Action and Consequence

Silver Skulls

by Sarah Cawkwell

Newly promoted to leader of his squad, Silver Skull Gileas Ur'ten must prove himself both to his battle-brothers and his peers. When a mission to protect their recruiting grounds against the dark eldar goes wrong, Gileas must lead a force to locate the missing Space Marines, and go to their aid. However, the need to protect the eldar's human prisoners poses extra complications on an already tricky mission.

Read it because
Space Marines are at their best when they can unleash their whole strength upon their enemy... so when the situation requires that they hold back lest innocents get hurt, things get complicated... especially when they're fighting dark eldar, who are only too happy to put their captives in harm's way.

Genres: Science Fiction, 40k

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 29, 2015

About the author

A freelance writer based in the north east of England, Sarah is old enough to know better, but still young enough not to care. When not slaving away over a hot keyboard, Sarah's hobbies include reading everything and anything, running around in fields with swords screaming incomprehensibly, and having her soul slowly sucked dry by online games. Her minimum bribe level is one chocolate orange.

Reviews

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting insight about the role of Prognosticators (future teller Librarians) among the Silver Skull chapter, but in the end this e-short was just a classic (but well written) "Space Marines kill Dark Eldar" slaughterfest.

[Stephen McGowan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The mission is merely a well crafted framing. The real story comes from the real characters and the hold the prognosticars have over the chapter. And of course the hold the nebulous future has over the prognosticars.

[Lori · Rating 3 out of 5]

Straight up bolter porn, although the urgency of rescuing the human captives added some good tension. You do not want to be taken by the Dark Eldar.