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Marneus Calgar’s Barmy Army: 2009 Christmas Special

“What do you think about that weird Christmas song, ‘A Spaceman Came Travelling’?” “I think it should be illegal to write Christmas songs while on drugs, sir.” – Marneus Calgar and Dick Bannerman * It is the 41st Millennium. For … Continue reading

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Marneus Calgar’s Barmy Army – part 2

(PART TWO) The Long March where Calgar gets into a sticky situation and Brin Milo complains of carbuncles! (The big joke being that Calgar doesn’t in fact get into a sticky situation. He just gets sneezed on for no reason. … Continue reading

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Marneus Calgar’s Barmy Army: Part 1

= Ultramarine Chapter History = The Astonishing War Record of the Ultramarines 30th Millennium – The Ultramarines number at least 500,000 men. God, 500,000 of the sods. Thank the Lord for Horus. 31st Millennium – Horus leads the largest warhost … Continue reading

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Dwellers In the Past

Author’s note: Please take this work with a grain of salt. GW has written very little about the Necrons or their past. I’m taking what I know from the official canon and extrapolating wildly. Also bear in mind that the … Continue reading

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His Purpose

How did I gain this exalted position? The extraordinary roots of that, Unknown Reader, are to be found in the abbey of my roots, the abbey of my dreams – the abbey that, even now, I dare not name. -oOo- … Continue reading

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Armaneus the Abnormal

$100 Contest Entry by Th232 Armaneus was, to say the least, very well built. A fine example of human musculature, many men looked up to the impressive 6’2” specimen of humanity, who humbly bore the admiration of the mere mortals … Continue reading

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Darkness Drop Pod

$100 Contest Entry by Chris Reynolds ——— “Warriors,” the master’s tone carried a keen edge, “we have a problem to overcome.” We all knew. Not since our purge of Ymargl, a campaign so fierce and long-running that it resulted in … Continue reading

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Ten Minutes

The drop pod that contained Aether Squad hurtled through space towards the planet of Sepperus IV below. Thirty seconds later, it hit the death world’s atmosphere. There was an immediate reaction as the speed of the falling pod was halved and then quartered. Sergeant Verus winced as the inertia tugged on his body. His bolter – a special variant, modified with a silencer, like the one every member of Aether Squad bore – rattled, and the Veteran Sergeant grabbed onto it to keep it from falling. Then they made impact. Continue reading

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Soul of the Dragon

The Dragon Tithe The termagant leapt at him, hissing and snarling, its diamond-hard teeth snapping at his helmet, drawing long, thin gouges along the beak-like protrusion. Apothecary Messor batted the creature aside with his free arm, hurling it with as … Continue reading

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Through the Eyes of a Traitor

Damascus, veteran sergeant of the 1st Company. Ultramarine. Four hundred and sixty eight years old. Four and a half centuries of loyal service and constant warfare. Now naked. Arms and legs stretched to their limits, locked in chains with adamantium … Continue reading

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