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Read more about the article The Price of Power

The Price of Power

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Archon. It is a word that radiates power. Even the slave races comprehend it, in a fashion. Not the intricacies of our tongue, of course. But they understand. With its…

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The Price Paid

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Endless, precise formations of Guardsmen marched below, the earth trembling beneath the tread of their boots. Banners snapped majestically in the wind at the head of their columns, while cheering…

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Read more about the article The Eye of the Beholder

The Eye of the Beholder

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Flickering blasts of red light chased the shadowy figure as it flitted across the cramped hab-unit, searing super-heated holes in the cheap plascrete wall and setting the thin mattress alight…

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Read more about the article You Don’t Dogfight

You Don’t Dogfight

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https://youtu.be/DDgsUAcSuKE You don’t dogfight with an Avenger.I can remember Flight Instructor Willingham drilling that phrase into us. It was his mantra. If there was one thing he wanted us to…

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Read more about the article What Price Conviction?

What Price Conviction?

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Jaryon lay sweating, his fitful mind questing for the calm of the craftworld. He felt himself a discordant note without its song, an aberration marring some foreign melody. The world…

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Read more about the article The Thorned Rose

The Thorned Rose

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The fingernails he runs across my thigh are tipped with neurotoxin. Yet I do not tense. I run my hands through his hair wearing rings that could slice him in…

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Read more about the article The Sky Warriors’ Due

The Sky Warriors’ Due

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Paying the Sky Warriors’ Due was no simple task. From their village it was a five-day trek across shattered cliffs and brackish jungle rivers. Besides the terrain, there were stranglevines,…

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Read more about the article The Denestral Lifeguards’ Game to Improve Morale

The Denestral Lifeguards’ Game to Improve Morale

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Lieutenant Thaddeus dropped into the luxurious armchair, the dirt from his fatigues rubbing into the leather from an animal which died centuries before he was born.'How was that, eh?' grunted…

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Read more about the article Efficiency

Efficiency

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Nathaniel hesitated before loading the shotgun. The shell was one of Engineer Abimelech’s personal creations. It housed an inverted cone of vectordet behind a copper plate, which inverted into a…

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Chain of Command

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Major Hale sighed and knocked back his recaff. He grimaced as the stone-cold liquid hit his tongue and stepped over to the tiny ablutions alcove to pour the dregs away…

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