‘Thou shalt not defile this church of thine Emperor!’ I shout. Not so intimidating when that church is a barely-held-together collection of metal plating, and the quartet of would-be defilers are encased in dark green armoured bodysuits, but as the teachings tell: a missionary should always endeavour to defend their converts and their place of worship. ‘You don’t get to…
Inquisitor Syman Kant allowed himself a brief moment to watch the single bead of sweat work its way down Prewitt’s furrowed brow. ‘Yes, it’s definitely bad,’ Bellane Friemann commented, a half-smile stealing across her scarlet lips, ‘but is it heresy?’ The shopkeeper Prewitt flinched visibly at the last word. Syman regarded the miniature mass-produced painting of the Emperor he held…
The Sisters of Xandes II are a curious lot. Pious to a woman, and seemingly loyal as the honored saints, yet their traditions are far from what one would consider ‘orthodox’ in the grand scheme of the Ecclesiarchy’s teachings. For one, The Family of Faith do not demand celibacy from their sisters, in point of fact it is recommended they…
The ship was quiet. Not silent, for it creaked and groaned as power was withdrawn and whole sections of it slowly cooled under the dull red of emergency lumens. She was named the Blade of Hetekon, and she was a wounded beast driven into brooding exile, now just another piece of inert material amongst the rings orbiting the desolate waste…
Heatwaves shimmered off the blood soaked sand, while severed body parts lay scattered across the arena floor, and squig rats sniffed around the edges for the smaller bits of visceral. In the rusted and ramshackle stands Orks screamed, and Grots yelled; but all shouted for blood. Now, into the arena there strode the reigning champion of Grot hand-to-hand combat –…
In the beginning there was darkness, and from it, a light was born. No man can say when exactly the first star lit up, but soon after, countless more did follow. When it had formed, or how or why, no one could say. Not even the creature itself. Only that one moment it was not, and then it was. Just…
‘You’re going to have to get something better than that!’ quipped Darius as the man fiddled with the power sword. The wires were exposed from the bottom of a sword hilt; and sparks flew when he tried to connect them together. ‘Ow!’ he exclaimed after being shocked. Darius laughed, ‘You can’t fix that yourself and then take it into battle…
Benediction, capital world of the Veritus Sub Sector, Segmentum Solar ‘What happened here Salamander?’ a woman’s voice called out. She swept the bolter across the dark ruin taking in the sight of several corpses, the butchered ruins splashed across the walls and floor. Da’Zel Ralkan turned on his heel in a blur of motion, the boltgun raised and pointed at…
The sea green Stormraven banked heavily into the wind. The wind battered against its armoured flank, as its engines screamed against the inexorable pull of gravity. Fighting micro squalls its pilot skilfully spun into a hover, the fuselage brushing the tops of the long grass. The pilots had learned early on that the ground in the jungle clearings tended to…
There is a place that exists outside the edge of reality, accessible to a chosen few of great power and strength. It exists at the edge of imagination and sanity, hosting a vast expanse of all known knowledge. There is a way to reach out to it, if you are careful. Breathe. Think of nothing but staggering emptiness. Understand that…
