Recaps

Amalaga devastated T'au and escaped as the Necrons gathered against a newly revealed Subjective One. Lin Fan and the T'au rebuilt their alliance amid Warp dangers, while the Imperium postponed judgment on the T'au and sent supplies toward Damocles Gulf.

• Amalaga emerged near T'au, used the Emerald Tablet’s word “Life” to destroy the fleet and ravage the planet, then entered the Ethereal Sanctuary and killed the Ethereals.
• Amalaga found a bone plate bearing the True Word “Attach,” but Inamars and the Executioner Dynasty attacked before he could escape T'au.
• Amalaga used a degraded “Death” to annihilate himself and the Necron fleet, then rebuilt his body and evaded a Destroyer while T'au lay in ruins.
• Amalaga took control of a T'au warship and set course for the northern colonies, while Emperor Bennis recovered Inamars and brought him to the Silent King’s assembly.
• Trazyn and Orikan warned the Necrontyr that a second Subjective One had appeared, and the Silent King ordered the dynasties to protect humans and avoid harming them.
• Lin Fan brought Slaanesh to Damocles Gulf to repair its Warp rifts, then helped Shadowsun and Farsight restore order in the shattered T'au Empire and strengthen its alliance with the Imperium.
• Delia and Lin Fan demonstrated the Warp’s danger and the value of blessed weapons to T'au technicians, while the Re-education Department used staged Warp exposure to make defiant T'au more fearful and compliant.
• The High Lords postponed a decision on exterminating the T'au until 472.M42, approved Beast Tamer weapons, arranged supplies for Damocles Gulf, and ordered the Custodes to address traitors obstructing Lin Fan and the Kasare Legion.

Lin Fan and his crew reached a lost human colony, where they uncovered the Finalizers’ history and rescued Oedmeir from a two-dimensional prison. As Oedmeir joined the Imperium’s rebuilding effort, she and Lin Fan sought safer Warp technology and a source of Blackstone, leaving Lin Fan to question Trazyn about her past.

• Lin Fan forced open a hidden barrier around a lost system, and he and Rebecca explored its wreckage before Owen Hill’s forces found them on the colony world.
• Lin Fan helped defend Owen’s city from monsters, then followed Rebecca into the ruined underwater amusement park, where he devoured a creature that had trapped Oedmeir in a two-dimensional prison.
• Oedmeir explained the rise of the Human Federation and the Finalizers, while Lin Fan helped her stop the prison’s self-destruct sequence and learned about the Ascension Throne aboard the Golden Ark.
• Lin Fan brought Oedmeir back to the Last City, where she helped rebuild after the disaster and challenged him over the Imperium’s use of servitors.
• The Emperor met Oedmeir in the Warp, recalled studying under her father, and fought Khorne alongside Slaanesh as Tzeentch relayed Kadur’s message to her.
• Oedmeir explained how Blackstone affected the Warp and tested Gellar Fields, then secretly repaired the Flame’s Warp engine and warned Lin Fan that its Gellar Field was unsafe without Blackstone.
• Lin Fan contacted Trazyn, who obtained coordinates to an Enko Dynasty Blackstone mine in exchange for help finding collectibles, but Lin Fan stopped him from leaving and asked whether he knew Oedmeir and Ers as Doctor Odessus.

Lin Fan and Oedmeir launched a colossal warship to find Blackstone, surviving attacks by Orks and Iron Warriors while an electronic daemon revealed Oedmeir’s debt to an unknown party. Meanwhile, Perturabo revisited memories of Olympia and his atrocities before his simulation collapsed, leaving him to wonder why Fulgrim’s rebellion had brought him back.

• Trazyn recalled his past as Dr. Odessus, promised to introduce Lin Fan to the Storm King, and departed after warning him about unstable Necron dynasties.
• Oedmeir launched Rebecca and used her to shape metal scraps into a colossal warship, then explained that building another would require Blackstone and more resources.
• Lin Fan named the system Grand Hotel and its planets Big Canteen, Stove, Dough-Drop Soup, Blanch, Spicy, and Thirteen-Spice.
• Oedmeir took Lin Fan and Rebecca into the Warp to seek Blackstone, where Lin Fan fought demons until Khorne sent his forces to help him escape.
• The warship reached a battle between Orks and Iron Warriors, and Oedmeir’s shields shattered the Ork fleet as Lin Fan prepared to lure Perturabo’s forces into an attack.
• Oedmeir fought off the Iron Warriors but encountered an electronic demon, which revealed a contract requiring half of the Golden Ark and left the ship’s systems failing.
• Lin Fan and Oedmeir repelled Oest’s boarding party, restored the warship, and landed on a dying planet to mine enough Blackstone for the Gellar Field.
• Perturabo relived Olympia’s fall in a simulation, argued with a machine modeled on his sister, and crushed it after she accused him of rejecting the love he craved.
• Perturabo watched memories of the Iron Warriors enslaving and killing civilians, then his simulation shattered and he wondered why Fulgrim’s rebellion had forced him to return.

Lin Fan captured Perturabo, cleansed his corruption, and gave him room to choose a new life among the settlers. As Perturabo began helping with construction, the story also followed Commissar Cain’s acceptance of Lin Fan’s allies and Sam’s first days in the new city’s work and training system.

• Perturabo led the Iron Warriors against Rebecca’s warship, but Lin Fan baited him into a direct fight and used a Gellar Field and the Emperor’s holy icon to cleanse his corruption.
• Lin Fan brought Perturabo to the settlement, where Oedmeir placed him in stasis and later fitted him with a device that temporarily limited his abilities.
• Delia and Colonel Erika freed Commissar Cain from his collar, and Lin Fan brought him to meet the Emperor and Slaanesh, who explained their alliance and the nature of the Warp.
• Cain joined Erika and Old Jock at a gathering where Krieg sisters danced, and Erika explained that she now fought to build a better life for future generations.
• Perturabo tested his room, escaped in an aircraft, and returned to confront Lin Fan, who offered him work, after learning more about his brothers and The Emperor, Perturabo began considering what he wanted to do for himself.
• Perturabo joined the Krieg Corps’ construction work and told Lin Fan he no longer cared about glory or duty, but wanted to try things he had never done before.
• Sam followed his citizen certificate to a factory, learned to operate its machinery, then attended a technical class and military drills before receiving a meat voucher.
• Oedmeir explained the factory workers’ adjustment schedule and showed Lin Fan the regiment’s upgraded tanks, rejecting his suggestion to build combat mechs as impractical.