The Penitence Enduring
‘He’s slipping… we’re losing him.’ The voice is distant, part of an abstract memory, dust-covered and forgotten until now. His consciousness rises with the beginnings of remembrance, swimming up from…
‘He’s slipping… we’re losing him.’ The voice is distant, part of an abstract memory, dust-covered and forgotten until now. His consciousness rises with the beginnings of remembrance, swimming up from…
---Extract from a diary found in Hive records stack Garitus Potentus III. Found by Adeptus Arbites investigation squad Thalidum Quintus. Diary from missing Administratum clerk Castrius Palermu. Diary reads--- I…
Prisoner XC14 was going to escape. Again. The thought had started as a hunch, a gut feeling of the sort that had served Judge Saul Hax so well in his…
He was here at last. She felt His putrid corruption filling the air again. Finally, after all this time, the thickly sweet stench of untreatable failing flesh was amongst them.…
221.989.M41Arch-Bishop Faustinius Uriah, Ecclesiarchal Representative and Governor of Orthorga Primus, frowns as he stares at the scroll in his hands. ‘A problem,’ he says, fingers drumming on his desk. ‘But not…
Hubert was a pen-pusher, so the laspistol in his sweaty grip felt far more alien than whatever was pounding the fortress void shields. The invasion was an abstract to him,…
Much of Segmentum Pacificus was lost to insurrection during the Night of a Thousand Rebellions. The slow-moving cogs that drove the Adeptus Administratum had not been quick enough to allocate…
Kaeria did not like to be saddled. She preferred bareback flying. The saddle meant there was a mission, and missions were a bore for her. Private Jaekzon may have been…
RunningMaurice’s sprint for his life turned into a skid as he tried to close a curve, his shoulder impacting the opposite wall with enough force to make his teeth rattle.…
Deep in the power core of asteroid mining station G-Secundus, a small framed servitor designated E777, or E-triple seven, squeezed through a narrow maintenance tube. It reached hand over hand,…