Editing Hive Fleet Gorgon (section)

== The Necrons and the Imperium join the fray ==

After Gorgon's retreat from Sha'draig, the Hive Fleet started looking for other planets to eat, to replenish the losses suffered on Sha'draig. One of the more interesting scenarios was the Ka'mais system. A rather undefended planet, the local forces were no match for the relatively small fleet coming for them. When all hope seemed lost, a dormant necron tomb awakened on the dead moon of the planet, managing to fight off the tyranids in space. This became the Tau's first contact with the necrons. And the local ethereal made the totally sound decision of declaring a party in their honor, this would have been perfectly fine had it been eldar, but this ended with the predictable outcome of all of the bluies killed and flayed alive...because necrons.The few survivors of the planet (plus the ones from nearby worlds too, having heard of the utter slaughter the necrons had unleashed there) were evacuated and fled, [[Fail|only for Hive Fleet Gorgon to eat them once in space]]. Welcome to the galaxy, meat.

The war was not going well for the Tau in other fronts either. They had lost quite a lot of ships due to the new and improved bio-ships, now immune to Tau weaponry, and a couple of small worlds had fallen to the Hive Fleet already. Suddenly, and without warning, a huge fleet from the Imperium of Man emerged from the Warp. The fleet was originally meant to fight in the Damocles Crusade, but it had become stuck in the Warp for more than a century. Not knowing the Crusade was lost (read: wandered off to go kill daemons), they immediately attacked the nearest planet. Trying to make sense of the situation, the Tau authorities tried to bring them up to speed with the latest events. At first, the fleet admiral didn't believe the obvious lies of those filthy xenos, but then they found Hive Fleet Gorgon, and decided it was a bigger risk than the bluies. Displaying an uncharacteristically adept level of teamwork, Imperial and Tau forces were able to fight Hive Fleet Gorgon to a standstill, cutting deep into their forces and severely hurt most of the bio-ships. Considerably wounded, Hive Fleet Gorgon tried to run away from this sudden opposition, but it was chased down by the combined forces, unable to adapt quickly enough to handle two combat docrines as different as the Tau and the Imperial Guard at the same time.