Ra'mon Sept

The Ra'mon Sept was a short-lived colony of the Tau Empire headed by the Sa'cea Sept that was founded during the 4th sphere expansion of 999.M41. Ra'mon was commanded jointly by the battle-hardened Shas'O Y'he'ray Ra'mon'xauk (Translated to Low Gothic as "Commander Tyranidwalker, Birther of Ra'mon") and the well-learned but elderly Aun'el Sa'cea Tash'm'yen, and was intended to be frontier settlement at the northern forefront of the Nem'yar Atoll.

Much like the rest of the ill-fated Fourth Sphere fleet, the Ra'mon Colony ship was subjugated to a nightmarish journey through the warp, and were forced to suffer indescribable anguish in their first encounters with the daemonic entities that ravaged and consumed three quarters of the fleet. During their transit through the warp, Aun'el Tash'm'yen was found dead in his personal quarters, his frail body seemingly unable to process the terror that gripped him. When they finally found themselves flung back into realspace through the Startide Nexus, the colonists were collectively traumatised by their experiences to varying degrees, with each Tau strangely altered in a way that led them to fearfully bind closer to one-another to the exclusion of all other races onboard, and even to others of different castes.

Once landing on the newly-christened planet Ra'mon, shaken to their core by both the death of their Ethereal and their journey through the Immaterium, the once tightly organised and disciplined Ra'mon Shiko'tio've (lit. Colonisation Contingent) fractured, splitting into numerous disparate groups which each sought to colonise the world in their own ways, - in practise, setting up disparate and poorly supplied camps - however a centralised command was successfully rallied together by O'y'he'ray and the T'olku-born Ethereal prelate and apprentice to the Aun'el, Aun'ui T'oi.

Ignored by the first wave of the Fifth Sphere Expansion, cut off from all aid from the greater Empire, and faced with incredibly poor odds, the Ra'mon Sept effectively devoured itself alive, and through in-fighting, starvation and disease, was withered down to mere dozens in only a few decades.