Recaps

The Idealist Fleet helped drive back the Tyranids, while Guilliman awakened and began confronting the Imperium’s decline. Lin Fan’s investigation of a psychic disturbance sent him through a Vraks-era battlefield and onward to an Ork mission at a strange, expanding hollow.

• Anjeflod’s Idealist Fleet drove the Tyranid and Ork fleets into retreat, and the Death Korps of Krieg helped capture a Tyranid node organism.
• Anjeflod defended the fleet’s alliance with xenos against Imperial officials, but the Behemoth Hive Fleet then invaded Ultramar and threatened Macragge.
• Rogal Dorn, Perturabo, Fulgrim, Helbrecht, and Celestine reached Macragge, where Dorn defeated two Hive Tyrants and turned the battle.
• Dorn and Perturabo staged a ritual to awaken Guilliman, but Yvraine used Ynnead’s power to revive him, and Guilliman later learned how the Imperium had changed over ten thousand years.
• Guilliman questioned the Codex Astartes’ authority, resolved to rebuild the Ultramarines, and learned about the Big Canteen’s forces and their weapons.
• Lin Fan helped end the Tyranid war on Graveyard, then investigated a psychic disturbance at VK-01 after Farsight received an alert.
• Lin Fan followed the disturbance into a strange realm, emerged at Vraks in 814.M41, and fought through Imperial and Chaos forces before vanishing from the timeline after wounding a Bloodthirster.
• Lin Fan met Orks of the Ork Empire, traveled with them to the Kemal Filament Belt, and learned that the hollow they were sent to repair contained no stars, light, or heat.

Lin Fan witnessed the Silent King contain the Milky Way’s collapse and the Emperor’s rise and fall through the Horus Heresy. He then escaped the white realm with Konrad Curze, who woke amid maddening voices and found that both of them seemed unaffected by them.

• The Silent King weakened the Orks, separated the Warp from the material universe, and stabilized the Milky Way before keeping vigil beyond it for sixty million years.
• Lin Fan witnessed the Emperor’s Unification campaigns, his reunion with the Primarchs, the destruction of Perfect City, and the Webway disaster that began the siege of Terra.
• Horus lowered the Vengeful Spirit’s Void Shield to lure the Emperor aboard, and the Emperor left Malcador on the Golden Throne to confront him.
• The Emperor killed Horus, returned to Terra, and took Malcador’s place on the throne, while Valdor secretly left to search for the Emperor’s true name.
• Lin Fan awoke aboard a derelict ship, found Curze, and followed him through shifting illusions while Jaghatai attacked him.
• Lin Fan taunted Curze about Perturabo, Lion, and Sevatar, then endured Curze’s assaults and pulled the white wires from his head.
• Lin Fan carried Curze through the collapsing white realm and the chaotic space beyond it, then laid him down as he began to wake.
• Curze uncovered his head, heard the maddening voices, and screamed, while he and Lin Fan both wondered why they were unaffected.

Lin Fan freed Konrad Curze from his tormenting visions and brought him back to his brothers, while the Imperium and its allies prepared for the coming conflict at Cadia. The arc left the Primarchs gathered to watch an unexpected animated film.

• Lin Fan reshaped the Outsider for the Silent King, then returned with Konrad Curze and learned that the Imperium planned to retreat from Ironhide’s Waaagh!.
• Observer traveled through the Warp and the Formless Wastes, while Carl Bohar and Amalaga formed an alliance with Abaddon and built the Pale Auxilia to support the 13th Black Crusade.
• Carl Bohar rallied Titan commanders to reclaim Mars, while the Silent King contained the Outsider and Lin Fan set out to meet his brothers.
• Yarrick convinced the Imperial command to retreat its core forces and tricked Ironhide into pursuing a stronger opponent by showing him Abaddon’s battle records.
• Ironhide rallied his Orks to build a device that could teleport warships to Cadia, while Guilliman agreed to Perturabo’s proposal for a mixed Space Marine Chapter.
• Curze attacked Oedmeir after deciding the city’s leaders were guilty of cooperating with xenos, but Oedmeir subdued and captured him.
• Lin Fan explained Curze’s past and severed the prophecies tormenting him, leaving Curze free to choose whether to live peacefully or stay with Fulgrim.
• Oedmeir made an animated film for the Primarchs, who watched it together and argued over the ponies’ claims about raising the sun and moon.

Lin Fan prepared the coalition for the coming Battle of Cadia as the Primarchs watched My Little Pony and Curze began to accept Fulgrim and Celestine's company. Khayon departed for Terra while the Imperium fought Nurgle's plague on Karkuo, where Kor'sarro Khan and Sammael joined forces before the Dark Angels' pursuit of the Fallen split them apart.

• The Primarchs speculated about Equestria and its ponies, then Perturabo and Dorn left to demand answers from Lin Fan and Oedmeir.
• Lin Fan asked Yvraine to borrow the Biel-Tan Craftworld so the coalition could travel through the Webway to Cadia, while the Primarchs resumed watching the cartoon and Curze admitted it reminded him of his brothers.
• Guilliman departed, and Perturabo organized the enhanced Lamenters as engineers while Uriel Ventris joined their construction work on Biel-Tan.
• Fulgrim brought Celestine to Curze, who recoiled from her wings and accused Fulgrim of betraying Ferrus Manus, but later allowed Celestine to stay as he watched the show.
• Khayon told Izara about his lost companions and Nefertari's death, then left for Terra to proclaim the Imperium's defeat as Nefertari warned him about his loneliness.
• Tzeentch, Khorne, and Nurgle advanced their war against the Imperium as Kaiser Whitefang, Wodhaus, Kor'sarro Khan, and Inquisitor Vissi fought Gegula's plague forces on Karkuo and destroyed the brewing pool.
• After the Karkuo operation, the allies gathered for a banquet, where Wodhaus warned that Typhus had deployed Reflection Warriors and Kor'sarro learned the Dark Angels had brought their fortress-monastery into the Cadian Sector.
• Sammael agreed to join Kor'sarro's attack on the zombie horde, but an order to pursue the fleeing Fallen drew Sammael away as Kor'sarro charged into the horde.