Iron Within

When Drukhari raiders tear through an Imperial agri-world, its shaken defenders in the Astra Militarum send a desperate distress signal that draws a force of Space Marines to the planet's surface. Their arrival is thunderous and glorious, a blitz of ceramite and bolter fire that finally pushes the alien predators back and gives the weary populace a glimmer of hope. For soldiers and civilians alike, the Marines are the embodiment of salvation — unstoppable, efficient, relentless.

But freedom comes at a price. The Space Marines' uncompromising methods and the iron discipline they impose soon reveal a harsher truth: liberation is also a new rule, and survival may demand sacrifices the planet never anticipated. Iron Within is a grim, kinetic portrait of war's double edge, where heroism and tyranny blur and the cost of being saved forces everyone to reckon with what they were willing to trade for peace.