341st Strike wing was probably the most loyal unit in The Order. The most loyal unit in the 34th Brigade.
They didn't care what sacrifices had to be made to bring victory on the battlefield. Every war involves losses. It would be foolish not to acknowledge this when standing at the holo-map and running the calculations. No being, not even the most advanced super-computer in the universe, can fight a single battle without suffering losses. No masterfully conducted "war game" between Order officers has ever ended without losses.
Someone has to die. Someone has to perform a heroic deed because someone else made a mistake. Such is the cruel reality: heroes are born in the crucible of wars that were fought because of someone else's mistake. Someone will perform a heroic deed on the battlefield, single-handedly defending a flank from superior forces. But someone allowed the superior forces to emerge. Someone lost on the map, and the other will pay for the loss in blood. The dispute of war is victory, and the stake of the dispute is someone's blood.
"Tau" Wing is the result of all this. When their first mentions appeared in the Brigade archives and Order reporting channels, it immediately became clear to everyone the purpose of the wing - battle. Heroic, bloody, merciless, suicidal, everyone will call it their own. The wing included the best pilots of the Brigade, capable of standing where no one else could.
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Brigade veterans do not talk about this wing much. Because these veterans were the heroes of the Expedition, when the Brigade made the greatest mistake in its entire history.
Then-living had to heroically fight not with the Nomads but with the Tau Wing. Whatever the Daam'Kvosh had prepared for the intruders was looking for a weakness in the Brigade when it arrived in The Outlands. And that "something" found a weakness in the 341st wing. The madness that turned into bloodbath and mass atrocities left their "imprint" on the souls of everyone who managed to return to the Sirius sector. After all, the Tau were the result of someone else's mistakes. But that mistake was over. Those pilots are no longer spoken of. Every body was found. Every death was documented. Every body was burned to make 100 percent sure that none of them would cause any more harm.
"Tau" wing no longer exists. Pilots have long since sunk into oblivion. But the memory of that time remains.
34th Brigade once again needed an instrument of war. Because someone is making mistakes again, and for such cases, heroes are needed.
