<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=255926.msg12645217#msg12645217">Quote from: TheLaughingOne on 13-09-2016, 19:18:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Wai, wha? I didnt know there was a book involving the tau meetind dark eldar.. Which book is that???<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>It's in, I think the newest Dark Eldar codex? Give me a minute, I'll go check.<br/><br/>Yeah, Dark Eldar codex. The Tau have a slight Tyranid problem and the Dark Eldar offer to help. The Tau agree and the DE kill off the Tyranid attack. Then they request 77 Tau of each caste to be sent as 'cultural observers', including seven ethereals. The ethereal bit is turned down, but the other Tau are sent along to see where their new friends live. Later, the Tau ship in reserves from another world and are clearing the last strongholds of the 'nids, and the DE forces that join them include the heavily mutilated and physically warped wrack and grotesque troops. Which, the Tau realize after the battle, looked awfully Tau-y ...<br/>Then the Dark Eldar ask for those seven ethereals (or seven thousand and some other Tau) and are refused.<br/>And then, almost immediately, the planet that those reserves came from is attacked. By the time the Tau get back there, every single Tau on the planet is gone (and the non-Tau auxiliaries are left arranged in sigils and symbols that can be seen from space).