The Dark City (Vaults of Terra: Warhammer 40,000 #3)

by Chris Wraight

The Throne itself, the physical object that forms the core of the entire machine, is certainly not of human origin. Hence the need, we hypothesise, for a subsystem to mediate between it and the occupant.’

‘And if it fails?’ the Custodian asked. ‘What then?’ The dwarf did not reply immediately. Even for a creature that had spent a lifetime purging emotion from itself, saying the actual words seemed difficult. ‘The end,’ it said eventually, its voice as empty as the frigid gulf between the stars. ‘The end of everything.’