Image unrelated, I know. The Imperium seems to have a huge problem with psykers even as it needs them, but they never really mention what happens to Tau Enclaves when there's a large population of psykers amongst the humans.Do they just kill them? Or do they just ignore the problem? I don't think it was ever addressed, and the latter sounds like it's just setting up a time-bomb to explode later.
>>97982568>setting up a time-bomb for laterBingo! A lot of 40k lore is built around the idea of the rise and fall of empires mostly due to their own hubris, mismanagement, greed and malice. The imperium is already snowballing into falling apart and even as the protagonists of this setting they are only this erratic due to the problems they helped create that are making their empire fall apart. The tau empire is GW's hints at what little upstarts might come next in this cycle and how they directly oppose the nature and viewpoints of the last big empire (much like the eldar did to the necrons and the imperium did to the eldar) but still being incapable of adressing the foundational cracks within their own framework. Bringing in countless words under your wing and trying to assimilate them when your own culture is deathly afraid of the concept of civil war and internal unrest is just generally a very bad call that's likely to bite them in the ass BIG TIME later down the line the same way things like the caste system are starting to be seen as antiquated and hipocritical by some or how the inevitable growth will make micromanaging every aspect of tau society impossible and the list just goes on and onBut to answer your question im pretty sure they keep them on a list and keep watch for them in private in case any bizarre activities flare up. I have an idea that has little evidence and is bordering on headcanon but makes sense and has little counterevidence as well: Tau worlds are actually way more tightly controlled than imperial worlds solely on the basis that due to their smaller size it's generally way easier for tau to monitor the worlds under their own wing and space, things like hive gangs are just less common + their higher level of automation can probably take care of spying on their own civilians as well. They can notice you way faster if you step out of the line but it seems to be hyper private like most warp related subjects there
>>97982568The Tau do have an auxiliary race of spacefaring psychic polar bears. So they are presumably already aware that psykers are a thing, even if they don't fully understand the mechanisms behind it and are probably entirely relying on their allies (who likewise might be limited).Being a psyker in the Tau empire probably just has you whisked away to get judged by the bears to see if you get training or euthanized. And given how Tau don't typically field combat capable psykers, it's probably the latter in a lot of cases.
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>>97982568They have a psyker corp lead by their own psyker species which train psykers how to handle their powers.
realistically they would have already been destroyed from within by rogue psykers and chaos worshipping humans and when meeting the Imperial Guard on the battlefield a sanctioned psyker would tear their biggest mechs in half (no void shields) but who cares about setting cohesion
>>97987411Indeed. Realistically a single Guardsman would have stomped their entire species into the dirt, unarmed, simply by virtue of his powerful Homo sapiens mitochondria.
>>97987448Uhh no that sounds far fetched
>>97987411The psyker problem is a hive city & feral planet problem.If a person starts going bananas on a well managed planet you can take care of the issue before demons appear.The biggest issue Chaos has is that even Tzeentch doesn't know restraint so while some enlightened Jedi nonsense isn't in the cards neither is simply killing the person presently being kooky that hard.That's how literally millions of planets managed to not become warp rifts or ruled by Psykers despite psychic talent being as ill understood then as the Tau understand it now.There's a middle ground between "psykers are harmless smol beans" and "a single psyker will immediately doom the entire solar system".
>>97987745Not really. Between the guards and space marines, the imperium have enough feats that it just breaks immersion to say the Tau are still around
>>97982568Post models and I will tell you (my friend plays tau)
>>97987902>the imperium have enough plot armorFTFY
The psyker problem doesn't really exist. If a psyker is going crazy and unstable, just kill them. There you go, job done.It's only a problem to the Imperium because they group up thousands if not tens of thousands of them together and then act surprised when they all blow up together, too.
>>97982568>they never really mention what happens to Tau Enclaves when there's a large population of psykers amongst the humans.There are no psykers among the humans in the Tau Empire.
>>97987411>realistically they would have already been destroyed from within by rogue psykers and chaos worshipping humansThe Tau have an entire caste of their society dedicated to information control. If anything their cultural control is greater than the Imperium's, primarily because they are operating on a smaller scale with tighter regulations on who is in charge. It is no problem at all for them to institute a pogrom to wipe out entire populations of humans. Gue'vasa will pretend it never happened, Tau will pretend it never happened, the Ethereals will pretend it never happened. Anything that is contrary to the Greater Good goes away.
>>97991050That, and because the Imperium has places like hive worlds where they just cram billions of people in one mega city, there's just endless potential for psykers to go unnoticed, group together, and grow into worse problems. The Tau don't have a psyker problem for the same reason that they don't have gang problems or mutant uprising problems. Because they don't have millions of homeless people and criminals hiding out in the sewers.
