Rank | Fire Caste (Shas) | Air Caste (Kor) | Water Caste (Por) | Earth Caste (Fio) | Ethereal Caste (Aun) |
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'Saal | Cadet | ||||
'La | Warrior | Messenger | Bureaucrat | Worker | Prince |
'Ui | Veteran | Carrier | Envoy | Senior | Prelate |
'Vre | Hero | Pilot | Magister | Overseer | King |
'El | Knight | Captain | Diplomat | Engineer | Holy |
'O | Commander | Admiral | Ambassador | Planner | Ethereal |
T'au Empire | |
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Capital | T'au |
Official Languages | Tau Lexicon |
Power | Minor Power |
Size | Approximately 36 Planets |
Head of State | Ethereal Supreme |
Head of Government | Ethereal Council |
Governmental Structure | Caste-Based Authoritarian Federation |
State Religion/Ideology | |
Demographic | Tau, Kroot, Vespid, Humans, Nicassar, Tarellian, Nagi, Hrenians and other minor Xenos races |
Military Force | Tau Fire Caste, Tau Air Caste, Kroot and Vespid Forces, The Deathsworn, Hrenian Light Infantry, Demiurg Forces, Nicassar Forces, Gue'vesa Forces and other minor Xenos armies |
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Forces of the Tau | ||||||
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Command: | Cadre Fireblade - Ethereal - Ethereal Guard - Tau Commander | |||||
Troops: | Drone Squadron - Fire Warrior Team - Pathfinder Team - Stealthsuit Team | |||||
Auxiliaries: | Great Knarloc - Gue'vesa - Kroot Carnivore Squad - Kroot Hound Krootox - Lesser Knarloc - Nicassar - Vespid Stingwing | |||||
Battlesuits: | Battlesuits (XV02 Pilot Battlesuit - XV15 Stealthsuit - XV22 Command Suit XV25 Stealthsuit - XV46 Vanguard Void Suit - XV-8 Crisis Battlesuit XV88 Broadside Battlesuit - XV9 Hazard Battlesuit - XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit XV104 Riptide Battlesuit - XV107 R'varna Battlesuit - XV109 Y'Vahra Battlesuit KV128 Stormsurge Ballistic Suit - KX139 Ta'Unar Supremacy Armour) | |||||
Vehicles: | Devilfish - Hammerhead - Piranha - Sky Ray - Tetra | |||||
Flyers: | Barracuda - Manta - Orca - Razorshark - Remora - Sun Shark - Tiger Shark | |||||
Spacecraft: | Warsphere |
Playable Factions in Warhammer 40,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Imperium: | AdMech: | Adeptus Mechanicus - Mechanicus Knights | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Army: | Imperial Guard - Imperial Knights - Imperial Navy - Militarum Tempestus - Space Marines | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inquisition: | Inquisition - Sisters of Battle - Deathwatch - Grey Knights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other: | Adeptus Custodes - Adeptus Ministorum - Death Cults - Officio Assassinorum - Sisters of Silence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chaos: | Chaos Daemons - Chaos Space Marines - Lost and the Damned - Renegade Knights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Xenos: | Aeldari: | Dark Eldar - Eldar - Eldar Corsairs - Harlequins - Ynnari | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tyranids: | Genestealer Cults - Tyranids | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Others: | Necrons - Orks - Tau |
Governments, Empires, Nations and Astropolitical Powers of the Galaxy | |
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Imperial Powers: | Imperium of Man (Adeptus Mechanicus - Ultramar) |
Chaos Powers: | Blood Pact - Scourge Stars - Sortiarian Occupation (Prospero/Sortiarius) |
Eldar Powers: | Commorragh - Craftworlds (Alaitoc - Biel-tan - Iyanden Saim-Hann - Ulthwé) |
NecronPowers: | Charnovokh Dynasty - Maynarkh Dynasty - Mephrit Dynasty Nekthyst Dynasty - Nephrekh Dynasty - Nihilakh Dynasty Novokh Dynasty - Ogdobekh Dynasty - Sautekh Dynasty Thokt Dynasty |
Ork Powers: | Ork Empire of Charadon - Ork Empire of Octarius - Ork Empire of Bork Ork Empire of Dregruk - Ork Empire of Calverna - Ork Empire of Jagga |
Tau Powers: | Tau Empire - Farsight Enclaves |
Other Powers: | Q'Orl Swarmhood - Fra'al |
Notable Species of Warhammer 40,000 | ||||||||
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Major: | Eldar, including Dark Eldar | Humans, including Abhumans | Necrons | Orks | Tau | Tyranids | ||
Minor: | Ambull | Araklionid | Barghesi | Banelings | Bale Childers | Drahendra | Caradochians | Cimmeriac |
Cryptos | Cythor Fiends | Demiurg | Donarathi | Drugh | Dracoliths | Drax | Enoulian | |
Enslavers | Fra'al | Galg | Gykon | Hrud | Jokaero | Jorgall | K'nib | |
Kathaps | Khrave | Kinebrach | Kroot | L'Huraxi | Lacrymole | Laer | Lelith | |
Loxatl | Medusae | Megarachnids | Nekulli | Nicassar | Old Ones | Q'Orl | Rak'gol | |
Rangda | Reek | Reptos | Saharduin | Saruthi | Scythian | Simulacra | Slann | |
Slaugth | Sslyth | Stryxis | Tarellian | Thexian | Thraxian | Thyrrus | Tushepta | |
Umbra | Ur-Ghul | Vespid | Watchers in the Dark | Whishperers | Xenarch | Yu'Vath | Zoats |