Liberation
On Holy Terra, the cradle of humanity, there were a thousand libraries. These vast repositories seemed to stretch out endlessly, filled with the accumulated records and learnings of the God-Emperor’s…
The Punishment for Loyalty
Jone was still adjusting her psy-dampening hood and juggling a mug of recaff when she entered the choral antechamber. Master Furth had been in the tank for the last eight…
Airlock
The airlock is small and dark. The exterior door is illuminated dimly by a square of hard yellow light cast out from the interior bulkhead window. I sit staring at…
Lockwarden
I carry many keys, but only one held any importance to me then. It was to an empty cell. Deep below the Imperial Palace, there is a terrible place, and…
Guardians
‘Eat.’ A woman’s jovial voice and the soft clinking of porcelain against wood brought him out of his thoughts. Markendaya Orpehus Jangseung, Shield-Captain of the Aquilan Shield, looked down to…
Turnkey
As he stoically paced down the oppressive corridors of the Ordo Malleus facility of Golgotha-III, snaking tendrils of psychic energy from the prison inmates sought his mind, finding no purchase.…
One of Those Days
001>> Set Time=00:00 where hab/chrono=THDOE0906/637(26) Baumis hurried down the hall, dodging neighbours and the occasional vagrant, pulling his coveralls on as he went. Chance and a quirk or orbital dynamics had…
Monachopsis
There is a thudding from the basement again. Obed sighs and leans back in his chair with a rusty squeak. He knows the noise well, but he tries not to…
Pen Pushing
‘Congratulations, Mr Pious. You're dead.’The words slowly flowed into his brain through a pair of frostbitten ears. Something wasn't right about them - something wasn't right about any of this,…
Make Belief
The two clergymen stood before the tall diamantine door of Saint Inoritas’s reliquary chamber in the lower vaults beneath the great cathedral.‘Dear friend, you have our most heartfelt gratitude for…