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A WARHAMMER 40,000 STORIES
LET THE GALAXY BURN
Edited by Marc Gascoigne & Christian Dunn
A Black Library Publication
The majority of these stories appeared in the following anthologies: Into the Maelstrom (© 1999, Games Workshop Ltd), Dark Imperium (©
2001, Games Workshop Ltd) and Words of Blood (© 2002, Games Workshop Ltd). Playing Patience, The Tower and The Fall of Malvolion
have not before appeared in print.
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IT IS THE 41st millennium. 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 will of the gods, and master
of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He
is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark
Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for
whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day. so that he may
never truly die.
YET EVEN IN his deathless state, the Emperor continues his
eternal vigilance. Mighty battleflects cross the daemon-infested
miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars, their
way lit by the Astronomican. the psychic manifestation of the
Emperors will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted
worlds. Greatest amongst His soldiers arc the Adeptus Astartcs.
the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades
in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary
defence forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of
the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their
multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present
threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.
TO BE A man in such times is to be one amongst untold
billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody
regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times.
Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has
been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of
progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future
there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars,
only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the
laughter of thirsting gods.
CONTENTS
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Editor's Introduction by Marc Gascoigne             8
WE ARE THE SPACE MARINES, THE CHAMPIONS OF HUMANITY
Words of Blood by Ben Counter             13
The Black Pearl by Chris Pramas             33
Angels by Robert Earl             49
Unforgiven by Graham McNeill             59
In the Belly of the Beast by William King             75
SUFFER NOT THE ALIEN TO LIVE
Hellbreak by Ben Counter             109
Small Cogs by Neil Rutledge             127
The Fall of Malvolion by Dan Abnett             149
Children of the Emperor by Barrington J Bayley                  163
Deus ex Mechanicus by Andy Chambers             185
Business as Usual by Graham McNeill             205
ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY END
Salvation by Jonathan Green             225
Hell in a Bottle by Simon Jowett             239
Tenebrae by Mark Brendan             255
Daemonblood by Ben Counter             269
Know Thine Enemy by Gav Thorpe             289
INNOCENCE PROVES NOTHING
Nightmare by Gav Thorpe             317
Ancient History by Andy Chambers             327
The Tower by CS Goto             355
Loyalty's Reward by Simon Jowett             373
Raptor Down by Gav Thorpe             395
FOR THE EMPEROR!
Defixio by Ben Counter             415
Ancient Lances by Alex Hammond             435
Ork Hunter by Dan Abnett             453
The Raven's Claw by Jonathan Curran             461
Emperor's Grace by Alex Hammond             477
Acceptable Losses by Gav Thorpe             495
BURN THE HERETIC, KILL THE MUTANT, PURGE THE UNCLEAN
Pestilence by Dan Abnett             527
Barathrum
by
Jonathan
Curren            Â
Suffer not the Unclean to Live by Gav Thorpe             571
The Lives of Ferag Lion-Wolf by Barrington J Bayley             593
Playing Patience by Dan Abnett             603
545
KILL THEM ALL!
Snares and Delusions by Matthew Farrer             653
Apothecary's Honour by Simon Jowett             673
Unthinking
Justice
by
Andras
Millward            Â
Battle of the Archaeosaurs by Barrington J Bayley             713
Wrath of Kharn by William King             731
Into the Maelstrom by Chris Pramas             741
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Editor's Introduction
Marc Gascoigne
PREPARE FOR IMPACT!
Brace yourselves. Splints at the ready. Hot towels and narthecium on standby. This is the big one. Let's face it, you really need
power armour to haul this sucker around for very long. Because inside this ultra-hefty, Imperial Titan-sized collection you'll find a
full thirty-eight great stoÂries* from the decaying future nightmare that is Warhammer 40,000. We'll take you from the crenellated
battle barges of the heretic Traitor Marines to the forgotten asylums of the Imperium, bolter at the ready and thirsting for alien
blood.
So just what is it that makes a Warhammer 40,000 short story a great one? It's a question we asked ourselves every day, as we
sifted through the piles of stories submitted for the Black Library range over the years, and it's one we continue to employ as we
assess potential novels for our thriving fiction line. In our writers' guides, we go into great length, but when pushed to summarise
we tend to boil it down to two basic rules: be true to the Warhammer universe, and be any good. And to be blunt, we think the
various stories collected in this mammoth brick of a book fulfil both of those criteria.
Of course, there's a mass of expertise and sheer hard work behind hitÂting both of those criteria. The 40K universe is a
complicated and detailed one, and anyone reporting back from the front lines better know what they are talking about. But more
than that it has a certain true feel, a texture of dark despair and ceaseless conflict, a galaxy where mankind knows that pure survival
is worth any sacrifice, even its humanity.
There is also the comforting (if such a word can ever be used for such a devastated and wartorn time) knowledge that the 40K
universe is such a rich and varied one. Let's face it, it's a big galaxy out there. Over two decades, Warhammer 40,000 has
transcended its influences and taken on a living, breathing and above all fighting life of its own. This wide selection of tales from
this rich setting pokes an inquisitive eye into all corners, from the front lines where countless warriors battle under blazÂing skies,
to the dusty, most heretical corners where only the Inquisition dare to crawl. In the grim darkness of the future, we say, there is
only war. But what a war, fought on so many different battlefields, both traÂditional and obscure.
The traditional definition of any rattling good short story, as opposed to something longer and with complication such as a novel,
tends to involve the suggestion of a problem to be solved, or a twist away from the norm - a classic "but what if..." question. To
single out just one, there is a story you will soon be reading, one of my own favourites, that combines that approach with a knowing
piece of Warhammer 40,000 detail. In "Words of Blood", the set-up is a classic one. The noble Space Marine warriors, the Black
Templars, it is said, never retreat. Normally that's not a problem, says author Ben Counter, more a statement of their underlying
ethos as the galaxy's toughest elite - but what if they absolutely have to, what if retreat is the only possible way to defeat their
enemy? As you'll see shortly, it's not without a good deal of soul-searchÂing and dissension.
There's a Thunderhawk's payload worth of "what if..." in this collecÂtion and it's ready for take-off. Let the galaxy burn? You
heard what the great man said. Pull that lever.
- Marc Gascoigne The Inner Chambers of the Black Library, 2006
* Please believe us, we really did try to squeeze in forty. (Sorry.)
WE ARE THE SPACE MARINES, THE CHAMPIONS OF HUMANITY
WORDS OF BLOOD
Ben Counter
DAY HAD NEARLY broken on Empyrion IX. Commander Athellenas glanced above him at the stars fading against the light of the
planet's sun. He could still just see the silver dagger hanging in orbit, the renegade ship that was waiting to drop down onto the
lone spaceport and rescue the heathen horde that was stranded here.
He had thirty Marines. Thirty Marines to halt an army that never gave up, never felt pain, who existed only to draw blood from
the holy Imperium of man.
But Athellenas knew he must succeed. This temple on the outskirts of the planet's lone abandoned city dated back from the Great
Crusade, when the people of the Imperium spo...
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