Deleted from nightmare fuel because the detonator being considered "the greatest expression of devotion to the Greater Good one can demonstrate" has to do with the sacrifice of one permitting the others to survive, not a fondness for suicide bombers. Furthermore, it is explicitly stated that a pointless sacrifice is considered a grave offense.
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- Tau commanders will often fit themselves with bombs which they will detonate if they are overwhelmed in melee and facing death. This practice is fortunately very rare as good commanders are hard to replace, but the fact that this is seen in their wider culture as "the greatest expression of devotion to the Greater Good one can demonstrate", it offers a chilling insight into the Tau philosophy. If there ever came a time when the Tau's way of life and existence were directly threatened, the Tau would probably try to throw waves of suicide bombers at the enemy lines in sheer desperation and fanatical fervor.
Should a page split be done on this page?
- Pro: would ease the loading of this page
- Con: would break the continuity of the reading
233345 is long, but not split-requiringly so. May want to ask in the forum thread
on Warhammer 40000 though.
Deleted from Nightmare Fuel section, because Tau actually have no hope to expand much further. Their FTL means of travel are vastly inferior to other species analogs with no means to improve without Psykers and Navigators they lack. Furthermore their pace of expansion is greatly outmatched by colonisation of Humanity during both Dark Age of Technology and Great Crusade.
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- "I think even scary than them being the best that the 40k-verse has to offer is the fact that they are considered new by even the "young" species (such as humans) and they are rapidly expanding to such a degree that if their expansion continues, they will engulf the galaxy faster than the Nids! Good by humanity! Hello Greater Good."
I feel this page needs some work to clean up the examples due to the improper indentation, word cruft and the like. Entries for Works that have their own YMMV and/or Nightmare fuel pages (such as Horus Heresy) should be moved as well.
Can we also remember the actual rules for Nightmare Fuel, examples must be scary enough that the target audience for the work find it scary, not in-universe things or people outside of the target demographic.