Commander Farsight - WAAAGH! Dok: The Ork crusade of violence known as WAAAGH! Dok appeared in the vicinity of Arkunasha without warning or reason. One equinox, a strange solar storm erupted that appeared to make odd symbols in the sky.When it had subsided, the Earth Caste sighted something that defied all logic; the eastern void was now dotted with hundreds of energy signatures, every one of them heading on a collision course with Arkunasha.Weeks later, the planet was in the throes of a full-scale war. An Ork invasion of vast size had descended, slamming giant asteroid fortresses into the planet's dunes. The crudeness of the Ork assault had been its saving grace.The Earth Caste's firing solutions could depressurise or destroy a conventional fleet before it reached orbit, but there was nothing conventional about the greenskin armada. Even the heavy Railcannons that bristled from the T'au bio-domes had proven next to useless against the porous balls of rock and junk hurtling in their direction.More and more Ork craft hurtled out of the sky and crunched into the dunes in a jaw-dropping planetfall the T'au took to calling the ghoro'kha, or "death hail." Hunter and Defender Cadres were scrambled to each crash site, but greenskins seethed out of the impact crater around each fallen asteroid like water overflowing a boiling cauldron.By the time Commander Shoh and his fleet reached Arkunasha's orbit, the planet had been all but overrun. With the exception of a few highly mobile strike forces abroad in the desert, the T'au military presence planetside had been destroyed in a series of disastrously one-sided engagements.The rest of the populace was holed up in the transparent bio-domes that ringed the planet -- though the Orks had destroyed most of the connecting structures in short order, they had not yet worked out a way to pierce the metres-thick carapaces of the habitats themselves.Each was an island in a sea of invaders, surrounded by barbaric hordes that hammered and hollered on the thick transplastics separating them from their prey. The T'au inside got a good chance to study their persecutors up close, but the habitats' resources were dwindling, and their military forces were pitifully inadequate for the task of repelling the Orks. Without each bio-dome's dew farms bringing in the regular water they relied upon, the life expectancy of Arkunasha's people could be measured in weeks, at best.After his counter invasion fleet made it to Arkunasha's surface entirely unmolested, Commander Shoh was extensively briefed on the situation by the T'au trapped in Arkunasha's bio-domes. The planet's dust storms could be avoided with careful monitoring of the Earth Caste's sub-orbital drone network, but according to the Air Caste's aerial observations, there appeared to be even more of the violent alien warbands roaming the desert than in the first few weeks of the invasion.Stranger still, drone scans had confirmed something that the Ethereals had originally put down to fearful rumour-mongering -- the individual Orks testing the defences of each bio-dome were slowly getting bigger. Thus far, the bestial aliens had resisted or ignored all attempts to communicate or broker terms, and the Water Caste were at a loss how to proceed. All the greenskinned beasts seemed to want to do was fight.In his pre-battle meditations upon the subject, O'Shoh found that he could relate to that concept. In his heart, he relished the thought of once more risking his life in the name of the Greater Good. The spectacle of war called to him; the noise, the light -- even the letting of blood.These reflections were his first step towards understanding the psyche of the Ork, and in achieving that understanding, turning the tide of the Arkunasha War. Though the T'au had engaged whole alien civilisations before and emerged triumphant, in almost all of those invasions, the Fire Caste had held the upper hand. This was one of the few times the T'au war machine would be tested in such desperately unfavourable conditions.Training simulations always included modules where the T'au were outnumbered by their enemies, sometimes as many as ten times over. Here, the foe teemed across the dunes in their billions. Orbital snapshots gained on entry into the atmosphere indicated that the Orks outnumbered the Fire Caste counter-invasion by nearly four hundred to one.When the Air Caste's final observations were relayed to the commander during his descent, he nodded in solemn acknowledgement. His contingent's cadres would have to use the weapons of the mind rather than the gauntlet, he said -- against the savage beast, such a strategy was inevitable.When asked to clarify his intent, O'Shoh drew one of the ornamental swords from the wall above and stabbed it through the arm of the command throne before snapping its blade in half. It was a metaphor that was to become famous amongst the Fire Caste in the ensuing months.