One made his way into the camp of the plains T'au, exuding a quiet authority that no T'au was able to resist. As the tide of the siege turned, two mysterious T'au appeared. However, disease and starvation began to take their toll. Though negotiation had been attempted, the fierce plains warriors would settle for nothing less than the annihilation of the city of Fio'taun.Ī detailed galactic map of the T'au Empire at the time of the Third Sphere Expansion prepared by the Air Casteįor five long T'au years the inhabitants held off the savage assaults with their thick walls and plentiful cannons. The fortress city of Fio'taun was under assault by the T'au warriors from the plains. During this time, the T'au's legends tell of the first appearance of the Ethereals at the city of Fio'taun. Since then, the T'au have developed very rapidly to a space-faring species.Ī more detailed astrographical map of the T'au Empire following the end of the Third Sphere ExpansionĮarlier in their history, the T'au were a culture built upon warring tribes. What is known is that only 6,000 standard years ago, in the 35th Millennium, an Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet discovered the T'au homeworld of T'au and determined that its population of sentient xenos were a primitive people at the Stone Age level of development, having only just mastered fire. However the way in which the T'au were united as a species is a well-known tale. The exact date of the founding of the T'au Empire in the Imperial Calendar is unclear. An astrographical representation of the T'au Empire

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