Our Own Hands
Ambrecht slammed the fish down on the table at the centre of the cafeteria. It stank in the muggy heat; the windows were all sealed to keep out the eastern…
Ambrecht slammed the fish down on the table at the centre of the cafeteria. It stank in the muggy heat; the windows were all sealed to keep out the eastern…
Soot drifted past the cockpit like snow, caught by thermal winds from decade-long fires. Ashur had forgotten when he last slept; the chronometer was the first tertiary system he’d jettisoned…
Eminence Reaves looked out his window at the plaza below, the glasscrete pane reflecting his age-worn, but not unkindly, visage over the assembled. They’d packed in every space at the…
One last push for atonement, one last push for Vostroya, one last push for the Emperor. The smog is thinner than it once was, the manufactories still roar with the strike…
Sulun Ro took in the lantern-lit town of Gasakai from his hilltop perch and was content. He had fled, screaming into the void of space after the fire of Horus’…
‘Rogal Dorn is absolutely the one with the wings,’ said Dmitri.Howls of protest erupted from Governor Lorenzo and his entourage as though they had been struck by an overseer’s electrolash.…
Celes’ chipped fingernails dig into her patchwork overalls, bunching the threadwork into small, starchy peaks. ‘Look at me.’Her tired eyes rise.Overseer Stry-C9 glowers back. From their throned console, the adept need…
Gerebix Rho sat before the video terminal that connected him to the main cogitator in the Adeptus Administratum, searching for a file that had been entered some years before about…
‘By the Emperor!’ Lyrian flinched as another explosion echoed nearby. ‘We're here at the worst possible moment. It was so peaceful back at our forge. Why did they send us…
Jagged peaks of shattered rock streaked below his view like the teeth of a great beast, as glacial rivers glinted in the pale sunlight like old battle scars. Above, the…