Afanc
The ship was quiet. Not silent, for it creaked and groaned as power was withdrawn and whole sections of it slowly cooled under the dull red of emergency lumens. She…
A Matter Of Time
Inquisitor Syman Kant allowed himself a brief moment to watch the single bead of sweat work its way down Prewitt’s furrowed brow.'Yes, it’s definitely bad,' Bellane Friemann commented, a half-smile…
Everyone’s Seen It
Adeptus Ministorum Interrogator Lorne strode into the dingy room, dataslate in hand. The center of the cramped space was dominated by a sturdy plascrete chair occupied by a slight man…
Thinly Veiled Dagger
Aloysio Vysterian slipped inside the palace undetected. Formerly it was simply an Imperial Bastion, before then-governor Marcala had renounced Terra’s authority, proclaimed himself Supreme Regent and declared Edoran’s secession from…
The Good Citizen
Everyone knew he was up to something. Lupern had to be the one to do the right thing. It’s just who he was. There are so many good men and…
First Redoubt
After a while, the pounding of the drums creeps under your skin and plays a tattoo on your soul. I haven’t slept for days. None of us have. Reveille, when…
No More Hiding
In the darkness of his office, Father Henry clicked on the vid-feed screen. Staticky images and shadows battled across his walls. For the past month his city had been a…
The Burning of Sebastian Chiara
All my life I prayed for proof of my faith. Now, everyone can see it.They tied Sebastian Chiara to the husk of a tree, his arms lashed outstretched to the…
The Eye on a Distant World
The hole in the world appeared three rotations prior to when the Arbitrators of Thrax brought Janus, the discoverer of the phenomena in for interrogation. Half the planet knew about…
We Are Many And Yet We Are One
He had always been different. Not special: ‘special’ was a good word, a positive word. But until the ships came for him, he didn’t know just how different he was.He…