

For five long T'au years the inhabitants held off the savage assaults with their thick walls and plentiful cannon. Though negotiation had been attempted, the fierce plains warriors would settle for nothing less than the annihilation of the city of Fio'taun. The fortress city of Fio'taun was under assault by the T'au warriors from the plains. During this time, the T'au's legends tell of the first appearance of the Ethereals at the city of Fio'taun. They have developed very rapidly as a space-faring species.Įarlier in their history, the T'au were a culture built upon warring tribes. What is known is that only 6,000 standard years ago, in the 35th Millennium, an Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet had discovered the T'au homeworld of T'au and determined that its population of sentient xenos were a primitive people at the Stone Age level of development who had only just mastered fire. The exact date of the founding of the T'au Empire in the Imperial Calendar is unclear, however the way in which the T'au were united as a species is a well-known tale.

However, if their peaceful overtures are refused, the T'au may well decide to conquer a planet and add it to their growing interstellar empire for the Greater Good, searing the flesh from the bones of anyone who stands against their benign intentions. The T'au claim to be a peaceful species when possible, asking if others will join their cause voluntarily instead of fighting against them. They are fighting to expand their interstellar empire and extend a philosophical concept they call the " Greater Good" ( Tau'va in the T'au Lexicon) to all the intelligent species of the galaxy.

The T'au ( Imperial binomial classification: Tau tau), also spelled Tau in older records and pronounced "TOW," are a young, humanoid and technologically-advanced intelligent species native to the Eastern Fringes of the Milky Way Galaxy. The sigil of the sept of T'au, the T'au homeworld, often used as a symbol for the entire T'au Empire.
