Inquisitor Ashrael Ben Sahar was not pleased. His agents had brought him the Governor of Piety, alive and fit to be questioned, as well as useful information about the presence of heretics on the planet. But too many of his servants had been left behind by the idiots of the Imperial Guard, and the presence of both Xenos and the Ruinous Powers had neither been fully investigated or explained. He rounded up the rest of his retinue, press ganged the other evacuation survivors into service, and set off for the surface. Elsewhere in the same sector, Rogue Trader Calissa Perronix was equally angry. When her ship dropped out of the warp on the edge of the system, the Gellar Field briefly failed and the sanctioned psyker on her crew, old and wise though he was, finally lost his mind to the terrors of the immaterium. The horror he unleashed tore through the Explorator vessel and most of the crew in minutes. Calissa had seen a thousand horrors on the edge of the known galaxy, but w...
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