Short story idea a day for 2018.

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138. In the middle of a sector in full blown conflict, Grand Master Azrael confers with the Grand Masters of the Angels of Vengeance and Persecutors of Darkness to keep outside forces distracted and obstructed as the Dark Angels attempt to corner a Fallen Angel on an embattled orbital plate.

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139. An Arbites task force closes in on an organization that creates black market and illegal servitors.

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140. At a council, a Choatic warhost led by differing Heretic Astartes warlords turns on itself as rivalries boil over and scores get settled.

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141. Called up, Karuso is given the honour of driving the boss, and her limo, overnight as she conducts her buisness. Good thing it's armoured.

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142. The newly raised 234th Necromundan Light Infantry are hit with a shock when their regiment is dropped onto a heavily forrested feudal world. The training deck sessions just aren't enough to help prepare for this return to nature.

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143. The Indigo Guard Chapter are rebuilding after a devastating campaign depleted their ranks to the point of near extinction. Brother Ossos, having received his Black Carapace is inducted into the 5th Company and receives his suit of power armour. While diligently inspecting it and getting acquainted with its machine spirit, he finds a message etched into his armour making grave implications about the Chapter command.

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144. The overnight driver of a cargo-six making his weary trip experiences a flash of light while driving, and then, well, he doesn't know. He's 4 kilometers off course and missing 3 hours of time. The only thing his instincts are telling him is that he needs to get off world, no time to lose.

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145. A family of Terran pilgrims is forced out of their spot in the pilgrimage line and must find a way to retake it or see two decades of progress ended.

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146. A group of Bonesingers guarded by Biel-Tan Guardians and a small group of Aspect Warriors attempt to bridge the gap between two large pieces of the fractured Craftworld. The taint left by the Masque, however, lingers with deadly potency.

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147. A standard day piloting a Valkyrie is exciting enough, but when a mysterious stranger corners Battrick during his post-flight checks alone, showing him a rosette with a sinster "I" and demanding he take him behind enemy lines immediately, the excitement gets a little too much to handle.

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148. In the midst of battle on a Hive World, Big Mek Boltsnappa finds the weapon he needs to complete his brand new project, he's just got to get the lance off the big stompy Imperial Knight first.

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149. The Shadowseer Sylandri Veilwalker approaches Salamanders Forgefather Vulkan He'stan on the Space Hulk Cry of the Abyss, after calming his violent instincts, she points him in the direction of a missing artefact known to the Salamanders as the Song of Entropy.

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150. In mid-M37, a Word Bearers warhost and fleet attempts to recapture the Gloriana-Class Battleship once known as the Chronicle of Ashes, now known as the Lex Talonis, flagship of the Nemesis Chapter.

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151. Two Planetary Defence Force soldiers in charge of a orbital missile silo recieve conflicting orders and must play out the scenario deciding what to do.

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152. An Earth Caste logistician discovers a plot perpetrated by Earth Caste and Fire Caste members with ties to Commander Farsight to funnel weapons, technology and supplies to the Farsight Enclaves. Not knowing who to trust, he attempts to gain an audience with the Ethereals.

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153. A feral Ork warlord finds his planet invaded by void-faring Ork kindred, but this is his planet and no fancy boss is gonna stomp on his hard earned turf.

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154. A Guard colonel comes to terms with his new bionic replacements after the brush with the Dark Eldar that should've killed him.

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155. A stow-away author on a Guard transport ship looking to write a book about what really happens in battle soon comes to understand why the censors are in place, as there are just some things the Imperial public should remain ignorant about.

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156. An Ork comes under the apprenticeship of the Warband's Dok, and finds that healing other Orks is more art than medicine. Art and brute force, with a little cunning mixed in. And trial and error. Lots of trial and error.

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157. Exterminatus survivors, time-locked deep in an underground vault, reach the end of their containment period and exit to find that a prediction of a post-apocalyptic wasteland are proven wrong finding a thriving Tau world.