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Relics

Setting
Warhammer 40,000
Type
Short Story
First published
2010
Length
27 pp · ~30m
Reader rating
★ 3.41 from 17 ratings
ISBN-13
9781782510567
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Synopsis

Out on the unforgiving desert plains of the planet Serek, a squad of determined novices of the Doom Eagles Chapter are undergoing a brutal training regimen. Gruelling in the extreme, some of these would-be Space Marines are struggling in the harsh conditions. But these trials are nothing compared to the danger that comes for them from beneath the sands when the blood and sweat of the training ground suddenly becomes that of a deadly battlefield. Read it because A Doom Eagles short story by James Swallow. Originally published in Inferno #43.