Author's note: This short piece was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend, regarding the wooden acting in the Twilight series. The comment was something along the lines of "A techpriest would have more emotion than Bella showed in the film." It then expanded into suggesting that Edward would be a Blood Angel and Jacob a Space Wolf, for obvious reasons.

And, well, here you are...


++Thought for the day: Accept your lot++

As a priestess of the Omnissiah, I had never given much thought as to how my death would occur. Death itself was a laughable concept for a disciple of the machine cult - with the right augmetics, an individual could conceivably function until long after the Emperor stepped off his golden throne.

In the past few months since I was assigned to this station, and due to the events that have happened, it would have been logical to assume that my termination was imminent. I had ignored the calculations that the cranial augmetics tasked with my self-preservation were screaming at me however, and thus I had never imagined that my death would occur like this.

I focused my optical augments across the room, taking in the face of the one who had hunted me, almost forgetting to operate my mechanical lungs due to the activation of my long-thought removed fight-or-flight response. His dark eyes regarded me with some amusement, and I shuddered.

I had calculated that my termination would never have been this close if I had not acquiesced to my reassignment on this station, but I could not bring myself to regret my decision, that emotion having been burnt out of me long ago. This assignment brought me into contact with archeotech that I had only dreamed of as a young enginseer, and as my life was about to draw to a close, I reached into my databanks, and retrieved memories of the technological marvels from which to draw comfort.

The Chaplain smiled as he walked towards me, well-oiled servos whisper quiet as the bulk of his armour moved forwards. I glimpsed a glint of fang as he reached forward to end my life.


Author's note the second: This will likely never be continued. I've not read the Twilight books beyond that opening, and probably never will. Not really my thing. This is just uploaded for my amusement.