According to their creator, the Tau are basically Tony Blair in space [1]: > As a bit of an analog for late 20th century / early 21st century western intervent

According to their creator, the Tau are basically Tony Blair in space [1]: > As a bit of an analog for late 20th century / early 21st century western interventionist culture I've always assumed that the Greater Good is ultimately for the benefit of the T'au and if others get something out of that's just a bonus. The fact that they are even willing to work with other species is pretty unique and progressive among the factions of 40K, rather than rampant genodical, xenophobic armies. The thing about the Great Good is that it is, in the long term, as inflexible and authoritarian as the Imperial Creed or the all-consuming Tyranids. It still comes down to the Greater Good or Death (tm). I've tried not to make it too sinister being within the T'au sphere, though in the original Apocalypse book I introduced a variety of NATO-style innocuous three-letter-acronym formations, like Mobilised Hunter cadre, Dispersed Retaliation Cadre and Forward Commitment Contingent. None of them say 'battle' or 'war'... I cazn imagine the news back home is quite a sanitised version of the reality - like when we watched videos of 'smart' bombs and gun cameras blowing up stuff in Iraq but were totally unaware of what was really happening on the ground. You're right about the Orks, of course. They're just out there living their best life! #GreenBoySummer [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/b3pc01/qa_with_gav_thorpe/ https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/b3pc01/qa_with_gav...