January 5th 2067 18.00
Finally deployment to the Eastern Front has been announced. We leave 05.00 8th Jan. Events these past three years since the comet have been fast and I don't think anyone really has had time to take stock of what is really going on. Sometimes the speed things are moving really frightens me. I don't mind admitting that to you. A lot of people are going to die but it is my strong conviction that we are on the right side and that is all that really matters when it comes down to it.
I am leaving my wife and my baby boy and I know I may not return but stopping this country from falling into the hands of the Planetary Alliance is more important than anything now. I don't say this lightly and I am afraid to die but if we lose here then all of Western Europe will become the territory of the PA and the UWA and their backward and cowardly policies will spread and threaten to pull the entire human race down with them. If we can get a foothold back into Europe though then the Exodus Programme will be able to regain its rightful assets and our chances of survival will be greatly improved. If France falls then England will become the last bastion of sanity in Europe. For this reason alone we have no other option but to take the fight to them.
And so in less than 72 hours our entire regiment will begin its tour of duty in Europe and I and my brothers will be in Paris, the last free city on mainland Europe. I am both excited and frightened and desperate to be rid of all this waiting. That is what I hate the most; the waiting. Looks like it's finally coming to an end though. Crunch time.
They say the United World Army's war machine is running out of steam and with the high ranking officers of the former European powers fleeing to the UK and the US, as well as China and its sattelites, they lack any credible military strategy. Some reports even talk of dissention growing amongst its ranks. If this is true then maybe this will all be over by the spring and the revolution will have failed. I pray every day with all my that this is true.
Private Bradley Forbes
NWCC 43rd Armoured Brigade, Mechanised Infantry Division
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What is the Hades Engine?
Set during the last years of terrestrial mankind on Earth and the far flung future of a war savaged Martian civilisation descended from a common colonial ancestry, the Hades Engine charts mankind's eternal struggle to attain godliness at any cost.
It is 2064 and the comet C/2064U races towards the earth. At the size of a small city it is deemed by the international bodies and scientific symposia of the United Nations to be indivertible, wholly indestructible and inherently inevitable. In the face of this approaching cataclysm a bloody and brutal rift emerges amongst humanity.
As the Arcs of the Exodus leave Earth orbit and the Great Subterranean Cities are constructed under the battlefields of Eurasia one man struggles to complete his life's work and realise a dream. His quest is for the ultimate panacea, a power that will change the human race forever. Pursued and hounded by the authorities on both sides of Earth's last war, his quest for the oldest and most elusive of all of man’s desires will lead him to the very heart of a hidden and archaic power and a truth that will change everything.
Half a millennia later the warring factions of Mars collide on the plains of Hellas and Elysium under the batteries of the new Geo-Synchs. Awash in a sea of plasma and blood the Martian colonists have turned to the technologies of industrial clone farming and genetic military engineering to create a new and more compliant type of soldier for their wars. But now the clones have begun to break away and form their own autonomous settlements. These independent colonies now hold the key to victory for a desperate Emperor who will stop at nothing to secure the future for his people and crush the separatists that first rose against him nearly half a millennia ago.
Meanwhile around the barren icy rock of humanity’s ancestral home a satellite communication is lost and a science vessel is missing. As the Imperial Frigate Archangel heads out to head off a suspected enemy incursion on the surface of the long dead planet, what they find there will affect far more than their own war, it will change humanity's understanding of the universe for ever.
Half a millennia later the warring factions of Mars collide on the plains of Hellas and Elysium under the batteries of the new Geo-Synchs. Awash in a sea of plasma and blood the Martian colonists have turned to the technologies of industrial clone farming and genetic military engineering to create a new and more compliant type of soldier for their wars. But now the clones have begun to break away and form their own autonomous settlements. These independent colonies now hold the key to victory for a desperate Emperor who will stop at nothing to secure the future for his people and crush the separatists that first rose against him nearly half a millennia ago.
Meanwhile around the barren icy rock of humanity’s ancestral home a satellite communication is lost and a science vessel is missing. As the Imperial Frigate Archangel heads out to head off a suspected enemy incursion on the surface of the long dead planet, what they find there will affect far more than their own war, it will change humanity's understanding of the universe for ever.
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