“Mayday! Mayday! Decora Mining Base reporting ork ships attacking. Main gun battery is inactive, and boarding torpedoes are approaching. Assistance is needed immediately.”—distress signal received by Imperial authorities Sculptor SystemImperial Voxcast (3 121 743.M41) One week after an ork boarding party seized the Decora Mining Base in the […]
“Orks are a menace. They’re a cancer. Once they enter into a star system, they spread across planets, lurk in asteroid fields, propagate in dank caves and dark forests. They’re almost impossible to stamp out. They’re vermin—three-meter-tall, heavily muscled, insanely violent and dangerous vermin . . . and […]
IMPERIAL VOXCAST (6 015 743.M41)—Food riots broke out in the suburbs of Volantis today after one of the city’s food-processing centers was damaged by an insurgent’s bomb. The Third Quadrant of the outer ring of surface dwellings that surround the Volantis hive city is aflame, as rioters have […]
“Four generations of Piers have farmed this land. We built something here. We built a home. We built a way of life. And now the mutants want to take it from us. Let’s kill the bastards.“—part of the speech given by Ma Sophia to the defenders of her […]
“A squad of Charcharoth militia reported a firefight with mutant rebels in an abandoned village south of the rebel-held Tomada Oasis. Two soldiers were wounded, while two mutants were killed and a third captured.“—Imperial Voxcast (6 110 742.M41) * * * World of Morkai—At the beginning of 742.M41, […]
“We are but a weapon in the right hand of the Emperor.” —Exhortationes Principiis Titannorum, Divisio Militaris, Adeptus Mechanicus * * * Susa City, Hegira 3 999 741.M41 Having analyzed 1,323,591 potential variables in the fight ahead, Alpha 239-A determined his course of action—and transmitted a data feed […]
“The logic of the situation is unassailable. The enemy stands before you. Kill him. Kill him quickly. Kill him efficiently. But kill him.“—Skitarii Princep Margos Hediatrix during the Moirae Schism, c. M35 * * * Protious-58 crouched behind a large pile of crates in an alley that was […]
“Defeat is a bitter pill to swallow.“—unknown source, c. M2 * * * Is there any chance of eliminating the enemy threat without significant reinforcements, Alpha 239-A wondered. Two Rangers were down, and the accuracy of traitor fire was defying statistical probabilities. What’s more, the Terminator-armored traitor was […]
On 3 851 741.M41, a detachment of four men were assigned surveillance duty at Generatorum B39 [Grid 629-A25]. An engagement with orks infiltrating the area resulted in three casualties and enemy occupation of the generatoratum. Given initial reports of the engagement, an intelligence officer was assigned to debrief […]
“Scholars focus so much attention on the massive battles that rage across the galaxy. Yet, we forget that, for the average soldier, even the smallest, briefest of firefights are filled with terror, pain, and the possibility of oblivion.“—Oro Kaley, Senior HIstoritor, Schola Progenium, Belliose III. Hegira Desert, 43 […]
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