Chapter Summaries

Little Alpaca led the players through a brutal two-phase battle against Vicious Thar, then prepared to explore deeper for Inquisitor Adogin’s remains. Meanwhile, Qin Yun arrived on Macragge’s Honour, where the Warmaster arranged for Titus to return to the Ultramarines and Guilliman revealed that Terra’s bureaucrats were secretly aiding cults and xenos.

• Little Alpaca’s team defeated Vicious Thar’s first form, survived its second form and summoned Daemons, and claimed the Daemon Grimoire before preparing to search for the sword near Inquisitor Adogin’s death site.
• Qin Yun arrived on Macragge’s Honour and joined Guilliman for a private discussion about reform.
• The Warmaster told Sicarius that Titus had been rescued from over a century of imprisonment and hoped to return to the Ultramarines, and Sicarius promised to help him reunite with his Chapter.
• The Warmaster received the Ultramarines’ Friendship after explaining his bond with Titus, astonishing the other players.
• Guilliman told Qin Yun that Terra’s bureaucrats were resisting his reforms and secretly funding cults and xenos, and Qin Yun agreed they needed to be dealt with forcefully.

Little Alpaca’s team explored Inquisitor Adogin’s Black Ship, recovered Duty of Light, and freed the trapped souls of Adogin and her Grey Knights. On Macragge’s Honour, Qin Yun and Guilliman discussed the Imperium’s crisis before a suspected sabotage incident struck the Fifth Fleet at Uranus.

• Little Alpaca’s team fought through the Warp-tainted corridors and entered the abandoned Inquisition Black Ship.
• Vogel, the ghost of one of Inquisitor Adogin’s servants, revealed that Adogin and her Grey Knights had died killing a Daemon and asked the players to recover their bodies.
• Vogel led Little Alpaca’s team to the frozen chapel, where they found Adogin, the Grey Knights, the Daemon’s corpse, and Duty of Light.
• Little Alpaca took Duty of Light and used the Daemon Grimoire’s redemption ritual to release Vogel and the other bound souls.
• Qin Yun and Guilliman discussed the Imperium’s strategic crisis, including the Despoiler’s plans and Chaos’s control of key Warp routes.
• Sicarius reported that the Fifth Fleet had suffered a suspected sabotage incident at Uranus, with four ships lost to the Warp and many vessels damaged.

After the Fiery Bosom’s deliberate destruction caused catastrophic losses, Guilliman abandoned his plans to ease the bureaucrats into reform and prepared to purge Terra. He appointed Qin Yun acting Regent before departing on the Indomitus Crusade, leaving Jack to help him control the Council of Terra.

• Plassorius described how false orders and sabotaged systems triggered the Fiery Bosom’s explosion, while Inquisitor Gallen reported evidence of a coordinated effort to delay the Fifth Fleet’s assembly.
• Guilliman, enraged by the investigation, agreed with Qin Yun to accelerate the purge of Terra and said he would depart on the crusade while Qin Yun took control.
• Guilliman summoned Imperial Chancellor Jack and told her to assist Qin Yun after he left Terra to lead the assembled fleets against Chaos.
• Guilliman announced Qin Yun as acting Regent before the Council of Terra, shocking the High Lords and delighting factions that expected Guilliman’s departure to ease pressure on them.
• The players reacted to Qin Yun’s sudden promotion, and Little Alpaca said he would remain in the Calixis Sector to gather Relics before facing the Indomitus Crusade.

Voldus persuaded Guilliman to assign the God Chosen to the Indomitus Crusade, and the Demon Hunter Warband joined the Third Expeditionary Fleet as it departed to fight Khorne’s forces. Meanwhile, Qin Yun began repairing the Golden Throne and entered the Sanctum with the players, leaving them awestruck by the Throne Room.

• Voldus presented Guilliman with evidence that the God Chosen could nullify Chaos powers, and Guilliman assigned them to the expeditionary fleets and approved Beacon Ships for their communications network.
• Xi Ling issued the Demon Hunter Warband a mission to assist the Third Expeditionary Fleet, and Asuma gifted Brother Zhong the Null-infused Executioner Greatsword Annihilation.
• Cassandra Valescus allowed the Demon Hunter Warband aboard the Noble Precept, and the Third Expeditionary Fleet departed as the Indomitus Crusade began.
• Qin Yun ordered Inquisitor Galen to investigate the Fifth Expeditionary Fleet incident and went to the Sanctum to repair the Golden Throne.
• Trajann Valoris accompanied Qin Yun, the Magi, and the players into the Sanctum, where the players marveled at the enormous Throne Room.

Qin Yun used the Infinity Key to restore the Golden Throne’s failing components, then received an Emperor-sent reward and arranged for the Adeptus Custodes to return to the galactic battlefield. He sent Old Bird and Reckless General to search Mars for the Akashic Reader, and ended by opening the Emperor’s reward to find a legendary spear.

• Qin Yun used the Infinity Key to reverse the damage to the Golden Throne, restore its operation, and reduce its consumption of Psykers, though he knew the repair would only delay its eventual collapse.
• The Emperor manifested through a radiant portal and sent Cherubs with a message and a chest; Qin Yun asked the Emperor to approve Guilliman’s plan to restore the Adeptus Custodes’ Ten Thousand and send them into the galaxy.
• Qin Yun warned Trajan that he could tell the Emperor about the Captain-General’s conduct, then left the Imperial Palace.
• Qin Yun sent Old Bird and Reckless General to Mars to search Lava City for the Akashic Reader, offering them the chance to earn an Aquila Medal.
• Back in his office, Qin Yun opened the Emperor’s reward chest and found a legendary spear.

Qin Yun began sweeping reforms across Terra, purging the Adeptus Arbites and ordering a forceful response to strikes and resistance. Inquisitor Galen then warned him that a major rebellion involving High Lords, more than fifty families, and the Minotaurs might be brewing in the Sol System.

• Qin Yun identified Vulkan’s legendary Fang of the Fire Dragon, tested it in his office, and accidentally set bookshelves on fire before claiming his psychic power had gone out of control.
• Qin Yun issued reforms to establish an Imperial Bank, improve military benefits, encourage commerce and innovation, increase education spending, and fight corruption.
• Qin Yun purged corrupt Adeptus Arbites officials and hereditary families, while surviving enemies and vested interests increasingly resisted his reforms and attempted to assassinate him.
• When Charter Captains and Department of the Interior officials went on strike, Qin Yun ordered replacements, threatened arrests and executions, and refused to withdraw his policies.
• Inquisitor Galen told Qin Yun that intermediaries linked to the Fifth Fleet had revealed plans for a large-scale rebellion involving current or former High Lords and more than fifty families.
• Galen reported that the Minotaurs Chapter had entered the Sol System under a suspicious pretext, warning that the enemy’s forces could plunge Terra and the wider system into chaos.

Qin Yun explained his plan to use Terra’s rebellion as a pretext to relocate its population, while Old Bird’s team and Cawl explored the ruins of Lava City in search of the Akashic Reader. The expedition reached the underground core, where intelligent robots confronted them.

• Inquisitor Gallen reported that Irtu Simotern and Baldo Sletra backed the rebels, while Yora Rama’s involvement remained under investigation.
• Qin Yun told Gallen he planned to use the unrest to move Terra’s population into space and rebuild Terra around the Imperial Palace and Astronomican.
• Old Bird, Reckless General, and the Eastern University Research Institute team traveled to Mars, where Cawl joined them and offered Micro Nuclear Fusion technology as a mission reward.
• Cawl led the group to the ruins of Lava City, where they fought waves of increasingly powerful, modified feral Servitors.
• At Lava City’s underground core, intelligent machines blocked the group and declared that the organic beings had trespassed into their territory.

Old Bird, Cawl, and the players fought through the machines guarding Lava City’s rebuilt underground core, where Cawl discovered that the Akashic Reader had fused with the Caretaker Matrix. On Terra, Irtu Simotern’s Conservatives planned a rebellion, but Assassin Grand Master Fadix revealed to Qin Yun that he had come to help expose the traitors.

• Old Bird and his group rejected an Abominable Intelligence’s demand to leave, defeated its forces, and fought their way into Lava City’s underground city.
• Cawl connected to the metal sphere at the city’s center while the players destroyed five Domitar-class Battle-automata; Cawl identified the sphere as a fusion of the Akashic Reader and the Caretaker Matrix.
• Irtu Simotern and other former and current Imperial leaders plotted to seize key officials, remove the Living Saint from Terra, and overthrow the reforms.
• Fadix entered Qin Yun’s room and said he had come to assassinate him, then offered his loyalty and explained that Guilliman had asked him to help uncover Terra’s corruption.

The Caretaker Matrix’s history and downfall were revealed as Cawl and the players recovered it and the Akashic Reader, only to be detained by Laski. Meanwhile, Qin Yun prepared to expose a coup on Terra before traveling to Mars, where he confronted Laski as the Omnissiah.

• The Caretaker Matrix’s attempt to use the Akashic Reader left it mentally compromised after the souls of Koriel Zeth and the Psykers merged with its mind, and Cawl separated the Matrix from the Reader and secured both for the Living Saint.
• Laski surrounded Cawl and the players, offered them rewards to betray Cawl, then had them disarmed and taken to Olympus Forge when Old Bird refused.
• Old Bird concluded that the players’ capture was part of the high-reward mission, and Qin Yun’s new missions tasked players with recovering the Caretaker Matrix and the Akashic Reader.
• Qin Yun arranged with Trajan, Fadix, Ers, and Galen to let the conspirators on Terra expose themselves, then announced that he was severely injured and left for Mars using the Machine God Avatar.
• At Olympus Forge, Laski confronted Cawl, but the machinery and believers acclaimed the Omnissiah, whose golden figure appeared and asked Laski whether he intended to betray him.

Qin Yun secured Laski’s loyalty on Mars while Irtu Simotern’s faction seized control on Terra and moved to overturn the reforms. After the rebels circulated a petition identifying their supporters, Qin Yun ordered Trajan and the Inquisition to begin a purge.

• Qin Yun appeared as the Living Saint before Laski, healed the captured players, and received Laski’s oath of loyalty for Mars.
• Qin Yun told Laski to deceive Irtu Simotern’s faction into believing the Reformists had been suppressed, while false reports claimed the Living Saint had been gravely wounded on Terra.
• Roskaffler warned Jack that the Living Saint’s supposed assassination would be used to undermine reforms, but Jack was rejected by Ma Av Ashalil and imprisoned by Merada Peris.
• Irtu Simotern launched a rebellion, suppressed it with military support, and publicly condemned the reforms; Fadix then proposed a petition to force other Council members out.
• Qin Yun learned that many families had signed the petition and told Trajan to prepare the Adeptus Custodes and Inquisition to arrest the named traitors without letting anyone escape.

Qin Yun prepared the Adeptus Custodes, Officio Assassinorum, and Inquisition to crush Terra's rebels, then launched the limited-time "Terra's Spring" expansion to involve players in the purge. After recovering new technologies from the Emperor and giving Mars knowledge and plans for vast habitats, he left Terra's future relocation to Laski as players welcomed the expansion.

• Qin Yun ordered Trajan, Fadix, Ers, and Gallen to prepare a secret campaign against Terra's rebels, with rebel leaders to be captured alive and publicly executed.
• Qin Yun created the limited-time "Terra's Spring" expansion, setting rules for player conduct, rewards, and travel to Terra.
• Qin Yun submitted the Caretaker Matrix and Akashic Reader to the Emperor, received Cogitators 2.0 and Beacon 3.0 technologies, and recovered the reshaped Caretaker Matrix.
• Qin Yun gave Laski knowledge and plans for constructing space habitats to house Terra's population after the unrest ended.
• Qin Yun returned to Terra with Old Bird and the other players, and the expansion launched as players rushed to comment and join the purge.

As the Terra's Spring event drew players to Terra, Qin Yun revealed himself as the Emperor's Living Saint and broke the Conservatives' coup without a major battle. The High Lords were executed, and the chapter ended as a wider purge was about to begin.

• Players flocked to Terra to join the expansion event, while Valerian and Aleya learned that the Conservatives had orchestrated the rebellion to stop the reforms.
• The Astronomican blazed with golden light as Qin Yun appeared, and Astra Militarum soldiers abandoned Ashariel and surrendered; a Callidus assassin captured him.
• Peris failed to make the Navy attack Terra, Fadix captured the rebellious High Lords, and loyal forces seized the Supreme Bloodline.
• The Emperor's Cattle Warband stormed the Minotaurs Chapter's fortress, but Roskaffler took control of the Chapter and the players claimed half its spoils.
• Qin Yun declared the High Lords traitors and executed them publicly, as a broader purge across Terra loomed.

Old Thirteen’s forces purged Lester House while Little Alpaca’s warband seized Stigmata Cathedral, and Guilliman’s public order brought the bloodshed on Terra to an end. As Qin Yun and Guilliman prepared to continue their reforms, Trazyn the Infinite set his sights on collecting a God Chosen, especially the psychic Ogryn Old Thirteen.

• Old Thirteen led the God Chosen and Astra Militarum in an assault on Lester House, captured its fleeing elders, and ordered the family executed after confronting its head with evidence of its crimes.
• Little Alpaca and the Battle Rose Warband defeated the Conservative clergy at Stigmata Cathedral, executed its Archbishop, and searched the cathedral for valuables.
• Guilliman publicly ordered the purge to stop, ending the executions and easing the fears of Terra’s families and other worlds.
• Guilliman welcomed the purge’s political effects, while Captain Brecher warned that the Living Saint’s control of Terra’s forces could threaten his power.
• Trazyn the Infinite decided to add the God Chosen to his collection and took a particular interest in capturing Old Thirteen.
• Qin Yun and Guilliman privately agreed to continue their reforms and dismantle the influence of vested-interest groups.

Qin Yun won Guilliman’s support for relocating Terra’s residents and rebuilding the planet while pushing reforms and construction across the Sol System. After Trazyn the Infinite captured the Hogwarts Warband to display in his museum, Qin Yun ordered a player squad to find the Museum World and raid it.

• Qin Yun persuaded Guilliman that rebuilding Terra would restore hope and unite humanity, and Guilliman agreed to support the relocation plan and join the wider crusade.
• Qin Yun and the rebuilt Terra government advanced reforms, began constructing thirteen Space Cities, expanded communications, and imposed Throne Gelt as the Imperium’s sole currency.
• Old Thirteen and the Hogwarts Warband set out on an Inquisition mission, were ambushed by Necrons, and were captured by Trazyn the Infinite for his museum.
• Xi Ling told Qin Yun that Trazyn had taken the Hogwarts players to Museum World, and Qin Yun ordered the Emperor’s Cattle Warband to track them while an elite squad prepared to raid the museum.

Old Thirteen and the Hogwarts Warband players were captured by Trazyn the Infinite, prompting Qin Yun to issue a rescue mission as players rushed to pursue him. Meanwhile, Xi Ling upgraded the Imperial Glory, which the Blood Angels Successors agreed to share, and Qin Yun received a new Word of Darkness skill after completing a technology task.

• Old Thirteen posted that Trazyn had captured the Hogwarts Warband players and was transporting them to his museum, drawing a flood of forum replies.
• Qin Yun issued a rescue mission, and high-level players accepted it while the Emperor's Cattle Warband pursued Trazyn.
• After Baal acquired enough minerals, Qin Yun had Xi Ling upgrade the Imperial Glory into a fifty-kilometer warship with enhanced capabilities.
• Dante and the Blood Angels Successors argued over control of the Imperial Glory before agreeing it would serve as the flagship of the Bloodline of Sanguinius.
• Xi Ling completed her analysis of Energy-Matter Conversion Technology, and Qin Yun received Faith Points and the Word of Darkness skill "Knockback."

Qin Yun tested the Emperor-granted Word of Darkness skill Knockback on captured daemons, then prepared and released the Version 6.0 update featuring Imperial banking, Beacon upgrades, and player storage devices. Meanwhile, Emperor's Cattle Warband located the hidden Dimensional Space containing one of Trazyn's collection planets.

• Qin Yun had Cultists summon daemons so he could test Word of Darkness, and players subdued the summoned creatures for his experiments.
• Qin Yun discovered that Knockback could forcibly hurl targets away and severely injure daemons, then stopped testing when the Warp no longer responded to the Cultists' sacrifices.
• Xi Ling showed Qin Yun a bracelet that connected to a one-cubic-meter Dimensional Space, and he asked her to include the new technology in Version 6.0.
• Qin Yun approved and posted the Version 6.0 update notice, which introduced Imperial banking, improved Beacon services, Dimensional Space devices, and other player changes.
• Emperor's Cattle Warband tracked Trazyn to a desolate star region and, with Xi Ling's help, found the entrance to his hidden Dimensional Space and a collection planet.

Qin Yun arranged a rescue mission for the captured Hogwarts Warband, using Xi Ling’s resurrection-point plan to wear down Trazyn and sending Hellfire Inceptor Power Armor as a reward and field test. The Emperor’s Cattle Warband began its airdrop onto Museum World, while Trazyn remained unaware that his collections were about to be threatened.

• Qin Yun rejected an immediate attack on Trazyn and ordered a Beacon-equipped warship to let rescuers revive and reenter Museum World repeatedly.
• Xi Ling showed Qin Yun the Hellfire Inceptor Power Armor, which he assigned to the Emperor’s Cattle Warband as a rescue reward and battlefield test.
• Trazyn returned to Museum World and had Sannet place newly captured humans in the Human Pavilion beside exhibits from human history.
• The Emperor’s Cattle Warband received the armor and prepared to rescue the Hogwarts Warband, while other players planned diversionary attacks.
• The Warmaster, Ten-Timer, and the squad received their mission coordinates and leaped from a Phantom Shuttle toward Museum World.

The Emperor's Cattle Warband rescued the Hogwarts Warband from Trazyn's museum, raided his vault, and stole its ancient weapons, but Trazyn defeated the players before they could escape. After the players revived, they returned to raid his Pyramid again as Trazyn struggled to defend his collection from the human fleet.

• The Warmaster led the Emperor's Cattle Warband into Museum Planet, where they infiltrated the Human Pavilion and freed Old Thirteen and the other imprisoned players.
• Trazyn left the observation deck to retrieve weapons from his vault while a human fleet attacked Museum Planet and breached its pocket dimension.
• The players followed Trazyn into the Secret Chamber, stole its weapons, and fought alongside the freed human exhibits against Trazyn and his Necron army.
• The Warmaster defeated one of Trazyn's bodies, but another Trazyn ambushed him and killed him before Trazyn's forces wiped out both warbands.
• Trazyn discovered that the players had emptied his vault, then watched Imperial Drop Pods descend toward Museum Planet.
• Ten-Timer posted an analysis of Version 6.0, but the Warmaster called him back into the game, where the revived players returned to raid Trazyn's Pyramid.

The Warmaster and the players defeated Trazyn on the Museum World, freed his imprisoned exhibits, and intervened when rescued Luna Wolves clashed with Sisters of Battle over Horus’s betrayal. On Terra, Qin Yun continued relocating residents and received a task to have Xi Ling analyze the Scepter of Stellar Wrath.

• The Warmaster and the players broke into Trazyn’s Tomb, overcame his defenses, and defeated him after the Warmaster repeatedly taunted him about the Necrons’ past.
• Ten-Timer and the other players defeated Trazyn’s guards, freed imprisoned exhibits, and looted the Tomb before returning to the surface.
• The Warmaster stopped the Luna Wolves and Sisters of Battle from fighting, then showed Mathanor and his warriors the history of the Horus Heresy.
• Mathanor and the Luna Wolves learned that Horus had betrayed the Emperor and discovered that the Imperium had reached the 42K era, leaving them devastated by its decline.
• Qin Yun managed Terra’s affairs and relocation efforts while Space Cities took shape near Terra.
• A golden screen tasked Qin Yun with having Xi Ling analyze the Scepter of Stellar Wrath, offering Faith Points and Stellar Energy Conversion Technology as rewards.

Qin Yun investigated a miners’ uprising that had killed reform officials and sent the Inquisition to punish the families behind it. Meanwhile, Mathanor confronted a former Luna Wolves comrade who had fallen to Chaos, and Brother Zhong’s squad killed a daemon that recognized the players as outsiders.

• Qin Yun ordered Xi Ling to prioritize analysis of the Necron Scepter of Stellar Wrath and use its technology to improve humanity’s technology tree.
• After Qin Yun found a suppressed report about reform officials executed during a miners’ uprising, he sent Ers and a Punishment Fleet to investigate the mining world.
• The Inquisition arrested families implicated in the officials’ deaths, and an Inquisitor told a Fini Family woman that her powerful patron would also be punished.
• Mathanor recognized Claude, his former Luna Wolves comrade, among the imprisoned Chaos Space Marines and rejected Claude’s defense of the Warmaster and Chaos.
• Brother Zhong and the Demon Hunter Warband trapped a daemon in a warehouse, and Brother Zhong killed it after it called the players outsiders.
• Brother Zhong uploaded a recording of the daemon’s remarks to the player chat channel.