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<table {|align=center border="1><tr><th>Rank</th><th colspan" cellpadding="5">Caste</th>cellspacing="0"</tr>|-<tr>|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''order and name of rank'''<td></td><td>|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''Fire</td><td>- Shas'''|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''Earth</td><td>- Fio'''|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''Water - Por'''|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''Air</td><td>Water</td><td>- Kor'''|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''Etheral or Celestial - Aun</td>'''|-|align=center|lowest rank - LA |align=center|warrior|align=center|worker|align=center|bureaucrat|align=center|messenger|align=center|prince|-|align=center|2nd lowest rank - UI </tr>|align=center|veteran<tr>|align=center|senior<td>La</td><td>Fire Warrior</td><td>Manual Laborer</td><td>Crewman</td><td></td>|align=center|envoy</tr>|align=center|carrier<tr>|align=center|prelate<td>Ui</td><td>Sergeant</td><td></td><td></td><td>Mid|-ranking Enovy</td></tr>|align=center|middle rank - VRE|align=center|hero|align=center|overseer|align=center|magister|align=center|pilot|align=center|king|-<tr>|align=center|second highest rank - EL<td>Vre</td><td>Battlesuit Team Leader</td><td>Factory Foreman</td><td>Fighter Pilot</td><td></td>|align=center|noble or knight</tr>|align=center|engineer<tr>|align=center|diplomat<td>El</td><td>Field Commander</td><td>Engineer</td><td>Spacecraft Captain</td><td></td>|align=center|captain</tr>|align=center|holy(?)<tr>|-<td>|align=center|highest rank - O</td><td>High Level Commander</td><td></td><td>Fleet Admiral</td><td></td><td>High Ethereal</td></tr>|align=center|commander|align=center|planner</table>|align=center|ambassador|align=center|admiral|align=center|highest(?)|-<br>|}
OK, I provided an easy to see and to understand shema of "caste ranks and names". hope you will like it.
The '''Caste System''' divides [[Tau]] society into several groups known as castes; movement between the castes is impossible, and membership in a caste is determined by birth. The castes are a formalized version of the political divisions that once segregated the Tau on their [[homeworld]] of T'au during the [[Mont'au]] time.
==Fire Caste==
The '''Shas''', or '''Fire''', Caste are thought of as the military arm of the [[Tau Empire]], and as such are the Tau most often used in the tabletop wargame. They are tall and have relatively large musculature. This comes from the Fire Caste's origin on the plains of [[T'au]], the Tau home world, where they were predators and warriors. Tau from the world of [[Vior'la]] tend to have slightly greater muscle mass.
