Chapter Summaries

Ahriman lured Qin Yun and the Imperial forces into the Mirror World and unleashed the Lord of Dust and Ash, but Xi Ling and the players turned the battle against the ancient daemon. Ahriman escaped with Ctesias after the Rubric demon intervened, while Qin Yun’s side drove the Lord of Dust and Ash back into the Warp and returned to reality, where Qin Yun received new skills and an impatient message from the Emperor.

• Ahriman trapped Qin Yun in the Realm of Dust and Ash, summoned the Lord of Dust and Ash, and revealed that the Infinity Key was sustaining a time lock.
• Qin Yun called on Xi Ling, who revealed her C’tan power and fought the Lord of Dust and Ash while the players and Imperial heroes battled its servants.
• Qin Yun defeated Ahriman’s summoned demon, but the Rubric demon intervened and Ahriman and Ctesias escaped through a Warp portal after Old Thirteen knocked them down and dislodged the Infinity Key.
• Qin Yun recovered the Infinity Key and joined Xi Ling and the players in overwhelming the Lord of Dust and Ash, which fled into the Warp as the Solomon Mirror World collapsed.
• Qin Yun returned to reality, reached level 17, learned Divine Omen and Machine God Avatar, and complained when the Emperor’s message appeared before he could read the notification.

After returning the Infinity Key to the Emperor’s Shrine, Qin Yun received a mission to use it to keep the Golden Throne running and helped plan the Imperium’s next campaign. The Necrons withdrew from the Calixis Sector, the Imperial fleet set course for a Tyranid threat, and MC Mythology began considering biotechnology as a new research path.

• Qin Yun ordered Caidin to monitor Solomon Hive World for escaped daemons and investigate the Seven Great Daemons, then explained that he regarded the Aeldari as a useful weapon against the Warp.
• Qin Yun placed the Infinity Key before the Emperor’s Shrine, learned that it could reverse time in a small area, and received a mission to use it to maintain the Golden Throne.
• Kobuessa and Anrakyr withdrew the Necron forces from the Calixis Sector, while surviving humans and Imperial soldiers celebrated or complained that the retreat had denied them a battle.
• Qin Yun’s military leadership chose to drive the Tyranids from the Hazeroth Sub-sector after Van Viggens warned them that the larger Cetus Swarm fleet threatened the galaxy.
• MC Mythology studied a Tyranid Brain Bug and considered developing biotechnology to improve Imperial wetware computing, giving the MC Dynasty a field in which to compete with Dora Workshop.

Qin Yun’s Imperial forces and the players rescued the defenders of Feilian Prime by destroying the Tyranid Hive Ship and scattering its Swarm. The players captured Tyranid creatures and the MC Dynasty obtained a Hive Mind Brain and Norn Queen, but Xia then warned Qin Yun that an Ork fleet was entering the system.

• Qin Yun ordered the Imperial fleet to break through the Tyranids’ defenses and deploy troops to the besieged surface forces on Feilian Prime.
• Morrison and the exhausted Imperial defenders faced a collapsing Hive City until Qin Yun and the players arrived, driving back the Tyranids while the Imperial Glory destroyed the Hive Ship and Xi Ling severed the Swarm’s coordination.
• Warmaster used a Beast Control Device to tame an Ultralisk, and players and Imperial forces began capturing other leaderless Tyranid creatures as disposable troops.
• The MC Dynasty recovered the Hive Mind Brain and captured a Norn Queen from the wreckage of the Hive Ship.
• Xia warned Qin Yun that an Ork fleet was entering the star system, and Qin Yun ordered every unit to combat readiness.

The Imperial forces defeated the Orks on Feilian Star after the Warmaster and his Tyranid mount killed Liontooth, while Qin Yun ordered the fleet to pursue the fleeing greenskins. Kairos and Magnus blamed their setbacks on the God Chosen and vowed to strike back.

• Big Blue watched the Ork fleet deploy meteor-built Attack Moons, while the players discussed boarding the greenskins’ ships.
• Liontooth ordered his fleet to crash onto Feilian Star, and the Warmaster led players and controlled Tyranids in a counterattack.
• The Warmaster and the Ultralisk defeated and killed Liontooth, breaking the Orks’ morale as Grogrok carried off Liontooth’s hand to seek his revival.
• Human reinforcements overwhelmed the Orks, and Qin Yun ordered the fleet to pursue them while Mushroom began capturing Orks for research.
• Kairos lamented that his plan had strengthened humanity and resolved to trouble the Ulthwé Craftworld, while Magnus learned of Ahriman’s failure and swore revenge on the God Chosen.

Big Blue and the Imperium forces drove the Orks from the Feilian System and reclaimed Wandering Port, while Little Fatty fought on Puluo Planet with an upgraded Zaku 03. Qin Yun completed his mission and entered the City of Dust, where he met a dead man who named himself Ollanius Pius.

• Big Blue destroyed the Ork ships with the Exemplar Fist and led his fleet onward as the Imperium launched a counterattack across the Feilian System.
• Little Fatty piloted his Zaku 03 to destroy Gorkamorka Titans during the purge of Puluo Planet, impressing Captain Kaelar and inspiring him to consider upgrading Las's Wrath.
• The Imperium drove the Orks through The Maw and reclaimed Wandering Port, where the Warmaster fought alongside Titus and agreed to a final duel for Titus's sword, Friendship.
• Qin Yun received notice that his mission to knock back the Calixis Sector's invaders was complete and went to the Chapel of Prayers to claim Word of Darkness.
• In the City of Dust, Qin Yun met an old soldier who identified himself as Ollanius Pius, prompting Qin Yun to recognize him as Ollanius Persson, the first Warmaster.

Qin Yun received the Word of Darkness and another dormant gift from Ollanius in a vision of the Tower of Babel. Back in the Chapel of Prayers, he ordered Xia to hold Footfall and gathered his forces to support Baal.

• Ollanius welcomed Qin Yun and led him to the Tower of Babel’s reflection, where Qin Yun absorbed the Word of Darkness and learned that using it carried a cost.
• Ollanius asked Qin Yun to find John Grammaticus and kick him on Ollanius’s behalf, and Qin Yun agreed.
• Qin Yun returned to the Chapel of Prayers, where Xi Ling told him that Xia’s forces had taken Footfall and asked whether to advance into the Koronus Expanse.
• Qin Yun ordered Xia to establish an outpost at Footfall and told all units to gather so they could support Baal.

Qin Yun announced the Save Baal expansion and prepared the Calixis Sector’s forces for the relief mission while completing reforms to its institutions. As the fleet entered the Warp, he rescued an Astropath who had sent Baal’s distress call, and the chapter ended with Jeron Litt waking to declare that the Angel had returned.

• Qin Yun scheduled the Save Baal expansion, and players began gathering equipment, loans, and forces for the campaign.
• Qin Yun organized military support for Baal, confirmed Von Valancius as Sector Governor, promoted Hydrak to Sector Cardinal, and reformed the Inquisition’s oversight and duties.
• Titus gave Friendship to the Warmaster before departing with his Kill Team for a new Deathwatch mission.
• Qin Yun led the relief fleet into the Warp aboard the Imperial Glory and rescued an Astropath whose distress call had reached the Beacon.
• Jeron Litt entered the Warp to send a message to Baal’s defenders, met Qin Yun’s radiant manifestation, and returned to the material universe declaring that the Angel had returned.

Hakin’s battered force learned from Master Lit that an angel was coming to save Baal, while Dante prepared the Sons of the Angel for a final assault against the Tyranids. As the battle began, a message from Bawei II reached Angel’s Fortress, announcing that reinforcements were on their way.

• Hakin remembered how Jiaan died after killing a Synapse Creature and took command of the few surviving defenders at the Astropath Relay Station.
• Master Lit reported seeing a holy angel who promised to save Baal, and Hakin ordered Karnok to spread word of approaching reinforcements to give the defenders hope.
• The Tyranids recovered and launched their forty-ninth offensive against Hakin’s station.
• Dante told the assembled Sons of the Angel that they stood alone and led them, including the warriors of the Death Company, into battle against the Tyranids.
• A communications Servitor at Angel’s Fortress received and decoded Hakin’s message: reinforcements for Baal would arrive soon.

Dante and the Sons of the Angel fought desperately as the Tyranids threatened to destroy Baal. Qin Yun’s fleet arrived to reinforce them, and the chapter ended with a radiant angel descending as Dante wondered whether his father had returned.

• Dante unleashed his rage and led the Sons of the Angel in a furious attack on the Tyranids, while visions of Sanguinius and the Blood Angels’ past heroes intensified his fury.
• The Sanguinor and the Bane Legion joined the ground battle as Qin Yun’s fleet entered the Baal System and came to rescue the Sons of the Angel.
• Nivia’s Sword of Baal was nearly destroyed by a Hive Ship until the Imperial Glory intervened, destroyed the Hive Ship, and broadcast Qin Yun, whom the crew mistook for Sanguinius.
• Qin Yun’s fleet turned the void battle around and began airborne operations to save Baal Prime, while Dante prepared to sacrifice himself against a Hive Tyrant.
• A voice proclaimed that help had come, the Sons of the Angel’s Black Rage lifted, and Dante saw an angel descending from the sky and asked, “Is that you, my father?”

Qin Yun returned as Sanguinius and blessed the Blood Angels while the Sons of the Angel and the God Chosen fought the Tyranid swarm on Baal. Mephiston and the Librarians escaped the Bloodstone Mine and headed for the battlefield with Scintilla 03rd Regiment, still unsure who the Living Saint and God Chosen were.

• Qin Yun used his powers to heal and restore the Sons of the Angel, freeing them from the Black Rage and giving them hope.
• Dante regrouped the Blood Angels, destroyed the Tyrant's bone sword with Axe Mortalis, and charged back into battle.
• The God Chosen were forced to jump from their landing craft into the Tyranid swarm, where the Warmaster and other players fought their way across the battlefield.
• Players in Zaku 03 mechs joined the battle as Qin Yun unleashed a vast storm of lightning that killed countless airborne Tyranids.
• Dante recognized Sanguinor's salute as proof that Qin Yun was Sanguinius and charged the Tyrant in his name.
• Mephiston and the Librarians emerged from the Bloodstone Mine and boarded a gunship from the Scintilla 03rd Regiment, then Mephiston asked the pilot who the Living Saint and God Chosen were.

Mephiston and the returning Blood Angels joined the battle for Baal as Dante killed the Hive Tyrant, tipping the fight against the Tyranids toward humanity. Ka'Bandha then opened a path to Baal Prime, where he unleashed the Black Rage and confronted Qin Yun after destroying Little Fatty's mech.

• Mephiston and Lacerus learned that reinforcements were winning the Battle of Baal, saw Qin Yun and the Sanguinor fighting, and joined Odamair's forces against the Tyranids.
• Dante received Qin Yun's healing light, killed the Hive Tyrant, and caused the Tyranid Swarm to lose coordination.
• Ka'Bandha descended on Baal Secundus, where Jor and the lucid Blood Knights died challenging him, while Brother Zhong and the Demon Hunter Warband were unable to stop the daemon's ritual.
• Ka'Bandha opened a path to Baal Prime and arrived amid a surge of Khorne daemons, triggering the Red Thirst and Black Rage among the descendants of the Holy Blood.
• Qin Yun used his aura skills to shield people from Ka'Bandha's corruption and knocked the daemon down with the Word of Darkness.
• Little Fatty attacked Ka'Bandha in his Zaku 03 mech, but Ka'Bandha destroyed it and then demanded that Qin Yun submit or be destroyed.

Qin Yun defeated and beheaded Ka'Bandha, helping turn the Battle of Baal in humanity's favor. After the Tyranids retreated and the daemons were banished, Dante broke down in tears as Qin Yun comforted him.

• Qin Yun fought Ka'Bandha while Kasareth and the other Aeldari Farseers formed a psychic binding, and Dante prevented the Blood Angels Successors from attacking them.
• Qin Yun provoked Ka'Bandha with stories of his defeats at Signus and the Siege of Terra while the Sons of Sanguinius and players joined the assault; Brother Zhong and the other players destroyed Ka'Bandha's skull mound on Baal Secundus.
• Ka'Bandha destroyed a Zaku Mech, but Qin Yun struck him from behind, pierced his chest, and beheaded him with the Blade of Divine Judgment.
• The skull mound's destruction collapsed the Warp ritual, banished the daemons, and helped Imperial forces drive the Tyranid Swarm from the system.
• Dante apologized to Qin Yun for the Blood Angels' losses and his near surrender to the Red Thirst and Black Rage, and Qin Yun embraced him and said he had done exceptionally well.

Qin Yun promised to rebuild Baal as a habitable paradise, and Dante pledged the Blood Angels’ support. Meanwhile, players captured Tyranid organisms to sell, but a market crash triggered by MC Dynasty’s breeding breakthrough led the Emperor’s Cattle Warband to hold its stock and look for valuable ruins instead.

• Qin Yun showed Dante and the Blood Angels Successors plans to transform Baal into a world with orbital shields, oceans, forests, and beautiful settlements, and Dante pledged the Blood Angels’ obedience.
• Players from the Emperor’s Cattle Warband herded thousands of severed Tyranid organisms into a pit and listed them on an interstellar trading platform.
• Turtle discovered that Tyranid Hive Saint prices had plunged, and the players learned MC Dynasty had made a Norn Queen reproduce and might be driving prices down to buy organisms cheaply.
• Ten-Timer persuaded Warmaster and the others to hold their Tyranid stock until demand and prices recovered.
• Ten-Timer suggested searching Baal’s ruins for valuables, and the Emperor’s Cattle Warband turned its attention to excavation.

Dante accepted Primaris technology after Qin Yun and Guilliman explained its benefits, and the surviving Blood Angels Chapters agreed to rebuild with it. Qin Yun reached level 18 and underwent a Second Awakening, while God Chosen players took on cleanup work and Emperor's Cattle Warband uncovered an ancient ruin on Baal.

• Qin Yun introduced Dante to Guilliman through a direct projection, and Guilliman persuaded Dante to accept Primaris technology.
• Dante told the surviving Chapters that Primaris would rebuild them, and Seth silenced objections by defending the Living Saint as their Primarch and hope.
• Qin Yun received Combat Focus, Multi-threading, and Spatial Mastery upon reaching level 18, then underwent a Second Awakening that reshaped and strengthened his body.
• Little Fatty turned in the Recover Water-Thirster mission and accepted a mission to help the Blood Angels examine surviving civilians.
• Emperor's Cattle Warband explored a previously unopened ruin on Baal and found a gate depicting the Sanguinor, the Dark Angel, and Sanguinius; Ten-Timer identified them as figures tied to the Blood Angels' legacy.

The Emperor's Cattle Warband opened a sealed Golden Age laboratory on Baal and discovered that its experiments had created powerful mutants, whose awakening forced the players into battle. Meanwhile, Qin Yun prepared to collect his reward for completing the Save Baal quest.

• Strategist used his blood to activate the King of Angels pattern, opening the gate after deducing that blood was the key.
• The players entered a dark genetic laboratory and translated records revealing that Golden Age researchers had used the Black Angel's power to create mutants on Baal.
• The records explained that escaped mutants had caused widespread slaughter, prompting humanity to devastate Baal and its moons with forbidden weapons.
• A gene vat shattered, and the sleeping mutants awakened and surrounded the players.
• The Warmaster and the other players fought the mutants in the laboratory as Qin Yun headed to the Chapel of Prayers to claim his Save Baal reward.

Qin Yun received an Iron Halo, prepared Dante to become Regent of Imperium Nihilus, and left Baal’s reconstruction and reforms in capable hands. Meanwhile, Yuji faced execution after a Tyranid contamination test, while players defeated Mutant 0 in an ancient laboratory and discovered a mysterious golden Toaster.

• Qin Yun received and equipped the Iron Halo, then traveled to Baal and learned that the Flesh Tearers had unanimously accepted the Primaris transformation.
• Qin Yun persuaded Dante to become Regent of Imperium Nihilus before he departed for Terra to support Guilliman’s reforms.
• Yuji learned that Tiers had passed his examination and could become an Angel, but Yuji’s own test revealed Tyranid contamination and a purge squad took him away.
• Little Fatty offered Yuji and the other contaminated people a chance to join the MC Dynasty’s experiments, and Yuji stepped forward in hopes of surviving and seeing Tiers again.
• The Warmaster and the players defeated Mutant 0 in the Golden Age ruins, then found a golden Toaster protected inside an Eternal Stasis Field.
• Wednesday, a round robot identifying itself as steward of Laboratory BR01, emerged and asked the players to lower their weapons.

The Emperor’s Cattle Warband discovered an energy-to-matter conversion toaster and the Golden Age robot Wednesday at Experimental Base BR01, while Qin Yun received a mission to recover the technology. After reaching Sanguinius’s tomb beneath Baal, Qin Yun declared that he intended to resurrect the Archangel.

• Wednesday explained that he guarded Experimental Base BR01, described the base’s failing systems, and revealed that the Golden Toaster converted energy into matter.
• Ten-Timer recognized the toaster’s potential to provide vast resources, and the players took it, Wednesday, and other relics from the base.
• Strategist was struck by lightning after calling out to Huang Pizi, and the players joked before continuing to remove the loot.
• Qin Yun received a mission to recover the toaster and conversion technology, then instructed Xi Ling to offer the players a Golden Aquila Medal for it.
• Dante and Mephiston led Qin Yun through Baal’s secret tunnels to Sanguinius’s tomb, where Qin Yun saw the Archangel’s shattered body.
• Qin Yun told Dante and Mephiston that he intended to resurrect Sanguinius.

Qin Yun and the Blood Angels consulted the Aeldari Farseer Kasareth and devised a plan to resurrect Sanguinius by recovering his scattered soul fragments, though Kasareth secretly hoped the effort would spark a war between humanity and Chaos. Meanwhile, the eleventh batch of players arrived on Automata, Qin Yun awarded Aquila Medals, and Guilliman called him back to Terra to oversee reforms.

• Qin Yun told Dante and Mephiston that Sanguinius’s shattered soul fragments had scattered across time and space, and Dante agreed to invite Aeldari Farseers to Angel’s Fortress.
• Kasareth advised Qin Yun, Dante, and Mephiston that they should recover Sanguinius’s soul fragments from worlds tied to his past and use Ynnead’s authority, the Infinity Key, and Baal’s power to resurrect him.
• After leaving the meeting, Kasareth told an Aeldari Guardian that Sanguinius’s resurrection could provoke a devastating war between humanity and Chaos and help the Aeldari reclaim the Crone Sword.
• The eleventh batch of players arrived on Automata, where warbands recruited newcomers with food and spectacles, including the Agricultural College Warband’s Ork barbecue.
• Qin Yun awarded Scalp and the Emperor’s Cattle Warband Gold Aquila Medals and the MC Dynasty a Silver Aquila Medal, then announced the awards in the game and on the official website.
• Guilliman contacted Qin Yun and asked him to return to Terra to oversee reforms and confront the Terra bureaucrats.

Qin Yun reviewed the Calixis Sector’s military, economic, cultural, and scientific development, along with the players’ progress, while preparing to travel to Terra after his remaining work on Baal advanced. He left off asking Xi Ling about the reverse-engineering of energy-to-matter conversion technology.

• Qin Yun concluded that his Baal projects—rebuilding the world, advancing Primaris transformations, and seeking to revive Sanguinius—were underway, and he would wait for progress before moving on.
• Xi Ling reported that Calixis was building defenses at Footfall, stockpiling supplies at Wandering Port, and preparing to conquer the Koronus Expanse, while its economy, education, and scientific research developed.
• Qin Yun reviewed the roughly two hundred thousand players’ contributions and noted that Warmaster and Ten-Timer had reached level seventeen, one level short of Primaris transformation.
• Dora Workshop researched Necron technology, while the MC Dynasty studied Tyranid genetics and human biological evolution, and the Eastern University Research Institute worked on foundational science.
• Qin Yun confirmed that the players remained active across several key regions and asked Xi Ling how reverse-engineering energy-to-matter conversion technology was progressing.

Qin Yun prepared to travel to Terra to advance reforms and recruited players to escort him, while Little Alpaca’s warband resumed clearing the Twilight space hulk. The players found the Daemon Grimoire behind a massive flesh monster, but the chapter ended before they could claim it.

• Xi Ling began analyzing the conversion technology and agreed to oversee the Calixis Sector while Qin Yun went to Terra for reforms.
• Xi Ling issued an escort mission asking trusted players to accompany the Guide to Terra and help him overcome the factions opposing reform.
• The Emperor’s Cattle Warband received the mission while celebrating aboard the Exemplar Fist, then sobered up and prepared to report for duty.
• Agamor sent Little Alpaca and the Battle Rose Warband into the Twilight space hulk to find the Daemon Grimoire and Duty of Light.
• Little Alpaca’s group fought through ghostly Daemons and other monsters, then reached the source of Inquisitor Adogin’s life signal and found a massive flesh monster guarding the Daemon Grimoire.