All humans are Psyker's, the Shaman's just locked most of Humanity's psychic potential away when they created the Emperor because they knew if they didn't when the Eldar fucked the Eye of Terror into existence humanity would be wiped out.
He really doesn't want to tell the Tau that if Daemon's actually took even a minor interest in them they would be completely and utterly fucked.
This is starting to sound kind of like the Waagh. I suppose it makes sense.Or P'Aul is talking out of his arse.
No, wyrds are untrained psykers of any power level. Most would probably be in the Iota plus range as others just aren't strong enough to routinely produce overt results.
When Britain privatised its rail network and seperated the company running the tracks from the companies running the trains, it worked for a while because the old hands just ignored company directives and kept cooperating across company lines. Then they retired, and it all fell apart.
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'manifest psychic'
IIRC, as they get older navigators get more mutated. I remember a novel where a Space Marine has a momentary crisis of faith because he realises that he's fighting to protect horrible mutants, but then he realised that the mutants are sanctioned by the Emperor so they can't be that bad.
And so Paul becomes the reason the Tau start implementing "Brainwashing for The Greater Good" in earnest when it comes to humanity, due to their power of collective belief.
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No, they were doing that anyway. Just not as well as, say, the Imperium.
Sorry if this has been answered, but how does the Astronomicon's existence contribute to any major world other than Terra signalling Tyranids?
That doesn't help, though astropath choirs are probably a bigger problem.
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I think they mean the latest Avatar movie. I've seen it, and while it has some cool bits, the plot is as stupid and contrived as the first one.
Heh. First time she's seen Spectrum energy constructs in action, I see. If it helps, think of them as volumetric holographic projections with forcefield reinforcement. Not all that different to something like a Tidewall Shieldline's barrier.
In other words:
Deal with it, honey.Trust in the things you can feel for real. The ground under your feet. The tools in your hands. The scent of other, entirely calm tau around you...
The Imperial's scale, for reference. Naturally, the Emperor would register completely off their scaling.
For reference, that's actually less-than-zero psychic talent. These are people who would see someone use a telekinetic shove and think it was a strong gust of wind.
Admittedly, for a tau, that is significantly high.
For tau technology, maybe. A power Ring is just a wee bit more advanced, thank you.
Whoops, awkward.
Sadly, people tend to have their own opinion of what they want to do, regardless of what someone else says they're best suited to...
It's been tried a few times. And usually doesn't work out great. Especially when someone gifted is born into a low-caste...
Never underestimate humanity's talent for grabbing the wrong end of the stick...
...It usually ends up with them whacking someone with said stick.
...Then you haven't really studied humans too closely, have you?
'Better to die then live on our knees'? Not an unreasonable reaction, really.
Yes, best change the subject, this might be getting a little traumatic for the young lady.
Ah, yes! Distract her with actual work. Best idea!
I assume because of the dangers implicit in her line of work, in close proximity to potentially hostile aliens.
Oh, boy. Their love life is so going to put a cat amongst the pigeons.
Roughly fifty days, going by this. So, almost two months.
Boy, I was kidding about their appointment taking time to line up, but dang.Yes, best to be very well-informed.
A gift of booze?
Very sensible. I think she'll need it after dealing with P'Aul, as his empathic vision probably just suggested...And possibly a little nausea, given what transitions can do to the unprepared person's internal perceptions. Motion sickness on an epic level.
...I wonder if P'Aul could Greediport in this universe if he learned how. That would be useful for messing with Imperials, for one thing.
Just a little bit of real-space faster-than-light travel between friends. Nothing special.
Somehow, I don't think she's entirely convinced.
I doubt a tau's biological clock ticks that loudly, certainly.
Oooh, naughty.
Let's start with a little thing called 'kissing'...
I assure you that filing a protest against reality...
... though Tsua'm's expression is more one of surprise.
I really don't get the point of this Paul dumping so much bad information on the Tau...
That's the thing: the tau system doesn't have higher or lower castes. She wouldn't assume that rank order was a part of it.
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Yeah I can see how "I need a freaking drink" would be a common desire after meting P'aul.
Difficult to argue that the Etherial cast is not 'higher' than the others. They are explicitly the leaders after all.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the apostrophe on 'Eugenics' is unnecessary.
'I'll be able'
This is the first romance where Paul is pursuing somebody at least as cold logic inclined as he is. They have similar communication styles and this understand each other smoothly.
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I'm basing my tau in their portrayal in the novelisation Fire Warrior and their first codex. The Ethereals aren't leaders in the sense of issuing commands, they just help the other castes coordinate with each other.
This is a Paul in a position of high respect and social authority, so his unfortunate tendency to be over-concientous to his potential romantic targets is both expected behavior and translatable by the potential romantic targets within the peerage of his social strata.
Expand plz?wonder if P'Aul could Greediport in this universe if he learned how. That would be useful for messing with Imperials, for one thing.
