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…
The Bureau of Administrative & Bureaucratic Administration
The sound of scratching on paper, the dull hiss of burning candle wick, and the stale breath of hundreds of adepts working away in the darkness filled the air within…
The Emperor Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
The stars are beautiful tonight.A heavy haze had kept them hidden from him behind a blanket of gloom as he lay on his back, eyes cast skywards. When the gloom…
The Piercing Chill
The freezing steel of the door burned the side of her face as she pressed her ear to it. Straining to hear, she prayed for the shuffling outside to fade…
The Judgement of Wrath
Sweat stung Salit’s eyes as he staggered through the steamy jungle undergrowth. Blood seeped from deep gouges across his back and he gritted his teeth against the pain of each…
The Voyage
The Gamma in the next cell won’t stop crying. Not silent tears like my own, but great wracking sobs.
Ice and Starlight
Every breath Aramis took spread the ice a little further across the inside of his canopy. Starlight shimmered around the crystals as the crippled ship curved across the heavens. Yet still they grew.
Salvaged
Heat bloomed in the core of the blast doors, a swell of actinic light in a tomb of darkness. Sparks pinwheeled like drunken fireflies as metal that had stood in…
In Memoriam
[143.938.M41] [Journal Entry: Commissar Yorke - Aboard the Caput Inter Nubila] One of my duties as regimental commissar - and by far the one I least look forward to, in all I…
The Men of Flesh
It had been more than twenty thousand years since the Prosperity was launched. Back then it was one of millions of Soyuz-227 Exodus Class ships.
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