Editing Damocles Crusade (section)

==The Name==
Damocles, who the campaign and region was named after, was a man in Ancient Sicillia who was a stern fan of the local tyrant called Dionysios and considered him to be very fortunate. Dionysios wondered why Damocles liked his job and his kingdom so much, and went to teach him a lesson. He invited Damocles for a party at his residence, which Damocles of course was super-excited about. There was only one thing that Dionysios hadn't told Damocles, and that was that, while eating, Damocles would be laying under a hanging sword, attached to the ceiling by a single hair from a horse' mane.

After a very strained and unhappy dinner, Dionysios explained the act to Damocles: he wanted Damocles to feel like he does as a tyrant. A tyrant always has a sword over him, that can fall down and strike him down at any moment. He is never at peace and can never relax, but can't do anything about it either as that would just result in killing innocents and doing heinous, but ultimately useless acts. Damocles was scarred for life, but had learnt a lesson. Never again did he praise Dionysios.

What does this have to do with the Damocles Crusade? Well, in the first draft, the Tau thought the galaxy was theirs for the taking, only to discover one of many empires that exist in the setting, and the fact that all of them were capable of destroying the Tau if they thought to do so. The only reason they'd been able to survive was because they simply hadn't been noticed by those empires, but now that they were on their radar they existed purely because there were bigger fish to fry. In short, just like Damocles, they realised they were always under threat and could've been destroyed at any moment.

Then the other drafts were released, in which the Tau gradually changed from being the underdogs to a conquering force the Imperium couldn't seem to contest. At this point in time, the name 'Damocles Crusade' has lost all meaning.