I always go back and edit the previous chapter after feedback from my Patreons. Usually these changes are small and not worth noting. This time I added an extra 300 words to clear up some confusion. I also put Killovie back in. I can't believe I forgot about her! You don't have to re-read it for this chapter to make sense, but those who were a little confused about all the fleet action the first time, may find this second attempt easier to read.
I am still unsur...
2025-11-17 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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I watch Arch-Magos Vilhelm Warick Wahh toddle off, his incense burner swinging from his tail-like mechadendrite. Dear Emperor! How many hints and humiliations must I pile on one man before he fucks off! Dare I say that Lyre was more subtle and less irritating?
With a huff, I stand, check the Xenos Librarium for any surveillance that Vilhelm might have ‘forgotten’ and find none. I secure the room, then return to work. Unlike what I told Vilhelm, I do not immediately send a stealth dr...
2025-11-14 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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I say, “I believe that Saint Dirk is still alive as there is a potent ritual active on the Gloriana that is preventing the aura of Saints from repressing Daemons within the system. I could be misunderstanding the ritual's purpose, but they would not sustain such a thing without good reason.”
Vilhelm makes the Sign of the Cog, “What a relief! I would never live down the shame of losing the Lathe’s Saint. I know little of Sorcery though its presence is no surprise.”
Vilhel...
2025-11-10 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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85 days after our attack on the Excipio Stations I have a personal meeting with one of the recovered Lathe Tech-Priests. I am browsing the Xenos Librarium when they arrive. Nothing says ‘I have more authority than you’ to a Tech-Priest than a Library of proscribed knowledge.
Artisan Laisren Toolin has proposed miniaturising our mechanical Gellar Fields into a cybernetic to improve on our Warding Electoos or, at the very least, finding a way to fit them to all our vehicles and Void C...
2025-11-07 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The response by the Chaos Armada is rather disproportionate as they send three fleets after us and two more towards Lycocidae. The rest salvage what they can from the Excipio Stations and muster around Cella.
15 days after our attack, the second and third fleet arrives...
2025-11-03 16:00:23 +0000 UTC
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I will have significantly less time to write next week, as such, there may be delays when posting chapters. Friday the 7th is the chapter I am most uncertain about. It is possible that there will be one chapter next week and three chapters for the week starting on the 10th of November, or whatever else I have to do to ensure you get your chapters. I will keep you all updated and maintain my usual schedule if possible. I haven't missed a date yet and I would love to keep it that way!
2025-10-31 16:00:27 +0000 UTC
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I lie within the Navigator Spire’s private surgical suite. Alpia and Brigid watch over me, trying to look calm and mostly succeeding.
“Dad, are you ready?”
“Yes. E-SIM’s automated systems have already accepted my understanding of Hyper Intelligence along with all the data we have collected. It felt rather strange to submit homework again after so long!”
Brigid kisses me, “If you wake up as another person, I will be hitting that purge button myself.”<...
2025-10-27 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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After a minute of silence, Abbisine looks away from the hololith and walks over to me, her mechadendrites tracking the hololith behind her.
“Good day, Aldrich. Are you sure your augurs are not in error?”
“Hello to you too, Abbisine. Every vessel is showing near identical results to what you see here. Would you be so kind as to clarify what we should be seeing? None of my vessels have ever visited the Lathes and I would like to confirm that my records are correct.”
Ab...
2025-10-24 15:00:18 +0000 UTC
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“Good riddance to bad rubbish,” says Alpia. “Are we done with the serious talk? I want to get started on reading Dad’s Warp Tap STC.”
I look down at Brigid and she nods.
“Alright! Send me out, Dad!”
I wave and Alpia disappears. Brigid remains with me to chat while two of my concurrent minds talk with Alpia simultaneously, one sharing the Hyper Intelligence research and the other discussing the Warp Tap STC.
It takes us 156 days ...
2025-10-20 15:00:24 +0000 UTC
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Brigid, Alpia and I continue our walk along the beach. The rolling fog around us muffles the distant roars of fighting Daemons as our heavy steps crunch against the yellow sand.
“You believe that Alpia might be...
2025-10-17 15:00:21 +0000 UTC
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As Stellar Fleet SOL rockets away from Scintilla, Brigid and Alpia ambush me in my private laboratory.
Both of them are wearing clean and ironed officers uniforms, their rank insignias meticulously stitched into their red jackets in gold thread. I stand and greet them, then direct them to my office, a cosy room line...
2025-10-13 15:00:18 +0000 UTC
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I am contemplating using Warp and Weft to assist Marius with his spilled drink when my Rapid Decision Engine pings me: Marius is acting. He’s surprised, but spilling his drink was deliberate.
Marius grabs a handful of napkins and furiously rubs his leg, “Drat. Those were made from natural spider’s silk. A rare luxury from one of my Feudal Worlds. Please excuse me, I need to change.”
Marius storms off, his face displaying irritation and pompous outrage. Wi...
2025-10-10 15:00:17 +0000 UTC
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“That is a delightful change of pace,” I say. “Gratitude is the grease of civilization, one that no amount of sacred oils can replace.”
Ignato smirks and Marius laughs.
“Well, consider yourself well lubricated,” says Marius.
“Agreed,” says Ignato. “For men at our level though, that isn’t quite enough. Marius and I spent the hour before you arrived arguing about an appropriate gift. What does one get for a man who already has everything?”
Marius sa...
2025-10-06 15:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Herald of the Stars moved from Dollars to Pounds on 02/10/25. Tiers have changes from $3, $5, & $10 to £3, £5, & £10.
I suggest that all my subscribers, especially the British ones, check if redoing your pledge will save you money, otherwise you'll be paying Patreon's conversion fee into dollars, then I get charged to change them back to pounds!
Please take note that redoing your pledge is final, and I have no way of changing i...
2025-10-03 15:00:18 +0000 UTC
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As I am working with JK-404, checking the growth tanks filled with the first set of foetuses spliced with Hyper Intelligence, Killovie, my Vanus Assassin, sends me a data feed. Somewhat dreading the latest stunt she’s gotten up to after her last live streaming event, I click on the link and am treated to a view of Alpia striding up to the Tricorn Palace.
Dawn Garnet walks beside Alpia on one side, and Verlin Tigernach, entombed within his Geist Pattern Dreadnought, walks on t...
2025-09-29 15:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Good day to all my readers!
This notice is to remind you all of the upcoming changes to Herald of the Stars subscription on Wednesday 1st October, 2025. I will, hopefully, be changing currencies from dollars to pounds.
The currency change will result in a small price increase for new subscribers. If you want to grab that permeant discount, this is your last chance.
If you missed the first post on this issue (8th September), or want to refresh your memory of the details, you ...
2025-09-29 14:55:01 +0000 UTC
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Raphael’s hands pause for the briefest moment as he screws the lid back on the bruise cream. His breath hitches slightly and his heart rate accelerates for two beats, then steadies. A normal Human would not have noticed, but I am Machine, not Man.
“I am disappointed in you, Raphael,” I say. “I asked a question, but the answer matters little. Either you let someone hit you with your gun to make your little story seem more convincing, or you were disarmed and pistol whipped...
2025-09-26 15:00:17 +0000 UTC
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My holiday lasts for three days. It is a strange experience, though not unpleasant. After my personal revelation, I no longer view spending such time as wasteful and would be willing to repeat it. I use my own memories to remain consistent in my behaviour, using it as a filter to know what is kind and thoughtful and what is not.
By the end of our brief reprieve, Quaani has regained a little of his cheer and Annette is more relaxed. Young George is showing a good understanding of what pe...
2025-09-22 15:00:21 +0000 UTC
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James freeman, Mikael Persson, Joel Carreras, CalamityFerret, and Madeline M, thank you so much for signing up to Herald of the Stars. This story would not exist without your help and I am most grateful that you're willing to help me.
A special shout out to abowden this week for asking the right question, one that really helped me nail down the end of this chapter. I feel much better about it now. Cheers!
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We arrive at Port ...
2025-09-19 15:00:21 +0000 UTC
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I set aside Warlock Pacts and You, letting the book float beside me, and read the introduction to Soul Cultivation for Paranoid Weebs.
The second book is all new knowledge. I like getting rewarded for efforts yet a glance at the endless sand dunes populating my soulscape makes me wince. I can’t help but feel I get singled out when it comes to saving the galaxy.
Then again, unlike most Imperial Heroes, I have survived my beatings. I’m also the one who de...
2025-09-15 15:00:17 +0000 UTC
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For the next two weeks, the Stellar Fleet sends wrecked void ships into the silver rift. We record images of the Star Child floating in the centre of the rift and note the stabilizing effect His presence has on The Maw. The opportunists in the system are quick to flee once we start pulling away their cover and we let them go. A few daring officers in their hulls demand answers. The Stellar Fleet, however, maintains its silence.
I have not been feeling like myself, more so than us...
2025-09-12 15:00:16 +0000 UTC
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I say, “You, Balor, a member of an ascetic style Astartes Chapter, are not prone to introspection? I find that difficult to believe. I acknowledge that reminders of one’s own weaknesses are never pleasant, but it is our flaws that define who we are. When we say ‘The Flesh is Weak’ it is not just the physical that Cult Mechanicus is referring to. It is the doubts and questions within our minds. The prayer continues with: ‘I crave the strength and certainty of steel’.
2025-09-08 15:00:17 +0000 UTC
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To all Herald of the Stars members,
With Herald of the Stars coming up on three years of publication I have decided to make a small change.
Patreon has altered many options in its menus for creators over the years and for some time now, I can get them to pay me in pounds, not dollars.
When I first set everything up, this was not possible, so I've been paying for everything to be converted into dollars, and then in to pounds. As one might imagine, this costs me hundreds of po...
2025-09-08 14:45:02 +0000 UTC
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“Aldrich, we never saw most of what you talked about,” says Bedwyr. “Neither could I understand much of what you spoke about from the context. I imagine that everyone else is in the same boarding torpedo. We understood that you are proud of us, and trust us with secret information, but what that is, and what is supposed to be secret and what is not, I have no clue.”
I cover my face with my hand and gently run my hand down my face, then mumble “Machine-God save me from my erron...
2025-09-05 15:00:24 +0000 UTC
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I set my shuttle down in Enlightened Self-Interest’s hangar and quell my spiralling thoughts. Focusing on the practical helps steady me and work out what I must do next. Today feels like it wrecked every plan I had.
“E-SIM. What is your status?”
++Aldrich, the Emperor’s veil over my systems has been lifted. The Enlightened Self-Interest is in poor condition and will require significant resources to repair. Were you to shove every vessel in the Battlegroun...
2025-09-01 15:00:23 +0000 UTC
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What lesson?! I scream in my head.
My thoughts go unanswered and the Star Child turns back to the PD psy-lance and fires it at Tzeentch.
A beam of golden light streaks across the Warp. Its light washes over mine and Alpia’s bodies and shimmers over my strike force. The energy is warm and fierce, carrying the wrath and hope of generations of Humans. Whispers fill the Warp, uncountable voices overwhelming my senses with ten millennia of prayers.
With a lazy wave ...
2025-08-29 15:00:20 +0000 UTC
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It was lovely to see such a positive response to chapter 305. Thank you, everyone, for your kind words and extra hearts!
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I see Enlightened Self-Interest to my right, looming over all four towers and their humungous guns. Above us all, the enemy fleet flounders. The escorting vessels are down to 70 void ships. The Ark of Omen, Evenus’ Dance Macabre, has been struck 768 times in the last eight hours, each shot stripping u...
2025-08-25 15:00:19 +0000 UTC
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This chapter did not go how I planned at all. Once again, I was struck with inspiration and I gleefully leapt into the abyss. It was going to be a brawl with Marabas. Now you have something different that I hope is far more interesting.
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I expected Warp fire and lightning to crash upon my army. What I get is one spell, a Static Fog that mutes sound, and cuts off all auspex and standard vox. A singular, malicious will fills the cloud a...
2025-08-22 15:00:18 +0000 UTC
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E-SIM’s powerful bombardment cuts through the cloud of Daemons, revealing more wrecked ships. The vessels are promptly swarmed once again, their hulls cooling from the massive impacts that cracked them. A second examination of all the wrecks in the area informs me that 227 of them are new, nine of which are bat...
2025-08-18 15:00:30 +0000 UTC
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“Dad, why are you chuckling to yourself while your emotions are all over the place?”
I clear my throat, “I’ll tell you and Brigid later. It’s not relevant to the current mission. Does anyone have any other questions?”
Bedwyr says, “Would it be possible to display the potential battlefield before we fly in? I’d rather not make more plans while under fire than we need to.”
++Complying.++
All of us receive a Noosphere connection request from E-SIM for ou...
2025-08-15 15:00:19 +0000 UTC
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