Editing Arthas Moloch (section)

==History==
The [[Alpha Legion]] started using it as a base after the [[Horus Heresy]], populating the world with human cultists and mutants pledged to the legion's service. In the 39th Millennium the [[Scythes of the Emperor]] got wind of the place and purged it. Even two millennia later, the world's ruins still bear the marks of the Scythes' passing, and it is said that the world shines like a gold mine to the eyes of anyone with psychic talent. It is probably most notable as the world where the Tau commander [[Farsight|O'Shovah]] was first set on the path to independence from the Tau Empire.

While cleansing the region of [[Orks]], O'Shovah and his forces made landfall on Arthas Moloch, where they encountered a Warp portal that started barfing Chaos daemons at them. O'Shovah snatched up a strange sword lying on a nearby altar to fight them, and found that it was not only exceptionally effective against the daemons, but seemed to revitalize him with every enemy he killed using it. When he asked his [[Ethereal]] commanders what gave with the whole thing, they accidentally revealed that they knew all about Chaos, daemons, and the true nature of the Warp and were choosing to [[Imperial Truth|lie about them to the rest of the Tau to keep them from being corrupted]]. Shenanigans ensued, during which all of the Ethereals in question were killed and O'Shovah decided that they were a bunch of corrupt assholes who couldn't be trusted anyway, leading him to found the [[Farsight Enclaves]] and declare independence from the Empire.

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