The Zheng Cipher
- Setting
- Warhammer 40,000
- Type
- Short Story
- First published
- 27 Apr 2015
- Length
- 18 pp · ~20m
- Reader rating
- ★ 3.77 from 61 ratings
- ISBN-13
- 9781782516958
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Synopsis
As the mining world of Kotir-8 falls to the hive fleets of the monstrous alien tyranids, the arrival of a force of skitarii under Alpha Vanguard 6-Friest seems like an Omnissiah-sent miracle to the planet’s battered survivors. But as the radiation-soaked skitarii vanguard hold off the tyranids, their true motives for arriving on Kotir-8 come into question. Are they there to save the people of the planet - or do their Adeptus Mechanicus overseers have something more sinister in mind?