Recaps

Lin Fan returned to Landes, reunited with Delia, and helped guide its people and forces while confronting Inquisitorial suspicion and preparing the 37th Regiment for the future. Trazyn and Orikan discovered that events around Landes were splitting into alternate outcomes, while Lin Fan’s reorganization of the regiment ended with Lieutenant Sura challenging him to prove himself.

• Lin Fan persuaded Krippman to visit Landes, where the Inquisitor accused Sha Si of being a daemon before Lin Fan reunited with Delia and welcomed the Space Wolves.
• Lin Fan exposed and captured the daemon possessing Krippman, then learned from Delia that nine years had passed since his disappearance and that she had kept his colonel’s position open.
• Lin Fan arranged Landes’s defenses with Trazyn’s Blackstone obelisks, helped Marian and Sha Si marry, and faced Slaanesh’s promise to collapse into the Warp when he disappeared.
• Trazyn subdued infiltrating Aeldari and consulted Orikan, who found that predictions around Landes had split into alternate outcomes and ordered the Blackstone Array strengthened.
• Trazyn activated the array and left Kaos to support Lin Fan as the Necron dynasties’ awakening drew nearer.
• Lin Fan reorganized the 37th Regiment, appointed Selina to command the Penitent Army, and arranged for Delia and Rebecca to develop improved communicators.
• Delia and Rebecca discussed a portable learning machine that would let Delia study the Machine God while retaining her human body.
• Lin Fan faced objections to his mixed-unit reorganization, and Lieutenant Sura challenged him to prove his abilities or the regiment would take its grievance to Cain.

Lin Fan and Cain prepared the 37th Regiment to exploit the T'au advance, while Shadowsun led a costly assault on the Divination Tower. The Imperium’s trap closed around the T'au as Lin Fan led his troops into the underground generators for a final close-range clash.

• Lieutenant Sura challenged Lin Fan to a marksmanship contest, but Lin Fan outshot her and then astonished Cain by firing a heavy bolter one-handed while carrying ammunition.
• Lin Fan established evening classes for the Valhallans, and Cain recounted his service and explained how Imperial forces overwhelmed planetary defenses.
• Shadowsun took command of the Third Sphere Expansion as the T'au used diplomacy and military force to seize more than a hundred worlds beyond the Damocles Gulf.
• The Imperium returned to realspace and retook worlds before targeting Covenant Haven, where Lin Fan revealed that the supply world was meant to lure the T'au into a trap.
• Shadowsun's forces landed and fought their way toward the Divination Tower, but Kasare troops, Skitarii, and Imperial weapons inflicted heavy losses on Yan Ou's unit.
• After more than a hundred rotational cycles of siege warfare, Shadowsun ordered elite battlesuits into a final assault, and Yan Ou's forces helped destroy Lord Talen Hockdel's Knight at the tower gates.
• Lin Fan explained that Magos Kaos had deceived Shadowsun into committing her troops, then sent the 37th Regiment to the underground generators as Rebecca disrupted T'au communications and battlesuits.

Lin Fan and the Imperium shifted their campaign against the T'au as the Fourth Expansion’s Warp experiments produced a Greater Good god and the Ethereals deployed Reflection Warriors. The T'au counteroffensive targeted Cain, and the arc ended with Imperial troops fighting the Mirror Soldiers around a black sphere.

• Lin Fan’s forces destroyed the T’au power district and trapped Shadowsun’s fleet, while a dozen T’au ships escaped through an experimental Warp rift and encountered the Greater Good God.
• The Greater Good God announced Aun'Va’s death, and the Emperor and the God-Emperor revealed they had shaped the deity to guide the T’au toward an alliance with the Imperium.
• Lin Fan shared his plan to force the T’au toward peace, while Imperial leaders revised their campaign after prophecies warned of a coming Tyranid attack.
• Corvin Sevraks and the Raven Guard sabotaged T’au gun emplacements, and Sage Kaos cleared Mugula Gulf’s radiation storm so the Imperium could land its forces.
• Aun'Va introduced the Reflection Warriors, and Director Yongtan secretly used captured Raven Guard gene-seed and T’au traits in his experiments to create more of them.
• Shadowsun ordered a counteroffensive aimed at the 37th Regiment and Cain, but Lin Fan fought off T’au battlesuits as Kor'sarro Khan engaged Shadowsun and shadow warriors appeared.
• Rebecca discovered that the Reflection Warriors contained bound creatures, while Delia’s mechanical dog revealed a black sphere and Mirror Soldiers collecting fallen troops.
• Cain deployed Kastin and Selina’s forces against the Mirror Soldiers, and he struggled against one until Jurgen’s sniper round struck its helmet.

Lin Fan rescued the Imperial forces from the Reflection Warriors and proposed a path to peace between the Imperium and the T'au. The Imperium and Farsight’s Enclaves agreed to a tentative alliance, while Amalaga escaped through the Warp with the living continent.

• Cain and the survivors escaped the black sphere after Jurgen tore it apart, and Lin Fan cleansed the Warp-corrupted soldiers.
• Lin Fan and the White Scars fought their way into the research facility, where they discovered that Director Yongtan was the Haemonculus Amalaga.
• Lin Fan restored Colvin and Wodhaus, then led the survivors out of the collapsing facility and called for peace between the Imperium and the T'au.
• Lin Fan told the Space Marines he wanted to rebuild the Human Federation and establish a neutral place where different races could negotiate.
• Farsight offered to bring the Farsight Enclaves into an alliance with the Imperium, and Lin Fan invoked the Alien Execution Edict to support negotiations.
• The Imperium and Farsight agreed to avoid territorial expansion and unprovoked attacks, while Shadowsun set out to secure a treaty with the T'au Empire.
• Shadowsun revealed that Aun'Va had been captured as Yongtan tortured him and opened the living continent’s Warp-radiating core.
• Yongtan became Amalaga, pulled the continent into the Warp, and then guided it out of the Formless Wastes.