The Emperor's Wing: The Guardsman's Story of Ghosts and Angels

by Yipyioh

A transcription of audiologs and interviews by an Inquisitorial Journalist compiling a book on a supernatural phenomenon becoming known as "The Emperor's Wing" and "The Lost and Forgotten." Are they Ghosts? Warp Spawn? Avenging Angels? Perhaps all at once. Rated M for occasional (justified) use of extremely strong language and graphic depictions of injuries. Such is life.

2. Section 1 Introduction

SECTION 1: THE POOR GUARDSMAN'S LEGION OF THE DAMNED

One complete audio log of Inquisitorial

Journalist T. D. Paxton.

"Rather than the sweeping generalizations and religio-philosophical discussion of the preface, these documents and logs will attempt be quite specific and concrete, at least as much as the topic can be. It is the opinion of the author that what little hope of remembrance a Guardsman may have (as discussed in the preface) is only kept alive by the modern mythologies, stories and rumors that develop through the scuttlebutt of the ranks. Tales abound of the heroes of yore; the cold courage of Poul Marlin or Sly Marbo, the traditionalist tale of Ollanius Pius, and even the myraid ghost stories can simultaneously steel a man and send a chill down his spine.

"It is the ghost story more than anything that reminds the Guardsman that there is something more than just a historian that will remember him. Every ghost story has its origin in truth, exaggerated as it may be. Some are oral traditions tied to particular regiments, while others are vague enough to be shared far and wide by all manner of army groups. Some share a few similarities but most can be described as 'isolated cases' of supernatural activity. The importance of these stories lies in the fact that it makes it obvious to the poor souls on the frontline that there IS some higher power that will give them remembrance, even and especially in death.

"In recent times, however, there has been a new 'development' in the paranormal rumors amongst the forces of the Guard. The Administrarum and Inquisition have noticed an alarming number of reports sharing too many commonalities to be merely coincidental; many of said reports came from systems and battles too far apart for any word-of-mouth rumors to have spread within a decade, much less the few months or days that some were filed within.

"I have been assigned the task of collecting and compiling as much information as possible on this phenomenon which some of the Guard and Inquisition have come to name the "Lost and Forgotten" or the "Emperor's Wing." An acquaintance of mine, while pondering the implications of such a force, remarked that this could quickly become the Guardsman's Legion of the Damned. I personally feel I have no business discussing what it may become in the future-that is for the clairvoyant to observe-but indeed I must agree that it does have a nice ring to it."