A Life on the Margins: Personal Reflections on the Reconquest
A Life on the Margins: Personal Reflections on the Reconquest was a memoir by Diomedon of Luna.[1]
Excerpts
"Luna was never a secondary consideration for the enemy. It was not simply a stage on the journey. In many ways, it was as integral to their future plans as Terra was. They knew that the Throneworld would, if their Warmaster prevailed, be permanently compromised by the warp, forever placed in that twilight realm between hard reality and the well of dreams. Luna was to be their solid fortress, a citadel orbiting the tear in the universe that their treachery had created. It would have been a shadow city of tortured souls, a manufactory of rampant perversions, the place from which fresh and terrible armies would have been created to march out on a universe writhing in perpetual agony. So it should come as no surprise to discover just how much strength had been landed there. When the fortunes of the war suddenly reversed, that strength was stranded. Its legionaries, its Titans, its war machines of Fallen Mars were all left in place as the Grand Fleet was dismantled above them. It would have been clear to them right from that moment that they were doomed, but they had nowhere else to go. They had to turn from being the aggressor to being the defender. They had to become like the enemy they had just been fighting, just as desperate, just as dogged, just as ingenious. And they did so without a second thought, because they too were Astartes. They too, as much as they hated to recall it, were still sons of the Emperor."[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: Ashes of the Imperium (Novel), Chapter Nineteen
