#commander farsight

[alphamecha-mkii]

Tau Commander Farsight by Marc Lee

[moociao-after-dark]

Warhammer 40k AU where the "grimdarkness of the far future" is... just a fictional franchise, that was originally conceived as a cautionary tale against the dangers of bigotry, xenophobia and militarism, but, just like irl, spiraled into an actual franchise. Thanks to technological advancements - they were able to make a ton of shows very quickly.

The actual world is that all races coexist peacefully in the Galaxy. Every single character from canon is actually an actor and the fact that the cast is actually just that (a huge group if actors that work together) lead to some interesting matchups.

Actor!Big E and actor!Malcador are actually long time friends of actor!Eldrad and they are kinda sad their characters and actor!Eldrad's don't have screen time together.

A lot of people think actor!Trazyn doesn't even act - he just continues to be himself on camera. Actor!Orikan hates it, but he can't help but laugh at how he himself starts to act like his character.

Actor!Oltyx and actor!Yenekh are actually married irl. In fact, actor!Oltyx proposed to actor!Yenekh on set after their final scene together. The internet found out about it through actor!Djoseras account (who is actor!Oltyx's irl brother, although actor!Djoseras is actually the younger, unlike his character who is an elder brother), who posted a photo of the proposal with him in the foreground doing a "pointing soyjack" meme. Actor!Oltyx commented on it with "bruh 😭".

Actor!Shadowsun was a long time fan of the show (as in was a total nerd about it) and has a secret AO3 account with a bunch of yaoi fanfics she wrote. She revealed this fact in one of her interviews and ever since then the internet was on the wild hunt for the account.

The 40k IP made a collab with futuristic equivalent of a gacha otome game, where the MC can get and romance Guilliman. Actor!Guilliman and actor!Cawl made a series of videos playing through the collab event (partially as advertisement, partially out of genuine curiosity). The videos consisted of the two either going "yeah, he would say/do that" or "nah, he would not say/do that, he would instead....". The internet suddenly saw a rapid spike in Guilliman x Reader fanfiction.

Actor!Fulgrim was adopted and raised by an Eldar family, so he was REALLY uncomfortable doing Angel Exterminatus. Some changes had to be made to the script because he just refused to go with the original, much brutal version.

Actor!Primarchs did some videos where they would read (PG) fanfictions of their characters. They unknowingly stumbled upon actor!Shadowsun's account and read some of her fics. Actor!Farsight was very confused on why she was behaving very giddy after the videos came out.

Tyranids are actually a (mostly) domesticated species, so all Tyranids on set are either CGI or are real but trained and are just as much of actors as anybody else. They get plenty of treats and pets in-between the scenes for doing such a good job.

[thelenroman]

I wanted to redesign some classic WW2 propaganda posters but with the Farsight Enclave Tau Faction from Warhammer 40k, specifically their auxiliaries!

[diabolicalevil]

basically what happened between them

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

What's the deal between Farsight and the Ethereals?

In the initial lore (from older codexes), it was fairly simple; Farsight saw the merit of engaging in values and tactics that were at odds with the tenets of the Greater Good espoused by the Ethereals, particularly inter-caste knowledge sharing, aggression, and melee combat specialisation. Things that would allow the soldiery, and thus the wider T'au Empire, to be more warlike and defend/expand borders.

This came to a head on the planet Arthas Moloch, where a war with Orks saw the Ethereals under Farsight's protection killed, implicitly in part due to the squabbling between Farsight and said Ethereals. After this war (during which Farsight found the Dawn Blade and fucked up a lot of Orks) he ended up breaking off from the T'au Empire with those loyal to his views to form the Farsight Enclaves; a more militarily focused take on the base Empire.

Overall, it was a decent look at how authoritarian/inflexible thinking and doctrines could create schisms, even in the milder cultures of 40k.

The Kelly era T'au, of course, added to this in a Kelly-esque fashion. It wasn't JUST that the Ethereals didn't like Farsight's views, but ALSO they were hiding info about CHAOS and DAEMONS from the T'au and doing EVIL MIND CONTROL on the T'au and it wasn't just Orks that showed up on Arthas Moloch but DAEMONS that the T'au weren't prepared for because of the aforementioned EVIL MIND CONTROL and DAEMONS killed the Ethereals and Farsight killed them back with the Dawn Blade. After that he confirms his suspicions about the EVIL MIND CONTROL and, when faced with the choice of revealing the EVIL MIND CONTROL to the entire T'au Empire and destroying it all (because the Empire is held together by EVIL MIND CONTROL) or walking away with his loyalists, he chooses to walk away. Because he cares about the T'au as a whole and is BIG HERO. Not one of those ethereals and their EVIL MIND CONTROL.

E V I L M I N D C O N T R O L

Fuck knows how it'll go if Van Nguyen and his actually good T'au writing are allowed to touch Farsight.

[silkburrito]

working on a commander farsight build still got a couple colors to add before i move onto some chipping. gotta repaint the drones aswell

[shrimpshrimpshrimp333]

ignore how I forgot grass exists in miniatures BUT I wanted to emulate them while expanding it a little environment wise, like its a scene instead of just something to stand on.

And an actual t’au,,,, i like them more when they’re less humanoid (technically they still are just. Less.) (note to self, in official art for some reason I can’t tell how their eyes look. They’re too pinched.)

[harmlessnatu]

Got lucky enough to get a farsight commission in. He was really fun to paint if not very tedious to get the colors as clean as I wants him