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Blackstone Fortress: Ascension

Blackstone Fortress: Warhammer 40,000, Book 2

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Blackstone Fortress: Ascension

By: Darius Hinks
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
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Blackstone Fortress Book 2

Stripped of his titles and riches, rogue trader Janus Draik leads a desperate expedition into the Blackstone Fortress in an attempt to restore his fortunes and save Precipice from deadly peril.

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Get into the heart of Blackstone Fortress and discover the bonds between the explorers in an audiobook packed with action, intrigue and character drama.

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Precipice is dying. For weeks, the space port has been battered by hellish geomagnetic storms, the work of sinister goings-on within the nearby Blackstone Fortress—a vast, ineffable creation that looms in the darkness of the void. Fragile alliances between Precipice’s xenos and human inhabitants crumble as the port’s docking points are destroyed, eroding any hope of escape.

Amid this bedlam, opportunistic rogue trader Janus Draik remains coolly unaffected. As an apocalyptic tempest threatens the life of his crew, Draik bitterly ponders a letter he has received from his father, disowning him and stripping him of his rank, titles and inheritance. In a last-ditch attempt to restore his fortune, Draik unites the disparate adventurers of Precipice to delve even deeper into the mysteries of the Blackstone Fortress. Once there, he learns of a threat that could endanger not just his own future, but the Imperium as a whole. Draik must mend the brittle bonds of trust, loyalty and respect between the survivors to destroy this abominable intelligence and avert disaster.

Written by Darius Hinks. Narrated by Charles Armstrong. Running time 10 hours, 58 minutes (approx).

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Would recommend this for some rare bits of lore on exotic xenos, workings of the blackstone fotress and chaos corruption. The story is nice, gets more interesting in the second half. Some of the lore is crazy and underrated (for sure if if you are into blackstone fotress', zoats or jokaero). Gotta love the tinkerer.

Nice book, great lore niches

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Chapter 3 is a total mess of sound with overlapping dialogue from other chapters, appears nobody bothered to listen through or check for errors before release


Since release the errors in editing have been fixed however the experience soured the book

Currently broken by bad editing (fixed)

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this book was excellent! gripping and true to 40k.
pitty there are no more books about the blackstone.

great book, great listen.

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Great book and reading, really captures what Warhammer 40000 is. Would like more advantages like this.

Rogue Traders alright

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Not to put it too bluntly but I thought the first book was a middling mess and I had very unkind words for it. On a whim I decided to give the second one a go and it's on a different level. Such a dramatic improvement I can hardly believe it's the same author. Well worth your time.

Talk about a step up.

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