Recaps

Yarrick and the defenders of Hades Hive endured an Ork assault while Lin Fan and his company fought through the boarded Imperial ship and joined the hive’s defense. After the Imperial forces secured a landing zone and the Kasare Legion arrived, Delia presented her findings about Ork spores, technology, and Waaagh! energy, leaving the war council considering how to exploit Ork beliefs.

• Bonecrusher Salaka ordered Bad Gut to withdraw the Orks from the port and head for Hades Hive, while Waaagh! energy erupted across the harbor after the main force left.
• Kaos the Sage fitted Yarrick with Ughulhard’s power claw, and Yarrick used it to kill an Ork boss before Orks began calling him Dead-Eye.
• Bone Uncle’s forces launched a large attack on Hades Hive, and Yarrick’s troops retreated into the city as Orks devastated its defenses and factories.
• Cassimian’s fleet reached Armageddon as Lin Fan and his company fought Orks aboard their ship, where Lin Fan’s precise shooting killed more than a hundred and fifty attackers.
• Lin Fan provoked Orks into fighting among themselves and helped repel their assault, while Yarrick’s forces and the Last Bastion troops fought to clear Emperor’s Word Plaza for a landing zone.
• Yarrick and Lede fought Crotch Chopper in the music hall, where a drop pod crushed the Ork boss and Lede died after asking Yarrick if he had been a good soldier.
• Lin Fan joined Yarrick’s command, and the Kasare Legion landed at Emperor’s Word Plaza as Yarrick recovered the dog tags of the dead and told Domisilon that Lede had been killed.
• At the war council, Delia explained Ork spores, Waaagh! energy, and how Ork beliefs affected their weapons, then proposed making lasguns louder and brighter to exploit those beliefs.

Lin Fan helped turn the Imperial war effort on Armageddon, rescuing prisoners and leading them toward the Orks’ industrial stronghold. He infiltrated Ork University in a disguised Gorkanaut, attacked Loba, and learned that the Orks possessed dangerous new technology.

• Lin Fan tested the Beast Suppressor, and Domisilon began producing it after General Westad approved its use against charging Orks.
• Trazyn revealed his identity to Lin Fan, took him to Solemnace, and called him an Immersed One before returning him to his soldiers.
• Delia changed her views on industry and helped improve workers’ rations, while Imperial reinforcements arrived and began driving the Orks back across Armageddon.
• Lin Fan fought through an Ork camp, disabled a Gorkanaut, and joined Joseph and the surviving prisoners after they rose against their captors.
• Delia restored an Ork Gorkanaut, and Lin Fan used it to guide rescued prisoners toward Titanfall Basin while keeping them from being recaptured.
• Lin Fan disguised the Gorkanaut and bluffed his way into Ork University, where Little Yi helped him pose as a powerful visitor.
• Lin Fan attacked Loba’s office, deployed Joseph and the others, and charged Loba despite his cannon fire, but Loba escaped using a random teleporter.
• Lin Fan broke through the Blood Axes’ shield formation, while Loba ordered a secret weapon activated and went to his hidden laboratory.

Lin Fan disappeared after defeating Bone Uncle, then found Jaghatai Khan in the Webway and joined him in seeking nanite technology through Commorragh’s Bottom Line Competition. The pair reached the race amid Scourge attacks and a growing pursuit by Yilafren.

• Rokasna and Loba destroyed their giant machines, but Lin Fan’s holy icon shielded the Imperial forces from the falling wreckage and Trazyn captured the daemon for his collection.
• Lin Fan and the Imperial forces hunted Bone Uncle, and Lin Fan shattered his armor before Tzeentch’s dice made them both vanish from the battlefield.
• Dovell grieved for the unknown dead of Heglas Hive, while Yarrick refused to govern Armageddon and departed.
• In the Webway, Lin Fan met Jaghatai Khan, who recognized the corruption in Horus’s envoy and fleet after Lin Fan challenged him to reconsider the Imperium’s cruelties.
• The Khan brought Lin Fan to Commorragh, where they enlisted the Haemonculus Gukalad to build a motorcycle and learned about the Bottom Line Competition.
• Lin Fan and the Khan escaped Scourges and other pursuers while Vect watched the arena’s chaos, then raced toward the competition’s track.
• Yilafren kissed Lin Fan and joined him and the Khan, naming their team the Kissing Squad before speeding away from the Khan’s gunfire.

Lin Fan and Khan survived the Dysjunction and sought help in Commorragh, where they met the tortured survivors of Lorn. Sister Rys escaped a Drukhari prison with the captives and returned to the ranch, leaving her determined to seek revenge as Lin Fan and Khan suspected Alpharius was involved.

• Khan pursued Yilafren through the race as Amara and the Drukhari attacked, and Yilafren escaped with Lin Fan and Khan into a Dysjunction storm.
• The Emperor appeared in the storm, spoke with Lin Fan and Khan about the Primarchs and the Imperium, then sent them back to Commorragh.
• Yilafren brought Lin Fan and Khan to Old Ironhead, who repaired Little Yi before Khan subdued him over his demand for payment.
• Lin Fan and Khan found the survivors from Lorn, and Sister Rys explained how xenos had fused and mutated them while she comforted them with her faith.
• Canoness Lucia and the Battle Sisters defended Martyrs' Cathedral, but Aosabaier and Amalaga defeated them and captured the survivors.
• Amalaga tormented Lucia with fabricated memories, while Rys and the other Sisters searched their prison and reunited with Aurora.
• Rys and the Sisters joined Three-Eyes and the captives in resisting the Wracks, and Aurora defeated Hesahol before giving Rys a Holy Hand Grenade.
• Rys used the grenade to break the prison barrier and lead the survivors back to the ranch, where she declared her desire for revenge as Lin Fan and Khan suspected Alpharius's involvement.