Before long, an immense fleet unlike any before it had assembled within the T'au Empire's borders. Several Guardian-class carriers, each the size of a small city, formed its core. Their enormous hangars held tens of thousands of Battlesuits and millions of Fire Warriors. Around them stood large numbers of faster, more heavily armed Protector-class cruisers. At the fleet's fringes were bizarrely shaped Kroot warships, their hulls seemingly cobbled together from the bones of colossal beasts and asteroids, radiating a primitive, untamed air.
This fleet of vengeance surged into the sea of stars, heading straight for the Dalis System.
A decisive battle that would determine the fate of two civilizations in the Damocles Gulf was about to unfold in the void of the Dalis System.
In the void of the Dalis System.
Farsight stood on the bridge of his red flagship, the Russ, calmly surveying the suffocatingly vast Imperial Fleet approaching in the distance.
He had not chosen a passive defense. Upon arriving in the system, he had immediately used the T'au Empire's advanced detection technology to lay an encirclement trap along the Imperial Fleet's inevitable route. Like a beast with its jaws spread wide, his fleet lurked silently in the shadows of stardust and asteroid belts, waiting for its prey.
"Commander, the enemy fleet has entered the maximum range of our Supergravity Railguns," Shadowsun said beside him.
A glint of confidence flashed in Farsight's eyes.
The Supergravity Railgun was the latest masterpiece of the Air Caste's scientists. Mounted on the new Protector-class cruisers, it could launch a heavy-metal projectile accelerated by a specialized force field at nearly the speed of light. Its range far exceeded that of any known Imperial Navy weapon. Although its power fell somewhat short of a Lance, its advantage lay in striking beyond visual range.
Farsight's