Short story idea a day for 2018.

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298. A collection of observances on a variety of naively optimistic 'first contact' meetings the T'au have conducted and their hilariously predictable results.

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299. A Daemon world right in the middle of the Great Rift becomes unstable as the Necron Tomb below the surface begins to activate, revealing that the mountains that criss-cross the planet to be formations that built up around Blackstone Pylons. The Greater Daemons look to end this threat to their, and the region's Immateriality.

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300. An Assassin from the Venenum Temple attaches himself to an Imperial Guard Regiment moving into a clash with a powerful Druhkari Kabal. His goal is to attain the samples of the poisons used by the Archon's Lhamaean courtesan for a future mission.

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301. An incredibly wealthy techno-baron was unable to prevent his children from being inducted into the Astra Militarum, but as they're the key to continuing his lineage, he'll do whatever he must to get them back. But will his actions against the Imperium be discovered?

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302. While stopping at the Penal World of Kormarg II to re-upp on their complement of penal legion conscripts, a curious Commissar and his retinue go snooping after a series of routine questions produce out of the ordinary reactions. They soon find that the conscripts have been influenced in heretical ways.

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303. The Eldar of Craftworld Ulthwé violently resist a T'au effort to capture and research a Webway gate.

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304. A mother, who was a veteran spacefarer, has to explain to her son that monsters are very much real, and more terrifyingly, that she won't always be there to protect him.

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305. An Arbites raid on a ganger enclave goes south when it's revealed that it was no outpost, but a major drug manufacturing operation, specifically a bootleg version of Fury, which sends users into uncontrollable fits of psychotic rage.

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306. A wounded sniper thinks quick and rewires a servo-skull and monitor to help provide intel to her Guard compatriots when she can no-longer provide overwatch fire.

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307. Word around the Pile O' Guns is that Bluefinga is trying to steal Ol' Cruzbug's Kombi-Scorcha, and that he's even devious enough to try and grab it during the fighting. There's a reason few Orks trust the Deathskulls, you know.

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308. Awakening to a pounding rotgut hangover, Jamaz realises he doesn't know why he has a knife covered in blood in his hand, or why he appears to be in the underhive.

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309. Three warring ganger factions come together to realize that their differences are really quite petty when they Orks invade, and as the most heavily armed faction next to the PDF, they attempt to rally together to defeat a common enemy. But has every ganger put aside their differences?

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310. A Knight-Baron wrestles with anger and sorrow as his House is tasked with decimating a Knight-World under the control of a Knightly House that has fallen to Chaos, a Knightly House he once regarded as the closest of allies.

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311. All of the available Librarians of the Libators Chapter and squads from the 1st Company race to board a Chaos Battleship after a Word Bearers Sorcerer tears the soul from the body of the Chapter Master, imprisoning it in a vessel. Can they recover the Chapter Master's soul and return it to his comatose body?

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312. A Deathwatch Kill Team faces a dilemma when a member from the Angels Encarmine falls into a berserk rage with all attempts to right his mental state failing, and the enemy threat lessening, he turns on the team.

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313. In a farsight trance, Eldrad Ulthran predicts his own death upon a Blackstone Fortress during a titanic battle, subtly, reading through countless skeins of fate, and their affects on other futures, he formulates a plan, centering upon a wolf with a maw dripping flame.

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314. It was understood by virtually all that the mission the Kemmendrier Heavy Infantry headed out on was all but suicide. But when the small band of survivors return to a platoon of Salvar Chem-Dogs plundering their base camp, pent-up emotion boils over into conflict.

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315. With the promise of aid from the shipyards of Hydraphur, a vertiable Ordo Malleus army with a contingent of Mechanicus Techsorcists and priests to recover an Emperor-Class battleship peripherally fused to a Space Hulk that is saturated in Chaotic energy. Recover the ship and the Ordo gains valuable material assistance.

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316. A team of high stakes plunderers attempts to insert themselves into a world ravaged by an Ork invasion to raid an abandoned Adeptus Fidicius counting house for riches and currency flow information. The city is supposed to have been passed through, but...

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317. As members of the Logos Historica Verita arrive on Necromunda to begin assembling a proper history of the Hive World, the authority they bare from Lord Commander Guilliman begins to make some brows in the Upper Hive sweat as they attempt to bury centuries of corruption.