Em'shi Sept

The Em'shi Sept was an early Third Expansion-era frontier colony settled in late 977.M41, located on the terminus of Tau Space on the Eastern Fringe, that was scouted for its great mineral wealth. While several worlds were involved in the colonisation project, it was championed by Kar'das Sept in an ambitious attempt to position itself as a premier Second Sphere Sept with a legacy comparable to that of the First Sphere worlds.

To boost population growth after the first years of settlement proved to be slower than anticipated, Kar'das drew heavily from its pool of disenfranchised and impoverished Tau inhabitants to be re-settled on Em'shi soil, and later resident humans, justifying the costly process with heavy rhetoric focused on providing the unseemly elements of Kar'das society with new prospects to fulfil their duties for the Greater Good, while also sending the troublesome elements away from the homeworld. This process however led the world to become a de facto penal colony, which drove away free settlers.

In time, Kar'das accepted the facts and re-classified its ambitions for the planet to become a penal colony, mining world, and military training outpost, with the world becoming infamous for its Huma-Tau cultural mingling, loose regard of the caste system, and frequent rebellions.