As Many Are The Sands
'Wake up, young wolf,' the words echoed as if from a dream, and Einar gasped as he bolted awake. The monstrous corpse of a foe sprawled across his breastplate—a hideous…
Red Talon
‘...Ferrum Hold is unbreakable,’ the colonel declares, his tone steady despite the red-lit gloom of the bridge.‘All the intelligence concurs,’ another officer adds, gesturing to hololiths of the fortress-world, its…
Gravity’s Return
Calculating time to impact… Calculating time to impact…The cogitator delights in tormenting Lev Ermak. …time to impact… Finally, it answers in uncaring block gothic lettering: Unknown.Impact is assured, though it could be in…
Hollow Men
This is what we call victory. The scarred hulls of starships visible in low orbit. The taste of ash, drifting across the skies of Terra. The wind carrying rumours, scourging a blasted cradleworld with tales of a dead Warmaster and the fallen Emperor.
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…
The Last of Vireshan
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…
One Last Push
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…
A Peaceful Transfer of Power
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…
Never Going Back
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’…
She Persists
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…