Review: Will of Iron: Warhammer 40,000, Vol. 1
Will of Iron: Warhammer 40,000, Vol. 1 by George MannMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Rating 3 out of 5 | Grade: D+; Solve all problems by throwing a (view spoiler)
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The Story Will of Iron, focuses on the Chapter of Dark Angels, who have come across the Calaphrax Cluster, which, after a thousand year warp storm, have opened up to travel. Now, the former first legion successors must make contact with the lost humans planets in the sector to bring them into the Imperial fold.
Shadowing them, literally shadowing them without their knowledge is Inquisitor Sabbathiel & his clandestine group of operatives, with their own agenda differing from the main objective.
Now here is what you should know about Inquisitors. Unless you are someone who is named Eisenhorn, as an Inquisitor, you almost always screw things up. You are a paranoid, distrusting, self important elitist, who generally earns the ire of everyone in the room.
In the best case scenario, you screw things up, and it somehow ends up working out fine in the end (Usually thanks to their betters picking up the slack).
In the worse case scenario, you screw things up, whatever outcome you were hoping never comes to pass. Instead, in most cases, you create an even bigger problem for the Imperium, which causes an exponential waste of life & resources. Usually culminating in Exterminatus.
That's what happens when you belong to an Order, who is more concerned with internal politics & powerplays, as opposed to your actual f**king job.
Only thing is, in this particular scenario, their paranoia and distrust might be somewhat justified.
See the thing is, the Dark Angels chapter which we follow, has a pretty secretive history, which they guard and try to cover up with extreme prejudice. To keep matters simple, back during the Imperial Civil war, lead by the arch vile Horus, a bunch of the Dark angels along with their second in command, turned to chaos, and rebelled against the light of the Emperor. All of which culminated in the death of their primarch Lion el Johnson & destruction of their homeworld Caliban.
Worse, the traitors responsible for this act, were taken by the warp & scattered across space & time. In order to hide what they consider their great shame, the former 1st Legion is engaged in a secret crusade to hunt those Fallen Angels. Until every one of them are hunted down, the Dark angels won't consider themselves absolved of their Legion's crimes. This often leads them to become secretive & distant from other chapters. And prone to literally abandoning the mission in hand, in order to hunt down the Fallen. No wonder these guys don't get along with the Inquisition.
So far, the few chapters have set up remnants of a battle which dates back to the Heresy days, and the possibility of fallen being present, which is enough to whip the Dark angels up in a frenzy of retribution. Let's see in the future chapter if we get glimpse of the fallen, and the enigmatic Cypher.
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