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T'au (Planet)

Targetdrone.gif This article is about the T'au Capital; for the xenos species of the same name, see T'au.
Map Tau Sept Data Planetary Image
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Expansion: Homeworld
Location: Eastern Fringe T'au Fire Warrior.jpg
Markings: White[8]
Armour Colours: Tan, Brown, Black[8]

T'au is the homeworld of the T'au, and capital of both the T'au Empire and T'au Sept which shares its name.[4b] It is located within the Ultima Segmentum, to the galactic north of Ultramar.[2]

Sept Information

Possible image of T'au

The planet itself is a hot, dry, arid world primarily covered in savannah and scattered mountain ranges. A small world, T'au hosts only a single continental landmass and is notable for its spectacular sunsets.[4a] The little arable land that exists is covered with efficiently-run collective farms managed by the Earth Caste. Cities rise into the sky, covered in white marble, in stark contrast to the Hives of the Imperium. No humans have ever walked on the streets of the capital, located on the equator, and Imperial scans are blocked by some T'au technology. At the centre of this city appears to be a heavily defended fortress, possibly the heart of the T'au Empire, the high council of the Ethereals. T'au is home to a large moon known as Lu'val, which was the first off-world colony of the T'au Empire in 533.M37.[2]

The planet was discovered by the Imperium at 789.M35 by the Land's Vision, an Explorator vessel of the Adeptus Mechanicus, shortly before the Age of Apostasy.[4a] The planet was scheduled for cleaning and re-colonisation by an Imperial Navy fleet but the fleet was destroyed in a freak warp storm.[3] The T'au planet itself was surrounded by vast warp storms, cutting off the entire region. During this time, the world was plunged into a brutal civil war known to the T'au as the Mont'au (or 'The Terror'), which only ended with the arrival of the mysterious Ethereals who unified the planet shortly after.[2] Only six thousand years later, the T'au Empire spanned 300 light years.[2]

When the Imperium first arrived in the vicinity of T'au, it was a feral world with primitive people scraping a living off of the ground. When the Imperium returned following the warp storms, they attempted to conquer the T'au Empire and were successful in conquering quite a few planets.[2]

The warriors of T'au are known as wise and experienced troops, coming from the original T'au explorers who fought the first battles during the initial expansion phase of the T'au Empire. T'au is also the template upon which newly founded colonies are based. The battlesuit combat techniques in use on many new T'au worlds are the same as those practised by those from T'au. Their warriors tend to forgo the ability to target multiple enemies, concentrating instead on utterly destroying a single unit before moving on to the next. This way they achieve maximum destructive efficiency. They are aware that by using the same or similar tactics, their enemy may be able to overcome them, but they are loath to change them. Their warriors spend evenings planning in detail the next days' attacks and meditating on their lives in case they fall in battle.[1]

Sept Colours
White
Uniform Variations
Yellow, Brown
Signature System
Vectored Manoeuvring Thrusters[5]

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