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Warhammer 40,000
Faith in Iron
An Iron Hands story
A tech-priest faces a contagion that affects both organic material and machines – can she – with the aid of the Iron Hands – stop it in time to save an entire world?
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Delve into the wiles of the servants of Nurgle and discover the lengths to which the Adeptus Mechanicus and Iron Hands will go to preserve both machine and flesh in the face of immaterial horror.
THE STORY
The tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus eschew the weakness of flesh, preferring to show their faith in the Omnissiah by replacing their organics with machine parts. As well as religious, this is practical – disease can't affect the machine… or can it? On the agri-world of Dundas II, Tech-Priest Viridan Shale is dealing with a deadly outbreak brought to the world by the Death Guard. Nothing is safe as the contagion affects flesh and metal alike. With both biology and machinery under threat, she must find a way to defeat the plague and survive. The arrival of Iron Hands Space Marines – who similarly strive to overcome the weakness of flesh – may prove key to the world's salvation… if they are willing to aid Shale and her allies.
A tech-priest faces a contagion that affects both organic material and machines – can she – with the aid of the Iron Hands – stop it in time to save an entire world?
READ IT BECAUSE
Delve into the wiles of the servants of Nurgle and discover the lengths to which the Adeptus Mechanicus and Iron Hands will go to preserve both machine and flesh in the face of immaterial horror.
THE STORY
The tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus eschew the weakness of flesh, preferring to show their faith in the Omnissiah by replacing their organics with machine parts. As well as religious, this is practical – disease can't affect the machine… or can it? On the agri-world of Dundas II, Tech-Priest Viridan Shale is dealing with a deadly outbreak brought to the world by the Death Guard. Nothing is safe as the contagion affects flesh and metal alike. With both biology and machinery under threat, she must find a way to defeat the plague and survive. The arrival of Iron Hands Space Marines – who similarly strive to overcome the weakness of flesh – may prove key to the world's salvation… if they are willing to aid Shale and her allies.
37 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 27, 2020
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Cameron Johnston
21 books592 followersCameron Johnston is a Scottish writer of fantasy and lives in the city of Glasgow. He is a student of Historical European Martial Arts, loves archaeology, history, folklore and mythology, exploring ancient sites and spooky places, and camping out under the stars with a roaring fire.
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February 4, 2020
The agri-world of Dundas II has become a breeding ground for a terrifying plague which affects both flesh and machine equally. Responding to a distress call from Magos Biologis Viridan Shale, who believes she has a cure, lone Iron Father Rathkugan must rally support from Imperial Guard survivors and brave the plague itself to enact a dangerous rescue.
It’s a straightforward story offering an external perspective on the Iron Hands rather than seeing through Rathkugan’s eyes, but shaken yet determined Imperial Guard Captain Winters makes for an engaging protagonist and there’s enough pace and action for this to entertain.
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It’s a straightforward story offering an external perspective on the Iron Hands rather than seeing through Rathkugan’s eyes, but shaken yet determined Imperial Guard Captain Winters makes for an engaging protagonist and there’s enough pace and action for this to entertain.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2020/01/...
May 26, 2020
The downside of these short reads is that they leave me wanting more. Great story, enjoyed the characters... Wish I could read how the rest unfolds.
September 3, 2025
The hand endures. The story covers Iron Father (tech-marine and chaplain and council-member in the Iron hands chapter-council) Rathkugan- a tactical marine sent on an extraction mission for a virus-cure and a tech-priest. The story is from the eyes of a captain of the guardsmen also with a similar iron hand augment. AND IT WAS FREAKIN EPIC. THE DEATH GUARD DIED. THE HERETICS DIED. THEY GOT BETTER AUGMENTICS AND GOT STRONGER.
Iron hands truly are the only chapter/legion w40k which come close to the Nietzschean ideals of the will to power. To take suffering for the sake of suffering and getting stronger. Beautiful.
Iron hands truly are the only chapter/legion w40k which come close to the Nietzschean ideals of the will to power. To take suffering for the sake of suffering and getting stronger. Beautiful.
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