El'lyer Sept

After a Shan'al of T'au witnessed the failures of the Ethereal Caste after the debacle at Numenar Point, they decided to embark om their own expidition, away from the clutches of the Ethereals and all that troubled the -in their opinion once great- T'au empire. Over the course of several weeks, they found sympathisers to their cause in every Caste on their homeworld of Bork'an, ironically the planet which the engineers of the AL-38 Slipstream engines, which caused the rift in the first place, hail from.

To take on their bold task, they outfitted their Manta with one of such engines, as well as many additional life support systems to suppport their long journey. They departed from a fortress station on one of the more minor T'au septs. During their long travel, the Fire warrior, placed in Cryo-stasis to preserve them at peak physical health, were awakened many times to combat forces the T'au had never seen before. Large evil looking creatures emerged out of nothing, and then immediately disappeared when killed. When these creatures did get close to the awakened warriors, they would infect the bodies of the warriors with effects that only showed up once out of stasis for longer than a few hours. Such infected warriors displayed characteristics and familiarities to their birth gender and others, both in appearance and behaviour. Ironically, the creatures were later found to be quite harmless to the warriors, if killed quickly enough at least.

When the T'au finally arrived to a planet they deemed worthy enough to be their new Home Sept, scouting drones were dispatched to observe the face of the planet and look for any signs of intelligent life. After none was found, multiple carriers of Fire and Earth caste T'au were deployed to the planet to immediately start construction of a city. Fortunately for the T'au of the newly named El'lyer Sept, none of the planet's wildlife seemed hostile. All of the T'au had been changed by their journey, both in physical appearance and mental capacity, but none of them considered it particularly bad, they lived long and prosperous lives, and were able to create families and have children with whomever was willing.

Sadly, as all things eventually go, tragedy struck El'lyer. Creatures, horrifying creatures struck the planet's surface, accompanied by strange looking Gue'ron'sha (space marines), killing thousands of peaceful T'au by using strange and contorting energies throughout their bodies. This wasn't the same energy the Fire Warriors felt on The Expansion, no, this energy didn't twist and change, it exploded and melted the very foundations of their beings. Fire Warriors of the Swiftstrike Cadre were immediately dispatched to root out the extermination of their people, but were met with months upon months of fighting. The invaders scorched the once habitable planet, burning T'au cities to the ground. Long and arduous was the war, but the T'au prevailed. The warriors and creatures were driven back, expelled from the planet they call home. Not long after, more and more new groups of people, fierce Gue'la and their tanks, or the Ves'ron of those that call themselves the Adeptus Mechanicus, each more horrifying than the last. They drove the T'au of El'lyer into war, but they would not give in so easily, for they serve The Greater Good.