The oxide deserts of Arkunasha are red with spilt blood. The orks of Waaagh! Dok have invaded en masse, and the besieged tau settlers are on the edge of extinction. When the famous general O'Shoh arrives to shatter the greenskins at the head of a high-tech army of battlesuits, the tau expect an easy victory, but the battle-hungry orks outnumber the tau four hundred to one, and the planet's vicious rust storms have a devilish appetite of their own. Can the rising star of the fire caste solve the riddle of Arkunasha's haunted past before Dok Toofjaw's monstrous cyborgs conquer the planet completely?