Welcome to the 41st millennium — where vast armies wage bloody warfare across the galaxy in the name of humanity's supreme ruler. Countless souls upon billions of worlds whisper their supplication to the God Emperor — and those that oppose his sacred vision risk annihilation by his greatest warriors, the dread Space Marines. But how does one become a member of this most revered brotherhood? A simple man, from an obscure planet at the far end of the Imperium is discovering that to become a Space Marine will cost his family, his body — and quite possibly, his soul.