12/15/2023 0 Comments Battle fleet space marines![]() The Imperium's response was unusually swift but characteristically brutal. In the ensuing power vacuum, the T'au Empire expanded, claiming for themselves those Human worlds that later came to be known as the Farsight Enclaves.Ī map of the Damocles Gulf before the start of the T'au Empire's Third Sphere Expansion. The seeds of rebellion had long been cultivated by the T'au and now bore traitorous fruit as each Imperial governor declared themselves free of the shackles of the Imperium's rule. Upon a score of Imperial worlds, Water Caste envoys whispered long-rehearsed words into willing ears. The second phase of the Ethereals' instructions were thus ready to be initiated. The influence of the T'au thus spread further and more rapidly into the Imperium than any amount of military conquest could have taken it, until a swathe of Human worlds were trading with the T'au Empire in preference to the Imperium's own merchant trade cartels and Rogue Traders.Īlien goods and technology flowed through the markets of these border worlds in blatant contradiction of the laws of the Imperium. The Water Caste were to align themselves with nearby dissident Human factions and over the course of several solar decades of patient negotiations insinuate themselves into the courts of several dozen Imperial Commanders ( planetary governors). Though many of the more passionate leaders of the T'au Fire Caste called for a war of conquest against the Imperium, the Ethereals issued their instructions for the integration of the Imperium of Man into the T'au Empire. ![]() This empire was so vast that any overt aggression on the T'au's part might lead to the outright destruction of their nascent empire and the extinction of their species. It was some time before the T'au Water Caste diplomats understood the fact that the Humans they had encountered were merely the forgotten outcasts of an incomprehensibly vast interstellar empire that stretched across the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy. The initial contacts ranged from friendly negotiations and trade to outright hostility. For the T'au's part, it was fringe, dissident or overtly Renegade elements of Humanity that they first encountered, in the form of free captains and pirates across the coreward borders of the region called the Damocles Gulf in the Eastern Fringe to the galactic east of Terra. Warhammer 40K Darktide Review - Left To Shredĭepartmento Cartographicae Map of the Damocles Gulf.Įxactly when the T'au Empire and the Imperium of Man first made contact with one another is unknown, for each was slow to recognise the nature of the other. The negotiations were successful and the Imperial fleet withdrew from T'au space unmolested, primarily due to the impending approach of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth. ![]() By late 745.M41 the crusade's commanders eventually agreed to requests from the T'au Water Caste for peace talks. Many solar months of terrible fighting ensued with nothing gained on either side. When the Imperial fleet reached the T'au Sept World of Dal'yth Prime, however, the crusade ground to a bloody stalemate as the formidable numbers and high technology of the T'au and their Kroot allies thwarted every attempt to capture the world or its star system. Members of the T'au Water Caste had established trade agreements with Imperial worlds on the frontier of the T'au Empire, near the Damocles Gulf region of the Ultima Segmentum in the galactic east, and exchanges of goods and technology were common.Īlarmed by the threat of alien contamination, the Administratum readied a suitable response and almost a century later, the Damocles Crusade smashed into T'au space, destroying several outlying settlements and pushing deep into the T'au Empire. The conflict essentially ended in a stalemate in late 745.M41, as the Imperium was forced to conclude its military offensive early to deal with the encroaching Tyranid threat while the T'au sought to begin diplomatic negotiations with the Imperium to show humanity the benefits to be had by accepting the Greater Good. The Damocles Gulf Crusade, also called the Damocles Crusade, was the first military conflict fought between the Imperium of Man and the rapidly expanding T'au Empire in the Lithesh Sector of the galaxy's Eastern Fringes between 742 and 745.M41. T'au Second Sphere Expansion ended Imperial retreat from Dal'yth ![]()
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