“Shut it, private. I don’t care if you think this patrol is beneath your vaunted talents. You keep your head in a fight. You keep men alive. So get on with your orders, or you’ll be working latrine duty for a month.“—Captain Faltz of the 728th Cadian Regiment, […]
“The path of a guardsman is straightforward. With few exceptions, the path leads through war, bloodshed, and fear—and ends in death. A guardsman must accept this. Duty ends only in death.“—Immaculus, a humble priest serving during the war on Verghast * * * Continued from Page 1 . […]
“I’m bored.” Lady Adriana, consort to Count Johann Feracci, lord of House Feracci and holder of a sacred Warrant of Trade, raised her wine glass to her perfectly formed lips and took a sip. “I find that statement astonishing . . . and a tad amusing.” Adriana turned […]
* * * To call the planet of Canopus a backwater world is an understatement. Its inhabitants are the ancestors of mistreated laborers who stole a cargo ship in 450.M39 and fled the totalitarian authority of the Imperiuim. Their dream was to establish a more compassionate and prosperous […]
* * * Continued from Part 1 . . . Tomas stood on the ramparts with second squad, deployed about 20 meters from the front gates. To his right, a heavy bolter team of two men were loading an ammo belt into the side of the large gun. […]
* * * Continued from Part 2 . . . Despite the road of gunfire, Alina could hear the men yelling from the direction where Tomas was fighting. She was so frightened for him. Shouting also broke out farther down the line. She turned and gasped. In the […]
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”—Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 1st millennium philosopher “The citizens of Metaluna are doomed. Their world has plunged into darkness. There is no help coming. There is no food to keep alive those still hanging onto life. The wisest will walk out […]
On a world unknown to Imperial cartographers, two Necrons—cybernetic beings of unfathomable age—stand atop a temple in the gloom of a thunderstorm. The falling rain bothers them not. They are men of metal, not flesh. They feel no discomfort . . . nor any compassion. * * * […]
When last seen, Petrov Karlson, high mayor of Port Aruna on the agri-moon of Dar Sai, was fleeing the city after its fall to Tau invaders. Unable to reach the evacuation ships in the harbor, Konrad had fled out the east gate of the city—and found himself surrounded […]
Deep in the bowels of the planet, in the heart of the Necron command center, the rumble of distant explosions shook the floor and disturbed millennia-old dust that rained down from the vaulted ceiling above. The cryptek known as Aubastet stood unmoving. The dust was insignificant, and his […]
THE CORVUS CLUSTER 
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