Vior'la is a world of restless magma seas and jagged volcanic ranges, and something of that landscape's violence has bled into the temperament of its people. Where other septs prize measured strategy, Vior'la's warriors are famed throughout the empire for a boldness that occasionally strays into recklessness, a trait that has made the sept both a wellspring of daring military innovation and a source of quiet concern among the more cautious Earth caste administrators.
It was from this sept's aggressive martial culture that the empire's most storied and most controversial commander emerged, and Vior'la's battlesuit pilots continue to favor close, decisive engagements over the patient attritional warfare taught elsewhere. Ethereal guidance is followed here as everywhere, but Vior'la's forces have a well-earned reputation for interpreting the spirit of an order rather more liberally than its letter.
Order of battle
The Vior'la Sept field the units of the T'au Empire, a detachment from the roster:
Other T'au Empire formations
Bork'an SeptBork'an is the foremost seat of learning in the T'au Empire, its systems crowded with universities, laboratories and the deep-void observatories of the Earth Caste. From this scholarly sept came breakthroughs such as the stasis field and the first piloted battlesuit, and its Fire Warriors march to war bearing the finest experimental armaments the Empire can produce. Its cadres fight with cold, measured patience, trusting that a lesson learned in the laboratory will be repaid a hundredfold upon the battlefield.
Dal'yth SeptDal'yth is the beating heart of T'au commerce, a First Sphere world whose culture is dominated by the silver-tongued merchants and diplomats of the Water Caste. More cosmopolitan than any other sept, its worlds teem with aliens of a hundred species who trade, treat and dwell alongside the T'au. It was Dal'yth's envoys who bound the Demiurg to the Greater Good, and its markets are counted among the Nineteen Wonders of the Empire.
Farsight EnclavesThe Farsight Enclaves are a cluster of fortress-worlds beyond the Damocles Gulf, ruled by the renegade Fire Caste hero the Imperium names Commander Farsight. Severed from the wider Empire and forbidding all Ethereals within their borders, the Enclaves keep to the old warrior traditions and trust the blade and the battlesuit above the words of any spiritual master. To the T'au they are the Forbidden Zone, a heresy that endures; to their own people they are a free realm guarded by the finest commanders alive.
Sa'cea SeptA sprawling and populous sept whose vast manufactories and shipyards keep the empire's war machine supplied.
T'au SeptThe homeworld sept and spiritual capital of the empire, birthplace of the Ethereal caste's founding vision.
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