Chapter Summaries

The Emperor’s island contingency base was ready while Regent Victor von Doom managed Yugoslavia’s postwar trials and prepared campaigns against Greece and Attilan. He ordered the deployment of undertrained Gene-modded Warriors and considered exploiting Hela during Ragnarok, leaving Constantine wary as the Regent contemplated further upheaval.

• The Emperor’s magic transformed a deserted island into a fortified contingency base, and Laura Croft became more interested in its portal than its altered climate and thriving orchards.
• Victor von Doom reported progress in rebuilding Yugoslavia and the civil-war tribunal, while the Emperor warned him to keep riot-control forces ready against anyone who might fracture the federation.
• Victor von Doom arranged for Kosovo militias under covert control to enter Greece, creating a pretext for war and a chance to seize Greece’s debt sovereignty.
• Victor von Doom reviewed the Gene-modded Warriors’ exercise results and ordered Types 19 and 20 deployed to Greece and Attilan despite their limited training.
• Victor von Doom discussed having Hela purge European and North American government organizations during Ragnarok, and Constantine questioned what he meant.

Laura Croft looked after Peanut Butter at Island Castle while Salomon discussed plans for a possible war with Greece during the beach gathering. On the Sky Sword Space Station, Daisy Johnson completed her examination before returning to Earth, and Maya Hansen prepared to hand Project 3.2’s report to the Sacred Guard.

• Laura Croft introduced Milia to Peanut Butter, while the Cheshire Cat left to find Dinah and get a bath.
• Athena praised Salomon’s plan to use Greece’s ties to the Antioch Armed Group as a pretext for war, and Salomon discussed the risk of NATO intervention.
• Bayonetta reminded Athena that Salomon was on vacation, while Jeanne played games on the beach.
• Maya Hansen and the medical staff examined Daisy Johnson, and Pietro Maximoff teased her about private photos found on her phone.
• Daisy Johnson left for the landing pad with Yo-Yo, and Maya Hansen assigned the Project 3.2 report to the Sacred Guard.

The Emperor’s forces prepared to attack Attilan Moon Base, where they intended to defeat the Inhumans and seize key transport routes and research facilities. As the fleet began its gravity-assisted journey toward the Moon, Tita sensed the Emperor approaching from the Space Station.

• Dinah told Tita that the Emperor would join the fleet, and Tita rallied the Sisterhood for the Attilan campaign.
• Salomon told Athena that Attilan would be transformed into a factory and spaceport, while its royal family, council, and Inhuman identity would disappear.
• The invasion fleet used Earth’s gravity to begin its journey toward lunar orbit while concealed forces and weapons prepared for the operation.
• Salomon bestowed armor and daggers on the Imperial Guard and accepted their oaths before the assault.
• Dinah and Tita arranged for a Sisterhood escort unit to join the Sacred Guard’s security operation as the fleet headed toward the Moon.
• Tita sensed the Emperor near the Sky Sword Space Station and pointed out its direction to Dinah.

Victor von Doom prepared to disclose the Lunar War to foreign diplomats and offer deep-space cooperation in exchange for resources, while discussing the Emperor’s plans to secure the Persian Gulf and expand the Yugoslav Federation’s influence. The chapter left the timing of that intervention unstated as Victor gave Diana List a meaningful look.

• The Helicarrier fleet began its journey toward lunar orbit, where it would prepare for an assault on Attilan Moon Base and clear out reconnaissance satellites.
• Victor von Doom declined to contact the Helicarrier and ordered ambassadors and foreign ministers summoned so he could explain the Lunar War and propose sharing technology through a deep-space exploration project.
• Victor von Doom told Diana List that the Emperor’s expansion strategy included controlling the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, while using the threat of modern war to pressure other nations toward unity.
• Diana List asked whether the Federation would deploy troops in the Middle East, and Victor von Doom confirmed that it needed to control the Persian Gulf and break the Anglo-Saxon oil cartel’s monopoly.
• Diana List asked when the intervention would happen, and Victor von Doom answered with a meaningful look.

Gideon Malick and Stephanie Malik discussed the Emperor’s plan to expand his power through war and Hydra’s uncertain future under his rule. Stephanie planned to influence the incoming president to withdraw most U.S. forces from the Middle East, while Gideon warned her that the Emperor’s ideas left Hydra no way out.

• Gideon Malick reacted with fear and admiration to the Emperor’s plans to seize territory by force.
• Stephanie Malik explained that Diana List’s information had reached her with the tacit permission of Victor von Doom and the Emperor.
• Stephanie Malik asked Gideon Malick to help persuade the incoming president to withdraw most U.S. forces from the Middle East.
• Stephanie Malik argued that the move could secure Hydra a share of the oil benefits controlled by the Rockefeller family.
• Gideon Malick agreed to find others to support the withdrawal effort but warned Stephanie Malik to learn more about the Emperor, whose ideas had already trapped Hydra.

The Emperor prepared to lead the First Combat Group in an assault on Attilan as orbital bombardment and lunar artillery attacked its defenses. Meanwhile, Regent Victor von Doom defended the Yugoslav Federation’s ambitions to an ambassador, while the Emperor set out to seize the moon base.

• Tita reported that the bombardment was nearing completion and that the landing forces were preparing to deploy.
• The Emperor approved the assault plan, which would breach Attilan’s shield and surround the base with artillery and ground forces.
• Tita worried that her escort unit could not protect the Emperor as effectively as the Praetorian Guard, and he told her to focus on her duties.
• Constantine informed the Emperor that the First Combat Group’s assault craft were ready, and the Emperor departed with Dinah to take Attilan.
• Regent Victor von Doom told an ambassador that the Emperor sought a united human government and framed the lunar campaign as a response to an alien threat.

Victor von Doom explained the Emperor’s purpose and proposed technological cooperation to an ambassador, who agreed to discuss other forms of cooperation. The bombardment of the Attilan Moon Base entered its second phase as Assault Transports carrying Gene-modded Warriors descended toward the lunar battlefield, led by a craft that had carried the Emperor.

• Victor von Doom offered an international research institute sharing engine technology in exchange for raw materials, political silence, and wider markets.
• Victor von Doom described the Emperor as immortal and said He sought to unite humanity against an approaching Alien Fleet, even if that required overturning existing laws and systems.
• The ambassador accepted the need to discuss other forms of cooperation and asked how many ambassadors Victor von Doom had met.
• Bombardment satellites redirected their power to reposition while missiles and ground fire stripped away the terrain and structures around the Attilan Moon Base.
• More than a hundred Assault Transports carrying Gene-modded Warriors descended through the lunar dust, led by a black-and-gold craft associated with the Emperor.

A disguised infiltrator hid inside Attilan Base while its security forces investigated her murders and the Emperor's forces began their assault. Aparajita led Gene-modded Warriors through a breached outer wall and advanced toward the core generator.

• The infiltrator overheard Mutants discussing her exposed disguise and the strange murder they had reported to Attilan Base Security.
• She decided to find another target and continue her mission before the arriving Mutants with special abilities could catch her.
• The Emperor's fire support forces bombarded Attilan Base as more than a hundred Assault Transports plunged through the barrage toward its weakened walls.
• Aparajita rallied the Gene-modded Warriors in his assault craft before they crashed into Attilan Base's outer defenses.
• Aparajita led his squad through the breach, killed Inhuman armed personnel, and ordered his forces to seize the core generator.

Hammurabi and the Sacred Guard fought through Attilan while preparing the way for a wider extermination operation. A covert operative sabotaged Attilan’s systems and Alpha Primitive drug supply as Malcolm ordered the Second Combat Group to prepare to destroy the Inhumans.

• Hammurabi led the Sacred Guard through Attilan’s corridors, killing Inhumans and adapting the Guard’s formation as they advanced.
• A tactical squad reported encountering Alpha Primitives, explaining that Attilan’s Inhuman geneticists had engineered them as short-lived laborers and that they hated the Inhumans even more than the knights did.
• Malcolm received the report aboard the Sky Battleship and ordered the Second Combat Group to prepare for the Emperor’s extermination operation.
• A covert operative crawled through Attilan’s ducts after sabotaging Level 106’s control systems and disabling the drug release that kept Alpha Primitives docile.
• The operative assessed that Attilan’s security systems were outdated and poorly equipped to withstand the assault.

Aura’s team pushed through Attilan to disable its shields while she infiltrated the Gene Council by impersonating Matriarch Avo. Aparajita and his soldiers fought toward the control systems, but they still lacked override authorization as they encountered more energy-wielding Inhumans.

• Aura led the assault force through a molten blast door and ordered Constantine to continue toward the Gene Council while the Martian Technicians worked to override the elevators and shield turbines.
• Impersonating Matriarch Avo, Aura learned that the Gene Council was assembling and that the Kymellian Clan might flee rather than help restore the Light Brigade.
• Aura dismissed the search for Dexius and planned to attend the council while keeping her clan from risking its lives for Black Bolt’s royal family.
• Aparajita and Deputy Nelson fought through the control area as Deputy Nixon relayed access signals to the Martian Technicians, but they had not yet received override authorization.
• Aparajita’s group encountered organized Inhumans who could manipulate energy, creatures he recognized as a familiar source of sorcery.

Aparajita’s squad fought through Kymellian Clan sorcerers, but a strange dog rescued their witch before he could kill her. As Attilan’s leaders argued over the invasion and Black Bolt’s absence, Medusa called for a vote to unite their forces under his command.

• Aparajita’s warriors blasted through the airtight door and fought off Kymellian Clan mutants using plasma grenades, though Archaeopteryx Squad was killed by sorcery.
• Aparajita charged the surviving mutants and nearly killed their sorceress, but Lockjaw appeared and teleported her away.
• Matriarch Avo and Queen Aladi Koek confronted Medusa over Black Bolt’s absence and the worsening crisis in Attilan.
• Medusa explained that the invaders had seized key systems and that the Alpha Primitives had rebelled, then called for a vote to unite the clans’ forces under Black Bolt.

Medusa tried to unite the Gene Council against the invading forces as Attilan’s defenses collapsed. Matriarch Aevo left a representative behind while the council debated how to fight and protect the city.

• Matriarch Oola Udonta and the Centaur Clan approved Medusa’s proposal, leaving the council two votes in favor.
• Matriarch Aevo proposed that each clan deploy its trained forces and share information, while Matriarch Aladi Ko Eke criticized the council’s divisions.
• Medusa reviewed reports of the invaders’ lethal advance and urged the council to reveal the danger to Attilan’s subjects and arm civilians.
• Medusa warned that Attilan could fall within five hours as the invaders approached the Gene Laboratory and Generator Units.
• The assassin disguised as Matriarch Aevo agreed to leave a representative at the council, while Aladi Ko Eke challenged Medusa over the matriarchs’ rights to fight and choose consorts.

Aparajita and Deputy Nelson regrouped after clearing more than forty-two levels of Attilan Base, while an alien witch and the base’s powerful defenses remained threats. Nelson proposed resupplying and joining forces with armored units to assault the Shield Core, with Malcolm due to arrive for the coming battle.

• Aparajita continued fighting Mutants as Deputy Nelson explained that a mutant witch had sealed the control room and that the base contained a dormant AI controlling a ten-kilometer starship.
• Nelson reviewed recorded footage, planted anti-personnel mines, and joined Aparajita, who had killed the witch’s victims’ attackers amid the blood-soaked corridor.
• Aparajita and Nelson prepared explosive rounds for an advance toward the Shield Generator and Water Treatment Plant, where they expected many Mutants and a sorcerer.
• Nelson assessed their force’s casualties and ammunition after the squads cleared more than forty-two levels, noting that the Inhumans were adapting and that heavy fire support was limited inside the base.
• Nelson recommended resupplying, delaying the armored assault on the Water Treatment Plant, and joining the armored forces to attack the Shield Core with more firepower and flamethrowers.
• Nelson said Malcolm would arrive for the final battle and asked Aparajita not to attack him when they met.

Aparajita’s squad received new orders to abandon several districts and prepare a killing ground for the approaching Attilan counterattack. Meanwhile, WD-15 infiltrated an Inhuman gene laboratory as Sophie, and the Sacred Guard waited near the Throne Zone for Attilan’s forces.

• Deputy Nelson told Aparajita that Malcolm had activated Delta-C Protocol and ordered the First Combat Group to establish a killing ground between the clan Light Industry district and the Generator Unit.
• Aparajita accepted the revised orders, and Nelson predicted that fire support troops and armored units would join the fight.
• WD-15, disguised as Sophie, learned that the Inhumans were evacuating valuable samples and heard that the Lower City Residential District had fallen.
• WD-15 stabbed the researcher, copied his appearance, and declared that the laboratory contained only Mr. Quan Fang.
• The Sacred Guard halted near the Throne Zone and waited for Attilan’s military forces to arrive before confronting the king.

Ghost Clan Matriarch Aevo prepared her forces to join Attilan’s counterattack while Regent Victor von Doom explained the battle and his political strategy to an ambassador. The counterattack was drawing the Mutants into an ambush as Doom predicted that NATO and European cooperation would fracture under pressure.

• Matriarch Aevo ordered her clan to prepare for battle and dismissed concerns about the lowborn and other clans.
• Aevo killed a servant who struggled to repair her Power Armor, then agreed to join Medusa’s wartime communication channel.
• Regent Victor von Doom showed an ambassador the counterattack plans, explaining that Attilan’s forces were leading the Mutants into an ambush.
• Doom discussed dependency and world-systems theories, arguing that powerful states used violence to open smaller countries’ markets.
• Doom told the ambassador that nuclear deterrence and advanced technology would let his country resist exploitation, and predicted NATO and EU interests would divide their alliances.

Regent Victor von Doom explained to an ambassador why the Emperor intended to annex Greece and build a new order: to protect humanity from alien invasions and redirect resources toward human survival. The conversation ended with Victor describing the Emperor as an immortal altruist who used power as a means to serve humanity.

• The ambassador questioned whether the Emperor’s plan to annex Greece relied on outdated imperialism and contradicted self-determination and democracy.
• Victor von Doom argued that Greece’s annexation was about sheltering people, preparing for alien invasions, and investing labor and resources in humanity rather than luxury and financial speculation.
• Victor explained that the Emperor would break the power of oil empires and the Military-Industrial Complex so smaller nations could industrialize, even if doing so brought conflict with vested interests.
• The ambassador questioned why an immortal being with immense power would take responsibility for humanity and suggested that immortality could damage his mental state.
• Victor called the Emperor an altruistic fool who loved humanity, treated power as a means rather than an end, and had once lived as an interstellar pirate.

Regent Victor von Doom explained to the ambassador why the Emperor used violence, genetic screening, and bans on sorcery to impose a new order, then invited him to witness the danger firsthand. Meanwhile, Gene-modded Warriors fought through Attilan’s Rally Point D, where Amon suspected the attackers sought more than supplies.

• Regent Victor von Doom told the ambassador that the Emperor’s violence would drive reform and remove the Old Order’s obstacles.
• The Regent said more than two hundred thousand superpowered people and sorcerers faced extermination, while civilians who passed genetic screening could survive.
• The Regent described the sorcerous contamination at Sandbox Base and invited the ambassador to see why screening and a sorcery ban were necessary.
• Gene-modded Warriors fought sorcerers and superpowered enemies in the corridors and rooms of Rally Point D.
• Amon observed the battle’s aftermath and doubted that the people of Attilan had attacked the site merely to reclaim toilet paper.

Amon and the Emperor coordinated the siege of Attilan, preparing Rally Point D for the decisive battle against the Civilian Clans as the city’s resources dwindled. The Emperor acknowledged that he had chosen to destroy Attilan for humanity’s survival and vowed that he would bear the sin himself.

• Amon told Deputy Nelson that Rally Point D would face the Civilian Clans’ strongest fighters and outlined reconnaissance and combat deployments.
• Deputy Nelson reported that Randolph had been killed by an Alien Witch and defended Aparajita’s determination to avenge the Archaeopteryx Squad.
• The First and Second Combat Groups cut Attilan’s power and supplies, while the Third Combat Group transported food and water to the rally points.
• Amon explained that Attilan’s leaders intended to destroy the Emperor’s forces and potentially attack Earth or use Terrigen Warheads.
• The Emperor told Constantine that he had sought moral justification for destroying Attilan and promised to bear responsibility for the decision himself.

Medusa recruited the Kymellian Clan Sorcerer Council to prophesy the invaders’ leader, granting it prisoners for a blood sacrifice. Meanwhile, Regent Victor von Doom explained the dangers posed by Attilan’s mutants, and the Emperor escalated the assault as a large ritual threatened to disturb the Sea of Aether.

• Medusa asked the Kymellian Clan Sorcerer Council to locate the invaders’ leader and agreed to give it prisoners for a blood sacrifice in exchange for a prophecy.
• The Kymellian representative demanded a chance to speak with Black Bolt, but Medusa refused because he was adjusting his vocal cords and urged the Council to begin its prophecy.
• Regent Victor von Doom showed the ambassador dangerous creatures and experiments, explaining that the Lunar War was driven by Attilan’s mutants’ inability to control their powers.
• Master Wong warned the Emperor that Attilan’s mutant sorcerers were planning a large ritual that had stirred a massive wave in the Sea of Aether.
• The Emperor ordered Constantine to intensify fire support and deploy bombers to reduce Attilan’s upper structures to ruins and force its king to meet him.

Gronov Rutov and his Type 19 squad silently slaughtered a Centaur Clan patrol and stole its communication authorization, giving the Emperor’s forces greater access to Attilan’s defenses. The Emperor also learned that the Sorcerer Supreme had returned to Kamar-Taj and that the situation there was dire.

• Alpha-Bronze 5 tracked a Centaur Clan patrol heading toward Transit Node Gamma-III as Gronov Rutov’s hidden Type 19 squad waited above it.
• Gronov Rutov and the Type 19 warriors ambushed and killed all twelve Centaur Clan soldiers in seconds.
• Gronov Rutov planted a decoding chip in the patrol’s communicator and acquired an authorization key to monitor enemy movements.
• Gronov Rutov sent Feather Squad toward Transit Node Delta-II as its enemy communication key appeared on Constantine’s campaign map.
• Miniature drones continued mapping Attilan’s districts, while the Emperor received word that the Sorcerer Supreme had returned and Kamar-Taj urgently needed him.