Efficiency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6i_IrJy9C0 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…
All Artifice
The great work was done - glory to the Omnissiah and Far-Mars! Facilitator-Magos Kanam-2-1 expleted a burst of jubilant code that drew wary gazes from the nearest technicians. Productivity had never…
Silver Dream
+++ I +++ ‘She was a guardswoman,’ Demar’s mother, the Lady Oscyllia de Vrjier snarled, her lined and weathered face inches from her son’s. ‘She was a menial. She was fodder.…
On to the Next One
Matron Josmene looked to her assistant. Catching her eye, Cal uncovered the patient. A girl, with bright-green eyes that snapped between Josmene, and the dark room.Cal moved his bioscanner across her…
Per Aspera Ad Astra
‘There are some decent finds here, Kappa,’ Father Rust said.She watched as the old man neatly laid out the contents of her canvas bag on his workbench. They included vacuum…
Blood-Greased Cogs
Khebal Tothius was 400 years old. 400 years, 32 days, 27 hours, three minutes and four seconds to be exact. Other blessed adepts of the Omnissiah might have dismissed this…
Sacrifice
I awake only to find a miasma of my living chamber. Sweat runs down my face. I look up and see that the ventilation duct is dead. A thick coating…
Machine Ways
I’d thought I’d be able to see my home as I left. I’d pictured it so many times, the transport punching up through the clouds as I watched my receding…
Rejoice.exe
++Captain Moorhaven! So so GLAD you’ve initialized and rejoined the land of the cognizant! Please try not to move too much - the anaesthetic may have been rather strong. It…
Deus Est Machina
Genetor Reus stalked down the line of white-shrouded wounded lying on the floor, an exhaust cloud of servitors trailing in his wake. At the foot of each man he paused.…