Recaps

Lin Fan joined the Kasare 37th Regiment, survived a Chaos uprising on Karmaklan, and was named captain of the 3rd Company. During the fleet’s voyage to Armageddon, a Black Legion warrior opened a Warp breach aboard the Flame, and Lin Fan entered a waste pipe to reach the ritual sustaining it.

• Lin Fan resisted the Chaos Gods’ corruption, emerged from a stasis prison, and met Trajan and the Emperor, who sent him to join the Astra Militarum.
• Assigned to the Kasare 37th Regiment as Soap, Lin Fan joined Old Jock’s squad and helped escort tech-priest Monroe Diliya to a repair site.
• Lin Fan exposed Famu as a Chaos cultist, fought through the ensuing uprising, and killed Black Legion warriors while helping survivors escape.
• Colonel Mark and the surviving soldiers regrouped, and Inquisitor Vissi examined Lin Fan before giving him a protective necklace.
• Colonel Mark made Lin Fan captain of the 3rd Company as the Kasare Legion departed Karmaklan to reinforce Armageddon.
• A Black Legion warrior named Ronald sabotaged the Flame and opened a Warp breach, sending Daemons into the ship as Imperial forces fortified the gates.
• Lin Fan and the defenders fought the Daemons at C0 Gate until Vissi’s forces reinforced them, and Lin Fan set out to destroy the ritual at D1347.
• Lin Fan found a secondary waste pipe leading toward the lower decks, tore it open, and leaped inside.

Lin Fan helped the Space Wolves seal a Warp rift before the Flame reached Armageddon, while the Ork invasion devastated the planet’s defenses. Yarrick rallied the underhive gangs and nobles as the Titan Legion was destroyed and the Orks advanced on Hades Hive.

• Wodhaus Ice Wolf shielded the boarding torpedo until it struck the Flame, and Kaiser Whitefang led the Grey Hunters into the corrupted ship to fight daemons.
• Whitefang fought a Bloodthirster while Lin Fan joined Bennett Wolfclaw’s squad, then sealed the rift with his parents’ statue and its power of faith.
• Bennett told Lin Fan about the battle’s heavy losses, and Wodhaus left with Whitefang to reinforce Armageddon and train psychic Blood Claws.
• Yarrick confronted von Strab over the Ork invasion, then recruited Flamethrower Lede and the Chameleon Gang to fight for Hades Hive.
• Orks overran Heglas Hive, while Joseph and Sergeant Karmik’s troops fought a doomed rearguard action against their assault.
• The Imperium’s Titan Legion and Skitarii fought the Orks, but Steel Valiant and then Curtis Mannheim’s Imperator Titan were destroyed in reactor meltdowns.
• Von Strab learned that the Titan Legion and its allies had been wiped out, while Yarrick persuaded Hades Hive’s nobles to prepare for a fight within the hive.

Yarrick seized control of Hades Hive and organized its defense against the Orks, while Lin Fan and Delia faced a Genestealer Patriarch and later boarded a space hulk. The arc left Lin Fan fighting Lucius at the hulk’s altar as the rest of his group was frozen.

• Yarrick defeated Magos Kaos’s resistance, purged Hades Hive’s nobles and magnates, and took temporary control before setting out to meet the advancing Orks.
• Dovell and the Crossroads Fortress defenders repelled Bunglak’s attacks, and Bunglak collapsed and died after breaking through the gate.
• Yarrick’s forces fought off Ork attacks around the industrial district, where Lede killed Dakka Bang Bang and brought Lao Ganma in for questioning.
• Lin Fan and Delia fought off a Genestealer Patriarch after it severed Delia’s tail, and Delia killed it before they returned to the garrison.
• Slaanesh tried to corrupt Delia through a dream, but Khorne intervened with his battle-axe, sparking a clash between the Chaos gods.
• Lin Fan joined the Space Wolves, Battle Sisters, and Imperial troops boarding a space hulk, but Warp interference scattered the forces across it.
• Lin Fan’s group fought through bound Ork souls, reunited with Gevisiting’s forces, and followed a golden needle toward the Warp node.
• Gevisiting opened the altar chamber, but Lucius’s red skull froze everyone except Lin Fan, whom Lucius then attacked in the blood pool.

Lin Fan traveled through the Warp, defeated daemons, and returned to the Space Wolves after helping free Diego. As the Orks invaded Armageddon, defenders including Yarrick, Virgil, and Herbert fought to hold the planet’s cities and port.

• Lucius trapped Lin Fan in the Tesseract Labyrinth, but Lin Fan escaped, crushed his head, and trapped his soul before the Emperor.
• After a Warp portal swallowed him, Lin Fan crossed Khorne’s realm, reached the Brass Citadel, and met Leman Russ, who revealed himself in the arena.
• Khorne attacked Lin Fan and Leman Russ, but the Emperor intervened and sent them toward Kaldor Draigo’s prison.
• Leman Russ and Lin Fan helped Diego escape his seal, and Lin Fan killed Rokasna before Diego sent him back through a rift.
• Lin Fan reappeared during Wodhaus’s attempt to open a Warp gate, then told Kaiser Whitefang and the Grey Hunters that he had fought alongside Leman Russ.
• Lin Fan asked the Emperor about the Subjective Ones, and the Emperor said Tzeentch had revealed that their universe was an illusion controlled by them.
• Orks invaded Armageddon, and Yarrick killed Ughulhard after the Orks broke through the defenses at Hades Hive.
• At Helsreach’s port, Herbert joined the defenders after finding his family dead, while Virgil’s gang attacked the Orks and the battle escalated around the Stompa.