Short story idea a day for 2018.

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258. A single minded Ork Warboss confounds the wiles of a Slaaneshi Herald preying upon his ambitions.

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259. A Tzeentch sorceror unleashes a curse that causes those affected to lose their corporeality.

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260. Attempting to capture an Ethereal alive, a Crimson Guard Tactical Squad boards the exterior hull of a Manta as it takes flight and a skirmish battle ensues on the hull as the Marines attempt to gain access inside.

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261. A coven of heretics attempts to avoid capture as a Hereticus Inquisitor instigates a hive-wide witch hunt.

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262. As the defence against the Deathwatch fails upon multiple fronts and after decades of massacres, while the Imperial doomsday weapons are prepared, the last remaining Lok'kroll begin the ritual to transcend to the next plane of existence.

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263. A large group of feudal world scout rangers set off to deal with the savage Ork threat that has been menacing their village.

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264. As the Grey Knights close in on a insidiously potent daemon cornered on an ocean world, a task force of black armoured Adeptus Custodes Custodians arrives in system claiming jurisdiction and responsibility for subduing the Grey Knights quarry.

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265. Horticulus Slimux, chief garderner of Nurgle's Plague Garden, sets his eye on a new centerpiece for an expansion to the garden, a great tree on an Eldar Maiden world infused with the Spirit Stones of hundreds of thousands of fallen Aeldari.

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266. Having driven a substantial warhost of Alaitoc Eldar into a stalemate, the infections spread by the Great Unclean One Rotigus's Great Deluge begin to enfeeble and grind down the Aeldari, the plague robbing them of their will to fight. But a cry for help is answered by the Avatar of Ynnead, the Yncarne, begs the question of if there will be salvation in death.

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267. Post-space battle, a beleaguered Imperial fleet rallies its forces and counts its lost when a energy spike from deep space sparks an inquiry from the Master of the Sensorium. Powerful ordinance from the fight that missed its intended target, collided and exploded against something in deep space just outside the system and is now giving off energy readings like a caged star.

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268. A traitor-Guardsmen special forces unit is the first to make way into an Imperial Militarum command complex but is met by the first element of serious resistance, a full group of fully activated Arco-Flagellants.

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269. A Prefecture Magisterium magos goes on the hunt for an artificer who's weapons are intentionally faulty.

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270. A Space Marine and a Noise Marine have both been captured by the Dark Eldar for the purposes of gladatorial combat, the Dark Eldar aim to have them battle mega-fauna together, but death is easily more preferable to working with either a tainted being of the ruinous powers or a servant of the Corpse Emperor.

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271. An expansion into a jungle death world requires careful coordination between the scouts who verify the route is secure and the Hellhound and Sentinel teams that clear the way. Add a saboteur to the mix, however, and the result is disastrous.

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272. At the apex of conquest and moment of triumph, the perceived allies, Daemon Princes of Slaanesh and Tzeentch, turn on each other to reap the glory of conquest alone, giving the Aeldari a crucial chance to regroup.

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273. As the tide of battle turns against the Tyranids, a Lictor recieves a psychic impulse from the Hive Mind. A perilous sneak attempt later, the Lictor has cocooned itself on the inside shoulder armour of a Warlord Titan, camouflaged, the Lictor hitches a ride back to Gryphonne IV, where it must carefully extricate itself from the Legio's vaunted halls to become a living beacon for the Hive Mind.

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274. A Salamander, feeling stifled by what he see's as weakness in the Chapter's humanity finds kinship with his foes when his strike force is decimated by Huron Blackheart's Red Corsairs. Offered a chance to cast off his allegiances to a weak civilization, he readily accepts.

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275. The captain of a Q-Ship prepares to surprise the pirate force that believes they've encircled helpless merchant freighters.

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276. After two years of steady peace following decades of civil war, the deep psychological trauma in the Lord-Governor's psyche conjures an enemy where none exists, resulting in violent crackdowns on the citizenry and threatens to plunge the world back into civil strife.

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277. A Deathwatch Captain and his Kill-Team nearly come to blows with an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor who fails to conceal the Jokaero Weaponsmith in his retinue.