British plumber, Aldrich Isengrund donates his body to science only to wake up in the far future as the last survivor of a Federation experiment.

Stuffed with archeotech, Aldrich has been given a chance to live long and prosper, so long as he reaps the great tithe of xenos required to unlock his implanted machines.

How much destruction will one man incite with a battered, plasteel pipe?

Note: Herald of the Stars pacing is appropriate for the galactic scale setting: it is slow. Some knowledge of 40K is assumed, though not essential.

Try my original medieval fantasy: The Rícewelig Crown