Chapter Summaries

Agria’s remaining civilians were trapped by the Zerg, while local security forces sacrificed themselves to seal a shelter and protect them. Flame Salamanders arrived, broke into the shelter, and began evacuating survivors as they advanced against the Zerg.

• The Zerg overwhelmed Agria, consuming its towns and fields while survivors were trapped inside shrinking defensive zones.
• Local security soldiers defended a shelter entrance and detonated explosives, sealing the civilians inside as they died fighting the Zerg.
• The trapped civilians lost hope as the sealed shelter cut off their escape and their supplies dwindled.
• Flame Salamanders broke through the shelter ceiling and told the civilians they had come to rescue them.
• The Flame Salamanders evacuated civilians by lift while their warriors and combat mechs fought the Zerg outside.

Flame Salamanders and Auxilia forces fought through the Zerg-infested city to rescue civilians, while their warships protected the evacuating transports from airborne attackers. The survivors reached low orbit under the protection of the Imperium of Man’s fleet, which stood ready to continue the evacuation and confront the Zerg.

• Flame Salamanders charged into the Zerg swarm and used coordinated gunfire and melee weapons to slaughter the creatures while civilians watched from a Luna Transport.
• The transport carried survivors above the city, where they saw Flame Salamanders, Helljumpers, Auxilia, and combat mechs escorting civilians to evacuation zones as Drop Pods brought in more troops.
• Zerg Flying Mantises attacked the departing transports, but a six-hundred-meter frigate and its fighters destroyed the attackers and cleared the route.
• The Luna Transport entered low orbit, where the survivors saw Flame Salamanders warships and an Emperor-class Battleship preparing to support the evacuation and face the Zerg fleet.

Gao Zan teleported to Agria to rescue Dr. Ariel Hanson after a Psionic Storm cut off her signal, discovering that the Zerg had ambushed the city to capture Astartes for their genes. As Zerg forces surged toward Central Hospital, Gao Zan charged toward a massive unknown creature unleashing psychic power.

• The Unyielding Holy Flame used its Matrix Protocol weapon to devastate the Zerg fleet while Dr. Ariel Hanson told Gao Zan that civilians still awaited evacuation and refused to leave them behind.
• A Psionic Storm severed Hanson's transmission, and Gao Zan teleported with Company Guards to her last known location despite warnings about psychic interference.
• Gao Zan found Flame Salamanders and Helljumpers defending Central Hospital, learned Hanson and her medical team were alive, and concluded the Zerg were collecting Astartes genes.
• Gao Zan left ten Company Guards to reinforce the hospital defenses and ordered the rest to follow him in purifying the city.
• A massive purple-carapaced creature appeared as Zerg swarmed toward Central Hospital, and Gao Zan drew his Power Hammer and charged into the enemy tide.

Gao Zan defeated the Psychic Variant Zerg Queen after a golden power awakened within him, breaking the Psionic Storm and disrupting the Zerg assault on Agria. As the Flame Salamanders resumed evacuations, new Zerg nodal organisms began coordinating the swarms, and a golden light appeared near the Mar Sara Frontline Base.

• Gao Zan fought through the Zerg tide and endured the Zerg Queen's psychic lightning and shockwave.
• Gao Zan resisted the psychic suppression as golden light flickered in his eyes, then killed the Zerg Queen with his Power Hammer.
• The Zerg retreated in confusion, the Psionic Storm dissipated, and Gao Zan ordered the Flame Salamanders to restore defenses and clear evacuation routes.
• The Unyielding Holy Flame bombarded Zerg concentrations while ground units rescued civilians, including survivors trapped in Sector B.
• New nodal organisms began gathering Zerg swarms through pheromones, so Gao Zan ordered his forces to prioritize civilian evacuation over exterminating the Zerg.
• Ariel Hanson urged Gao Zan to undergo a medical examination, but he said he had recovered and prepared to return to the Unyielding Holy Flame as golden light flashed near the Mar Sara Frontline Base.

Athena found a newborn Primarch who had arrived on Mar Sara from another universe and took him into her care. Sui Yang recognized the child as an unknown Primarch, possibly from one of the erased Legions, and sent a team to assist Athena.

• Athena ended her lesson when she sensed a golden light falling toward Mar Sara and flew north to investigate.
• Athena found a newborn Primarch in the desert, recognized his resemblance to Sui Yang, and cradled him as he fell asleep.
• Athena ordered the reconnaissance soldiers to disable their recording devices and told them the child was the Emperor's offspring and humanity's hope.
• Sui Yang sensed the newborn from the Meditation Hall and ordered a technical team sent to Universe 18 to help Athena care for him.
• Sui Yang realized the child was not Jaghatai Khan and considered whether he was the erased Primarch of the Second or Eleventh Legion.

Sui Yang named the newborn Primarch Sui Meng and entrusted his care to Athena while directing the Imperium’s expansion and military campaign in the StarCraft universe. As refugees reached Mar Sara, Gao Zan prepared to bring aid to Meinhof and reminded them that imperial protection required loyalty.

• Sui Yang ordered Athena to raise the newborn Primarch, named him Sui Meng, and planned to bring him to the Main Universe after Universe 18’s initial integration.
• Athena embraced Sui Meng as her child and resolved to teach him everything she knew.
• Sui Yang ordered Sarah Kerrigan captured alive and sent Hera to Mar Sara to prepare the Gene Reversal Protocol.
• Sui Yang dispatched fleets from the Imperial Fists, Blood Angel, and Raven Guard to reinforce the Flame Salamanders on Mar Sara.
• Gao Zan began resettling Agria’s refugees on Mar Sara, then agreed to lead a team to aid Meinhof after hearing that its supplies were nearly exhausted.
• Ariel Hanson promised that the refugees would remain loyal to the Imperium in exchange for its protection.

Gao Zan received orders from Vulkan to prioritize rescuing humans and capture the Queen of Blades alive, while Ariel Hanson learned about the Imperium’s Primarchs, gods, and gene-seed. The Flame Salamanders arrived at Meinhof to evacuate survivors, but their landing force found a city overrun by Zerg-mutated humans.

• Gao Zan learned that Imperial Fists, Raven Guard, and Blood Angels support fleets were heading to Mar Sara, and Vulkan ordered him to welcome them and focus on saving humans.
• Vulkan told Gao Zan to capture the Queen of Blades alive and call on Athena if a company encountered her alone.
• Hanson questioned Gao Zan about the Primarchs and Athena, studied the Astartes augmentation process, and requested access to biological research materials.
• Gao Zan’s fleet arrived at Meinhof, detected Zerg across the planet’s dark side, and began deploying rescue units toward three shelters.
• The landing force descended over a ruined city filled with Zerg-mutated people, who raised their heads together as the transports passed overhead.

The Flame Salamanders evacuated thousands of civilians from a Zerg-infested city while holding off the swarm, then destroyed the city with tactical Metal Hydrogen Bombs. The Hyperion arrived at Monlyth, where Jim Raynor’s crew prepared to search for another Artifact component and contact the Moebius Foundation.

• The Flame Salamanders and supporting forces landed in the infected city, bombarded the Mutants, and opened a shelter to rescue its inhabitants.
• A boy questioned whether the platoon commander and his warriors were gods, and the commander identified them as Flame Salamanders serving the Emperor.
• The platoon commander ordered his forces to defend the evacuation while civilians boarded transports, then led a tactical withdrawal once the last craft was loaded.
• The transport formation escaped as aircraft dropped tactical Metal Hydrogen Bombs on the city, and the commander gave the boy a Bolt Round as a keepsake.
• The Hyperion arrived in orbit around Monlyth, where Matt Horner reported that another Artifact component was hidden on the planet.

Jim Raynor's forces landed on Monlyth and watched the Tal'darim fight Kerrigan's Zerg swarm before moving to seize the Artifact. The chapter ended with Kerrigan noticing Raynor's Raiders as Jim split his forces between distracting the Zerg and taking the Artifact.

• The Hyperion crew detected Tal'darim Protoss guarding an Artifact on Monlyth, then discovered a massive Zerg swarm closing in on the ruins.
• Jim Raynor ordered a landing force to wait until the Protoss and Zerg weakened each other before deciding how to take the Artifact.
• Leon, Mike, and Chris led the Special Operations Group onto Monlyth with Raynor's Raiders and deployed drones to survey the battle.
• Sarah Kerrigan commanded the Zerg as they overwhelmed the Tal'darim, and Jim waited until their defenses were nearly destroyed.
• Jim ordered Team A to distract the swarm while Team B moved with the Imperium allies to seize the Artifact, just as Kerrigan turned toward their hiding place.

Jim Raynor’s forces and Leon’s Special Operations Group fought through the Zerg assault to seize the Artifact and evacuate the battlefield. They escaped aboard the transports, while Sarah Kerrigan warned Jim that the Zerg would eventually devour everything and the sealed case began to tremble.

• Sarah Kerrigan attacked the Tal'darim as Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay led Marines and Viking Fighters in a counterattack.
• Chris and the Wolf Hunter Squad destroyed Lurkers while Leon’s group reached the altar and planted Plasma Bombs on the Protoss Stone Statues.
• Leon detected the statues awakening, and Mike detonated the bombs as Leon removed the Artifact and sealed it in a case.
• Leon ordered an evacuation, then led operatives with Chris to break through the Zerg and open an escape route for Raynor’s forces.
• The transports evacuated the survivors, and Jim closed the hatch as Sarah Kerrigan warned him that the Zerg would devour everything.
• The Artifact’s sealed case trembled faintly, and its runes flickered.

Athena confronted a team of Terran Dominion Ghost Agents who had infiltrated Mar Sara to target Jim Raynor. After stopping their attack and overpowering the female agent, she put the agents to sleep, leaving their fate in her hands.

• New City on Mar Sara continued to grow as residents settled in and Imperial forces from three Legions trained alongside Raynor's Raiders.
• Tychus Findlay and Jim Raynor drank in a bar, where Tychus tried to cheer Jim up about Kerrigan while Ghost Agents secretly entered.
• Athena arrived, cleared the civilians from the bar, and revealed that she knew the hidden agents were there.
• The four Ghost Agents fired on Athena, but she stopped their bullets and blasted them out of camouflage with a psychic pulse.
• The female Ghost Agent attacked Athena at close range and unleashed her Psychic Power, but Athena struck her neck and made her power dissipate.
• Athena told the agents to sleep and rediscover the world and universe as they lost consciousness.

Nova Terra and three captured Ghost Agents were taken from the Frontline Base through a Space Gate to the Imperium of Man’s vast hub, where Athena brought them to the palace. The chapter ended with Athena presenting an infant to Sui Yang, who accepted the child as his apparent biological son.

• Nova Terra and the other Ghost Agents attacked the figures entering their cell, but two Greek Demigods quickly subdued them.
• The Demigods escorted the agents by maglev train through a Space Gate to a hub linking many universes, where they saw its transport network, palaces, and armed checkpoints.
• At the palace, the agents encountered Athena carrying a swaddled infant, and she ordered them to follow her and wait outside a guarded hall.
• Athena entered the Meditation Hall and presented the infant to Sui Yang, who rose from the Golden Throne and accepted the child.

Sui Yang named his newborn Primarch Sui Meng and left his care and training to Athena as the threat of Chaos approached. He then confronted Nova and the other Ghost Agents, showed them the Imperium’s history and ideals, and urged them to join its fight for humanity.

• Sui Yang named his son Sui Meng and entrusted Athena with his care, education, and future Legion.
• Sui Yang sensed Nova, Stone, and two other Ghost Agents outside the Meditation Hall and summoned them inside.
• Nova judged the Imperium’s palace wasteful, and Sui Yang revealed that he had heard her thoughts and knew the agents’ infiltration plans.
• Sui Yang questioned Nova about her Psychic Power and used his power to show the agents the Imperium, Atlas, its wars, and its afterlife for the faithful and sinners.
• Sui Yang condemned the Terran Dominion under Arcturus Mengsk and invited the Ghost Agents to join the Imperium’s fight against Chaos and Xenomorphs.

Sui Yang blessed Nova, Stone, and two other Ghost Agents with enhanced Psychic Power and sent them back to infiltrate the Terran Dominion. Meanwhile, Raynor’s Raiders and the Raven Guard Fourth Company prepared to land on Xil and investigate a missing Moebius Foundation team and an Artifact.

• Sui Yang ordered Nova, Stone, and the other Ghost Agents to return to Universe 18 and win over their former colleagues in the Terran Dominion.
• Sui Yang’s golden blessing transformed the agents, granting them powerful Psychic abilities and enhanced physical strength.
• Nova and the other agents thanked Sui Yang and departed for their mission, while Sui Yang expected their return to cause chaos in the Terran Dominion.
• Nova’s team prepared to board the train back to the StarCraft universe, determined to use their new power to protect humanity.
• Jim Raynor met Kass Rory as the Hyperion and a Raven Guard cruiser arrived above Xil, where Moebius Foundation personnel had gone missing.
• Raynor ordered the landing forces to deploy as his Raiders and the Raven Guard prepared to search for the Artifact and confront the Protoss.

Jim Raynor's forces landed on Xil and prepared to use a drilling machine to open the ancient ruins, while scouts discovered a heavily defended Tal'darim camp nearby. Kass Rory and Tychus pushed for an attack, and the Carcharodons launched a brutal assault that left Tychus watching their fighting methods in amazement.

• Drop Pods carrying Jim Raynor's forces landed on Xil, and the troops established a defensive perimeter around the damaged Moebius Foundation base.
• Mike examined a corpse, Chris checked the drilling machine, and Jim ordered the engineers to prepare it to breach the ruins' gate.
• A Carcharodons scout reported a large Tal'darim force surrounding the base, prompting Jim to plan a defensive stand until the drilling machine was ready.
• Kass Rory argued for attacking first, and Tychus led the War Pigs east to join the Carcharodons and Helljumpers.
• The Carcharodons called in orbital strikes against the Tal'darim camp, then charged when the bombardment failed to destroy its main force.
• The Carcharodons and War Pigs fought into the Tal'darim formation, and Tychus watched the Carcharodons overpower their enemies while taking weapons and equipment.

Tychus, the Carcharodons, and their reinforcements defeated the Tal'darim and opened the ruins, where Leon recovered the second Artifact. Jim Raynor and the others withdrew with it aboard a Carcharodons shuttle, bound for the cruiser as Tychus said only one Artifact remained.

• Tychus watched the Carcharodons and Helljumpers struggle against the Tal'darim until Carcharodons reinforcements, Auxilia, tanks, and Knight Mechs turned the battle around.
• The Carcharodons and Auxilia cleared the Protoss forces while the Large Laser Drilling Machine breached the ruin's gate.
• Jim Raynor, Leon, Chris, and their team entered the ruins and found a blue Artifact on an altar surrounded by twelve crystal pillars.
• Leon and two Special Operations Group members sealed the Artifact in a lead-alloy container after the pillars activated around him.
• Jim's team left the ruins after the fighting ended, and Tychus said only one Artifact remained.
• Jim, Tychus, Leon, Mike, and Chris boarded a Carcharodons shuttle bound for the cruiser to ensure the Artifact arrived safely.

Jim Raynor and Tychus learned that Valerian Mengsk controlled the Moebius Foundation, and the Carcharodons prepared to seize the final Artifact fragment on Typhon. As the Terran Dominion abandoned the Zerg-overrun colony of New Canaan, the Blood Angels’ Ninth Company, the Lamenters, announced that they would come to its aid.

• Kass Rory accepted the sealed Artifact and revealed that Valerian Mengsk was the hidden controller behind the Moebius Foundation, prompting Jim to confront Tychus, who denied knowing Valerian was involved.
• Leon identified Typhon as the location of the final Artifact fragment, and Kass ordered the Abyss Hunter to set course there at Level One battle readiness.
• Kass instructed Jim to return to the Hyperion and join the mission in three hours, and told Tychus to lure the Moebius Foundation into inspecting the goods after the operation.
• The Zerg overwhelmed New Canaan, and the Terran Dominion ordered its forces to withdraw and abandon the colony's people.
• The Lamenters announced over the communications channels that they would provide aid to New Canaan.

A Zerg invasion trapped station personnel above New Canaan until the Lamenters arrived with a powerful fleet and began rescuing survivors. A Lamenters warrior fought through the station and saved a female maintenance worker, asking if she was all right.

• Zerg overwhelmed New Canaan and began invading the failing Space Station as the last Imperial battlecruiser fled.
• The Lamenters Ninth Company arrived in orbit, announced its rescue operation, and attacked the Zerg fleet while deploying troops and transports.
• The station’s gravity system failed as Zerg broke through the blast doors, and many personnel fled while others were caught in the attack.
• A female maintenance worker watched Zerg kill survivors in the observation deck as Hydralisks prepared to attack her.
• A Lamenters warrior entered the deck, killed the Zerg with his Boltgun and Chainsword, and pulled the worker to safety.
• The warrior asked the female maintenance worker, “Are you all right, ma’am?”

The Lamenters rescued civilians from New Canaan while fighting the Zerg across the station, orbit, and surface. After the Flame Salamanders joined the battle and the final survivors were evacuated, Malakim Phoros and the other captain authorized Exterminatus on the planet.

• A Lamenter killed a Hydralisk in the observation chamber, identified his brothers as the Lamenters, and began escorting the survivors to safety.
• The Lamenters organized medical care and defenses in the station while squads fought through its corridors and recorded the dead.
• The Lamenters Fleet battled the Zerg biofleet as Malakim Phoros ordered his forces to keep covering the evacuation until every human had left New Canaan.
• Lamenters assault craft and gunships rescued survivors from threatened settlements while the Flame Salamanders arrived and established fire-based defensive lines.
• After the last confirmed distress signal went dark and the final transport departed, the captains of the Sorrowful Wing and the Unyielding Holy Flame authorized New Canaan's Exterminatus.

The fleets destroyed Zerg-occupied New Canaan after evacuating most of its survivable population, then regrouped above a fortified Mar Sara. Athena ordered the assembled forces to secure the final Xel'Naga Artifact and prepare a full-scale assault on Char to capture Sarah Kerrigan alive.

• The Emperor-class Battleships fired Matrix Beams that destroyed New Canaan and reduced it to plasma and drifting dust.
• Dr. Ariel Hanson watched the planet's destruction with Gao Zan, who reported that the fleet had saved 94.7% of its survivable population.
• When the Zerg fleet rallied and attacked, Gao Zan ordered the Flame Salamanders and Lamenters to jump away from New Canaan.
• The joint fleet emerged above Mar Sara, where Hanson saw its orbital shield, rebuilt settlements, and the assembled fleets, including the Black Templars.
• Athena told the assembled commanders to help Raynor's Raiders and the Investigation Department secure the final Xel'Naga Artifact and intimidate the Moebius Foundation.
• Athena ordered a full-scale assault on Char to capture Sarah Kerrigan alive.