The Calculus of Battle by David Guymer

Author:David Guymer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

Jallenhall shredded a pair of Tyranid warrior forms with bursts of bolter fire.

Jallenhall: ‘Unexpected reinforcements.’

For the second time in one day Stronos’s facial muscles tried to force an expression where there could be none. Centuries he had lived as one of the Iron Hands and still mortal could surprise him.

Jallenhall: ‘They come to our aid. What manner of angels do they choose to see in us,

I wonder.’

Magos Calculi: ‘Ratio now at two percent within the margin of error.’

Kardan Stronos: ‘We are sources of that error, magus. I will make the margin what I wish it to be.’

Stronos disconnected from the link, then issued his armor a mental command to isolate the platoon commander’s frequency and open a channel.

Kardan Stronos: ‘Return to the defensive line. We cannot hold them here. Turn back.’

The response was a hash of static. The platoon systems lacked the power of a standard Adeptus Astartes squad’s wargear, much less that of an Iron Hands’ command Clave. Stronos modulated his own signal power to compensate.

Tank Commander (over vox in static): ‘This is Lieutenant Jarro, requesting… (static) Throne, for you… (static) For the….’

Stronos held the signal power there.

Kardan Stronos: ‘Reverse, Lieutenant. Your priority is the evacuation. Turn back now.’

Panic noises punctuated the static.

Tank Commander (over vox in static): ‘But listen… Please…’

Stronos saw the Leman Russ’s long turret cannon begin to traverse. Levitating above the smaller bioforms like a fetal deformity displayed on an invisibly cushion was an atrophied creature with a cranium so vast that it had appeared to have withered its own limbs to order to feed its growth. Its eyes began to glow until turret incandescence sipped through the gaps in its exoskeleton. There was a pulse just as Stronos’s optics began to burr in protest of the witch light and a bolt of energy jabbed from the alien’s cranial ridge towards the row of vehicles.

FX - CHIMERA EXPLODING

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