Editing Aun'Va (section)

=The Aftermath of Aun'Va's Death=
With the murder of the leader of all Tau, the Ethereal High Council decided to hide this from the population by creating multiple holograms and programmed transmissions to fake his survival to the public, aided by an AI based on a backed-up copy of Aun'Va's mind made before his death. To facilitate this facade, he is now permanently accompanied by his honour guard (though this is no different from any other point in the perspective of the wargame) and the citizens are now forbidden from even touching the floating pope chair lest they break something. There's an argument to be had whether that was a good decision or not (just imagine one hologram malfunctioning during a speech, imagine the chaos that could bring), but then again, just "retiring and replacing him" could bring suspicions on the coincidental timing of the whole affair, especially after the most successful military campaign the Tau have had in a while.

There's also the problem of the Ethereals' poor leadership choices and decisions after Aun'Va's death. Very soon after the end of the 3rd Sphere of Expansion they declared a 4th one... [[fail|and it was immediately stopped by the opening of the]] [[Great Rift]]. After receiving the news that a portion of it managed to survive its unscheduled trip through the Warp, the ethereals inmediately organized another sphere of expansion to link up with it... only to run straight into [[Mortarion]]'s [[Death Guard]], [[rape|with very predictable results]]. Considering the current dangers that the galaxy presents after the Cicatrix Maledictum's birth, the lack of knowledge of Chaos (more specifically, what it is and how to prevent it) could imperil the survival of taukind. Not to mention that the Death Guard's forces are still threatening the existence of the Tau after losing against [[Roboute Guilliman]] in the [[Plague Wars]], their plans to invade T'au itself through the warp rift made by the Fourth Sphere's exit from the Warp, and the possible corruption of the Fourth Sphere itself. And that's not counting the Tyranid threat still around, more and more necron tombs waking up around Tau territory, Ultramar ready to fight again after their [[Roboute Guilliman|Spiritual Liege]] came back to life and Farsight still around threatening to break Tau society.

Whether or not the Tau Empire can survive without Aun'Va's leadership is a matter of <s>plot armour</s> the strength and confidence of the Tau in the Greater Good. But really, the blueberries finally got the assraping they've been begging for since their introduction to the setting. Worse, the AI duplicate of Aun'Va lacks the uncanny charisma possessed by the real one, which has led to at least one major military official questioning "his" orders and later joining Farsight's forces. It may be only a matter of time before the truth of Aun'Va's death leaks out, which can only have catastrophic consequences.

For those of you paying attention; yes, this does mean the blue weeaboo space communists are, in fact, led by the bastard child of a vocaloid and Lenin (the dead one they keep on display).

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