Recaps

A Chaos Warband led by a horned captain approached Ozrax, intent on taking the Salamander captain's Gene-seed, and dismissed Cisrain's research vessel and its defenses as harmless. As the Chaos forces advanced into the outer perimeter, the governor ordered the data-backed soldiers to load their Clone bodies and activated the Resurrection Protocol.

• The Chaos captain declared his hatred for the Salamanders and planned to capture their captain's Gene-seed to turn him into a Chaos Spawn.
• The Chaos Warband spotted Cisrain's research vessel laying defenses outside Ozrax and mocked its apparent weakness.
• The captain ordered a Battle Barge to attack while the rest of the Warband pushed forward.
• The research vessel warned the attackers to leave Gamma World's territory, but their missiles barely affected the battleship's Void Shield.
• Tomori and Taris took a Battle Barge into the enemy defenses without permission, and the Chaos captain allowed them to proceed.
• After learning the enemy had entered the outer defense perimeter, the governor ordered the soldiers there to load their Clone bodies and activated the Resurrection Protocol.

Cisrain used resurrection coins and cloned bodies to send soldiers back into battle against the Chaos Space Marines. As the enemy fleet broke through the defenses, Cisrain left for the next battle, and Brown ordered everyone to follow and protect him.

• Cloned soldiers were revived, equipped with weapons, and praised Governor Cisrain for providing resurrection coins.
• Chaos Space Marines attacked the outer defenses, but the mortal soldiers used self-detonations and destroyed the enemy Battle Barge to slow them down.
• Cisrain committed his cloning pods and weapon production lines to keep reviving soldiers and draw Chaos forces away from his final battle.
• The enemy fleet broke through the defenses, and Brown decided to follow Cisrain in Power Armor to protect him.

Brown rallied the Research Station's scientists and engineers to serve Cisrain's vision of humanity expanding across the universe, while urging them to build weapons that would keep the Governor from fighting at the front. As Cisrain prepared to descend to the battlefield, Brown donned his power armor and hurried after him to offer protection.

• Brown told the scientists that Gamma World faced conquest unless it ventured into space, and called for them to support Cisrain's rise as the universe's overlord.
• Brown directed the scientists and engineers to focus on research, manufacturing, Synapse Condensers, and weapons that could strike enemies from several light-years away.
• The Research Station workers embraced Brown's call to sacrifice for the Governor and humanity above all.
• Brown put on his power armor and called for Cisrain to wait so he could protect him.
• Cisrain prepared to leave in a drop pod as the Astra Militarum manned machine guns and Ozrax's human refugees entered underground shelters.

Cisrain prepared Ozrax’s defenses as an unknown fleet arrived, while Tau commander Tarian reflected on his earlier failures and prepared to take Oceanic Planet. The Tau warship came under attack from Space Marine drop pods, and the Carcharodons breached its hull.

• Cisrain stood on Ozrax’s walls as his forces answered the approaching enemy with cries of support for humanity.
• Tarian reviewed his mistakes in the previous campaign and resolved to be more patient and gather intelligence before acting.
• Tarian’s advanced Drone detected an unknown fleet approaching Oceanic Planet and launching drop pods toward the Tau warships.
• Tarian ordered shields and anti-air defenses activated, but Tau weapons shot down only some of the eighteen drop pods.
• The surviving drop pods burned through a Tau warship’s hull, and Space Marines emerged from the wreckage inside.
• Tarian recognized the attackers as the Space Marines from the planet he had previously fought.

Tarian tried to contain the Salamanders and Blood Raven Space Marines as they boarded his battleship, while the Marines used stolen ship data to push toward the control room. The Fire Warriors’ ambush at Section E failed, and the intruders broke into Section D as reports described a strange golden light around them.

• Tarian ordered bulkheads sealed, deployed ambush and stealth squads, and sent torpedoes and an escort frigate against the fleet outside.
• A Salamanders Techmarine named Ron downloaded the battleship map and armory data, then shared the information with his brothers.
• The Salamanders and Cyrus’s squad advanced through Section E, planting bombs and smashing through doors as they headed for the control room.
• Tarian’s Fire Warriors, concealed troops, Drones, and armor-piercing turrets prepared an ambush at the Section E access point.
• The Space Marines used bullet trajectories to locate the hidden defenders and wiped out the ambush squad before the Salamanders attacked from behind.
• The intruders broke through into Section D, and Tarian received reports of golden light around them.

Vulkan withdrew from the Tau fleet to return to Ozrax, where Chaos forces had landed and Governor Cisrain prepared to lead a counterattack. Fabius underwent a strange mutation and sought to capture a human, while the Emperor warned Cisrain to clean up the dagger left behind on the battlefield.

• Vulkan decided to return to Ozrax with the remaining Salamanders after ordering the research vessel to draw the Tau escort ship away.
• Chaos drop pods landed on Ozrax, and the Astra Militarum prepared to face the invading Chaos warriors.
• Fabius touched an abandoned Blade of Corruption, experienced a vision, mutated, and used his psychic powers to control four Chaos Space Marines and send them to capture a human.
• A system alert told Cisrain that an unknown gaze had noticed him and ordered him to defend the city, counterattack the Chaos daemons, and obtain a Mutant Psychic Energy Detector.
• The Emperor urged Cisrain to clean the blood from the dagger, and Cisrain leaped from the city wall to lead the counterattack as Brown saw golden light around him.

At the Research Station, the researchers planned to build more Synapse Condensers and develop better weapons against heretics. On the battlefield, Cisrain and Brown fought beside the Astra Militarum as Necron-derived Gauss weapons devastated the Chaos forces, while the enemy’s return fire killed Clones who were resurrected.

• At the Research Station, the researchers detected new psychic energies and decided to build more Synapse Condensers and develop weapons to kill heretics.
• Cisrain’s holy radiance inspired the Astra Militarum and the people of Gamma World to fight, while Brown deployed his Gauss weapons to protect the governor.
• Cisrain cleaved a charging Chaos Space Marine in two and tried to hold the front line as more Chaos Drop Pods landed.
• Humans armed with modified Necron Gauss Rifles fired green beams that disintegrated Chaos warriors and their armor.
• Chaos Space Marines retaliated with their carbines, killing Clones who were then resurrected through the Resurrection Protocol.

Cisrain fought through the Chaos forces while Brown drew the enemy toward himself to protect the city’s defenses. As Drop Pods landed behind the lines, Astra Militarum soldiers sacrificed themselves to attack the newly arrived Dragon Warriors.

• Cisrain slaughtered Chaos fighters and advanced toward the mission’s marked targets and enemy Psyker while bullets failed to harm him.
• Brown recognized that Chaos forces were threatening both the rear defenses and the front, then charged forward to draw their fire and help the defenders.
• Chaos Drop Pods descended behind the Astra Militarum’s defensive line as Brown taunted the enemy and ordered his soldiers to fire on his position.
• An Astra Militarum soldier ran toward a landed Drop Pod with Frag Grenades, and three more soldiers joined him despite knowing they lacked backup.
• A Dragon Warrior snapped the first soldier’s neck, but the other soldiers’ Frag Grenades exploded in his hands.

Gamma World's defenders fought to hold off the growing Chaos invasion as Chapter Master Siles prepared to bombard the planet and confront Cisrain. Meanwhile, Salamanders returned to Ozrax while Cyrus's squad continued its assault on the Tau battleship, where Tarian's forces defended the control room.

• Gamma World's soldiers, resistance fighters, and civilians fought the Chaos Space Marines and tried to hold the defensive line until reinforcements arrived.
• Chapter Master Siles ordered low-orbit bombardment of Ozrax and set out to kill Cisrain, whom he hated for embodying the Imperium he blamed for his fall to Chaos.
• Salamander Company Commander Vulkan took his men, including Talon, back to help defend Ozrax, leaving Cyrus's squad to continue its battleship mission without them.
• Cyrus ordered his squad to capture the Tau battleship as quickly as possible or destroy it so no enemy could escape.
• Tarian sealed off the control room and positioned Tau defenders to force the attacking Space Marines into a narrow corridor under heavy fire.

Vulkan and Talon reflected on the Salamanders who had joined Chaos as their forces rushed toward Ozrax, where Gamma World's defenses were collapsing under a brutal bombardment. The defenders held on as reinforcements arrived, leaving the battle poised for a turn.

• Talon comforted a fellow Space Marine who had lost a gun once given to him by Chaplain Catoen, while Vulkan stared toward Ozrax and wrestled with the betrayal of a Salamanders brother.
• Vulkan ordered his ship to travel faster as he struggled to understand why the traitor had joined Chaos.
• Chaos forces bombarded Gamma World, breached its defensive lines, and drove the human defenders back toward the flag.
• Chaos Space Marines in Salamanders armor attacked with flamers, enraged by their losses and the destruction of their Gene-seed.
• Astra Militarum recruits watched the defenders fall back for the third time, but one soldier declared that reinforcements had arrived.

Gamma World sent reinforcements to the battlefield, turning the tide against the Chaos Space Marines while Cisrain continued fighting toward his mission. With the enemy’s warship destroyed and their forces collapsing, Cisrain prepared to push ahead and deal with the remaining Chaos Beacons.

• Gamma World’s arsenal vessel deployed transport ships, elite troops, tanks, and weapons as Brown’s defenders struggled to hold their lines against the Chaos forces.
• Brown protected the troops behind him despite his exhausted Power Armor and depleted Gauss Rifle, while waiting anxiously for Cisrain.
• Gamma World’s reinforcements arrived and used Gauss Rifles to disintegrate Chaos Space Marines and destroy their warship.
• Cisrain explained that he had expected the rear defensive line to fall and stepped up his efforts to complete the mission.
• Cisrain cut down a Chaos Space Marine and faced a group of enemies who recoiled from his holy flame as their forces lost the battle.

Siles slaughtered Fabius’s Chaos forces and killed the Slaughterfiend, then cut down Siles as he tried to charge. Fabius nearly escaped through the Warp rift, while a mysterious, pointy-headed figure appeared among the waiting Blood Host.

• Siles discovered Fabius opening a Warp rift and summoning a Slaughterfiend and a host of the daemon engines.
• Siles swiftly crippled and destroyed the Slaughterfiend, ignoring its speed and fury.
• Siles charged at Siles, who killed him with a single axe swing before he could deliver his imagined speech.
• Siles pursued Fabius, but Fabius fell short of escaping as forces tore apart the remnants of his soul.
• A cold, pointy-headed figure appeared among the Slaughterfiends waiting beyond the rift.
• At a gathering on Atoma, delegates joked that they could make do without weapons by sneaking, fighting with axes, and praying to Nurgle.

Cisrain killed Fabius, destroyed the Blade of Corruption, and closed the Warp gate before using his new rewards to plan faster fleet deployments and further research. After surveying the ruined battlefield and his progress toward Disaster Level 2, he saw Vulkan arrive to find the Chaos Warband already defeated.

• Cisrain crushed Fabius and destroyed the Blade of Corruption, causing the Warp gate to close.
• Cisrain received a Warp Distortion Detector and a Gravity Slingshot, and considered using them to guard against Chaos and support rapid fleet strikes.
• Cisrain reviewed his Disaster Level requirements and concluded he needed a Dark Matter Energy Ship, more resources, and expanded Synapse Condenser research.
• Cisrain surveyed the battlefield and judged that the Chaos forces had ruined his planet despite losing the fight.
• Vulkan arrived at the Research Station and was surprised to find mortals hunting down the defeated Chaos Space Marines.

After the battle on Ozrax, Cisrain shared footage of a vast Chaos threat and called a meeting to plan breaking Chaos's blockade and contacting Ultramar. Talon received a letter from someone who had joined the Osrax Defense Force, then departed with Vulkan to fight Chaos; the story ended with Sicarius confronting an Imperial citizen criticizing the Imperium.

• Cisrain gave Brown the Warp Distortion Detector, which revealed that a supposedly dead Chaos Servitor was still active.
• Cisrain showed Talon and Vulkan footage of a huge Slaughterfiend Blood Host and the traitor standing behind its controller.
• Vulkan sent Xiuen and Bulun to help with cleanup while Talon found traces of the missing Blood Raven Fifth Company and destroyed a figure with a crushed head.
• Talon received a letter from a new courier saying its writer had joined the Osrax Defense Force and planned to keep writing to him.
• Talon boarded the Skyship with Vulkan and the others, and they set off to fight Chaos.
• Cisrain and Brown discussed attacking Chaos's blockade to contact the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar, while Sicarius seized an Imperial citizen who criticized the Imperium.

Cisrain planned to strengthen Gamma World’s military and industry while addressing its population shortage and preparing to break the Chaos blockade. He sent resources and personnel toward Tangle Planet as his Great Crusade began.

• Talon and Vulkan learned about Gamma World’s Warp Distortion Detector and its advanced research, while Talon privately considered supporting Cisrain’s rise.
• Cisrain ordered Gamma World to replace its Heavy Nuclear Engines with Dark Matter Engines and prioritize naval ports, weapons, and a long-range fleet.
• The Tau invasion’s defeat increased the population and morale, while a new event offered Salamanders’ gene-enhancement technology in exchange for their favor.
• Cisrain learned that Warp Distortion Detectors required artifacts from a Lost Tomb World and ordered a science ship to explore while two others became transports.
• Cisrain ordered Tangle Planet fortified with stations, war fortresses, naval ports, and a Gravity Slingshot, and told Brown to rebuild Ozrax and watch for mutations.
• Cisrain rallied his forces to break the Chaos blockade, and transports carrying resources left Ozrax for Tangle Planet as factories and the Synapse Condenser worked at full capacity.

Mina defended Gamma World's isolationist policies and prepared for Cisrain's return, while Cisrain reviewed the growing production network and new threats revealed by the mission system. The chapter left Cisrain sending Talon and two Shield Guards to handle an urgent matter as Death Spores and Rogue Traders threatened Gamma World.

• Mina threatened a councilor who challenged Gamma World's education policies, then revoked his residency and ordered him to warn the Rogue Traders against interfering in the planet's politics.
• Mina and the other chiefs gathered to welcome Cisrain back from his successful campaigns beyond Gamma World.
• Cisrain assessed the production gains from Tangle Planet and Oceanic Planet and saw mission updates warn of Chaos Death Spores, a possible Tau counterattack, and corrupted Rogue Traders arriving on Gamma World.
• Cisrain issued a bulk document and urgently assigned Talon to handle something, sending two Shield Guards along.
• The four great daemons argued over the galaxy's strongest weapon, citing the Emperor's sword, plague viruses, the Necron star map, and the Codex Astartes.

Vulkan returned to Gamma Utopia with Cisrain and witnessed the planet’s adoring crowds welcome their governor. Meanwhile, Rogue Trader Lord Burn resented Cisrain’s treatment of his fleet, and Talon discovered signs of heresy aboard it.

• Vulkan accompanied Cisrain back to Gamma Utopia, where residents gathered to cheer the returning governor.
• Cisrain’s staff brought him council legislation and research-funding matters as he returned to the planet.
• Lord Burn and his companions complained about Cisrain’s refusal to honor them and discussed the harsh suppression of lower-deck uprisings.
• Talon boarded Lord Burn’s fleet with two Salamander Shield Guards after speaking with Cyrus.
• Talon activated the red-cased Prototype, shot an approaching retainer, and exposed mutations beneath the man’s clothes.

Cisrain quarantined and investigated people connected to the Byrne Dynasty’s Rogue Traders while returning to Gamma World in triumph. He announced victory and rallied the population around humanity’s future, as research into the Dark Matter Engine continued.

• Cisrain ordered the Military Administration and Medical departments to quarantine and test everyone who had contacted the Rogue Traders, while soldiers confined Byrne Dynasty retainers and Councilor Lampus’s associates.
• Cisrain returned through the Arch of Triumph as the people of Gamma World cheered, and Vulkan recognized their genuine hope.
• Cisrain announced that the expedition had won and urged Gamma World to reclaim the Golden Age’s legacy and put humanity first.
• Cisrain’s public sentiment template showed “Humanity First,” while Dark Matter Engine research reached 20%.
• A Rogue Trader’s claim that the Luna Wolves Legion had to obey an Imperial appointment was met with questions about who had issued it, ending with the Rogue Trader naming the Warmaster.

Cisrain learned that the Tau had found possible Golden Age AI technology on a forest world near Tangle and decided to pursue it as a potential STC Template. He ordered the Death Cult extremists and Rogue Trader personnel dealt with, while Cyrus’s squad boarded the fleet and prepared to make contact.

• Mina told Cisrain that a Xenos commander had reported Golden Age technology on a Tau-colonized forest world near Tangle, and Cisrain suspected it might be an STC Template.
• Mina reported that Death Cult extremists had broken into Utopia, and Cisrain ordered them and the Rogue Trader dealt with.
• Cisrain assigned useful Rogue Trader personnel to work in Tangle’s mines and factories, then called for a meeting after the mission.
• Cyrus and his squad rode a drop pod toward the Rogue Trader fleet after learning that Talon had killed a Byrne Dynasty retainer; Cyrus ordered the Chaos-infected cleared and asked Maglin to check for corruption.
• The drop pod collided with the Rogue Trader fleet, and its hatch opened to reveal a red figure.

Lord Byrne tried to rally his forces against the Astartes and the planetary governor, but a revolt among the lower decks and the collapse of his allies left his command in disarray. As the rebels reached his hall, one bloodied man crossed the aristocrats’ forbidden carpet without fear.

• Lord Byrne blamed the Astartes for killing Sir Nexius and ordered his Astropaths and forces prepared to respond.
• A slave master reported that lower-deck rebels had been freed, retainers had opened the armories, and the revolt had spread through the Byrne Dynasty’s ship.
• Retainers accused one another of betrayal while Lord Byrne learned that a distress signal from the surface had vanished and the Death Cult’s mission had likely failed.
• Lord Byrne ordered everyone to suppress the rebellion, but none of his retainers moved.
• A lower-deck man entered the hall and offered Lord Byrne a box, while a gaunt, bloodied rebel stepped onto the aristocrats’ carpet without fear.

Cyrus stripped Lord Burn and his dynasty of their titles, then killed Burn despite the likely consequences. He ordered the ship destroyed and its people sent to Governor Cisrain, while revealing that an STC Template from the Golden Age awaited them at the Gamma World.

• Cyrus accused Lord Burn of betraying the Imperium and offered Burn’s retainers a chance to atone after Blue revealed evidence of Chaos corruption.
• Cyrus shot and killed Lord Burn, taking responsibility for the act as Magnus reported that the ship’s Astropath had also been corrupted.
• Cyrus ordered the ship’s usable supplies salvaged and the vessel thrown into a star to eliminate the risk of hidden Chaos corruption.
• Cyrus assigned Yalta and Talon to move the ship’s people to the governor’s domain, where they could provide a needed population.
• Cyrus told Yalta that he was going to the Gamma World for a meeting about an STC Template from the Golden Age, shocking Yalta.

Gamma World's leaders debated how to survive the threats beyond their borders and learned that an STC Template could rapidly manufacture ships and other technology. Sislane faced pressure to pursue the dangerous opportunity as the meeting turned toward the expedition plan.

• Sislane arrived at the conference with Salamanders and Human Federation representatives as Gamma World's leaders gathered to discuss the colony's survival.
• Brown reported that Gamma World's Warp Distortion Detector could identify areas with Warp energy but could not pinpoint its sources.
• Koro argued that Gamma World should prioritize fleets and weapons against Chaos rather than build a large Warp-detection structure.
• Mina revealed that information extracted from Tau commanders had led them to an STC Template near Tangle Planet that could manufacture battleships and a Gravity Slingshot.
• The leaders turned to Sislane as they considered the STC Template, while an unrelated commissar found a cigarette butt at a barracks fuel depot.

Cisrain approved Operation Corolla to seize an STC Template world and ordered Gamma World’s departments to prepare an expedition within three days. As Utopia mobilized nearly ten years of resources for the mission, Mina defended the expense as a chance for people to live like people.

• Cisrain announced Operation Corolla, assigned Mina, Koro, Brown, and other departments their preparations, and received unanimous support.
• Vulkan considered the value and danger of claiming the STC Template world before the Imperium or Tau could reach it.
• News of the Expeditionary Force spread through Utopia, where Cyrus’s squad watched Yalta get mobbed by children.
• Factories and transport crews dismantled equipment, prepared weapons and battlesuits, and moved supplies toward the port.
• Visitors toured Utopia while Gamma World diverted nearly ten years of accumulated resources to the expedition.
• Mina answered concerns about the financial deficit by asking whether the mission could give people the chance to live like people.

As a solar eclipse darkened Gamma World before the Great Crusade, Cisrain ordered scientists to create an auspicious sign and emerged as a second sun in the eyes of his people. With morale restored, Koro received reports that the expeditionary fleets were ready to deploy.

• A solar eclipse darkened Gamma World, alarming citizens, soldiers, Marshal Koro, and Mina as the planet prepared for war.
• Cisrain ordered Utopia’s weather-management team to change the eclipse, and the scientists decided to create a Sun Dog by producing additional apparent suns.
• Cisrain went outside to reassure his subjects, and a newly bright star appeared as he walked toward them.
• The crowd celebrated the new light as a sign that Cisrain was Gamma World’s second sun, while Koro chose not to correct their belief that the sky had changed because of the Governor.
• Koro received reports that the First Fleet’s supplies and personnel were ready and that the Second and Third Auxiliary Fleets had departed or assembled.
• Tau Empire envoys asked to learn how the Empire kept its people happy while exploiting them, and their hosts denied that such a method existed.

Cisrain launched Gamma World’s first all-out Great Crusade to seize a Golden Age Forge World from the Tau Empire. As the expedition mobilized its forces, Tau commander Noah King learned that the humans had uncovered ancient weapon-manufacturing technology.

• Cisrain ordered his forces to seize the Forge World and pushed Gamma World to prepare for the expedition.
• Gamma World committed nearly ten million personnel and its available military, civilian, and commercial resources to the Great Crusade.
• Master Brown’s research team used a universal key to crack Tau battlesuit and Drone data and prepared to overwrite enemy warship control systems.
• Gamma World’s forces gathered ships, weapons, and equipment from Ozrax and Tangle while preparing to depart.
• Tau forces discovered ancient human weapon-manufacturing templates, and Noah King ordered them taken.