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	The Tau then came in force, guns blazing, with a goal to take over the entire Damocles sector, conquering poorly garrisoned planets in the dozens while Imperial forces were scrambling to retreat and regroup. The first real battle happened on the hive-world of Agrellan, a major logistics node instrumental to taking control over the Gilded Worlds, which were a tightly packed group of mineral-rich planets in the center of the sector.		The Tau then came in force, guns blazing, with a goal to take over the entire Damocles sector, conquering poorly garrisoned planets in the dozens while Imperial forces were scrambling to retreat and regroup. The first real battle happened on the hive-world of Agrellan, a major logistics node instrumental to taking control over the Gilded Worlds, which were a tightly packed group of mineral-rich planets in the center of the sector.

	Despite an overwhelming victory for the Air caste in orbit, the stubborn Imperium still managed deploy reinforcements of White Scars, Imperial Knights of house Terryn and Catachan Jungle Fighters to aid local defenders. Initial phases of the planetary assault didn't go well for the defenders, as Shassera laid siege on the Prime hive-city in the blind zones of its artillery and forced the Imperials to sally out, only for them to fall into a textbook Kauyon trap. Following this Knighs and Catachans wisely decided to refrain from further counterattacks but not the Scars, who mounted a second sally-out with a goal to hunt down Shadowsun and cut off her head. Against an opponent infamous for her cunning bait-and-ambush tactics it went about as smoothly as you would expect. Marine strike force lost all of its aircraft (roughly 30% of manpower) and only managed to break encirclement and retreat back to the Hive due to <s>gue'la mind-science</s> a psychic storm summoned by Scar [[~~Librarian\|~~Stormseer]] and unexpected help from the Raven Guard who manged to outsneak and outambush Tau ambushers before they locked down the White Scar hunt completely. This set an overall tone for all White Scar engagements for the rest of crusade.		Despite an overwhelming victory for the Air caste in orbit, the stubborn Imperium still managed deploy reinforcements of White Scars, Imperial Knights of house Terryn and Catachan Jungle Fighters to aid local defenders. Initial phases of the planetary assault didn't go well for the defenders, as Shassera laid siege on the Prime hive-city in the blind zones of its artillery and forced the Imperials to sally out, only for them to fall into a textbook Kauyon trap. Following this Knighs and Catachans wisely decided to refrain from further counterattacks but not the Scars, who mounted a second sally-out with a goal to hunt down Shadowsun and cut off her head. Against an opponent infamous for her cunning bait-and-ambush tactics it went about as smoothly as you would expect. Marine strike force lost all of its aircraft (roughly 30% of manpower) and only managed to break encirclement and retreat back to the Hive due to <s>gue'la mind-science</s> a psychic storm summoned by Scar [[Stormseer]] and unexpected help from the Raven Guard who manged to outsneak and outambush Tau ambushers before they locked down the White Scar hunt completely. This set an overall tone for all White Scar engagements for the rest of crusade.

	At this point both forces received new orders from their high command - the Tau to take Agrellan quickly with a swift blow rather than a series of patient and cost-effective but time-consuming engagements, and the Imperials to evacuate the world and join combined sector forces gathered to stop Tau invasion. While the Tau are generally uncomfortable with sieges and city-fighting, preferring to lure their enemies to more favorable positions, there were simply no alternatives to taking down Agrellan if they wanted to conquer the Damocles Gulf in time, so Shadowsun [[Heresy\|took a page out of Farsight's book]] and planned and executed a [[Indrick Boreale\|MULTIPLE, SIMULTANEOUS, AND DEVASTATING DEFENSIVE DEEP STRIKES]] on Imperial defenses using all the cheese she could get, namely spamming the new Riptide suits humans weren't familiar with. Even though they were outnumbered six to one (before you call bullshit this is including [[Planetary Defense Force\|PDF]] that made the bulk of imperial forces), the Tau scored a decisive victory and took down <s>Agrellan</s> Hive Prime* in a single day. Thanks in no small part to Riptides serving as Distraction Carnifexes, Shadowsun's infiltration force killed Imperial Command HQ with ''perfectly'' placed shots, resulting in guardsmen running around like headless chickens; on top of that one of the new Tau experimental weapons ''accidentally blew up a fucking moon''. Even while [[White Scars]], [[Raven Guard]] and some Knights of House Terryn put some spot-on resistance, the rape train gained too much momentum and it had no brakes – the only thing the marines and knights manged to do was to pierce the encirclement to allow a few survivors to evacuate and barely secure LZs to let that evacuation happen, and it cost them. Agrellan was taken over by the Tau Empire and renamed to Mu'Gulath Bay - The Gate of New Hope - meant to become a new sept world and the base of operations for entire Third Sphere Army.		At this point both forces received new orders from their high command - the Tau to take Agrellan quickly with a swift blow rather than a series of patient and cost-effective but time-consuming engagements, and the Imperials to evacuate the world and join combined sector forces gathered to stop Tau invasion. While the Tau are generally uncomfortable with sieges and city-fighting, preferring to lure their enemies to more favorable positions, there were simply no alternatives to taking down Agrellan if they wanted to conquer the Damocles Gulf in time, so Shadowsun [[Heresy\|took a page out of Farsight's book]] and planned and executed a [[Indrick Boreale\|MULTIPLE, SIMULTANEOUS, AND DEVASTATING DEFENSIVE DEEP STRIKES]] on Imperial defenses using all the cheese she could get, namely spamming the new Riptide suits humans weren't familiar with. Even though they were outnumbered six to one (before you call bullshit this is including [[Planetary Defense Force\|PDF]] that made the bulk of imperial forces), the Tau scored a decisive victory and took down <s>Agrellan</s> Hive Prime* in a single day. Thanks in no small part to Riptides serving as Distraction Carnifexes, Shadowsun's infiltration force killed Imperial Command HQ with ''perfectly'' placed shots, resulting in guardsmen running around like headless chickens; on top of that one of the new Tau experimental weapons ''accidentally blew up a fucking moon''. Even while [[White Scars]], [[Raven Guard]] and some Knights of House Terryn put some spot-on resistance, the rape train gained too much momentum and it had no brakes – the only thing the marines and knights manged to do was to pierce the encirclement to allow a few survivors to evacuate and barely secure LZs to let that evacuation happen, and it cost them. Agrellan was taken over by the Tau Empire and renamed to Mu'Gulath Bay - The Gate of New Hope - meant to become a new sept world and the base of operations for entire Third Sphere Army.
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	In an uncharacteristic display of [[Farsight\|hot-headedness]] (likely [[Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior\|coaxed by daemonic whispers]] of the Agrellan wastes), Shadowsun lead a pursuit of the retreating imperials to a Voltoris - a knight world of house Terryn and the last piece of meaningful Imperial resistance in the sector. She intended to stomp them for good instead of evading them like she had done the entire campaign), but it was a trap; the pursuit force got decimated and [[Kor'sarro Khan]] wounds her though she managed to escape with her head still on her shoulders. Continuing the trend for Tau possessing Astartes grade plot armour this minor engagement was the only true defeat the Tau had through the whole campaign, though it caused Shadowsun to regain her cool and return to her regular cold-hearted calculative bitch behavior, mainly because Aun'Va decided to show up in person at this point.		In an uncharacteristic display of [[Farsight\|hot-headedness]] (likely [[Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior\|coaxed by daemonic whispers]] of the Agrellan wastes), Shadowsun lead a pursuit of the retreating imperials to a Voltoris - a knight world of house Terryn and the last piece of meaningful Imperial resistance in the sector. She intended to stomp them for good instead of evading them like she had done the entire campaign), but it was a trap; the pursuit force got decimated and [[Kor'sarro Khan]] wounds her though she managed to escape with her head still on her shoulders. Continuing the trend for Tau possessing Astartes grade plot armour this minor engagement was the only true defeat the Tau had through the whole campaign, though it caused Shadowsun to regain her cool and return to her regular cold-hearted calculative bitch behavior, mainly because Aun'Va decided to show up in person at this point.

	Following their advance towards the Gilded Worlds, the Tau attacked the fortress world of Perfectia, but their old friends, the Raven Guard, White Scars and the Knights of House Terryn were already there, with the Raven Guard bringing almost their entire chapter. The war turned into a a contest of cunning with Raven Guard captains and Fire Caste commanders trying to outsmart each other with limited success for both sides; while the Raven Guard was familiar with that kind of war, the White Scars ended up completely out of their field of expertise and in a hilarious chain of fake retreats and ambushes, Shasera out-tricked Kor'Sarro so hard Tzeentch himself took a moment to admire the amount of Just As Planned involved. The resulting clusterfuck ended with a massive battle where Shadowsun proved herself a superior trap mistress and even pulled an Alpharius gambit on the Raven Guard chapter master, blowing him to bits with her new Ghostkeel suit while giving her own XV-22 to a sitting duck volunteer. White Scars retaliated with <s>FOUL SORCERY</s> psychic storms conjured by their Stormseer conclave (turns out the librarian survived the melta shot from the previous book), but once again it was, while effective, not effective ''enough'' to do anything but buy more time. When the war turned into a meat grinder despite Shasera's best effort to end it quickly and decisively, the deployment of the new Stormsurge suits proved instrumental to fighting off imperial Knights, and when surviving Knights begun their retreat and evacuation, the rest of the Imperials broke and retreated too. While the marines continued to resist and Shrike even lead a successful counter-attack to retake Severax's gene-seed, the war was pretty much over. It wasn't as curb-stompy as the Mu'Gulath victory, but despite suffering heavy losses (like it was an [[Imperial_Armour\|IA]] book) the Tau conquered Perfectia and renamed it Vas'Talos ("Boundless Scope"; note "Talos" was a Greek giant treasure guardian, kinda like this sept guarding the advance on the Guilded worlds).		Following their advance towards the Gilded Worlds, the Tau attacked the fortress world of Perfectia, but their old friends, the Raven Guard, White Scars and the Knights of House Terryn were already there, with the Raven Guard bringing almost their entire chapter. The war turned into a a contest of cunning with Raven Guard captains and Fire Caste commanders trying to outsmart each other with limited success for both sides; while the Raven Guard was familiar with that kind of war, the White Scars ended up completely out of their field of expertise and in a hilarious chain of fake retreats and ambushes, Shasera out-tricked Kor'Sarro so hard Tzeentch himself took a moment to admire the amount of Just As Planned involved. The resulting clusterfuck ended with a massive battle where Shadowsun proved herself a superior trap mistress and even pulled an Alpharius gambit on the Raven Guard chapter master, blowing him to bits with her new Ghostkeel suit while giving her own XV-22 to a sitting duck volunteer. White Scars retaliated with <s>FOUL SORCERY</s> psychic storms conjured by their [[Stormseer]] conclave (turns out the librarian survived the melta shot from the previous book), but once again it was, while effective, not effective ''enough'' to do anything but buy more time. When the war turned into a meat grinder despite Shasera's best effort to end it quickly and decisively, the deployment of the new Stormsurge suits proved instrumental to fighting off imperial Knights, and when surviving Knights begun their retreat and evacuation, the rest of the Imperials broke and retreated too. While the marines continued to resist and Shrike even lead a successful counter-attack to retake Severax's gene-seed, the war was pretty much over. It wasn't as curb-stompy as the Mu'Gulath victory, but despite suffering heavy losses (like it was an [[Imperial_Armour\|IA]] book) the Tau conquered Perfectia and renamed it Vas'Talos ("Boundless Scope"; note "Talos" was a Greek giant treasure guardian, kinda like this sept guarding the advance on the Guilded worlds).

	While Tau propaganda hailed it as a brilliant victory, it took too much time and too many bodies, and the Imperium launched a counter-invasion on <s>Mu'Gulath</s> Agrellan, and this time - following their dogma of "throwing bodies at it until it's fixed" - arrived with a shit-ton of guardsmen and Leman Russes [[derp\|(but they kinda forget to send anything else)]], who are only good at "proper", frontal fights, being easy prey for the Kauyon tactics the Tau had been using the entire campaign. Imperium, [[Derp\|being Imperium]], merely orders them to [[Chenkov\|march forward nonetheless]], ''expect to be ambushed'' and hope for the best.		While Tau propaganda hailed it as a brilliant victory, it took too much time and too many bodies, and the Imperium launched a counter-invasion on <s>Mu'Gulath</s> Agrellan, and this time - following their dogma of "throwing bodies at it until it's fixed" - arrived with a shit-ton of guardsmen and Leman Russes [[derp\|(but they kinda forget to send anything else)]], who are only good at "proper", frontal fights, being easy prey for the Kauyon tactics the Tau had been using the entire campaign. Imperium, [[Derp\|being Imperium]], merely orders them to [[Chenkov\|march forward nonetheless]], ''expect to be ambushed'' and hope for the best.

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	At this point both forces received new orders from their high command - the Tau to take Agrellan quickly with a swift blow rather than a series of patient and cost-effective but time-consuming engagements, and the Imperials to evacuate the world and join combined sector forces gathered to stop Tau invasion. While the Tau are generally uncomfortable with sieges and city-fighting, preferring to lure their enemies to more favorable positions, there were simply no alternatives to taking down Agrellan if they wanted to conquer the Damocles Gulf in time, so Shadowsun [[Heresy\|took a page out of Farsight's book]] and planned and executed a [[Indrick Boreale\|MULTIPLE, SIMULTANEOUS, AND DEVASTATING DEFENSIVE DEEP STRIKES]] on Imperial defenses using all the cheese she could get, namely spamming the new Riptide suits humans weren't familiar with. Even though they were outnumbered six to one (before you call bullshit this is including [[Planetary Defense Force\|PDF]] that made the bulk of imperial forces), the Tau scored a decisive victory and took down <s>Agrellan</s> Hive Prime* in a single day. Thanks in no small part to Riptides serving as Distraction Carnifexes, Shadowsun's infiltration force killed Imperial Command HQ with ''perfectly'' placed shots, resulting in guardsmen running around like headless chickens; on top of that one of the new Tau experimental weapons ''accidentally blew up a fucking moon''. Even while [[White Scars]], [[Raven Guard]] and some Knights of House Terryn put some spot-on resistance, the rape train gained too much momentum and it had no brakes – the only thing the marines and knights manged to do was to pierce the encirclement to allow a few survivors to evacuate and barely secure LZs to let that evacuation happen, and it cost them. Agrellan was taken over by the Tau Empire and renamed to Mu'Gulath Bay - The Gate of New Hope - meant to become a new sept world and the base of operations for entire Third Sphere Army.		At this point both forces received new orders from their high command - the Tau to take Agrellan quickly with a swift blow rather than a series of patient and cost-effective but time-consuming engagements, and the Imperials to evacuate the world and join combined sector forces gathered to stop Tau invasion. While the Tau are generally uncomfortable with sieges and city-fighting, preferring to lure their enemies to more favorable positions, there were simply no alternatives to taking down Agrellan if they wanted to conquer the Damocles Gulf in time, so Shadowsun [[Heresy\|took a page out of Farsight's book]] and planned and executed a [[Indrick Boreale\|MULTIPLE, SIMULTANEOUS, AND DEVASTATING DEFENSIVE DEEP STRIKES]] on Imperial defenses using all the cheese she could get, namely spamming the new Riptide suits humans weren't familiar with. Even though they were outnumbered six to one (before you call bullshit this is including [[Planetary Defense Force\|PDF]] that made the bulk of imperial forces), the Tau scored a decisive victory and took down <s>Agrellan</s> Hive Prime* in a single day. Thanks in no small part to Riptides serving as Distraction Carnifexes, Shadowsun's infiltration force killed Imperial Command HQ with ''perfectly'' placed shots, resulting in guardsmen running around like headless chickens; on top of that one of the new Tau experimental weapons ''accidentally blew up a fucking moon''. Even while [[White Scars]], [[Raven Guard]] and some Knights of House Terryn put some spot-on resistance, the rape train gained too much momentum and it had no brakes – the only thing the marines and knights manged to do was to pierce the encirclement to allow a few survivors to evacuate and barely secure LZs to let that evacuation happen, and it cost them. Agrellan was taken over by the Tau Empire and renamed to Mu'Gulath Bay - The Gate of New Hope - meant to become a new sept world and the base of operations for entire Third Sphere Army.

	<small>*Later they realized that taking a whole fucking planet "in a single day" bit was really fucking stupid (and physically impossible) and retconned it; Agrellan was home to seven hive cities, and each one needed to be besieged individually. This took several weeks all told.</small>		<small>*Later they realized that taking a whole fucking planet "in a single day" bit was really fucking stupid (and physically impossible) and retconned it; Agrellan was home to seven hive cities, and each one needed to be besieged individually. This took several weeks all told. Despite each city likely having more people than the entire Tau species, all of whom were armed and coldblooded killers and foaming-at-the-mouth fanatics. Nice going Gee Dubbs.</small>

	In an uncharacteristic display of [[Farsight\|hot-headedness]] (likely [[Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior\|coaxed by daemonic whispers]] of the Agrellan wastes), Shadowsun lead a pursuit of the retreating imperials to a Voltoris - a knight world of house Terryn and the last piece of meaningful Imperial resistance in the sector. She intended to stomp them for good instead of evading them like she had done the entire campaign), but it was a trap; the pursuit force got decimated and [[Kor'sarro Khan]] wounds her though she managed to escape with her head still on her shoulders. Continuing the trend for Tau possessing Astartes grade plot armour this minor engagement was the only true defeat the Tau had through the whole campaign, though it caused Shadowsun to regain her cool and return to her regular cold-hearted calculative bitch behavior, mainly because Aun'Va decided to show up in person at this point.		In an uncharacteristic display of [[Farsight\|hot-headedness]] (likely [[Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior\|coaxed by daemonic whispers]] of the Agrellan wastes), Shadowsun lead a pursuit of the retreating imperials to a Voltoris - a knight world of house Terryn and the last piece of meaningful Imperial resistance in the sector. She intended to stomp them for good instead of evading them like she had done the entire campaign), but it was a trap; the pursuit force got decimated and [[Kor'sarro Khan]] wounds her though she managed to escape with her head still on her shoulders. Continuing the trend for Tau possessing Astartes grade plot armour this minor engagement was the only true defeat the Tau had through the whole campaign, though it caused Shadowsun to regain her cool and return to her regular cold-hearted calculative bitch behavior, mainly because Aun'Va decided to show up in person at this point.

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	In 6th edition the story was changed so that instead of encountering Imperials on Imperial worlds, the Tau came across free captains, pirates and lost human colonies that had regressed so far back they'd forgotten their origins and sometimes even their birth worlds. These initial contacts ranged from Rogue Trader to Tyranid levels of hostility, and somehow the Water caste was able to figure out that these were just remnants or willing outcastes of an incomprehensibly large galactic empire. The codex makes it clear that the Tau believed the Imperium would crush them like blueberries if they pissed them off, but despite this the Fire Caste wanted to pick a fight with them anyway instead of doing fucking anything else.		In 6th edition the story was changed so that instead of encountering Imperials on Imperial worlds, the Tau came across free captains, pirates and lost human colonies that had regressed so far back they'd forgotten their origins and sometimes even their birth worlds. These initial contacts ranged from Rogue Trader to Tyranid levels of hostility, and somehow the Water caste was able to figure out that these were just remnants or willing outcastes of an incomprehensibly large galactic empire. The codex makes it clear that the Tau believed the Imperium would crush them like blueberries if they pissed them off, but despite this the Fire Caste wanted to pick a fight with them anyway instead of doing fucking anything else.

	Thankfully Aun'Va [[Phil Kelly\|(before he was retconned into being evil incarnate)]] was in charge and decided to try a different approach: integrate Water caste members into human worlds who were still fully loyal to the Imperium, insinuate them into the courts of Planetary Governors and slowly break them off from the Imperium's control. Through bad writing the Tau are not terminated on sight (remember, these are worlds completely loyal to the Imperium, not the dissident worlds that were previously in the story) and their plan was successful, managing to get several Imperial worlds to even choose the Tau over each other as trading partners (ignoring the logistics of why this wasn't a thing before). Soon Tau technology flowed through the human markets yet somehow nobody on this formerly loyal planet noticed anything strange going on. Eventually the Water caste convinced the Planetary Governors to side with them over the Imperium and they announced their independence, finally drawing the Imperium's attention.		Thankfully Aun'Va [[Phil Kelly\|(before he was retconned into being evil incarnate)]] was in charge and decided to try a different approach: integrate Water caste members into human worlds who were still fully loyal to the Imperium, insinuate them into the courts of Planetary Governors and slowly break them off from the Imperium's control. Through bad writing the Tau are not terminated on sight (remember, these are worlds completely loyal to the Imperium, not the dissident worlds that were previously in the story, of course even dissidents would hate aliens, even the freaking Chaos humans hate aliens) and their plan was successful, managing to get several Imperial worlds to even choose the Tau over each other as trading partners (ignoring the logistics of why this wasn't a thing before). Soon Tau technology flowed through the human markets yet somehow nobody on this formerly loyal planet noticed anything strange going on. Eventually the Water caste convinced the Planetary Governors to side with them over the Imperium and they announced their independence, finally drawing the Imperium's attention.

	All of the Imperium's earlier battles (including the battle of Pra'yen) become a footnote while the Inquisition is more brutal on the worlds that chose to rebel, with the battle of Dal'yth also being sizably cut down. An odd note that appears in this rendition is that the Tau are mentioned as possibly being able to encircle or blockade the Imperials evacuating the planet, only choosing not to thanks to the Ethereals who presumably realized that doing so would be literally impossible, seeing as how the Tau had no air support or navy, and encircling them with land forces at a starport would do nothing.		All of the Imperium's earlier battles (including the battle of Pra'yen) become a footnote while the Inquisition is more brutal on the worlds that chose to rebel, with the battle of Dal'yth also being sizably cut down. An odd note that appears in this rendition is that the Tau are mentioned as possibly being able to encircle or blockade the Imperials evacuating the planet, only choosing not to thanks to the Ethereals who presumably realized that doing so would be literally impossible, seeing as how the Tau had no air support or navy, and encircling them with land forces at a starport would do nothing.

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	About a quarter of the Ciaphas Cain stories are set around the Damocles Crusade. The events of the first Cain story (''For the Emperor!'') occur slightly before the Crusade, on the planet Gravalax. The newly formed 597th is sent in, at the request of [[Amberley Vail\|Inquisitor Vail]] to deal with the planet's wavering loyalty and the possibility of secession to the Tau. While the planet itself is economically irrelevant, it is strategically central to warp routes in the sector and its loss would make the loss of many other worlds inevitable. Cain ultimately discovered that the planetary governor has been infested by the Genestealers, and that their goal is to draw both the Tau and Guard into a costly war (foreshadowing the arrival of a hive fleet).		About a quarter of the Ciaphas Cain stories are set around the Damocles Crusade. The events of the first Cain story (''For the Emperor!'') occur slightly before the Crusade, on the planet Gravalax. The newly formed 597th is sent in along with several other units (including Cain's old 12th Valahallan Artillery), at the request of [[Amberley Vail\|Inquisitor Vail]] to deal with the planet's wavering loyalty and the possibility of secession to the Tau. While the planet itself is economically irrelevant, it is strategically central to warp routes in the sector and its loss would make the loss of many other worlds inevitable. Cain ultimately discovered that the planetary governor has been infested by the Genestealers, and that their goal is to draw both the Tau and Guard into a costly war (foreshadowing the arrival of a hive fleet).

	The later story ''The Greater Good'' is set at the very end of the Crusade (991.M41), when the Imperial Guard is locked in a street by street struggle to hold their last ground on Quadravidia, only for the Tau to suddenly offer a cease fire in order to focus on Hive Fleet Kraken.		The later story ''The Greater Good'' is set at the very end of the Crusade (991.M41), when the Imperial Guard is locked in a street by street struggle to hold their last ground on Quadravidia, only for the Tau to suddenly offer a cease fire in order to focus on Hive Fleet Kraken.

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	==The Ciaphas Cain Directors Cut==		==The Ciaphas Cain Directors Cut==

	About a quarter of the Ciaphas Cain stories are set around the Damocles Crusade. The events of the first Cain story (''For the Emperor!'') occur slightly before the Crusade, on the planet Gravalax. The newly formed 597th is sent in, at the request of [[Amberley Vail\|Inquisitor Vail]] to deal with the planet's wavering loyalty and the possibility of secession to the Tau. While the planet itself is economically irrelevant, it is strategically central to warp routes in the sector and its loss would make the loss of many other worlds inevitable. Cain ultimately ~~discover~~ that the planetary governor has been infested by the Genestealers, and that their goal is to draw both the Tau and Guard into a costly war (foreshadowing the arrival of a hive fleet).		About a quarter of the Ciaphas Cain stories are set around the Damocles Crusade. The events of the first Cain story (''For the Emperor!'') occur slightly before the Crusade, on the planet Gravalax. The newly formed 597th is sent in, at the request of [[Amberley Vail\|Inquisitor Vail]] to deal with the planet's wavering loyalty and the possibility of secession to the Tau. While the planet itself is economically irrelevant, it is strategically central to warp routes in the sector and its loss would make the loss of many other worlds inevitable. Cain ultimately discovered that the planetary governor has been infested by the Genestealers, and that their goal is to draw both the Tau and Guard into a costly war (foreshadowing the arrival of a hive fleet).

	The later story ''The Greater Good'' is set at the very end of the Crusade (991.M41), when the Imperial Guard is locked in a street by street struggle to hold their last ground on Quadravidia, only for the Tau to suddenly offer a cease fire in order to focus on Hive Fleet Kraken.		The later story ''The Greater Good'' is set at the very end of the Crusade (991.M41), when the Imperial Guard is locked in a street by street struggle to hold their last ground on Quadravidia, only for the Tau to suddenly offer a cease fire in order to focus on Hive Fleet Kraken.

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	It should also be noted that at this point the Tyranid hive fleet entering Tau space is entirely forgotten about, presumably because the cliffhanger the last story left on was too interesting to continue. This also marked the beginning of the Tyranids attacking the Tau while the Tau are in a bad spot, only to be retconned out the next time this same story comes up (so far it's happened at least three separate times in three different stories).		It should also be noted that at this point the Tyranid hive fleet entering Tau space is entirely forgotten about, presumably because the cliffhanger the last story left on was too interesting to continue. This also marked the beginning of the Tyranids attacking the Tau while the Tau are in a bad spot, only to be retconned out the next time this same story comes up (so far it's happened at least three separate times in three different stories).

			==The Ciaphas Cain Directors Cut==

			About a quarter of the Ciaphas Cain stories are set around the Damocles Crusade. The events of the first Cain story (''For the Emperor!'') occur slightly before the Crusade, on the planet Gravalax. The newly formed 597th is sent in, at the request of [[Amberley Vail\|Inquisitor Vail]] to deal with the planet's wavering loyalty and the possibility of secession to the Tau. While the planet itself is economically irrelevant, it is strategically central to warp routes in the sector and its loss would make the loss of many other worlds inevitable. Cain ultimately discover that the planetary governor has been infested by the Genestealers, and that their goal is to draw both the Tau and Guard into a costly war (foreshadowing the arrival of a hive fleet).

			The later story ''The Greater Good'' is set at the very end of the Crusade (991.M41), when the Imperial Guard is locked in a street by street struggle to hold their last ground on Quadravidia, only for the Tau to suddenly offer a cease fire in order to focus on Hive Fleet Kraken.

	==The Name==		==The Name==

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			{{topquote\|I'll say this about the Tau, they know how to put on a good war.\|Ciaphas Cain}}

	The '''Damocles Crusade''' (also known as the Damocles ''Gulf'' Crusade) was a major campaign against the [[Tau Empire]] by the [[Imperium of Man]]. Since it was first added to the lore it's gone through several additions, expansions and most importantly ''massive fucking retcons''. The basic gist through it all though is that the Tau get ambitious and start annexing Imperial worlds, provoking the anticipated kick-the-door-in Imperial counterattack that runs straight into a wall of railguns and turns the whole sector into Space Stalingrad. Then the Tyranids appear and force everyone to realpolitik or be eaten. Cue [[Ciaphas Cain]] running away.		The '''Damocles Crusade''' (also known as the Damocles ''Gulf'' Crusade) was a major campaign against the [[Tau Empire]] by the [[Imperium of Man]]. Since it was first added to the lore it's gone through several additions, expansions and most importantly ''massive fucking retcons''. The basic gist through it all though is that the Tau get ambitious and start annexing Imperial worlds, provoking the anticipated kick-the-door-in Imperial counterattack that runs straight into a wall of railguns and turns the whole sector into Space Stalingrad. Then the Tyranids appear and force everyone to realpolitik or be eaten. Cue [[Ciaphas Cain]] running away.