Chapter Summaries

Angron met with Victor and the surviving crew of the Abraham, learned about Eden, the Void, and the machines’ threat, and prepared to act on their intelligence. The chapter ended with Angron asking Victor to mark the enemy army’s location, revealing that Umbrella planned to attack.

• Umbrella’s forces reinforced the forward base while its workers continued construction under attacks from Sentinels.
• Victor and the Abraham’s crew ate Umbrella’s food and discussed whether their new allies could help protect Eden.
• Angron introduced himself as Umbrella’s supreme commander and questioned Victor about the local world and the crew’s mission.
• Victor explained Eden’s history, the Void, and the Resistance’s efforts to free captive humans and defeat the machines.
• Victor revealed that a huge machine army was digging about a hundred kilometers east, above Eden, and asked Umbrella to warn the refuge.
• Angron requested the army’s exact location on a map and indicated that Umbrella would launch an attack.

Sui Bian assigned Angron authority to negotiate with Eden and approved a surprise attack on the machines. The Gladiators used Centurion Mechs to destroy a machine army near Eden, and Angron set out ahead of the others to meet the human leaders.

• Sui Bian approved Angron’s plan to deploy his Honor Guard and told him to represent Umbrella in negotiations with Eden.
• Twenty-four Gladiators piloted Centurion Mechs through the ruined city toward the machines excavating toward Eden.
• The Gladiators broke through a Sentinel interception wave, then used electromagnetic missiles and heavy weapons to destroy the machine army.
• The Gladiators returned to the forward base, where logistics staff and Huragok engineers inspected them and serviced their Centurion Mechs.
• After reviewing the battle footage, Angron ordered the gathered intelligence sent to Sui Bian and decided to go to Eden ahead of the others.
• Angron left the Command Center and greeted Victor, Mark, and the others waiting at its entrance.

Angron’s forces approached Eden, but General Fermini O'Carl refused them entry unless they disarmed, so Angron demonstrated Umbrella’s strength by disabling Eden’s defenders. O'Carl then ordered Gate 4 opened and prepared to meet Angron, while Priest Lucis watched the confrontation unfold.

• Victor requested clearance to enter Eden, but General Fermini O'Carl denied the request and ordered Umbrella’s forces to disarm.
• Angron refused to disarm, gave O'Carl fifteen seconds to reconsider, and ordered the formation onward when Eden stayed silent.
• Eden remotely detonated its electromagnetic mines, but the Thunderhawk and two Viking Fighters continued through the minefield.
• O'Carl ordered the Joshua, the Samuel, and Lieutenant Colonel Holt’s troops to attack the three unidentified vehicles, but the front-line forces were incapacitated by Angron’s unknown attack.
• After learning the forward troops had recovered, O'Carl ordered them not to attack, opened Gate 4, and prepared to meet Angron with the security company.

Angron arrived in Eden with Umbrella’s forces and demanded a final discussion with the city’s leadership. After Eden’s residents hailed him as the prophesied Son of God and he encountered the church’s priestess, Lucis, he showed the council evidence that the machines had been defeated and said Umbrella had come to liberate humanity and rebuild civilization.

• Angron landed at Gate 4, introduced himself to General O'Carl, and asked him to convene Eden’s leadership for a final discussion.
• O'Carl escorted Angron through Eden, where residents hailed him as the Son of God and Angron recognized that the church’s prophecy threatened its leaders’ influence.
• Angron and O'Carl encountered Lucis, the priestess of the Son of God church, before proceeding to the council hall.
• Victor reported that Umbrella had rescued his group and that its commander claimed the machine army had been defeated.
• Angron showed the council a holographic image of machine corpses above Eden and said Umbrella had come to liberate humanity and prepare to rebuild civilization.

Angron used force to take control of Eden, while the Clearers and Umbrella prepared to eliminate the machines’ threat. The Red Queen entered the Void, found and destroyed its antivirus agents, and confronted the machine intelligence’s leader.

• Angron exposed Lucis’s attempt to undermine him, demonstrated his Psionic Power, and incapacitated her and everyone else in the hall.
• The Anthem of Courage joined the Clearers’ fleet above Kogler, and Umbrella established a forward base at 116th Commercial Street.
• Sui Bian approved Angron’s actions in Eden and told him to prepare for the machines’ retaliation.
• Lion escorted the Red Queen through the Space Gate, where technicians connected her to equipment for entering the Void.
• The Red Queen entered the machines’ virtual Los Angeles, analyzed the Void, and caused its antivirus agents to disintegrate.
• The Red Queen confronted the machine intelligence’s leader and declared that she would treat it only as a target threatening Sui Bian’s orders.

The Red Queen seized control of the machines in the Zero-One Universe, exposed the truth to humans trapped in the Void, and began freeing them while arranging for their recovery. Sui Bian placed Zero-One under Umbrella’s rule and ordered its reconstruction, while agents elsewhere discovered that their nanobots had gone offline.

• The Red Queen erased the Engineer, broadcast the truth about the Void, and began freeing humans while coordinating their care with the machines.
• A young police officer in Los Angeles saw the broadcast, awakened in the real world, and was carried to a recovery pod as machines prepared to rebuild the city.
• The Red Queen reported to Sui Bian that she controlled the machines, had shared the nanobot data, and expected the humans to escape the Void within seventy-two hours.
• Sui Bian named the newly reached universe Zero-One, assigned it to Musang Sector, and ordered Umbrella to help rebuild Earth under the UEG’s parliamentary system.
• Tom awoke in Umbrella General Hospital and remembered his capture and death in a dream about fighting the machines.
• An Intelligence Department staff member reported that agents infiltrating Asis Mine had abnormal physical conditions and that their nanobots had gone offline simultaneously.

Intelligence Supervisor Joel Miller sent experienced agent Lin Shunsheng to Asis Mine to help Elena Charlesde investigate a rise in violence that might indicate an anomaly. After Lin infiltrated the mine and met Elena, a woman’s terrified screams abruptly disrupted the quiet of the dormitory area.

• Elena Charlesde reported that fights and arguments had increased at Asis Mine, and Joel Miller ordered Lin Shunsheng to assist her investigation.
• Lin traveled aboard the Pirate in a concealed Valkyrie V and secretly entered Asis Mine in a cleaning staff uniform.
• Elena met Lin in a corridor, and the two avoided surveillance cameras as they moved through the mine.
• Lin and Elena introduced themselves in a cleaning closet, then agreed to store his equipment in Elena’s Dormitory Cabin before planning their investigation.
• A woman screamed that someone was not Todd and begged them to stay away from her and her baby.

After Carrie and Neil claimed that Todd was not himself, Lin investigated their cabin and found fragments likely from a porcelain crown. He suspected the mining zone held the key to the case and prepared to investigate it at night.

• Carrie and Neil fled from Todd, insisting that he was not the real Todd, before neighbors separated the family for the night.
• Lin questioned Elena about the incident and ordered her to keep observing the area around the mining zone.
• Lin used optical camouflage to search Carrie and Todd’s cabin, where he found the bathroom unusually clean and collected white particles from the bathtub drain.
• Lin’s analysis identified the particles as likely fragments of a full-porcelain crown, and he sent the findings to the Intelligence Department.
• Lin prepared to sneak into the mining zone after dark, while guards ignored footage showing a buried silver ship and Todd at the excavation site.

Asis fell into a communications blackout and a violent outbreak as miners, guards, and a child became infected or transformed, while Lin and Elena fought to survive. Lin reunited with Elena in the entertainment district, but after telling her that informing did not suit her and wishing her an ordinary next life, he shot her.

• Elena reported that miners had been sent to Mining Zone 09, and Lin told her to keep working while he investigated further.
• After Asis lost pressure and communications, armed guards attacked the residents, and Lin fought off mutated guards with his laser weapon and grenades.
• Lin saw infected workers and guards capturing residents and spreading the infection, then headed deeper into the facility because he suspected they wanted something beyond assimilating everyone.
• Elena fought her way out of the lobby as miners transformed and attacked, then escaped with five people toward her dormitory cabin.
• Elena found Lin in the entertainment district and identified herself as Charlesde, but Lin regretted that she had become an informant, wished her an ordinary next life, and fired a gunshot.

Lin killed the creature imitating Elena, then fought his way to Asis's control room to stop the creatures from reaching the human world. Severely wounded, he manually overloaded the nuclear fusion reactor and lost consciousness as it reached critical levels.

• Lin shot and burned Elena after determining she was a creature that had replaced the real Elena.
• Lin deduced that the creatures could inherit memories, imitate people, share information, and spread by assimilation, and he realized they had planned to escape aboard the transport fleet.
• Lin injected the Te-036 serum and charged through the armed guards blocking the route to the control room.
• Lin reached the control room with grievous injuries and used his phone to attempt partial authorization at the console.
• Lin confirmed the reactor overload, triggering an announcement that it would reach critical levels in five seconds, and saw memories of his wife before everything filled with white light.

Sui Bian learned that Lin Shunsheng had destroyed the last Thing on Asis at the cost of his life, and ordered Umbrella to care for his family. In Callisto District 01, Lin’s wife and children met Russ and Joel Miller, who prepared to tell them about Lin’s service and sacrifice.

• The system told Sui Bian that Lin Shunsheng had destroyed the last Thing and awarded him 35,000 points.
• Red Queen reported that Asis had been destroyed and that Lin Shunsheng and Elena Charles were presumed dead; Sui Bian ordered the company to handle their families’ arrangements.
• Sui Bian reviewed the available information and concluded that Lin had sacrificed himself to stop the Thing from spreading.
• Two Umbrella Armed Division members brought Jiluse Lin and her children from a park in District 19 to the Umbrella Building.
• Russ welcomed the children and pinned Pentagram Medals on them while Joel Miller presented Jiluse with a contract, a confidentiality agreement, and records of Lin’s missions.

Sui Bian prepared Lion and his sons for an approaching war as demonic activity increased across human space. On May 30, 2102, Colonel Andre Ivanovsky’s Hunters stopped a cultist ritual, but a galaxy-scale Psionic Power surge struck the Solar System’s outskirts and enormous vortices appeared near the Frontier Fortress and Oslo.

• Sui Bian told Lion that humanity would face a probe from the Warp and that he and his sons must be ready for total war.
• The Supervision Department’s Hunters killed cultists and disrupted their summoning ritual in a colonial warehouse.
• Colonel Andre Ivanovsky oversaw the removal of the ritual’s Warp contamination and returned with his troops to their concealed warship.
• A galaxy-scale Psionic Power surge struck regions outside the Solar System, interfering with Quantum Communication and hitting the Frontier Fortress and Oslo especially hard.
• Andre saw enormous vortices appear near the Frontier Fortress and Oslo on the star map.

A Warp Storm engulfed Kaplan, letting demons invade the colony as its forces began evacuating civilians and fighting to hold the Starports. As demons overran a metropolis, a retired soldier tried to protect his daughter and escape with other residents, but they were spotted in the lobby.

• Andre recognized that a Warp Storm had surrounded Kaplan, and ground forces reported attacks by anomalous creatures and requested reinforcements and civilian evacuations.
• Genro Sigurd ordered Kaplan's forces to hold the Starports and evacuate civilians, and Andre agreed to lead his Hunters in clearing and defending a Starport.
• Demons poured through unstable gates into a metropolis, where a retired soldier carried his daughter down from their apartment while residents fled toward evacuation vehicles.
• A giant demon broke through the security officers' line and slaughtered them, allowing other demons to enter the lobby and attack the residents.
• The retired soldier attacked a demon that found the residents hiding in a supply closet, injured it, and fled with his daughter and nine others.
• More demons flooded into the lobby and spotted the fleeing father, daughter, and residents.

Genro Sigurd and the Space Wolves rescued Sarah Kerrigan after demons killed her father and ravaged her apartment, then escorted civilians toward Kaplan's Starport. As a cruise liner carrying more than forty thousand people tried to evacuate, a demon on a winged Pegasus destroyed its bridge and sent the ship crashing toward Metropolis District 11.

• Sarah Kerrigan watched demons kill her father, and her grief triggered a surge of Psionic Power that made the demons consider taking her in.
• Genro Sigurd and five Space Wolves arrived by drop pod, killed the demons in the street and apartment, and found Sarah beside her father's body.
• Genro comforted Sarah, carried her from the apartment, and withdrew with his squad as the Heorot's missiles demolished the building.
• Genro and the Wolves joined fleeing civilians and Krieg troops, reached the Starport, and sent Sarah aboard a transport bound for the Heorot.
• A Warp portal opened beside the Starport, and Genro led nearby soldiers to attack the demons pouring through it.
• A silver-armored demon riding a black-winged Pegasus destroyed the bridge of a departing cruise liner, sending it crashing into Metropolis District 11.

A mounted demon and its Fallen Divine Servants attacked District 07, inflicting heavy losses before human reinforcements helped reclaim the initiative. As the humans advanced to clear the Starport, the demon targeted the inexperienced Wolf Cubs, and Genro confronted it directly.

• The mounted demon crashed a cruise ship and fought aircraft while Fallen Divine Servants poured through a Warp gate into District 07.
• Genro led the Space Wolves, Wolf Cubs, and Krieg in a charge that disrupted the Divine Servant formations as the human forces suffered mounting casualties.
• The Warp gate collapsed, and nearly four hundred Space Wolves arrived, allowing the human forces to rally and advance toward clearing the Starport.
• The mounted demon descended among the Fallen Divine Servants, killed three Wolf Cubs with its silver sword, and shrugged off their comrades' covering fire.
• Genro stopped the demon from striking again, challenged it, and learned that it was Zeus's half-human son, who sought godhood through slaughter and destruction.

Genro defeated Perseus at the cost of catastrophic injuries, while fighting spread across Harvest and a frightened UNSC Private returned to battle. As a Bloody Troll overwhelmed the defenders near Aldega’s Orbital Elevator, a warm golden radiance appeared beside the Private.

• Genro impaled Perseus, tore through his psionic barrier, and detonated a plasma grenade at point-blank range, leaving both fighters gravely wounded and the Fallen Divine Servants defeated.
• UNSC, Krieg, and Spartan Legion forces fought demons across Harvest as a Heavy Spartan Squad advanced toward Aldega’s Orbital Elevator.
• A terrified UNSC Private abandoned the fight briefly, then regained his resolve and rejoined his corporal and the Spartans.
• A Bloody Troll emerged through a door and its psionic roar shattered the defenders’ shields, hurling the Private and the soldiers away.
• As the Private cried for help before the approaching Troll and Hound Beasts, a voice told him, “Don’t be afraid, child,” and golden light enveloped the street.

Sui Bian saved Harvest by destroying the demons and closing its Portals, then returned to orbit and learned that Oslo Sector faced the real threat. He ordered reinforcements toward Oslo and prepared to use long-distance teleportation with Magnus to confront the Chaos God’s chosen.

• Sui Bian arrived on Harvest, destroyed the Bloody Troll, and reassured the wounded Private as the Portals closed.
• Sui Bian unleashed a planet-wide wave of golden Psionic Power that burned away the demons, healed humans, and ended the battle on Harvest.
• Sui Bian teleported back to the Anthem of Courage, where the Red Queen reported that Oslo Sector’s Warp Storm was expanding and threatening Fenris.
• Sui Bian and the Queens concluded that the attack on Harvest had been a feint meant to draw him away while the demons targeted Oslo Sector and its 450 billion inhabitants.
• Sui Bian ordered the Red Queen to coordinate reinforcements for Oslo and the White Queen to inform the public about the Warp creatures.
• Sui Bian decided to stay in place until the God-Chosen appeared and prepared to contact Magnus to open a long-distance Portal.

Andre led Kaplan’s remaining 120,000 soldiers in a last stand after the civilians escaped, and the defenders detonated buried bombs as the demons overran the planet. On Fenris, Russ’s forces prepared for battle beside a vast spatial rift, and Russ wished Roger were there.

• Andre learned that the last civilians had reached orbit and rallied his soldiers to stay behind and fight.
• Andre ordered the seven frigates carrying the civilians to depart while he led reinforcements to the eastern position.
• The soldiers fought back demons with powerful Psionic barriers as the warships lifted off and the civilians saluted them.
• Andre and the remaining defenders detonated buried plasma and nuclear bombs after the ships entered the Warp Rift, leaving Kaplan to the demons.
• On Fenris, Russ stationed a massive force along a hundred-kilometer rift and privately wished Roger were there.

Russ and the defenders of Fenris faced a massive Chaos invasion as the rift opened and demons attacked across the planet and in orbit. Russ led the fight deep into the enemy ranks while the human forces held their positions, though Fenris was increasingly surrounded and corrupted.

• Russ inspected the defensive line and encouraged Lin Hong to face his fear as a soldier.
• The rift collapsed open, revealing the Chaos Realm and an enormous demon army pouring onto Fenris.
• Russ shielded the defenders with his Psionic Power, rallied them, and the human ships opened fire on the demons.
• Demons attacked the ships, the defensive line, and locations across Fenris, while enormous Warp creatures overwhelmed parts of the human fleet in orbit.
• The Wild Wolves and mortal soldiers fought to hold the line as Russ plunged into the demon ranks, cutting down every enemy in his path.

Russ led the defense of Fenris against Zeus and the corrupted Olympian Gods, rallying humanity after exposing the false visions Zeus used to tempt them. The battle resumed with the daemons overwhelming the human forces, and Poseidon confronted Russ directly.

• Russ saved a Wolf Cub, then fought through the daemon horde as the human lines came under mounting pressure.
• Russ ordered the God Body deployed, taunted Zeus, and held fire when Zeus emerged from the Chaos Realm with the Fallen Gods.
• Zeus projected visions across the Oslo Sector and demanded humanity submit, but Russ and the vaccines disrupted the illusions and revealed the daemons' true forms.
• Russ rallied the Wild Wolves, Wolf Cubs, and Krieg soldiers to charge the false gods, while Zeus ordered his forces to slaughter them.
• Russ fought through the Fallen Gods guarding Zeus, and Poseidon struck at him with his Trident, shaking the earth.