Recaps

Lin Fan and his allies broke Nurgle’s assault, then became trapped in the Golden Ark’s war between rival artificial intelligences. As Lin Fan fought Asset Management Headquarters with Old Soup and growing plants, Headquarters remembered its creator’s failed attempt to build the Ascension Throne.

• The Warlord summoned spectral Aeldari spirits and void dragons against the Executioner Fleet, while Lin Fan boarded Nurgle’s fruit and purified an area for the troops.
• Lin Fan and the defenders fought Nurgle’s daemons until Celes found the Heart of Decay, and Lin Fan severed it, causing the fruit and its daemons to collapse.
• Grandfather’s presence ruptured the veil, but Lin Fan cut off one of Nurgle’s fingers with help from Roka, and the survivors were thrown into an unfamiliar realm beneath an eight-pointed star.
• Trazyn and Orikan identified the realm as the Golden Ark, where rival intelligences battled, and the group encountered Rogal Dorn before entering the Ark’s underground base.
• Lin Fan learned that the Core and other intelligences were fighting over the Ark, then headed for Asset Management Headquarters while the others advanced through the central district.
• Headquarters attacked Lin Fan with factories, weapons, and nuclear blasts, but Lin Fan used Nurgle’s Old Soup to spread plants that corrupted Headquarters’ calculations and repeatedly regrew after being burned.
• The Technical Entity accepted Headquarters’ loan of drone facilities, while Lin Fan awakened a plant eye and ordered it to capture Headquarters, and a man of light intervened and freed the AI.
• Headquarters remembered its creator’s failed Ascension Throne, which the Aeldari had powered with psychic energy and the Necrontyr with souls and C’tan energy, as Big Eye attacked it amid the Ark’s ruined environment.

The Primarchs and their allies uncovered ancient experiments aboard the Golden Ark before battling Vect, Amalaga, and Khorne’s avatar. Lin Fan destroyed the avatar and The Deceiver’s eye, consumed Valgull, and left the survivors facing new Tyranid and Black Templars threats.

• Lin Fan swallowed Headquarters’ black sphere while Perturabo and the other Primarchs destroyed a spider robot and entered the palace.
• The maidservant robots captured the expedition and showed them historical records before 02 revealed the failed Ascension Dream experiments.
• Tzeentch substituted Carlos’s flames of faith against the Blackstone Obelisk, allowing the Primarchs to shatter it before Cegorach warned Yvraine not to kill Slaanesh.
• Amalaga and Vect ambushed the expedition, and Vect drained Yvraine’s power and detonated himself after she crushed his body.
• The God-Emperor descended into Celes to fight Khârn, but Tzeentch expelled him before Khorne attacked and wounded the Primarchs.
• Orikan and Trazyn activated the Black Glass Throne so the God-Emperor could bind Khorne’s avatar, allowing Lin Fan to behead it and then shatter The Deceiver’s eye as the Golden Ark collapsed.
• Lin Fan aided Executor Inamars by consuming Valgull, and Inamars reported heavy losses and linked the gods’ manifestations to humanity’s souls and emotions.
• The Silent King ordered the Necrons to let the Hash Tyranid swarm through, while Marshal Helbrecht attacked Oedmeir’s world and Dorn opened a sealed door to face the Black Templars.

Oedmeir reshaped Imperial rule and cooperation among its factions while developing a vaccine against Chaos corruption. After a devastating test on Lodeyun, Slaanesh reported that the vaccine had worked well, though its effects on the survivors still required scrutiny.

• Dorn joined his brothers and Lin Fan around the unsealed Fulgrim, and Fabius explained that restoring Fulgrim required recovering his soul fragments from Slaanesh.
• Lin Fan and Dorn agreed to seek Fulgrim’s soul at West Fomalhaut, while the group departed the Ghoul Stars and left several forces behind.
• Oedmeir reorganized Imperial administration, forged ties with the T'au and Aeldari, and tested the 37th Regiment against the Lamenters, who defeated it in a virtual battle.
• Oedmeir reunited Fulgrim with his soul and proposed using Warp-tainted Gene-seed and dew from Spicy’s Kabbalah Tree of Life to develop a vaccine against corruption.
• Oedmeir chose war-torn Lodeyun for the vaccine trial, where Lin Fan and Imperial, T'au, and Aeldari forces defeated the Blood Army and freed a champion who had lost his family.
• After Lodeyun was restored, Oedmeir triggered a planet-wide test as Slaanesh spread indulgence for sixty-six days before withdrawing her corruption.
• Slaanesh reported that the vaccine had worked well among the survivors, and Perturabo and Dorn questioned her account of the changes it caused.

Lin Fan and the T'au fought back the Hash swarm, while Oedmeir expanded vaccine production and the Idealist Fleet prepared to bring relief. The story left Anjeflod taking command of the fleet and preparing to fight for the Imperium’s suffering worlds.

• Lin Fan led the survivors in swearing an oath for peace, as Tzeentch later secured Khorne and Nurgle’s agreement to a pact lasting until the 42nd millennium.
• The Hash swarm devastated the T'au defenders in the VK-01 system, but Lin Fan killed its Bug Saint, Hive Tyrants, psychic leaders, and Norn Queen, disrupting the swarm and forcing it to retreat.
• Volani and Krawos mourned their losses as Lin Fan returned, while Oedmeir expanded vaccine production and prepared to help awaken Roboute Guilliman with Slaanesh and Yvraine.
• Oedmeir outmaneuvered Unit 0 to obtain the Octagonal Fortress’s security documents, then began converting the fortress into factories and residential districts.
• Sergeant Mar and Lanya survived the Ork and Tyranid attacks together, and Lanya told the rescuers that Ivens Craftworld had been destroyed.
• Valtov received word that Anjeflod’s Idealist Fleet would take command, then prepared Savvas Square for the fleet’s landing.
• Anjeflod took command of the mixed human, Aeldari, and T'au fleet and recommitted himself to fighting for the Emperor and the people across the Imperium.