Legacy of the Void Short Story: "Sector Six"

The Brute Squad, led by Commander Dorian, has survived many action-packed adventures. A capable band of misfits employed by the Moebius Corps, their most recent mission has brought them to the planet Beta Saul to recover an ancient relic. As they bring this artifact back to the shadowy Sector Six research facility for analysis, the Brute Squad will find that meddling with the unknown can have unimaginable consequences.

Dorian cleared the corner. A gray-haired man in a white lab coat stood near a workstation, looking down at a still, prone body, that of another tech whose lifeblood was leaking out onto the polished metal. The man stared at the victim with a blank expression, mouth set, holding some kind of compact weapon Dorian had never seen before. 

The commander continued forward, waiting for the tech to look over and raise his weapon so Dorian could fire two short bursts—one to the chest and one to the head—but the moment never came. As Dorian drew close, the man did look up, and as he did so, something flickered across his eyes: something that could have been a kind of… recognition. But then the bastard actually smiled and said…

Learn more about the darkness rising in the universe in "Sector Six.”