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====Teron I====

Captain Darren has earned the honorific "Master of the Deal" for his successes in defusing conflicts without bloodshed; the "Non-War of Teron I" is one of his more famous accomplishments. When a [[Tau]] strike force claimed to own the Imperial world of Teron I, the local [[Imperial Guard Regiment]]s were provoked to mobilize, which would invite a weightier response from the Tau Empire, and could only escalate from there. A long meat-grinder war was in the making, but cooler heads within the [[Administratum]] realized that the regiments were needed to fight the [[Tyranids]], and that driving out the Tau would leave them dangerously under-strength for such a deployment. Fortunately, Darren's [[Battle Barge]] was in the vicinity, and the Administratum asked him to handle the situation.

Rather than preemptively striking the Tau, as the IG force commander suggested, Darren established a defensive perimeter against a sudden Tau attack, and used some technological trickery to give the appearance of having many more Marines deployed than he actually had on hand. When he engaged the Tau diplomatically, he was able to convince them that the resources required to take the world by force would be better spent colonizing non-Imperial worlds, playing on the fact that the Tau desired expansion more than bloodshed.

In the debriefing session thereafter, Darren was asked what he would have done had he not convinced the Tau to leave without a fight. For his answer, Darren whistled, and twelve [[Terminator]]s deactivated cloaking devices, appearing as if from thin air. After the flustered leadership calmed down, Darren assured them that he was "well prepared for a hostile reception."