Fire Caste

Shas (Fire) Caste

The Fire Caste consists of the various warriors of the Tau Empire. Other castes think Shas are overly-aggressive hotheads due to their tendency to solve all problems by applying more plasma (when Tau encountered other sentient species, Fire Caste representatives immediately voted to hunt down and exterminate them, just like they hunted down dangerous local life forms on the other world they colonized), although for Humans and Eldar, mention of the "Aggressively Hotheaded" Tau would end up with them collectively pointing fingers and laughing at them. On the other hand, it also shows how calm and disciplined other castes are as well as the importance of the balance the Ethereal's bring to the Tau.

They are taller than Earth Caste Tau, and physically stronger than the Air and Water Castes and are slightly shorter than the average 40k human (which is over 5 feet). They pretty much compensate for this by giving their basic Fire Warrior a pulse rifle, which is sort of like an automatic sniper-plasma gun, and employ heavily armed and sophisticated battlesuits for their elite infantry. Oh yeah, and Railguns. Company-sized Tau forces are called "Hunter Cadres".

Parent ethnicities

• T'au

Diverged ethnicities

• Vior'la Sept

Encompassed species

• Fire T'au
• T'au

Related Items

• T'au Combat Armour

Languages spoken

• Tau Lexicon

Related Locations

• Komugi Bata
• T'au