Sa'recea/Po'riel'a (History/Current Events)

600.M40 Vior'la Triumphant!
A massive Ork fleet invades Vior'la Sept but is defeated by a masterful campaign. Vior'la annually passes through a gap between its two stars, a time called the Trial by Fire. It causes deadly plasma storms to ravage the planet, whose inhabitants survive by closing protective domes around their cities. Ork Warlord Garskrak and his invading army are lured into this deadly storm where they are utterly destroyed by the raging plasma radiation.

896.M40 Mass Migration
The greatest Water caste envoy, Por'O Dal'yth Kais Twi Lui'tan, better known as the Golden Ambassador, leads the effort to recruit alien worlds into the Tau Empire. During this period the Thraxians, Greet, and Formosians are welcomed into the fold. The Hrud and Arachen reject the proposals and are driven out of the region.

651.M41 A Legend is Born
The birth of Commander Puretide: the pride of the Dal'yth Sept occurs. His brilliant campaigns later conquer half a dozen star systems. Under his authority the Tau envelop those who can be embraced, seize what can be conquered, and obliterate those who defy Greater Good.

731.M41 The Once and Future Master
The elderly Commander Puretide is urged to view the new colonies across the Damocles Gulf before retiring. While inspecting a colony Puretide is wounded during a raid. Unable to walk again, the most revered of military leaders spends his remaining years atop Mount Kan'ji, on Dal'yth, where he is kept alive for many more decades. Only those who attain perfect scores at the Fire caste academies are sent to sit at Puretide's hover-throne and learn his wisdom. Thanks to Earth caste holographic technology, this tradition is still maintained, although few students are deemed worthy of receiving this high honour.

742.M41 The Damocles Crusade
The Tau Empire comes under attack by an armada of the Imperium's warships on a crusade to reclaim their long neglected territory. It is a bloody campaign, which is finally stymied at Dal'yth Prime. The retreat of Imperial forces marks the end of the Second Sphere Expansion.

745.M41 The Stasis Chamber
Aun'Va makes the decision to place the favoured pupils of the rapidly declining Commander Puretide into stasis using prototype technology being developed for deep space travel - This allows O'Shaserra and a few select other to be recalled at later need.

760.M41 Rogue Commander
Following the Damocles Crusade, Commander Farsight recaptures much of the lost territory. However, the famed Commander defies orders to return, instead establishing a string of fortified planets known as the Farsight Enclaves. He is officially declared an Outcast for his defiance of orders.

813.M41 Cano'var Destroyed
The Tau world of Cano'var is overwhelmed. Transmissions show robotic creatures using unidentified energy weapons before going dark.

815.M41 Ally Unlooked For
An Ork invasion under Warlord Grog advances into the Tau Empire. The populated Tau world of Atari Vo bears the brunt of the attack before finally defeating the Orks with the combined forces of Dal'yth Sept and an unlikely ally - Commander Farsight and his bodyguard cadre.

897.M41 to 903.M41 A New Menace
Tyranid Hive Fleet Gorgon smashes into the fringe of the Tau Empire and claws inwards before being ultimately defeated upon the sept world of Ke'lshan with the help of very unlikely allies in the form of a fleet of ships from the Imperium of Mankind. The two sides each realize the greater threat and band together to defeat it; once this occurs, however, the sides quickly turn on one another.

303.998.M41 Tau Victory on T'ros (Taros Campaign)
The Tau complete their annexation of what was previously the Imperial planet of Taros. It becomes the prime planet of a new sept; its remaining humans are considered gue'vesa citizens of the Tau Empire and are congratulated on the wisdom of their decision.

303.999.M41 Shas'O'Kais Triumphant
It is unknown when Shas '0 'Kais, another of Puretide's former proteges, emerged from stasis, but it is he that leads the victories that establish the Fi'rios Sept at this time.

303.999.M41 Defeat at Zeist
An Imperial counterthrust attacks the colonies in the Zeist sector. The Space Marines drive the Tau from many worlds in the sector. While the losses are regrettable, the gains elsewhere are on such a scale that, even to the casualty-conscious Tau, Shadowsun's diversion seems not just acceptable, but shrewd.

757.999.M41 Mu'gulath Bay
In the largest battle of the Third Sphere Expansion, Commander Shadowsun leads the attack at Mu'gulath Bay, beginning the rout of human forces now known as the "Path of Blood." It is a bright day for the Tau, who saw a foe with vastly superior numbers crushed. No less than twelve advanced weapon prototypes were successfully deployed in the campaign, with only the fusion reactor· meltdown that destroyed Mu'gulath 's moon proving a failure.

760.999.M41 Present Day and Counting...
On the verge of a new era. Third Sphere Expansion is well under way and with the Tau spreading and encountering new challenges, unexplained phenomena, and monstrous foes! The time to prove you are a noteworthy component of the Greater Good, is now!