The Cut
‘Sigma-33/Mars, fire at that flying Tyranid.’My mistress, Magus Anydrus, simply gives the order. Her voice echoes through all my circuits, and obedience is immediate. I use my Lascannon on the…
An Old Bolter’s Requiem
Long have I served he whom they call The Emperor. I have no name but that which they gave me: 43. That was stamped on me in a time so…
Facts and Fighters
Gerebix Rho sat before the video terminal that connected him to the main cogitator in the Adeptus Administratum, searching for a file that had been entered some years before about…
And the Mountain Fell
Magos Telleos stood inside the Gargant's idol-like head and knew he was a heretic. He cared little; his peers would grovel for his forgiveness when the Omnissiah’s blessed work was…
A Fatal Expedition
Garrick gripped the Milliasaur in his fist of steel. The foe writhed in his grip, before the electrodes drove his hand shut. The flailing beast’s neck spurted blood, bone fragments…
Through the Eyes of the Machine-God
Princeps Mulkaran Vosh was going to have his sight restored, and that knowledge filled his heart with sorrow. In the ever-present sheet of grey that filled his vision, Vosh was…
Connection Severed
<Noospheric communication sub-routines compromised.><Reverting to unit sub-tethering.><Active cohort units in-field = 65…><62…><58…>Eros-Tybalt 71-Delta 324 was one of fifty-eight Skitarii constructs currently active in the battered warscape that constructs higher in…
God Speaks
Daniley crashes, still half-awake, out of the service corridor with the hundred filthy folk that he berths with. Ship lights that had dimmed for the sleep cycle now blaze the…
The Last One Hundred Lasguns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRNUsAF4mpM&t=34s The air was a thick soup of infestation. Tyrannocytes punctured the storm-wracked skies of Segmentum Solar. Microscopic nano-spores swirled in every breath. The Tyranid microorganisms invaded the cavernous prime…
Child of Mars
The last stasis bed failed, and the dying machine spirit released the sleeping form of Tahimik. An aching head and the incessant pinging of a cogitator alert pulled her from sleep.…