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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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You Don’t Dogfight

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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 take away from his class, it was that. 

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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 molten slug upon detonation.

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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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Ascend

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The clouds burned as God forced its way through the atmosphere. He watched with awe, she watched with fear. He was Quinnus, Magus of the Congregation of the Exalted Sun, and she was Arbites Helena, of Cambridge Hive, 3rd Precinct. 

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Read more about the article Allies of Desperation

Allies of Desperation

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Once more, Rulf rotated the blade in his hand, weighing the merits of murder. The medic ran a finger down the engraving on the hilt, ‘Suffer No Xeno,’ and rapped…

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All Artifice

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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…

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A Beginning

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It's Getting Pretty Grimdark In Here... The following story includes graphic, pregnancy-related body horror, which some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. × Dismiss alert Indriss Voss dragged…

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