Ghost Legion – Mike Brooks

The Alpha Legion finds success in failure. We must learn to do the same.’ OceanofPDF.com 03.16.41 Chetta was not used to being hunted. Novators of prominent Navigator houses tended to be insulated from such unpleasant experiences by thick walls, security systems, weapon emplacements, guards, and not least the fact that as a Novator, one tended to leave the dangerous places to others: the protections granted by money, in other words.

That was just as well, since these days her fastest unassisted gait was a brisk limp, and she couldn’t even keep that up for long. She certainly wasn’t built for running and hiding. Unfortunately, all her protections were of little use here. The small group of security staff she’d brought with her, more as an honour guard than anything else, would have no chance against the number of corrupted troops that had set up camp in the enclave.

Besides which, any combat would attract attention from the rest of the Ghost Legion, which was exactly why Varaz’s own force of skitarii were apparently biding their time. No one trusted that Solomon Akurra wouldn’t have some fallback set up to eliminate Lucretia Mons if it declared against him, even in the middle of an invasion.

And so, Chetta was living as a fugitive inside a structure haunted by the corpse of an ogryn that was in the clutches of a nightmare she’d thought had been left behind in the Dark Age of Technology. She had seen it on security feeds, as she and her small coterie had been shuffled about Lucretia Mons’ interior: a huge, hulking figure that moved differently to any living being she had laid eyes on before.

It was true that Chetta had not made a study of ogryns, but this one did not lumber, and nor did it move with the slow, methodical gait of the servitor it superficially appeared to be. It had a definite mechanical air to it, a start-stop with no wasted motion.

It was thoroughly unsettling, and that was to someone who had spent a fair portion of her adult life staring into the full madness of the Sea of Souls. The only saving grace was that the enemy did not know they were there. The Diabolicus Secundus, as the abominable intelligence was apparently known, was not hunting them specifically; it was searching for evidence that the Mechanicus of Lucretia Mons had been involved in an attack against Solomon Akurra himself, or other signs of treachery.

However, it seemed to take pleasure in roaming the forge’s halls and corridors apparently at random, and intimidating the adepts with its presence as it did so, which meant the Brobantis delegation always had to be on alert in case it stumbled across them. ‘I hope you’re happy,’ Chetta grumbled at Darke.

For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind. By the might of his inexhaustible armies a million worlds stand against the dark. Yet, he is a rotting carcass, the Carrion Lord of the Imperium held in life by marvels from the Dark Age of Technology and the thousand souls sacrificed each day so his may continue to burn.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. It is to suffer an eternity of carnage and slaughter. It is to have cries of anguish and sorrow drowned by the thirsting laughter of dark gods. This is a dark and terrible era where you will find little comfort or hope. Forget the power of technology and science. Forget the promise of progress and advancement. Forget any notion of common humanity or compassion.

There is no peace amongst the stars, for in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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