Au'turn Sept

### **Dominant Tactics**

The Au'turn Sept utilizes small teams of elite Pathfinders, each assigned a personal "bodyguard" carbine drone, protected by Crisis Suit pilots specializing in close-range brawling, and supported by Tarellian sharp-shooters and tech specialists. These elite mixed-unit teams almost always include dedicated Inhibitor Drone and Accelerator Drone operators.

### **Specialty**

terraforming; in combat, close cooperation between each member of the La'Rua (squadron)

## Prime World Information

### **Location**

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The **Au'Turn Sept** is a small but influential Third Sphere Expansion of the T'au Empire with a culture revolving around terraforming and ecological stewardship. Though they are few in number, there are equally few planets within the empire that have not received some amount of ecological assistance from one of their many roaming Mission Fleets.

The Tau of Au'Turn view lifeless, barren Dead Worlds not as they are, but as what they could be, as blank canvases upon which to paint. It is for this reason that they send forth their Mission Fleets to the furthest corners of the Tau Empire, in search of worlds which could one day be paradises.

## Beliefs

The Au'Turn interpretation of the Greater Good holds that the Tau have a duty to improve the galaxy and serve as its stewards. They seek to do this by bringing life to barren, lifeless worlds on the edge of the empire, by discovering planets where life already exists and helping it to thrive, by tending to once-lush worlds that have been damaged in some way - and by taking by force worlds whose owners they deem poor stewards of the land.

## The Mission Fleets

Though Au'turn does have its own sovereign territory, there are not many Tau there at any one time. Every able-bodied citizen is duty-bound to temporarily leave the core worlds of Au'turn to join a "Mission Fleet" bound for the furthest edges of the Tau Empire's borders. These Mission Fleets are traveling caravans of freighters, and cruisers tasked with completing some particular terraforming goal, whether that be discovering promising new uninhabited planets and establishing bases there, carefully monitoring thriving worlds already colonized by other Septs to ensure their continued stability, or doing what they can to restore worlds scarred by war. When the great nomadic Mission Fleets are docked in Au'Turn's central deep-space shipyard, ready to launch another five-year Mission, each Tau who is chosen to or who volunteers to join them is allowed to choose the specific Mission they are most excited by, and allowed to contribute in a manner befitting their caste.

## Capital World

The planet of Au'Turn, though somewhat cold for Tau tastes, is a lush paradise teeming with vegetation. The abnormal, wobbling orbital pattern of its twin suns, one yellow and the other red, cause the planet to rapidly cycle through its four seasons twice per standard Terran year. As the planet completes its rotational cycle around the two suns, the color of daylight shifts from pure yellow to orange to pure red.

For much of the year, Au'turn appears as it were frozen in sunset, with tall, thin Birch-like trees ablaze with gold and red and orange. It is this stunning beauty which inspired in the Tau of Au'Turn such a passion for serving as caretakers of nature, and which inspired them to dream of spreading such beauty across the stars.

## Arrival On Au'Turn

Bork'An exploration fleet crashed, write here

## Notes

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