Editing Farsight (section)

==The Eight==
[[File:Farsight7.jpg|850px|thumb|center|The Eight. From left to right: Torchstar, Ob'lotai, Sha'Vastos, Farsight himself, O'Vesa, Bravestorm, Brightsword, Arra'kon]]
Farsight's band of battlesuit aces. Think [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Samurai ''Seven Samurai''], except with [[mecha]] and one more samurai. The Eight consist of:

#'''Sub-Commander Torchstar''', a Tau Empire deserter and the youngest member of the team, this [https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Pyro volatile pyromaniac female] Tau has flame tattoos on her body and pilots a XV8 Crisis suit. She even fights with dual flamers and a couple of marker drones. A blue-skinned [[Chandra]] in a mecha Hot enough for ya? (The amount of sexy fanart over her are astounding, like [[Meme|OVER 9000!!!!!]])
#'''Shas'vre Ob'lotai 9-0''', an AI-controlled XV88 Broadside battlesuit armed to the teeth with twin-linked smart missile systems, twin-linked, high-yield missile pods, two missile drones, and a seeker missile. Based on the brain of Farsight's long-dead superior Ob'lotai. Is killed twice, the first is when he [[bullshit|flies directly through a battle barge's void shields at over 200 kph, isn't picked up by Imperial sensors or shot down (either by the ship or its fighter craft), flies directly into the barrel of a battle-barge's cannon and then shoots the warhead inside to blow up the entire battle barge.]] This also ends up wiping out an entire Space Marine chapter. Funnily enough too the novel that this happens in establishes well before this point that all of this would be impossible, and that if anyone were to try doing exactly what he did they would have the same result as a fly hitting a windshield (and doing this also kills the electronics that don't get crushed, which would have destroyed him as well). The second time he gets destroyed was in the events of Mont'ka, but being an AI they just slapped his engram in a new XV88 body. Also gains the ability to wirelessly transmit himself from one battlesuit to another in Farsight: Crisis of Faith, presumably because Phil Kelly forgot that he needed his chip to be plugged into a suit to control them and that he couldn't survive without his chip (everyone knows the Tau never improve their technology, right?). Can also be considered a troll, screenshotting marines with no helmets taking a missile to the face. And then proceeding to send said picts to Farsight as memes.
#'''Commander Sha'vastos''', an old comrade of Farsight and one of the commanders who was forcefully equipped with a [[Commander Puretide|Puretide]] engram neurochip. It was a prototype, however, and rapidly began to degrade, damaging Sha'vastos' mind, so Farsight put him in stasis and smuggled him out of the Empire. Years later his scientists finally managed to remove it safely, and in gratitude Sha'vastos fights alongside his friend and leader in his XV8 Crisis battlesuit outfitted with a plasma rifle, a flamer, and two gun drones.
#'''Farsight''', leader of the Enclaves. Has very dark and cracked skin thanks to exposure to heat and flames, as well as a mechanical replacement leg. He piloted an XV8 Crisis battlesuit equipped with his trademark Dawn Blade, a high-intensity plasma rifle, and a shield generator mounted on one arm. Before finding the blade he used to mount a twin-linked fusion gun. Farsight's battlesuit in early editions was notably of an archaic design, as it was [https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000/5th_Edition_Tactics/Tau over a hundred years old], but constant upgrades and crafty Earth-Caste maintenance kept the suit on par with current sleeker battlesuit designs of the rest of the Tau Empire. Why the hell we couldn’t field him in a Coldstar suit is a mystery, because he was literally the first one ever to pilot such a suit, however it doesn’t matter anymore anyway. (In a teaser video released by GeeDubs on their Warhammer channel on YouTube on March 4, 2023, it showed Farsight getting a one of a kind brand new suit dubbed the [[XV86 Supernova Battlesuit]]!)
#'''Honor-Shas'vre O'Vesa''', less of a Fire Caste warrior and more of an old Earth Caste mad scientist kept alive by microdrones, given the honorary title of "Shas" to denote his position as a warrior. Pilots a massive [[Riptide]] with excellent targeting arrays, an [[ion cannon|ion accelerator]], a [[Twin-Linked|twin-linked]] [[fusion blaster]], and a pair of [[Tau drone|shielded missile drones]]. He also designed a new battlesuit for Farsight, so we can assume he's the insane mechanic of the group.
#'''Commander Bravestorm''', a very old Tau who has been burned and scarred á la [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] and cannot leave his iridium-plated (2+ Save) XV8-02 Crisis battlesuit after taking down dozens of Imperial tanks with an experimental weapon. This gets changed to "can leave his suit after all, but pretends he can't" in Farsight: Crisis of Faith. Incredibly brave (duh) and fights with the last remaining Tau power fist-equivalent, the [[Power_weapon#Onager Gauntlet|Onager Gauntlet]]. Too bad we don't actually know what it looks like and his official image doesn't depict it... Also uses a plasma rifle, a [[flamer]], and a pair of gun drones. (Re)Built to last, he also has a shield and stims injectors. His life support seems to have given him extended life, as he saves Farsight in Mont'Ka. At one point he's nearly killed by Space Marines as they tear his battlesuit apart, but he tricks them by not moving and pretending he's dead after they rip his suit open but before they attack him. It's just as retarded as it sounds, because marines won't stop beating a xenos even if it's a dead xenos. And you know hearing him breathe [[Gene Seed|(Lyman's Ear)]]... [[Fail|Because fuck logic]].
#'''Commander Brightsword''', supposedly a generational pilot who inherited the title from the previous Brightsword, but actually a clone of him. Possesses a scarred and pock-marked XV8 Crisis battlesuit that was also passed down, and fights with two fusion blades, which are melta swords that can also be twin-linked fusion blasters, and a shield drone.
#'''Commander Arra'kon''', a Tau born in the Enclaves who served as supreme military commander during Farsight's hermetic absence. An expert strategist, and damned good in a fight, especially against infantry. He pilots an XV8-05 Enforcer battlesuit armed with a plasma rifle, a cyclic ion blaster, an airbursting fragmentation projector, and two gun drones.
[[File:The_Eight.png|850px|thumb|center|The gang posing for action]]