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Atrophy

Setting
Warhammer 40,000
Type
Short Story
First published
2014
Length
11 pp · ~12m
Reader rating
★ 3.45 from 33 ratings
ISBN-13
9781782514817
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Synopsis

On a damned world, the Emperor's Children warband of Eusabius the Proud carve their way through the soldiers of the Imperial Guard who defend the doomed human population. The killing is too easy for Kerbalkalyth, fallen scion of the III Legion, who wants a greater challenge' an ambition that is realised when the Emperor's Finest arrive, Space Marines in armour of crimson and white, ready to give Kerbalkayth the fight of his life. Read it because Culling hordes of humans on a damned world, Kerbaklalyth of the Emperor's Children is bored of the easy slaughter. The arrival of loyalist Space Marines changes everything'