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After decades of war being remembered by Imperial Irken propagandists, a voice is given to the aging generation of the last "Natural Born Killers", the Irkens who fought the Empire's battles conventionally before the adoption of the cloned, PAK-equipped invaders of today. "Silver Coffins" is less a straightforward oral history of the war for Vort-9 itself, but rather a literary excavation of its memory.
A series of interviews with former Imperial conscripts and professional elite personnel, that gives understanding to the idealism, heroism and horror that made one of the most disastrous pre-Invader era conflicts for the Empire.
Brief statements that emerge with a stunningly powerful picture of despair, revulsion and brutalization. A vivid portrait of horror regarding a conflict seldom addressed honestly or objectively recorded.