When a Dreadnought Remembers It Was Once a Father

In the eternal darkness of the 41st millennium, some memories refuse to die—even when entombed in adamantium and war.

This is the story of a Dreadnought, an ancient Space Marine warrior suspended between life and death within a walking war machine. For centuries, he has known only battle, his consciousness fragmenting across endless cycles of dormancy and awakening. But in the silence between wars, something forbidden surfaces—a memory of small hands reaching upward, a child's laughter, a life before the transformation that stripped away his humanity.

Space Marines are taken as children, their memories suppressed, their emotions conditioned away. They are not meant to remember fathers, families, or the mortal lives they left behind. Yet this Dreadnought carries a ghost of something the Imperium tried to erase—a fragment of a man who once held his child, who once knew love before he became a weapon.

Explore the crushing psychological horror of identity loss in service to the God-Emperor, where even the most sacred human bonds are sacrificed on the altar of endless war. What does it mean to remember being human when you've become a walking tomb? What remains of a father when only the warrior survives?

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