Recaps

Cisrain built up Ozrax and its technology while Cyrus and his squad secured Tangle Planet and joined forces with Vulkan’s Salamanders. With a full Chaos Chapter advancing on Ozrax and a Tau fleet still to confront, the Salamanders prepared to help Cyrus before returning to fight the traitors.

• Cisrain survived a Warp surge, reached Ozrax, and caught a bolter round as Chaos forces attacked Vulkan Castle.
• Cisrain destroyed a Chaos Beacon and discovered that nineteen others had activated across Gamma Planet, then began building an orbital Research Station and investigating a Necron monolith.
• Cisrain’s forces expanded industry on Ozrax while Cyrus’s squad hunted Wasp-men, and the researchers developed Gauss weapons and upgraded the Astartes’ armor.
• Cyrus warned Cisrain that the Chaos Beacons threatened Ozrax, while Cisrain learned that a Chaos warband and the Tau Empire were moving toward planets he wanted to claim.
• Cyrus led his squad to Tangle Planet, where they and Vulkan’s Salamanders fought off a Tau assault and forced Commander Tarian’s forces to retreat.
• Cyrus learned that Vulkan’s Salamanders had been cast out of the Warp and that a full Chapter of Chaos Space Marines was breeding forces on nearby worlds.
• Cisrain mobilized Ozrax against the approaching Chaos Chapter but ordered Cyrus’s squad to seize another planet instead of returning.
• Cyrus and the Salamanders prepared a boarding action against the Tau fleet, while the awakened Vulkan vowed to stop the Chaos Warband that had abducted children.

Cisrain led Gamma World through the defense of Ozrax, the defeat of Chaos forces, and a purge of corrupted Rogue Traders. After discovering a Golden Age STC Template near Tangle, he launched a massive expedition to seize the Forge World before the Tau could claim its technology.

• Chaos forces invaded Ozrax and Oceanic Planet, but Cisrain’s revived soldiers, Brown’s weapons, and Gamma World’s reinforcements helped defeat them.
• Cisrain destroyed Fabius and the Blade of Corruption, closing the Warp gate, while Vulkan and the Salamanders joined the cleanup.
• Cisrain expanded Gamma World’s fleets and defenses, pursued Dark Matter Engine research, and prepared to break the Chaos blockade.
• Talon exposed mutations aboard Lord Byrne’s fleet, and Cyrus killed Lord Burn after confirming Chaos corruption before ordering the ship destroyed.
• Cisrain’s leaders learned that a Golden Age STC Template near Tangle could manufacture battleships and a Gravity Slingshot, then approved Operation Corolla.
• Gamma World mobilized its resources and fleets for the expedition as Cisrain rallied the population and ordered his forces to seize the Forge World.
• Tau forces discovered ancient human weapon-manufacturing templates, and Noah King ordered them taken.

Cisrain’s forces defeated the Tau invasion of Karamat and awakened the planet’s buried Forge World, then expanded the Gamma Worlds’ power while preparing for threats from the Tau and Chaos. The arc leaves Cyrus heading toward the Chaos Beacon as the Lamenters fight the Black Legion on Gedi'an.

• Zephram and the White Temple defended Karamat alongside the demi-humans, while Cyrus’s Blood Ravens and Vulkan’s Salamanders struck the Tau fleet and fought to reach the Blackstone Key.
• Cisrain uploaded the construction templates, and Karamat’s Forge World awakened, shielded the planet from orbital attacks, and drove the Tau fleet into retreat.
• Cisrain established the Human Federation and the Afterlife Employment Service Center, while Vulkan signed a contract and asked for Hill to join the Salamanders.
• Cisrain expanded Gamma World’s forces and resources, and the humans disarmed Tau'an’s forces before crushing the remaining xenos resistance on Karamat.
• Calgar’s force destroyed the Chaos Beacon on Ozrax, but Chaos power grew in the sector, and a Synapse Condenser disaster linked to Chaos killed prisoners and threatened a mortal scientist.
• Cisrain ordered Cyrus to lead an expedition against the Chaos Beacon once the Gravity Slingshot and Whisper Escort were ready, while Koro took wartime command against the approaching Tau.
• Cyrus departed aboard the first Whisper Escort as the artificial neutron star disrupted Tau instruments, and Phi'rios realized Karamat might possess gravity-based faster-than-light travel.
• The Black Legion ravaged Gedi'an, where the Lamenters’ Chaplain rallied the Black Rage-stricken survivors, and Krixius, Atugray, and their brothers charged the enemy.

Cisrain defeated the Tau at Karamat, then used the opening to expand Gamma World’s forces and seize resources across the Eastern Fringe. As his expedition built a new interstellar route and prepared to exploit more worlds, Cyrus’s team suffered an unknown attack and the Tau discovered humans were stripping entire planets.

• Krixius died striking the Chaos Lord, and the Lamenters’ Death Company charged the Black Legion as a strange light appeared in space.
• Cisrain negotiated with the Tau by capturing Supreme Ethereal Am’no, securing a surrender agreement, and seizing a Tau cruiser.
• Cisrain sent Vulkan on an Eastern Fringe expedition, while Mina organized Gamma World’s resources and military expansion.
• Gamma World exploited the Tau’s focus on Damocles Gulf to plunder more than a dozen worlds and develop a legion of Space Marines.
• Cisrain assigned Zephram and Idamas to secure a death world, where they defeated its pirate forces and began building a Gravity Slingshot around a neutron star.
• Cisrain issued trade documents to the Sidler, Farns, and Burit Families, while Cyrus’s team lost its warship after an unknown attacker struck them.
• Human corporations began extracting minerals on Leiqi World and preparing to do the same on another planet in the Lutei System.