Chapter Summaries

After defeating a Nightmare Swordsman, you discovered a Dark Eldar force fighting the Dark Angels and prepared an ambush against their Blood Witch leader. You launched a surprise attack on the Blood Witch with your Relic-grade Handguns and activated Bullet Time as you closed in.

• You found a Mask of Agony and a high-quality Klaive on the Nightmare Swordsman's corpse, then rode an Eldar Jetbike toward the source of the battle sounds.
• You discovered a Blood Witch and her Dark Eldar warriors fighting nineteen Dark Angels beside an active Webway gate.
• You set up two Whirlwind Missile Launchers and bombarded the Dark Eldar, killing many of their warriors.
• The Blood Witch retaliated with her Destroyer, annihilating members of a Dark Angels Tactical Squad with toxic volleys.
• The Dark Angels charged the Blood Witch and her forces as three Four-armed Serpentfolk bodyguards counterattacked.
• You rushed the Blood Witch with both Relic-grade Handguns, firing as you activated Bullet Time.

Lord Cypher defeated the Dark Eldar and incapacitated Asmodeus, then entered the Webway after altering the gate’s coordinates. As the simulation ended, he heard a motorcycle engine nearby and prepared for the journey ahead.

• Lord Cypher killed the Blood Witches and helped turn the battle against the Dark Eldar, while the Serpentfolk killed several Dark Angels.
• Lord Cypher killed the remaining Serpentfolk and disabled the Dark Angels who attacked him.
• Lord Cypher dismembered Asmodeus and told him he would be kept alive in a Dreadnought, then revealed his identity.
• Lord Cypher used an Eldar Webway Crystal Ball to change the gate’s coordinates and entered the Webway.
• Lord Cypher heard a motorcycle engine as the simulation ended.

Rorschach reviewed the simulation’s rewards and chose a Salamanders Assault Centurion Heavy Battle-suit to improve his team’s combat strength. He summoned servitors to carry it to Raditus’s Forge Factory for modifications.

• Rorschach examined the simulation results, including Lion's Sword, a Vengeance-class Land Speeder, and the Assault Centurion.
• Rorschach considered the risks of taking Lion's Sword and decided the single Land Speeder was less useful than the battle-suit.
• Rorschach selected the Assault Centurion, which appeared in his room and crashed onto the metal floor.
• Rorschach called two teams of Auto-Servitor Robots and ordered them to transport the battle-suit to Raditus's Forge Factory for modifications.

Rorschach traveled to Stark Tower to ask Tony to modify the Assault Centurion and discuss joining forces against Hydra. He reunited with Thor at the entrance to Tony’s laboratory.

• Rorschach decided to visit Tony after learning that Tony and Thor had been attacking Hydra squads with intelligence from Rogers.
• Rorschach flew to New York in the Thunderhawk Gunship with the Assault Centurion, planning to discuss Hydra and future threats with Tony.
• Rorschach told Iron Man David to prepare reconnaissance and agitation in countries around Latveria, and learned that David had taken J.A.R.V.I.S. as an apprentice.
• Rorschach inspected the J.A.R.V.I.S.-controlled Mark 38 "Igor" armor and headed to Tony’s laboratory with Iron Man David.
• Thor greeted Rorschach enthusiastically outside the laboratory.

Rorschach proposed forming a combat team with Tony and Thor to fight Hydra and other threats, and they founded the Inquisition. The three agreed to serve as its elder members.

• Tony worked with Iron Man David to repair a new suit of armor styled after Power Armor.
• Rorschach proposed that they gather allies and physically eliminate Hydra, explaining that he had already destroyed Leviathan.
• Rorschach told Tony and Thor that Natasha had joined his ranks and that he planned to recruit a mage and a monarch skilled in sorcery and technology.
• Thor agreed to join the team, and Tony supported forming a combat group to share intelligence and help one another.
• Rorschach proposed naming the group the Inquisition, and Tony agreed despite having considered the name Illuminati.
• Rorschach declared the Inquisition established, with himself, Tony, and Thor as its elder members.

Rorschach returned to Twin Islands Base after helping establish the Inquisition and destroying two aircraft that followed him. There, Natasha reported that she had destroyed the Red Room, rescued dozens of girls, and found her sister Yelena, while planning to build an intelligence organization.

• Rorschach, Tony, and Thor agreed to keep the Inquisition secret from Rogers unless he took over S.H.I.E.L.D. and purged its Hydra members.
• Tony agreed to study the Assault Centurion and design a loading platform for it in exchange for access to its data.
• Rorschach ordered Iron Man David to shoot down two aircraft tailing the Thunderhawk Gunship, and David destroyed both over the ocean.
• Rorschach returned to Twin Islands Base and found Natasha with dozens of rescued girls from the Red Room.
• Natasha told Rorschach that she had burned down the Red Room, killed Dreykov, and found her sister Yelena, while more rescued girls awaited transport.
• Rorschach ordered David to provide the girls with private rooms and protect them, while Natasha planned to train them and establish an intelligence organization.

After a disastrous Support Prayer operation against the Tyranids, Rorschach returned furious over the deaths of an Astartes force and the failures of the Xenos Inquisition and Tau commander. The Space Great White Chapter then contacted him, and an enormous figure with five Astartes guards arrived through a spatial rift.

• Jessica led the agent trainees through training and helped them settle into life at Twin Islands Base.
• Rorschach chose a Support Prayer mission assisting an exploration base fighting the Tau Empire and brought Iron Man David with him.
• A Tyranid Hive Fleet attacked the planet after a Xenos Inquisition Inquisitor fled without warning the others, while the Tau commander refused Rorschach's offer to unite against the swarm.
• Astartes sacrificed themselves by detonating an ammunition depot, allowing Rorschach and Iron Man David to survive the seven-day mission and return with wrecked Power Armor.
• The Simulator displayed a transmission request from the Space Great White Chapter, which Rorschach accepted.
• A massive figure accompanied by five Astartes guards entered through a spatial rift, declaring, "For the Void Father—"

Rorschach halted a clash with Chapter Master Tyberus and the Great White Astartes, then revealed himself as the Emperor’s twenty-second Primarch. After learning the Great Whites had arrived to investigate a shipment of bolt rounds, Rorschach and Tyberus agreed to a long-term supply deal in exchange for the Chapter’s military support.

• Rorschach stopped the Abominants from attacking Tyberus and identified himself as Patrick Shawen, whom Tyberus remembered from the battlefield.
• Rorschach revealed that he was the twenty-second Primarch and explained that the Great Whites were beneath Terra in a universe without the Warp; Tyberus and his bodyguards knelt to him.
• Tyberus explained that a Warp Portal had delivered nearly two hundred thousand bolt rounds and that his Chief Librarian’s omen had led the Great Whites to Rorschach.
• Rorschach confirmed through the Simulator that he had sent the supplies, then welcomed Tyberus and his bodyguards into the base hall.
• Tyberus offered the Great White Chapter’s military support in exchange for a long-term supply of ammunition and food, and Rorschach accepted the deal.

Rorschach and Chapter Master Tyberus agreed to cooperate, with the Great White Chapter offering help to train Astartes and fight alongside Rorschach’s forces. They prepared to attack Hydra’s secret Antarctic base, and Tyberus led his honor guards onto a Thunderhawk with Rorschach.

• Rorschach showed Tyberus the Twin Islands Base and discussed training the Gang dogs as Astartes, while warning him about Chaos corruption.
• Rorschach toured Tyberus through the Forge Factory and explained the major threats and hidden powers on Earth.
• Tyberus offered the Great White Chapter’s help, and Rorschach chose Hydra’s Antarctic base as their first combat mission.
• Rorschach ordered that no one at the base be spared, and David piloted the Thunderhawk toward Antarctica with Rorschach, Tyberus, and five honor guards aboard.

Rorschach and Chapter Master Tyberus led an assault on Hydra’s Antarctic Secret Base, forcing their way through its surface guards and defenses. The chapter left Tyberus charging at Hydra’s barricade as the battle continued.

• Tyberus killed a Hydra sentry as he and five Astartes bodyguards began slaughtering the guards at the research station.
• Rorschach reported that a captured soldier had revealed the base entrance was beneath the station, while David tried to seize control of the base’s systems.
• The Astartes bodyguards tore open the research station and exposed the underground entrance, which Tyberus breached with his Lightning Claws.
• Rorschach and the Astartes entered the base and exchanged fire with Hydra soldiers defending a corridor and elevator.
• Tyberus praised Hydra’s resistance and charged at its defensive position.

Chapter Master Tyberus and Rorschach fought through Hydra’s Antarctic base, slaughtering heavy troopers and destroying tanks and robots. A towering mechanical construct burst into the battlefield, where Arnim Zola accused the intruders of being sent by Strucker or an alien enemy.

• Tyberus charged Hydra’s fortified position and killed the heavy troopers with his Lightning Claws.
• Rorschach and the five Astartes bodyguards followed Tyberus down an elevator into a plaza filled with Hydra tanks and robots.
• Tyberus ordered the bodyguards to protect the Honored Primarch, then charged into the Hydra forces.
• Rorschach attacked the nearest tank with the Scythe of Blood while the Astartes fought the tanks and Tyberus drew the robots’ attacks.
• A ten-meter-tall mechanical construct smashed through the base wall, and Arnim Zola demanded to know who had sent the intruders.

Rorschach, Chapter Master Tyberus, and the Great Whites destroyed Arnim Zola’s giant mechanical body, but more Hydra constructs appeared. Rorschach then learned that David had found Zola’s fatal weakness and that Iron Fist was ready to attack.

• Chapter Master Tyberus and the Great Whites surrounded Arnim Zola’s giant mechanical construct and tore apart its legs despite its gunfire.
• Rorschach struck the construct’s screen with the Scythe of Blood, shattering Zola’s pixelated face.
• Arnim Zola called for his Hydra mechanical citizens as dozens of additional constructs and octopus-shaped robots emerged.
• Rorschach destroyed the fallen construct with a Melta Bomb and prepared to face the remaining machines alongside Tyberus and the Astartes.
• Rorschach reported that David had breached Hydra’s network defenses and found Zola’s fatal weakness, so Iron Fist could attack.

Iron Man David destroyed Arnim Zola in the data world and helped secure Hydra’s Antarctic base for Rorschach and Chapter Master Tyberus. David uncovered that a Xenomorph called the Hive secretly controlled Hydra, leaving Rorschach eager to confront it.

• Arnim Zola threatened to destroy the base, but Iron Man David appeared in the data world and crushed him into fragments of green code.
• David told Rorschach that the Hydra robots were hunting the remaining human soldiers and that the base was nearly cleared.
• Tyberus ordered his Astartes honor guards to search the base and warned Rorschach about the dangers of Abominable Intelligence.
• Rorschach defended David as a loyal servant of The Emperor, and Tyberus dropped the subject.
• David revealed that Hydra’s Supreme Council had been secretly controlled by a Xenomorph called the Hive.
• Rorschach and Tyberus reacted with enthusiasm to the prospect of encountering the Alien Xenomorph.

Rorschach’s forces discovered five surviving Winter Soldier test subjects and a device capable of storing and transferring consciousness while clearing Hydra’s Antarctic base. After returning to the Twin Islands Base, Rorschach began preparing a joint assault on Baron Strucker in Latveria with Tony and Thor.

• Astartes bodyguards found three men and two women frozen in cryogenic chambers, and David explained they were survivors of Hydra’s mass-produced Winter Soldier experiments.
• Rorschach ordered the five Winter Soldiers kept alive and had David take a Consciousness Storage Device back to the Twin Islands Base for study.
• Tyberus led the Astartes out of the Antarctic base with their Bolters, while David remotely restarted its machines to expand it for Rorschach.
• David mapped Hydra’s bases as Rorschach brought the Great Whites to the Forge Factory for armor repairs and contacted Tony.
• Rorschach told Tony to gather Thor and other allies for a war against Hydra, naming Latveria and Baron Strucker as their next target.

Rorschach and Chapter Master Tyberus prepared to travel to the resistance base in northern Latveria, where Thor arrived ahead of Tony. Thor met Tyberus and introduced himself as the God of Thunder.

• Tyberus discussed repairing the Terminator Armor with Rorschach and offered to supply loyal Tech-Priests or Mechanical Sages.
• Rorschach, Tyberus, and the Great Whites boarded a Thunderhawk Gunship piloted by Iron Man David and flew to the resistance base in northern Latveria.
• Rorschach saw that Auto-Servitor Robots had helped expand the base and that Homeland Defense Force soldiers were moving supplies alongside the Intelligent controlled legion.
• Thor arrived at the base and nearly drew a laser barrage from startled Homeland Defense Force soldiers before Iron Man David identified him as friendly.
• Rorschach introduced Chapter Master Tyberus and his honor guard to Thor, who greeted Tyberus and announced his titles.

Rorschach assembled his allies and planned a coordinated assault on Baron Strucker’s Hydra forces. After Tony asked whether they would spare survivors, Rorschach insisted that Hydra’s fanatics had to be eradicated completely.

• Tyberus struck Thor’s armor during a friendly exchange, and Rorschach reassured Thor that Tyberus was human before introducing him to the others.
• Tony arrived with more than thirty Mechanical Armor suits, complained that Thor had left him behind, and joined the group heading into the base.
• Rorschach summoned Doom and Iron Man David, then outlined a plan to attack Hydra’s eleven smaller bases before besieging Baron Strucker’s main base in Sokovia.
• Rorschach assigned the four Medium Bases to himself, Tyberus, Doom, and Tony, while Thor and the five Astartes bodyguards were tasked with clearing the seven small bases.
• Tony asked whether the surprise attacks would leave any survivors, but Rorschach declared that Hydra’s fanatics had to be eradicated completely.

Rorschach and his allies launched coordinated assaults on Hydra bases, while he watched the other teams’ battles en route to his own target. As the Thunderhawk arrived, Rorschach prepared to lead the attack himself.

• Chapter Master Tyberus and the Astartes bodyguards departed with Abominants and automaton drones to attack Hydra bases.
• Thor, Tony, and the Iron Legion joined the coordinated strikes, while Rorschach and Doom led mixed forces toward their target.
• Tyberus crashed into a Hydra base and slaughtered its defenders, leaving the Abominants and drones to stop fleeing soldiers.
• Rorschach watched the Iron Legion, Tony, Thor, and the Astartes bodyguards overwhelm Hydra forces at their respective targets.
• A Defense Force pilot announced their arrival, and Rorschach took up the Scythe of Blood and the Heart of the Forge as the Thunderhawk’s door opened.

Rorschach led the assault on a Hydra medium base, killed its commander and remaining defenders, and ordered the site cleared of survivors and evidence. Back at the Defense Force base, he and Chapter Master Tyberus discussed the operation before meeting with Iron Man David to plan the next battle.

• Rorschach used the Heart of the Forge and Scythe of Blood to break through Hydra forces and kill the commander.
• Rorschach killed the last Hydra soldier, then ordered the Abominants to search the base, eliminate survivors, and clean up traces of the attack.
• Iron Man David reported that only one Abominant had been lost in an explosive trap and that the drone bees needed repairs.
• Rorschach returned to the Defense Force base, where Tyberus reported that his operation had succeeded but some recoverable vehicle metal had been lost.
• Rorschach thanked Tyberus for the Great White Chapter's help, and the two joined Iron Man David to plan the next battle.

Rorschach’s forces began their operation against Hydra’s Sokovian fortress after arranging a civilian evacuation, but Hydra’s troops seized civilians as hostages. Rorschach sent Thor and Tony to rescue them while Tyberus and Doom launched attacks on the fortress.

• Rorschach proposed warning Sokovia’s civilians of a fabricated earthquake so they would evacuate before the battle, and Tony and Thor supported the plan.
• Rorschach ordered Doom to bring Sokovia’s president, Cain Mark, to their camp so Iron Man David could broadcast an evacuation warning using the president’s identity.
• As the warning played across Sokovia, government workers helped civilians evacuate, but gunfire and unrest erupted near Hydra’s fortress.
• Iron Man David reported that Hydra’s soldiers were stopping civilians from leaving and taking hostages.
• Rorschach ordered Thor and Tony to eliminate the Hydra soldiers and rescue civilians, Tyberus to lead a frontal assault, and Doom to attack from other directions with the Intelligent controlled legion’s support.

Baron Strucker learned that the Terra Astartes Legion, Iron Man, and Bishateim had disrupted Hydra’s plan to take hostages. He ordered his forces to deploy every weapon at the fortress and prepared to destroy humanity if his secret weapons failed.

• A Hydra staff officer told Strucker that the Terra Astartes Legion had appeared and that Iron Man and Bishateim had rescued civilians, ruining the hostage plan.
• Strucker blamed Pierce and Hydra’s other factions for the organization’s weakness, then ordered every elite fighter and weapon deployed, including unstable biological experiments if needed.
• When the staff officer warned him about escaped experiment subjects and the risks, Strucker seized him and drained his life force until his body turned to ash.
• Strucker demanded that the other commanders obey; they saluted and hurried away to carry out his orders.
• Strucker considered loading Death Spore Bombs into cruise missile launchers if his forces failed, vowing to destroy humanity rather than surrender.