Chapter 1:

I mean it wasn't a bad life…not exactly an exciting one either but a life all the same. Neither the car accident nor the third person view of my funeral were things I particularly expected. The choices that came after were particularly interesting. I came to standing in a dark room. I wasn't panicking, It's interesting sitting before me in a dark room is a light washing across a raised pedestal with a integrated monitor.

Displayed on the monitor was a series of names. These names scrolled on for quite a while all of them various fictional universes, some I know well Star Wars and its various series, Stargate and its spinoff series, Doctor Who, various anime, and one one that gave me pause. Warhammer forty and thirty thousand what got my attention was the fact that both were listed and if I was interpreting this correctly then I was being given a choice on where to go. I saw it as interesting the implications of picking the sooner one. However I select warhammer forty thousand for personal reasons. Then suddenly the screen changed to show...game types rpg, strategy, fps, puzzle,and many many more. Not exactly sure how selecting puzzle...or dating sim would work with warhammer so I avoided those two thinking about what I would like in my video games I chose rts,strategy,and rpg. The way I saw it selecting rpg would allow me to build on the lore behind heroes, artifacts, and whatever have you. The rest was chosen due to a certain joy I feel watching a massive battle from a third person perspective fog of war or no. As the screen changes again with one simple question present on the screen 'Cheats?' With a check box of to the side.

Now I usually play a game without cheats first I think I would call my previous life the first play through, not to mention I'm a fond believer in the rule of cool so I check the box and tap continue. This time something different happened the lights went out and I felt...everywhere for a second. I was then greeted by the sight of a swirling Milky Way galaxy… well sorta there was a big mean purple scar in the middle of it. So I think it's safe to say I'm in the right place. The new issue is movement. Moving without a body in an empty three dimensional space is a bit of a challenge, but I eventually get the hang of it. Now that I can do it I want to change it so I start by focusing on the word hud soon followed by a simple blue wireframe appearing in my vision. A map in the bottom left displaying a very similar image to what I'm looking at. More interesting a small bar to the left of it seems to mean I can scroll out further. It would be really funny if I came to this reality just to completely avoid this galaxy.

So...time to test out my new found God hood. I focus zoom in and move away from the galaxy. Out in uncharted space and think star and then there was a newborn star I selected it options appeared types, lifespan, even heat. I leave it the way it is and move on to what flies around it. First an asteroid belt with plenty of minerals and really big rocks. Now then… planets a small window opens up with two sections wild worlds and prebuilt planets, prebuilts had subsections for every faction in this galaxy I stop at one in particular Fortress Monastery. I select it and options appear color scheme, heraldry, population, and architecture.

So I built a large unpopulated world with the standard gothic architecture with marble, gold, and crimson decorative flags. It's beautiful, the fortress itself is a large series of marble spires reaching far into the sky, gold inlays everywhere with beautiful crimson flags flapping in the breeze. I fly inside to find it completely spartan and obviously unlived in. I fully intend to remedy that...time to ready my first player character.

I move to the room that would be reserved for the chapter master, just like the rest of the place nearly completely empty. There's a place...like a shrine for the armor I open a menu all of the sudden uncolored armor appears then a color menu with a sorta cartoony image of mark seven Aquila pattern power armor. I go through the selections primary secondary trims and pauldrons, I choose a dark bronze with a dark red trim and helmet the secondary being the eagle is gold with black pauldrons. The mastercrafted artificer armor now bearing its colors had me curious. I floated down the hallway and a few staircases until I came across the armatorium looking around there were rows upon rows of mark seven power armor painted and ready for use. Weapons and equipment polished painted and prepared even the ammo seemed to gleam. As interesting as I find this I have a space marine to make so I float my way back up to the chapter masters quarters. There was a weapon stand in the corner with a thought a beautiful mastercrafted power sword and bolter rifle appeared. Moving on to the new me… a screen opens it's gene-seed patterning I could choose mutations...I'm not going to mind you, but the fact that I have the option is fascinating. I go with the purest possible selection with no mutations and an extremely low likelihood of any developing. Next a screen with some appearance options appear, a few hair choices some scars just your basic appearance choices. Finally finished I'm left with an eight foot tall millenia old warrior with long grayish blond hair sharp green eyes and a scar running from the edge of his left jaw running all the way to just below his left eye.

I select him there are options and settings everything from attack orders to helmet wearing preferences, a few that particularly grabbed my interest were individuality, personality, and control. The first one seems to be his ability to complete actions without my commands. The second seems to be how he speaks and acts again without my control. Finally control… I can only assume that's the one that allows me to assume direct control of the armored behemoth. From here I moved to the assembly hall. Upon arrival at a though standing rank and file was over two-hundred fully realised space-marines outside of their armor.