#cherubs

"The light went from the cherub's eyes. It flew off, motor buzzing. The primarch watched it go back to its roost with critical eyes. The wings were more than adornment; from the sound of it, there was not enough lift in the gravity impeller to keep it aloft. The machines of this millennium were crude. The engineers among his brothers would probably have caught the thing in a net and rebuilt the motor; he was close to doing so himself. Either that, or tossing it out of an airlock into the void and replacing it with something less ghoulish."

What makes it worse is when Mathieu is like "Does Guilliman not know that they can feel his hatred towards them?" I think it was in a scene where Guilliman was about to do a speech and a skull servitor flew a little close. The poor little guys! Also bonus: I love that both Guilliman and Lion complain about the state of tech in 40k.

Art piece from Mission Zero posted to LudoDoodle's Bluesky October 27, 2025.