Chapter Summaries

Leon and the Carcharodons prepared a coordinated assault on the UED flagship, the Glory of the Federation. The Thunderhawk breached the flagship’s hull, and six Terminator-armored Carcharodons entered it as the operation began.

• Leon briefed the Carcharodons on the UED fleet’s mobilization and the Glory of the Federation’s formidable weapons.
• Thirty-six Carcharodon veterans prepared for the operation, whose objectives were to seize the flagship and capture designated UED officials alive.
• The Carcharodon veteran assigned the Investigation Department, including Leon, Mike, and Chris, to secure the flagship’s bridge while the squads carried out their assault.
• The Stealth-class vessel emerged near the UED fleet, and the white-haired general ordered its capture while the fleet fired on the incoming Thunderhawk.
• The Stealth-class vessel destroyed an escort ship as the Thunderhawk evaded defenses and rammed into the Glory of the Federation.
• Six Carcharodon veterans emerged from the Thunderhawk and boarded the flagship through the breach.

Carcharodons Terminators and Leon’s Special Operations Group overwhelmed the UED flagship’s defenses and captured its general. The Carcharodons declared the ship under the Imperium of Man’s control.

• Six Carcharodons Terminators attacked Section C, killed the UED defenders, and opened the way for the Investigation Department’s forces.
• Leon led the Special Operations Group through Section C toward the bridge while the Carcharodons struck Sections B and D.
• As the flagship’s defenses collapsed, the general ordered Emergency Protocol Seven and fled toward the escape pods with four elite guards.
• Leon’s team ambushed the general and guards at a blast door, disarmed the guards, and stopped the general from activating the self-destruct sequence.
• The Carcharodons reached the captured general and announced that the flagship belonged to the Imperium of Man.

As Homelander recovered aboard the Stealth-class vessel, the UED capital faced collapsing public support and a renewed assault by Imperial forces. A Carcharodon veteran accepted a patrol squad’s surrender, and the squad saw another armored Giant approaching as the attack continued.

• The Stealth-class vessel’s AI spread favorable information about the Imperium of Man through the UED’s networks while Homelander recovered aboard the ship.
• UED soldiers discussed their fear of Homelander and the Imperium, while shortages and the government’s repression fueled their discontent.
• A level-one combat alert announced attacks on the orbital defenses and First Fleet, and a Carcharodon veteran appeared in the patrol squad’s street.
• When one soldier fired, the Carcharodon killed him with a Bolt Round; the squad leader and the surviving soldiers then surrendered.
• The patrol team reported its surrender as messages from other UED units confirmed they were also ceasing resistance.
• Another armored Giant approached the squad, and the old veteran asked how many the attackers had sent.

Carcharodons veterans shattered the UED’s defenses and captured two Conclave members, while the Imperium’s vast expeditionary fleet arrived at Earth-18. With Wise AI controlling their systems and the fleet’s weapons aimed at their last forces, UED leaders chose to surrender.

• Carcharodons veterans overwhelmed UED forces across the capital, and an Imperial message offered prisoners-of-war terms to soldiers who laid down their weapons.
• Two Carcharodons veterans broke into UED headquarters and captured two Conclave members, prompting surviving units to receive footage of their defeat.
• The Imperium’s expeditionary fleet emerged near Earth-18 and deployed thousands of Drop Pods carrying Astartes across the planet.
• The Imperium broadcast a demand for surrender as Wise AI took control of UED electronic systems and locked its strategic weapons silos.
• UED leaders agreed to surrender as the fleet’s main gun turned toward the remaining UED fleet in lunar orbit.

After the UED Sixth Fleet surrendered to the Main Universe Empire, Sui Yang summoned four company captains and offered rewards for their service in the Koprulu Sector. He granted their requests and left them to choose among unconquered systems in the Earth-18 Galaxy.

• More than five hundred Imperial ships emerged from the warp into low Earth orbit, and the UED Sixth Fleet surrendered after the defenders on Earth gave up.
• Sui Yang met with Ferrus, Athena, and the four company captains aboard Humanity's Glory and praised their victories in the Koprulu Sector.
• Gao Zan asked for Agria and Haven to be placed under the Flame Salamanders Third Company's jurisdiction, and Sui Yang granted the request.
• Phoros asked to lead the next expedition through the Space Gate, and Sui Yang affirmed that the Lamenters would serve as its vanguard.
• Tyberos requested Forerunner technology and fleet upgrades, and Sui Yang approved his demand.
• Sui Yang promised Sigismund ten custom greatswords and allowed the four captains to choose additional rewards from the unconquered systems in the Earth-18 Galaxy.

Sui Yang assigned Athena to guide Sui Meng and warned that Chaos threatened the Koprulu Sector, while the Imperium began rebuilding the UED’s capital. As civilians saw the new order taking shape, a young girl asked whether her family could go outside.

• Sui Yang entrusted Ferrus and the Iron Hands with accepting the UED’s surrender while preserving its technology.
• Sui Yang tasked Athena with teaching Sui Meng when to break defenses and ordered her to eliminate Chaos-afflicted threats if necessary.
• Athena reviewed the four companies’ conduct, and Sui Yang learned that Sui Meng had dismantled Dorn’s city-wall model faster while avoiding its load-bearing structures.
• The Imperium cleaned and repaired the U.S.D. capital, distributed new laws and improved rations, and began restoring public services.
• A boy saw Imperial ships, the Flower of Purity Monument, and Iron Hands repairing a substation; his family cautiously opened their door as aid arrived.
• The boy’s younger sister asked whether the family could go outside.

A boy and his family watched Earth’s new rulers begin rebuilding the city, then joined a crowd gathered to hear the Emperor address them. The Emperor promised a new covenant, leaving the people bathed in golden light as his speech continued.

• Two Custodes approached the boy’s family, reassured his little sister, and gave the children chocolate while explaining that they had come to rebuild.
• The family joined residents watching Hex Robots repair the city, Clone Soldiers guard the streets, and Salamanders welcome children in Central Square.
• The boy and his family saw the Emperor and a golden-armored woman on a raised platform, where the Flower of Purity’s light healed injuries among the crowd.
• The Emperor addressed Earth’s people, acknowledged their suffering, and announced that he brought a new covenant.
• The Emperor formed a miniature Earth from golden light, which burst into particles and scattered over the crowd.

The Emperor’s appearance inspires the people of a devastated world to accept the Imperium’s offer of rebirth and a future among the stars. Later, on the final day of her vacation in New Accra City, Glory Legion commander Leoya Shivaline Vitellius sets out for the downtown commercial district.

• The Emperor heals and comforts the crowd, promises to rebuild their homes and free them from oppression, and shows them visions of a prosperous future in the Imperium.
• The Emperor opens a rift revealing Earth in the Main Universe and asks the people to choose their future; a young girl reaches toward the light, and the crowd declares its willingness to follow him.
• The golden goddess strikes the ground with the Spear of Victory, activating communications across the planet, as the Emperor fades into golden particles.
• Leoya Shivaline Vitellius wakes in her New Accra City apartment, tends to her grooming, and reflects on her status as commander of the Glory Legion and her final day of vacation.
• Leoya enters her red Atlas Industries hover sports car and tells its Dumb AI to take her to the downtown commercial district.

On Imperial Calendar 0055’s Children’s Day, Lei Ruoya enjoyed a brief outing before receiving an urgent military order to help oversee the integration of Universe 19. She arrived at the nineteenth Space Gate as the Glory Legion and the Blood Angels Legion’s Lamenters Company prepared for the expedition.

• Lei Ruoya visited a crowded café and reflected on how the Emperor had ended the persecution of humans and given peaceful Abhumans a chance to live safely.
• Lei Ruoya brushed off two drunken young men in the Alien Bar Street and headed toward her favorite Chinese restaurant.
• A lieutenant contacted Lei Ruoya with the Emperor’s order for the Glory Legion, reconnaissance forces, and the Lamenters Company to oversee Universe 19’s initial integration.
• Lei Ruoya ordered a simple meal, then traveled to the nineteenth Space Gate and assembled with the Glory Legion and the Lamenters Company.

Lei Ruoya led the Glory Legion and Lamenters through the nineteenth space gate to Earth 19, where they established a frontline base in a forest clearing. After dividing duties with Phoros, she prepared to investigate a town thirty kilometers north.

• Malakim Phoros greeted Lei Ruoya, and the two commanders agreed that the Glory Legion and Lamenters would fight together.
• Reconnaissance footage and environmental tests confirmed that the world beyond the gate was Earth 19 and showed no immediate threats.
• Lei Ruoya and the forces crossed the gate and assembled in a forest clearing on Earth 19.
• Lei Ruoya ordered the Glory Legion to work with the Reconnaissance Forces and engineers to build a frontline base, while Phoros coordinated the Lamenters’ role.
• Lei Ruoya summoned six veteran subordinates and ordered them to investigate the forest edge thirty kilometers north, where reconnaissance drones had detected a medium-sized town.

Lei Ruoya and the Glory Legion reached a deserted service area near Portage la Prairie, where they found mutilated and starved corpses bearing strange cross-shaped marks that suggested a plague. After collecting biological samples, they heard gunfire from town and advanced toward it in formation.

• Lei Ruoya identified the settlement as Portage la Prairie in southern Manitoba and ordered her warriors to secure the service area and search its buildings.
• Lei Ruoya found a mutilated corpse in the convenience store and collected a biological sample.
• At the motel, Lei Ruoya found two chained corpses with cross-shaped marks and suspected Earth 19 was suffering from a plague.
• A Glory Warrior extracted samples from the motel corpses as gunfire sounded from the town.
• Lei Ruoya regrouped with the Glory Legion and led them toward the gunfire, ordering them to advance in formation and prepare to fire.

Lei Ruoya and the Glory Warriors attacked a crowd of deranged Infected surrounding a fire station, killing most and capturing several for experiments. With the street cleared, Lei Ruoya turned her attention to the fire station, where the defenders’ gunfire had stopped.

• Lei Ruoya’s squad discovered hundreds of Infected attacking a fire station while its defenders fired from the second floor.
• After confirming the situation, Lei Ruoya ordered the Glory Warriors to kill the Infected and leave a few alive for the Biological Department.
• The Glory Warriors opened fire, and Lei Ruoya charged into the crowd with her Power Sword, cutting down many Infected.
• Lei Ruoya withdrew after killing about half the crowd, and two Glory Warriors used Shock Guns to capture more than a dozen Infected alive.
• Once the live subjects were secured, the squad killed the remaining Infected and found that the fire station’s gunfire had stopped.

Lei Ruoya and the Glory Warriors secured the fire station after defeating the Infected and discovered frightened survivors hiding inside. The Biological Department's Special Operations Team arrived to contain the captives, while the survivors were left under guard.

• Lei Ruoya reported the suspected plague outbreak in Portage la Prairie and requested a Biological Department Special Operations Team to transport the captured Infected.
• Lei Ruoya led two Glory Warriors into the fire station, where they searched the building and found armed survivors hiding on the second floor.
• Three firefighters attacked the Glory Warriors, but the warriors restrained them without seriously harming anyone.
• Lei Ruoya told the survivors that the Glory Legion had come to rescue them, and ordered a Glory Warrior to guard them.
• The Biological Department's Special Operations Team arrived in a transport craft with containment pods for the captured Infected.

Lei Ruoya and the Glory Warriors escorted survivors to the Frontline Base after containing the infected, where both groups underwent strict quarantine. The survivors entered medical isolation, while tests cleared Lei Ruoya and her squad of infection and abnormal reactions.

• The Special Operations Team restrained the unconscious infected, sealed them in Containment Pods, and disinfected Lei Ruoya, the Glory Warriors, and the survivors.
• Lei Ruoya ordered her subordinates to escort the survivors aboard the Transport Craft, where the groups were separated into quarantine areas.
• The survivors saw the enormous Space Gate and then the Frontline Base, while Lei Ruoya let a child’s belief that her forces came from the future go unanswered.
• At the Frontline Base, personnel disinfected the survivors and sent them to the medical module for further examination and isolation.
• Technicians removed Lei Ruoya and the six Glory Warriors’ armor and scanned them, then confirmed that the squad showed no signs of infection or abnormal reactions.

The survivors settled into comfortable but closely monitored quarantine rooms, while the infected were confined in brutal isolation and studied by the Biological Department. At a briefing, the department reported that an unknown, unusually resilient virus caused their violent behavior without any religious fanaticism or ideology.

• The survivors entered individual quarantine rooms, where children played and adults began to relax under surveillance.
• Biological Department technicians observed the infected attacking themselves and their surroundings, recording extreme physical and mental abnormalities.
• The technicians suspected the infected's behavior involved spiritual corruption, while automated weapons stood ready to eliminate them if containment failed.
• Lei Ruoya, Phoros, and representatives of the Investigation and Heretic Inquisition Departments attended a Biological Department briefing.
• The supervisor reported that an unknown, resilient virus disrupted the infected's central nervous systems and drove their violence, despite their lack of religious fanaticism or ideology.

The Biological Department confirmed that Earth 19’s rapidly spreading virus left infected people incurably violent, and Lei Ruoya ordered the rescue of uninfected survivors, the elimination of infected individuals, and construction of a new city. The Lamenters prepared to deploy as the fleet crossed the Space Gate, while survivors were isolated and scheduled for interrogation.

• The director explained that the virus spread through blood and body fluids, rapidly destroyed victims’ sanity, and could not be cured, though a preventive vaccine could be developed within seventy-two hours.
• Phoros asked whether infected people could be saved, and the director confirmed that their brain damage was irreversible, leading Phoros to accept that they should be executed.
• Lei Ruoya ordered the Lamenters Company to rescue uninfected people, purge all infected individuals, and build a city near the Space Gate for survivors.
• A Heretic Inquisition Department agent proposed capturing infected people as bio-organic weapons, but Lei Ruoya condemned the idea as dangerous treachery and Phoros denounced it.
• Phoros told Lei Ruoya that the Lamenters could fully deploy in twelve hours, and they watched the Imperium’s fleet pass through the Space Gate toward Earth 19.
• The director reported that rescued survivors had tested negative for infection but remained isolated for observation and interrogation.

During an interrogation, RCMP officer Grant MacDougall recounted how the Blood Cross plague devastated the world and destroyed Portage la Prairie, leaving his group trapped in a fire station until the Reconnaissance Forces rescued them. After hearing his account, John Price assured Lei Ruoya that the base would remain secure while the Glory Legion and Lamenters Company deployed, and named Soap as his eventual successor.

• An Investigation Department agent questioned Grant MacDougall, who said the date was June 2, 2009 and described the Blood Cross outbreak beginning in London in 2008.
• Grant recounted how infected people retained their memories and military skills, brought the United States and Japan down, and threatened global nuclear war before Canada's defenses failed.
• Grant explained that Portage la Prairie's police and residents barricaded the town, but a Blood Cross horde eventually overran it and drove survivors into the fire station.
• Grant said his group survived on dwindling supplies until two colleagues were killed while scavenging, and that the Reconnaissance Forces had rescued the remaining survivors.
• John Price told Soap that he would eventually take over command, while Lei Ruoya condemned the Blood Cross and prepared to deploy with the Glory Legion and Lamenters Company.
• Price promised that the Reconnaissance Forces would defend the base and keep enemies from entering.

A six-member SWAT team ventured through ruined Toronto to search for medicine for sick children in their Metro shelter. They found an untouched pharmacy, but Blood Cross had set a trap, leaving the team surrounded.

• Six SWAT officers left their hidden Metro shelter to search for medicine while refusing to divert toward survivors calling for help.
• The team quietly crossed ruined streets and eliminated lone Blood Cross Infected as they advanced.
• The officers discovered an apparently untouched pharmacy and prepared to break in.
• Blood Cross sprang from hiding around the pharmacy, revealing that they had lured the SWAT team into an ambush.
• A massive Blood Cross appeared above the trapped officers as the surrounding Infected howled for their deaths.

The SWAT team fought its way out of a Blood Cross ambush, but one wounded officer transformed and attacked his comrades. The captain stayed behind to hold off the horde near the Metro entrance, and as he faced the hulking brute, heavy footsteps and a metallic voice approached.

• The SWAT team discovered the pharmacy was a Blood Cross trap and retreated through an alley under fire.
• A wounded officer transformed into an infected and gouged out his teammate’s eyes, forcing the captain to shoot both men.
• The captain gave his remaining explosives and ammunition to his surviving men and ordered them into the Metro to protect the shelter.
• The captain remained at the entrance and fought the pursuing Blood Cross until his ammunition ran out.
• The hulking Blood Cross brute severed the captain’s right arm as he tried to detonate a bomb.
• As the captain reached for another bomb, heavy footsteps and a metallic voice sounded nearby.

A Lamenters Terminator veteran overwhelmed the Blood Cross Infected in Toronto as a Valiant-class Super-heavy Cruiser arrived overhead and Imperial forces began reclaiming the city. The special police captain was rescued for treatment while the fighting continued under the cruiser’s searchlights.

• A Lamenters Terminator veteran arrived at the ruined metro station and fought off the Blood Cross Infected with his Boltguns and Lightning Claw.
• The veteran severed the Blood Cross leader’s limbs as it tried to retreat.
• A Valiant-class Super-heavy Cruiser appeared above Toronto and sent Terminator veterans and aircraft to multiple districts.
• Clone Soldiers landed near the unconscious special police captain and suppressed the Blood Cross attackers with Hardlight Rifles.
• Lamenters Company Auxilia medics treated the captain and placed him in a portable medical pod.