The Numbers
---Extract from a diary found in Hive records stack Garitus Potentus III. Found by Adeptus Arbites investigation squad Thalidum Quintus. Diary from missing Administratum clerk Castrius Palermu. Diary reads--- I…
---Extract from a diary found in Hive records stack Garitus Potentus III. Found by Adeptus Arbites investigation squad Thalidum Quintus. Diary from missing Administratum clerk Castrius Palermu. Diary reads--- I…
Prisoner XC14 was going to escape. Again. The thought had started as a hunch, a gut feeling of the sort that had served Judge Saul Hax so well in his long Arbites career. Over the past day, however, it had congealed into a cold lump of uncertainty in the pit of his stomach.
‘Lord Grimnyr! The planet’s core has been breached!’ One of my Kin reports. I order back, ‘Begin resource extraction immediately! Time is of the essence! The Ancestor wills it!’ My…
He was here at last. She felt His putrid corruption filling the air again. Finally, after all this time, the thickly sweet stench of untreatable failing flesh was amongst them.…
221.989.M41Arch-Bishop Faustinius Uriah, Ecclesiarchal Representative and Governor of Orthorga Primus, frowns as he stares at the scroll in his hands. ‘A problem,’ he says, fingers drumming on his desk. ‘But not…
'Is there anything that can stop the Guilds?' ‘No!’ the Cthonian miners roared, their voices echoing from the vaulted roof of their ancient hold.‘Is there any prize we won’t take?’‘No!’ Bravah…
‘It is the 99th day of the new Darksun, Brother-Primus.’ A watchful day, a wary day, as any Auspiciar would tell his Magi. Gimion had a half-dozen Nurglite entities chained…
The area is coated with grime. Every surface is covered in a mix of blood and rust. Servitors' frames lay dead and mutilated. Kymass looks to his master, the towering…
Hubert was a pen-pusher, so the laspistol in his sweaty grip felt far more alien than whatever was pounding the fortress void shields. The invasion was an abstract to him,…
A daemon engine was a strange creation, a melding of opposites, a constantly waring mix of metal and daemon. The tension inherent to that combination made them machines of terrible…