Short story idea a day for 2018.

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98. Having survived his tenure in the Imperial Guard, a retired general finds out that while a paradise planet is beautiful and restful, intrigue and politicking are just as dangerous outside the service as inside the Guard.

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99. An Administratum error sees the warriors of Tallarn deployed to an ice world, faced with Dark Eldar raiders, the men and women of the Desert Raiders, must work with the local populace to brave the sinister Drukhari and the elements themselves.

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100. The life and times of a family line that comes to Terra as pilgrims hoping to make pilgrimmage to the Eternity Gate is documented.

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101. The Rogue Trader Joff Zuckerman catches wind of his old nemesis, the renegade Marine Captain, Adharon and his Reavers, while participating in the Indomitus Crusade. He calls upon his old family Charter's ties to the Imperium by petitioning for assistance from the Charter signatory himself, Roboute Guilliman.

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102. A young girl on Catacha is tasked with watching over her baby brother as her mother and neighbours deal with the local fauna threatening the village. This is her first test of survival.

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103. A comet employed as a failed weapon by the Orks millenia ago ironically strikes a feral world lightyears from the intended target, opening a new front of the war.

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104. The life of a Space Marine, killed almost immediately in his first engagement upon elevation to Battle-Brother, is recounted. Because, sometimes, that's just the way it goes.

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105. With a member of the Fallen escaping by air transport, it falls to Grand Master Sammael to catch the prey and bring him to justice.

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106. The Knights of House Cadomere gather for the deca-annual tradition of the Red Ascension, where a low-born member of Ulmera are given a chance to ascend the Knightly ranks as long as they can defeat their opponents in Armiger chassis Knights in a winner take all battle-royale.

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107. A decade out from the opening of the Great Rift, the shield worlds fall and total war has reached the sulphur-yellow sands of the Forge World Antax. With aid on the other side of the Rift, the Mechanicus have little choice but to activate the most ancient war machines of the Legio Cybernetica in Antax's defence.

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108. A squad of Black Talons Scouts are hours into a recon of a Necron tomb when they begin to catch glimpses of garishly dressed, lithe figures and soon the tomb begins to activate.

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109. A newly elevated Battle-Brother inspects his new suit of power armour and learns its history and temperament.

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110. Revelations from a xenos captive prompt the Deathwatch Watch Master from the Guardians of the Covenant Chapter to undergo subterfuge to pass this new information back to Grand Master Azrael of the Dark Angels regarding the whereabouts of the Fallen.

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111. Having vanquished a great evil and having survived, just, the Canoness of the Order of the Fiery Heart, in a rare event, deems the pennance of a disgraced Sister completed and she is welcomed back to the Order.

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112. A World Eaters champion stirs from a millenia long pleasure coma to find that the blood he'd spilt over the millenia has been nothing but a dream forced on him by his nemesis, a Slaaneshi daemon prince.

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113. Desperate times call for desperate measures, as such, Lord Guilliman calls upon the Relictors and offers an olive branch, with conditions.

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114. Panic and confusion is observed at the ground level through the eyes of a shopkeep at the very beginning of an Ork invasion.

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115. In a battle against daemons, the warriors of the Sons of Medusa are joined by Eldar in blood red armour. Upon the successful conclusion, the Eldar Warlock musters all her power to revive a fallen Marine to the consternation and suspicion of the Sons of Medusa. The Aeldari Warlock saying only that his death never should have occurred and that he will be important later.

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116. When Ork Kommando Badlaff isn't sneaking upon the enemy in battle, Badlaff's favourite downtime activity is instigating fights between other Orks without getting caught. Tonight Badlaff will attempt to get the biggest laugh of all when the Warboss meets with his chief Nobs.

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117. Activists for the "Servitor Liberation Front" stage a guerilla raid on a Mechanicus facility that carries out the ghoulish process.