Recaps

Ron turned the Necrontyr against Szarekh by promising them a restored future, while humanity and its allies drove the war toward the Sindu System. Ron’s forces reached the Throne of Dominion, where Szarekh prepared to confront him.

• Tyberos captured Trazyn as Guilliman took command of the Indomitus Crusade and used Ron’s intelligence to coordinate the war against the Necrons.
• Guilliman’s fleets allied with Sathum against the Silent King, while Dorn and the Imperium repelled Triarch Praetorian attacks on human worlds and the Webway.
• The Voss Archon’s Savior Colossus destroyed a Necron fleet, after which Ron rallied his followers, attacked the Szarekhan Crownworld, and drew numerous factions into the war.
• Szarekh used the Astrolabe to devastate the invading forces and negotiated a ceasefire with the Stormlord, but Ron and Fahra revealed their newborn son, Charles Zarxis, to the Phaerakhs.
• Ron gained the Phaerakhs’ Command Protocols and formed a new Triarch, then advanced toward the Sindu System as Guilliman fought aboard a Tomb Megaship and survived the system’s supernova.
• Ron’s broadcasts and Charles’s image persuaded Necrontyr dynasties to abandon Szarekh, and the Kask dynasty joined Ron after he risked his life to challenge the encircling fleets.
• Ron’s forces pressed through the Sindu System as Imotekh attacked and was subdued by Ron’s allied Phaerakhs, and Szarekh raised the Throne of Dominion and set out to meet Ron.

Ron defeated Szarekh with the help of allied fleets and forced the Chaos Gods back into the Warp. He made peace with the Necrons, announced Warp colonization, and sent Tyranid and Ork vanguards into the Warp.

• Ron challenged Szarekh for the Necrontyr’s kingship, then used his many phaerakh allies to provoke a battle that drew the dynasties away from the Silent King.
• Szarekh absorbed the authority of a C’tan Shard and became a godlike figure, but Ron and the allied fleets weakened him through a sustained assault.
• Ron killed Szarekh with the combined attack, then activated the Blackstone Veil to collapse the Warp rift and drive the Chaos Gods away.
• Ron negotiated a covenant with the Necrons, who agreed to dismantle their weapons, aid humanity against the Warp, and settle on the frontier.
• Ron approved competing Warp research projects by Regubor and Buna, whose findings supported human survival and settlement in the Warp.
• The Imperium celebrated Victory Day as Ron announced Warp colonization, while the Royal Court shifted toward managing vassal species through culture and economics.
• Ron secretly sent Ork and Tyranid vanguards into the Warp, where the Tyranids adapted and established a protected zone while the Orks embraced their mutations.

Ron launched humanity’s Warp colonization, defended the new colonies from a massive Chaos assault, and expanded the Imperium around the Tree of Life. Leman Russ finally reached the City of Life, learned the Emperor was safe, and reunited with his brothers and father.

• Fadis grew envious of Ron’s blessings, while Tzeentch discovered the Warp colonization plan and plotted to turn Warp-dwelling humans against the Imperium.
• Ron and the Primarchs launched the Warp Great Construction Project, sending thirteen savage planets into the Warp as the Chaos Gods gathered to oppose them.
• Ron revealed a hidden armory of powerful weapons, and the Imperium named its first colony Eden One before Chaos Daemons breached its defenses.
• Imperial forces unleashed a massive counterattack with Hell Weapons, drove back the daemons, and established safe zones for those who surrendered beneath the Savior’s banner.
• Ron secured the Tree of Life and oversaw the growth of the City of Life, while Leman Russ returned to the Warp and searched for the missing tree.
• Russ reached the City of Life, mistook its peaceful colonies for a Chaos illusion, and fought his way past the Carcharodons as he raced toward the Tree of Life.
• Jaghatai Khan subdued Russ and brought him to Ron, who gave him Essence of Life and explained that the Emperor had already escaped the Golden Throne.
• Russ learned that humanity had recovered and pledged to fight beside Ron, then reunited with the Emperor, who welcomed him affectionately.

Ron built his forces and alliances while the Imperium advanced into the Warp, turning the Chaos Gods against the Blood God. The Grey Knights opened a route into Blood Soil, where Ordan survived a daemonic onslaught and was slated for a Heaven’s Judgment Heavy Dreadnought.

• The Emperor forgave Russ after beating him for his past insults, while Ron returned to the Sanctuary and studied a map of the Warp.
• Ron mobilized the Imperium against the Chaos Beastmen, recruited Ka'bandha, and empowered him to defeat the Beastman God-Chosen.
• Ron expanded his Faith Channel Network across the Chaos Realms and used blessings to win over daemons, while the Chaos Gods struggled to protect their followers.
• Ron secretly allied with the Lord of Pleasure, Grandfather Nurgle, and the Lord of Change, while Imperial forces pressured the Blood God’s territory.
• A hundred-billion-strong Colonial Expeditionary Fleet arrived, and Ron persuaded the other Chaos Gods to join a raid into Blood Soil.
• The Grey Knights used Spatial Anchors and a Blackstone Rift Generator to open a path toward Blood Soil, prompting the Blood God to unleash a Sea of Blood against their fortresses.
• Ron gave captive Ordan hidden authority, and Ordan survived the Blood Pit before the Sea of Blood swept him to the Grey Knights’ fortress line.
• Shiwen recognized the battered Ordan, and after an Apothecary revived him, a Techmarine said the Brotherhood would place him in a Heaven’s Judgment Heavy Dreadnought.