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[[Image:IHMarine.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Great Crusade-era Iron Hand{{Fn|21c}}]]

[[Image:IronHandBattleBrother.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Iron Hands Battle Brother{{Fn|13}}]]

[[Medusa (Planet)|Medusa]] is located near the [[Eye of Terror]]. Its landscape is harsh and generally unstable, with massive tectonic shifts occurring on a regular basis. Medusa is not united by any single government, but instead is populated by disparate clans of miners living out of great tracked vehicles travelling in caravan. There are only two notable locations on Medusa: a volcano known as '''Karaashi''', which was the location of the arrival of [[Ferrus Manus]], and the '''Land of Shadows'''. The Land of Shadows is populated only by ghostly relics of ages past and is said to be haunted by the spirits of Medusans long dead; those who go there only go in order to become supplicants to the Iron Hands' recruitment process.{{cite this}}

==Beliefs and Reputation==

[[File:IronHandsTechmarine.jpg|290px|right|thumb|Iron Hands [[Techmarine]] ]]

The Iron Hands have a reputation for being relatively straightforward and incredibly harsh. In the Battle of [[Thranx]], for example, the resources of several depleted clan-companies were pooled for a full-frontal assault using five [[Land Raider]]s against a facility bristling with anti-tank defenses that had made a mockery of previous attempts with whole armoured companies; in the retaking of the [[Contqual Subsector]], one-third of the population was summarily executed after a successful campaign simply to demonstrate the price of weakness. {{Fn|10}} They are also known to be on poor terms with the [[Raven Guard]] and after the liberation of the [[Kelldar System]] from an [[Ork]] [[Waaagh!]] in 810.[[M41]] refused to sit at the same feasting table as their Raven Guard allies.{{Fn|19b}}

*{{Endn|10}}: [[White Dwarf 262 (UK)]], pgs. 64–71

*{{Endn|11}}: [[Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition)]], {{Cite This}}

**{{Endn|12a}}: Chapter One

**{{Endn|12b}}: Prologue