why do we do things the way we do?

Many of you backed Iron Sky: The Coming Race in good faith and did not receive everything that was promised. That frustration is real and justified — and we’re not here to argue with it.

What happened, in simple terms, is this: The company that owned the Iron Sky IP went bankrupt and lost the rights. After that, we no longer had the legal ability to manufacture or deliver physical rewards like Blu-Rays or DVDs. That door was permanently closed.

This left us with a difficult question: How do you make reparations when the original rewards are legally impossible to deliver?

After years of dead ends and legal limitations, we introduced the Reparation Tokens as part of launching our upcoming scifi trilogy Deep Red — not as a gimmick, but because they are the most reliable, transparent, and effective way available to do this responsibly.

  • They allow us to:

    •⁠ ⁠Make reparations without intermediaries that could block or fail again
    •⁠ ⁠Keep the process fully transparent and verifiable
    •⁠ ⁠Offer something that can retain or grow value, instead of symbolic apologies
    •⁠ ⁠Ensure the reparation cannot be taken away by future rights or company failures

    One important thing to clarify: These tokens are not about speculation. There’s no guessing games, no “buy low, sell high,” and no pressure to treat them like a crypto investment.

    They’re simply a tool we use to share possible future revenues. Any upside comes from the success of the films and the story world — not from trading tokens. Even if they would be tradable, it will be your decision to trade or not, or just keep them as your revenues share.

    These tokens are free to eligible backers, optional, and not a forced investment. They are simply a way to acknowledge your support and give you a stake in something that can still move forward.

  • We have an excellent blog post on this topic, which you can read here.

  • Deep Red is a new, independent sci-fi film universe from the creators of Iron Sky, but built from the ground up with the lessons of the past in mind.

    It’s a politically satirical, dark sci-fi story about power, technology, and ideology — and it’s also the project where the Reparation Tokens are anchored. In short: it’s how we’re trying to do things better, cleaner, and more transparently this time.

  • Mentally yes, technically no. This is a completely standalone sci-fi series, but the idea has been around for a long time and it's being made by the same team that made the first Iron Sky, so the DNA is very much the same.