Chapter Summaries

Kaldor Draigo led the Grey Knights, Word Bearers, Night Lords, and Greek Demigods in a ground assault on Impproco, using the battle to prepare the Legions for the corrupted planet Coruscant. After Draigo destroyed a Tzeentch Greater Daemon, he confirmed its permanent erasure and the fortress was purified.

• Draigo advanced through the Chaos fortress while the allied forces fought its defenders and recorded evidence that their purification could permanently erase Warp entities.
• The assault revealed that former Imperial stormtroopers and AT-ST walkers had been corrupted, while Draigo ordered untainted Mouse Droids marked for recovery.
• Draigo and Athena's war attendants reached the fortress's deepest chamber, where a Tzeentch Greater Daemon dismissed their attacks and blasted Draigo aside with a Psionic Storm.
• A Greek Demigod wounded the Greater Daemon with a flaming War Spear, and Draigo seized the daemon and smashed it into the floor.
• Draigo pretended to be caught in the daemon's temporal stasis, then killed it with his Holy Flame-wreathed Power Sword.
• Draigo confirmed that the Tzeentch Greater Daemon had been permanently erased, and the fortress's Chaos corruption faded away.

Curze and more than four hundred Black Guard invaded the Chaos flagship through a wound in its hull and fought through its flesh-filled chambers. After defeating the World Eaters and a blood-born manifestation, Curze sensed the familiar Psychic Power of the War Hounds Primarch beyond a skull gate.

• Curze led more than twenty Thunderhawk Gunships into the Chaos flagship's hull fissure while Lorgar's final message reached him before communications failed.
• Curze and the Black Guard landed inside a blasphemous cathedral and defeated waves of Khorne Berserkers whose bodies melted into the living structure.
• Curze recognized the warriors gathered around a vast blood pool as the fallen World Eaters Legion from another universe.
• The Black Guard and Curze fought the World Eaters, flesh-modified Dreadnoughts, and spider-like Land Raiders, destroying their forces in a brutal battle.
• The fallen warriors' remains flowed into the blood pool, where a giant face formed and began speaking before Curze tore it apart.
• Curze focused on a skull gate and sensed the familiar Psychic Power of the War Hounds Primarch beyond it.

Curze led the Black Guard into Khorne’s Throne Hall, where they fought the World Eaters while Curze confronted the ascended Angron. Curze freed Angron from Khorne’s control and watched him turn to ash as the Black Guard won a costly victory.

• Curze broke through the skull gate and led more than three hundred Black Guard into the Throne Hall, where they faced an equally large force of World Eaters and several daemon creations.
• The Black Guard and World Eaters clashed while Curze recognized the Primarch essence still trapped within the Greater Daemon.
• Curze and Angron fought one another, and Curze stopped his warriors from interfering in their duel.
• Curze pierced Angron’s skull with claws transformed by Pure Psychic Energy, briefly restoring Angron’s lucidity before he crumbled to ash.
• The Throne Hall began to collapse, and the Black Guard finished the battle with nearly two hundred warriors lost.

After Angron’s death, the Conqueror’s grieving spirit, Lotara Sarrin, sabotaged the evacuation before the ship destroyed itself. The allied fleets routed the disorganized enemy, but more than a thousand World Eaters ships escaped into the Warp, and Curze and Lorgar prepared to finish the fighting in the Impproco Sector before launching Exterminatus on Coruscant, where new guests arrived in the Hell Domain.

• Lotara Sarrin’s spirit attacked the evacuating Black Guard, but Curze cut through the ship’s defenses and escaped aboard a Thunderhawk as the Conqueror self-destructed.
• The Conqueror’s destruction shattered the World Eaters Fleet’s command structure, allowing the Night Lords, Word Bearers, and Grey Knights to devastate the enemy forces.
• More than a thousand World Eaters ships escaped through Warp routes, spreading the threat of uncontrolled raids across the galaxy.
• Curze returned to the Night Blade and agreed with Lorgar to deal with the remaining enemy ships before proceeding with their original plan.
• Reconnaissance vessels reported Warp Entities and Primarch-level Psychic Power on Coruscant, and Curze and Lorgar resolved to use Exterminatus rather than fight for control of the ground.
• New guests arrived in the Hell Domain.

Angron arrived in the seventh layer of Hell, where Bound Warriors sentenced him for his violence and betrayal. After resisting an illusion of his past and seeing his World Eaters punished, he met Fulgrim, who said they had been manipulated, and then faced Sui Yang, who welcomed him as his child.

• Angron awoke in the seventh layer of Hell, accepted his sentence, and resisted the Bound Warriors’ illusion of slaughtering civilians on Nuceria.
• The Bound Warriors escorted Angron past punished souls, including World Eaters who recognized him and continued suffering after he passed.
• Fulgrim met Angron inside the Judgment Tower and told him that their rage, pain, and falls had been pieces in someone else’s plan.
• Fulgrim disappeared after telling Angron that Father was waiting, and Angron climbed to the tower’s summit.
• Sui Yang greeted Angron calmly, saying, “Welcome, my child.”

Sui Yang healed Angron of the Butcher’s Nails and appointed him overseer of Hell’s seventh layer, with Lotara Sarrin as his deputy. Back in the Main Universe, Sui Yang watched the allied fleet prepare to purge Coruscant, while fleeing World Eaters ships remained a threat.

• Sui Yang removed Angron’s Butcher’s Nails and comforted him, helping him recover his original face and emotions.
• Angron learned that Fulgrim oversaw Hell’s second layer and accepted Sui Yang’s offer to govern the layer of Violence.
• Sui Yang appointed Angron overseer of Violence and assigned Lotara Sarrin as his deputy, condemning them to punish violent sinners.
• Angron and Lotara prepared to manage Hell’s seventh layer together as Sui Yang returned to the Main Universe.
• Sui Yang reviewed the allied fleet’s battle over Coruscant as Lorgar gathered Psychic Energy for a planetary purge.

Sui Yang assessed the World Eaters’ raids and the Star Wars universe’s strategic potential, then ordered Angron to reinforce Dorn and Magnus’s campaign. Half an Earth month later, World Eaters ships emerged from the Warp above a resource-rich planet ruled by one of the Galactic Empire’s warlords.

• Sui Yang reviewed how the World Eaters targeted poorly defended fringe worlds and considered the danger they posed to the Empire’s plans for Star Wars.
• Sui Yang planned to recruit and control the Zabraks as a Psychic Power force and integrate the Twi’leks as a model population for the Empire.
• Sui Yang ordered Angron to gather the available soldiers of his Legion, travel to Universe 17, and follow Magnus while he served as Warmaster.
• Angron accepted Sui Yang’s orders, and Sui Yang ended the communication, trusting the six Astartes Legions to continue the occupation.
• On a resource-rich planet near the outer edge of the Star Wars galaxy, rival Galactic Empire warlords exploited miners and ruled their territories as private domains.
• Dozens of World Eaters Legion vessels emerged from the Warp above the planet.

The World Eaters invaded Flar, annihilating its defenses and unleashing a massacre across the mining city of Kovacs. As Flar’s people lost hope, an Iron Warriors company fleet traveled through Slipspace toward the planet.

• Thirty-seven World Eaters warships emerged from a Warp rift and destroyed Flar’s orbital defenses and Imperial fleet.
• Thousands of Drop Pods struck Kovacs, and World Eaters poured out to slaughter its residents and defenders.
• A World Eater Terminator killed Flar’s governor, sending the planet’s command structure into collapse.
• Chaos creatures and a sorcerer spread terror and mutations through Flar as gangs and civilians fell into the slaughter.
• An Iron Warriors company fleet traveled through Slipspace toward Flar.

Barabas Dantioch brought the Iron Warriors fleet out of hyperspace to intervene in the World Eaters’ invasion of Flar. As the fleet began fighting in orbit, Corselan remained under attack, and Anxi Sekurt escaped captivity amid the chaos.

• Hestia informed Barabas Dantioch that the World Eaters had invaded Flar, and he ordered the Iron Warriors fleet into combat readiness.
• World Eaters overwhelmed Corselan’s defenders, destroyed three frigates, and attacked civilians and anti-aircraft crews across the port.
• Anxi Sekurt escaped her cell in a noble warehouse after the security systems failed, taking a Vibroknife and Blaster Pistol.
• Anxi left the warehouse alone and saw the World Eaters and daemons massacring civilians in the burning city.
• Dantioch led the Iron Warriors fleet out of hyperspace and ordered its ships to attack the World Eaters’ fleet.
• The Iron Warriors destroyed a Raider Ship, endured heavy damage to two frigates, and prepared to deploy assault troops to the surface.

Dantioch led the Iron Warriors fleet in defeating the World Eaters in orbit around Flar, then sent ground forces to Koseran Port. The Iron Warriors, Helljumpers, and Sangheili fought the World Eaters and their creatures across the city as the battle intensified.

• Dantioch evaded the World Eaters' flesh-shell barrage and ordered the fleet to destroy their flagship while Psychic Jammers prevented its escape into the Warp.
• The Iron Warriors fleet sank the enemy flagship and launched Drop Pods toward Flar, including a first wave bound for Koseran Port.
• Sergeant Kassim and his squad fought four World Eaters Berserkers in Koseran, killing them while Kassim and a recruit were wounded.
• Helljumpers took positions around the port and engaged Blood Hounds, while Sangheili Elite veterans charged the creatures with energy weapons.
• Iron Warriors, Auxilia, Clones, and armored units established positions across Koseran as World Eaters repeatedly attacked, escalating the fighting throughout the city.

The Iron Warriors, World Eaters, Helljumpers, and Elite Sangheili fought fiercely at Koseran Port until the arrival of the company's main force and a Titan Combat Mech turned the battle against the World Eaters. Kassim's squad advanced toward a warehouse district to find civilian survivors, while Anxi Sekurt hid nearby and a Blood Hound charged at her.

• Elite Sangheili veterans sacrificed themselves to kill a World Eater, then prayed for their fallen comrades.
• The First Company champion killed a World Eater champion after their weapons clashed in the central square.
• Drop Pods, armored vehicles, troops, and a Titan Combat Mech arrived, forcing the World Eaters to retreat.
• Kassim received orders to take his squad, Helljumpers, and Elite veterans to a warehouse district where civilians were reported to be hiding.
• Anxi Sekurt watched the fighting from an alley, and a Blood Hound charged toward her.

Anxi Sekurt fought off a Blood Hound before a wounded World Eater captured and corrupted her, but Sergeant Kassim's Iron Warriors rescued her and chose to evacuate her for treatment. Kassim's squad and the Sangheili cleared the warehouse district, freeing its enslaved captives and establishing a temporary stronghold as the battle for Koseran Port turned in the Imperium's favor.

• Anxi Sekurt killed a Blood Hound in an alley, then fled into a shop as explosions tore through the district.
• A wounded World Eater seized Anxi, injured her head-tail, and began corrupting her until Sergeant Kassim and two Iron Warriors blasted through the shop wall and killed it.
• Kassim ordered Anxi taken for isolation and treatment instead of executing her, and an Apothecary later reported that her condition had stabilized.
• Kassim's squad joined five Sangheili veterans to kill the Bloodletters and free thousands of chained slaves in the warehouse district.
• More than two hundred Auxilia troops arrived by Luna Transport Craft, and Kassim reported the objective secured and ordered a temporary stronghold established.

Dantioch assessed the spread of Chaos across Universe 17 and ordered Flar strengthened as a bulwark. At Yavin 4, the Imperial Fists expanded their fortress and refugee settlement while preparing Sigismund's repaired fleet to return to Tatooine.

• Hestia reported that Chaos controlled at least twenty-three star systems and that Imperial defectors had brought the World Eaters fleet data and military secrets.
• Dantioch ordered Flar's defenses consolidated and kept his forces on alert against Chaos infiltration and corruption.
• The Imperial Fists fortified Yavin 4 and expanded its settlement for refugees evacuated from Tatooine and other fallen regions.
• Sigismund's fleet neared completion of repairs, with plans to reinforce it and return to Tatooine.
• Dorn discussed the next steps of unification with his Primarch brothers in Yavin 4's central control room.

Magnus convened the Primarchs to set plans for the Death Star, captured Star Destroyers, and the continuing Unification War in Universe 17. After the brothers settled their responsibilities, Dorn told Aoyi he would travel to Tatooine once Sigismund's Fleet was repaired, leaving her to defend Yavin 4 and nearby regions.

• Magnus proposed moving the unstable Death Star to Jedha for repairs and adding thirty combat-ready captured Star Destroyers to a Local Defense Fleet.
• Dorn, Lorgar, and Curze proposed oversight and disciplinary roles, and Magnus assigned joint fleet oversight to the Imperial Fists and Iron Warriors, with the Word Bearers and Night Lords handling discipline.
• Magnus ordered Angron and the War Hounds to command the Fleet's ground forces after they assembled through the Space Gate.
• Lorgar pledged to purge Chaos-tainted regions, Curze vowed to hunt Chaos-aligned Imperial remnants, and Dorn warned them to spare uncorrupted citizens.
• Perturabo and Dorn agreed to build defensive chains in key systems, including Jedha and Tatooine, as the Primarchs committed to continuing the Unification Wars.
• Dorn told Aoyi he would go to Tatooine after Sigismund's Fleet completed repairs and left her responsible for Yavin 4 and its surrounding regions.

Dorn sent more than twenty-three thousand young Tatooine refugees aboard his fleet toward Tatooine, intending to train them as Imperial Fists recruits while protecting them from direct frontline combat. As the fleet entered Slipspace, Leon S. Kennedy woke aboard Dorn’s flagship and prepared to meet the Spartans and contact the Kaminoans.

• More than twenty thousand teenagers boarded the fleet’s transports after an Imperial Fists officer told them they would become the Emperor’s blades.
• Aoyi warned Dorn that the recruits were malnourished and many suffered traumatic flashbacks, but Dorn planned to give them extra food, supervised training, and the option to leave service.
• Dorn ordered his fleet of more than a hundred vessels to jump toward Tatooine, while Aoyi remained behind to hold the defensive line at Yavin 4 and the Jedha system.
• The recruits settled into life aboard their transport, organized their few keepsakes, and ate abundant food in the mess hall.
• Leon S. Kennedy woke aboard Dorn’s flagship and prepared for his assignment to meet the Spartans on Tatooine and establish contact with the Kaminoans.

Leon struggled with mental fatigue as the Empire’s costly campaign in Universe 17 continued, then briefed his team on plans to recruit Kaminoan and Mandalorian partners. The meeting ended with Leon reviewing additional targets for contact.

• Leon checked reports showing at least 1.2 trillion deaths on Coruscant and reflected that unifying Universe 17 could take at least ten years.
• Leon gathered David, Lucy, Chirrut, and Baze to plan an initial collaboration with Kamino’s prime minister.
• Leon proposed buying 100,000 improved clones from the Kaminoans while David and Lucy collected technical details about Tipoca City and its gene-editing algorithms.
• Leon assigned Chirrut and Baze to guide future contacts with twelve priority targets, including Mandalorian groups.
• Leon identified the Mandalorians as potential special contractors and began reviewing other contact targets with the team.

Dorn arrived at Tatooine to lead the Imperial Fists’ campaign against the remaining Chaos strongholds, rebuild the battered forces, and bring his newborn younger brother aboard the Emperor-class Battleship. Meanwhile, Leon and his team landed at Sigismund’s base to recruit Spartans for a mission to Kamino, where John greeted Leon and the eager soldiers prepared to join him.

• Dorn’s fleet entered Tatooine’s orbit, where the survivors’ recruits prepared to reclaim their homeland and eliminate the scattered Chaos forces.
• Dorn spoke with Sigismund, praised his defense of Tatooine, and promised to rebuild his depleted forces and provide them with new weapons and ships.
• Dorn ordered a Thunderhawk formation to take him to Sigismund’s base, while Leon, David, Lucy, Chirrut, and Baze launched aboard the Auspicious Boat.
• Leon and his team landed at the surface base to select Spartans for their mission to Kamino, while Dorn headed there to meet his sons and bring his younger brother aboard the battleship.
• John introduced himself to Leon and saluted as the assembled Spartans welcomed the legendary agent and prepared to accompany him.

Leon selected five Spartans for covert assignments supporting the Investigation Department, while Dorn arrived on Tatooine and took the newborn Ferrus into his care. After the Spartans boarded the Auspicious Vessel, the ship departed Tatooine.

• Leon greeted John-117 and selected Douglas, Jerome, Alice, Cole, and Mullen for assignments that would require them to remove their Mjolnir Armor.
• Leon ordered the five Spartans to bring their equipment to the Auspicious Vessel's Sector B armory, and Mullen excitedly speculated about meeting Sith Warriors or Master Yoda.
• Dorn arrived with the Templar Knights and told Sigismund that his troops would receive new weapons and Mark IX Titan Armor after the Chaos forces on Tatooine were purged.
• Dorn took the newborn Ferrus from Hera and carried him to his Thunderhawk, while Hera recalled Ares and Athena felt an unfamiliar pain at the thought of a child conceived with Sui Yang.
• Jerome, Douglas, Alice, Cole, and Mullen boarded the Auspicious Vessel, which soon departed Tatooine.

The Auspicious Vessel carried Leon and a Spartan team to Kamino for negotiations over the Kaminoans’ cloning technology. Meanwhile, Sui Yang planned Ferrus’s return to the Main Universe, and the chapter ended with the Kaminoan reception welcoming the Imperium’s representatives.

• Jerome reported that the Auspicious Vessel would reach Kamino in forty-eight hours, while Leon instructed the Spartans to remain vigilant and attend negotiations fully armed.
• Sui Yang received Dorn’s report that construction had begun across the Star Wars universe and ordered Ferrus returned to the Main Universe within three Earth days.
• Sui Yang decided Athena could become Ferrus’s adoptive mother, but Hera could not, and planned for Ferrus to be cared for by himself and Alexia first.
• The Auspicious Vessel emerged from hyperspace and descended through Kamino’s storms toward Tipoca City.
• A Kaminoan representative welcomed Leon and the Imperium’s delegation on the landing platform.

Leon S. Kennedy led an Imperial delegation to Kamino, where Chief Genetic Governor Terra Ko showed them the clone facilities and proposed joint biotechnology research. Leon offered outdated Imperial clone data as a test, and Terra promised to demonstrate Kamino’s abilities within three Coruscant months.

• Leon and his delegation arrived on Kamino, where Terra Ko welcomed them and showed intense interest in the Spartan soldiers.
• Terra led the group through Kamino’s advanced corridor systems and Clone Matrix, where tens of thousands of clones were being cultivated.
• The delegation toured Kamino’s clone production lines, and Terra explained how genetic directives ensured the clones’ loyalty.
• Terra proposed joint biotechnology research, and Leon offered obsolete Imperial clone data as the basis for producing one hundred thousand upgraded clones.
• Terra accepted the challenge and promised results in three Coruscant months.