Recaps

Umbrella crushed Hozette’s operations, developed controllable Aliens and Astartes, and contained a dangerous organism on Barnard b. William then brought non-UNSC nations into the UNSC and expanded Umbrella’s reach, leaving the story with Yelena and Ivan arriving at Jiu Hai Colony.

• Andre ordered Umbrella to expose Hozette’s crimes and prevent the UNSC from interfering as Hunk, Kent, and Achilles led trainees to arrest its executives and seize its research facility.
• Recovered records revealed that Hozette’s experiments had produced a Xenomorph Empress whose escape caused the devastating outbreak on Sirius-4.
• Halsey and Rebecca created a Reverse Strain Alien Empress from Green’s genes, and William approved testing the Aliens before making John and the other candidates into Primarchs.
• John led the newly created Astartes in a battle against Green’s Aliens, while Green told William that the Aliens were her children and William promised not to use them for Astartes training.
• On Barnard b, Kevin escaped containment and Reynolds ordered the anomaly and its host incinerated before Umbrella destroyed the planet’s surface with hydrogen bombs.
• William met with UNSC and non-UNSC delegations, persuaded the holdout nations to join the UNSC, and secured their agreement to host Astartes on their colonies.
• By 2023 and 2024, Umbrella had expanded its fleets, agents, and Astartes across its colonies, while Jiu Hai Colony grew into a protected lunar metropolis.
• Yelena and Ivan Russell arrived at Jiu Hai Colony with their school groups.

Ivan and his allies uncovered Yuri Marin’s role in a coordinated rebellion that threatened the Solar System and rallied Umbrella’s forces against the rebel fleet. The arc ended as boarding teams reached the dockyard and rebel warships to begin their assault.

• Ivan won the football championship with Hafa, and William revealed that Ivan and Yelena were his children.
• William left for UV Ceti after learning of a rebellion, while Yuri’s mind-controlled attackers struck Jiu Hai Colony and Ivan led Yelena, Xia, and Nova through the chaos to the First Fleet.
• Ivan warned Mike that the UV Ceti investigation might be a diversion, and the fleet learned that most UNSC warships had rebelled and were converging on the Solar System.
• Ivan and Tina traced the attacks to Yuri Marin and his clones, while Nova helped interrogate a captured Yuri Recruit before Yuri intervened and killed him.
• Nova chose to join Umbrella, and Mike had her and Xiya sign Confidentiality Agreements that bound them to the Russell Family.
• Ivan took command of the operation against Yuri’s forces and prepared specialized Final God Bodies, including Xiya’s White Raven.
• The Mixed Fleet warped behind the rebel fleet and dockyard, and Ivan assigned Xia, Athena, Achilles, and Nova to protect or lead boarding teams as the assault began.

William gathered the UNSC and Umbrella forces for an expedition against Yuri Marin, whose fleet and defenses they destroyed before invading Hozette-4d. The ground assault reached City Five, where William prepared to lead Nova, Keisha, John, and Carl toward Yuri’s palace.

• Ivan and Umbrella’s forces defeated Yuri’s attack near UV Ceti, then William ordered the fleets to capture the disabled ships and locate Yuri’s base.
• Tina’s team identified Hozette-4 as Yuri’s base, and William assembled the Vengeance Expedition while reorganizing the Astartes and requiring the UNSC to sign a Confidentiality Agreement.
• William departed for Hozette-4 with a thousand-ship fleet, while Halsey warned that Yuri might use captured Astartes to create clones, awaken psychic abilities, or develop a giant biological mecha.
• The Expeditionary Force emerged from Warp Space and destroyed Yuri’s fleet and orbital defenses, with William, Ivan, and the God Bodies helping seize control of the system.
• William’s forces landed near City Five, where Elizabeth Green’s alien swarm overran Yuri’s southeastern defenses and withdrew as Umbrella and UNSC troops began landing.
• The Astartes and other ground forces routed Yuri’s defenders, while William used gas to incapacitate mind-controlled civilians and Serena detected a vast underground complex beneath City Five.
• William equipped Nova with a custom Hostile Environment Suit and Keisha with ornate Power Armor, then ordered Serena to bombard remaining strongholds and sent Ivan and Athena to guard City Five.
• William, John, Carl, Nova, and Keisha flew toward City Five as Mylon’s troops held their position near Yuri’s palace under attack.

William destroyed Yuri Marin’s forces, brought Hozette-4d’s refugees back to the Solar System, and began reorganizing the UNSC. A Vortex Tunnel then led Umbrella to Planet P, where William rescued Johnny Rico’s unit, seized the Federation fleet, and sought Rico’s help investigating the Brain Bug and the Buenos Aires attack.

• William’s forces destroyed Yuri’s palace and underground fortress, killed Yuri with hydrogen bombs and electromagnetic strikes, and evacuated Hozette-4d’s surviving civilians.
• William returned the eighteen million refugees to the Solar System, assigned workers to Mars dome construction, and began restructuring the UNSC under Umbrella’s direction.
• A Vortex Tunnel appeared in Titan’s City Seven, and William learned it connected to Planet P, where he sent Xiya, Keisha, Kolax, and the Dark Raven Legion to establish a forward base.
• William dispatched John, Carl, and Mylon to rescue Johnny Rico’s Roughnecks at Whiskey Outpost while Kolax led Raven Guard forces to seize Federation warships.
• Keisha and the Astartes rescued Rico’s unit, and Gene Rysgaard surrendered the Tough Bones Company to Umbrella.
• William’s forces captured the Federation fleet and brought it to Planet P, where Serena extracted its secrets and William arranged to question the generals about the Buenos Aires meteorite.
• William told Rico that Umbrella had crossed into his world and showed him the deaths that would have occurred on the usual timeline.
• Rico agreed to consider helping William investigate the Federation and capture the Brain Bug, while William asked him and the Tough Bones Company to sign a Confidentiality Agreement.