Traveling through the Warhammer world, but I didn’t cry.

The Tau Empire, an ambitious alien empire on the edge of the Empire, is preparing for its third expansion.

This expansion will be led by Oshasara, who performed outstandingly during the previous expansion, as the supreme commander. According to tradition, the Ether Supreme Council has also prepared a title for her.

"Shadow Sun"

Commander Shadow Sun, when she is not fighting, she will sleep in the stasis field and wake up when needed.

And now they are in the holographic conference room, discussing the implementation of the third expansion.

The technological facilities of the Tau Empire are full of smooth arcs, neat and clean structures. Compared to the Empire's cabins filled with cables and cold iron plates, their conference room was more comfortable.

The holographic projection is also clearer and brighter, without unstable trembling due to interference, and the sound and color will not be distorted and have obvious noise.

Yingyang, who was named the new commander, was kneeling on one knee in front of the holographic image of the ethers, listening to the holy voice.

"Commander Shadowyang, do you have confidence in the third expansion?"

"I have always believed that the Greater Good will be realized, and that the Tau Empire is the eldest son of the Greater Good."

"Very well, Commander Shadowyang of Firm Will, the Supreme Council is optimistic about you, don't let the Greater Good be put to shame."

After a few hours of meeting, Yingyang came out of the conference room and met Wakan, a senior technician from the Tu clan who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, and Ma Sha, a senior diplomat from the Water clan.

The three of them walked quickly through the corridor, their feet and the ground making crisp sounds.

"How ready are our weapons?"

Vulcan listened to Shadowsun's question, took control of a floating data drone, and unfolded a panel that was lighter and smaller than the Imperial datapad.

"During the second expansion, we gathered some of the weapon remnants left by humans and reverse-engineered them."

"Oh." Yingyang responded lightly. This was not because she knew much about technology and production, but because she had indeed seen the strength of imperial weapons on the battlefield.

Those crude assemblies and designs were only there before they expanded, when they were still busy moving from the Tau planet to the universe. The design is outdated and does not consider any theory of aerodynamics and deflection of projectiles.

It was just a piece of crude and ugly iron that was thrown into the battlefield.

According to the Water Clan’s art instructor, who dedicated great works to the Greater Good, Philosopher Shijiu said: “A powerful weapon should conform to aesthetics and artistic conception, as streamlined and smooth as the body of a fish, and as smooth as the wings of a bird. Just as relaxing and brisk.”

Because of these words, the technicians of the Tu clan completed an important part of the development of science and technology, learning and imitating nature.

Although their current technology no longer needs to imitate the structure of living things to meet the requirements, this tradition that has been preserved from thousands of years ago has been carried forward by the Tu clan technicians.

Maybe human weapons are also a kind of imitation of creatures? But how stupid, big, dark and thick a creature must be to have such an appearance?

Yingyang didn't know this. While listening to Vakkan's report, she admired the beauty of the world of Gokuna from the slowly falling gravity elevator.

Those huge building shells are painted with yellow or white non-reflective paint so that the city will not reflect the glare of the galaxy's stars.

A soft and hazy light envelopes the city, making it more beautiful and pleasing to the soul.

These buildings are modeled after ancient Saxon trees, with main tree-like branches housing huge, silent and safe gravity elevators.

The residences of residents are distributed on the main branches, just like the branches and leaves of trees, distributed up and down. Each residence has space to receive sunlight.

Excessive coldness and darkness will make many people suffer from claustrophobia and depression. At least from the research of Tau Empire scholars, they can draw this conclusion.

A smile appeared on Yingyang's face. He recalled that when this place was just conquered by the Tau Empire, the retreating Human Empire army left only a ruins. They didn't care at all about the soldiers and people struggling on the edge of life and death.

Upholding the great ideal of the Greater Good, the Tau Empire cleans up the ruins on the planet; re-purifies the deeply contaminated soil; restores the thick, dark atmosphere containing only toxic gases, so that it can have the ability to self-precipitate.

After more than a hundred years of hard work and struggle, this planet finally has a hint of the Tau Empire. Human beings who were once hostile to them have also converted to the light of the Greater Good, and are willing to contribute to their great cause.

The realm of the Tau Empire is so vast that even the best ships would take decades to cross the entire territory.

And they withstood the attack of the orcs and the counterattack of the fleeing Human Empire. This expansion will definitely make the Tau Empire even greater!

At least this is the case for most of the Tau people, but Yingyang has no confidence at all.

The determination to face the ether is just a disguise. A commander like her who has access to confidential documents and an old man who has experienced the second expansion period has a deeper understanding of the power of the human empire.

She had a pessimistic view of the power of the Tau Empire simply from the fact that the tower cities were built like crowded beehives without any regard for the comfort of the inhabitants.

Perhaps the Human Empire is five to six times the size of the current Tau Empire, rather than three to four times as conservative scholars estimate.

She was not worried that the Human Empire, with its backward tactics, would crush the Tau Empire. She was worried that the Human Empire's huge population would severely weaken the Tau Empire.

From the last expansion war, she could see the human empire's tactics. They like wars of attrition, endless wars of attrition that torture their opponents and themselves.

But this kind of war of attrition is exactly what the Tau Empire is not good at dealing with. Therefore, every time they attack, they strive to strike quickly and eliminate the enemy's resistance, so as not to let the pressure from the front affect the life and production in the rear.

The hive city has been calculated by the Earth clan. It can support a huge population. Even the Tau people on more than a hundred nearby planets cannot completely fill a human "hive city".

Many scholars regard the structure of the hive city as a display of the human empire's waste of financial resources, and a terrible situation in which the political, cultural system, and science and technology are comprehensively backward.

However, some scholars are worried about the huge and bloated structure of the hive city. However, the human races currently joining the Tau Empire serve the Greater Good very seriously, so no one really regards the terror of the hive city as a problem. They only think that Human beings are simply too stupid and do not know how to use the space on the planet.

They won't even revive the planet's environment. God knows how this group of people thrived in the harsh climate.

As a sector-level civilization, the Tau Empire is already very large.

Generally, the illustrations are followed by the author's explanation and supplement of the background, which are not counted in the updated word count of the chapter.

According to the background, the territory of the Tau Empire before the third expansion was a star cluster with a radius of 300 light years. However, according to the ancient literature (more than ten years ago) "The Order of 40k Material Power", it is written that the number of planets in the Tau Empire is more than one hundred, and you will I think this number is quite ridiculous.

gw has a hobby (flaw) in writing books, which is to write about astronomical things as nonsense as if the earth is full of villages. (A common problem in space operas is to describe a planet according to the city’s population understanding)

A star cluster measured in light years has only a few hundred usable planets at the end of the day, which is really a nonsense comparison.

According to the density near the earth, there are more than 32.6 stars in a 60-light-year cube. If the volume is 200 light-years, it is about a 231-fold difference. It is calculated that there can be star.

But if calculated according to the standards of the Imperial sector, the upper limit of a sector is one world. The Tau Empire currently has a maximum size of 7 sectors, so it has an upper limit of 42 developable worlds, which is approximately equal to the Empire's standard of one million worlds. of 0.42. But the number of planets controlled by the human empire obviously needs to be more than one million, otherwise this war cannot be fought.

Is this possible if it is developed? If only one planet is developed around a star, that would be an unimaginable population size.

Even if you calculate the degree of development of the earth, it is obvious that there are large tracts of uninhabited land, and there are only a few areas where the population is really dense. Then we expanded in the style of Warhammer, flattening the mountains and draining the sea water, inserting hives all over the world, and then we developed thousands of such planets.

Can you get a feel for this population magnitude? Can you realize how exaggerated this administrative ability is?

But under the setting of GW, conquering a world with such a huge population is as easy as conquering a small town. There is some background story about a small group of Space Marines traveling across the world, but how many are there? How many people are there in a world? The bolter chambers are almost worn out, and you haven't finished killing the Space Marines yet.

Just considering how millions of space warriors conquered the Milky Way during the Great Crusade is already quite unrealistic. The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of stars. It would take a single warrior a year to conquer a galaxy, but it would take you a hundred thousand years. time to prepare.

And it was mentioned in the background that the home world of the Tau Empire was highly developed and densely populated. An Ork combat asteroid hitting it could cause billions of casualties.

Considering their automated and modular production, it can be said that there are no cyberdaemons and Tzeentch to cause trouble, and their unit productivity is indeed much higher than the average of the Empire. After all, the Empire does not have many forge worlds.

Then let's talk about eating books. The first one is that the population of a hive city cannot be filled by the entire Tau Empire, and the second one is that a Water Caste diplomatic ship can take away the entire population of the hive city. What ultimate changes in size anywhere.

On the one hand, the Tau Empire's fleet is stretched thin, and the expansion fleet sent out is pitifully small. On the other hand, Etherium Va can create millions of fleets to attack the stars in a short period of time if it wants to.

So how do we understand? It can only be understood that it is the same soup as the empire. There are only five or six ships that can really go up to fight, and the rest are all kinds of civilian and small junk ships that make up the numbers.

It can only be imagined that millions of small junk ships are piled up and cannot even scratch the skin of an ordinary frigate. Otherwise, it is really difficult to explain how an astronomical-level empire can have such a wide range of fleets.

It was also mentioned in the background that the equipment of the Tau soldiers is also very good. They are far-sighted and have high-tech sights built into their helmets. The Hammerhead rail gun can strike beyond visual range.

But once you get to the book (in order to serve the chess pieces on the table, you can't let the players use telescopes to observe from a distance, right? How will you calculate it then?) these things are gone, and the game becomes a Call of Duty-style melee assault + Turn-based. Even after the Materialistic Ceiling Necrons mastered phase technology, the first thing they did was to make something like a phase scythe.

So my assessment is don’t think too hard about these issues, this world is inherently unfair. Even though Call of Duty is ridiculous, it doesn't stop it from being fun to play.

The size of the Tau Empire after the rift opened. A little red dot.