Old now for a serving Fire Caste warrior, O'Vesu'r R'alai began his military career with the Tau exploration fleets, serving to protect them as they voyaged to unknown stars, but since the backlash of enemy incursions against the Tau Empire's Third Sphere Expansion, he has returned to lead the defence of his homeworld and its outlying colonies. R'alai is a veteran of more than two hundred engagements against the enemies of the Greater Good, and is famed as much for his lack of fear in the face of the foe as for the tactics that have earned him the title of "assassin" among his fellows. There are some, however, who whisper that this solemn warrior no longer fights for the Greater Good but in search of vengeance for those he has lost, and that there lurks in him the glimmer of madness and th