as humans are useful. Better rev those sterilizer machines and get your brainwash button going ASAP. Plus you can't compare a hive world's conditions to a blueberry considering there are more humans on a hive world than there are blueberries in an blueberry solarsystem (and the blueberries make sure the humans do not outnumber them wherever possible).
They do on Taros, still, at the very least. I hate the apostrophes everywhere, that's something I'll admit, so I'm not gonna call it T'ros or whatever they 'renamed' it to. And I can, because the fact is the Tau manage to make that work. They did, in fact, hold off the Damocles Crusade. Could they have forever? No. Probably not for more than another couple of years. But they didn't have to, because while the Imperium has the advantage of OVERWHELMINGLY HUGE, it has the disadvantage of OVERWHELMINGLY BESET BY FOES to compensate. So while, yeah, they want humans to be useful, they want Tau and Kroot and Vespids and so forth to be useful too. Vespids are full citizens of the Empire. Yes, they have probably hypnosis helmets, but so are quite a few other species that don't. Like Nicassar, I believe. So yes, you are required to contribute to society. But you aren't shot in the head if you don't. You're simply persona non grata. *shrug* As far as I understand it, anyway.
I mean don't get me wrong, Nids, Orks, Chaos? Fuck that shit. Dark Eldar can rot in a hole. But Kroot, Demiurg, Exodite Eldar(aka the less dickish ones who ride dinosaurs)? They ain't bad.
Kroot eat people, Dorfs are all right but you know it's only a matter of time before they magma a forge world and exodite Eldar are all dickheads.
Spess Mehreens also eat people. Brains, specifically. Kroot have a decent excuse (they stop being sentient if they don't), and do so in the course of legitimate (if you consider mercenaries legitimate) mercenary work. Plus, they're just the top of the food chain of Orks.
Demiurg stick essentially solely to mining rocks. You guys can think what you want about the Exodites, I just know they aren't dicks as often as Craftworld Eldar(my guess is that it's mostly a result of not feeling like they have to, since they aren't dwindling down to shit or floating around the Eye of Terror or anything). Though that's not saying much.
Additionally; Tau aren't gonna cause Chaos on their own,, no, but if they keep grabbing human worlds (which they almost certainly will) and don't have protocols to deal with Cults appearing, bad shit can still go down. Although they have several other psychic races in the Empire, so I wouldn't be surprised.
Oh, and as for
every xeno-loving world being enslaved, and
every psyker world being daemons (okay actually that one's probably more or less true), and
every tech world being uprisen against...I don't believe that's true. In fact, from the Horus Heresy novels I've read, the last one certainly isn't true. Witch hunting shenanigans only really came into play in their full form after Horus Heresy, I believe. As for the Tau dealing with every other xenos...yeah, they suffer some tragedies. Dark Eldar always find a way to do that though. And what do they gain? Well, Demiurg taught them about ion cannons, and more besides, I believe. Kroot are a major part of their auxiliaries.
Finally, Tau have the
most second-most okay fine they have pretty good Dakka. Orks 'n Humies take the cake on that one.
Also Tau never had half their armies turn traitor because of one guy
Wait shit FarsightOn a different note, I really wish I could actually play 40k, but it's so freaking expensive...and the new titan-sized battlesuit is just...ugh. I don't know. It's basically an artillery platform on legs, which just doesn't seem like a very Tau approach to things (though I do wish we had some actual Emprah-damned artillery, self-propelled guns can be used for precision too damnit)