Warhammer 40K: Whispers of Steel

In the forty-first millennium, knowledge is an eternal curse.

Tech-Priest Axanders Startcali discovers a distress signal from ten thousand years ago, traced to a death world the Imperium has forgotten: Zelas.

There is no life there, only a continent-spanning expanse of steel ruins and a black pyramid, incongruously marked with the sacred emblem of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

When the expedition enters the silent sanctuary, they find not the sacred relic they expected, but a terrifying half-human, half-machine construct imprisoned in a container. Its final warning is no gift to humanity, but a death knell ringing out across the entire galaxy:

“They’re awake! Run!!!”

Now Axanders must face a cruel truth: some knowledge is not meant for mortals to touch; some silences, once broken, bring eternal doom.