, When the Tau encounter a new alien species, the Ethereals direct each of the Castes preforms a designated role to bring them into the Empire's fold. However all races have one common belief in the Greater Good. This is a problem as it feels as if the book is only doing the bare minimum with them at the moment, despite the potential behind their ideas. The problem was that they didn't think he was a god, but was some scientist or king somewhere. The Fourth Expedition's own tendencies combined with potential risks of the wormhole, has left them using only tau troops in their new battles. While it did stick to its guns in some areas, there was a general effort to rectify so many running problems, as it added new elements into past stories and removed the most troubling bits in them. The big one is how the book keeps trying to insinuate that they are manipulating events from behind the scenes and altering qualities for their own benefit. Welp, that's one more to add to the review list once I get some free time again, just to see how badly it does fall to bits. The Tau are actively encroaching on human planets and seizing human worlds.

As such, they're crammed into a larger story, and are pushed out of the limelight in favour of the tau themselves. Something where they will claim the Tau Empire arrives, erases any remnant of an inducted world's culture, supplants it with everything Tau from names to their history, and regards anything which doesn't adhere to this as backward and wrong. Well, in the case of Aun'Va, I actually liked this as it broke from an old issue I had been having for some time.

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