Commander Farsight - The Codex Cracked: During the hours of the journey across the Gulf when he was not in stasis, Farsight gathered every action report and Drone capture snippet he could lay his hands on from the war for Dal'yth. With the help of Commander Brightsword and his old ally O'Vesa, O'Shovah gradually built up a comprehensive picture of Imperial war doctrine. Day and night, he pored over how the armies of Humanity acted and reacted in different situations and theatres of war; how they made planetfall, what it took to provoke them, and what it took to break them. There were elements of the Imperium's armies, notably the Hammers of Dorn, whose adherence to a set methodology was almost fanatical. Such was the diligence and precision with which they observed their military doctrine that, in studying them, Commander Farsight was able to write down their tactical imperatives as a set of commandments. By the time his coalition had crossed the Damocles Gulf, O'Shovah had pieced together much of what he and his lieutenants referred to as the "human war schematic", a code that he believed the Imperium's troops observed at all times. In doing so, he learned a good deal about the blind spots in the T'au's traditional military doctrine, and began to adjust his repertoire of strategies to compensate for these oversights.As the T'au arrived once more on the far side of the Gulf, Farsight used his newfound knowledge about the Imperium to dramatic effect. With the bulk of the Imperial military in the sector pulled away to engage Hive Fleet Behemoth, Commander O'Shovah found himself waging a series of campaigns in which he held the advantage from the start. The Planetary Defence Forces left to garrison the worlds of the Timbra Sector, though over a hundred million strong on planets such as Vespertine and Matinsong, were lured into a series of "mock wars" by vanguard T'au forces. Time after time, modest raids would lure out defenders hoping to secure a front only they considered relevant. Once they had committed themselves, the remainder of Farsight's force would fall from the skies and deliver a killing blow of such efficacy it would have impressed Puretide himself. Over and over again, O'Shovah's foresight paid off, and the T'au Empire rejoiced with every new conquest. Through a combination of military acumen, hard work and verve, Commander Farsight had lived up to the inflated claims the Ethereals had made in his name. World by world, battle by battle, the Damocles Gulf was brought back into the fold. The reconquests of the four principal worlds on the distant side of the Gulf were bloody in the extreme. Farsight's incredible ability to second-guess his foes made for a string of impressive victories, but as the anarchy of battle rolled out across the sector, the Imperium dealt the "Farsight Expedition", as it came to be known, a great many wounds of its own. By the time the fleet had reached the last system of the previously colonised region, there were fewer than half the original ships remaining. O'Shovah felt every loss keenly, not merely as a military setback, but as an emotional and spiritual wound. His Ethereal advisors had made it plain that there would be no more reinforcements, not this far from the Empire.The T'au were not the only ones to have taken advantage of the Imperium's armies being withdrawn however. By the time the Coalition arrived, the asteroid belt to the east of the enclaves was infested with Orks. The T'au fleet mounted a series of swift raids to repel the Ork raiders from their recaptured territory, each one successful and efficient. However, as space-capable Drones made their flyby scans, the horrible truth became clear; almost every asteroid large enough to hold them was teeming with Orks, and if the fleet's readings were correct, the asteroid belt was but the tip of an empire that stretched all the way into the next star system. The Farsight Expedition was on the brink of total victory, but the Ork presence disturbed O'Shovah greatly. He meditated upon the new information for many hours, and upon returning to his ship's command bridge, he gave an order that would shake the T'au Empire to its core. He announced that the destruction of the Orks was a higher priority than concluding the reconquest; he would expend every effort to exterminate them, targeting every planet they had infected, in this system and the next. It was the first time a T'au of any rank had disobeyed a direct order from the Ethereal Council. O'Shovah's decision was an unthinkable breach of the chain of command. For the newly claimed Farsight Enclaves, it was only the beginning.