Recaps

Lin Fan tested a modified laser gun designed by Delia and Kaos, and the results showed it could devastate Orks but struggled against armor. The weapon was approved for production as the Beast Suppressor Type I Laser Gun, while Delia’s research awaited verification in the Armageddon war.

• General Westad questioned Yarrick about his captive Orks, and Yarrick explained that he had studied their language with limited success.
• Lin Fan tested a standard laser gun on two restrained Orks, finding that it could not penetrate their armor and only injured their unarmored arms at fifty percent power.
• Lin Fan fired the modified gun, whose intense flash and roar made aiming difficult, but its shots caused severe damage to an Ork’s arm and frightened the uninjured Ork into believing it was dying.
• General Westad judged the modified gun suitable for suppressing charging Orks despite its poor range, low power, and ineffectiveness against armor.
• Domisilon began producing the weapon as the Beast Suppressor Type I Laser Gun, and Kaos was assigned to report the project to the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Forge General Gregory reviewed Magos Kaos’s proposed laser gun barrels and approved their production, while reflecting on the loss of the Titan Legion and the dangers of unrestricted research. He returned to increasing Steel Ball’s wartime output, leaving his hope for peaceful technological progress as an unattainable wish.

• Forge General Gregory grieved the Titan Legion’s destruction on Armageddon and resented Mars headquarters for preventing its withdrawal and recovery.
• Magos Kaos sent Gregory designs and production data for a new set of laser gun barrels and requested authorization to manufacture them.
• Gregory examined Kaos’s proposal, judged it a safe rearrangement of known technology, approved it, and reported it to Mars headquarters.
• Gregory recalled a past researcher whose experiment had created a machine that consumed a planet and its 12 billion inhabitants.
• Gregory resumed adjusting Steel Ball’s production lines as the war’s growing demands strained industrial output.

Lin Fan and 3rd Company fought Orks in the lower industrial district, using a Beast Suppressor laser gun to drive them back. When Magos Kaos warned of a likely ambush ahead, Lin Fan went to scout alone, unaware of the exaggerated legends and protective charms the soldiers had made around Captain Soap.

• Lin Fan accompanied Archmagos Kaos while Delia inspected Beast Suppressor production and 3rd Company swept the lower hive for Orks.
• Magos Kaos warned that Orks were nearby, and the Orks emerged from the buildings to attack 3rd Company.
• Lin Fan used the Beast Suppressor to mow down Orks and suppress their charge while Old Jock and the other soldiers returned fire.
• The Orks fled, and Magos Kaos estimated a 78% chance of an ambush ahead.
• Lin Fan ordered his soldiers to wait while he scouted the empty plaza alone, and they accepted because they trusted Captain Soap's reputation.
• The soldiers' increasingly wild stories about Captain Soap's marksmanship and their small protective statues remained unknown to Lin Fan.

Lin Fan and Kaos the Sage fought through an Ork ambush in the industrial district. After the battle, Kaos transformed into Trazyn the Infinite and addressed Lin Fan as the “Subjective One.”

• Lin Fan followed Kaos the Sage into a plaza, where Orks collapsed the tunnel behind them and trapped the pair.
• Outside, the soldiers set up defenses and bet on how long Lin Fan would take to escape, while Old Jock joined in.
• Ghostface and his Blood Axe Kommandos attacked Lin Fan and Kaos, but the two drove the Orks back with gunfire.
• Lin Fan and Kaos planned to sweep the area again to reduce the Ork threat to the industrial district.
• Kaos revealed his true form as Trazyn the Infinite and asked Lin Fan what he should call him.

Lin Fan spoke with Trazyn in the Solemnace Museum and learned that Trazyn had met the first Subjective One, a woman named Bai Huan. When Lin Fan asked about the limits of Subjective Ones' abilities, Trazyn began recalling what Bai Huan had done.

• Trazyn transported Lin Fan from Armageddon to his Solemnace Museum and offered him wine.
• Trazyn explained that he had redirected Lin Fan's drop pod and found him through a War in Heaven device around his neck.
• Trazyn revealed that he had been the first overlord to communicate with the first Subjective One, a woman named Bai Huan.
• Lin Fan said he did not recognize Bai Huan, leaving Trazyn disappointed.
• Lin Fan asked how powerful a Subjective One could become, and Trazyn began retrieving memories of Bai Huan's deeds.

Lin Fan asked Trazyn why Bai Huan had been far more powerful than he was, and Trazyn concluded that Lin Fan’s knowledge of the setting made him fear its dangers and limited him. Trazyn called him an “Immersed One,” leaving Lin Fan troubled by whether he could ever become a true Subjective One.

• Trazyn recounted how Necrontyr superweapons and their attempts to erase a star sector had failed to harm Bai Huan, who later played with the ancient Orks and Aeldari.
• Lin Fan compared himself unfavorably to Bai Huan, explaining that he could be injured, lose consciousness, and had little combat ability beyond shooting.
• Lin Fan told Trazyn how he had come to this world, and Trazyn said his knowledge of the universe’s history, dangers, and future distinguished him from Bai Huan.
• Trazyn explained that Bai Huan knew little about the universe and treated it like a dream, while Lin Fan’s knowledge made him fear attacks and their consequences.
• Trazyn named Lin Fan an “Immersed One,” and said he could not advise him on becoming a true Subjective One because he was only an artificial intelligence bearing Trazyn’s name.

Lin Fan and Trazyn discussed humanity and the Imperium before Trazyn upgraded Lin Fan’s necklace and let him return to his troops. The chapter ended with a scene of Rogal Dorn carrying the wounded Emperor to the Throne after Horus’s defeat.

• Lin Fan asked Trazyn whether he had found GW on ancient Terra, and Trazyn said his archives held no record of it.
• Lin Fan explained that humanity could thrive under good governance, like in Ultramar, but suffered under ineffective rulers on many Imperial worlds.
• Trazyn gave Lin Fan a contact shard and upgraded his necklace with an inertia nullifier that could withstand roughly one Volcano Cannon hit.
• Trazyn said exactly twenty-one minutes had passed since the ambush, then walked out with Lin Fan and revealed that he had delayed them to watch the show.
• Lin Fan discovered his soldiers had been betting on how long he would take to defeat the Orks and resolved to find a commissar to discipline them.
• After Horus’s defeat, Rogal Dorn carried the wounded Emperor toward the Throne, while the Emperor described seeing the Chaos Gods in the Warp.

Delia examined the exhausted workers on a corpse-starch production line and questioned their treatment, while Lin Fan tried to explain why humanity’s natural bodies and ingenuity mattered more than bionic modifications. The chapter left Delia pondering whether life’s capacity for self-reproduction could surpass the reliability of manufactured machines.

• Crypteks gave up trying to erase or alter Delia’s data and assigned her to inspect a starch production line.
• Delia saw that workers and overseers were exhausted, and learned that laborers received only a protein bar and corpse-starch porridge for each eight-hour shift.
• Delia asked why Lin Fan had no bionic modifications, and he argued that life had come before machinery and humanity had advanced through its own ingenuity.
• Lin Fan asked Delia whether machines could learn, adapt, and reproduce as humans did, leaving her to consider whether random living beings could be better than fixed-quality products.

Delia developed a food-production reform after discussing humanity and the Machine God with Lin Fan, and the changes reached Hades Hive’s starving workers. Ron and his family tasted an improved ration bar and went to sleep with a fragile hope for a peaceful future.

• Lin Fan’s ideas about humanity and nature inspired Delia to reconsider industrialization and improve her mechanical body while retaining her human appearance.
• Delia told a Machine God priest that a new production incentive could restore hope and productivity, beginning with an STC fragment for food.
• Ron returned from his factory shift and watched corpse collectors carry away Mrs. Annari, who had fought Orks with a welding torch.
• Ron shared a heavier, sweeter ration bar made under Delia’s reforms with his wife and daughter, and they ate it with tearful satisfaction.
• Ron fell asleep imagining a peaceful Hades Hive where he could walk through an indoor park with his family.

Imperial reinforcements helped secure the Styx Line, and after three months of integration, the Imperium’s forces pushed the Orks back toward Hades Hive. Lin Fan and his troops prepared to join the Space Wolves in an assault on the Ork camp where the Steel Skull Titan Legion had fallen.

• Imperial reinforcements arrived on Armageddon, allowing exhausted Styx Line troops and damaged vehicles to rotate to the rear.
• The Astra Militarum regiments integrated and trained for three months while hive-city residents were armed and trained, building a force of more than fifty million troops.
• Imperial forces advanced across the subcontinent, breaking the Orks into scattered tribes and pushing the front to Hades Hive.
• Lin Fan and his troops prepared to attack an Ork camp alongside the Space Wolves, where the Steel Skull Titan Legion had been defeated.
• Lin Fan saw wrecked Imperial vehicles and buried Skitarii skulls near the camp and anticipated a grueling battle.

Lin Fan’s assault squad prepared to rescue human slaves while Imperial forces and Space Wolves attacked the Ork-held Titan Graveyard. The Space Wolves landed amid the Orks’ defenses, and the chapter ended as their battle began.

• Lin Fan watched the Imperial artillery bombard the Ork positions and coordinated his squad’s plan to locate and rescue human slaves.
• Lin Fan inspected the advanced self-repairing armor Trazyn had given him, while its AI, Little Yi, excitedly commented on the battlefield.
• Kaiser Whitefang and the other Space Wolves descended in drop pods, evaded Ork fire, and crashed into the enemy forces.
• Wodhaus, Bennett, and Kaiser Whitefang led the Blood Claws and Grey Hunters out of their pods to fight the Orks.

Space Wolves cleared the landing zone while Lin Fan led his 3rd Company toward a suspected slave camp. The company reached the camp’s gate and came under fire from Orks, Gretchin, and a Gorkanaut as Lin Fan crawled through the ruins to find a way to disable it.

• Bennett and White Fang led the Space Wolves in clearing the Orks from the landing zone while Wodhaus coordinated covering fire.
• Kaiser Whitefang nodded to Lin Fan, then led the Wolves toward an Ork fortress as Lin Fan ordered his unit toward the slave camp.
• Lin Fan used Little Yi’s scanner to locate 472 humans and 240 Orks near a scrap heap.
• Lin Fan’s 3rd Company reached the camp entrance and was suppressed by a Gorkanaut after Lin Fan destroyed its zappy gun before its Void Shield activated.
• Over a hundred Orks and more Gretchin fired on the 3rd Company while Lin Fan crawled through the ruins, seeking a high point from which to attack the Gorkanaut.

Lin Fan and his squad attacked the Ork camp, where he disabled a Gorkanaut and gave Tech-Priest Delia time to restore it for their use. After the squad pushed deeper into the camp, the chapter ended with Lin Fan thinking about the Hive Mind eating too many Blood Angels on Baal.

• Lin Fan discussed Little Yi's limits, including its inability to replicate itself without the highest-level permissions, and decided to keep its technology secret from the Adeptus Mechanicus.
• Lin Fan leaped onto the Gorkanaut, broke into its head, and killed the Mekboy operating it, stopping the vehicle's gunfire.
• With the Gorkanaut's fire support gone, the 3rd Company exchanged fire with the Orks and Gretchin, who began retreating.
• Lin Fan ordered Tech-Priest Delia to restore the Gorkanaut, and she began modifying its cockpit while troops guarded her.
• Lin Fan led Old Jock and the others deeper into the camp as more Orks arrived, and Damian used the Beast-Tamer Lasgun to help drive back the enemy.
• Lin Fan complained that Little Yi let bullets hit his body instead of protecting him, and Little Yi joked that it feared damage and pain.

Lin Fan used Delia’s modified impact-fuse melta bombs to destroy the Orks’ advancing Killa Kans, forcing the Orks to retreat and attack from a distance. As the 3rd Company checked its losses, Little Yi questioned the existence of Warp energy, and Lin Fan heard the Emperor urge him onward to the Great Crusade.

• Lin Fan opened the ammunition crate and hurled modified melta bombs, melting a Killa Kan and the Orks around it.
• The Orks recognized the danger of Lin Fan’s bombs, retreated, and ordered Gorkanauts to provide suppressive fire from afar.
• Damian’s Beast Tamer laser rifle overheated after he killed many Orks, while Lin Fan asked Little Yi to check the company’s casualties.
• Little Yi reported thirty-seven losses and said she could not clearly detect the Orks because the signal worsened near them.
• Little Yi dismissed Warp energy as superstition, and Lin Fan reflected on the Emperor before hearing him say, “Get moving, rookie. We’re going on the Great Crusade.”

Joseph was captured by the Orks and forced into a slave mine after Haigelas fell. There, he discovered that Private Annie, the soldier he had rescued, had also survived.

• Joseph was herded with the other human prisoners as an Ork boss declared them slaves.
• A nobleman offered the Orks money for his freedom, but the boss judged him a liar and killed him.
• The Orks drove the prisoners deeper into the mine, where Joseph spotted a familiar figure.
• Joseph recognized the figure as Private Annie, the soldier he had rescued on Haigelas's outskirts.

Joseph and Annie survived as slaves in an Ork-run mine after the fall of Heglas Hive, where Joseph secretly prepared a resistance. After hearing that Imperium reinforcements had arrived, he urged the captive soldiers to organize and wait for the artillery strike, since rescue was not guaranteed.

• Annie told Joseph how they had been captured after an Ork shell knocked them unconscious and the Orks traded them to the whip boys.
• Joseph prepared mushroom soup for Annie and the other slaves using a recovered container, a purification tablet, and heat from a factory pipe.
• Joseph told the surviving soldiers that he had found portable communications equipment and could hear military announcements, including news of Imperium reinforcements.
• Joseph warned the soldiers that the Imperium forces might not know they were captive and urged them to resist so the Imperium would learn they were there.
• Annie described the resistance network, improvised weapons, and the Orks' limited firearms, while Joseph identified the repair station as a major threat.
• Joseph ordered the soldiers to prepare and wait for the day Imperium artillery arrived.

Joseph and the other human slaves launched a revolt when Imperium artillery signaled an attack, while Lin Fan and the 3rd Company fought off the Orks with Delia piloting a captured Gorkanaut. Delia’s machine helped turn back the Ork assault, though the slaves still needed Imperial reinforcements to survive.

• Joseph and the other slaves secretly built rebar launchers and waited for the Imperium’s artillery barrage.
• After an explosion at the maintenance station signaled the uprising, the slaves attacked the Orks, killed the Whip Boy, and began destroying machinery.
• Lin Fan and the 3rd Company repelled an Ork assault while smoke from exploding mushrooms obscured the battlefield.
• Delia repaired and modified a Gorkanaut, then joined Lin Fan’s forces and attacked the two advancing Gorkanauts.
• Delia’s Gorkanaut smashed through the Orks as Lin Fan and Little Yi exchanged teasing remarks about Delia.

Lin Fan and the 3rd Company defeated the Orks and joined the surviving resistance fighters from Slave Camp Zone Two. After finding a map to the Orks’ repair yard and witnessing the heavy losses there, Lin Fan reassured the prisoners that the Company had come to save them, though the chapter left their wider rescue mission unfinished.

• Delia’s Gorkanaut crushed the two Ork Gorkanauts, forcing the Ork forces to flee.
• Lin Fan met Joseph and the surviving resistance fighters from Slave Camp Zone Two, who gave him a map of the slave camps and Ork garrisons.
• Lin Fan chose to lead the group toward the Orks’ repair yard to join the resistance fighters there.
• Lin Fan saw the bodies of thousands of prisoners who had died fighting the Orks, while Damian prayed for them.
• Joseph asked whether the Imperial military knew about the prisoners, and Lin Fan reassured him that the 3rd Company had come to save them.

The Imperial Guard and Orks fought across a vast frontal battlefield after the Titans disappeared. Commander Hadlich’s isolated Leman Russ called for artillery support, leaving its crew to endure a bombardment that might hit friend or foe.

• Imperial and Ork forces clashed across three defensive trench lines, with massed infantry, tanks, and artillery forming the main strength of the battle.
• Commander Hadlich’s lone Leman Russ destroyed two Ork ramshackle tanks while Orks surrounded it and its rookie machine gunner panicked.
• Hadlich requested fire support from the 8703rd Artillery Regiment after his tank could no longer sustain combat.
• The artillery regiment fired high-explosive shells at sector 45999, and Hadlich warned his crew to pray they survived the bombardment.

Lin Fan’s group rested in an Ork warehouse, where the newly freed people shared food and regained their strength. Lin Fan planned to infiltrate the Ork industrial zone near Titanfall Basin using Delia’s captured Gorkanaut, though the group would have to crowd aboard.

• Lin Fan opened a blast door by hand, and a 3rd Company soldier told Joseph how Lin Fan had captured Delia’s Gorkanaut.
• Lin Fan’s group settled in the warehouse, ate rations, and gave Annie her first proper meal since becoming a slave.
• Little Yi recalled resistance fighters who had been vaporized after a surveillance system detected their heat source.
• Lin Fan told Joseph and Old Jock that they would advance toward Titanfall Basin to scout the Ork industrial zone and establish a signal point for the fleet.
• Lin Fan explained that Delia’s Gorkanaut could disguise their infiltration, and Joseph worried it could not carry more than four hundred people.

Lin Fan and his companions crossed Ork territory in a disguised Gorkanaut and reached Titanfall Basin, where he prepared to enter the Ork stronghold. The Space Wolves were still fighting nearby, while Trazyn refused Lin Fan’s request for power armor.

• Delia modified the Gorkanaut’s cockpit to disguise it, and Lin Fan’s group traveled through Ork territory while Little Yi found places for them to rest.
• Lin Fan refused to sell the slaves to Orks who tried to buy or steal them, blasted the attackers, and displayed their heads on the Gorkanaut as a warning.
• After several weeks, Lin Fan’s group reached Titanfall Basin and saw the shielded Ork tower at the center of the crater.
• Lin Fan contacted Kaiser Whitefang, who reported that the Space Wolves were fighting an Ork armored unit and had dealt with Gu Juji.
• Lin Fan asked Little Yi about enhancing his body and then asked Trazyn for power armor, but Trazyn refused.

Lin Fan disguised Gorkanaut as a machine from Koss Da’s workshop and passed through the Ork camp with Joseph and the other human captives. He reached Loba’s banner tower, where he discovered the Orks had established Ork University.

• Lin Fan used an Ork-like voice to clear a path through the camp and stopped a Gretchin from cutting the captives’ cables.
• Lin Fan told the guards at the banner tower that Koss Da had been attacked and that he wanted to bring his human slaves to join the Big Mek.
• The Ork captain contacted his superiors and allowed Gorkanaut through the gate, warning Lin Fan to follow the rules and pay for any damage.
• Lin Fan drove Gorkanaut into the tower and saw Mekboyz maintaining its machinery and an illuminated sign welcoming visitors to Ork University.

Lin Fan used Little Yi to fool the Orks into accepting him as a great big mek, and the Gorkanaut was escorted toward the university principal’s office. Delia mistook the display for a revelation from the Machine God and grew jealous of Little Yi, while Trazyn watched and the Tau Commander noticed the Adeptus Mechanicus forces arriving.

• Lin Fan had Little Yi transform the Gorkanaut’s weapon into a supposed Death-Ray Turbo Cannon, terrifying the Gretchin into believing his claim and escorting him to the principal.
• Delia discovered that the cannon demonstration had not come from her or Lin Fan, and Little Yi revealed herself as Lin Fan’s intelligent clothing before returning to armor.
• Delia interpreted Lin Fan’s actions as the Machine God’s trust and thanked him, while Lin Fan misunderstood her reaction.
• Delia asked whether Little Yi was close-fitting, then exchanged binary messages with her and began wishing she could become clothing for the Machine God.
• Trazyn watched Lin Fan’s roleplay from the basement, while the Tau Commander saw Adeptus Mechanicus forces entering the battlefield.

Lin Fan and his crew attacked Ork University, where Principal Loba had hoped to recruit the newcomer and learn about his weapon. After the ambush erupted into a battle, Lin Fan charged Loba and struck him down as another victory.

• Loba waited in his laboratory-like office to meet Lin Fan, hoping to recruit him as a professor and study his cannon.
• Lin Fan ordered an attack, and the Gorkanaut's weapons battered Loba's Electric Shield and wrecked the office, killing the welcoming Gretchin.
• Lin Fan used Little Yi's light-bending trick to deploy Joseph, Old Jock, and the others while Delia fought off the Blood Axes Security Team.
• Loba tried to flee, then fired an arm-mounted cannon at Lin Fan, but the Inertia Eliminator let Lin Fan keep charging.
• Lin Fan raised his chainsword over the terrified Loba.

Lin Fan fought through Loba’s Blood Axe guards as Ork technology, including repulsion shields and teleportation, complicated the battle. After escaping through a random teleporter, Loba vowed revenge and headed to his secret laboratory to activate a secret weapon.

• Loba escaped Lin Fan’s chainsaw attack with a random teleporter, and Lin Fan realized the Orks had developed dangerous new technology.
• Lin Fan and his soldiers took cover when Blood Axe guards advanced in a shield formation and ricocheted their bullets back at them.
• Lin Fan charged the formation, broke through its shields, and slaughtered the guards while his soldiers watched and bet on how quickly he would finish.
• Loba materialized in an Ork toilet, killed the Orks who mocked him, and blew up the toilet with a grenade.
• Loba called Command to order the secret weapon activated, then headed toward his secret laboratory.