Tau brush off ork raids

Despite forging ahead with their campaign in the Perseus Deeps, the Tau still had a number of enemies to face apart from the Imperium and Chaos. For now, the tyranids and necrons had failed to represent a significant threat in the systems the Tau had been fighting over, but the orks, with their haphazard and somewhat random approach to space travel still posed an ever present danger to the Tau Hadron Expansion Sphere.

The Tau had made sure they had adequate forces garrisoning every world they now controlled, and they maintained a rapid reaction force to deal with any unexpected incursions. One such raid by the orks occurred in early 06.042 as a number of kill kroozers and ork escorts appeared in the Echo Reach system. The garrison called for aid, and the Tau reacted swiftly, driving off the ork space vessels and quickly eradicating the greenskins who had landed on the outer world before too much damage was done. It was a reminder to the Tau however, that while they were consolidating their hold over the Hadron Expanse, they would never be in any way "safe".