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"Family" Picts

Malcador kept many relics, and recordings, around his tower. Prized possessions were kept closer to his rooms, under increasing security. The most personally prized possessions were kept in his rooms themselves. Among these "favorites", as the Primarchs called them, were the data core from the servo-skull that Perburabo used for recording their performance of Summer Night's Dream , and a data slate full of picts. This was called the "photo album" by the Emperor. Sometimes Malcador would bring it down and they would look through the picts. The Primarchs enjoyed it. Especially if they could get new stories out of Malcador. Sometimes Valdor would join them, but that was rare. The first several picts were in the lab the Primarchs were "born". There were different angles on the gestation pods, and a few with either Malcador or the Emperor in them. One was a high-angle shot of both with all twenty pods. That had been taken by servo-skull shortly before t...