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Read more about the article Happy Birthday, Sergeant Corde!

Happy Birthday, Sergeant Corde!

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How many years? To look at the lines on her face you’d think it had been at least a decade, but that’s not what the chronometer said. She stuck to…

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Home Sickness

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Recalled to Yujua. Those three words spread through the camp like wildfire. Pak can see it in the men’s faces. Wonder. Relief. Six years of war in the green fields…

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Descension

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The Gate of Screaming Skulls splits down the middle and tears asunder. The first ever uninvited guest of Commorragh stands in the broken portal. Stepping over the threshold is a…

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Epilogue

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Kill, the darkness told him. Less a thought or an impulse than a driving animus. It had framed the purpose before as purge or purify, but these were distortions, heat-haze…

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Read more about the article Awaken My Brother

Awaken My Brother

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The pressure of the ocean depths accurately reflected the feeling of the moment. My head Technomancer and I watched anxiously as the Canoptek labourers removed the coral growths to reveal…

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Read more about the article Honourable Persecution

Honourable Persecution

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Ellamera darted through alleys littered with burning debris. Thousands of deathly metallic caskets burst through the atmospheric sphere above her, hurtling towards the surface casting translucent vapour trails in their…

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Read more about the article The Way Back to the Garden

The Way Back to the Garden

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We’re all going back home one way or another, preferably the same way we’ve all come to be here. I spend my days walking, have been for a while now.…

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Fallen Angel

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Castellus’ knees shuddered as he lumbered through the battlefield, the ceramite peppered with holes.He could feel the fingers on his sword arm flexing, twitching for the familiar hilt of the…

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Read more about the article Trials of a Sister

Trials of a Sister

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‘Ex-excuse me, Sister Magdala, when can I go home?’ asked the small hesitant voice.  ‘The Schola Progenium is your home now,’ replied the Sororitas. The child extended her tiny hand to…

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Read more about the article To Travel is to Heal

To Travel is to Heal

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'Why did you leave?' It is always the same question. Why would one leave the safety of a Craftworld? A place with no strife, no scarcity? Why would one risk…

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