Chapter Summaries

Humanity's forces used a massive artillery barrage and suicidal underground defenses to stall the Necron invasion on Amara Prime. With its attacks failing, the Necron Overlord challenged the advancing humans to enter its pyramid and face it directly.

• Human pilots held back the Necron air force while Space Marines, Death Seekers, and thousands of artillery vehicles emerged from underground.
• Thirteen thousand Earthshaker Cannons bombarded a newly deployed Necron pyramid and destroyed its forces before they could properly deploy.
• The Necron Overlord ordered Tomb Scarabs, Wraiths, and Spiders to attack underground, but human defenders destroyed them in close combat and explosive assaults.
• As human forces advanced, the Necron Overlord grew alarmed that it might be defeated and disgraced by humanity.
• The Necron Overlord summoned a Phase Axe and challenged the humans to enter the pyramid and fight it.

BUG charged through the Necrons’ fire and reached the interior of the pyramid, where he reunited with resurrected Death Seekers. After the mission changed to destroying the pyramid from within, the forces fought a close-quarters battle while planting explosives.

• BUG ran through friendly artillery and Necron weapons and slid into the pyramid, where he found Krieg soldiers waiting.
• More than a hundred Death Seekers resurrected around BUG, and Assimilation Complete confirmed that he was the only survivor from his company.
• The mission updated to require the Death Seekers to destroy the Necron pyramid from within, with rewards tied to the scale of the destruction.
• Necron Knights and Scarabs attacked, and BUG ordered his troops to protect the commanders, plant explosives, and charge.
• The Death Seekers and Krieg soldiers fought the Necrons in close quarters while demolition teams packed explosives into the pyramid’s walls and energy nodes.

Assimilation Complete and BUG realized they could earn demolition merit by supplying explosives for the Krieg sappers to carry, so the Death Seekers handed over their stock while Krieg pushed toward the pyramid’s load-bearing pillars. BUG then appeared to die from a supposed backlash, leaving Krieg convinced of his sacrifice as the Death Seekers rushed to give away every last bomb.

• Assimilation Complete explained that the mission awarded merit to bomb carriers, and BUG urged the Death Seekers to give their explosives to Krieg.
• The Death Seekers withdrew from the Necron front and piled up their explosives for the Krieg sappers, who advanced toward the pyramid’s load-bearing pillars.
• BUG suddenly vomited glowing blood, and Assimilation Complete claimed the Company Commander’s medicine had worn off and the Heavenly Demon Dissolution Great Method was taking its toll.
• BUG handed the Krieg Commissar a Meltabomb and said he still had two pounds left to give before falling silent.
• The Krieg Commissar praised BUG’s sacrifice while the Death Seekers hid their laughter and hurried to hand over every remaining explosive.

Gabriel Seth led the Flesh Tearers into the Silent Court pyramid, where they suffered heavy losses but carved through the Necrons and reached the core chamber. Surrounded by Lychguard, Seth traded taunts with their Overlord, who ordered the attack as the shield wall advanced.

• The Flesh Tearers charged ahead of the other forces and endured a deadly barrage of Necron Gauss fire.
• Gabriel Seth hacked a Necron Destroyer into pieces, while Raelon reported that the Flesh Tearers had lost several warriors.
• Seth ordered the Flesh Tearers to advance quickly and kicked open the gate to the pyramid's core chamber.
• Hundreds of Lychguard surrounded the Flesh Tearers, and a Necron Overlord stepped forward to confront them.
• Seth mocked the Overlord, who ordered the Lychguard to attack and drive their shield wall forward.

Chapter Master Seth and Bloodied Khorsan broke through the Lychguard and attacked the Necron Overlord, who tried to challenge Seth to an honorable duel. Seth cut the Overlord in half and crushed his head, leaving the other twelve Overlords of the Menak Dynasty as a threat.

• The Necron Overlord retreated to a floating platform while the Lychguard fought the Flesh Tearers.
• Bloodied Khorsan charged into the Lychguard formation and smashed a gap in their defenses, allowing Seth to cut through them.
• The Necron Overlord tried to announce an honorable duel, but Seth and Khorsan charged him before he could finish.
• Khorsan staggered the Necron Overlord, and Seth cut his body in half with his Chainsword.
• The Necron Overlord warned that twelve other Overlords had been dispatched, but Seth crushed his skull before he could reveal more.

After defeating the Necron Overlord and Lychguard, Seth discovered that exactly ninety-nine Flesh Tearers had survived without succumbing to the Black Rage or bloodlust, leaving him to wonder whether the Emperor or another force had guided their survival. Fresh reinforcements arrived, and Seth accepted the Angels of Death Chapter Master's advice to withdraw with his brothers' bodies and Gene-seed.

• Seth and Khorsan joined the battle against the Lychguard, and the Flesh Tearers defeated the remaining Necrons at the cost of more than half their force.
• Apolus urged Seth to recount the survivors, and Seth realized exactly ninety-nine Flesh Tearers remained.
• Apolus told Seth that none of the ninety-nine survivors had fallen to the Black Rage or bloodlust during the battle, prompting Seth to wonder whether the Emperor or their Father had chosen them.
• Krieg, the Death Seekers, and three Space Marine Chapters entered the hall as reinforcements.
• The Angels of Death Chapter Master advised Seth to withdraw and let the reinforcements handle the cleanup, and Seth accepted, ordering his brothers to recover their fallen comrades and Gene-seed.
• The Flesh Tearers withdrew while the Angels of Death Chapter Master ordered the remaining forces to purge the area.

The Angels of Death cleared the Necron hall and prepared to demolish the pyramid, while Krieg soldiers and Death Seekers stayed behind to guard the explosives. They fought off swarms of Necron constructs until the bombs detonated, destroying the pyramid and burying both mortal forces inside.

• The Angels of Death Chapter Master reported the explosives ready, and Marneus Calgar ordered the Astartes to evacuate.
• The Krieg and Death Seeker troops remained behind to guard the explosives, and the Death Seeker Commander told the Chapter Master to leave.
• The Death Seeker Commander joked with the Krieg Commander, who remarked that it was fortunate the Krieg died in such numbers.
• Necron scarabs and constructs swarmed into the hall to remove the explosives, and the Krieg and Death Seekers fought to keep them away.
• After the Astartes confirmed their evacuation, the explosives detonated and destroyed the pyramid, burying the Krieg and Death Seekers in the ruins.

The Adeptus Astartes fleet used Bretu’s safe route through the minefield to ram and board the Necron Warships. Death Seekers Ogryn Players absorbed the ships’ traps and defenses as they led Space Marines toward the bridges.

• The Adeptus Astartes Battle Barges charged through the safe passage and rammed the pinned Necron Warships, then launched Boarding Torpedoes.
• Death Seekers Ogryn Players burst into a Necron corridor with shields and clubs, breaking the defenders’ formation and clearing a Landing Zone.
• Space Marines followed the Ogryns and shot the Necrons who tried to counterattack as the boarding force advanced through the ship.
• Ogryns crushed Necron ambushers and dismantled hidden defenses, letting the Space Marines push toward the bridge with few obstacles.

The Ogryn Players opened the Necron Warship’s sealed command door by casually scribbling on its control panel, leaving the Space Marines and Necron Overlord baffled. The Company Commander ordered an assault on the bridge, where the Overlord summoned its Lychguard to defend it.

• The Space Marines reached a massive Living Metal door, and an Ogryn Player stopped them from using a Multi-melta.
• The Ogryn Player doodled on the Necron control panel, and the door opened.
• The Ogryn Players charged into the bridge, followed by the Space Marines.
• The Necron Overlord questioned how the Ogryn had bypassed its Phase Encryption Lock, then decided the crude-looking drawing must conceal advanced mathematics.
• The Company Commander ordered the attack, and the Necron Overlord summoned its Lychguard to fight.

Ogryn Players overwhelmed the Lychguard by repeatedly swarming and dismantling them, while the Space Marines advanced toward the Necron Overlord. The Company Commander held his fire and waited for Chapter Master Hurun as the Overlord agreed to wait and watch the battle.

• Ogryn Players swarmed the Lychguard, using their rapid resurrection to keep attacking despite being killed.
• The Ogryns pinned down and repeatedly smashed the Lychguard, interrupting their attempts to repair themselves.
• The Company Commander kept the Space Marines from firing into the tangled melee and led them around it toward the throne.
• The Company Commander ordered his squad to hold position until Chapter Master Hurun arrived and to keep the Necron Overlord occupied.
• The Necron Overlord mocked the Space Marines, then agreed to wait while observing the Ogryns fight its guards.

Huron led an overwhelming Star Claws force onto the bridge and destroyed the Necron Overlord and its Praetorians with concentrated fire. After learning an Ogryn had unlocked the Necron door, he promised the unknown warrior his personal signature, sparking envy among the Ogryn Players.

• Huron entered the bridge with more than two thousand Star Claws warriors and surrounded the Necron Overlord and its two Triarch Praetorians.
• Huron rejected the Overlord’s appeal to civilized dueling and ordered his troops to open fire, vaporizing the three Necrons and their throne.
• Huron asked the Company Commander how the Necron lock had been opened and learned that an Ogryn had done it in seconds.
• Huron praised the unknown Ogryn over the loudspeakers and promised to give the warrior his personal signature after the battle.
• The Ogryn Players reacted with envy and regret, arguing over the chance to earn Huron’s signature.

After the Necron flagship was destroyed, Hurun asked Calgar to transfer the Death Seekers' Ogryns to his command, but learned that the Imperium considered the war over after restoring its honor. As the fleet prepared to withdraw from the Orpheus Sector, Hurun decided to approach Robert himself.

• Hurun watched the Ogryns after the boarding action and decided he wanted them as auxiliary troops for the Claws of the Stars.
• Hurun asked Calgar to transfer command of the Ogryns to him, but Calgar refused and told him to speak with Robert.
• Calgar explained that the Imperium had achieved its aim of avenging the insult and would withdraw most forces from the Orpheus Sector, leaving only a small Ultramarines force and the Angels of Death Chapter.
• Hurun warned that the Necrons remained a future threat, while Calgar said the Imperium prioritized immediate costs and victories over distant dangers.
• Hurun criticized the Imperium's short-sighted leadership, then left to find Robert and pursue his own course.

Hurun asked Robert to transfer the Ogryn force to the Claws of the Stars, but Robert told him the Ogryns could choose for themselves. Hurun recruited them by offering autographed books, medals, and battles in the Maelstrom, leaving with a new force eager to join him.

• Hurun asked Robert to assign the Ogryns to the Claws of the Stars, and Robert said they could decide whether to go with Hurun.
• Hurun visited the Ogryns and gave an autographed Adeptus Astartes Codex to the warrior who had opened the Necron gate.
• Hurun offered the Ogryns more signed books and honorary medals if they joined his auxiliary legion and earned merit in the Maelstrom.
• A lore-focused Ogryn Player described the Maelstrom as full of enemies, and Hurun promised to use the Ogryns as his main force.
• The Ogryn Players eagerly volunteered to join Hurun, who was pleased to gain a fresh force for the Maelstrom.

The Ogryn Players boarded the Star Claws Chapter’s Strike Cruiser and received heavy weapons prepared for them. They quickly removed the guns’ burst-fire limiters, leaving their Space Marine guide to acknowledge that he had underestimated them.

• The mortal crew recoiled from the Ogryn Players, then marveled that the newcomers were clean and odorless.
• An Ogryn Player rebuked the sailors for assuming Ogryn had poor hygiene, and a Claws of the Stars Space Marine arrived to escort the Players.
• The Space Marine led the Ogryn Players to the armory, where they eagerly selected shields and heavy autocannons.
• The Space Marine explained that the autocannons had Mechanical Limiters to prevent them from wasting ammunition with sustained fire.
• Several Ogryn Players promptly broke off the limiters and declared that full-auto fire was more fun, prompting the Space Marine to admit that the Techmarine had underestimated them.

Hurun ordered the Claws of the Stars’ newly acquired Ogryns to test their strength against Ork raiders boarding the fleet. The chapter ended with an Ork boss confronting the towering, heavily armed Ogryns and wondering why the humans were so huge.

• Hurun celebrated adding three thousand intelligent, fully armed Ogryns to the Claws of the Stars’ fighting force.
• The fleet emerged from the Warp in the Maelstrom, where Ork raiders approached and demanded supplies.
• Hurun rejected the Ork boss’s demand and ordered the Ogryns to fight instead of sending in the Adeptus Astartes.
• The Ork warship rammed the Strike Cruiser and sent Boarding Torpedoes into its hull.
• An Ork boarding party encountered the Ogryns, and its boss froze in shock at their size.

The Ogryn Players used coordinated shields and autocannon fire to rout the Orks, then countercharged into their landing craft. The Warboss learned that the attackers were unusually large Humies and set out to face them himself.

• The Ork boss ordered his Boyz to attack the Ogryns, but the Ogryn Players held the corridor behind heavy riot shields.
• The Ogryns fired their autocannons through the shield formation, slaughtering the charging Orks and forcing the survivors to flee.
• The Ogryn Players broke formation and pursued the fleeing Orks into their landing craft and connecting passages.
• A fleeing Ork boy reached the bridge and told the Warboss that huge, powerful Humies had defeated the Boyz.
• The ship shook as the Ogryns broke in, and the Warboss stomped the panicked messenger before grabbing his Power Claw and going to confront the Humies.

The Ogryn Players advanced through an Ork warship with disciplined formations and relentless fire, astonishing the Claws of the Stars Space Marines. After Warboss Grog Steel-Reinforcement charged their line, the Ogryns wore him and his Hard-Shell Orks down in a brutal hour-long fight, leaving Grog surrounded and exhausted.

• The Ogryn Players used shield rotations and coordinated suppressive fire to clear the Ork warship, prompting the Claws of the Stars to estimate that defeating the three thousand Ogryns could cost a thousand Space Marines.
• Grog Steel-Reinforcement burst through a bulkhead with his Hard-Shell Orks and charged the Ogryn front line, killing several Players with his Power Claw.
• The Ogryn Players repeatedly replaced fallen fighters and attacked Grog even as they died, while their heavy weapons kept firing.
• After an hour of fighting, Grog was badly weakened, his right arm was shattered, and most of his Hard-Shell Orks were dead.
• Grog realized the Ogryns had surrounded him on his own warship as their forces continued to surge forward.

The Ogryn Players killed Warboss Grog and his Giant Squig, breaking the Ork warband’s resistance. Hurun praised the Players and promised them unlimited replacement weapons and ammunition before they returned to their ships.

• Grog called his Giant Squig into the fight, and the Ogryn Players held back its charge while one Player killed it from inside with a Meltabomb.
• The Players swarmed and beat Warboss Grog to death, causing the remaining Orks to flee in panic.
• Hurun ordered the Players not to pursue the fleeing Orks and told everyone to withdraw to their ships.
• Hurun praised the Ogryn Players, removed his helmet, and embraced one of the fighters.
• After the Players reported their damaged gear and empty ammunition supplies, Hurun promised them unlimited equipment from the Claws of the Stars’ armory.

Hurun revealed that his generous treatment of the Ogryn was meant to attract the Death Seekers to the Maelstrom and build the Claws of the Stars into a powerful force. He persuaded the First Company Commander to support his plan to expand the Chapter beyond Codex limits.

• Hurun explained that the Ogryn's rewards were meant to signal to the Death Seekers that the Maelstrom offered abundant warfare, honor, and equipment.
• Hurun argued that the Death Seekers could leave their alliance with the Ultramarines and join the Claws of the Stars as free allies.
• Hurun laid out his ambition to clear the Maelstrom, expand its influence into surrounding sectors, and grow the Claws of the Stars beyond ten thousand Astartes.
• Hurun rejected the Codex's Chapter limits, arguing that the Imperium's current crises justified rebuilding a Legion under his command.
• The First Company Commander accepted Hurun's reasoning and pledged to follow his will, and Hurun told him to treat the Ogryn well.

Players praised Huron’s generous equipment supplies on Earth’s forum, and one Ogryn player offered to ask him about recruiting a Tech-priest. Huron turned toward the Ogryn as he eagerly asked whether Huron wanted a Tech-priest.

• An Ogryn player posted a glowing report about fighting Orks in the Maelstrom and Huron freely replacing damaged gear.
• Players complained about poor Munitorum supplies and discussed joining the Maelstrom for more accessible battles.
• Cult of the Gear 007 asked whether Huron would welcome Tech-priest players who could establish production lines and conduct experiments.
• The Ogryn player spotted Huron on the flagship and hurried over to ask him about recruiting a Tech-priest.
• Huron reacted with surprise when the Ogryn shouted, “Want a Tech-priest?”