Damocles Gulf



The Damocles Gulf is a territory that contains a series of worlds in the Tau Empire's sector of space in Segmentum Ultima. The Damocles Crusade was fought between the Tau Empire and the Imperium of Man there, and was the first time the two forces had met militarily. Previously the Tau had been unaware of the true size of the human Imperium. Despite the Ethereals' instructions that the Gulf was to be off-limits to the Tau, the Tau Fire Caste's Commander Farsight established colonies there, known as the Farsight Enclaves, which have severed contact with the Tau Empire.