For a moment, I panic. Spreading from my second heart, I feel ice spread within my chest and immediately begin to calm as E-SIM pumps drugs into me. Subjective time around me slows as I engage all my minds in calculating a path to victory, or at least survival. As the Wyrms come to a halt, I real...
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I step out of the Thunderhawk on to Kinbriar, twenty four days after our first assault on the North Tomb. The turbofans of the blo...
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I have made a few small alterations to Servitor descriptions and behaviours to chapters 117-119, as well as some edits to sentence structures. There are ...
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“Maeve, Eire, Thorfinn,” I say, “That line of Chimeras isn’t that effective ...
2023-09-18 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWatching the live footage from multiple angles is harrowing. The green, molecular shearing strikes of gauss weaponry and flickering beams of particle weapons pound our armoured convoy with perfect accuracy, punching through armour with ease.
With the Necrons finally firing their ...
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I desperately pat my...
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As we disp...
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“Your representative has taken impromptu medical leave and is now unavailable,” I say. “Who among you will replace him?”
I...
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During the following three weeks, preparations for a ground war against the Necrons continue without pause or, at least, any snafus that reach...
2023-08-28 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next two hours, the Astartes corpses recover their colour. Their scars and studs disappear and their shaved heads and jaws sprout new hair. Sergeant Odhran rapidly loses muscle and bone mass as his missing arm regrows. All five of them de-age, changing from buff, middle aged m...
2023-08-25 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFrom one moment to the next, Iron Crane transitions into realspace alongside every wrecked vessel. We appear in the middle of an ongoing battle between the Kinbriar Necrons and the Yme-Loc Craftworld Eldar.
Just when I think we’ve escaped one certain doom for another, there is a ...
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As we approach the exit of our one hundred and seventh jump, large shapes appear on our sensors. Quaan...
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Quaani returns several hours later and my Fleet Command officers each pop by over ...
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Quaani is more savvy than I expected for someone just out of a biotank and yet to adjust to new impla...
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“That can’t be real,” I say. “It’s absurdly big.”...
2023-08-07 15:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe next four weeks go as planned and the only discovery of note is the high percentage of metallic asteroids, a whopping thirty-two percent, four of which is adamantium. With the data gathered from the system we are able to create a model of how it was formed and realise two of the rocky planets...
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After my date I review what the fleet has been doing in my absence. The noosphere capsule is rather comfortable b...
2023-07-31 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI place my hands palms up in the middle of the table and Brigid reaches out and holds my hands.
“Brigid.”
“Yes, Aldrich.”
“Will you be my girlfriend?”
Brigid’s eyes widen slightly, then she pulls back slightly, still keeping a strong grip on my hands, and gig...
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Brigid is already waiting for me at the rooftop veranda at the top of the teahouse. My guards sweep through the r...
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I have rearranged parts of the last chapter (101) and added an additional five hundred words (19/07/23). None of the content is vital to the story, but I was think...
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After four years of labour, my third eye grows enough to use it and I ...
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I laugh, “I wondered if anyone would ask, Uurad.”
“There is an extra something to your presence,” says Uurad, “that goes beyond a mere size increase, yet somehow it seems famil...
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Commodore Domelch de Búrca pulls a spherical holo-projector from her belt and tosses it into the centre of our circle. Air r...
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A young woman clears her throat and the ...
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It has been two weeks since my transformation. Carefull...
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I approach the altar in the navigat...
2023-06-30 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“There is something different about you, Magos,” says Yelien. “You are not an easy man to read. Old, at least, I can tell that much. That, and hate. Not the ignorant disgust of thoughtless bigotry you humans wallow in, but something personal. It makes your offer surprising.” He...
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The race continues for another twenty minutes. All the scores from the buggies who actually completed the race are fairly clo...
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