I quite enjoyed reading this one. The situation of a scavengers searching ghost ships after a battle offers a lot for tense scenes (especially in a setting where Daemons prowl) and the sudden build up of imagery with the reflecting eye lenses worked quite well. Plus, I admit to having a good chuckle with the password attempts.  
Whilst everything at the end was very sudden, that felt appropriate for the intended tone plus with the aimed word count, there is only so much that could be done to foreshadow.  I would have liked a tad more to explore the environment they were in, location and tone is oh so effective when foreshadowing a sudden horror ending. Beyond that however, loved it. :) 

I love the perspective here, a couple of scavengers on a Battle Brothers ship. The present tense is effective in evoking a sense of immediacy, and you do a good job with adding a bit of humor and light-heartedness to an otherwise tense situation.

It's tricky to do present-tense well, though. There are several places where you slipped into past tense. For example, "Maric was not looking at him" should be "Maric is not looking at him". Swapping tenses tends to break the illusion, and dropped me out of the story several times.

Great ending, though! It really nailed the atmosphere of horror you built up through the rest of the story.

I think this story could use a little more clarity, both in the dialogue between the two smugglers, and in their final fate. I know it was intended to be a shock reveal, but I'm not sure what was revealed. I would have appreciated one or two more clues to that effect. Overall though this was a well-done horror story.