Chapter Summaries

Celine joined Alexia’s team in Universe 13 to study the Knights and nuns altered by Cloned Flesh and the four rituals. After learning their oaths prevented them from serving the Imperium, she proposed eliminating God to break the Oath Curse, while investigators were sent to Universe 14.

• Alexia asked Sui Yang to send Celine and her core team to reinforce Universe 13, and he approved.
• Celine traveled to Universe 13 and saw that the Flower of Purity had cleared the land, with Earth projected to be purified within six months if the Hell Faction did not interfere.
• The Universe 13 Biological Department director explained that the Knights and nuns bore Chromosome Pair 24 and displayed absolute loyalty to their God and Church.
• Celine suggested that Colonel MacTavish and Athena eliminate God to break the Knights’ and nuns’ Oath Curse.
• Investigators led by Leon, Ada, and Maggie Shaw were transferred to Universe 14.

Leon S. Kennedy, Maggie Shaw, and other elite Investigators began an infiltration mission to enter the United Citizen Federation’s Federal Army and undermine it from within. After leaving New Hope, they headed for Earth-14, where they hoped to prepare for the coming Arachnid war while remaining cut off from the Imperium.

• The chapter explained how the expanded Space Gate enabled faster deployments and how T-800s served as economical, versatile tools under Atlas’s control.
• Leon S. Kennedy, Maggie Shaw, and more than twenty Investigators disguised themselves as recruits and traveled from the Universe 14 Frontline Base to Oasis Town, with Ada Wang commanding the operation from the base.
• Ghost’s forces had rescued Oasis Town from an Arachnid attack, brought New Hope under the Imperium’s control, and cut the planet off from outside communications.
• Leon read intelligence predicting an Arachnid meteorite strike on Buenos Aires in 2297 and a devastating war that would cost humanity billions of lives.
• Ada warned the Investigators that they would lose contact with the Frontline Base after reaching Earth-14 and told them to report any threat to their cover.
• Leon, Maggie, and the others boarded a repaired civilian ship and activated its Warp Drive toward Earth-14.

Leon studied the United Citizen Federation and assigned the Investigators roles to infiltrate its military as they traveled toward Earth. Four days later, their ship arrived in the Solar System and prepared to dock at the Moon’s Steel Great Wall for inspection.

• Leon reviewed the plan to prevent the meteor strike and considered how the Blood Angels would unify frontier human colonies while destroying hostile worlds without human resources.
• Leon read a report on the United Citizen Federation’s history, government, military service requirements, colonization, and Human Supremacy.
• Leon assigned himself, Maggie, and other capable fighters to the Mobile Infantry, while Investigators with psychic potential were directed toward Military Intelligence.
• Leon rested during the journey and planned to review the forged identity records prepared for the group.
• On September 8, Leon and the Investigators emerged from Warp Travel near Earth and followed lunar traffic control’s instructions to dock at the Steel Great Wall for inspection.

Leon, Maggie, and the other Investigators arrived on Earth and joined the Federal Army, with most assigned to the Mobile Infantry. At recruit training in North Africa, Sergeant Simm challenged the recruits to fight him, and Recruit Frost stepped forward to report.

• Customs officers cleared Leon, Maggie, and the others to travel onward, and some Investigators left for intelligence and pilot recruitment reviews at the Moon Base.
• Leon, Maggie, and the remaining Investigators reached Earth and enlisted in the Mobile Infantry despite their strong academic records.
• The recruits swore their oaths and boarded a transport craft for a Federal Army training camp in North Africa.
• Two days later, Sergeant Simm began drilling Leon and Maggie's platoon and challenged the recruits to beat him.
• Recruit Frost hurried over and reported to Sergeant Simm.

Leon challenged Sergeant Simm during recruit training and staged their fight to build his prestige without humiliating the instructor. Meanwhile, the Imperium’s forces prepared to seize Argos on Moon of Forgotten River, where a Xenomorph outbreak had spread panic and left the colony under threat.

• Flores challenged Sergeant Simm after he questioned her qualifications, but he defeated her and then broke the arm of a hulking recruit who challenged him.
• Leon challenged Simm and carefully staged their fight as a mutual defeat to raise his standing among the recruits while preserving Simm’s dignity.
• Xenomorphs used guerrilla attacks across Moon of Forgotten River, forcing residents to flee toward fortified towns as local Colonial Marines awaited orders and Weyland-Yutani forces handled the outbreak.
• Roach’s joint reconnaissance teams gathered intelligence on the outbreak and Argos, the heavily defended capital where disappearances, rumors, and a Xenomorph-worshipping cult were fueling panic.
• The Imperium secretly deployed more than a thousand elite troops throughout Argos, and Roach began final reconnaissance before an operation to seize the capital.

Roach prepared the Imperium of Man’s Advance Team to seize control of Argos without triggering its orbital defenses or harming civilians. He assigned the Space Wolves 14th Company to eliminate the mercenaries and suspected cultists, leaving Logan eager for battle.

• Roach used forged identities and covert bases to infiltrate Argos while avoiding a direct assault on the Cerberus orbital defense system.
• Logan Sigurd complained that his Space Wolves had been waiting for days, while the Dumb AI urged him to remain patient.
• Roach ordered Team One to capture the governor and officials, and Team Two to take the Colonial Army Marines’ garrison and destroyers.
• Roach assigned Logan’s company to eliminate Weyland-Tanggu’s Mercenaries and the suspected cult organization.
• Logan welcomed the order and said his company could finally fight.

Roach led the Advance Team in a surprise assault on the Colonial Marines' base, capturing its captain and officers. After learning that Marines had been ambushed by Xenomorphs, he called Logan Sigurd for help, while Logan's Space Wolves uncovered a cultist-run Xenomorph breeding and research facility.

• Roach's Advance Team silently knocked out the guards and Marines at the temporary base, while Roach headed for the command center to capture the captain.
• A false distress call lured the captain and officers into the open, where Roach knocked them unconscious and took control of the command center.
• Roach heard a Marine report an ambush involving Facehuggers and asked Captain Sigurd to send men to rescue the trapped Marines.
• Logan Sigurd and the Space Wolves slaughtered cultists in the eastern district's underground drainage network.
• The Space Wolves discovered abducted residents, a Facehugger breeding facility, and researchers studying Juvenile Xenomorphs with Weyland-Tanggu equipment.

Logan abandoned the sewer sweep to rescue the Colonial Marines, who were trapped in a pump station and nearly out of ammunition. He entered the station alone, slaughtered Xenomorphs with his bare hands, and left the surviving Marines watching as his fight continued.

• After Roach reported the Marines' ambush, Logan took Squads One and Two to the pump station while the remaining Auxilia continued clearing the cultist facilities.
• Seven Colonial Marines remained trapped among the Xenomorphs, with their ammunition almost gone and one Marine preparing to use a grenade in a last stand.
• Logan's Boltgun fire reached the station, and he blocked the Xenomorphs' escape before tearing apart six attackers with his bare hands.
• Logan removed his helmet to show the Marines he was human, then killed a Xenomorph by spitting corrosive phlegm at it.
• A Marine threw a grenade that killed two Xenomorphs but splashed acid onto Logan's armor, prompting him to order the survivors to stay put as he continued fighting.

Logan Sigurd and the Space Wolves defeated the Xenomorphs at the pump station, rescued the surviving Colonial Marines, and attacked the nest on Argos. Logan captured the Alien Queen alive as Imperial forces began taking control of the moon, while Price chose a direct approach in the Red Alert 2 universe.

• Logan Sigurd killed the Xenomorphs in the pump station and declared the surviving Colonial Marines prisoners of the Space Wolves.
• A Space Wolves squad leader reported a nearby nest, and Logan sent Auxilia and medics to stabilize the eight Marines parasitized by Facehuggers.
• Logan and the Space Wolves found the Alien Queen's nest, where more than a hundred Xenomorphs attacked them.
• Logan led the assault, and the Space Wolves cut down the Xenomorph horde while he fought his way to the queen.
• Logan disabled the Alien Queen by cutting off her legs and claws and tearing out her inner jaws, intending to keep her alive for research.
• The joint investigative force joined the Space Wolves on Argos, and Price chose a direct, brute-force approach for the Red Alert 2 universe.

Price and the Alpha Legion launched an assault on Cairo to destroy its Mind Control Towers, liberate the city, and contact the Resistance. As Tanya Adams investigated the bombardment, she encountered six Young Alpha emerging from a Drop Pod.

• Orbital drones confirmed that Yuri's forces had enslaved Cairo's population and that the Resistance was fighting to destroy the Mind Control Towers.
• Price planned to liberate Cairo, support the Resistance, and make contact with Tanya Adams, who was immune to Psychic Control.
• Three Paris-class Frigates destroyed Cairo's Mind Control Towers, while Transport Craft and Drop Pods carried Imperial forces into the city.
• Tanya Adams and her Resistance fighters investigated a Drop Pod that had landed beside a factory.
• Tanya and the Resistance soldiers saw six Young Alpha emerge from the Drop Pod.

Six Young Alphas destroyed the factory’s Gatling Cannons and stormed inside, prompting Tanya to lead the Resistance into Cairo’s uprising. Omegon rescued residents from the Brutes and turned toward a group of Yuri Initiates after killing the Brutes with his War Spear.

• Six Young Alphas dodged Gatling fire, called in Plasma Cannon strikes to destroy the cannons, and entered the factory.
• Tanya rallied the Resistance soldiers and led them toward the fight as Transport Hunter-Killers appeared over Cairo.
• The destruction of the Mind Control Towers freed Cairo’s residents, who rose against the Yuri forces, but the Yuri Initiates and Brutes brutally suppressed them.
• Omegon shot two Brutes that were about to kill trapped residents, then killed more than a dozen Brutes with his War Spear.
• Omegon advanced toward the Yuri Initiates, who realized they now had to face him.

Omegon and the Alpha Legion crushed Yuri’s forces in Cairo while capturing Yuri Initiates for biological experiments. As the city fell, Alpharius reached Yuri X in the Capital Building.

• Omegon repelled the Yuri Initiates’ psychic attack, destroyed a vehicle factory with the Pale Spear, and learned that Yuri X was in the Capital Building.
• Clone Soldiers captured the surviving Initiates, whom Omegon designated as experimental D-Class Personnel, while he vanished using optical camouflage.
• The Alpha Legion’s Terminators, Hunter-Killers, Clones, and Young Alpha swept through Cairo, overcoming Yuri’s forces and defenses.
• A Genetic Mutator transformed nearby Clone Soldiers into Brutes, but their implanted chips detonated and killed them before they could attack the Imperium’s forces.
• As the Alpha Legion took control of Cairo’s main districts, Alpharius eliminated the Capital Building’s defenders and approached Yuri X in his office.

Alpharius captured Yuri X in Cairo and the Imperium began integrating the Red Alert 2 universe while preparing to use Yuri clones as experimental subjects. In Universe 13, modified D-Class Personnel woke in a test town and faced an ambush by Alien Drones and Facehuggers.

• Alpharius subdued Yuri X, injected him with a drug that suppressed his psychic abilities, and arranged for his capture as Cairo's battle wound down.
• Alpharius informed Price that Cairo was ready for the Joint Reconnaissance Force, Auxilia, and Engineering Department to secure and rebuild.
• Alpharius and Omegon met Tanya Adams, introduced themselves as Alpha Legion Primarchs, and suggested she might join their Legion.
• In early October, Universe 16 entered Total War Integration as the Yuri Empire lost territory, while Universe 13 prepared to attack the Hell Faction.
• More than a dozen modified D-Class Personnel woke in a sealed Trench Crusade test town and were surrounded by Facehuggers as Alien Drones attacked from the rooftops.

D-Class Personnel with enhanced abilities fought Xenomorphs in a proving ground, but the Drones adapted by spraying acidic blood and let Facehuggers parasitize the survivors. After technicians recovered the test subjects, Celine told the director she had a preliminary plan to improve the Clone Soldiers.

• The D-Class Personnel discovered their enhanced speed and strength as they fought off Alien Drones and Facehuggers barehanded.
• After one D-Class Personnel died from acidic blood, the Drones cut their tails and sprayed acid from rooftops, killing or disabling most of the group.
• The remaining D-Class Personnel were parasitized by Facehuggers, while the Drones retreated from approaching Astartes and were quickly killed.
• Dark Angels escorted Biological Department technicians who collected the dead and sealed the parasitized D-Class Personnel for transport to an isolation laboratory.
• A technician reported that the test results supported applying to the Empire for the Sisters of Battle project, but the director ordered the team to preserve the experimental subjects for Cloned Flesh research.
• Celine told the director that she had developed a preliminary plan for improving the Clone Soldiers.

Celine and the supervisor reviewed the Biological Department’s progress in creating the Emperor’s Body and studying Xenomorphs, including plans to enhance Clone Soldiers and control the creatures. Celine left to accompany the Dark Angels First Company and the Heretic Inquisition Department to Hell, leaving the supervisor in charge of the experiments.

• Celine explained how Xenomorphs inherited traits from their hosts and warned that the Empire still lacked a reliable way to control them.
• Celine and the supervisor discussed how their team had replicated and improved Cloned Flesh Technology, creating the Emperor’s Body that could turn suitable humans into superhumans.
• The team prepared Sister Isabella de Kerouai to become the first nun to consume the Emperor’s Body, hoping it could weaken the effects of Saint Flesh and eventually help free the Knights from God and Heaven’s influence.
• Celine proposed combining Xenomorph abilities with Clone Soldiers, while the supervisor suggested asking the Dark Angels to protect the research team from an outbreak.
• Celine said she would accompany the Dark Angels First Company and the Heretic Inquisition Department to Hell and seek a route to Heaven, leaving the supervisor in charge while she was away.

Frontline Base 13 launched its general assault on Hell's territory, sending a vast force toward Hell's Gate in Jerusalem while the Dark Angels First Company prepared to provide support. The formation destroyed corrupted settlements along the way, and its assault also served the Imperium's effort to win local residents over to the God-Emperor.

• Four thousand elite guards, Athena and more than four hundred Greek Demigods, four hundred Grey Knights, and Celine boarded transports at Frontline Base 13; the Grey Knights' Aegis-pattern Terminators lacked short-range teleportation.
• The Dark Angels First Company prepared its fleet in low Earth orbit to descend into Hell's territory and support the assault, while Colonel MacTavish authorized troops to fight back if local human armies attacked them.
• The transport formation departed for Jerusalem, and Colonel MacTavish announced that Frontline Base 13 had officially begun its general assault on the Hell Faction.
• Celine spotted a corrupted town, marked it on the pilots' tactical maps, and a Vulture gunship destroyed it with a Metal Hydrogen Missile.
• The formation continued toward Jerusalem, destroying dozens of corrupted towns and cities along the way.
• Frontline Base 13 had supplied frontier-town residents with necessities and work, and almost all had switched their faith to the God-Emperor; cheap televisions were installed so they could watch the Imperium's campaign against Hell.

The Roman Empire's army fought a feint against Hell's forces near Jerusalem to cover Paladins infiltrating Hell's Gate, but the army was surrounded and routed. As a wounded soldier was devoured by a zombified comrade, he thought he saw a dazzling golden beam of light.

• The Roman Empire's elite army attacked Hell's western defensive line while forces from Hungary, Orthodox Russia, and Africa staged feints to cover Paladins heading for Hell's Gate.
• As supplies ran low and the battle turned against them, the Roman commander and his generals considered withdrawing.
• Fallen Knights, nuns, walking corpses, and heretic soldiers surrounded the Roman army and broke through its right wing, scattering its troops.
• A small group of soldiers ran out of ammunition and charged a fallen Knight, who struck them down with his whip.
• The wounded soldier refused to join Hell, but a zombified comrade knocked him down and began eating him.
• As the soldier lost consciousness, he thought he saw a dazzling golden beam of light.

Pallas Athena arrived on the battlefield, healed the Holy Roman Empire soldiers, and transformed into a colossal goddess to break the Blood Wall. The Imperium of Man’s fleet then destroyed the enemy defenses and began deploying troops, while the rescued soldiers considered joining Athena.

• Pallas Athena’s golden radiance burned away nearby traitors and walking dead, healed the wounded soldiers, and protected them from the poisonous fog.
• Athena grew more than two hundred meters tall, broke through the Blood Wall with her Golden War Spear, and called on the humans to join the Imperium of Man.
• The Dark Angels First Company Fleet and its aircraft appeared overhead, and their missile and plasma bombardment destroyed the Blood Wall and cleared the poisonous fog.
• The rescued soldier and his comrades felt drawn to fight for Athena and the Imperium of Man, while opportunistic enemy forces fled and Hell-loyal traitors hesitated.
• Transport Crafts landed, and the Joint Reconnaissance Force, Greek Demigods, Grey Knights, Auxilia, and Astartes began deploying to the battlefield.

The Imperium’s forces launched a devastating assault on Jerusalem, with Grey Knights and Greek Demigods leading the advance toward Hell’s Gate. Aboard the fleet, Captain Jialan Clovey considered taking his command platoon directly to Hell’s Gate as the Grey Knights claimed much of the battlefield’s glory.

• The fleet bombarded corrupted fortifications and Hell’s forces near Jerusalem with tactical-yield Metal Hydrogen Missiles.
• Grey Knights, Greek Demigods, and the elite guard deployed east of the Holy Roman Empire’s troops and began clearing the remaining enemies.
• A Grey Knight killed more than a hundred fallen knights with his Linked Boltguns and Power Halberd before advancing toward Jerusalem.
• Athena and the Grey Knights led the ground force toward Jerusalem while the Dark Angels First Company’s fleet provided fire support and supplies.
• Captain Jialan Clovey received reports that the advance was on schedule and that Auxilia medics were aiding wounded Holy Roman Empire troops.
• Jialan considered leading his command platoon to Hell’s Gate because he worried the Grey Knights would claim the major credit for the campaign.

Jialan Clovey led an elite Dark Angels force toward Hell's Gate to secure the first victory, while Celine joined to help protect them and gather information about the Hell Dimension. Their Thunderhawks evaded a powerful beam and landed amid Jerusalem's warped living landscape.

• Jialan ordered Al Dimo and forty Company Guards to prepare for a raid on Hell's Gate, leaving a lieutenant in command of the fleet.
• Celine met Jialan aboard the Orbital Train and persuaded him to let her join the raid to collect Hell Dimension samples and help keep the force safe.
• Jialan, Celine, Al Dimo, and the Company Guards boarded two Thunderhawk Gunships and flew toward Jerusalem.
• Celine used the Thunderhawks' sensors to map the city and confirmed that Hell's Gate lay in Jerusalem's overheated center.
• After the pilots cleared flying creatures from their path, Celine warned that Hell's Gate was charging a weapon, and both Thunderhawks evaded its beam.
• The Thunderhawks landed near Hell's Gate, where Jialan and the others saw enormous warped living buildings and mountains beneath pink and red clouds.