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“I’ll be right there Quaani. Where are you now?”
“The navigator spire with Headmas...
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After finishing my discussion with Aileen I return to my primary shipyard, a hollowed out asteroid Omnisiah’s Erudition<...
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“You mean my vestments and how I assigned myself as a chaplai...
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I examine the bolt pistol...
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Lounging in the captain’s quarters on the Omnissiah’s Erudition, I blast towards the indus...
2023-02-20 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI twirl the device. Eire, Brigid, and Quanni stare at it.
Quaani scoffs. “Really, all that fuss over a Emperor damned crow bar?”
Handing the crowbar to Quaani, I try and fail to keep a straight face, “It’s a hacking tool.”
“I can see that,” says Quaani, ...
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“We are recording, Headmaster. Please proceed,” says Róisín.
“This is Headmaster Aileen Nan Sop of the Marwolv psy-errants initiatin...
2023-02-13 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe External Modules selection is full of useful items. There are two tiers to it, one of which is linked to the Warp and Weft module. The first tier is laden with STCs for essential items, like survival gear for different environments, medical supplies, and handheld tools.
<... 2023-02-10 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostNo matter how much I want to take prisoners, I need to see to myself first and there’s no way I can drag two of them and a dog through a company of bloodletters. Bloodletters are lesser demons of Khorne with red skin, elongated skulls, curling horns, and clawed feet who swing two-handed, burnin...
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My armour yells at me in lingua-technis, throwing up a countdown until its systems overheat right in the midd...
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I stare at the demon and a mechadendrite passes me a familiar plasteel pipe. I’ve killed over fifty minor demons with this scavengers...
2023-01-30 16:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostHitting the smelter isn’t quite as bad as it sounds. They’re stuck, not getting alloyed. However, one third of their forces are non-operational, and it’s the heavy infantry who are confined.
The boring machinery on the torpedo has seized from the rapidly cooling metals of the smelter,...
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I’ve always held the philosophy that if your opponent can spot you and you don’t outrange them, you’re doing someth...
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I’m much higher than that.
Falling feet first is going to pulp me, but the speed of my fall is the only t...
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Thorfinn, eventually, forgiv...
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On the medicae deck, Thorfinn and I sit in a clean, white, consultation room and stare at the words on the dataslate lying on the table between us.
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Negotiations push meander back and forth until lunch, during which I have an auto-quill scribe an agreement, then we barter minutiae until teatime. After a much needed break, Headmaster...
2023-01-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Five
We pull up outside of a tall iron fence. Behind it, a series of round towers with conical roofs are connected with stone bridges over gardens and large halls. The structure is lit with everburning flames likely powered by the minds of the residents and directed by the lar...
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I’m only going to get one chance at surveying the city; I swim within one hundred metres of the domes and travel around its circumference once. The domes’ surfaces are uneve...
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“Good morning, everyone,” I say.
“Good morning, Magos,” say my twelve students, slightly out of sync.
The students sit on plaste...
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In my son’s games, models could save their plastic asses from the casualty pil...
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I don’t answer the call and send a burst of data instead, containing the footage of the Tau abducting civilians, then setting kroot hounds on any that they couldn...
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A mechadendrite returns the hip flask to a small compartment on my servo harness. I re-engage my multiple thought streams and start going through the backlog of issues at maximum pa...
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The thunderhawk docks with the Distant Sun and I leap from the craft. Quaani is waiting for me, two adamantine tower shields resting against his lanky form and three companies of servitors at his back.
“Welcome ...
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I pick up another thirty servitors from the hangar, as well as my favourite servo skull, Brian, and depart the Distant Sun. The thunderhawk circles Marwolv a couple of times as ...
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Warp travel does unpleasant things to the human body. For most men and women, they develop purple eyes and have an unsettling aura about them, one that makes them unwelcome planetside and many live and die...
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I consider my exchange with the prime minister and how to approach negotiations. He has been concise and the balance of power is so far in my favour, there i...
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I struggle and fail to hide my shock. My throat tightens and my hands shake. I swallow.
“Nothing bad has happened, truly? No violent cults covered in symbols that drive yo...
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I hand Thorfinn two beads and some ear defenders, “Put this one in your ear, clip that to your breastplate, and put these over your head. The vehicle can get quite loud, these w...
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I send the thunderhawk out to get detailed scans of Erudition’s Howl’s hull, looking for a good spot to attach massive cables to its hull.
Mr Cygnus appears in my vision and manipulates my...
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