Recaps

Cisrain’s forces expanded across the Eastern Fringe while preparing for the Tyranids and manipulating the Tau Empire with Chaos-tainted cargo and information. The Tau discovered the spreading corruption too late, as Titus reached Gamma World and encountered Cisrain and the Emperor’s radiance.

• Cisrain’s expedition fought Dark Eldar on Izakros, rescued Cyrus, and destroyed the Chaos Beacon world with orbital bombardment.
• Cisrain rewarded the survivors and learned that similar Chaos rituals had taken place along their route, while Cyrus warned that Chaos might be drawing the Tyranids toward the region.
• Trajan and Calgar responded to the approaching Tyranids and Angron, and Calgar recalled Titus to investigate Gamma World.
• Skaiqi took command of Gamma World’s Eastern Fringe operation, planned to spread rumors, and was tasked with managing a newly discovered Necron dynasty.
• Titus followed a signal to Imleto, met Cisrain aboard a Blood Ravens cruiser, and witnessed the Emperor’s radiance before Cyrus escorted him to Gamma World.
• Skaiqi directed contaminated cargo toward Tau worlds and human auxiliaries, while Farsight prepared a fleet against Gamma World.
• Chaos-tainted creatures and cargo spread through Tau territory, triggering attacks and mutations as Tau officials investigated survivors and strange events.
• Engra’s reports and anomalous footage carried Chaos symbols through Tau networks, and an Ethereal realized the corruption had spread beyond their ability to stop it.

Gamma World’s campaign against the Tau Empire collided with an Imperial invasion, while escalating battles and the Ethereal Phase Ripper helped give birth to a Chaos domain. The surviving Imperial forces and Blood Ravens reached the device and faced a Chaos Chosen as the Grey Knights began a ritual to contain the threat.

• Aun'Va ordered Gamma World purged as the Tau council debated the threat, while the Imperium gathered forces to crush the Tau Empire.
• Gamma World fired its Light Lance at Tau worlds, destroying targets from afar as the Tau prepared to fight both Gamma World and the invading Imperium.
• Imperial Chapters attacked across the Tau Empire, but Shadowsun’s forces fell back as she secretly prepared to use the Ethereal Phase Ripper.
• Gamma World evacuated Koboi District, then dropped a city-sized structure onto the abandoned hive world, heating the planet and driving out the resistance.
• Cisrain launched a campaign to seize Tau core worlds as Orks, Necrons, and the Imperium added to the Tau Empire’s crises, and Shadowsun chose to light the beacon.
• Warp breaches overwhelmed the fleets and battlefields, while the Red Scorpions’ force vanished and Morians discovered that death and emotion had stirred a Warp storm.
• A Chaos rift engulfed four Tau core worlds and isolated Is III, where Morians and the Blood Ravens sought the Ethereal Phase Ripper as combatants succumbed to Chaos.
• Aun'Va learned that the Warp catastrophe was a gestating Chaos domain, and Morians rallied the Grey Knights and several Chapters to destroy its anchor or overload device.
• The Grey Knights began a ritual while Morians led the assault on the Ethereal Phase Ripper, where a Chaos Chosen confronted the group.

After the Chaos-born rift scarred Is III, Gamma World expanded its reach and launched an expedition against a Necron tomb world. The Necrons retreated, leaving Gamma World with access to a C’tan shard and a new opportunity to advance its technology.

• Theodosius and the loyalists fought Angron until Cisrain emerged through a Webway gate, defeated him, and took him for research.
• The Grey Knights and Blood Raven Librarians sacrificed themselves to stop the fifth Chaos domain, and the survivors returned to reality amid mutations and lasting damage to Is III.
• Stronos dealt with the Chaos-tainted survivors as Kharn and Lucius escaped, while Gamma World expanded its industrial network and began compressing Karamat into a Utopia world.
• Gamma World’s forces discovered Genestealers on another planet and purged its inhabitants, while Cyrus’s Blood Ravens prepared to investigate a suspected Necron site.
• Yalta’s squad found signs of the Necron tomb and came under attack, prompting Talon, Magnus, and Gamma World’s forces to move in as Orks gathered nearby.
• Oukekaosi awakened the Necrons and unleashed the Spirit-Driving Dead Zone, while Gamma World’s forces, the Orks, and Cisrain’s troops fought across the planet.
• Cisrain’s soldiers infiltrated the tomb, copied Necron technology, and altered a Desolator Scorpion Lord as the Necrons’ defenses faltered and Oukekaosi withdrew.
• Gamma World shut down the Dead Zone and began excavating the tomb, where Cisrain met Omisar and accepted the challenge to deceive the Deceiver, while Vetius returned to help study the C’tan shards.

Gamma World harnessed a C'tan shard to expand its weapons and industry, fought off Tyranids, and resurrected Malcador. As alliances formed against it, Gamma World began assessing Tarelia and its people, while Kaz considered seeking refuge there.

• Vetius joined Gamma World's research team under a three-hundred-year contract, and Brown led him through the growing research program powered by the C'tan shard.
• Gamma World connected the shard to its energy grid, supercharged its megastructures and weapons, and began extending its industrial reach across the region.
• Sigismund called for help against the Tyranids, and Gamma World's cannon devastated their fleet before the Hive Mind abandoned part of it to escape.
• Gamma World expanded its mining and military projects as Tau, Chaos, Eldar, and other forces began forming an Anti-Gamma Imperium Alliance.
• Cisrain's researchers resurrected Malcador from an ancient skull, and Malcador awoke ten thousand years later, learned of the Imperium's decline, and began rotating through Gamma World's departments.
• Vulkan and Gamma World's delegates investigated Tarelia, where the nobles sought to preserve their rule and the underhive endured extreme pollution and exploitation.
• Kaz heard that Chaos and xenos had allied against Gamma World and that a Primarch had appeared there, then decided to visit Gamma World as Vulkan's team screened underhive residents for transport.