This tale of the Far Flung Hope series will take certain liberties with the Tau and Terminator licenses. I am going to base this story primarily off the videogames WarHammer 40K: Fire Warrior and Terminator: Dawn Of Fate because I like the games and I find that they are too little used. There will also be some crossover characters from the novelization of Fire Warrior and The Terminator Trilogy by S.M. Stirling. This little opening is intended to catch anyone up who haven't had the opportunity to delve into those storylines. So if you don't like what you see here because you're a fan of either genre then you probably shouldn't read any further because you'll end up very angry most likely. I know I would if I didn't like what I was reading here.
The Tau experience in this tale will be a primarily military one because that's the kind of game Fire Warrior was and the warrior culture of the Fire Warrior caste is what almost made me get into playing the figure RPG-bonanza that is WarHammer 40K. I will undoubtedly get one thing or another wrong because I don't have a Tau Codex but I will strive to minimize the apocalyptic fits of rage that may induce in some readers.
Terminator: Dawn Of Fate takes place in the original TimeLine where Sergeant Reese was sent back to stop Sarah Conner from being assassinated. SkyNet successfully booted a back-up of itself and is still waging war with the humans. What really set the humans back was the appearance of a fanatical band of cyborgs called Machine-Humans that are convinced that they and not SkyNet or TechCom are the future. Former TechCom officers lead them. That is why it would appear in Far Flung Hope: The Great War, which is the main body of the FFH series created by BombSquad, that TechCom's forces are nearly extinct. I will try to explain the varied arms that TechCom, SkyNet, and the Machine-Humans useas I go and eventually there will be my own little creations that are unique to the story.
I think that about sums it up. I hope whoever continues reading enjoys the story.