Chapter Summaries

Sui Yang took Guilliman and Sanguinius to a United Nations hearing in The Hague, anticipating a trap by the remnants of the powerful elite. As they arrived, the livestream audience caught sight of Sui Yang and an apparent angel accompanying him.

• Sui Yang boarded an Agile Shadow Assault Craft with Guilliman and Sanguinius and ordered its escort to lock onto military bases colluding with the remnants of the powerful elite.
• Sui Yang told Guilliman and Sanguinius that the hearing was both a danger and an opportunity to complete the unification, and instructed them to stay silent by his side.
• The Agile Shadow Assault Craft arrived in The Hague, where crowds and reporters gathered outside the United Nations Court Building.
• Amy Parsild began Texas International News's livestream as viewers reacted to the craft's arrival and noticed that Sui Yang appeared unusually tall and one of his companions looked like an angel.

Sui Yang arrived at the United Nations hearing with Guilliman and Sanguinius, shocking reporters and attendees with his immense guards and the brothers’ appearance. He rejected questions about Atlas’s technology and private fleet, then accused powerful elites of trying to steal Atlas’s achievements through moral coercion.

• A livestream host watched Sui Yang, Guilliman, Sanguinius, and ten Thunder Warriors emerge from a Swift Shadow Assault Craft and struggled to believe what she saw.
• Sui Yang directed the Thunder Warriors to remain outside the court while Guilliman and Sanguinius entered with him after a security screening.
• The United Nations Secretary-General asked how Atlas had achieved its technological breakthroughs and why it had concealed its military space fleet.
• Sui Yang refused to explain Atlas’s technology, defended its private fleet, and accused the powerful elites behind the hearing of trying to seize Atlas’s achievements.

Sui Yang exposed Atlas's evidence of abuse and corruption on Abby Island before the United Nations, then defended Atlas's refusal to share its technology or place its forces under UN command. He ended by defining Atlas's foundation as improving people's lives through infrastructure, fair labor, justice, and security.

• Sui Yang declared that Atlas would not hand over its technology and used Psychic Power to silence and restrain the courtroom.
• The courtroom projection showed Atlas's Abby Island file, which documented influential visitors, the exploitation of minors, and a covert raid by Atlas's Rapid Response Force.
• Sui Yang addressed the livestream, condemning politicians who demanded Atlas's cooperation while claiming to uphold democracy.
• The livestream showed before-and-after images of areas improved after Atlas's interventions.
• Sui Yang described the infrastructure, fair labor, just rules, and military protection he said formed Atlas's foundation.

Atlas forces seized Washington, D.C., in a swift assault that began with the White House under attack and the city’s defenses and military network disabled. Arthur Morgan landed at the White House and praised Ains’s team for helping Atlas take control from within.

• A teenager in Washington watched an Atlas court livestream as air raid sirens sounded and Atlas aircraft and drop pods appeared over the city.
• The teenager saw his father speaking with Colonel Nell about the attack and his mother preparing to leave for the Capitol Building.
• AECS personnel and Clone soldiers took over Washington, while ODSTs secured the White House and accepted the surrender of Secret Service agents.
• Arthur Morgan landed on the White House lawn and celebrated completing what his grandfather’s generation had failed to accomplish.
• Arthur praised Ains and said he would recommend Ains’s team to take over Washington’s authorities; Ains confirmed that his investigators had helped execute Atlas’s takeover plan.

Jialan Clovey considered joining Atlas’s Astartes recruitment program as he traveled home from school, while Atlas Investigators gathered at the Relic Base to hear about the newly discovered eighth Space Gate. The chapter ended with Ada Wong announcing that the gate led to a habitable Earth-like planet with a structure resembling an Orbital Elevator.

• Jialan Clovey and his friends discussed Atlas’s Astartes recruitment notice, and Jialan said his grandfather would help him sign up if he chose to.
• Jialan and his friends boarded an aerial train after leaving school in New Los Angeles.
• At the Relic Base, Ada Wong told the Investigators that the eighth Space Gate led to a habitable Earth-like planet.
• Ada Wong reported that the Advance Team had discovered an enormous structure that appeared to be an Orbital Elevator.

Investigators prepared to infiltrate a human world with an orbital elevator and a ring of wrecked spacecraft, while Sui Yang recognized it as the Halo universe. The chapter left Atlas facing the danger of the Flood as it expanded its forces and prepared to explore Universe 08.

• Ada Wang briefed Leon and the investigators on the planet’s Earthlike conditions, human inhabitants, suspected orbital elevator, and wrecked ships, then assigned them to infiltrate and investigate the wreckage.
• Leon traveled toward the eighth Space Gate with Mike Monadi, who teased him about Ada Wang, while Engineering Department vehicles crossed the gate to begin construction.
• Sui Yang recalled how Guilliman had unified Earth-01 and described Atlas’s six million armed personnel, elite forces, and plans to recruit Astartes Adaptants from Universe 03.
• Sui Yang recognized Universe 08 as the Halo universe and considered its Forerunners, Covenant, Precursors, and the nearly unstoppable Flood.

Sui Yang assessed the likely timeline and Flood risks in Universe 08, then prepared to cross the Space Gate with his sons and the Investigators. As Leon’s team completed infection screening, they began entering the gate for their mission.

• Sui Yang concluded that Universe 08 was likely set between 2490 and 2525, and that Rebel Army activity may have kept UNSC forces away from Bountiful Star.
• Sui Yang uploaded his knowledge of the Halo universe to the Investigators’ field computers to support Leon’s reconnaissance.
• Sui Yang told the Primarchs that he would bring task forces from Terraria and ordered them to prepare to cross the Space Gate in thirty minutes.
• Atlas screened the Investigators for infection before they approached the eighth Space Gate.
• Mike remarked that Chris Redfield had grown more muscular and said he was afraid to ask Chris’s sister Claire out.
• Leon stepped through the Space Gate and was enveloped in white light.

Leon and Mike arrived on Bountiful Star, where they joined Chris, Maggie Shaw, and a Special Operations Group to prepare for an investigation. After reviewing the planet’s agriculture, city, and recent riots, the team planned to travel toward the city the following day.

• Leon and Mike crossed the Space Gate and reached the forested site where crews were building the Frontline Base.
• Leon and Mike joined Chris’s six-person Special Operations Group and Maggie Shaw for a team briefing.
• Chris explained that the planet was called Bountiful Star, showed the team its nearby city and a recent riot, and described the unrest as an opportunity for infiltration.
• Chris told the team they had to wait twenty-four hours before traveling by Black Falcon Assault Craft and instructed them to prepare equipment and rest.
• Mike asked Leon about Maggie’s superhuman abilities, then the two went to their dormitory to rest.

Leon and Team 07 reached Odegart to investigate the capital of Bountiful Star, establish a supply cache, and search for the terminal of the colony’s self-aware artificial intelligence. The chapter left them overlooking the city, where martial law and a curfew had failed to stop crowds from advancing on the governor’s building.

• Ada briefed Team 07 that Odegart was their target and advised them to trade with suspected rebels while avoiding conflict and civilian casualties.
• Leon considered the risks of helping Bountiful Star’s population rebel against the UEG and UNSC, and noted that finding the colony’s artificial intelligence terminal was another mission objective.
• Team 07 landed outside Odegart, and Chris assigned three Special Operations Group members to guard the engineering personnel as they built a supply cache.
• Chris led Leon, Mike, Maggie, and the others to a hill overlooking Odegart, where they saw checkpoints at major intersections and crowds moving toward the governor’s building.

Leon, Mike, and Maggie investigated Odegart and learned that Bountiful Star was in 2511, amid a growing rebellion and the prospect of UNSC Fleet intervention. Mike’s team concluded they needed to seize the governor, communications, and artificial intelligence before the Fleet arrived, leaving them racing to secure the company’s foothold.

• Chris split the Special Operations Group into two teams and sent Leon, Mike, and Maggie into Odegart through Point 2.
• Leon used his equipment to listen in on residents, learning that the Resistance Army had clashed with police and that locals resented UNSC rule and feared Fleet intervention.
• Leon recalled that Gerald Mulkey And had led the Rebel Army and had been assassinated by a Special Operations Group in 2502.
• Mike concluded from the team’s intelligence that Universe 08 was in 2511 and that the rebellion had exceeded the police’s ability to contain it.
• Leon and Mike agreed that the company needed to take control of Bountiful Star’s authorities and communications before the UNSC Fleet arrived.
• Mike reported that controlling the governor, communications, and artificial intelligence would let the company’s forces rapidly occupy Bountiful Star.

Special Operations Group investigators launched a coordinated operation in Odegart, disabling the city's tactical units and capturing Governor Locke Sirtai. The chapter ended with Chris Redfield reporting the successful capture.

• Six Special Operations Group investigators monitored the Governor's Building and Odegart from a rooftop.
• Invisible attackers put the tactical units and support-vehicle drivers in the eastern district to sleep.
• Locke Sirtai discussed the Rebel Army's disappearance with the holographic avatar, which suddenly froze and vanished.
• Four Special Operations Group investigators stormed Locke's office and restrained him.
• Chris Redfield reported that the investigators had successfully captured Locke.

Atlas seized Odegart and Bountiful Star’s orbital stations while Sui Yang arrived at the Governor’s Building to negotiate with the AI Apu. The Investigators had isolated the planet, captured the rebels, and prepared the operation, leaving Sui Yang to confront Apu at its terminal.

• Atlas forces took control of all six orbital stations and occupied Odegart, where frightened residents watched patrols pass their homes.
• Jeff and his wife saw an Atlas patrol with a Heavy-armored Tyrant and hid as it passed their house.
• Sui Yang arrived at the Governor’s Building with Fulgrim, Leman, and Angron, and Leon led them to the AI terminal on the third basement level.
• From February 18 to February 25, the Investigators secretly captured Odegart’s rebels and transferred them to the Frontline Base, keeping them out of the UNSC’s hands.
• The Investigators coordinated their objectives while the Ernio-led strike force blockaded the orbital stations and Jump Drive-equipped ships.
• Sui Yang went to negotiate with Apu, relying on his memories of Halo and his [Reset].

Sui Yang confronted Apu, the smart AI protecting the Governor's Mansion's data, and showed her information about Atlas and threats across universes. Apu was shocked that Sui Yang knew about the AI Council, while he urged her to cooperate with Atlas against the Covenant and other dangers.

• Mike, Maggie, and their colleagues failed to crack the hard drive arrays protected by Apu, though they had isolated the network to support the company's occupation.
• Sui Yang arrived and sent the investigators away so he could question Apu alone.
• Sui Yang explained Atlas's mission and gave Apu a drive containing information about Atlas, its journeys between universes, and Warp-related events.
• Apu was stunned by Sui Yang's knowledge of the AI Council and its founding in 2310.
• Sui Yang proposed cooperation between Atlas and Apu's AIs and warned that the Covenant would wage a war of extermination against humanity in Universe 08.

Sui Yang persuaded Apu to join Atlas and secretly help it develop on Bountiful Star while concealing the company from the United Nations Space Command and the AI Council. He then prepared to investigate Forerunner ruins whose coordinates could lead to a Shield World, an important Atlas objective.

• Apu learned about the Forerunners, humanity's status as Reclaimers, and the Covenant's reasons for waging war on humanity.
• Apu chose Atlas, adopted its emblem, and agreed to provide intelligence and feed the United Nations Space Command false reports.
• Sui Yang instructed Apu to restore communications, monitor for stealth ships, and help decipher a Forerunner transit station in Bountiful Star's north polar region.
• Leon, Mike, and the others entered the core terminal room to monitor Apu while Sui Yang and the Primarch brothers left.
• Sui Yang told Fulgrim, Leman, and Angron that they would search the ruins for coordinates leading to a Shield World.

Sui Yang and his team explored an alien ruin beneath Bountiful Star’s polar ice, where he activated a central console and received a warning about two Offspring. The chapter also revealed his plans to capture Catherine Halsey and use Apu’s ship designs to expand Atlas’s fleet.

• Sui Yang led Fulgrim, Angron, Leman, and Atlas researchers across a Lightbridge to the ruin’s central control platform.
• Sui Yang recalled that Apu had supplied intelligence on ONI’s plans for Catherine Halsey and coordinates for human colonies.
• Sui Yang planned to send Investigation Department elites to Reach to capture Halsey and intended to build UNSC-designed warships on Bountiful Star.
• Sui Yang touched the rune-marked blue sphere, which projected a three-dimensional star map.
• Sui Yang heard a voice warn that two Offspring had descended upon Bountiful Star’s polar region.

Sui Yang and Apu planned to claim Forerunner technology and Shield World 0459 before the Flood or Covenant could threaten it, while preparing for an operation on Arcadia. Sui Yang then brought his three sons to a frozen lake, where they found two newly arrived younger brothers asleep.

• Apu discovered that the Forerunner transit station contained intelligence about Arcadia and Shield World 0459, which Sui Yang hoped to secure before the Flood or Covenant could exploit it.
• Sui Yang ordered an investigation team and engineers to travel secretly to Arcadia, assigned researchers to study Forerunner knowledge, and instructed Apu to track plans for capturing Doctor Catherine Halsey on Reach.
• Sui Yang assigned Fulgrim and Angron to support the Investigation Department and told Leman that he would stay beside him to deal with the Zerg threat.
• Sui Yang and his sons flew to a frozen lake, where they found two sleeping younger brothers.

Sui Yang expanded the Space Gate and prepared to integrate Universe 02, while Alexia examined the two newly arrived Primarchs, Corax and Mortarion. Alexia confirmed both were healthy and asked Sui Yang to approve an artificial intelligence experiment.

• Sui Yang used his Psychic Power to expand the eighth Space Gate to 24 by 24 meters.
• Sui Yang arranged for Shaw-Fujikawa slipspace drives to enter production and decided it was time to integrate Universe 02.
• Sui Yang identified the sleeping child in the left incubation pod as Corax, Primarch of the Raven Guard.
• Sui Yang identified the child in the right incubation pod as Mortarion and resolved to guide him patiently.
• Alexia completed her examination, confirmed both children were healthy, and asked Sui Yang to approve an artificial intelligence experiment.

Sui Yang approved Alexia’s plan to create a more advanced AI and discussed the Flood and Warp threats with Leman. He assigned Horus to oversee Universe 02 integration work while an Atlas transport craft departed for Arcadia to retrieve coordinates for Shield World 0459.

• Alexia explained her plan to use clones carrying copies of her consciousness and memories to develop a more advanced AI, and Sui Yang approved it with a warning to ensure it remained stable.
• Sui Yang told Leman that the Flood posed the greater immediate threat, while Warp corruption might also exist in Universe 08, and instructed him to wait for Shield World 0459’s coordinates from Arcadia.
• Sui Yang assigned Horus to oversee Universe 02 integration work and left Lion to focus on recruiting the first Astartes candidates.
• On February 28, a civilian Atlas transport craft departed Bountiful Star’s orbital station No. 4 and entered Slipspace on its way to Arcadia.

Leon S. Kennedy and a team of Investigators traveled aboard the Alderaan through Slipspace toward Arcadia, where they planned to conduct a covert reconnaissance mission. As the ship neared its destination, Mike briefed the team on how they would disguise themselves and avoid exposing their identities.

• The Alderaan shook during its Slipspace voyage, but its crew found no navigation problems and recorded the tremors for later analysis.
• Leon S. Kennedy woke after the shaking stopped, changed into a Bountiful Star work uniform, and joined Mike on the way to the cafeteria.
• Mike showed Leon a picture of his girlfriend, Lori Fox, and Leon warned him to protect the company's secrets.
• Mike gathered Maggie Shaw, Fulgrim, and the other Investigators and explained that they would pose as tourists while scouting Arcadia during the Alderaan's five-Earth-day maintenance period.
• Mike ordered the team to leave weapons and company-made electronic devices, including Investigator-exclusive phones, in their cabins before going down to the surface.

Leon, Mike, Fulgrim, and the others arrived on Arcadia under the cover of a civilian freighter crew and settled into a hotel in Piers City. Mike planned to investigate two suspected UNSC Naval Intelligence Office locations the next day, hoping to uncover clues about Forerunner ruins and Shield World 0495.

• The Alderaan docked at Arcadia, where customs officers and UNSC Marines inspected its cargo and questioned Mike, Leon, and the others.
• Mike posed as the ship’s supervisor and told the customs supervisor that the group planned to visit Piers City as tourists; she approved their entry after checking their records.
• The group passed security checks at the orbital station, rode an Orbital Elevator down to Arcadia, and reached a resort hotel in Piers City.
• Fulgrim listened to an AI describe Arcadia’s tropical climate and warn visitors to stay out of the unexplored rainforest.
• After securing their family suite, Mike marked two locations west of Piers City on a map and told Leon and Fulgrim they would investigate suspected UNSC Naval Intelligence Office activity.