The alien tau believe it is their manifest destiny to rule the stars. Their emergent empire has expanded rapidly along the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy, and their creed is one of unity and the Greater Good. As adversaries they are formidable, for their fire caste are born to be warriors and their technology is highly advanced. A military war machine like no other, the tau are determined to secure their place amongst the stars and will battle fiercely any who stand in their way...
Author of the Path of the Dark Eldar series and the related novella The Masque of Vyle, along with the Necromunda novel Survival Instinct and a host of short stories, Andy Chambers has more than twenty years experience creating worlds dominated by war machines, spaceships and dangerous aliens. He lives and works in Nottingham. Joe Parrino is the author of a range of Warhammer 40,000 stories, including the novella Shield of Baal: Devourer, the audio dramas Alone, Damocles: The Shape of the Hunt and Assassinorum: The Emperor's Judgement, and the short stories 'Witness', 'The Patient Hunter', 'Nightspear', 'In Service to Shadows' and 'No Worse Sin'. He lives, writes and works in the American Pacific Northwest. Andy Smillie is best known for his visceral Flesh Tearers novellas, Sons of Wrath and Flesh of Cretacia, and the novel Trial by Blood. He has also written a host of short stories starring this brutal Chapter of Space Marines and a number of audio dramas including and The Kauyon, Blood in the Machine, Deathwolf, From the Blood, Hunger and The Assassination of Gabriel Seth.
