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Tau means:
The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
An elementary particle of the lepton family, having a mass about 3,550 times that of the electron, a negative electric charge, and a mean lifetime of 3 × 10-13 seconds.
In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300
Tau is the name of an island near Kilinailau, Greenwich Island, and Ocean Island
In Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 science fiction gaming universe, the Tau are an alien race
Tau is a symbol used from antiquity and is represented by a type of cross. There are those who accuse Christ of being the pirate of this ancient symbol, but it did not become a symbol of Christianity until a later date. As with Christianity, other ancient societies who used the "Tau" symbol also evolved its use to represent resurrection, reincarnation and blood sacrifice.
The prefix of many cosmic entities, fictional or not. Notably Tau Ceti Five from System Shock 2
An elementary particle of the lepton family, having a mass about 3,550 times that of the electron, a negative electric charge, and a mean lifetime of 3 × 10-13 seconds.
In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300
Tau is the name of an island near Kilinailau, Greenwich Island, and Ocean Island
In Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 science fiction gaming universe, the Tau are an alien race
Tau is a symbol used from antiquity and is represented by a type of cross. There are those who accuse Christ of being the pirate of this ancient symbol, but it did not become a symbol of Christianity until a later date. As with Christianity, other ancient societies who used the "Tau" symbol also evolved its use to represent resurrection, reincarnation and blood sacrifice.
The prefix of many cosmic entities, fictional or not. Notably Tau Ceti Five from System Shock 2
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Tau Empire - Warhammer 40k!
From where?
Tau empire is an empire in the Warhammer 40k universe and is known for their manouverability in the movement phase as well as their great firepower and their lack of melee units. There is so mush to tell about the Tau. I'd better split it up in different sections, one for the history and story of this alien race as well as table top tactics and combat style etc.
Tau Empire story:
In the year of 3500 there was an adventure fleet that traveled along the eastern fringe of the galaxy. They were searching for planets to colonize with humans. Then they found a planet perfect for colonization When they arrived on it they immediately started to study the atmosphere and vegetation. The planet was multiple times bigger than Terra (earth) and was filled with dry desserts. Even so there was water sipping through gigantic canyons filled with vegetation.
Then they found some humanoid beings on the desserts. These beings had a blue pigment and their technology wasn't impressive at all. They where only at the cavemen era and used sticks as spears and pelts as clothes. These beings was DNA tested and saved to the huge information index. This race was named after the planet: the Tau race.
The travelers approved a colonization expedition on the planet to make it claimed by humans. But heavy Warpstorms made it impossible to travel into the system and thus made the tau planet isolated from humans in some thousand years. The colonization fleet was then canceled.
Now, 6000 years after the encounter, some space marine (Ultramarine) territorial scout vessels found some unknown ships flying by their scout region. The ships was destroyed with little effort and was then studied by the Space Marine vessels. They encountered some already known DNA genes that was last reported to be specified 6000 years ago. It belonged to the race called Tau who was said to be in the cavemen era.
When some expedition vessels then traveled to the tau empire home world, they where met by a high technology alien race. The tau had just in 6000 years developed from cavemen to space travelers. And their story behind that is still to be told below =)
Tau Empire under the isolation period
Read here or below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_(Warhammer_40,000)
At first the tau where a very friendly race that had lots of tribes spread around the world of their planet T'AU. They evolved into different subspecies by living in different conditions on the planet. After maybe year 1000 of the tau, they had such a huge population on the planet so that they started to make kingdomes instead of just tribes. But these kingdoms was still very isolated from one another. in about tau year 2000 they started to make communication networks and roads to trade with the other kingdoms. Alliances started to take root between different kingdoms. at about year 3000 the tau race had left the kingdome era and begun with more civilized cities along with weapons that could be used from distance to vaporize anything it hits, at this age war was slowly being a fact. The dessert empire was the strongest and toughtest one, smashed and grabbed as they wanted. The mountain empire had a slim and reflexive appearance and started developing fly and hover technology. These two was the largest of empires in their known world and was always competing with both technology and war.
The mountain empire then fought with the dessert empire. and in the final battle where the dessert empire was about to destroy the mountain empire as well as lead the few remaining tau warriors to war, a bright light beam blazed up on the mountain. From it one tau warrior arrived. He told them to stop the war and to team up and rebuild the falling empire but this time united as one. The two leaders couldn't say anything cause this great warrior had something special with him that somehow seamed to be whet we humans would call an angel. This warrior however created what the tau calls the Greater Good, a system that will help the Tau stand united and not to fight itself. This warrior saved the tau from total annihilation.
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