Commander Farsight - Meditation and Vengeance: Appalled by his own failings, Farsight resolved to think long on the events that had led him to this point. There was no victory in fighting a traditional war of mobility and patience; the Orks were on the brink of bringing the enclaves to total ruin, and were so intoxicated by the scent of imminent victory that even killing their warlord would not stop them. Farsight sought insight into how he could bring the planets themselves to their aid as he had done on Arkunasha. Yet this time, the scale of the war was much greater. In his search for wisdom, he skimmed low across the saline ocean of Vior'los and then plunged into the water, diving down to the darkness of the ocean bed.There, he settled into a trance, sitting cross-legged in the hero's mantle for seven long cycles. Nightsharks and bulbous glowfish circled in the bubbles that bled up from oceanic fissures around him as he sought inspiration from the cold truths of water. Once his undersea meditations were complete, Farsight blasted from the ocean into the skies, the shadow of his Battlesuit flitting across the waves towards the great volcanos at the centre of Vior'los' landmass. With his Battlesuit jets equalising against the winds around him, O'Shovah opened his suit's command cradle above the peak of the dormant volcano O'res, closing his eyes and feeling the air rush around him until he had come to understand its secrets. Once his trance state had ended, he travelled again, plunging deep into a canyon at the heart of the mountain range.He ventured into the sulphurous tunnels that honeycombed the underside of the planet's crust, and with poisonous fumes and trickles of lava snaking around him, he lay on his back and communed with the elements of earth, teaching himself to think like the slow-burning but impossibly strong anger of the planet's core. Lastly, O'Shovah flew to the infernos that swept across the tinder-dry forests of Vior'los, ignited by the war that raged across its surface. He descended into the blazing sheets of flame, his Battlesuit's hazard protocols flaring red as its outer layers heated up to critical levels. He could feel his flesh begin to burn, the smell of roasting meat slowly filling his command cradle. His skin started to sear from the tanned grey of a Vior'lan native to a rich, deep black, but he did not cry out. When O'Shovah finally left the wildfire, his Crisis Battlesuit flew across the skies like an ember in the night.Over the next few weeks, there came a series of dramatic turns in the tide of the war for the Farsight Enclaves. Above the crystal plains of Tinek'la, elegant T'au fighters had duelled for weeks with thousands of snubnosed Ork aircraft. Commander Farsight suddenly joined them out of nowhere, ordering every Air Caste pilot in the skies to override their consoles and release their propellant gases, forming a wall of volatile emissions shaped to his specific instructions. Then he ignited it with blasts from his Plasma Rifle. A great gale of flame roiled across the planet. As they burnt the last of their fuel to escape, the T'au aircraft were buoyed by the resultant thermals and rode the thunderhead of the titanic fireball whilst the clumsy Ork aircraft were consumed behind them. In the process, the surface was simultaneously scoured clean of both the greenskins and their corrupting spores.On the watery world of Salash'hei, Commander Farsight dove once more to the bottom of the ocean and carefully planted the gifts he had requested from the Earth Caste. His old friend, O'Vesa, had not let him down; the dull thumps of the disc-shaped Seismic Fibrillator Nodes awoke the wrath of the world's oceanic vents. Soon, the seas above were riven by such extreme tsunamis that the Ork battleships prowling its waters were all capsized. The razorwhales of the oceans ate well that night, but Farsight had already moved on.The earthen landscape of Lub'grahl was next. The Earth Caste had built hundreds of oval living nodes upon the planet's surface, each nestled safely between the planet's towering spires of rock. The Orks roamed Lub'grahl in their billions, besieging every last node, and the T'au were beginning to starve. Farsight ordered the entire fleet of Tinek'la to enter extreme low orbit and mag-lift the nodes to safety. Then, O'Shovah dropped a clutch of O'Vesa's Seismic Fibrillators into B'oghal, the Great Abyss. Before the hour was out, the planet shuddered in protest, and every one of the delicate rock spires collapsed, burying the Ork hordes in forty metres of solid rock. The mag-lifted living nodes were lowered back down to sit atop the world's new crust; they were restored to full productivity within the week.Lastly, Farsight's returned to his adopted world of Vior'los, and his first act was to conduct a mass Ta'lissera bonding ritual, revitalising the frayed morale of his warriors. With the other Enclave worlds freed from invaders and the castes united behind him once more, O'Shovah enacted a mercilessly efficient military strategy that culled the Orks from one district after another. He then used powerful artificial firestorms to sterilise the environment. Very few indigenous species survived the extermination Farsight unleashed on the planet, but no T'au were lost to the flames.As his chillingly effective methods burned the Orks from his enclaves, O'Shovah's one concession to his own desires was the isolation of the Orks' leader, Grog Ironteef. He finally located the warchief in the eye of a firestorm, attacking his own followers in an attempt to restore order. It is said that Farsight bested the beast in single combat, though none were there to witness it. All that remains of Grog is a sparkling globe filled with ash, the names of each of the enclave's worlds engraved upon its surface. Though Farsight had won a series of great victories and restored himself as the hero of the newly-fortified colony worlds, the greenskin threat was still not ended. Where the Orks of the galaxy hear word of a good fight, their tribes and clans travel to the site purely to start the fighting all over again. The Farsight Enclaves would battle the Ork menace time and time again, most notably at Arthas Moloch.