Editing Spheres of Expansion (section)

=== Fifth Sphere - Deep Space N'Ine===
This is the current Sphere of Influence attempting to gain a foothold in M42. It took months of cajoling by the Fire Caste to attempt to cross the Nexus, but after a second probe was sent, this time with actual information from a major commander, the Ethereals gave their blessing to allow an expeditionary fleet to cross into the Nexus, and when they did, they found that they had ended up in the Chalnanth expanse, a part of the [[Ghoul Stars]] ''far'' away from the Empire. Naturally, they enquired to the survivors as to what had happened, and the best answer they got was that they got sucked into the [[Warp]], and many of the Non-Tau auxiliaries perished in the process, if they were lucky. Of course, that didn't mean the Tau who made it to the other side of the rift hadn't been affected either; they seemed cold and distant, scarred by their sudden escape from the Immaterium, and ''very'' defensive around the Auxiliaries that the 5th Sphere brought with them, and basically had to be held away from any of them.

Of course, that didn't mean the Fifth Sphere had to stop. They had all those Fire Warriors and Battlesuits and goddamnit they were gonna have to use them if they wanted to make it in this absolutely terrifying new expanse of space. Using the chaos created by the Great Rift, they were able to once again convince dozens of worlds to join up with the empire, but soon had to basically haul almost the entire surviving part of the Fourth Sphere Expansion back to T'au for brainwashing, shaming, and reconditioning, as they were going around doing un-Taulike things like killing prisoners or taking pleasure in shooting non-Tau. The Etherials, naturally, recognized that while this Nexus was a massive boon, it would pretty easily be a curse if left carelessly undefended, as it empties out right in the Empire's backyard, and have taken great steps to fortify the new Septs that came about from this expansion, as well as the Nexus' end point with just as much orbital dakka as the beginning point, hopefully ready for what comes next.

And then the [[Death Guard]] showed up.

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