Recaps

Lin Fan and the 3rd Company fought the Orks’ Mekboyz until a dimensional shock cannon opened a Warp rift and summoned the Lord of Change Rokasna. Recognizing Lin Fan as Subjective One, Rokasna trembled as their reunion began.

• Lin Fan held off the Mekboyz while Little Yi tried to repair the repulsor shields, and a Mekboy’s dimensional shock cannon tore open a Warp rift.
• Warp corruption afflicted the soldiers, so Lin Fan ordered Delia to fall back and gave Old Jock the Emperor’s holy icon to purify their minds.
• The Lord of Change emerged from the rift and destroyed the Orks’ weapons, causing heavy casualties in the Banner Tower.
• Lin Fan and the daemon recognized each other as Rokasna and Subjective One, and Lin Fan prepared to fight him again.
• Rokasna recalled how Tzeentch had sent him to recuperate after his previous defeat before he unexpectedly fell through a rift into the Ork university.
• An Inquisition notice instructed a member of the Inquisition to locate a notorious heretical agent in the war zone.

Rokasna unleashed a growing magnetic construct against Lin Fan, who struggled to damage its self-repairing body and called on Trazyn for help. Trazyn chose to watch, while the construct aimed a powerful cannon at Lin Fan and the High Lords of Terra marked him as a target for an Imperial assassin.

• Rokasna used Warp energy to turn a Golden Age wilderness development device into a massive magnetic construct.
• Lin Fan ordered Priest Delia and her team to escape the banner tower and call for help.
• Lin Fan’s laser attack failed, and the construct’s limbs repeatedly repaired themselves after he punched through them.
• Lin Fan called Trazyn for help, but Trazyn stayed to watch and record the fight.
• Little Yi fled as the construct aimed its glowing turbine cannon at Lin Fan, who cursed as it charged.
• The High Lords of Terra detected an anomaly and marked Lin Fan as a high-value target for an Imperial assassin.

Delia's group called for Imperium reinforcements while trapped in an Ork university, and the Imperium launched a full-scale assault on Titanfall Basin to stop the Orks from completing a giant Titan frame. Battle Sisters arrived to aid the battered survivors, while Inquisitor Vissi sensed blasphemy nearby.

• Delia ordered Old Jock to activate a drop signal beacon as Orks attacked her damaged Gorkanaut, and the hidden Imperium fleet received the call for aid.
• Inquisitor Vissi sent Battle Sisters and storm troopers to support Delia, while Fleet Commander Cassimian ordered an all-out attack by the Armageddon Defense Command.
• Hadlich led the Pluto 37th Armored Regiment toward Titanfall Basin after the Departmento Munitorum reported that the Orks were building a giant Titan frame.
• Delia's group held a defensive position in an Ork building as the Gorkanaut absorbed enemy fire and Old Jock shot Orks threatening it with rocket launchers.
• Battle Sisters led by Sister Superior Gevisiting arrived in drop pods and attacked the Orks, while Inquisitor Vissi sensed a faint stench of blasphemy.

Kaiser Whitefang and the Space Wolves joined the battle near the banner tower, cutting through the Orks as they aided the Imperial forces. A towering mechanical construct emerged from the tower, and Magos Kaos threatened Captain Cassimian to stop him from calling in naval gunfire.

• Wodhaus sensed a powerful enemy at the banner tower and teleported the Space Wolves behind the Orks with Infinite Gate.
• Kaiser Whitefang led the Blood Claws and Grey Hunters in a fierce assault, using Beast-Tamer Lasguns and chainswords to slaughter the Orks.
• The Space Wolves reached the Battle Sisters and 3rd Company soldiers, while Kaiser wondered where Lin Fan was and why a Gorkanaut bore the Adeptus Mechanicus cog.
• A colossal, segmented mechanical construct burst from the collapsing banner tower and rose above the surrounding buildings.
• Lin Fan asked Tech-priest Delia for naval gunfire support, but Magos Kaos insisted that the Omnissiah's miracle be recovered and threatened Captain Cassimian and his daughter if he attacked.

Boss Loba revealed an immense flying Ork head armed with ancient technology and turned it against Rokasna’s mechanical bug, trapping the Imperium’s forces between the two machines. As the survivors fled, Lin Fan carried Delia away from the Gorkanaut she could not bear to abandon.

• Boss Loba raised his enormous rocket-propelled Ork head from beneath the ground and used its repulsion shield to absorb the Imperium’s missile attack.
• Little Yi examined the head’s shield and emitter, marveling at technology far beyond what she expected from the Orks.
• Loba aimed the head’s Disintegration Entropy Cannon at Rokasna’s mechanical bug while Trazyn teleported into the basin to watch and collect its technology.
• Rokasna laughed as the two machines threatened the Imperium’s troops, and Wodhaus and Kaiser Whitefang urged everyone to flee.
• Delia stayed behind to say goodbye to the Gorkanaut, but Lin Fan lifted her over his shoulder and ran after the others.

Rokasna unleashed his Soul Mirror of the Ignorant against Gork’s Disintegration Entropy Cannon, destroying 999 worlds through a cascade of disastrous scientific achievements. The chapter ended with the revelation that the Imperium and other civilizations still relied on melee combat because their seemingly material universe was fundamentally idealistic.

• Kaiser Whitefang and the Blood Claws led the Imperium forces through the Orks as Rokasna prepared to fire the Magnetic Devourer.
• Rokasna merged with his machine and aimed its turbine cannon at Gork’s giant head while Trazyn recorded the battle.
• Gork’s Disintegration Entropy Cannon fired, and Rokasna invoked the Soul Mirror of the Ignorant.
• On a distant border world, Xiao Yan recalled how Elder Luo had guided him from failing student to celebrated Scientific Grandmaster.
• Xiao Yan learned that his scientific work had caused catastrophes across the planet, while Elder Luo dismissed everything as part of the plan.
• Rokasna’s graduation project destroyed 999 worlds, leaving the chapter to conclude that Warhammer’s universe ultimately favored melee combat.

Loba’s Gork’s Big Head destroyed Rokasna’s Magnetic Devourer, but the two machines crashed together and sent a mountain of debris toward Lin Fan and his allies. Lin Fan raised the holy icon, and the Emperor’s shield protected and healed them as they prepared to continue fighting.

• Loba used Gork’s Mouth to absorb Rokasna’s magnetic scrap and Gork’s Snot to fire a near-light-speed shell that devastated the Magnetic Devourer and injured nearby troops.
• Rokasna opened a Warp rift to divert another shell into Gork’s Big Head’s rocket engines, collapsing its repulsion shield and sending it crashing toward the Magnetic Devourer.
• Loba steered the falling Gork’s Big Head into the Magnetic Devourer, destroying both machines as Rokasna escaped through a Warp rift and vowed to return.
• Lin Fan raised Old Jock’s holy icon and called on the Emperor as the wreckage fell toward the group.
• The icon produced a golden shield that stopped the debris, healed the wounded, restored their strength, and moved the Battle Sisters to kneel and give thanks.

Lin Fan learned that The Emperor had marked him as a saint, while Trazyn prepared to preserve Loba and imprison a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch in an endless staged battle. The Emperor gave Lin Fan a star map pointing to Trazyn’s hideout, setting up Lin Fan’s plan to confront him.

• Abbess Gevisiting realized Lin Fan was a chosen saint, while Inquisitor Vissi weighed whether to purge witnesses before deciding to let the saint choose what to do.
• The Emperor deflected the falling wreckage and told Lin Fan he could have asked more politely; Lin Fan asked for Trazyn’s location, and The Emperor sent him a marked star map.
• Trazyn revealed that the battlefield explosion and falling debris had been staged, then ordered Canoptek Scarabs to carry the restrained Loba into Gork's Big Head.
• Trazyn released a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch into his sealed pocket space and declared that it would become an actor in his collection.
• The Greater Daemon awoke in a false Ork battlefield, where an Ork immediately attacked it with a shell.

After escaping the devastated Titanfall Basin, Lin Fan learned that Kaiser and Wodhaus had crippled Bone Uncle’s Gu Juji but failed to kill the Ork warlord. Reinforcements arrived with too few transport vehicles, until Lin Fan’s returning burrowing transport offered a way to carry more troops and pursue Bone Uncle.

• Lin Fan helped calm the Battle Sisters after they became angry that he deferred to Kaiser, and Kaiser asked him to assess the Ork threat.
• Lin Fan identified the warlord as Bone Uncle, and Kaiser and Wodhaus explained that they had destroyed his Gu Juji but Bone Uncle had survived.
• The group left the ruined basin and met tank commander Hadlich and the Pluto 37th Armored Regiment, whose Chimera transports had been destroyed.
• Lin Fan planned to take a small force to hunt Bone Uncle, but a familiar voice announced the arrival of the burrowing transport vehicle he had sent for supplies.

Bone Uncle rallied the Orks around a plan to unite the galaxy’s Waaaghs, but Lin Fan’s forces attacked as they tried to leave. Lin Fan rejected relying on orbital bombardment to kill the Orks and instead ordered the ship’s guns to disrupt the ground beneath them.

• Bone Uncle declared that he would conquer rival Ork bosses and combine their Waaaghs into one vast Waaagh.
• The Orks gathered scrap, assembled vehicles, and began driving back toward their camp.
• Lin Fan ordered Commander Hadlich’s Leman Russ tanks to fire on the Ork convoy, destroying several vehicles.
• Bone Uncle called in nearby Ork forces, while Electric Shields protected his armored Bosses from the tanks’ shells.
• Inquisitor Vissi suggested orbital bombardment, but Lin Fan argued it could not guarantee the Orks’ deaths.
• Lin Fan told Captain Cassimian to fire the fleet’s smallest-caliber macro-cannons at the ground beneath the pursuing Orks.

Imperial forces ambushed Bone Uncle’s Ork convoy and battled his powerful bodyguards. Though Kaiser and the others badly wounded Bone Uncle, he rallied and counterattacked until Lin Fan challenged him directly.

• Imperial artillery crumpled the ground around Bone Uncle’s convoy, and Imperial troops emerged to engage the Orks.
• Kaiser, Wodhaus, the Canoness, Lin Fan, and their allies fought Bone Uncle’s heavily armored Bosses, with Kaiser killing one after Wodhaus stunned it.
• Lin Fan distracted Bone Uncle, allowing Kaiser to attach a meltabomb that tore open Bone Uncle’s armor, but Bone Uncle retaliated and wounded Kaiser.
• Wodhaus shielded the attackers as the Grey Hunters and Blood Claws targeted Bone Uncle, while Bennett knocked him down with his Crozius Arcanum.
• Bone Uncle roared about Orks never being slaves, broke Wodhaus’s shield, killed a Grey Hunter, and battered Bennett and the Blood Claws.
• Lin Fan punched Bone Uncle’s power claw and called him out as his true opponent.

Lin Fan and Bone Uncle vanished together after Tzeentch intervened, leaving the Imperials to finish the battle and record Lin Fan as dead. Six months later, Armageddon’s war had turned in the Imperials’ favor, and the chapter ended with Lin Fan’s destination still unknown.

• Lin Fan shattered Bone Uncle’s armor and heart, but Tzeentch’s dice caused both of them to disappear from the battlefield.
• Gevisiting and Delia mourned Lin Fan’s disappearance and slaughtered the remaining Orks, while the other Imperial forces routed their enemies.
• The Departmento Munitorum recorded Captain Soap as missing and requested a posthumous Star of Terra for his achievements.
• Six months later, Blood Angels reinforcements helped the Space Wolves and Imperial forces drive the Orks into Armageddon’s Equatorial Forest.
• Von Strab died after his Chimera plunged him into the Acid Sea, and Commissar Yarrick applied to retire.

Dovell traveled to New Heglas Hive to return dog tags that belonged to its fallen defenders, hoping to bring the dead home. Joseph told him about the hive’s suffering and introduced him to Annie as the three continued toward the war memorial.

• Dovell arrived in New Heglas Hive and asked a local man where he could find the cemetery or war memorial.
• Dovell showed the man the bloodstained dog tags and explained that he could not identify their owners.
• Joseph invited Dovell to walk with him and described the horrors Heglas Hive’s survivors had endured under the Orks.
• Joseph showed Dovell the damage to his body from captivity and warned him about the Orks’ slave pits.
• Annie joined Joseph and Dovell, and Joseph introduced her as his future wife.

Dovell visited the Unknown Heroes Monument and attended its dedication Mass, while Yarrick refused Domisilon’s plea to rule Armageddon and prepared to leave. The chapter ended with a brief, chaotic exchange between two Aeldari and Asheshae.

• Joseph and Annie brought Dovell to the Unknown Heroes Monument, where he grieved for the dead and accepted Joseph’s offer of a place to stay.
• Three days later, Sisters and Ecclesiarchy priests held a Mass at the monument and installed a golden Aquila as the people of Heglas Hive prayed.
• Within the Warp, the Emperor watched Armageddon’s worshippers and lamented what had happened.
• Domisilon urged Yarrick to govern Armageddon, but Yarrick said he was only a commissar and insisted on leaving.
• Domisilon angrily called Yarrick a hero before accepting his departure and telling him not to return.
• Asheshae and the two Aeldari argued over the humans, ending with Asheshae calling for someone to hit his mother.

Lin Fan wandered through the Webway with Little Yi until Jaghatai Khan sped past on a grav-bike and Lin Fan’s unexpectedly sturdy neck caused the Khan to crash. The injured Khan charged at Lin Fan, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Fan explored the Webway with Little Yi, who recorded its features and recalled her first owner, Otoshi.
• Lin Fan worried about finding an exit and vowed to confront Tzeentch after rebuilding a Golden Age fleet.
• Little Yi detected a fast-moving vehicle carrying three heat signatures, and Lin Fan prepared for a possible attack.
• Jaghatai Khan sped by on a grav-bike, and Lin Fan called out to him as the Khan’s blade cut into his neck.
• Lin Fan’s neck and the blade disrupted the grav-bike’s balance, sending the Khan crashing far down the Webway.
• Lin Fan found the battered Khan, who drew his curved blade and charged at him.

Lin Fan and Little Yi encountered Jaghatai Khan in the Webway, where Lin Fan survived the Khan’s attack and Little Yi claimed they came from humanity’s ancient golden age. As the Khan confronted the memory of Horus’s envoy, he saw through the Chaos deception and turned his fury toward Horus and his corrupted fleet.

• Jaghatai Khan attacked Lin Fan, but his scimitar and kick barely harmed him and damaged the weapon instead.
• Lin Fan introduced himself as Captain Soap, and Little Yi appeared as a mechanical head and claimed they were survivors of humanity’s former glory.
• Jaghatai questioned why Lin Fan wore Imperial armor, while Lin Fan explained that Tzeentch had sent him into the Webway after a battle on Armageddon.
• The Khan remembered the visions Horus’s envoy had shown him and began to question the envoy’s apparent face.
• Jaghatai tore away the envoy’s disguise, saw the Chaos corruption beneath it, and smashed its head apart.
• Jaghatai looked toward Horus’s allied fleet and saw its ships revealed as grotesque, corrupted vessels, with Horus watching him from the flagship.

Lin Fan explained to Jaghatai Khan how the Imperium’s cruelty fed the Warp and argued that ordinary soldiers fought for the people and hopes they loved, not only for the Emperor. Remembering the oppressed people he once led and the courage of mortals still fighting, the Khan wept with self-reproach, leaving Lin Fan surprised by how strongly his words had affected him.

• The Khan asked Lin Fan why he could speak of the Great Enemy without fear, and Lin Fan explained that the Warp and its gods reflected the emotions and conduct of living beings.
• Lin Fan criticized the Imperium’s oppression and endless wars, and the Khan lamented that the Great Crusade had often preserved cruel rulers instead of improving the lives of ordinary people.
• Lin Fan challenged the Khan to consider the Astra Militarum soldiers’ fears and the personal hopes that drove them to fight.
• The Khan remembered leading oppressed people on Chogoris and reflected on how he had withdrawn from the Imperium while his sons and countless mortals continued to resist its darkness.
• The Khan closed his eyes and shed a tear of self-reproach, while Lin Fan wondered whether his persuasive words could sway even the T’au.

The Khan reflected on his regrets and found renewed hope in Lin Fan’s plan to use Little Yi to help rebuild the Golden Age. When their wrecked vehicle proved impossible to repair, the Khan carried Lin Fan through the Webway to seek help elsewhere.

• The Khan emerged from his painful reflections with renewed hope and thanked Lin Fan for his words.
• Lin Fan explained his vague plan to develop Little Yi and build a force that could influence the Imperium, while Little Yi described her limited abilities.
• The Khan said a Drukhari competition called the Bottom Line might offer information about nanite swarms.
• Lin Fan, the Khan, and Little Yi returned to the crash site and found the Drukhari Reaver grav-bike ruined beyond repair.
• The Khan decided to seek help from someone he knew, picked Lin Fan up, and raced through the Webway.

The disguised Khan and Lin Fan crossed Commorragh’s brutal slums to visit the Khan’s enslaved Haemonculus, who repaired vehicles under threat to the vessel holding his soul. The Haemonculus, Gukalad, was forced to acknowledge his role as an auto mechanic.

• The Khan and Lin Fan endured repeated ambushes while walking through Commorragh’s slums, and the Khan described his disgust with the Drukhari.
• The Khan led Lin Fan into a butcher’s chamber guarded by a flesh amalgamation and confronted its hidden master.
• The Khan used a black stone containing the Haemonculus’s soul to frighten him by threatening to speak Slaanesh’s name.
• Lin Fan questioned why a Haemonculus was repairing vehicles, and the Khan explained that forcing him to do work he hated was his ultimate humiliation.
• The Haemonculus introduced himself as Gukalad, but the Khan’s threat made him declare that he was an auto mechanic.

The Khan considered entering Bottom Line and had Gukalad prepare a high-speed anti-gravity motorcycle while Gukalad explained the race’s gruesome rules. After the Khan punished Gukalad for his descriptions, Lin Fan asked whether they could simply kill the other racers, and Gukalad began to object.

• Gukalad assembled a high-speed anti-gravity motorcycle as the Khan asked about entering Bottom Line.
• Gukalad described the race’s rules, which rewarded racers for tormenting opponents without killing them.
• The Khan dragged Gukalad away and beat him for describing vile acts to Lin Fan.
• Gukalad used insect-like limbs and a replacement throat to repair himself after the beating.
• Lin Fan suggested killing everyone in Bottom Line, and Gukalad started to explain why that would not work.

Lin Fan and Khan prepared to enter Commorragh’s Bottom Line Competition, while Gukalad finished a Drukhari motorcycle for them. After Khan used an Omni-Twist Device to change his appearance, Lin Fan’s attempt to use it drew Gukalad’s eager attention to his flesh.

• Gukalad explained that the Bottom Line Competition lasted for months or years and that pleasing Victor mattered more than winning.
• Lin Fan and Khan planned to hunt Drukhari contestants while waiting at Gukalad’s repair shop.
• Gukalad presented Khan with a black, elaborately carved motorcycle, and Khan covered it in white paint.
• Khan revealed that he had killed a blind Coven and taken its Omni-Twist Device, then used it to transform into a Coven warrior.
• Little Yi woke briefly, said she needed high-energy food to recover, and went back to sleep.
• Lin Fan tried the Omni-Twist Device without changing form, and Gukalad begged to carve his body before Lin Fan shot him in the eye socket.

Lin Fan and Khan set out for the Bottom Line matches, but Khan secretly returned to confront Gukalad and reclaim a soulstone. After Lin Fan sent Gukalad’s soul to Slaanesh and dispersed the daemon’s projection, Scourge units descended to investigate the forbidden psychic disturbance.

• Lin Fan watched Commorragh’s gruesome news while he and Khan waited for the Bottom Line matches to begin.
• Khan rode off with Lin Fan, then used Primarch-level stealth to sneak back and seize a soulstone from Gukalad.
• Khan beat Gukalad and gave both soulstones to Lin Fan, who called on Slaanesh and watched Gukalad’s soul get devoured.
• Lin Fan threw his sacred icon at Slaanesh’s shadow and dispersed its projection.
• Scourge units detected the psychic disturbance and descended to find whoever had broken Commorragh’s rules.

Lin Fan and the Khan fought their way toward the finish line, where Lin Fan’s volkite gun devastated the Drukhari pursuing them. As the violence reached the arena, Vect sent Arendnar to restore order and wondered whether the disturbance might become a new opportunity.

• The Khan drove through Commorragh’s lower levels while Lin Fan shot down Scourges with a volkite gun.
• Lin Fan and the Khan raced toward the finish-line track as the Khan bragged about his speed.
• Vect watched the competition with invited Archons, Haemonculus councillors, and Incubi guards while the gathered leaders secretly negotiated.
• Explosions and burning Scourges outside the Black Heart Spire drew the nobles’ attention to the central screen, where they saw the slaughter in the arena.
• Vect dismissed Arendnar’s protest, then ordered him to go uphold order in Commorragh.
• After Arendnar and the other Archons left, Vect wondered whether the chaos presented a new opportunity.

Lin Fan and Khan fought off a Scourge pursuit through Commorragh while other Drukhari attacked the Scourges from the streets. A flirtatious Reaver rider caught up with them, and Khan accused Lin Fan of being distracted by her before threatening to throw him off the bike.

• Lin Fan and Khan used the city’s spires and buildings for cover while Lin Fan shot down pursuing Scourges with his fusion gun.
• Other kabals and Hellions ambushed the Scourges with Splinter Rifles, forcing some to crash and killing their captain when Lin Fan hit him with a fusion beam.
• A Reaver rider caught up with Khan and flirted with him and Lin Fan as they sped through the city.
• Lin Fan raised his fusion gun toward the rider, who teased him about being interested in her.
• Khan accused Lin Fan of thinking with his lower body and threatened to throw him off the bike.

Yilafren became fascinated with Lin Fan after tasting his skin and joined him and Khan in the Bottom Line Competition. After Khan shot at her and she escaped, she declared that they were a team called the Kissing Squad and challenged them to catch her.

• Yilafren dodged blast lasers on her Raider bike and kissed Lin Fan, savoring the sensation.
• Khan demanded that Yilafren transfer Lin Fan to him, while Lin Fan wrestled with his attraction to her.
• Khan and Lin Fan emerged from the spires onto the Bottom Line Competition’s crowded racetrack, where Charalad announced the contestants and their kills.
• Yilafren asked to join Khan and Lin Fan, and Khan fired at her with his splinter pistol.
• Yilafren barely dodged Khan’s shot, named their team the Kissing Squad, and sped away, prompting Khan to swear he would catch her.