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Killing me softly buddd

I was hopeful the space marine was going to become a dreadnought with two new serfs, or a new recruit and his father serving as a serf and personal aid to a dreadnought

@@aurorauplinks you thought a 40k story had a happy ending? The kid not being murder-rape in the control tower was happy enough. The ending was downright heretically hopeful!

@@Vuntermonkey well i mean ify ou think the spacemarine would have enjoyed being a dreadnought, just think of the stories of his bitterness of everything, and how get stories of his faithful human eventually diieing and him becoming even more imbittered but he has his space marine to talk to that became a recruit and he started acting as a older brother or cousin too, and we could have had this bitterness evolve into him basically having these arguments where he finally descends to each battle and he sees it like clock work and starts to question how he used to view the dreadnoughts as he slowly starts to feel more and more like a man of iron and thinking he might know how they feel, but he is still always revered in the monestary, but on the battlefield the enemy treats him the way the imperium would a man of iron and he starts to contemplate whether he should still live... of course he has other friends in the space marines and the serfs perhaps, but he seemed to be bonding with them by the time the shit realy hit the fan, i honestly half expected him to become a agent of chaos with that infection keeping spreading etc would have been cool if the kid was gifted with how to intuitively repair electronics so he had to back engineer the device that could cure his infection after calling for aid and they had to wait for a few weeks maybe im just throwing too much wierdness into it... but iwouldnt call it a happy ending, more like a morose but loyal ending where everyone fights, they falter, they are injured, the father has to have bionics, but he basically becomes half machine himself, a servitor who hasnt had his humanity removed nor his brain... and the sons striving to appease the marines to be allowed to join, and hes constantly fighting to make it while he can recieve the implants... and maybe he is too late... and they cannot finish the process and they force him to instead leave and become a trainer or work for the arbites somewhere with his half implanted marine gifts... or would they make him keep doing it until it killed him... i am not sure if they let people stop midway with the implants if they grow too fast... i guess they rush the implants even if they arent tested fully once they start

Pfft primaris marines are about to outclass them by the next big release lol

yeah is odd they did all that. what can you say some authors have different views

lol i know i know you just have let some stuff go tho. i read worse things in 40k lol

Or the Emperor's blessing?

The power of the Emperor is with him!

A bolt pistol round is not that insane its a bit smaller then a 12 gauge round my 11 year old cousin has shot my 12 gauge granted she has to fire from a mount or from the hip. I'm sure a bolt pistol manages recoil alot better then my 12guage which has pretty much no recoil management at all lol a young boy firing a bolt pistol would not be unrealistic. Especially a strong farmers boy starving or not.

Also not to mention bolters use rocket assisted munitions which we have actually created in real life the gyrojet projectiles were specifically designed to reduce recoil to almost nothing I'm assuming thats why the bolt rounds are rocket assisted as well.

very very true

The kid became a leader of a rebelion force of civilian defending their home world against an army of chaos cultist and renegades space marines... yeah he will be fine.

@@Nightmare704RY the emperor protects!

I get the feeling he'll make it.

I was wondering, how will he be able to join? Or is that on his planet? Or did the Marines take him with them because he proved special and battle hard?

@@JMS118 Imagine when the Dark Hunters get to the planet. Of which, they got there by this boy leading and coordinating them in to set up a multi-prong attack of the human risistance left on the planet and the space marines themselves. Granted, the marines would do the planning, but the boy gave them the intel they needed to make those plans and organized the people. Why would they not take such a hardened, battle tested child for the trials? He is the exact kind of child space marines look for.

Well a bolt round is intended to penetrate then explode, so it's generally not equipped with shrapnel, after all it's not the high explosive that makes a frag grenade dangerous, but the metal it flings outward.

@@KageRyuu6 pretty sure that penetrating a coms system with a rocket propelled explosive is worse then rattling it with scrapnel.

It wasn't a 'heavy bolter' it was a bolter that was heavy. Kid is PoV and doesn't know the difference.

@@Captain1nsaneo Wasnt really sure but was wondering. Still a bolter..

@@joranvansoest8806 Yeah, his arm should be broken. Bolt guns/pistols that aren't modified for normal human use break bones.

yes! nice addition to the story that

Angels of Death!

lol well thanks man hope it does

we shall see

Late comment but.. try "Survivor"

There is already a "Boy" and he is destined to become an Imperial Fists captain with the honour of being The Emperor's voxcastor in his youth.

Lol he should probably just become a imperial guard 💂‍♀️ or maybe try to be a leader of his world

@@tuffmike7487 real grimdark would be he was offered a chance to join them but died in the trials or somethin

ill see about more

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lol maybe maybe not it is a grim process

Not if ends up like the kid from Devastation of Ball he won't.

The Space Marine that gave his life for the boy probably would be pleased.

nice

yes

thank you sir

cheers!

cheers

cool

nice

thank you sir

So good im back again for another adventure

thank you

soon

always a good response

cheers

ill look into it

Thanks!

cheers

hopefully

no worries

cheers!

nice

cheers man i like to mix stuff up and do othr stuff

lol the feels

lol cheers

lol i cant say

cheers

maybe

yeah is a nice little tale

cheers

Amazing narration as well.

i believe so

@@ABorderPrince i found on the war40k wiki that the same writer did a dark hunter novel after this short story so hope is there.also thank you for the reaply :)

thank you sir

not sure, if no power field guess it doesnt matter

I love the idea of the Fist just walking through a old hive city block, and the then a cultist jumps out at him, and he instinctively turns on the power field, and just *destorys* that bolter.

the link in the description is to amazon where you can pick up the paper back

Flowers matte, should a had a phone with youtube playing :(

Sad times in the flower garden

ahhh its fine