Recaps

Nack discussed the Conard Family’s control of Conard Planet with Marshall and agreed to help eliminate the hidden cultists. Marshall accepted that the family would surrender management of the Conard Galaxy and sought a place for its mech-capable members in the Star Army.

• Nack asked Marshall how much control the Conard Family had over Conard Planet, and Marshall described the Ecclesiarchy’s influence and concealed cultists.
• Marshall asked the Star Army to help find and eliminate the cultists, and Nack agreed to cooperate in securing the Conard Galaxy.
• Nack said the Conard Family would have to hand the planet over to the logistics administration department after the threats were cleared.
• Marshall promised to relinquish management rights and explained that the family was ready to integrate into the Star Army.
• Nack welcomed Conard Family members capable of piloting knight mechs into the mech forces, and Marshall saluted him.

After the Conard Galaxy's management rights were settled, Nack took Marshall and Willy to see the Lord of the Stars' mechs. Marshall discovered that the ship he had mistaken for a cruiser was only a frigate, then arrived aboard a cruiser by teleportation and saw the Star Army's armored soldiers.

• Willy relaxed after Marshall agreed to relinquish the Conard Family's management rights over the Conard Galaxy.
• Marshall asked Nack to let him visit the knight mechs, and Nack agreed to show him both knight mechs and Titan mechs.
• Nack explained that the five-kilometer warship was a frigate, not a cruiser, leaving Marshall astonished.
• Nack used a teleportation platform to take Marshall and Willy to a cruiser without them noticing any movement.
• Marshall and Willy followed Nack through the cruiser and saw its tall corridors and soldiers in light power armor saluting him.

Nack showed Marshall and Willy a hangar of long-range support Knight mechs and revealed that his fleet carried two hundred Knight mechs and twenty Warhound Titans. Marshall was left stunned by the fleet’s strength and learned that its spare mechs let pilots switch machines if theirs were damaged.

• Nack led Marshall and Willy into a hangar containing ten long-range support Knight mechs.
• Marshall admired the mechs’ weapons and shields and longed to have them for the Conard Knight Family, but did not dare touch them.
• Nack told Marshall that the fleet carried two hundred Knight mechs and twenty Warhound Titans.
• Nack explained that the extra mechs let pilots switch to another machine if theirs were damaged, leaving Marshall incredulous.

Marshall learned that the Conard Family could eventually join the mech forces after stabilizing the Conard Galaxy, and Nack explained the fleet’s command structure. Marshall declined a tour of the Titans and prepared to meet the fleet’s other commanders.

• Nack told Marshall that damaged mechs could be replaced immediately and that talented members of the Conard Family might later pilot mechs.
• Marshall thanked Nack and vowed to serve the Lord of the Stars loyally in hopes of earning opportunities for his family.
• Nack offered to show Marshall the Titans, but Marshall declined because he needed time to process everything he had learned.
• Nack agreed to postpone the tour and said he would take Marshall to meet the other two commanders.
• Nack explained that he commanded the Space Marines while another commander led the army and a Navy Grand Admiral led the fleet, and he confirmed Marshall could meet them as a governor who had surrendered voluntarily.

Nack brought Marshall to the battleship’s bridge, where he learned the Star Army had a powerful twenty-nine-warship fleet and had annihilated the Imperium’s punitive expedition. There, Marshall met Admiral Lilith and commander Anrida, who welcomed him after he explained that Willy’s psychic prophecy had prompted his surrender.

• Nack told Marshall that the fleet included one battleship, four cruisers, eight frigates, sixteen destroyers, and ten logistics ships.
• Nack revealed that the Star Army had annihilated the Provence Sector’s punitive fleet and retained its surviving ships for logistics.
• Nack introduced Marshall to Lilith, Admiral of the Third Fleet, and Marshall greeted her respectfully.
• Nack introduced Anrida, commander of the First Legion, who praised Marshall for joining the Lord of the Stars’ cause.
• Marshall explained that Willy’s psychic prophecy had warned him to surrender, and Anrida said they already knew because they had monitored his conversations with Nack.

The Fourth Fleet entered the Milzhi Galaxy and scanned Milzhi Planet, where the radar detected three distinct life magnetic fields instead of the expected humans and Orks. The pilot identified the third signal as likely belonging to Genestealers, leaving Xavier, York, and Dorak facing an unexpected threat.

• Xavier asked York and Dorak for their recommendations, and York advised taking the fleet directly into the Milzhi Galaxy to gather firsthand intelligence.
• Dorak and Xavier agreed with York, and Xavier ordered the Fourth Fleet to enter the galaxy.
• Xavier and Dorak explained that they valued York’s judgment, and the three commanders traded jokes as the fleet traveled without incident.
• Near Milzhi Planet, Xavier ordered a comprehensive deep-space radar scan.
• The pilot detected three life magnetic fields on Milzhi Planet and reported that the additional signal was ninety-nine percent likely to be from Genestealers.

York, Xavier, and Dorak discovered that Genestealers were fighting the Orks on Milzhi Planet to preserve the human population they needed to expand their brood. With over fifty million humans hiding underground and no orbital defenses or functioning spaceport, York proposed bombarding the surface before deploying troops, and Xavier approved the attack.

• Dorak marveled that Genestealers had infiltrated another galaxy, and York explained how they spread through human populations and guided Tyranid fleets.
• Xavier's radar projection revealed Genestealers fighting the Orks, and York explained that they were protecting humans to preserve their ability to reproduce.
• The pilot reported that just over fifty million humans, more than ten million Genestealers, and eighty million Orks remained on Milzhi Planet, with the humans hiding in underground pipelines.
• The pilot confirmed that the Orks had destroyed the spaceport and that Milzhi Planet had no orbital defense forces.
• York proposed bombarding the surface before landing troops, and Xavier agreed to send Aerospace Fighter squadrons on a bombing run.

Genestealers defended a ruined building complex on Mill's planet against an overwhelming Ork assault. The Orks breached their defenses, and the Genestealers' line continued to collapse.

• Orks charged the building complex as the high-ranking Genestealer ordered the defenders to open fire.
• Genestealers and their artillery bombarded the advancing Orks, but the Orks pressed forward under heavy fire.
• Squig Hoppers rushed the defenses with bombs in their mouths, destroying several machine-gun positions despite the Genestealers' barrage.
• Orks broke through the damaged defenses and poured into the building complex, driving the Genestealers back.
• The high-ranking Genestealer urged his forces to hold the line, but the Orks continued to overwhelm them.

The Genestealer Cult patriarch joined the collapsing front line, rallied his forces, and used psychic lightning to slaughter charging Orks. He faced a heavily armored Ork boss, whose Chainsword battered the patriarch’s psychic barrier and forced him back under mounting pressure.

• The patriarch charged from the ruined buildings with hundreds of first- and second-generation Genestealers as a high-ranking Genestealer rallied the defenders.
• The patriarch killed an Ork attacking the high-ranking Genestealer, then ordered him to keep commanding the battle.
• The Orks turned toward the patriarch, but his psychic barrier deflected their gunfire and his lightning killed many of them.
• An armored Ork boss charged the patriarch, dodged his lightning, and swung a Chainsword at him.
• The patriarch blocked the Chainsword with a psychic barrier, but the Ork boss’s assault made it tremble and forced the patriarch to stagger backward.

The Ork Boss and the Genestealer Patriarch remained locked in a fierce battle while their followers fought around them, until the Weirdboy accidentally struck both leaders with Gork's Foot. The Ork Boss confronted the Weirdboy, who blamed the attack on Gork and convinced him it had been a divine punishment.

• Ork Boyz and Genestealers joined the battle, while the Ork Boss smashed approaching Genestealers and the Patriarch killed Orks with psychic lightning.
• A Weirdboy shielded the Ork Boss from the Patriarch's lightning, helping keep the leaders' fight at a stalemate.
• The Weirdboy lost control and summoned Gork's Foot, which struck the battlefield and sent both the Ork Boss and the Patriarch flying.
• The Ork Boss angrily confronted the Weirdboy, who claimed Gork had attacked because the Boss was not Waaaaaagh enough.
• The Ork Boss's anger faded as he cautiously asked whether Gork had truly struck through the Weirdboy, who insisted that it was so.

The Ork boss ordered the Ork Boyz to attack the Genestealers after the bishop retreated from their fight. Ork planes bombarded the Genestealers' position, leaving the wounded bishop unable to stop them.

• The bishop retreated to the defensive line after Gork's Big Foot blasted him away, badly injured and unable to keep fighting the Ork boss.
• The Ork boss grew furious when he could not find the bishop, then ordered the Ork Boyz to attack the Genestealers.
• Ork planes flew overhead as the Ork Boyz charged, and the aircraft began firing guns and dropping bombs on the Genestealers' position.
• The High Genestealers ordered their forces to attack the planes, but the Genestealers could not hit the fast-moving aircraft.
• The bishop watched helplessly as the Ork planes continued their bombardment, since his psychic power was depleted.

Ork aircraft and ground forces battered the Genestealer position, while Ish urged his followers to defend the brood behind them. After a sniper killed Ish, the grieving Genestealers charged the Orks in a desperate bid to avenge him and hold the line.

• An Ork pilot dodged fire from a Genestealer with a heavy machine gun and killed him by slicing him in two with the aircraft’s wing.
• Orks flooded into the position as a bomb-laden Genestealer detonated himself among them, killing several attackers.
• Ish urged the Genestealers to make desperate attacks to protect the Patriarch and the brood members behind the defenses.
• A gunshot struck Ish and sent him crashing to the ground, killing the leader of the defensive line.
• The Genestealers charged the Orks, vowing to avenge Ish and defend the stronghold.

After Ish was killed, the Genestealers charged the Orks but soon broke into a panicked retreat under the Ork Boss’s assault. The Bishop reached the collapsing frontline, learned of Ish’s death, and ordered the survivors to resume their attack.

• The Genestealers charged the Orks to avenge Ish, and the Ork Boss cut through them with his Chainsword.
• The Orks’ battle cries lifted their morale while the Genestealers lost heart and fled, abandoning their weapons.
• The Bishop rushed to the frontline and found the Genestealer position in chaos.
• A fleeing Genestealer told the Bishop that Ish had been killed by the Orks.
• The Bishop killed the Genestealer with psychic lightning and ordered the remaining Genestealers to pick up their weapons and attack.

The Bishop forced the fleeing Genestealers to turn and fight the Orks by striking down those who kept running. After the battle resumed, the Ork Boss overpowered the Bishop and killed him.

• The Bishop unleashed psychic lightning on fleeing Genestealers and ordered the survivors to attack the Orks.
• The Genestealers charged back into battle as the Bishop fought alongside them and rallied them against the Orks.
• The Ork Boss spotted the Bishop, blocked his psychic lightning, and knocked him to the ground with a kick.
• The Ork Boss pinned the injured Bishop beneath his foot and swept his Chainsword across the Bishop's neck.

The Greenskin boss killed the Bishop, and the Genestealers’ morale collapsed as the Orks slaughtered them across the battlefield. After the victory, the Greenskin bosses complained that the fight had ended too soon, while a Gretchin asked the leader for praise for his hoppers.

• The Greenskin boss raised the Bishop’s head and roared, prompting the Orks to join in while the Genestealers realized their leader was dead.
• The Genestealers panicked and fled, but the Orks pursued and slaughtered them across the battlefield.
• The Greenskin boss impaled the Bishop’s head on his boss pole beside three other heads, and the Orks fought even more fiercely.
• After every Genestealer had been killed, the Orks celebrated, while several Greenskin bosses complained that the battle had not provided enough fighting.
• A Gretchin climbed onto the Greenskin leader’s shoulder and asked whether the hoppers he had raised had earned credit, and the leader praised them.

After the Orks took a Genestealer position on Milzhi Planet, their boss sent them toward a larger battle while Xavier launched an aerial bombardment against xenos camps. The first strike destroyed a Greenskin camp, and Xavier's forces began their attack on the planet.

• The Greenskin leader received orders from his boss to move on to a larger battle, and he led the Orks away from the destroyed Genestealer position.
• Xavier assembled one hundred Aerospace Fighters and one thousand Intelligent Wingmen to attack xenos camps on Milzhi Planet.
• York urged Xavier to avoid bombing areas where humans remained, and Xavier promised the strikes would target Orks and Genestealers instead.
• Xavier ordered the pilots to attack, and the fighter formation descended into Milzhi Planet's atmosphere.
• A Mekboy spotted an approaching fighter and tried to warn the Greenskins, but torpedoes struck the camp and engulfed it in explosions.

Aerospace Fighters bombed the Orks and Genestealers on Milzhi Planet, then encountered Ork fighters as they headed back toward the warship. The aerial battle ended with the Greenskin planes being shot down one by one.

• The bombardment destroyed Ork camps and Genestealer gathering places, and the Ork Boss survived the blasts and demanded to know who had attacked.
• After completing the bombing mission, an Aerospace Fighter pilot and ten Intelligent Wingmen headed toward the edge of the atmosphere.
• The pilot detected battered Ork fighters approaching and ordered the formation to shoot them down.
• The Ork pilots attacked eagerly, hoping to seize the larger Aerospace Fighters, while their bullets failed to penetrate the fighters' shields.
• The Aerospace Fighters and Intelligent Wingmen returned fire, destroying the Greenskin planes and filling the sky with burning wreckage.

After the Aerospace Fighters finished their bombardment, York and Dorak led the ground forces onto Milzhi Planet to eliminate the surviving Orks and Genestealers. Captain Kus’s Space Marines encountered a group of wounded Orks, and the two sides opened fire.

• An Aerospace Fighter returned to the fleet after destroying Greenskin aircraft, where Xavier watched the strike force return successfully.
• York told Xavier the army would clear the remaining Orks and Genestealers, and Dorak and York left to lead the ground assault.
• The Space Marines and York’s million-strong Defense Force teleported onto Milzhi Planet using beacons dropped during the bombardment.
• Captain Kus warned his squad that Orks could survive the scorched terrain and become stronger through brutal wars.
• The Space Marines detected a group of wounded Orks, and Captain Kus ordered his squad to attack as the Orks fired back.

Kus and his Space Marines cleared out a group of Orks and continued hunting xenos across Milzhi Planet. When they learned that Orks were attacking a newly discovered human survivor settlement, Kus led his squad to help.

• Kus's Space Marines killed the charging Orks, checked the battlefield for survivors, and left the corpses for the logistics department to handle.
• Kus led his squad toward another target as Defense Force soldiers and Space Marines continued clearing Orks and Genestealers across the planet.
• Kus's squad heard a large group of Orks roaring nearby, and a combat squad leader reported that they were attacking a human survivor settlement.
• After reviewing the newly updated fleet information, Kus ordered his Space Marines to hurry to the settlement's aid.

Shino led more than a hundred thousand survivors in an underground fortress on Milzhi Planet, where scarce food and water threatened them as explosions shook the surface. He planned to take an elite squad above ground once the bombardment ended to determine whether Imperial reinforcements had arrived and, if necessary, search for food.

• A gang leader reported that the underground fortress had food and water for no more than two days, despite severe ration cuts.
• Shino suspected Imperial reinforcements were attacking the Orks, but acknowledged that Imperial forces often arrived slowly.
• The gang leader condemned the nobles who had fled Milzhi Planet, and Shino stayed silent rather than discuss them.
• Shino told the gang leader he would lead an elite squad to the surface after the bombardment to inspect the situation and search for food if needed.
• Shino accepted the risk because he felt responsible for the survivors who had trusted him.

Shino led an elite squad out of the underground fortress to check for Imperium reinforcements and search for food and water, while Yazha Fei stayed behind to protect the survivors. Their route toward the surface was repeatedly blocked by cave-ins, forcing Shino to lead the squad along a longer path.

• Shino asked Yazha Fei and his brothers to stay behind and protect the fortress while he took an elite squad outside.
• Shino briefed the squad on its goals of checking for Imperium reinforcements and finding supplies, then led them out as the fortress guards watched with hope.
• Shino guided the squad through the underground passages, but they found their first route blocked by rubble and took a detour.
• After encountering three collapsed passages and spending one Terra hour underground, the squad asked Shino what had caused the damage.
• Shino said the surface explosions might have been more powerful than they had imagined, and continued searching for another route to the surface.

Shino led his elite squad out of the underground pipes to scout the ruined city for intelligence and food, but a chance encounter with an Ork exposed their position. The squad retreated to the pipe entrance, where Shino opened fire on the pursuing Orks.

• Shino guided the squad through the underground pipes and urged them to continue their mission after they escaped.
• Shino spotted an Ork and killed it with a precise shot after it fired its Big Shootas.
• The gunfire alerted the nearby Orks, and Shino ordered the squad to retreat without returning fire.
• The squad evaded Orks shooting at them from a side street and ran back toward the pipe entrance.
• Shino reached the pipe entrance and fired his Logging Gun at the pursuing Orks, bringing several down.

Shino led his team through a series of underground defensive positions to hold back the Orks and buy time for the fortress to prepare. With the Orks attacking in endless waves, Shino ordered another retreat deeper into the passage.

• Shino ordered his team to withdraw into the underground passage while firing at the approaching Orks, then sent a member to warn the fortress.
• Shino's team killed Orks entering the pipe, and an Ork grenade blast widened the entrance and killed dozens of Orks.
• Shino ordered a retreat when the Orks used a flamethrower, whose flames stopped short of his team after they had fallen back.
• Shino's team repelled more Orks as explosions destroyed the pipe, using the narrow passage to blunt their numbers.
• After holding their position for several minutes, Shino ordered the team to retreat several hundred meters and establish another defensive line.

Kus led his Space Marine combat squad in an attack on the Orks surrounding a passage where humans were fighting for their lives. As the Ork numbers grew, Kus called for reinforcements, and five Earth Dreadnoughts arrived by teleportation and opened fire.

• Kus ordered his Space Marines to attack the Orks gathered around the passage.
• The Space Marines advanced under cover, killing many Orks with Blast Guns and Ripper Rifles as the Orks charged back.
• More Orks joined the battle, so Kus requested reinforcements from Dorak and activated a teleportation beacon.
• Five Earth Dreadnoughts emerged through the teleportation passage and fired their rotary guns into the Ork horde.

Five Earth Dreadnoughts and Captain Magras’s reinforcements helped Kus’s Space Marines wipe out the Orks above ground. Magras then led most of the force into the underground passage to support Shino’s squad, where fighting was still underway.

• Five Earth Dreadnoughts attacked the Orks, and seventy-five Space Marines arrived under Captain Magras’s command.
• Kus learned that Magras had quickly cleared a Genestealer camp after it was bombed, and they continued fighting together.
• The Space Marines and Earth Dreadnoughts killed all the Orks above ground, and Magras ordered their corpses burned.
• Magras left twenty-five Space Marines on watch and led the other seventy-five into the Orks’ underground passage.
• After hearing gunfire and roars underground, Magras charged toward the fighting, with Kus and the others following to support Shino’s squad.