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→The Great Star Dais: Added more context of Farsight's transformation being a hallucination instead of an actual change toward his battlesuit, to avoid the misconception
Soon enough Ork and Chaos forces began to reach the Great Star Dais itself. Farsight pulled back his remaining forces while he and the remainder of The Eight (now reduced to five) made their stand on the Dais itself. Resisting the urge to surge forward and spill the blood of his enemies, Farsight instead stuck to his plan. This odd bloodlust was spreading throughout the Tau ranks, causing some normally disciplined warriors to venture out of their defences to meet the oncoming foes. Farsight recognized some external force was influencing the Tau, but knew he must complete his mission before they all fell to madness. Only when the first wave of [[Berzerker]]s reached the Dais did Farsight and his remaining officers open fire. Orks soon entered the kill-box, and it was then that Farsight enacted his plan. He used the blood of the fallen enemies to influence the ancient structure, and soon enough [[Daemon]]s began to manifest across the battlefield.{{Fn|6c}}
What followed was absolute bedlam as Orks, mortal followers of Chaos, Daemons, and Tau murdered one another. Using the anarchy as a distraction, Farsight ordered his remaining forces attempt to slip away. Tau warships were in orbit over Arthas Moloch's northern hemisphere, blasting a path through enemy vessels for extraction. However madness began to sweep through the Tau lines, and Farsight's perceived his battlesuit itself was as having been transformed into a war engine to rival a Titan. His Dawn Blade had been seemed to be replaced with an axe and skulls appeared to manifest across his armor. Farsight began to view his planned retreat of cowardice, and he soon lost himself in rage as he hacked apart enemies. However it was the thought that he should fight alone for himself and let his own troops too weak to survive fall that caused Farsight to recoile in horror, and a degree of sanity returned to him. As Farsight regained his senses and returned to his uncorrupted formthe hallucinatory visions faded, his battlesuit AI informed him that their window of retreat had now shrunk to mere minutes.{{Fn|6c}}
Jetting back to the Star Dais, Farsight gathered his remaining Eight to him and ordered that they were to fight no more this day. They would resist the urge to spill blood and instead shephered their surviving troops out of the battlezone. Extraction was all that mattered now, retreat was survival. Content to let the enemy destroy one another, the Tau withdrew north to the extraction zone.{{Fn|6c}}
