Short story idea a day for 2018.

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158. A Deathwing Spartan Assault Tank is immobilized in the middle of a thrust upon an Iron Warriors Fortress, and Belaphor, Master of the Forge, must repair the damage in the middle of a battlefield to restart the charge, while the Deathwing Knights disembark to hold off the daemonic assault.

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159. A Grey Knights force supervises an early Mechanicus test involving Blackstone after rumours of catastrophic failures. The rumours were true.

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160. Having been banished back to the Warp, a Khornate Daemon Prince bides its time fighting the never ending tide of Waaaagh Tuska in the shadow of Khorne's Brass Citadel.

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161. An Alpha Legion plot with Loxatl mercenaries to assassinate Lord High Admiral Merelda Pereth at the Jovian Shipyards during a christening of an Emperor-Class battleship is undertaken.

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162. A Titanicus Princeps and Magos hatch a plan to go mercenary, freeing themselves from the restrictions of the Mechanicus for science and profit. The first issue will be their extraction plan and escaping the bondage of the Legio Gryphonnicus.

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163. When their Thunderhawk Transporter ditches in a sea, the Solar Hawks Marines inside their Land Raider must figure out a way to get back in the fight.

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***Spoiler for: Black Legion***

164. Sol System monitors react to the arrival of a Black Templars ship broadcasting a mayday. They find the craft and upon boarding find the body of the first Black Templars High Marshal, Sigismund. The High Lords of Terra are soon summoned to inspect the craft in person.

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165. A native populace of a newly colonized world struggles against the newly arrived Imperial settlers to worship the Emperor in the way they always have.

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166. A group of treasure hunting Mechanicus Explorators find an unassuming relic in an derelict hive that turns out to be the plug to a Chaotic curse.

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167. An Imperial Guard dropship takes a big hit mid-flight, and has to crash land, luckily into a yielding bog that absorbs the impact, but now threatens to drown the survivors as the fight to escape the wreckage and the hostiles moving in on the downed dropship.

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168. An Eldar cruiser is boarded by a Slaaneshi warband as they hunt for the soulstone repository on board, the confusing structure will slow them down, but with the beasts they brought to 'sniff' out the soulstones, it won't be an impediment for long.

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169. The Phoenix Lord Maugan Ra, embarks on a quest to the Crone World Faebensh'eliar with the Exarch Nehaelios to gather the necessary components to forge a great new weapon.

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170. Things get tense for the Gue'Vesa auxillaries when their Tau commanders are killed in combat and the Kroot allies question whether the humans are allies or sustenance.

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171. The Earth Caste and Fire Caste commit a pair of new Supremacy type Battlesuits for field tests in a theater of combat where known Traitor Titans are present. Will this be enough to meet the titanic threat?

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172. The Lord of Contagion Pustulor and the Hand of Filth warband board a command space station during the Battle of the Startide Nexus intent on reaping 539 skulls as an offering for Nurgle. The Tau mount a blistering resistance as their Commander, Shadowsun, attempts to quarantine the threat.

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173. With the Imperium split in two, the Khorne lord Zhufor the Impaler runs rampant through the Imperium, collecting more and more skulls and the favour for Khorne, and unbeknownst to him, the ire of the Dark Master, Be'lakor.

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174. An Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor from the Anomolian Beholders sub-faction raids a ritual performed by a pair of radical Inquisitors studying a ritual in which a man who has been the vessel for a daemon and has had it exorcised is sacrificed to study the effects on his soul.

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175. The leaders of a civil uprising with their backs against the wall strike a deal with a giant in green power armour and a great big sword on his back without fully understanding the consequences.

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176. At a ruling council meeting, the elders of the Ff'eng debate the merits of joining the T'au Empire versus going it alone in a hostile galaxy.

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177. As the tide turns in a battle, a Guardsman sniper paired with a spotter who hates him finds himself deserted as the push falters and the enemy surges forward. The options are stark, press forward alone or find the man who left him for dead.