Alchemy

Alchemy is a Faction Paradox short story by James Milton.
== Synopsis ==
In its distant future, Tagonique will be the centre of rational scientific thought in its galaxy and the prime mover of a tremendous technological flowering. But that future is on the cusp of being undone - Tagonique is a world where science and technology are losing ground to effective magic, and the Naturalists of the Wizard’s Parliament have been ousted by the now ruling Esotericists.
Mesquividas, a disgraced Wizard Naturalist, is visited by three fallen angels who give him a machine they promise will manufacture vengeance against those who betrayed him. But are these angels all they seem to be?