Editing Gue'vesa (section)

==How This Happened==
The Tau had finally gone and pissed the [[Imperium of Man]] off but good, as they had established a series of trade agreements with Imperial Worlds on the frontier, near the Damocles Gulf - and had begun trading goods and technology with the humans of the frontier. Naturally, since the Imperium immediately refers to any contact with Xenos that doesn't involve killing them with fire as [[Heresy]], the Administratum flew into a rage that would make an [[Angry Marines|Angry Marine]] titter with schoolgirlish glee were they capable of such. After [[Warp|fucking around for a while]] they eventually got a huge ass fleet (which, while composed of more than a dozen regiments, elements of SM chapters, and fucking TITANS, is still described as a small imperial force) into the sector about a century later and began blowing the fuck out of everything and pushing deep into Tau Empire territory.

The Imperial rapetrain ground to an abrupt halt when they came across the Dal'yth sept, which basically decided to do a bang-up impression of the [[Imperial Guard]] and hold the fucking line. Simultaneously amazed and horrified by the prospect any race, let alone a bunch of blue-skinned unguligrade alien space communists, could have the [[Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken|mighty balls]] to stand up to the Imperium in a stand-up drag-down fight, the Imperium was momentarily given pause - before it resumed doing its usual thing and blowing the fuck out of its enemies. Turns out the Tau had been deliberately giving ground to the Imperial crusaders, evacuating what they could and [[Grimdark|sacrificing several worlds]] to buy the Empire enough time to recall their forces elsewhere to make a stand.

Unfortunately, this is also the first of a retarded trend regarding fighting the Tau: when a faction is winning against them, it suddenly becomes retarded and does things designed for the Tau to win. In this particular case the Imperium had simply been killing the Tau off from orbit at every world instead of invading. Then chose to invade a planet for no reason at all and became bogged down for the rest of the Crusade in land stalemates. Instead of just shooting the enemy from orbit some more like had been working. Keep in mind that the Tau did not and do not have the city and theatre shields used by everyone else that results in the ground wars Warhammer 40,000 is famous for. Not even surface-to-space defenses worth a damn. They were just relatively undefended targets compared to the Crusade.

Sadly for the Imperium of Man, the Tau did not relent, and showed a balls-out stubbornness that would make any [[Commissar]] shed manly tears of pride and [[Rage|RAGE]]. Or at least it ''would'' be impressive if it wasn't caused by mind-controlling pheromones and brain implants (the latter of which was discovered by Farsight himself). Even still, with the Imperials having a mighty hard time gaining ground on the Tau - the space communists had superior firepower and were fighting defensively in their home territory, which was a fight that was not very much to the Imperials' advantage, and what originally was expected to be a fairly short affair wound up embroiling the entire sector in a lengthy, drawn-out conflict. The Imperium was winning, slowly but surely, but at the rate they were progressing, it would be an eternity and a day before they could claim to have won the war - and likely trillions more lives (in other words, a dirt cheap Imperial victory). Moreover, though the Imperium had a gigantic manpower advantage (one that got bigger as the war dragged on), the war basically stalemated (Imperial Commanders blame [[Fish of Fury]] for this), with gigantic losses on both sides wearing down both the Imperials and Tau. Of course, the Imperium ''could'' have done what they did to the other worlds they kicked the Tau off of: let the Imperial Navy blast them to pieces and then send in tanks and Titans to mop up. But then the Imperium would've won (quickly and easily at that) and GW couldn't sell Tau models and the models of other minor species.

After it became painfully apparent that both sides were getting absolutely nowhere this way, the Imperium eventually relented and entered into meetings with the Tau Empire for cease-fire talks. Whilst neither side trusted the other one bit (this is the universe of [[grimdark]] after all), the meetings were basically successful, in no small part due to the then-new threat of [[Tyranid|Hive Fleet Behemoth]] moving in to [[Anal Circumference|rape]] [[Ultramar]]. This forced the Imperium to stop [[troll]]ing the Tau diplomats and agree to the fucking cease-fire in order to rush to Macragge before the Hive Fleet could get there. This represented the end of the Damocles Crusade, and the beginning of a drawn out cold war between the Tau and the Imperium, where fighting is restricted to small skirmishes and brush fire conflicts that both sides try to avoid escalating (the Imperium because they have [[Tyranid|more]] [[Ork|important]] [[Chaos|shit]] to worry about, the Tau because they do not want to get bumped to the top of the Imperium's threat list in the Ultima Segmentum and get hit with another crusade).

This sudden redeployment left a shitload of Imperial personnel stranded, especially those that had been captured by the Tau, and a lot of humans remained in formerly Imperial territory that was now well within Tau space. Most of these humans were offered an agreement by the Tau to join the Tau Empire, and a great many did so, as the choice was between [[grimdark|the POW camp]] or becoming Tau Empire Citizens. Like deciding between [[Dark Heresy|fine wine]] and [[FATAL|a toilet full of spoiled meat]], this was not exactly [[Derp|a difficult fucking choice]].

Those humans who have joined the Tau empire have been provided with the [[/tg/ gets shit done|technology]] required to prevail on the Tau frontier. They have access to their own production capabilities, allowing them to construct equipment ranging from farming and mining tools to [[Lasgun|Flashlights]]. Gue'vesa actively working for the Tau are also capable of using Pulse weapons, whilst Gue'vesa assigned to planetary defense duty generally lack these - but have access to your usual stock of [[Leman Russ Battle Tank|fuck-your-shit-up]] [[Manticore Rocket Launcher|ordnance]].

Since some of these armies are self-contained the Tau have developed terms to define the ranks of the humans, for Gue'vesa soldiers is "Gue'vesa'la," and the Tau term for their Sergeants is "Gue'vesa'ui." Similarly, high-ranking ones are "Gue'vesa'vre" and Commanders are "Gue'vesa'el." High-level Gue'vesa commanders (ones comparable to a planetary governor) are called "Gue'vesa'o".