Editing Farsight (section)

==163 years later==
{{Topquote|The life of a soldier is the only one I know. That's why I can never settle down.|Char Aznable}}

{{Topquote|Who wants to live forever?
Forever is our today,
Who waits forever anyway?
|Freddie Mercury (actually Brian May)}}

The Tau Empire, having lost contact with the Farsight Enclaves, believed Farsight himself to be long dead and the Enclaves lost. One day, though, a [[Anal Circumference|probe]] discovered that the Enclaves were still there and flourishing, and had changed their sept markings and become Ethereal-free. Learning this, the Tau Empire branded Farsight a traitor and renamed the Enclaves the "Forbidden Zone", smashing all his statues throughout the Empire and trying to wipe him from public memory. This didn't sit well with everyone, especially members of the Fire Caste, and contacts within the Empire soon began secretly supplying the Enclaves with new weapons and hardware.

Over a hundred years later, the Enclaves came under threat from a [[Tyranid]] splinter fleet. Unsure of what to do, the leadership of the Enclaves suddenly got a message from a museum where an aged Farsight had suddenly shown up out of nowhere to demand his old battlesuit be removed from its display case and returned to him. Donning his armor once again, the Commander took over the defense, and thanks to some smart Earth Caste bio-engineering, managed to hold off the Great Devourer long enough to poison the fleet (<s>Yeah, seriously, leave it to the Tau to poison a fleet that literally lives on toxins</s> The Deathwatch uses bio-toxins against the Tyranids on the regular, this is nothing new) which ended up destroying it in its entirety, making the Tau [[wat|better at creating viruses than Nurgle's daemons]] as they tried and were unable to do this. Some may remember the Imperium did this, too, but that was actually a mutagen whereas this was a poison. Meanwhile [[Shadowsun]], Farsight's old rival, was awakened from her cryogenic stasis in the Empire and sent back to war, and Farsight assembled a new team of elite battlesuit pilots, The Eight, to defend the Enclaves and stand opposed to the mysterious power the Ethereals held over their brethren. They would later reinforce the T'au Empire in the last campaign of the Third Sphere of Expansion.

At some point in the early 42nd Millennium, Farsight made a journey back to Arthas Moloch alone. He stays there for 30 days before returning to the Empire to summon a war council. And...that's all we've heard from the Enclaves in 8th Edition. Considering the dangers that the [[Death Guard]]'s assault on the Tau Empire represents, it's very possible that Farsight is preparing a relief force to deal with [[Nurgle]]'s armies. Also, the reaction of the Ethereals after being rescued by a renegade would be really interesting to see, maybe putting their credibility on the line, or just trying to cover everything up, angering many in the Tau army. Maybe this is the last straw for the Tau Empire to enter a full civil war between Farsight and the Ethereal Caste (at this point I would be fine with any [[Advancing the Storyline]]; something in the vein of Farsight doing a backflip and giving everybody cake)...

Come 9th Edition, the Enclaves became targeted by [[Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub]]'s "War of [[Dakka]]", where the Orks mass-adopted firepower in the hopes of blasting the Tau at their own game. Luckily, this came at a time where Farsight managed to get a new update to his Battlesuit, now dubbed the [[XV86 Supernova Battlesuit|Supernova]] by his friend who made it. Unluckily, this was also happening during at the same time as the [[Ark of Omen|Arks of Omen]] saga was going on, meaning that the war was interrupted by one emerging within the Enclaves while he was being guided back to Arthas Moloch by visions.

In the end Farsight managed to defeat Nazdreg’s army after luring them to that world by unleashing a shitload of Khornate daemons sealed away in Arthas Moloch (something which almost caused him to fall to chaos in the process but thankfully didn’t) and once the Orks were mostly dealt with he proceeded to smash the damn altar the daemons were coming out of which not only stopped them in their tracks but also caused life to return to the planet. Unfortunately he failed to stop the guys from the Ark who managed to locate an artifact they were looking for and escape with it.