Commander Farsight - Strike Against the Menace: As the other castes of the Farsight Expedition began repopulating the Enclaves, O'Shovah's fleet was readying for war. Leaving only a small garrison to defend the colonies, Farsight set out for the Vorac asteroid belt to clear it of Orks. His plan was for the T'au Navy to use their superior range to pick the Orks apart without risking a single life. Though the concept was sound, Farsight's plan soon faltered. Long-range scans betrayed an incredible truth -- the asteroids were not hiding the Ork fleet, they actually were the Ork fleet. Gigantic clumps of debris had been sheathed with scrap metal and weapons, with crude engines the size of bio-domes attached at the rear. Farsight wasted no time cross-referencing the symbols carved into the asteroid ships with those of the Ork invasions that had plagued the Sept worlds in the past. Sure enough, these greenskins had been encountered many years before, preying upon the space lanes of Dal'yth. After a short war, the threat had been declared neutralised. Not nearly neutralised enough, Farsight realised; the Orks had evidently fled to the fringes of the T'au Empire, hoping to prey upon the newly established colonies, much as a savannah hunter seeks the youngest and most infirm prey.Extremely vexed by this revelation, Farsight formulated a meticulous plan to exterminate all the Ork asteroid ships. With Admiral Kor'O'Li'Mau'Teng's finest pilots at the tip of each spearhead, the T'au fell upon the clumsy Ork fleet with dizzying speed. Each asteroid could barely turn its guns toward the T'au before its engines were blown apart by the Air Caste. This spectacle was repeated for weeks, and Farsight's progress could be followed by the string of burning lights he was stitching across the stars. The sheer number of the Ork bases was their only real defence, though the now-accepted tactic of killing the Ork leader and throwing his followers into anarchy was next to impossible to enact. Furthermore, whilst Farsight was methodically smashing base after base on the fringe of the Vorac Belt, hundreds of the furthest asteroid ships were accelerating towards the worlds of the next system.Once most of the Ork asteroid ships had been destroyed or driven off, Farsight reported to his trio of ethereal advisors that the greenskin menace was greatly reduced and he could despatch a full half of the fleet to return to the Enclaves. They nodded sagely, but as Farsight was about to leave in triumph, they had something to reveal: Admiral Kor'O'Li'Mau'Teng had been killed by a hidden missile base whilst overseeing an extermination order. Farsight's eyes narrowed for a moment, but he bowed low, asking for leave to go and meditate in his quarters. When he emerged, his resolve had hardened once more. The fleet would not be returning, not yet. The Orks would be pursued and every last one put to the torch.Unbeknownst to O'Shovah, his strike into the Vorac Belt had initiated war against a foe who had not only fought against the T'au before, and survived, but who had come to understand the Fire Caste in turn. Grog Ironteef, Warchief of Alsanta, had learned the hard way that the T'au could out-range the Orks in space, so he planned to draw them away from the enclaves and engage them at close range on the most rugged and congested planets he could find, with plenty of cover and lots of hiding places from which to start what he thought of as "a proper fight". The remaining asteroid ships of the Vorac Belt spread out into two fleets as they neared the Magi System on the fringes of the Damocles Gulf. Farsight's armada monitored them as best they could. One cluster plunged towards the deserted world of Arthas Moloch, the other towards the T'au-held planet of Atari Vo. A large dagger-shaped asteroid flew at the heart of the latter fleet, and after meditating on the anomaly, Farsight concluded that a flagship shaped like a weapon would appeal to an Ork leader. He gave the order to head for Atari Vo, and his assumption was correct; the dagger asteroid was indeed his quarry's flagship.