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▲ 20 r/Blacklibrary

My Horus Heresy collection, only keeping imo the essentials

Only keeping my favourite HH books, I sold the ones I dislike. Painstakingly searched these. Only thing I'm missing physically is Wolfsbane, had to read it digitally.

u/torts92 — 5 days ago
▲ 117 r/40kLore

[Excerpt: The Buried Dagger] The Tragic Fate of Macer Varren

Context: At the Battle of White Mountain on Terra, occurring shortly before the Siege of Terra. The Knights Errant were in a fierce engagement against Chaos cultists led by the Lord of Flies. Macer Varren was mortally wounded on the slopes of the mountain.

But the horror here had only just begun. Where the dead had fallen, Garro saw the maggots boring into the still warm corpses and his lip curled in disgust. At first, he thought the vile creatures were making a meal of the dead, but then one of the bodies shook like a victim of palsy and began to move again. The head of a fallen Guardsman lolled forward as he dragged himself up. His jaw wide open, a thick maggot-head emerged through his mouth and probed at the air.

Others of the fallen twitched and reanimated. Sickened, Garro turned, hoping he would not see what he knew had to come next. He was not granted that respite. Macer Varren's broken body was already on its feet, and beneath the flesh of the dead World Eaters legionary, fat serpentine shapes pulsed and shifted as they consumed him from the inside out. Before Garro could utter a warning, the shambling non-dead broke into a chaotic, pell-mell sprint, virtually hurling itself at the nearest of the defenders - Garviel Loken.

...

'Varren?' He shouted the World Eater's name. 'Macer!' Loken struggled, wrestling with the other warrior. 'Are you still in there, cousin?'

Once, Loken had fallen into the pit of madness and lost himself there. He felt a strange, powerful jolt of empathy for the former World Eaters legionary. And with it, the shame at being forced to witness this degradation.

Varren's gauntlets snatched at Loken's chest-plate, snagging on his ammunition bandolier, then found his throat and began to squeeze.

...

'I have... seen that... darkness.' Loken forced out the words, each syllable an effort. 'I have been in the place beyond death.'

Varren's hands trembled as they closed ever tighter, and the squirming forms beneath his skin seemed to go into a kind of frenzy. Congealing blood oozed from the dead man's nostrils and wept in black rivulets from the corners of his eyes.

'There is no disgrace in the fear... The fear of that void.' Loken dug into memories he wished never to face again, letting the truth of his words be strengthened by the recollection. On Isstvan III he had died - or as near as be damned - and in the madness of it, rose again as the broken soul called Cerberus.

Macer Varren had been there. He had seen Loken at his worst, his lowest ebb, when he was fit only to be put down like some crazed wild animal.

'Do... you... remember?' he choked.

A scream - deep and primal, more the roar of a fatally wounded predator than a human - tore itself free of Varren's scarred lips in a bloody froth, and he released Loken in a jerking spasm of motion. Before the Knight-Errant could stop it from happening, Varren ripped Loken's bandolier off his armour, pulling a handful of krak grenades from it.

Bellowing, raging, biting and thrashing at himself, Varren staggered away. He clutched the rattling grenades to his chest in a strangely protective manner, even as the fat maggots eating him alive sensed the danger and burst forth. Slick with legionary blood, the eyeless things emerged from his skin and keened like sirens.

The arming pins from the grenades all came free at once, and Varren fell to his knees, fighting to complete his last act as a warrior of the Imperium of Man.

Loken raised his arm to shield his face and sank low as the ripple detonation blasted a crater in the frost-rimed ground, marking the World Eaters' sacrifice with a storm of fire.

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u/torts92 — 11 days ago
▲ 35 r/malaysia

An assistant bank manager testifies that Mamfor Sdn Bhd issued 29 banker’s cheques marked 'donation' to the party between May 12, 2021 and Nov 16, 2022.

KUALA LUMPUR: A bank officer told the High Court here today that she had never encountered transactions as frequent or involving sums as large as the RM19.5 million allegedly channelled by a construction company to Bersatu.

Norazeanti Miswan, 39, an assistant manager at Bank Muamalat’s PKNS Shah Alam branch, testified in former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s corruption trial that Mamfor Sdn Bhd issued 29 banker’s cheques to Bersatu between May 12, 2021 and Nov 16, 2022.

She said the 2021 transactions included RM2 million each on May 12 and June 10; RM2 million via four RM500,000 cheques on July 14; and RM1.5 million and RM500,000 on Aug 12 and Aug 13, respectively.

Norazeanti also said in 2022, the transactions included RM500,000 on Jan 13, RM1 million each on Feb 3 and Feb 7, and RM500,000 on Oct 8.

She said the company later transferred RM4.5 million to Bersatu via nine cheques of RM500,000 each on Nov 2; RM2 million via four cheques of RM500,000 each on Nov 7; RM1 million via two cheques of RM500,000 each on Nov 11; and RM1 million via two cheques of RM500,000 each on Nov 16.

During examination by deputy public prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin, Norazeanti said the branch submitted suspicious activity reports to its headquarters for each transaction because the amounts were flagged as unusual.

Wan Shaharuddin: Why did these reports arise?

Norazeanti: Because there was suspicion over each of Mamfor’s transactions. The transactions to Bersatu were too frequent and involved large amounts.

Wan Shaharuddin: Throughout your career as a bank officer, are such transactions normally carried out by companies?

Norazeanti: No. I have not seen such transactions in other companies.

Wan Shaharuddin: Could you elaborate on the difference?

Norazeanti: Usually, companies make transactions in line with the nature of their business. I have not seen companies making payments to political parties.

She added that each cheque was marked as a “donation”. She said the company closed its account on Feb 26 last year.

Asked if the company made the same “donation” to other political parties such as PAS, DAP, or Umno, Norazeanti said no.

Muhyiddin, 78, faces seven charges linked to the Jana Wibawa programme, a government initiative introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic to assist Bumiputera contractors.

The Bersatu president is charged with four counts of abusing his position to solicit RM225.3 million in bribes for the party from Bukhary Equity Sdn Bhd, Nepturis Sdn Bhd, Mamfor, and businessman Azman Yusoff.

The offences were allegedly committed at the Prime Minister’s Office between March 1, 2020 and Aug 20, 2021.

Muhyiddin also faces three counts of money laundering involving RM200 million, allegedly received from Bukhary Equity and deposited into Bersatu’s accounts at AmBank and CIMB Bank.

The offences are said to have taken place at AmBank in Petaling Jaya and CIMB Bank on Jalan Stesen Sentral between Feb 25, 2021 and July 8, 2022.

The defence team comprises Amer Hamzah Arshad, Hisyam Teh Poh Teik, Rosli Dahlan, Chetan Jethwani, K Kumaraendran, Kee Wei Loon, Low Wei Loke, Siti Summaiyah Ahmad Jaafar, Lee Yei Wei, Tang Jia Yearn, and Joshua Tay.

Besides Wan Shaharuddin, the prosecution team includes Akram Gharib, Noralis Mat, Mahadi Jumaat, Alis Izzati Azurin Rusdi, and Safari Abdullah.

The hearing before Justice Noor Ruwena Nurdin continues.

u/torts92 — 24 days ago