MTL - Warhammer Inquisitor-Chapter 539 Rise of the Lion: The Tau

  Chapter 539 The Rise of the Lion King: Tau People

   What are the Tau like? Faced with this question, the vast majority of human beings can’t answer it. After all, for the vast majority of human beings in the empire, the perception of aliens is very facial, and aliens are nothing more than evil and unreasonable Yes, the evil alien is immortal.

But for those who understand the Tau race, all of this can be said to be a big mistake. The Tau race is not only absolutely not evil, but it is not unreasonable. In fact, humans and the Tau race have many things in common , perhaps the two groups with the most similarities in the entire galaxy.

But unfortunately, in the empire, there are not many people who really know the Tau tribe. Those who know a little bit will tell you that the Tau tribe is a group of alien races in the far east of the empire. If you know a little bit, you will tell You, they are humanoids with blue skin.

But only a very small number of scholars will have a real understanding of this race. Even for most scholars of the empire, the Tau people are unfamiliar, and they don't understand them. After all, in this dark galaxy Among them, there are more and more threatening alien enemies waiting for these experts to study.

   This also leads to another major characteristic of the Tau tribe, they are very kind, yes, you heard it right, they are kind, it’s surprising, isn’t it? In this galaxy, now this galaxy, since such a race can still live?

  It is not that human beings do not want to be kind, but in this dark, war-filled universe, kindness is often equated with ignorance, and the result of ignorance is death.

And at this time, when everyone is holding a gun and pointing at each other's head, trying their best to smash the opponent's head and destroy all the races that appear in front of them, since there is such a person who knows nothing about it, use What seems to be a rather old-fashioned, even stupid way to treat this galactic civilization?

  With such curiosity, Vito was fortunate to become one of the very few human beings who can truly understand the Tau race. Unlike most humans, Vito first learned about the Tau race during the Great Crusade.

At that time, it was the era when human beings expanded their territory and recovered their territory. Fleets and scientific research fleets were all over the stars in all directions, looking for those valuable planets, and one of the exploration fleets from the Mechanicus was Across the Gulf of Damocles on the eastern frontier of the Milky Way.

It was a nebula that appeared in the human field of vision a long time ago. It was known as early as the Golden Age, but because of the huge mass of the celestial body there, it was filled with a chaotic energy field. It failed here, and leaping through the physical level was dangerous, so further exploration was abandoned a long time ago.

In the Golden Age, with the spirit of being enterprising, the Mechanicus fleet overcame all difficulties, ventured through the dangerous universe of Damocles Bay, and came to the peaceful galaxy at the other end, where they found a planet similar to Earth. environment for a habitable planet.

The Mechanicus initially explored the planet, and found a primitive civilization on it that was still in a barbaric state. A group of blue-skinned alien primitives, the Mechanicus, planned to clean them up, and then transform the planetary environment as a Humanity's new homeland was to be emigrated and developed, but this plan was forced to be terminated with the arrival of the Horus Rebellion.

The fleet of the Mechanicus left this planet named Damocles 1, and this is the origin of the Tau people. These aliens who grew up on this primitive planet survived and lived on In the long time that followed, they thrived, thanks to the natural danger of Damocles Bay and the remote location, the Tau people in this corner of the galaxy did not enter the universe like humans, and immediately fell into endless the flames of war.

They have enough time to polish their own civilization, science, and civilization have been fully developed. In this safe small galaxy, the Tau race has gradually developed from primitive people to a developed civilization with spaceflight capabilities, and constitutes The caste system society that humans have perfected so far is difficult for humans to understand.

They formed their own social structure with five major castes, the Fire Clan serving as the warrior class, the Water Clan serving as diplomats and bureaucrats, the Earth Clan serving as workers and inventors, and the Air Clan flying in the sky, piloting aircraft and spaceships, Plus the ruling class, so far shrouded in fog, the ether.

  Humans know very little about the history of the Tau race so far, and what they know is also concealed and difficult to explain, filled with a large number of incomprehensible words and sentences, as well as records.

In this society, there seems to be no poverty, no fighting, no confrontation and intrigue, and crime is also a word that is forgotten and even difficult to understand. The civilization of the Tau people is so perfect that it is incomprehensible, and all of these, It was only known to mankind during the first Damocles Gulf War.

Few people remember the aliens in the Mechanicus Exploration Report, but Vito remembered that, fortunately, he lived long enough, and this also made him feel more shocked than others. He was surprised that, Once he knew this civilization, they were still a group of primitive people hunting with stones, and again, they had become a civilized country with advanced technology.

  When I think of the human empire that has declined for thousands of years, I have an inexplicable feeling, but this does not affect Vito, and the subsequent wars and conflicts between the two races.

You see, the expansion method of the Tau people is very unique. Because of the lack of subspace navigation technology, the spaceships of the Tau people can only fly at a slow sublight speed, which leads to a very slow expansion speed of the Tau people and a slow population growth. As a result, the Tau family cannot discover, annex and occupy alien planets like humans.

No, on the contrary, the Tau people pursue a kind of alliance system expansion policy. Simply put, they establish friendly diplomatic relations with the alien races along the way, and through trade, cultural export and economic cooperation, they finally persuade each other to join the Tau people alliance In, accept the leadership of the ether, and follow the "highest good way".

  The Highest Good Dao, this is the root of the civilization of the Tau people. Everything about them comes from the Highest Good Dao, but it is an incomprehensible concept for human beings.

But maybe it is precisely because of this misunderstanding that eventually led to the conflict between the two races. After a long time, the Tau people finally flew across the vast space of Damocles, and when they arrived at the main body of the galaxy, they encountered human beings. , to be precise, is a human colony on the eastern border of the empire.

The Tau people do not understand the concept of a huge human empire. They mistakenly regard it as their own small empire. Therefore, as always, trade, cooperation and cultural export, the Tau people gradually penetrated into the East border, and tried to persuade the humans there to join the Higher Good, which undoubtedly poked a hornet's nest.

Separatism is the most intolerable behavior of the empire. As soon as the news came out, it immediately received an explosive response, especially because it was related to an unknown alien. The Limit Starfield immediately organized a disciplinary expedition. An army composed of the Imperial Astral Army, Navy, Astartes, and Mechanicus, led by the Inquisition, went to the Far East to punish the Separatists.

And Vito, who was in it at that time, this was his first contact with the Tau race, out of curiosity about the race in his memory, he persuaded the Inquisition, well, it was an order, and he served as the Inquisition team He led the Extreme Expeditionary Force to the Far East, where he eventually clashed with the Tau.

This was the first human-Tau war, or as the Star Militia called it, the Battle of Damocles, after all wars with most empires, and even local small-scale wars, the war with the Tau race The scale can only be called by the battle.

The Punishment Army crushed the local separatists who were loyal to the Tau tribe, and then smashed the fringe colonies of the Tau tribe in an instant, massacred the residents above, and wiped out the Tau fleet that came to support. A short, but impressive battle.

Although the army of the human empire defeated the Tau people with their huge military strength and powerful combat power, their weapons also caused a lot of losses to humans. Their pulse weapons, magnetic levitation weapons, and advanced battle suits The troops left a deep impression on Vito.

Afterwards, the Punishment Army regained all the Star Fields in the Far East, and wiped out all the resistance of the Separatists. After orderly suppression and advancement, they drove the Tau back to the other side of the Damocles Bay. The radical faction proposed to close the door of the trial and pursue the victory to completely eradicate this alien threat.

This suggestion was supported by the Space Marines, but out of respect for Vito, the Space Marines did not go beyond him and chose to attack directly. They came to find Vito and asked for his approval at the meeting. In the end, Driven by curiosity, Vito wanted to know how far the Tau people had developed, and he agreed to pursue them.

In the end, the huge punishment army crossed the natural barrier of Damocles Bay, arrived at the opposite side of the star cluster after spending several months, and invaded the home galaxy of the Tau tribe. After defeating the navy that the Tau tribe came to intercept, The punishing army killed their home world, which is the gate of the core colony.

Here, the Tau people resisted more fiercely than before. Although their navy was finally defeated by the Imperial Navy, which had experienced battles and was equipped with more powerful equipment than them, they also carried out tenacious resistance. The Tau people advanced The fleet weapons caused heavy losses to the Imperial Navy at a long distance, and finally relied on the jumping of the space fighters to draw the end.

Afterwards, the Imperial Punishment Army boarded the home of the Tau people who became "Ismenon". The stormy blows, early on, did knock the tau down in an instant, pushing toward their planetary capital.

But soon, the empire easily discovered the problem. As they advanced along the well-developed traffic roads on the surface of the planet, their soldiers advanced very quickly, but they gradually began to be divided by the Tau tribe. With amazing maneuverability and excellent long-range firepower, he gradually lured and split the front of the punishment army.

The Star Militia was caught in a guerrilla war with the Tau infantry and the Clints, the Tau minions lurking in the jungle, while the Mechanicus, the Mechanicus, was held back by the Tau air fighters, the Space Marines The mighty company of Tau was caught in a fierce battle with the Tau battlesuit forces.

In the end, the commanders of the punishment army understood that they had far underestimated the determination of the Tau people to defend their home world and their war capabilities. The reinforcements had not yet arrived, so they withdrew from Damocles Bay in order to fight again in the future.

But this means that they must give up all the imperial forces on the planet, and both mortals and Astartes will become victims. Finally, after a fierce quarrel, Vito rejected this proposal and went to the ground in person. The chain of command was reunited in a short time, and the Tau saw the talents of humanity's greatest commanders.

Vito reassembled the huge army of the empire, and relied on the heavy artillery of the Astral Army to continuously bombard the flanks of the Tau tribe, and finally defeated the flank front of the Tau tribe. With the assistance of the Star Militia Army, a major breakthrough was made in just one afternoon.

The punishment army broke into the city of the Tau tribe, where they fought a series of **** battles with the Tau tribe, but in the end, the war did not decide where the winner was. In war, they really underestimated the enemy.

Another reason is that at that time the Tyranids had already invaded the Milky Way and were sweeping through the Limit Starfield, heading towards Macragge. The command from the Limit Starfield Command required all expeditionary forces outside to give up all ongoing wars Fighting with the battle, he immediately turned in an emergency and returned to the extreme star field.

Numerous wars and battles were abandoned at that time, and the huge army of the emperor assembled again, and the punishment army was also one of them. After a short negotiation, the Tau people agreed to a temporary truce, and the punishment army immediately came from the home world to fight with the Tau people. After that, Vito went to Macragge, and I think you know the story after that.

And that was Vito's first contact with the Tau tribe, and he also participated in the whole process of the second Damocles War. That time Vito led the imperial army to fight against the Tau tribe again, and that time, he Encountered a great master of war whom he admired, the Tau General Vision.

  The two fought an epic war. Under the command of the two, millions of humans and tens of millions of Tau coalition forces fought fierce wars in Damocles Bay for several years, and that time also set a record.

In that long tug-of-war, it was the first time that Vito didn't win the war, he didn't lose, but he didn't win, and it was the same for the Tau, it was the first time Vision lost, so , both commanders were impressed by the other, and Vito later heard that Foresight broke away from the Tau Empire and established an independent state in a region of Damocles Bay, but that's for another day.

   And now, this is where Vito came back after several centuries, Damocles Bay, the frontier between the Tau and humans.

"Has it changed much here? Compared with that time." Celestine asked in the cabin, while Vito looked out the window with a smile. On the hull, there is a line of signs, Valhalla 2nd Army.

  Vito smiled as he looked at the imperial support fleet that had arrived, and the Tau fleet flickering around the distant planet at the end of the distant star field, "It seems that it's not that big."

  (end of this chapter)