Yarrick: The Wreckage

Yarrick #Short Story

by David Annandale

Thrown into battle alongside the charismatic but reckless Captain Marsec, Commissar Yarrick faces a tough decision, to unleash the Emperor's judgement and risk damaging morale, or trust in Marsec's ability to lead. Hunkered down and under fire, the Armageddon Steel Legion that Yarrick accompanies are drawn into a deadly ambush. In seeking refuge, they are victims of another trap and at last Yarrick must consider invoking the ultimate sanction against his wayward captain.

Read it because
Another tale from the younger days of the Imperium's most famous commissar shows one of his first big decisions, to kill or not to kill? You might think it's an easy answer, but when the head in his crosshairs is an ally, it's anything but simple...

Genres: Science Fiction, 40k, Short Stories

27 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 22, 2015

Reviews

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent war tale from the past of David Annandale's Commissioner Yarrick.

Sixth Company of the Armageddon Steel Legion's 252nd Regiment is fighting an hard battle against Chaos troops on Aionos, a moon filled with the wrecks of thousands of ships victims of the heretics and something more ancient and of xenos origin buried inside.
When charismatic but not so smart Captain Marsec adds tactical error on tactical error and the Steel Legion ends bombed from a stolen by heretics frigate, and besieged into caves by Chaos cultists and Traitor Space Marines, Yarrick has to decide if to deliver or not the Emperor’s Judgement on Marsec, so much loved by his soldiers but whose recklessness led the regiment to his doom just because he cared too much about the life of his men.

A good story full of heroism and twists about what it means being an Imperial Commissar, and the magma armoured Traitor Space Marines of Hakanor's Reavers warband were very cool and original, but Yarrick has not the same appeal of Dan Abnett's more famous Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt.

[Oliver Eike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yarrick being Yarrick and people with power in his presence being morons.

It isnt a bad story, but it dosnt really stand out much either. Not really. What i liked though was the reflections on what took place in the story by the older Yarrick.

[Andrew Alvis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I may have read this when it first came out but I cannot remember. Suffice to say I bloody well enjoyed it and David Annandale continues to make great reads based around one of the Imperiums' greatest heros.

[Joanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Michael Dodd · Rating 4 out of 5]

The sixth story in Black Library’s Summer of Reading campaign features another big-name character, this time Commissar Yarrick, in David Annandale’s The Wreckage. Previously only available in an event-only anthology, it’s a smart little story looking at what most will see as one of the core elements of being a commissar – the decision of whether or not to deliver the Emperor’s Judgement to an officer. In this case it’s an inspirational, much-loved Captain whose recklessness has led his men into a lethal trap and threatens to doom them all.

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[Derrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

simply incredible. the story is very good and the ending will leave you thinking