Gue'vesa - Notable Gue'vesa: Kalice Arkady - Arkady is a former captain of the Astra Militarum who commanded a company of the Follaxian 113th Irregulars and defected to the service of the T'au Empire. When she became disillusioned with the government of the Imperium and how it abused its own people she chose to join the T'au Empire and serve its Greater Good. In the process of defecting she also managed to take nearly her entire company with her. This was a major blow to the morale of Arkady's homeworld and ended a storied military career that had seen her earn the Order of the Adamant Tread, the Heart of the Crown on Syndythos and serve as the bearer of the Crimson Skull. However, Arkady's military experience and personality soon led her to rise through the ranks of the T'au Empire's Gue'vesa and saw her transferred to the Nem'yar Atoll. Once there, Arkady was stationed aboard the Suu'suamyth orbital shipyard and later attained the rank of Gue'vesa'vres, making her the highest-ranking Gue'vesa on the shipyard. This position allowed her to regularly meet with Suu'suamyth's ruling council, which she saw as a high honour. After sabotage on the shipyard led to numerous deaths, Arkady was tasked by the council to find the culprits. She was chosen both due to her experience and more importantly due to the fact that the council suspected the saboteurs were Humans. As she was also a trusted member of Suu'suamyth's population, the council hoped that Arkday's involvement in the investigation would soothe any tensions that might erupt between the T'au and Gue'vesa populations aboard the shipyard. Arkady was aided in the investigation by the Water Caste criminal investigator Por'ui Fi'rios Kau'kartyr, a novel situation for both of them. The pair began their investigation by tracking down where the culprits had gathered the parts needed for the various sabotage operations. Arkady sought the aid of one of her former sergeants, Treshom Lan, who owned a mechanical shop on the shipyard. Though Lan later told them he could not remember anyone inquiring about a specific part the two investigators mentioned, they both suspected Lan was lying. After they left Lan's shop, Kau'kartyr revealed that he had hidden a drone within Lan's shop and they listened as the former sergeant met with a secretive group. When the group later spoke of the havoc they had wrought, the two investigators realised they were the saboteurs and stormed Lan's shop with a squadron of Fire Warriors. To their horror, as well as Lan's, the saboteurs were in fact members of a Genestealer Cult. The cult's members attacked and fought ferociously, which forced Arkady and the others to slay them. Afterwards, Lan was taken into custody and admitted to aiding the saboteurs, in order to strike back at the T'au for their second-class treatment of Humans. Suu'suamyth's ruling council then met with Arkady and Kau'kartyr to congratulate them and told them the investigation was at an end. Both disagreed, however, and stated they had discovered the culprits' ringleader had arrived at the shipyard well after the first act of sabotage had occurred. This meant there had to be others involved, but the ruling council was firm in their assessment that all the saboteurs were dead. While the investigation was officially ended, both Arkady and Kau'kartyr agreed to continue looking for the other saboteurs. Arkady explained that though the T'au used their Kroot allies' heightened sensory abilities to detect the physiological changes caused by the Genestealer genetic taint in the Human body, they were not yet able to detect it in other alien species. This led the unlikely pair to determine what other non-Humans had transferred to Suu'suamyth just before the first act of sabotage occurred. Their subsequent investigation discovered that a group of Vespid matched their criteria and they moved on the area of the shipyard where the winged insectoids resided. With them went another squadron of Fire Warriors, but these troops proved inadequate to the task and the investigators were quickly surrounded. It was then revealed that the Vespid had been infected by a Genestealer who later evolved into a Genestealer Patriarch once it made it aboard the orbital shipyard with the aid of the infected Vespid. This Genestealer Patriarch had subsequently infected several other members of Suu'suamyth's population, including the Human saboteurs. Despite being outnumbered, the investigators and their allied Fire Warriors fought back, but the situation seemed grim until several XV25 Stealthsuits unexpectedly appeared and opened fire on the assembled Genestealer Cult and its Patriarch, saving the investigators and their Fire Warrior allies. With the aid of the Stealthsuits the Genestealer Cult was eliminated, but the investigators realised the appearance of the Stealthsuits meant that the council had ordered them to be followed. As they later learned while recuperating from their ordeal, the council had formally ended the investigation, but both they and the leaders of the Genestealer Cult had realised that due to Arkady's reputation, she would never stop searching for anyone else infected by the Genestealer taint. The cult had thus arranged a trap hoping to kill the Gue'vesa'vres to permanently end any chance of discovery, and the council in turn had allowed them to fall into the trap in order to use Arkady and her Water Caste ally as a lure to draw out the remaining cult members. While the council's tactic proved successful, both Arkady and Kau'kartyr resented having been tricked into serving as bait.Jeakim Slovaz - Slovaz was formerly an Imperial Guardsman in the 19th Brimlock Dragoons. He was listed as missing in action after the regiment was left behind in T'au space during the Damocles Gulf Crusade. The regiment surrendered after all its commissars (allegedly) died in combat. Decades later, Slovaz would front a T'au propaganda campaign describing the fair and humane treatment Human prisoners of war could expect to receive if they surrendered to the T'au military. He would later be branded Excommunicate Traitoris by the Imperium for heretical interaction with xenos.