Short story idea a day for 2018.

[interrogatorchaplain]

238. A pitched battle sees the Necrons of the Novohk Dyansty steadily pushing back the Imperial defenders, until one of the Imperial heavy tanks lands a devastating blow on the Tesseract Vault imprisoning a shard of the Crimson God. The unwillingly captive C'tan breaks free and suddenly the Crimson King must regain control of the rampaging demi-god.

[interrogatorchaplain]

239. A platoon of Tempestus Storm Troopers along with a battle psyker investigate a distress signal the has turned off and on twice on an orbital platform by the system's Mandeville Point. Finding nothing amiss except for the crew being a little lighter than the manifest dictates, the attached psyker follows a feeling to a crew member hiding and ranting about the rest of the station being... enslaved.

[interrogatorchaplain]

240. The Ministorum sets a trap to draw out heretics by creating a "funerary fleet" for a fallen Living Saint, along with a Navy battlegroup to pounce on the heretics when they engage.

[interrogatorchaplain]

241. With an Imperial world more or less conquered, the Tzeentchian warhost begins its post-war dedications and sacrifices to Tzeentch, until they're set upon by a warhost dedicated to Malice led by the Sons of Malice themselves. With the ritual underway, it would catastrophic to halt it, so a desperate defence begins.

[interrogatorchaplain]

242. The breakdown of Imperial order after a civilised world goes under strict quarantine is observed, including the planetary blockade, the effects of the heretek techno-plague and the shadowy Grey Knights rapid assaults.

[interrogatorchaplain]

243. Seizing on the inertia of their movement, a mutant takes hold of her destiny and rallies the other mutated underhive dwellers, no longer will the world crush them underfoot, they will strike back.

[interrogatorchaplain]

244. A citizen turned warrior teams up with an Ecclesiarch priest to end a secret threat festering in the city, but as their fight forces the warrior to use a weapon tainted by Chaos, he and the priest must attempt to cleanse the mark left on his soul.

[interrogatorchaplain]

Out of town Saturday, posting 245 early.

245. Upon the completion of her aptitude testing, a young T'au is selected for the Vior'la Sept's shadowy infiltration and espionage initiative.

[interrogatorchaplain]

246. A squadron of Sentinels is joined by a trio of Knight Armiger Warglaives as they attempt to batter the flank on the main advance of an Ork warhost.

[interrogatorchaplain]

247. A squad of Guardsmen working their way through a raided Mechanicus scientific complex are met by the astral projection of a Space Marine Librarian who says he's trapped and needs assistance. Following his instructions, they're led into peril, that's when the Librarian tells them he's engaged in a psychic battle with a Chaotic Sorceror impersonating him and leading them astray.

[interrogatorchaplain]

248. A look at the life of the owner and doorman for a mid-hive speakeasy, what he's done and what he's seen, is chronicled.

[interrogatorchaplain]

249. When a Space Hulk translates in system near the T'au world of Vior'la, a response team is sent in to investigate what threat the Hulk poses and whether it can be destroyed without spreading something sinister to the planet.

[interrogatorchaplain]

250. As fighting continues apace out in the less dense countryside of an industrial world, a hypercane moves in from the coast sending both the Guard and their heretic counterparts scrambling and fighting for shelter. But as the weather worsens outside, the soldiers seeking shelter wonder how empty their erstwhile refuges are.

[interrogatorchaplain]

251. Necron Overlord Kormeno'sheth of the Agdagath dynasty makes a final, all-or-nothing push against the rapidly multiplying Flayed One hordes on the world Tyr.

[interrogatorchaplain]

252. When Ork reinforcements shift the balance of power against the Crimson Fists, the siege on the Ork stronghold is abandoned and must attempt to safely extricate a true Chapter relic, the last remaining Mastodon heavy siege transport in the Chapter's armoury.

[interrogatorchaplain]

253. When the T'au invade, a father is torn between defending the civitas or ensuring the safety of his family.

[interrogatorchaplain]

254. A Hellfire Bolter round, from the gathering of materials, to construction, to distribution, to chambering, to firing and the aftermath, is observed.

[interrogatorchaplain]

255. A security officer in the security office at a Millitarum command center coordinates an investigation through the monitors, as inconsistencies in routines are observed.

[interrogatorchaplain]

256. When Guardsmen recruited from a planet where the citizenry are routinely subjugated by the ruling class, tensions are brought to the breaking point when their latest deployment sees them garrisoned in an upper class district before the outbreak of war.

[interrogatorchaplain]

257. A Tzeentchian arch-sorceror aims to ascend to daemonhood by using a daemon-infused Warp Drive created by hereteks to open portals near the Eldar craftworld Ementoshilar, tearing it apart piece by piece. There's only the little issue of the Craftworld fleet to deal with first.