40k Lore, The Vespid! Creepy Wasp Allies of the Tau!
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I’ll put it down here to for people to see, i am off for the next 2 weeks on my yearly vacation so the channel will go dead and my twitter will be full of random nonsense about how the weather sucks in Berlin! on the bright side, there might be Deathwatch lore when i get back!
Enjoy the sauerkraut
Arch Warhammer Have a nice time! But remember as tempting as it is, no nazi jokes!
Arch Warhammer you should do a video on the mantis shrimp.
Watch out for peace trucks mate.
Beware of cultural enrichment and have a good time nyan-nyan emperor.
"the magical mysterious crystals the Vespids have basically built their entire society upon." Crystal Meth.
spice. LSD.
Hypno-Thorax Good one!
Literally Warpstone.
You require more Vespid gas
Mineral-alloy deposit depleted
Jehova's Abettor boooooooooooo
Society based entirely around shiny rocks...? Come-come law-slave, we have species to sue!
That seems a bit un-Skaven like, shouldn't you just infest the society and steal their tech only to find out the superior Skaven tech isn't compatible with the insect tech.
Berserk Shirt Bear
40k Skaven much-more smart yes-yes? Why waste lives of greatest species when you get shiny crystals through scheme-scheme?
Stormvermin is here-here!
do not scare the abhuman of the imperial city because we will liberate the raw materials from the dirty xenos and let the citizen dig him out for the better days of the whole imperium.
Imperium? *Chitters mockingly* The Emperor is dead-dead! Man-thing council leaders are fool-fool! The Under Empire will rise-rise and the Horned Rat's Children will take what is ours!
Stormvermin is here-here!
YES-YESSSSSSSS!
Vespid... the most ratchet and clank looking alien race in Warhammer 40k.
they do look VERY ps2
in the creative kinda cool in a cartoony way or the stupid lazy way?
Says the human abhuman strain.
Cryptosporidium 137 abfuron strain? Should we tell the Emperor?
FUmarc indeed
Just gonna throw an idea out there before I even reached the half-way mark... couldn't the "islands" be floating on a much denser gas than air?I mean, we know of quite a few relatively heavy gasses on which many solid objects can float. Mercury is denser than iron, so maybe there's a layer of mercury vapour or something? The vespids would likely be adapted to breathe this much more toxic atmosphere, and if I remember correctly they need rebreathers outside of their home planet which could support this. Whatever mineral the landmasses are made of could be very porous rock like pumice containing deposits of CO2 or something like that. Considering that the vespids have exoskeletons they could be much lighter than most endoskeletous creatures and thus run a smaller risk of crushing the ground as they walk around and could build less dense buildings. Whatever gas they breathe out could be lighter than the air they breathe as well, who knows? Itf it isn't it wouldn't be a stretch to say that it'd mostly fall off the sides of the landmasses, forming lakes and rivers as it flows towards the edges. Pretty cool.
More likely GW are rubbing in the fact that ripped off an art work of Roger Dean for the Tau. Look at the cover of an old game called Brataccas. You look at that and tell me they didn’t base Fire Warriors of of that. The floating islands would be a reference to Deans main works which feature heavily floating islands.
THE GREATER GOOD IS THE DEFINITION OF FAILURE - Liberty Prime
Faith Prime you mean. There is no liberty in Imperium. There is Faith though.
Tau helmets; NOT MIND CONTROL
"cocks boltgun" may I have a word with "citizen"
Matthew Chirino I agree, not mind control. Communication and a mutually beneficial arrangement with a hive mentality species.
To think... if the Water Caste had tried that helmet shtick with the Orks they could have a way to control the greenskins... for a grand total of 5 seconds until the Ork instincts override the damn mind control and the big fungus men slaughter the Tau anyway.
*Because WAAAAGH!!!*
Internet Zen Master that would involve catching a warboss... and good luck to any blue-skin that tries that!
I always suspected the ethereals to be waaay waaay more than simple mind controller dudes... it's like they always find "already efficient" species and add them to their "already optimized" tau bred.... i don't know...am i the only one that thinks they are surprisingly efficient with forging/combining life to their need ???
Screw the Vespid, y'all need to look up these Mantis Shrimp! Crazy stuff these things can do, and not even just their eyes!
10/10, definitely recommend!
GW should give us CODEX: Tau Auxiliaries
This is a brilliant idea
Civilized cousins of tyranids
Seems like Vespids are Tyranids who don't have mutation powers.
And Kroots are non insect loke creatures but have mutation powers.
Is this coincidence or?
"they can rip them open with their diamond hard claws" yeah and thats why GW gave them a single str 3 attack with no AP even after having revisted them 4 times..... they were always overcosted and underpowered. They should have had 2 attacks and Rending. *has 20 metal vespid and is bitter :P*
Damn it Arch, now i can't get the image of a Tau trying to squeeze out an expulsion of gas from a rear orifice in an attempt to communicate.
Iam Bob
Now I can’t get the image of a Tau trying to squeeze an expulsion of gas through its forehead orifice in an attempt to communicate
Is this a teaser for a mantis shrimp video ? It looks like it .
Reiksguard These are true facts about the Vespid.
T'au vespid helpdesk
"My vespid gun has stopped working, what do?"
"Sir have you tried twerking at a slightly higher frequency?"
"I can't twerk at such high frequency, can't you twerk for me?"
Fun fact: many types of urin reflect UV-light. (Many hawks find rodents this way) This means Vespids could potentially see where, for instance, an Imperial guard last took a leak. .Which would very very useful if you are scouting for enemy troops!
Not the vespiiids! AAAAAARRRGGHHH!!!
Jeru _JJ They are in my Eyes!!!!
Tune in next week for Arch's new series Deep Sea lore.
I mean... I would watch it.
2 Weeks without Lore? Nooooooooooooooo!
Arch confirmed Shrimp Pilled
GW is the proof of the old saying "A little knowledge is dangerous."
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates open and its walls unmanned.
"The problem with an open mind is that people keep putting rubbish in it."
@@Gauntlet1212 unguarded*
"2 Week summer Vacation" or "Arch goes to Romania to kick the ever loving shit out of Vee", finally. Record it.
Now i want a Mantis-Shrimp-Video!
Archibald, the Medieval Bludgeoning Device, has blessed us with more content!
Since Gas giants have extremely dense atmospheres it does make the idea of a floating rock more plausible than on Earth for example. If the rocks were filled with cavers of hydrogen (and I mean composing primarily of hydrogen) as well as having a very thin crust the amount of lift produced would be greater within a dense atmosphere as the compared to something like Earths atmosphere. They would be like giant ships on the water. Now I have no clue as to the maths needed in order for that to actually work but on the hypothetical, it could be possible.
Good video arch have a good vacation
Vespids are my fave aliens in 40k since they remind me of the Mi-Go from Lovecraft.
As a Tau Empire player I fully approve of this video!
As a space marine player I have marked this comment as Heresy, prepare for an Inquisition visit.
Pfft, imperial technology pales in comparison to that of what our mighty Earth Caste makes...
I think I walked into the wrong room
We don't need your heretical Tau Trickery all we need is our devotion to the emperor and enough guns and your pity little empire will collapse in seconds. For The EMPEROR!
@@theEternaleye-t5y calm brother we shall call for exerminatus of the Tao home world rather than a one on one fire fight
This makes the covenants treatment of the Yanmei seam humane.
Eeehhh I'd still say the massive slave camps guarded by Mgalekgolo is more twisted than mind-fucking 1 in 250 (I'm guessing) people
Eric Grieve actually the Yanmei queens joined willingly. It was the Lecgolo that were enslaved.
Woohoo deathwatch lore! Now just to endure the wait
*This comment section is covered in bees.*
NOT THE BEES!
Phil o'Saeufer the failing of TH-cam comments, no potential for gifs
"Vespid tastes like chicken when you crisp them just right." Some Heretic before execution.
Thing is though the atmosphere on the gas giant would be heavier than ours so lighter than air gasses could include stuff like argon and the "lighter" gasses like hydrogen would have more lift in that atmosphere.
"Allies" ;)
I learned more science from this vid, than my years slogging through primary school
Didn't commander farsight suggest that perhaps the Etherals have a link to the warp? or knew of the warp and never told anyone else?
the ethereal to a large degree dismissed tales of demons as nonsense. later on there has been more acceptance that there is something but the tau largely refuse to believe in psykers etc. Farsight got pissed because he did find the ethereal were doing things that weren't good for the tau such as limiting the tau life span to 40 years on average but he believed the greater good was for the greater good of the tau society. the etherals either use pheromone or are psykers of some sort but the problem is other psychic races when encountering the etherals do not detect them as a psyker.
“It is our duty to fight for the greater good.
It is our duty to serve.
We must love each other and support the Etherals'.
We have nothing to lose but our lives.”
Love vespids, glad they got a video to themselves. Love the content Arch!
Great vid as always man, have a good vacation!
Larry Nivel wrote a duology "The Integral Tree/The Smoke Ring" about human colonists who got to a neutron star with a 'Smoke Ring' surrounding it. They cannot go back to Earth, and cannot go further, so they abandoned ship and migrate to the kilometer long 'tree' floating about in the Smoke Ring that can sustain life.
Arch should be the next narrator for "Planet Earth." I've never heard better explanations about the Mantis Shrimp.
Just so you know. Color of vision has almost nothing to do with the atmosphere. It depends of the wavelength of the light. We evolved to see the visual spectrum because the sun produces primarily yellow light. This is why yellow is right in the middle of the visual spectrum. So it is entirely possible that the vespids also lived around a yellow star and thus developed vision in the visible spectrum. Now why we see colors as we do has to do with the cones in our eyes and how they interact with our brain which is an entirely different topic which i am not as familiar with.
They flap their wings rapidly enough for the buzzing to resonate with the crystals. That's very, very, very fast for the sound to reach the crystals on the ends of their guns.
Gas giants tend to have much higher gravity than Earth, so they probably consider 'average' gravity to be very low.
Happy holiday Arch, we will miss you buddy.
Where's the bug spray when you need one?
Here, take my Bolter and have a nice day.
with the deathwatch
Vacation for the Vacation God! Mimosas for the Mimosas Throne!
Well I think the Taj trolling the Vespa who are those fart gas is your dog out loud and their damn helmets at the only possibility I believe
Omg true facts about the mantis shrimp that was a magical quote.
mantis shrimp also channel the spirit of muhammad ali with a punch that can make a shark think twice about messing around with the shrimp seriously it's a punch that impacts like a low caliber bullet
Their homeworld is basically a space insect Wakanda.
We could colonize Venus like this. Blimps will work. The physics break when you add gas giant gravity. Atmosphere composition has nothing to do with the problem.
fun fact about the mantis shrimp, it has 12-16 different photo receptors. Which would be more impressive than the human number of 3. They're also terrible at distinguishing colours(rgb) than other animals, it's thought as far as I am aware that they would experience some specific "colours"(specific bandwidths of light)than a stupid large range of "colours".
thank you
It's like you're the poor man's high brow 40k channel. For clarity, I mean that in the most complimentary and/or desirable sense possible.
Arch Warhammer have fun on your trip
Nooooo. I want my Deathwatch now. You can't leave us Arch.
Another auxiliary race of the Blueberries that eat you...wait, you're covering the Deathwatch soon? The ones that are made up of Space Marines of multiple chapters. You need the time to make it a good one, who knows what you'd need for the Night Lords or even enough to unload your bile on Big Papa Ultrasmurf. | 0:20 - There's their lore video, how they subtly take over worlds, their battlesuits and the Kroot that you covered. | 10:30 - How the Earth Caste figured out how to do that, I don't know, but they did. | 14:38 - They're the equivalent of either Elysian Drop Troops or Space Marine Assault Troops (Jump Packs for aerial agility)
Sonic resonance. Dats how they fly!
who'd that destroy the living tissue?
Vespids use anti-grav tech, provided by the Tau, to help them fly in higher gravity environments.
An oxygen/hydrogen gas giant would be THE most fantastical thing. A lit match and BOOOM. The entire planet explodes into water.
To make the floating Islands work, we need to work within the more classical definition of gas giant. Not just Jupiter and Saturn like planets, but the ice giants like Uranus and Neptune need to be considered. The interior of these ice giants is theorised to be a high pressure ocean of water and ammonia. Since we have a fluidic surface, rather than gas down to an extreme depth, island need only be lighter than the liquid, not lighter than air.
Hey, arch warhammer,
Have you ever considered doing shirts? Like maybe: #BlameLogar or details.
Its hey, details. Not just details.
Good stuff thanks, have a good break
Yes , gotta love lore!
This is only detailed video on these guys, I wanted to know about them for so long.
tbh a gas wouldn't need to be too much lighter than oxygen to keep an island up, since gas giants seem to have multiple layers of gases in various densities, so an island could in theory float on a layer of denser gas like an iceberg on water.
The ironic thing with the mantis shrimp is that while it can see a much broader part of the spectrum than us, it probably can't really see millions of colours more than us.
It's just really really specialized at (as I recall reading but may be remembering entirely falsely) seeing the differences generated by small variance in incoming electromagnetic radiation.
That is to say, in picking out things to om nom nom on from the background of colourful marine life that it cannot om nom nom, and then murdering and devouring said unlucky little bastard in the blink of an eye.
They are a bit like the Tyranids in that regard, just with less logistics.
The best kind of slave is one who does not even know it’s a slave
The vespid nerds shot themselves in the foot when they put them on a gas giant.
The Vespids appreciating the Greater Good is not that far fetch if you think about a lot of insect culture. Ants, bees, wasps, hornets, insects that make colonies all work for the betterment of the colony, each other, and the queen. The Etherals can be an easy analogy for the Queen, and he basic tenets of the Greater Good mesh well with colony life.
As Nicholas Cage would say "Not the BEES!"
BeyondDaX Haha- thanks, now I can’t get that scene out of my head! =][=
Cool new lore vidz
The power of their source, the crystal!
I'll be waiting for the mantis shrimp video in three weeks.
Your voice reminds me of Kikoskia. You both have awesome voices and I subbed to both of you after one vid.
Bumblebees also have freakishy small wings for their body shape and size. :-D
To the wings controversy, its always looked to me like vespid wings have some kind of jet function. They have those tube-shaped structures on them.
As to the gas giant controversy, probably just an annotation from an unenlightened scribe working for 3rd or 4th hand accounts. Vespid the planet could have a ring, like saturn, except that it has a stable atmosphere with asteroids in it.
Warhammer is more fun when you try to make the lore work instead of just saying its dumb.
Do you tease everyone like this??? A TWO week vacation AFTER announcing the lore video that I've been waiting for since I discovered your channel! Why couldn't you have just gone off quietly without any fanfare? This is utter pain.
Every time someone talks about one of the Tau's little pet races all I can think is oooo the adeptus (meatshield) militarum has competition
Coincidence, coincidence, coincidence!
Imagine a color you can't even imagine, now do that 9 more times, that is how a mantis shrimp do.
Thanks an enjoy the holiday ;]
Thanks for the video, Arch- I really love your lore videos! And enjoy your vacation (unless it’s code for “Tau Ethereal Gas Rehab”- actually, if it is, then enjoy that, too!). By the way- where can I get some of that gas?😉 =][=
V-E-S-P-I-D is not how you spell "Geonosian", Arch....Star Wars in 40K, LMAO!!!!
My guess for the Vespid`s instant obeying of the Tau based off of the theory of them being seeded by the Old Ones and is that they were "programmed" by the old ones to accept the commands and ideology of the first sentient race to establish peaceful communication with them.
@ arch vespids my fav. Sub. Faction from 3rd
The Vespid, aka. The bumblebee of 40k
i once thought that the Tau were the 'good guys' of 40k now it think that there is no good.
so the mighty blueberries built a machine that farted into the vespids face til they were persuaded of the greater good?...the old Cartman-strategy works for galactic diplomacy as well.
One could assume the gas giant is consisted of heavier unbreathable gas atmosphere, which is traversible by flying through it to next rock that contains the crystals which creates gravity field to hold lighter breathable gas atmosphere, while also creating repulsive field to ensure the rock doesn't hit on other rock with crystals.
There is likely plant life that processes the unbreathable gas winds that pierce the atmosphere into breathable, similar to atmospheres most organisms in 40k breath.
Then the insectoid external carapace offers great protection against hostile gravity forces, similar to deep-sea invertebrates, which usually remain similar as the organisms on shores and on ground, organisms with internal skeletons tend to be more jelly or muscle than bones in deep-sea.
Only Arch can make these xenos interesting.
We should give heresy blankets to the bee natives
Every time I hear their name, I think of a little inoffensive motor-scooter.
Old Bear, He likes the honey!
Arch Should do real life lore on the mantis shrimp.
i think you mis understand why the mantis shrimp is amazing, and how vision works, it has nothing to do with enviroment, it has to do with the types of photoreceptors Most people have three types of light-detecting cells, or photoreceptors, which are sensitive to red, green and blue light. But the mantis shrimp has anywhere from 12 to 16 different photoreceptors in its midband.
just came when I saw new arch 40k vid
The Vespid home-world has to be a daemon world. It's the only way to explain the suspension of physical laws required to have floating islands and magic crystals.
You know, the second possibility for the Vespid is that they aren't quite as eager to "join" the Tau, but that their goal, initially, was to take over...which is either in progress or collapsed over the years...
Vespids are actually my favourite race, as a Tau player I love how unique they are compared to their allies, and speculation of what exactly keeps them so ferverent in belief to the Empire aside, I admire how the Tau are a confederation of different species working towards a greater goal together.
Too bad the Ethereals are whack