Commander Farsight - The Descent of Grog: Signalling the T'au who had settled on Atari Vo in the Second Sphere Expansion, Farsight prepared to make planetfall and join with the planet's Fire Caste against the imminent Ork invasion. The Atarian T'au, and their Dal'ythan reinforcements, were still scrambling their own fleet to engage the asteroids when they received the chilling message from Farsight's fleet: the asteroids would not be slowing upon entry. The Orks intended to smash them into the planet with as much force as possible. It was the same as at Arkunasha, only this time the target was a world of cities and gardens instead of a planet-sized desert.At first, the T'au were confused by Farsight's presence on this side of the Damocles Gulf and refuted his claim, but as the asteroids hurtled down, the truth became horribly clear. They slammed into the planet's main continent, Vo'hai, each one snuffing out millions of lives with its impact. The dagger-shaped flagship at the heart of the fleet drove itself deep into the capital city, Tau'rota'sha, jewel of Atari Vo's white-walled cities. It was reduced to a blasted crater in the space of a few seconds. The surviving T'au hoped that the Orks had died executing their insane tactics, but they were horribly disappointed. Protected by powerful shieldcores in each warship, the Orks seethed out of the wreckage in a storm of aggression. Wherever the T'au engaged them, the Orks returned fire with crackling energy beams and salvaged T'au weaponry. The volume of fire pouring out of the Ork ranks was unlike anything the T'au had encountered before, and the craters made by their planetfall provided cover enough to weather the firing solutions of the Fire caste.Farsight's armies docked in the planet's skystations and joined the battle unfolding on the planet below, but it was soon clear that they were fighting a very different breed of Ork from the primitives they had encountered on Arkunasha. Hulking leaders in glyph-covered greatcoats unleashed blasts of blinding green fire from their multi-barrelled guns, each powerful enough to punch clean through a Battlesuit. Captured Hammerheads and Sky Rays lurched from the rocks, plasma fire splashing from their steel-fanged hulls as they ploughed into the ranks of their former owners. Whirring Ork Kopta-craft spat hails of fire, forcing the T'au into cover as yet more Orks spilled from the breach. At dozens of impact sites, the battle intensified again and again until T'au blood mingled with the blackish ooze of the Ork fallen amongst the rubble.Salvation was finally delivered, not by the Fire Caste, but by their Air Caste brethren. Whole shoals of Barracudas and Tiger Sharks were dispatched, their advance preceded by waves of Piranhas mowing down mob after mob of skulking Orks with their Burst Cannons. The Manta missile destroyer Or'es Por'kauyon slaughtered those Orks nearest the wrecked dagger-ship with a storm of Heavy Railgun fire, and the Sun Shark bombers soaring down from low orbit washed the ruins clean with chains of plasma bombs. As yet more pilots joined the fight, the Orks fled into the ruins of their impact craters. With his foes on the run, Farsight pressed the advantage, leading a cadre of his own warriors over the lip of the dagger ship's impact crater and falling upon the Orks below. Only then did the true cunning of Grog become clear.Thousands of Orks spilled into the crater and fell upon Farsight's force like the jaws of a vice. The T'au could not fire in every direction at once, and they were swamped within a few minutes of the trap being sprung. The last stand became a massacre as a hulking, ostentatiously-dressed Warboss flung himself into the fight. His mind churning with emotion, Farsight ordered his Battlesuit teams to boost out of the melee with their Jetpacks. They fired into the Orks below as they soared away, felling a great many with their parting gesture, but the fact remained they had charged headlong into a trap.Those T'au who had escaped reconvened in the skystations, conceding the battle zones around each asteroid and laying plans for a planet-wide counter-attack. Humbled by his defeat at the crater, Farsight acted only as an advisor as the ensuing war unfolded. He risked his life over and over again to atone for leading so many to their deaths, but the stain on his honour remained. The planet's military isolated and eventually destroyed the Ork invaders over the course of a difficult and costly campaign. When victory had been assured beyond all doubt, Farsight left Atari Vo, swearing not to make the same mistakes. Yet in his introspection, he had underestimated the cunning of Warchief Grog once more.