The Death of Integrity
“Chapter serfs and full brothers alike snapped to attention. Servitors, oblivious to his rank, went about their ponderous business. A fragment of flesh half-hidden in a web of cybernetic command and life-support cables turned to the door – the remains of a brother. The entirety of the machine he occupied rotated with him.
‘Brother-Captain Galt, we have arrived in-system.’ ‘Brother-Captain Persimmon, how goes it?’ ‘A smooth translation, Novum in Honourum serves us faithfully as always.’ Persimmon... was a wreck of a man, crippled in battle by a vicious xenos species never encountered before or since. Neurotoxins had destroyed his limbs and much of his musculature. Only chance had brought him to the Novum in Honourum’s infirmary and not delivered the bolt of the Emperor’s Grace. The Apothecaries had been ready to send his soul to the Shadow Novum, where he would await the final call to battle from the Emperor. Yet he had lived, clawing his way back from the dead with his single, bloodied hand.MoreLess
‘Brother-Captain Galt, we have arrived in-system.’ ‘Brother-Captain Persimmon, how goes it?’ ‘A smooth translation, Novum in Honourum serves us faithfully as always.’ Persimmon... was a wreck of a man, crippled in battle by a vicious xenos species never encountered before or since. Neurotoxins had destroyed his limbs and much of his musculature. Only chance had brought him to the Novum in Honourum’s infirmary and not delivered the bolt of the Emperor’s Grace. The Apothecaries had been ready to send his soul to the Shadow Novum, where he would await the final call to battle from the Emperor. Yet he had lived, clawing his way back from the dead with his single, bloodied hand.MoreLess
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