Skold Greypelt - Escape from Shadrac: The survivors' woes were not yet over, for the Imperial Navy and the Space Wolves' starship had been forced to leave the system after being harried by Tyranid Bioships, leaving them trapped onboard their Thunderhawk gunship.Greypelt took the fact that they had escaped the Tyranids only to die of asphyxiation in the void stoically, but the surviving Imperial Guardsmen did not, and Sergeant Marlin had trouble maintaining discipline amongst his men. The desperate Guardsmen manned the Thunderhawk's Auspex station and eventually came up with a somewhat desperate plan to save themselves.By scanning a space hulk present in-system, they identified a recent addition to it, an Eurus-pattern Fleet Tender from the Imperial fleet that had somehow crashed against it.Auspex scans showed that the tender's bridge and reaction drives were intact, so the Guardsmen reasoned that if they managed to sever it from the Space Hulk's main mass using Demolition Charges without damaging the vessel too much, they could use it to blind-jump toward the nearest Imperial outpost.Trunglas, the Space Wolves' Iron Priest, showed some reticence to the plan, and Skold Greypelt watched with detached amusement how Sergeant Marlin stood up for his plan to the grumbling and muttering servant of the Omnissiah, who did not want to commit sacrilege against the ship's Machine Spirit by modifying it or repairing it without the prescribed Adeptus Mechanicus procedures and rituals.The Guardsmen then agreed that they would let the Iron Priest conduct his blessings while they went about placing the charges to separate the fleet tender from the Space Hulk and would only proceed with the actual detonation when the Iron Priest was ready.The Guardsmen and Space Wolves went about their task quickly, but trouble erupted when they encountered a party of Orks from another part of the space hulk, who intended to loot the most recent addition to their home, and eagerly took up the opportunity to do battle.Skold Greypelt ordered the Guardsmen accompanying him to remain at their post in silence, so as not to disturb Trunglas while he began his rituals, and went to investigate the reports of battle. Arriving just in time to help the beleaguered Sergeant Marlin who was keeping the Orks barely at bay with bursts from his Bolt Pistol, he joined the fray, savagely chopping Orks into little green pieces with his Power Axe.Greypelt burst out laughing when Marlin reminded him that they only had one shot at taking the ship, happily countering that life itself represented a single shot, and at that, the only thing that mattered was making the shot count.Both warriors then made a fighting retreat toward the fleet tender's access hatch, buying the necessary time for Trunglas to complete the necessary mechanical rituals.Once completed, they jumped through the hatch and detonated the charges, which liberated their new ship from the Space Hulk's mass with the added bonus that the explosion incinerated the attacking Orks.As the Fleet Tender moved away under its own power, Greypelt laughed at Marlin, who remarked in a daze that he was down to his last Bolt Pistol shell. The Space Wolf told his friend once again that one shot was all he would ever need.