Ty'tan Program





Overview
The Ty'ran Program was a Tau military program designed to delve into the research and development of supersoldiers to augment the Fire Caste.

Goals
The ultimate object of the Ty'ran Program was the creation of a new breed of soldiers unlike anything the Empire has ever seen. To spearhead Tau expansion and military conquest the Program was founded to create supersoldiers.

Sub-Divisions
The Program divided itself into three different division of research and development. Each one would attempt their own avenue of research to create their own soldiers.

Project Steel Caste
The most troublesome of all the sub-divisions but in the end it also proved to be the most successful sub division of the Program. Using a lengthy process of surgical, chemical, psychological augmentation, and powered exoskelatal armor they were able to create a functional Hunter Cadre of supersoldiers.

a|Project Thorn
Project Thorn attempted the least costly and risky avenue to achieve it's aim. Ironically it would be the first to fail and be destroyed. Project Thorn attempted to create Tor'Kar operatives to act as part of black operations under direct orders of the Ethereals.

They attempted to use superior breeding, life long training, and less invasive chemical enhanceements to succeed. Chemical enhanced were used to increase oxygen and blood flow rather than totally remodel the subject's physiology like Steel Caste had done.

However the least likely thing happened as the Tor'Kar rebelled, their enhancements somehow blunting the power of the Ethereals. After a fierce battle the Tor'Kar were defeated and scattered. Many were killed in the rebellion, some became mercenaries, others remained within the Empire to sow vengeance as they saw fit. Scant reports also suggest that a score of Tor'Kar fled to the Farsight Enclaves, to what end is unknown.