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Overview: The Astra Militarum, commonly known as Imperial Guard, is the primary fighting force of the Imperium, so numerous in size that even the Departmento Munitorum cannot place a figure on the number of Guardsmen under arms at any one time; the lists of new recruits and toll of casualties can run into the millions in a single day. It would be unfeasible trying to put any exact number on the strength of the Guard; however, it is believed that there must be many billions of Guardsmen, divided into millions of regiments. This absolute numeracy provides the Guard with its main power; their ability to deploy in numbers that, eventually, result in victory. Attacking in seemingly endless influxes across battle-zones, charging forth under the cover of massive barrages and delivering massed lasgun volleys, in the Guard the individual Human soldier may appear a lost thing, almost forgotten. Yet the actions of these anonymous soldiers daily decide the fate of worlds. In times of crisis the Imperial Guard will call upon their deadliest of soldiers, whether they are the Imperium's famed Storm Troopers or the regimental elite Kasrkin and Grenadiers.
Genre: Fantasy
In Service Eternal
On the world of Antropia, the skies are watched by the Valkyries of the 41st Aerial Division. Led by Wing Commander Arden Graves, his veteran pilots vouchsafe the Adeptus Mechanicus mining teams slowly boring out the planet's core for minerals vital to the Imperial war machine. But when contact with the deepest of the servitor teams is lost, Graves and his Valkryies are sent to find out why and in doing so discover what lurks at the heart of Antropia.
The Trophy
As the greenskins of Waaagh! Ugskraka spread across Balle Prime, a high-ranking Imperial general is lost, his transport shot down by crude ork fighters. He must be rescued from the alien hordes – a job for the scions of the Militarum Tempestus. Tribune Leander and his men head into the heart of the enemy force, battling both the jungle and the greenskins as they search for their target – but even as they close on the general, they are being hunted by a force more savage and ruthless than they can imagine…
The Emperor's Grace
When Balle Prime is engulfed by a savage ork invasion, the forces of the Imperium arrive to destroy the greenskins and restore order to the world. The Imperial Navy launch bomber wings to wreak havoc upon the invaders, amongst them The Emperor's Grace. Captain Mikal Bernd and his crew embark on a mission to destroy a vital ork fortification. But with ork fighters on their tail, will they survive for long enough to complete their mission?
Monolith
On the world of Ophel Minoris, a warband of Chaos Space Marine Raptors has laid siege to the mysterious Monolith structures that dot the surface. Their purpose is unclear. The local Astra Militarum defenders have been overrun, and their distress call for reinforcements has been answered by Sergeant Zachariah of the Elysian 158th. Doing what they do best, the drop troops under his command will take the fight to the enemy on the ground or in the skies themselves, if needs be...
Longshot
Transplant. Cadian. Sniper. Legend. Sergeant Darya Nevic is all of these and more...but behind the stories stands a soldier haunted by the unwelcome fame her successes have brought. During the Cadian 217th’s assault on the manufactorum world of Attruso, Darya finds herself out of her depth, in a war that is fought with words as much as with weapons. As a fearsome winter closes in and her men begin to die around her, she will be forced to confront her doubts and make an impossible choice – to become the figurehead her soldiers need, or to believe the unimaginable promises of the mysterious t’au. With the fate of her regiment in her hands, which path will she choose?
Left For Dead (Short Story)
After the horrors of war and the devastation of a world, one unnamed trooper from the Death Korps of Krieg – vat-born, grown to be a soldier – has had enough. Removing his uniform, he takes the identity of a fallen civilian and joins the workforce on the world he fought to liberate. But can this soldier overcome his conditioning and training and serve the Imperium in a new way, or will he forever be a warrior of the Astra Militarum?