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This is my Warhammer blog where I mainly post about lore and many painting updates
For my admech army - the tag for them is "transmission from deimos"
They are a exiled fleet, the First Deimos Explorator Fleet, from the forge world of Deimos that supplies the gray knights filled who has a particular hatred of chaos. The head of this fleet is is Fabricator Minoris Technoarcheologist Magos Aleph-Gimmel Bellerov-2.0, a xenarite who is tasked with finding more archeotech while conditioning together disparate elements of the Deimos Crusade Force
For my own Space Marine Chapter the Ironsong Chapter - the tag for them is "ironsong chapter"
This particular chapter is a loyalist Emperor's Children successor created by the Magi of Deimos. They have a incredibly close relation to the mechanicus, and in public claim to be descended from the Iron Hands. Their warfare tens more towards small shock troops and mechanized warfare. Their homeworld is half a paradise planet and half a forge world
And the last group is a guard / naval army for the 27th Solar Auxiliary Fleet - their tag is "27th Solar Auxiliary Fleet"
The fleets is mended by Admiral Ezekiel Bendavid a nepobaby who always yearn to be a general of the Imperial Guard and send hundreds of thousands of men to their doom but instead has to content himself with void warfare.
Didn't think I'd have much in the way of thoughts on the taus human auxiliaries but here we are.
Since ai is a touchy subject for humans, most human governors when having to explain drones to their human subjects handwave it as drones just having machine spirits of a different nature. Thus to the confusion of the t'au, humans on campaign will insist on all manner of odd rituals carried over from the imperium. These range from harmless such as ritualizing maintenance procedures or proper safety protocols to the bizarre such as lighting incense candles on a hammerheads control module before going into battle to ensure operation protocols are executed with maximum efficiency. Funnily though these do seem to have some effect if only psychologically, and tau forces who have operated extensively with gue'vesa tend to pick up these little rituals or even invent their own based on old tau spiritual practices. Much to the annoyance of the ethereal council.
mechanicus turncoats to the tau empire have extensive interest in the taus nescient ai technology, usually turning to the tau for the opportunity to more extensively research into that field at all. Thus with the assistance of tau earth caste engineers, tau hereteks have been known to field larger forces of robots then the mechanicus can usually muster thanks to access to tau drone technology and manufacturing infrastructure letting them 'bridge the gap' so to speak.
on that same note, skitarii and their like. As the range of xenos species the tau encounter as allies are quite varied, the mechanicus and its cyborg body horror madhouse aren't actually that odd of a thing to deal with on the whole. and well they're happy to offer more standard mechanical or drone replacements for things like servitors, skitarii are in the odd position of often being willing warriors servants hacked to bits in their machine gods name. Thus the tau mostly dont interfere with them outside of technological assistance and a, futile, attempt at standardization of skitarii augmentations to help ease potential burdens on tau logistics. skitarii in the tau empire for their part enjoy cleaner lifestyles as it were thanks to tau technology emphasizing a more harmonious relation to nature compared to imperial technology, and a greater degree of intellectual independence on the individual level thanks to drone ai technology and the ethical encouragement/requirements most tau septs will insist on before dealing with tau hereteks.
tau hereteks, or guetak'vesa as they are referred to as [machine human helper] by the tau as stated mostly turned to the tau empire out of interest in the tau ai technology, ai long having been a contentious topic of heretek interest and the relative stability the tau ai so far presents is an attractive prospect for ai 'hobbyists' interested in expanding their knowledge without selling their souls to space satan. Xenobiologists and xeno tech freaks in general on the wrong end of imperial law find refuge in the tau empire an attractive prospect for the variety of xenos species available to study within. On the whole most guetaks that make it to the empire are only really useful for keeping everything running on former imperial planets the actual depth of their knowledge often only expanding so far on anything human, and their 'expertise in xeno and experimental tech' often being rudimentary or completely backwards compared to any jobbing earth caste worker. The truly talented of the guetaks usually run their own little fiefdoms of forgeworlds repurposed to the tau empires use and their own personal havens of experimentation and tech heresy. with detachments of tau earth caste and fire warriors as liaisons, assistants on tau technology, and bodyguards with the understanding that any useful discoveries the guetak do make need to be shared with the tau empire proper. Sitting firmly in the middle of the chaff and the talented, guetak with useful expertise or qualifications/understandings of imperial tech usually get contracted into projects on imperial tech analysis and can expect steady and profitable work from the empire, it not being unheard of for guetak of notable qualities to guest lecture at tau earth caste universities.
as the tau are generally speaking religiously tolerant, some institutions of the imperial cult survive in tau space but without what degree of centralization exists in imperial space proper of the cult, and generally given the inherent contradiction of the imperial cult serving xenos masters, most imperial cult institutions have either fully shifted into local cult practices and ownership or otherwise collapsed and been replaced with old planetary traditions or newly established cults of the personality or esoteric kind. On the whole though gue'vesa still consider the god emperor their figure of worship even if they dont directly live in the empire he founded, worship of the god emperor so entrenched in imperial society as to be near impossible to remove on the whole. A number of gue'vesa have taken to worshipping a new 'greater good' cult of their own devising, and well the ethereal council appreciate the dedication, the religious zeal as to which gue'vesa take to worship has been noted as 'very concerning'.
well no space marine chapter or adeptus sororitas order have defected to the tau empire, their technology is collected and analyzed whenever possible. some inqusitors have defected to the tau empire however, though so far efforts to turn high ranking inqusitors to the tau have been less fruitful then hoped for. Rogue traders on the other hand are one of the simpler targets to flip for the tau empire.
imperial armour like the leman russ or heaven forbid the baneblade are produced in the tau empire for gue'vesa use using both old imperial manufacturing structures and tau developed replicas for gue'vesa specific use, though they are mostly only produced for reserve gue'vesa use or gue'vesa only forces. Some effort has been gone into developing imperial armour and tau tech armour hybrids however, one notorious example being a lemen russ that had been juryrigged with a devilfish hover system instead of tracks. most of those efforts havent gone anywhere, most effort instead being put towards understanding unique imperial technology that the tau dont have or understand less and could benefit their cause such as warp drives, gellar fields, gravity guns and what have you.
Robute is one of them but I don't think he could ever come out of the closet. Fulgrim I believe 100% is a woman but if GW made it canon I would swim across the atlantic ocean to fight someone over it. It's the difference between trans women going "i think that's a woman and here's my reasons" and me reading that and going oh damn she's right and a cishet nerd guy saying fulgrim is a woman.
Robute is one of them but I don't think he could ever come out of the closet. Fulgrim I believe 100% is a woman but if GW made it canon I would swim across the atlantic ocean to fight someone over it. It's the difference between trans women going "i think that's a woman and here's my reasons" and me reading that and going oh damn she's right and a cishet nerd guy saying fulgrim is a woman.
