The nicest people in 40K

[steerpike]

Ok: time of war, no respite, carnage among the stars, blah blah blah... the 40K world isn't much fun to be alive in. It's full of demons, zealots, crazy thuggish orks and of course the swarm. Even the Eldar are less friendly than they used to be.

But who are the nicest people in 40K? The guard might be ok, were it not for the commissars. The eldar aren't bad, so long as you are an eldar too. Some of the marine chapters aren't demented puritans. But it's a very hard choice.

I don't think this question's been asked about 40K before. Any thoughts?

[ravener]

........Are you crazy? Did you cmpletle forget about the space commies tau? You must have, because this is a silly topic.

[Ninjagaunt]

Tau have O'Shovah messing stuff up, and their little "Greater Good" is really an excuse so they can take planets without anyone rebelling about it.

Mind they *ARE* probably still the most "good" race out there, besides Tyranids. Why do I say we arent evil? Simple, we do everything via instinct. Not out fault we're hungry....what, we're supposed to be vegettarrians just because the marines dont like getting eaten?

[steerpike]

I dunno about Tau - I mean, if you don't want to join in, they take you over. And they have kroot, whose main hobby is eating the people they shoot. I always felt that Tau would be fine until you disagreed with them, when they'd pass the problem to some of their less civilised servant races. And they look like the kind of aliens that are handy with a probe.

[ravener]

Yes, but they always greet you with open arms, and then, mabey shoot you. And also, tecnicaly, the hive mind, being the most inteligent creature alive, I would say he knows exacatly what eh is doing

[Yarrick]

I think Tau have the most sense of individuality. Sure youre fighting for the "Greater good" but they dont require you to blow yourself up.

[Ninjagaunt]

Yes, but the reasoning behind it isnt galactic domination, its instict of the nids. The Hive Mind wants to continue evolving, and anything that isnt a tyranid is food. Just like predators on our world. Lions dont hunt to kill, they hunt to feed, and thus, live.

[romorini]

But the tyranids have demonstrated photosynthetic capability, yes? This means they could find a nice group of cozy worlds and feed off of suns until they begin to god bad, then they could move on. But they take the quick, dirty, and nasty way. How nice is that?

[strafed]

I say Dark Eldar, they are just trying to get nice things for their innocent experiments.

[Krueger]

I think tau or eldar. Tau will welcome you with open arms even if you are different. You have to work towards the greater good, but the imperium and orks aren't as nice....

[ravener]

orks. As long as your an ork, they love you

[Ninjagaunt]

GW have described Eldar as "The Good Guys as long as you too are a Space-Elf."

Maybe not those exact words, but my memory is fuzzy at the moment

[coff]

Humanity exists only in the form of the Imperium and the Imperium is a fascist, theocratic, feudal, dictatorship. Obviously none of the Imperial armies can be considered good.

Orks wage war as something to do. If they can't fight 'umis they fight each other. They cannot be considered good.

Tyranids are soulless devouring machines. You can't be good with out a sense of what good and bad are.

Necrons want to destroy all life.

Chaos.

Tau want to take control over the galaxy and will kill you if you don't join their cause. They are hardly good.

Eldar are self centered, arrogant, and care nothing for the other races of the galaxy. The only concern of theirs is not dying out and returning to their glory days.

Dark Eldar. Read my description of Eldar and add the word "evil" a couple times.

Everyone is evil. That's all there is to it.

[Voice of Reason]

coff said:

Chaos.

that kind of says it all doesn't it? ;D

[LictorsRule!]

Everyone just wants to either live, feed, or kill. (well in the case of dark eldar it's kill/torture.)