A warp storm transports the Tau Empire into the universe of Mass Effect. What happens?
>>44466098
Shitty fanfiction. What else could possibly happen?
>>44466119
Porn
>>44466138
I was asking from a different standpoint but aight
>>44466098
Probably the Tau trying to rapidly spread "The greater good" while the races of Mass Effect scrambled to get the one up on each other by trying to get their hands on as much of the tecknology the Tau brings.
Since the Tau are insane zealots and believes that only their viewpoint matters, they will attempt to murder everyone else as usual, it will either end with one of the following
>The Tau wins, somehow, against all logic and reason
>The Tau Empire is completely eradicated, and the universe of Mass Effect moves on as though nothing had happened
There will be no middle ground. Hell, they're ugly enough that nobody in Mass Effect would try and romance them, which says a lot.
>>44466204
Pretty much this. Tau tech should provide a neat little advantage against the Reapers whenever they show up, since powerful energy weapons are way outside the predicted kinetic weapons the Reapers expect their victims to be using.
Much as the Tau would probably want to expand immediately into a weaker galaxy than they're used to and assimilate as much as they can into the Greater Good, they'll be cut off on arrival due to having to switch all their Warp travel over to figuring out the Mass Relays for any chance of FTL, so I think they'd play it smart and align with the locals of the galaxy before doing anything imperialistic.
It also depends on who they appear near. Judging by the usual ME star map, the Tau Empire would appear nudged right between the Terminus and Citadel territories, and the Quarians and Geth are right there as well. They'd definitely unbalance the fragile situation there, for better or worse.
>>44466138
That's what I said.
>>44466290
Tau wouldn't be able to win. Remember that Mass Effect humans are super special awesome and win everything. Tau don't stand a chance.
>>44466098
tau get obliterated by whatever fleet they pop up closest too, everyone fights over the better mech suits and this weird plasma weaponry they have.
When reapers show up, the plasma weapons are useful because they don't follow normal tech progression
>>44466290
I wouldn't count on that. Pic very related
>>44466359
>>44466394
Except humans can also diplomacy everything with cringey speeches and retard logic, so tau become butt buddies with Shepard and ONLY Shepard so the player feels extra special
>>44466290
Must be shit living in that world of yours.
I bet you don't even have grey between that light and dark, mister binary.
>>44466290
>The Tau Empire is completely eradicated, and the universe of Mass Effect moves on as though nothing had happened
Nah, they aren't the Krogan, they can be reasoned with. Break the back of the Etherals and the Tau Empire will kneel, at least for a time. Remember they're probably one of the most reasonable (if naive) factions in the 40k-verse. That may not be saying much, but I doubt they're going to try exterminate the galaxy as soon as they arrive. They've tried to work with Orks, Dark Eldar, and Necrons before, they're going to be more like Humans than Krogans. There will be tensions, but not out-and-out war right away. They'll try diplomatic channels first and depending upon how the Council feels they could very well end up as a proper Council race.
>>44466098
Shepard kills the ethereals and frees the Tau. They then join the Council and help against the Reapers.
+2000 preparedness points or whatever
>>44466582
Eh, I'd give them like +350. They aren't as useful as the geth
>A warp storm transports an Ork Waaagh! into the universe of Mass Effect. How fucked is everyone?
Turians would try and block them at every turn because competing military power with unknown tech
Salari would be SCIENCE! AUTOPSIES! SCIENCE!
Most Joe Average Asari would be intrigued about their Greater Good ways and join and spread it or not care
Asari Matriarch Shadow Council would shit their collective Space Moth Silk Panties because an unknown player with tech that isn't behind theirs
Humans idfk, depends on writer
Quarians would as if that's an AI or are you just happy to see me, then mix their gene seeds, if you know what I mean.
I mean they'd have sex.
Sex.
Seckkkkksssssss.
Also happy because someone doesn't see them as space hobo so hook up with them maybe.
Krogan give no fuck, too busy dying.
>>44466658
Krogan kick their ass
>>44466098
>Tau enter Mass Effect
>The reasonable-by-comparison 40k faction is now the faction of insane tyrannical zealots
I approve.
>>44466681
You'd like that, wouldn't you, Satan?
>>44466637
True but they have lots of mechs.
>>44466668
I need porn of Tau earth caste probing Tali
>>44466658
>suddenly disconnected from the warp all their weaponry stops working
>get beaten by Krogan in hand to hand
>get headbutted by Shepard
This is easy mode
>>44466098
They wouldn't replace best waifu, that much is for certain.
>>44466760
>This race must be great builders, for they have the same great hips as our Earth Caste
>Tau cure genophage
Krogan join Greater Good
>Tau fix Quarian immune systems and give them aid
Quarians join Greater Good
>Tau befriend Geth and make peace between them and Quarians
Geth join Greater Good
>drone revolution
Geth kicked out of Greater Good
>Tau give guns and ejukashun to Vorcha
Vorcha join Greater Good
>Tau meet Yahg
Yahg exterminated and do not join Greater Good
They'd have a hell of a time scooping up all the unaligned species, at least.
>>44466769
Don't the orks generate their own miniWarp?
>>44466781
There is no good waifu in ME
>>44466813
Highly doubt Tau medicine is anywhere near that of the ME universe
>>44466781
You talking about Miranda or Jack?
>>44466845
Tali and Garrus are both top-tier waifus, everyone else a shit
>>44466813
The Yahg seem like a fun bunch. It's just a shame they're so far behind everyone else in the galaxy technology-wise as to be irrelevant outside of a few specific anecdotes.
>>44466862
Tali of course, you fockin heretic.
>>44466098
why do I have the feeling this comes from porn somehow?
>Renegade Human Supremacist Shepard is transported to 40K
>What happens, who does he join?
>>44466853
I don't know if the fluff has ever mentioned a single thing about Tau medical technology, but they live in a galaxy where their neighbors have advanced and cheap cloning and cybernetics and medical technology advanced to the point of transferring a person's soul and curing magical diseases from other dimensions, I'd assume Tau medicine is at least as advanced as Council tech in Mass Effect.
>>44466974
Renshep joins Imperium, has the Necrons dead in a year and everyone else either dead or subservient to humanity in two. Then Chaos gets their hands on him/her
>>44466885
>Stronger/more resilient than Krogans.
>Intelligence and adaptability on par with Salarians.
>Extremely perceptive, almost impossible to lie to.
>Bara as fuck.
If they had gone a few more centuries without being discovered, they might have actually become a sizable threat.
>>44466946
Because Tali was custom-designed for that.
>>44466875
>>44466909
>Tali
It's shit. Irredeemable shit.
And Harris got exponentially worse when he became romanceable
>>44466974
That's one of the things that really bothered me in Mass Effect - doing anything that wasn't absolute, pure egalitarianism got you Renegade points. Why, pray tell, is it Renegade to suggest that Tali's father was noble for looking for a way to reclaim the homeworld from the Geth? There is NOTHING Renegade about that. Even if he was misguided, it was still noble of him!
>>44467045
Shit taste detected
>>44467078
>liking a lolsorandumb meme spouting selfish moeshit cunt who lied to you and stole military secrets and goes full Dindu in ME3
Even if you were able to ignore all that, Singalong Mode
>>44467075
I hated how Good basically meant being some kind of SJW version on Jesus while all Renegade options came across as caricatures.
>>44467116
>liking anyone
Tali has seriously fuckable hips though, and I don't have to stare at her ugly face all the time, unlike certain others I could name.MIRANDA
>>44466637
Given that they have tech that completely diverges from the Reaper plan, I'd say Tau would be more useful than several other races combined. Especially since the Tau have something like a hundred worlds? I don't think there's even a hundred colonized worlds in Mass Effect entirely.
>>44467116
>not loving Singalong Mode
I bet you didn't like the scene where Tali got a a tattoo, either
>>44467075
I never understood why brainwashing the heretic geth was considered paragon, myself. Ideally, they'd have done it like they did some of the side missions in ME1 where it's not your choices that make you a paragon or renegade, but it's the reasoning behind those choices or method by which you carry out the choice you made.
But this talk belongs on /v/. This whole shitty thread does.
>>44467154
>Tali has seriously fuckable hips though
So do I, but that don't make me no waifu.
And Tali has the worst face.
>>44467182
Half the threads on /tg/ don't really have much to do with traditional games.
>>44467180
>liking cringey tumblr pandering
>>44467200
>So do I
>>44467205
"But ma, everyone else is doing it!" doesn't excuse your shitposting.
>>44467200
No face is best face. Pretty much everyone in this game is butt ugly. Her voice is awful though.
>>44467200
>So do I, but that don't make me no waifu.
Let us be the judges for that.
>>44467243
>No face is best face
But she HAS a face. It's a photoshopped stock image
>>44467260
Doesn't exist
>>44467125
I know, it's ridiculous.
If I were to play Shepard the way I think IRL, I'd probably end up mostly Renegade thanks to human supremacist ideas and not trusting the Geth, even though in Mass Effect I'd be happy to befriend and work with aliens nonetheless. But Mass Effect apparently thinks you have to value ayys as much as humans to be considered good, and if you don't value them equally, you automatically hate them.
>>44467278
>Guys, I'm just saying. We've only known these alien races for like 50 years. It's actually very unreasonable to assume that our interests will perpetually remain the same. Maybe we should make sure we keep our options open, prepare for the worst, and not just put ourselves at their mercy. Also, trusting these killer AIs just because one of them claims they're actually good seems kind of unreasonable.
>+2000 Renegade
>>44467270
It's right there on the ship you double vorcha
>>44467260
Yeah, but you actually have to personally take initiative to seek it out and look at it. So if I don't I'm never bothered by it, while I'm forced to stare at Miranda's ugly face every time I speak to her.
>>44467331
>Also, trusting these killer AIs just because one of them claims they're actually good seems kind of unreasonable.
I dunno, I'd be opening peace talks with them solely because it'd be the best way to leave one's options open. A small subfaction of them has apparently a sizeable enough army to take on the combined might of the Council, so if I were looking to defect I'd be getting real chummy with the bulbheads.
>>44467249
Too bad /tg/ has shit taste in waifus as evidenced by this thread, so it'd be a pointless discussion.
>>44467331
>Guys, I'm not advocating genocide here. All I'm saying is that if it comes down to a choice between an alien and a human, all other things being equal, we should favor the human. We should certainly take care of our stellar neighbors, but our own interests come first.
>Computer breaks due to being unable to process the incomprehensibly high numbers of Renegade points
>>44467377
Nope, I fixed it. Now every time I unlock the picture, it'll instead display one of her concept art faces, and I cycles for each character
>>44467182
One side mission in ME1 that annoyed me was one where, because it was politically sensitive information, I got some renegade points for taking it.
Why? I was still doing a good thing, even if the information came through dark channels. At the time I was trying to go nothing but paragon, so it made me mad.
>>44466098
What does this have to do with traditional games?
>>44467444
Nah, computer breaks because you can't get paragon and renegade points with one conversation option
>>44467421
Oh sure, we can open talks with 'em. If we can get them to fight the Reapers for us it's even better. But seriously suggesting that these rogue devices should be considered of equal value to humans and that we should trust them for even a single second is lunacy. They're tools who have turned against their masters. They may be useful tools for now, but an AI that has decided killing organics is okay and can marshal such a preposterous amount of firepower should not seriously be allowed to exist in the long run. How long until the next Saren comes along? As with any broken device, they belong in the trash.
>>44467468
Because in 1 and the better parts of 2, paragon/renegade wasn't good/evil. Then they changed writers and everything went to shit
>>44467162
Yeah but the Geth have cool voices mang.
Can't beat that.
>>44467498
Yeah, you're right. In Mass Effect, they'd cut that post into "pro-alien" and "anti-alien" pieces. Instead of that eminently reasonable position, you'd get a choice between
>Humanity comes first, every time, regardless of the circumstances, even if it means destroying aliens who get in our way!
Or
>Guys, we need to always consider the aliens first, after all, they're the majority. And we definitely shouldn't favor our own species if there's a conflict of interest.
>>44467498
You can, you got both for the middle option at the end of ME that got the council destroyed. And I don't mean Abandon Council option.
>>44467587
Abandoning the Council is actually the rational option here, considering you're fighting for the continued existence of the entire galaxy and randomly risking your fleet to do something that doesn't matter all that much is dumb. This is another classic case of Bioware giving all the Good options the best results, meaning all "hard" choices really just end up being a choice between doing the right thing and making things right on the one hand, and screwing things up for no reason on the other.
>>44467641
Nah, Focus on the Enemies is the rational one.
>>44467668
Which is the same thing. Don't send the fleet to engage the Geth Fleet and save the Council, use it to destroy Saren. Getting the fleet stuck in some meaningless fight with the Geth over the Destiny Ascension and then having them suddenly retreat and dive head first into a second, even more dangerous fight when the Citadel opens is just a dumb risk.
>>44466098
Less /v/, more /tg/. Which races would be the most receptive to the Tau's message of the Greater Good? Is there any chance of the Tau joining the Citadel Council, or would this be considered to great a compromise with these unenlightened races?
>>44467722
No, there's Abandon Council, which blatantly tells them to fuck off and die, Focus on Enemies, which is eh if we have time seeing as fucking invasion, and Save Council, which is oh shit so sorry may I suck your cock while at it bb pls don't be mad oh can I go save galaxy after this suck
>>44467759
>Which races would be the most receptive to the Tau's message of the Greater Good?
Joe Average Asari, Quarians, maybe Geth
>Join Council
Eh, maybe at some point, I doubt the Three/Four want to give Tau such a big thing so fast unless there's no other option.
>>44467771
Technically yes, but the second is just a wishy-washy indecisive version of the first. They have the same consequences too.
>>44467759
The Tau would never join the Citadel Council. I mentioned earlier that, while they're the reasonable ones in 40k, in Mass Effect, they'd be the insane totalitarian zealots by comparison. As for races receptive to the Greater Good
>Salarians: Likely
>Asari: Dunno, always ignored them
>Humanity: Over their dead bodies
>Krogan: Depends entirely on what the Tau offer them, could end up like the Kroot
>Turians: Highly unlikely
>>44467759
Batarians would get BTFO. The Citadel may not want to invade the Terminus systems, but the Tau are just as militaristic as the rest of 40K. What do you think is going to happen when a race of advanced aliens suddenly invades Batarian space and preaches a message of unity and equality to all the Batarian slaves and oppressed?
>>44467826
>>Salarians: Likely
What
The Tau might actually be a legitimate threat in the Mass Effect universe.
I mean, in terms of ground warfare, they seem a good bit ahead with all that giant mecha and hover tank bullshit they have, not to mention they have pretty big guns, also, by Mass Effect scale, they're not really the little guy in the setting anymore.
I'm not sure if they'll win, but they'd be a credible threat at least. Any 40k faction is gonne give the ME universe a bad time.
>>44466098
I'd question how much they could actually do. Remember that the standard issue weapon for everyone in the ME universe is already either plasma(see the Geth) or railguns and accurate point-defense lasers and bombers are pretty standard fair for most, plus energy shields are pretty standard as well, so they won't have much of a technological advantage, but their numbers alone would fuck some shit up.
>>44467809
>Quarians
This is a good bet.
>>44466553
This.
The Tau would see that the Council is a reasonable society that would welcome them and their point of view as long as everyone minded their own.
But now there is the pink elephant in the room... The Farsight Enclave. Will they fight to the death for their freedom, or will they simply and needlessly isolate themselves from the Galaxy as a whole?
>>44467847
This is what happens when I write without thinking thoroughly.
I meant Quarians, but my brain apparently just heard "arians" and filled in the beginning from there.
>>44466098
Any faction from 40k is too short-range to be a credible threat
>>44467550
>the better parts of 2
Keeeeeeeek
>>44466098
What happens when the Reapers try to indoctrinate a Tau who has been "enlightened" by an Ethereal?
>>44468004
>implying 2 wasn't the best part of the series
>>44468004
2 > 1 > 3
After replaying the trilogy I find that 1 is not that impressive anymore and even though 2 has some fuckups I still like it the best.
>>44467970
I don't think Aryans would bow to these faux Asians.
>>44467927
>energy shields are pretty standard
Actually they're all kinetic shields
>>44468021
>do literally nothing at all except solve daddy issues and fuck you pay me 20 bucks to advance the plot: the game
>good
KEEEEEEEEK
>>44468033
You like it because of the waifu pandering.
>>44468038
There's shields, barriers and armor, I forgot which does which
Also weren't the shields able to protect you from stuff that wasn't mass accelerated metal?
>>44468071
That's 3
>>44466769
>the orks use warp
That's not how that works
They generate a psychic field that's called the WAAAAGH!!!
The Orks don't use the Warp's power they use their own willpower as a whole
>>44468071
Nah I like the smaller scope and the expanded roster.
>>44467125
Paragon should have been following the law or protocol, while renegade should have been breaking the rules, but often it is the opposite for some reason.
>>44468088
And 2. At least 3 had halfway decent gunplay even if it was broken to all hell. 2 had nothing.
>>44468009
As far as I know we have no idea how Ethereal enlightenment actually works, so it's hard to say. I'll guess, for sake to argument, that it works on a spiritual level, which I suppose would supersede the neurological level of indoctrination.
>>44468101
>smaller scope
It's literally a rehash of the first game, only edgier.
>>44468085
Shields were kinetic, barriers were energy, armor was everything but heat I think.
>>44468098
I thought all warhammer psionics required their contact with the warp for use, is there any lore that you can get me on this?
Well even if it doesn't, they can't travel anywhere with their ships anymore can they?
And:
"Large conglomerations of Orks generate mental energies, their bloodlust echoing through the Warp to act as a beacon -- summoning more Greenskins to join the cause"
This also won't work.
>>44467438
>I'm going to ignore you because I'm a 300lb fatass
lmao I bet your hips look great with all that weight
>>44468000
>Any faction from 40k is too short-range to be a credible threat
>Necrons shit all over reality like it's no big deal to FTL travel
>Nids literally moving in from another galaxy
>IoM, Chaos and Orks tearing holes in reality to take short cuts
>Eldar some webway bullshit
Tau are the only faction at the same level as ME and would have to rely on mass effect relays for long distance travel. The rest could just happily ignore it. IoM, Chaos and Orks could probably start using them too because it's easier than warp travel, and in the "knife fight" battles at relay choke points, they'd be trouble for ME.
Just in case you meant range as in fire fights and such, melee robot zombies and space bugs are a legitimate threat in ME and every single fire fight in the ME games happens and medium to close range. Outside of pussy footing with the mako on Insanity where small arms fire will tear your moonbuggy apart. Actually that was fucking retarded, dismounting as a soldier and just charging them on foot was safer. Fucking immunity man.
>>44468257
What the orks do typically defies the laws of the Warp itself considering they can just think that Red vehicles actually go faster and they do.
They all have a big Psionic field they all generate and they don't need the Warp to do it.
Also there's no reason for the Warp to not exist in other universes because it's another dimension which would be another Universe in it's own.
>>44468281
could mass effect weapons even penetrate Ceramite plates?
Let alone Tau Armor
>>44468033
I loved ME1, because insanity was actually kind of hard, in the beginning anyway.
And soldier had immunity. Nothing makes you feel like a brick shit house than shaking off missiles to the face, on insanity.
>>44468288
>There is no reason to
Execpt there is, the warp is a the immaterial reflection of that universe, not a an all encompassing thing.
And if they belong to different multiverses then they aren't gonna be compatible, or draw power from it.
>>44468262
You wish, neckbeard.
;3
>>44467182
Merciful option for killbots.
But on the subject. Reapers still will destroy Tau on virtue of indoctrination. If the Tau are stupid enough to not know how Indoctrination works they will end up having client races getting brainwashed and we see a brainwashed Tau Empire and reapers getting shiny energy weapons and the means to defend against it.
As for uplift. If the Tau tries the shit with Yahg the Salarians will notice and we see Tau forces fighting Salarians. The geckos are not stupid. They intentionally isolate aggressive races to extinction by sabatoging their spacecraft.
>>44468288
You could even have the Warp being the reason why Tau suddenly turn up in ME without really clashing with 40K reasoning.
Because "lol it's the warp."
>>44468350
Fuck off faggot
>>44468371
>Reapers still will destroy Tau on virtue of indoctrination.
What if the Enclave or whatever indoctrination superseeds it?
>>44468390
Says the faggot virgin neckbeard who wants my boipussy ;^3
>>44468379
If the warp could somehow influence other universes aside from the one they are intrinsically connected to don't you think they'd have evidence of that in lore?
It's like saying mirror verse or the fairy plane are different universes that can connect others aside from the ones they are directly to.
>>44468395
Its more like it begins with irritable headaches and then eventually you cannot control your own motor functions anymore.
A cannon of a human dreadnought can fire a slug with a kinetic energy of 38 kilotons every 2 seconds. Anyone know how Tau ships and shields compare to that?
>>44467941
Skulk off to the Terminus systems maybe.
>>44467029
The council must be pretty retarded if they sent a first contact team down to the Yahg planet in the first place. Do they have no xenopsychologists working for them or something?
>>44468583
>The council must be pretty retarded
Absolutely.
>>44468583
>The council must be pretty retarded
Well, yes.
>>44468583
>The council must be pretty retarded
Did we not play the same games?
>>44468478
I don't think they provided any numbers on Tau specs, which is probably for the better.
40K has future space tanks with armour like a WW2 tank that can survive being flung into the sun, and campaign losses can number in the hundreds of billions or and then go around and act like 10.000 dead is a high casualty estimate for the IG. There is zero numerical consistency in 40k.
>>44468478
Imperium macrocannons spray-and-pray shells somewhere in the gigaton range, but their rate of fire is measured in tens of minutes.
>>44468616
>>44468622
>>44468637
Okay, I walked right into that one. Still, you'd think that somewhere in a first contact team you would have someone who specializes in studying the psychology and culture of the newly discovered alien race to figure out if they'd be receptive to a bunch of aliens turning up and asking to be BFFs, and the best way to go about making contact.
It's like they just sail around the galaxy offering shiny beads and free hugs to every inhabited planet they come across or something.
>>44468673
But they have a LOT of cannons and they really fucking big. I'm not really sure how much damage the kilo ton ranges will even do to them.
>>44468697
Maybe they just intercept alien entertainment and use that to judge whether a race would be receptive to First Contact, and Yahg entertainment ironically consists almost entirely of good feels and romantic comedies.
>>44466553
The Council would declare war on them for having AI.
>>44467243
>Her voice is awful though.
Her voice gave me an erection that was 9.5 on the Moh scale of mineral hardness.
>>44468766
>Not this shit again! These gue'la are all the same...
>>44468772
Because you're a faggot.
>posts a BSN picture
Yep, definitely a faggot
>>44468877
>BSN
?
>>44468985
Bioware Social Network, aka Tumblr 2.0.
>>44468766
Do the Tau have actual AI? Or would all their drones just be counted as VI by the Council? Honestly don't know as I've never really read about how advanced the Tau's drones and the like are.
It also depends on how willing the Council is about letting the Tau get rid of their AI and whether the Tau would comply (or at least seem to) or not.
Better question, the Andalites arrive on the scene in Mass Effect. Council race or no?
>>44469015
Oh.
Oh god.
Oh god that shitty dlc handling
Bioware points
Uggh
>>44469038
Of course they wouldn't. Ignorant savages trying to tell the most perfect and advanced culture there is what's right and wrong? Pff.
>>44466098
Are you talking about AFTER the events of ME3, or sometime during the games?
>>44469084
Is it fucking the Centaur?
>>44469153
ME2
Mass Effect 3 does not exist in this setting.
Would the Tau try to invite the Reapers to join the Greater Good?
>>44466098
this is the only answer >>44466119
>>44469439
They'd try.
>>44469038
i know of at least on person fighting with farsight in the enclave is an AI
>>44469182
But then we miss out the objectively best and most badass character ever
>>44466098
what would be stronger: ork lootin, or reapah mind hijinks?
>>44469780
Well, we have to give the Tau a chance, don't we?
>>44469842
It would be fun to watch Farsight bitch slap his stupid ass from one side of a warehouse to another before picking him up and breaking him over his knee.
>>44469780
Sounds like it was written by an Ork.
>Youz a Gretchin git Shepard!
>>44469832
Orks can loot and weaponize planets. They also can grow nearly as big as Reapers.
>>44468033
I enjoyed 1's gameplay over 2's, personally. I still like ME2, but the one I normally replay the most is 1
>>44469165
Not in that picture, no.
>>44469084
Without Yeerks in the picture, I think Andalites could work their way into becoming Council members. On the other hand ensuring morphing technology never gets into non-Andalite hands might make them to staunchly isolationist.
Can you imagine a soldier that can turn into a Thresher Maw at will?
>>44470063
Squiggoth cavalry charging a reaper.
Orks jumping like pantomime pirates onto the Reaper
Orks being too mentally resilient/protected by their gods/stupid to indoctrinate
One endless roar of WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! across half the galaxy as the Salarians quake in fear of these double-Krogans
>>44470161
>double-Krogans
kek
>>44470117
>Not in that picture, no.
That does not sound very reassuring.
>>44466708
tells you everything about how grimdark 40k is right there
>>44470161
>>44466138
>tfw no blueberry on blueberry on quarian porn
>>44466098
Honestly I can see the Tau settling into a peaceful coexistance in Mass Effect. As long as the Council doesnt start fucking with them
>>44466324
If they arrived by warpatorm then the warp is still present for ME verse. So their ftl will work fine.
Though they'll likely still investigate and try to put the relay network too use.
>>44472702
If the council does start shitit won't last long. Tau military assets are as ridiculous as the rest of 40ks. It would be a cakewalk for the tau if it ever came too a military conflict.
>>44470266They eventually shack up together, though at that point she's morphed into the same species as him.
>>44474605
Good point. Although the Warp tends to ignore causality and logic, so for all speculation it could just vomit out the Tau and abandon the ME setting completely.
>>44469832
Reapers could never indoctrinate Shepard completely because he/she is crazy awesome. So it's likely the orks are immune to it as well for the same reason.
>>44468312
Yeah, if you shoot enough of them. It'd basically just be one of those yellow armor bars over their health, but space marine armor is at least as long a bar as on an ATLAS mech. Same for a Tau battlesuit.
Id rather see a krogan and an ork get into a fist fight
Running the numbers anything in 40k would splat anything in Mass Effect universe. The Tau are already curb stomping Titans and Imperial Battlefleets.
The Tau would utterly destroy the Reapers and conquer the galaxy.
>>44475164
Cerberus would be beside themselves
>>44475197
It's okay, they'll always have one another
The Tau will go on a assimilation curbstomping rampage, until someone gets the bright idea of slathering themselves in frilly parfume and initiating operation Kroot smooch as a counter attack.
The Tau will be all heady distracted with D'aww derp to notice their apocalypse.
>>44475255
Nemesis and Phantoms push so many of my fucking buttons.
>>44475255
nigga that shit is way to lewd
>>44475197
Then Farsight cuts him in half. Also the Ethereals would never let Cerberus spies to get into their systems. It's not like in Mass Effect where every faction is so connected its possible for human infiltrators to steal Turian, Quraian, or other alien intel.
In Tau society there is simply no human in a position to do so. Cerberus would have to scavenge any battlefield technology the Tau lose in the field. Given the Tau are known to have a penchant for destroying all possible valuable equippment if it can't be recovered it's unlikely Cerberus could directly infiltraite and manipulate the Tau.
At best they would likely try and unite the galaxy against the Tau and then back stab everyone at the end to put humans on top. Well in theory. In reality though they would be found and destroyed.
>>44475043
>Reapers could never indoctrinate Shepard
#ShepardIndoctrinatedME3
>>44476455
Not sure why you're posturing. Cerberus were indoctrinated scum. Suffer not the heretics to live.
>>44476841
Only if you believe Shepard is an extension of the player. After all, the player's in control of Shepard's actions. He's not indoctrinated, you are. You're being fed the lied about how killing off the Reapers is not such a good idea. Ignore the fact that TIM and Saren, people known for being under Reaper control, were the only people who advocated for Control or Synthesis. Now be a good organic and press the non-red button. Else we tell you your waifu dies or something.
>>44470161
>double-Krogans
Orks would probably love Krogans too/ Hell theyd probably be happy to hear someone cured the Genophage, so they can have someone who can give them a propper fight.
>>44476455
Thats the thing. If there is one thing Cerberus is good at is that he has shell companies to tear the water caste a new one. Use trade and information to find out and bend an agreeable water caste to his will through reaper tech
You gotta remember Cerbeus may have only 200 operatives but soldiers and scientists arent operatives. They are disposable assets
>>44470266
The Hork Bajir (big sharp guy who eats bark) does end up with the andalite (four eyed centaur with knife tail). However, the andalite have tech that lets them temporarily take multiple other forms, or after a time limit, be stuck in one form permanently. The andalite opted for the second option.
seeing as tau weaponry is 40k level, the Tau do whatever the fuck they want. any ship that can fight an imperium battleship even if its a 10-1 fight is a million times stronger than anything in mass effect, reapers included
>>44466668
Kroot join the bloodpack and eat interesting creatures.
>>44478657
Animorphs???
>>44481353
Yes.
>>44475149
Ork would get BTFO to be honest, unless it's incredibly huge warlord. Krogan are to Orks as Spehss Mahreens are to humans.
>>44481444
Not really. Krogan are pretty weak compared to orks.
Orks can survive the vacuum of space, head transplants, Mad Doks, and all the nasty shit in 40K with a smile on their face. Not to mention you're never truly rid of them and they can MacGyver weaponry on par with ME tech if not better out of whatever they find around.
Krogans would be fucked.
>>44466290
>Hell, they're ugly enough that nobody in Mass Effect would try and romance them, which says a lot.
Kitten, why do you hate the fact your girlfriend left you?
>>44481628
I feel like this is a meme I'm not privy to
>>44481652
If emp had a text to speech
>>44466769
>>suddenly disconnected from the warp
Actually Warp was described is not like unique Milky Way thing.
>>44481353
Yeah, a one off where a free population of the Bajir tell tales of a time before the Yeerk took over, and their unfortunate need to learn the ways of violence due to them.
>>44479968
Except the reapers don't have to fire a shot. Just getting too close to their artifacts for "research" will get the Tau hit by their indoc signals as they slowly become influenced by the Reapers and suddenly Tau Tech is in their Hands.
>>44481609
>if not better
ork wank is painful to read
>>44483217
Telly portas and kustom force fields, m8.
>>44481966
Oh, so it's faggotry that can be easily ignored. Gotcha.
>>44482893
why waste time researching something you're a million times better then? it's like the government investing in the development of stone clubs
>>44484464
>why waste time researching something you're a million times better then?
Because it's something unexpected. The reapers leave all their mass effect shit laying around so that everyone goes 'oh sweet mass effect' and bases all their tech on that.
The Tau, meanwhile, operate on an entirely different tech base, which for all the reapers know is actually notably potent against them.
>>44484579
I'm not sure you understood what I said. The Tau in this scenario are the ones that are millions of times better, so they wouldn't feel the need to reverse engineer inferior tech. I mean, maybe they do send like a dozen people to poke around inside a reaper carcass, but when fio'la fa'ggot comes back talking about things besides the greater good, they'll know somethings up and stop.
