Chapter Summaries

Guilliman and Qin Yun helped turn back Khorne’s daemon assault on Terra, while Imperial forces and players fought to reclaim the battlefield. After the last Daemon Prince remained, the players argued over who would get to kill it, leaving Guilliman speechless.

• Guilliman defeated a Khorne Daemon Prince with Qin Yun’s help, breaking its spine and crushing its head as Imperial forces launched a counterattack.
• Old Thirteen’s psychic powers shocked Voldus, then he charged into another Daemon Prince and helped the Silent Sisterhood, Valerian, and others bring it down.
• The Hogwarts Warband climbed into the Warfare Score rankings as Imperial reinforcements arrived and the players fought harder to earn points.
• The players surrounded the final Khorne Daemon Prince and argued over which Warband would claim it, while the Imperial heroes looked on in confusion.
• Guilliman learned that the players wanted to settle their dispute before killing the daemon and reacted with exasperation.

After the Battle of Lion's Gate ended, Guilliman began reorganizing the Imperium and preparing the Indomitus Crusade while Qin Yun returned to the Calixis Sector to continue his reforms. Qin Yun collected his mission reward and eagerly awaited the epic-grade Power Armour inside a delivered metal crate.

• Guilliman and Imperial forces killed the last Khorne Daemon Prince, then the players hunted lesser daemons until the Battle of Lion's Gate ended.
• The players' Warbands competed on the leaderboard as Imperial forces cleared the battlefield and the Council of Terra suppressed unrest.
• Qin Yun refused Guilliman's offer to stay on Terra and returned to the Calixis Sector aboard the Imperial Glory; Celestine, Voldus, and Amalrich also departed for other duties.
• Guilliman reorganized Terra's government and military, prepared loyalist armies for the Indomitus Crusade, and backed Cawl's Primaris Marines against Conservative protests.
• Qin Yun collected his completed mission reward, including Faith Points and epic-grade Power Armour, which golden Cherubs delivered in a metal crate.

Qin Yun donned Sanguinius’s golden Glory of the King Power Armour and received a mission to aid the Blood Angels on Baal, though he decided to wait until his forces were stronger. The chapter ended with Xi Ling showing him Dora Workshop’s Dreadnought-class destroyer design and Qin Yun discovering the workshop’s frigate production had surged.

• Qin Yun used the portable armory to replace his old Power Armour with Sanguinius’s Glory of the King, then showed off his new appearance to surprised players.
• Qin Yun checked the Imperial Glory’s readiness and received a mission to assist the Blood Angels against the Leviathan Tyranid Fleet on Baal.
• Qin Yun judged his forces too weak to intervene immediately and decided to support Baal after reclaiming the Calixis Sector and completing the Primaris upgrade.
• Xi Ling presented Dora Workshop’s Dreadnought-class destroyer blueprint, and Qin Yun praised its design before noticing the workshop’s high frigate production.

Qin Yun approved reforms to build a unified market and financial system in the Calixis Sector while authorizing several player research projects. He assigned Qian Donglai to investigate a new financial department, and Qian recruited a friend to help.

• Qin Yun calculated Dora Workshop’s potential frigate output and discussed how a growing fleet could support his plans for the Imperium.
• Qin Yun outlined reforms to integrate the Calixis Sector into a large market, strengthen enforcement, and establish a financial department for citizens and merchants.
• Qin Yun ordered Xi Ling to assign Ten-Timer a mission to design the financial department and approved research proposals from Dora Workshop and other warbands.
• Mushroom celebrated approval and an interest-free loan for the Agricultural College Warband’s plant-based biological weapons research, then planned to obtain Orks for study.
• Qian Donglai received a mission to investigate the Calixis Sector’s financial system and called his friend to recruit financial experts, prompting the friend to eagerly demand a game slot.

Qin Yun rejected efforts by nobles to halt his reforms, funded the war through popular War Bonds, and prepared to crush the Rebels in the Malz System. Meanwhile, a new batch of players logged into Warhammer Online and Ten-Timer recruited his friends to build a financial system from piles of documents.

• Von reported that the war-funding shortfall had reached thirty quadrillion and warned it could force a halt to military operations.
• Herod and other faction representatives urged Qin Yun to suspend the reforms, but Qin Yun revoked their positions, confiscated their family assets, and announced further reforms and inheritance taxes.
• Qin Yun issued War Bonds and ordered preparations for a decisive battle in the Malz System; soldiers, the public, and Ecclesiarchy believers bought the first batch, while the nobles' boycott collapsed.
• A new batch of players logged into Warhammer Online, where Red Dragon tricked a newbie into joining Zuowangdao.
• Ten-Timer gathered his invited players and assigned them to sort documents and build a financial system, prompting Old Ma to complain that he had logged in only to become a workhorse.

Ten-Timer and the other players completed an Imperial financial reform proposal after receiving mechanical enhancements, and Qin Yun approved it for the Version 5.0 update. At Wandering Port, the Warmaster and other players launched a surprise attack using concealed boarding torpedoes as the Imperium fleet battled the rebel defenses.

• Old Ma and the other players struggled to review centuries of financial archives until Magos Hina fitted them with mechanical prosthetics and auxiliary brains through credit agreements.
• Ten-Timer, Old Ma, and the other players completed the Imperial Financial Treatise, and Qin Yun approved it while ordering Xi Ling to repay their enhancement loans and issue rewards.
• The players celebrated their successful mission, while the Warmaster and other players headed to the battlefield to earn merits.
• Ariel and the rebel leaders fortified Wandering Port and mocked the approaching Imperium fleet as a space battle erupted.
• The Warmaster and other players activated concealed boarding torpedoes and sped toward Wandering Port's weapon platforms.

Imperial forces retook Wandering Port after the players crippled its defenses, defeated the rebel fleet, and destroyed the last rebel stronghold. Before they could receive another mission, an Ork WAAAGH emerged from The Maw, while Necrons and a Zerg fleet threatened the Calixis Sector, leaving Qin Yun suspicious that a hidden force was orchestrating the crises.

• Players used Ghost Tactic boarding torpedoes to infiltrate Wandering Port and disable its gun batteries while the Imperial fleet defeated the rebel ships.
• Warmaster and the players overwhelmed the port's defenders, accepted the surrender of the major factions, then massacred them after they disarmed.
• Big Blue's fleet destroyed Ariel's final fortress with a Lance volley, and Imperial forces reclaimed Wandering Port.
• An Auspex aboard Exemplar Fist detected an Ork fleet emerging from The Maw, prompting the players to prepare for battle and evacuate civilians.
• Qin Yun learned that Orks, Necrons, and a Zerg fleet were attacking across the Calixis Sector and suspected an invisible hand was behind the simultaneous threats.

Qin Yun learned that Fateweaver Kairos had manipulated events to bring the Necrons, Orks, and Tyranids into the Calixis Sector, and ordered a swift campaign against the rebels at Malz. Meanwhile, Big Blue’s forces fought the Orks at Wandering Port, where the Warmaster faced the Ork boss Liontooth alone.

• Kasareth told Qin Yun that Fateweaver Kairos had altered the Fate Lines to plunge the Calixis Sector into chaos.
• Qin Yun ordered the fleet to attack the rebels at Malz System in Operation Lightning before the xenos threats worsened.
• Big Blue commanded the defense against the Ork fleet as the Orks launched boarding assaults and crippled Wandering Port’s defenses.
• Liontooth led the Orks into Wandering Port, where the Warmaster and Imperial defenders fought to protect the evacuation.
• After the players fell and the Warmaster stood alone against the Orks, Liontooth challenged him to fight.

The Warmaster and Liontooth killed each other in their duel, but Mek Boss Frik revived Liontooth with a mysterious metal sphere in place of his heart. Meanwhile, Qin Yun’s fleet reached the Malz System and entered realspace, ready for battle.

• The Warmaster and Liontooth traded devastating blows until the Warmaster impaled Liontooth with his greatsword and died, leaving both fighters dead.
• The Orks began fighting among themselves for leadership, while Big Blue led the surviving ships away from Wandering Port toward Malz World.
• Mek Boss Frik replaced Liontooth’s destroyed heart with a rune-covered metal sphere and revived him with electricity, accidentally killing Grogrok in the process.
• In the Warhammer Toilers Group, the Warmaster celebrated reaching Hallmaster level with his Two-handed Sword, and Qin Yun considered adding achievements in Version 5.0.
• Qin Yun’s fleet emerged from the Warp into realspace near the Malz System, and he ordered the ships to raise their shields and begin the battle.

Ursus Colin’s fleet faced the Imperium’s assault at Malz as Ailo warned that the Transformation Ritual was their only chance against the Living Saint. The Imperial fleet gained the upper hand, while the ritual began on Malz World and opened a gigantic eye in the Void.

• Ursus Colin reviewed his defenses and recalled the Colin Family’s defeats, while Ailo warned him that the Living Saint had fought across the galaxy and could not be beaten.
• The Imperium fleet emerged at Malz, attacked the Rebel defenses using intelligence from Scalp, and forced Ursus to engage.
• Blood Pigeon led the Eagle Soars Nine Heavens warband’s fighters into the battle, but enemy fire destroyed his craft before he scored a kill.
• Xia commanded the Imperial Glory as it destroyed the Rebel battleship Iron Heart, leaving Ursus convinced that defeat was certain.
• Ursus learned that Warp activity was surging and realized the Transformation Ritual was underway, while Ailo had disappeared from the bridge.
• Chaos Sorcerers sacrificed vast numbers of slaves on Malz World, opening a gigantic eye in the Void as Ethereal power poured into real space.

As the Warp Storm made conventional attacks ineffective, Qin Yun ordered Xi Ling to use the Beacon to absorb Warp energy and empower the Imperium’s warriors. The players gained temporary Sublimation and rushed to repel demons boarding the Imperial Glory while the ritual on Malz World remained the key to stopping the invasion.

• Warp corruption transformed the enemy ships, and the War Will survived Xia’s focused bombardment while attacking the Imperial fleet.
• Kasareth explained that a Warp Field protected the Chaos ships and that the fleet needed to destroy the Warp Storm’s anchor point on Malz World.
• A Daemon Tide charged the Imperial fleet, and Qin Yun ordered Xi Ling to activate the Beacon at full power and transfer the absorbed Warp energy to him and the God Chosen.
• The Beacon’s energy strengthened the players, and a mission tasked them with defeating the daemons and stopping the ritual that the Colin Family had summoned.
• Demons boarded the Imperial Glory, and the players charged to fight them.

The Imperium’s forces contained the Daemon Tide and boarded the Chaos fleet to destroy the corruption anchors, allowing their warships to strike back. After Qin Yun killed Ursus and the fleet gained the upper hand, he ordered a ground assault to stop the ritual sustaining the daemons and restoring the enemy ships.

• Old Thirteen and the players helped hold back the daemons as Wrist Bro killed hundreds, briefly drawing Khorne’s attention without receiving his blessing.
• Qin Yun ordered the God Chosen and Astartes to board the Chaos ships, destroy their anchors, and prepare for a ground assault.
• Titus led a Kill Team onto the War Will, where boarding squads destroyed the Chaos constructs that empowered the ships.
• Qin Yun fought through the War Will, killed Ursus on the command deck, and joined the withdrawal after the ship’s corruption weakened.
• The Imperial fleet destroyed the crippled War Will and drove back the Rebel fleet, but the daemons kept pouring through the rift.
• Qin Yun ordered the fleet to escort the Transport Barges into low orbit and launch a full-scale assault to destroy the ground ritual.

Qin Yun and the Imperium forces attacked the Tzeentch ritual on Malz World, destroying all nine altars and ending the invasion. Kairos learned that his forces had been defeated and that the Menagerie's anchor had fallen into Qin Yun's hands.

• Qin Yun led the airborne assault while Ten-Timer tried and failed to capture an injured Screamer Shark, then fought Tzeentchian daemons on the ground.
• Kasareth warned Qin Yun that the nine altars sustained the Warp invasion, so Qin Yun had Xi Ling assign players a mission to destroy them.
• Warmaster and Titus joined the altar assault, while players and Imperial forces fought through daemons to reach the ritual sites.
• Malabas appeared to defend an altar, but Qin Yun, Xi Ling, and Kasareth defeated him; the players then destroyed all nine altars, collapsing the Warp Storm and allowing the Imperium to crush the rebels.
• Kasareth gave Qin Yun the Glowing Octahedron Crystal, the Menagerie's anchor, and offered advice on making contracts with its beasts.
• Kairos returned to the Crystal Labyrinth and learned that Malabas had been defeated, the rebels had been wiped out, and Qin Yun had taken the Menagerie's anchor.

Kairos lamented the failure of his plan as Imperial forces secured Malz Hive City, while Qin Yun seized the Menagerie's anchor and gained Aeldari knowledge for controlling Warp beasts. Qin Yun began planning sector-wide reforms and crackdowns, and Scalp infiltrated a rebel fortress to capture Uld Colin before confronting his former allies.

• Kairos realized the Colin Family's defeat had cost him the Menagerie's anchor, then convinced himself the setback served Tzeentch's Great Plan.
• Imperial forces restored control of Malz Hive City, and Pierce and Harry celebrated their victories and expected promotions as troops secured the districts.
• Qin Yun learned how the Cult of Change had corrupted Malz World, accepted Kasareth's improved Beast Control Device, and saw it command a summoned Flesh Hound.
• Kasareth revealed that the Aeldari intended to pit humanity against the Warp, while Qin Yun planned to add the Menagerie and beast-control knowledge to Version 5.0.
• Qin Yun ordered the Colin Family's wealth used to redeem War Bonds early and planned further cult purges, infrastructure, communications, and trade across the sector.
• Scalp sabotaged a rebel fortress, anesthetized Uld Colin for interrogation, helped open the gates to Imperial forces, and faced Jona's angry questions about his betrayal.

Scalp and Titus's forces captured the fortress, killed the Worm-men's leader, and took Ms. Percy and Fred Colin prisoner, while Scalp died saving Orpha. Qin Yun then sent Old Bird and Reckless General to investigate an ancient Star Gate and activated a new Beacon on Automata Hive World, which Guilliman learned had lit up another region.

• Scalp killed Jona, helped the rebels open the fortress gates, and died when he rescued Orpha from a Worm-man.
• Titus's Kill Team and the players killed the cultists and Worm-men, captured Ms. Percy and Fred Colin, and handed the prisoners to the Inquisition.
• Qin Yun obtained coordinates to an unknown Star Gate and assigned Old Bird and Reckless General to lead an expedition with Scalp and the Emperor's Cattle Warband.
• Magos Morio reported that the new Beacon on Automata Hive World was complete, and Qin Yun ordered its activation.
• The Automata Beacon came online and joined the communication network, and Guilliman ordered contact established after learning of the new Beacon.

After defeating the rebels, Qin Yun began rebuilding Malz Hive World, prepared the Calixis Sector for war against the xenos, and launched Version 5.0 to send players exploring ancient ruins. The sector’s reforms earned him the Emperor’s mission reward—a Crying Mask—and Guilliman saw Qin Yun dressed as Sanguinius just as he called to discuss reforming the Imperium.

• Qin Yun approved a futuristic reconstruction plan for Malz Hive World, delegated the work, and ordered the sector’s commanders and Forge Worlds to prepare for the coming war against the xenos.
• Qin Yun launched Version 5.0, adding the Imperial Bank, achievements, exploration missions, beast-taming, new teleportation destinations, and improved trade; he intended players to recover ancient technology for Xi Ling.
• Warmaster, Old Bird, Ten-Timer, and the Research Fleet reached a vast, inactive Star Gate, where Old Bird led an inspection team and xenos creatures attacked them inside.
• Von used the Automata Beacon to enforce sector-wide reforms, improve Imperial administration and citizens’ lives, and Qin Yun’s mission to save the Calixis Sector was marked complete.
• Qin Yun collected his reward, a golden Crying Mask, and tried it on with Sanguinius-like armor and weapons.
• Guilliman contacted Qin Yun to discuss Imperial reforms, then saw him dressed as Sanguinius and remarked that he still dared claim he was not the Emperor of the Second Imperium.

Qin Yun agreed to help Guilliman reform Terra after the Primarch departed on the Indomitus Crusade, and the Emperor issued missions tied to Terra and the Calixis Sector. Meanwhile, Old Bird’s team fought through the Star Gate structure and activated its ancient machinery, while Qin Yun prepared to receive two Inquisitors.

• Qin Yun warned Guilliman about the Dark Angels and said Lion El'Jonson would return to fight for the Imperium, though he could not reveal when.
• Guilliman asked Qin Yun to force Terra’s nobles to accept reforms after he left on the Indomitus Crusade, and Qin Yun agreed to oversee the changes.
• Guilliman described the delays and political resistance obstructing the crusade, including his arrest and replacement of two Navigator House leaders.
• The Emperor assigned Qin Yun missions to reform Terra and repel the xenos invasion, and Qin Yun agreed to meet Inquisitor Caidin and Inquisitor Anton Zebe.
• Old Bird, the Warmaster, and their team fought Saruthi and other enemies inside the Star Gate structure before reaching its control room.
• Xi Ling guided the team as they activated the Star Gate’s dormant energy core, awakening the ancient structure.

Qin Yun approved a mission to investigate the Twilight space hulk while players activated a Star Gate and Xi Ling reverse-engineered its technology. After Qin Yun ordered a fleet to Solomon World in response to a Necron attack and reports of Ahriman, Ahriman began a ritual and waited for the Living Saint, believing he had trapped him.

• Caidin and Anton asked Qin Yun to authorize Chosen warriors to investigate the Twilight space hulk, and Qin Yun published the mission with legendary relics listed as possible rewards.
• Players rushed to apply for the Twilight mission as Anton selected candidates and Caidin drafted additional investigations for the Inquisition.
• Old Bird and the other players activated the Star Gate, but an overloaded conduit exploded; Xi Ling organized an inspection and later reverse-engineered the technology.
• Qin Yun received Star Gate Version 1.0 and learned it would let human ships travel between gates while sending enemy ships into the Warp.
• Xia reported a Necron fleet near Solomon World, Ahriman's suspected presence, and nearby Dark Eldar ships, so Qin Yun ordered the fleet to provide support.
• Ahriman used the fighting between the Imperium and Necrons as sacrifices for a ritual with the Infinity Key, intending to steal powers of time and death and trap the arriving Living Saint.

Necron Overlord Kobuessa used the Infinity Key to reverse time and restore his fleet, driving Commander Tarken’s forces toward defeat. Imperial reinforcements led by the Living Saint arrived and fought back, but when Kobuessa ordered another temporal rewind, the destroyed Necron ships stayed wrecked.

• Kobuessa sent Night Scythes and Lightning Arc Pylons to destroy the Imperial fighters attacking the Eternal Overlord.
• Commander Tarken’s fleet fired Melta Torpedoes and destroyed a Necron warship, but Kobuessa’s temporal weapon restored it.
• A relief fleet led by the Living Saint emerged from the Warp and attacked the Necrons, giving Tarken’s forces renewed hope.
• Big Blue and the players destroyed Necron ships, only to watch them reassemble through time reversal and return to battle.
• Kobuessa ordered the Chronomancer to rewind several newly destroyed ships, but they remained wreckage, leaving him demanding an explanation.

Kobuessa’s Necron fleet retreated after Xi Ling countered its time reversal and breached its defenses, and Qin Yun learned that the Haksos Dynasty sought the Infinity Key stolen by Ahriman. Qin Yun led a force to confront Ahriman on Solomon, but Ahriman trapped them in the Realm of Dust and Ash, where he claimed they could not draw on the Emperor’s power.

• Kobuessa’s Time Reversal Device failed to restore the Necron ships after Xi Ling’s Warp Blessing destroyed their Time Anchors, and Xi Ling also invaded the Necrons’ database.
• Kobuessa’s commanders urged him to retreat after detecting a complete C’tan aboard the Imperial flagship and losing control of their defenses, so the Necron fleet warped away.
• Xi Ling told Qin Yun that the fleet belonged to the Haksos Dynasty and had come to capture Ahriman, who had stolen its Infinity Key; Qin Yun accepted a mission to recover the artifact.
• Qin Yun rejected the players’ requests to salvage the Necron wreckage, then assembled a force and descended to Solomon to capture Ahriman despite Caidin’s warning.
• Ahriman stopped the Imperials’ Bolter shots with the Infinity Key and transported Qin Yun’s forces into the Realm of Dust and Ash, where he said they could not borrow the Emperor’s power.