Godkiller by Nicholas Woode-Smith

Author:Nicholas Woode-Smith [Woode-Smith, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-15T22:00:00+00:00

“The heretic races know not of duty. They are rudderless animals. At best, they merely bray pitifully into the wind. At worst, and more usually, they only serve to bring chaos to the galaxy we seek to protect.” – Va’gai Dolys, Edal Warrior-Preacher from the early Theocratic Period.

Chapter 8. Duty

The Golden Galleon lost over half its crew. But despite the damage they had wreaked on the Council ship, they still received a worthy haul. Classified documents to be copied and sold to Imperia’s enemies, ornaments, weapons, scrap and hostages. Quite a few Legionnaires survived the battle and were ransomed back to their respective families. A few were members of noble houses, and individually made them more coin than most entire raids. They stripped the ship at a pirate space station just outside of Imperial space. Altogether, all surviving crew members came out of the endeavour richer than they could ever otherwise have been.

Above the crew’s cut, most of the coin went to funding Kei’s planned rebellion. Eri, for some reason, had put a lot of faith in Kei. Rather than the growth of rebellion being a relief to him, he now felt under a lot of pressure. He fought down this unease, however. This was the path he had chosen.

But despite his confidence in convincing Eri to fight alongside him, he didn’t actually have a plan – yet.

The rebellion had begun with the boarding of the Council Ship and the slaying of the de facto Imperial ruler under the Martyr. The Council had reportedly been in shambles finding a replacement. They had struck the hardest blow against Imperial authority ever recorded.

But it wasn’t enough.

Kei knew he needed to raise the stakes. They couldn’t do something like that again, in their current state. They needed more rebels. They needed a fleet. They needed planets. Most of all, they needed a way to kill a god.

He left the mundane affairs of preparing the rebellion to Eri, who began recruiting militants among allied pirates. With an increasingly growing fleet, they began disseminating Kei’s flyers and books throughout the Fringe and even the core worlds. Filfs across hundreds, if not already thousands, of worlds were now reading Kei’s heretical texts.

Eri used the coin from the Council Ship to upgrade the Galleon and outfit new ships and crews. Without the need to fly completely under the Imperial radar, Eri armed a true armada of pirates to raid Imperial freighters and even troop transports. In some cases, they didn’t even board. They just used the railgun to completely annihilate the cheaper Legion and Star Horde transports. Most of the time, they used this vast scale raiding to fund their operations. When their affairs became too dangerous for any black market kur’dal to do business with them, they turned away from the Fringe, working with Exanoid and Human traders to arm their rebellion.

Here, Kei learnt where Eri got so much of her eccentricity. Humans, especially, were an odd bunch. Exanoids almost matched them in their eccentricity. They suited one another, despite their vastly different appearances.

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