Recaps

Mo Tuo and the others watched the plasma orbital cannon take longer to recharge as the Defense Force and a Knight mech unleashed heavy fire on the Adeptus Mechanicus assault. The high-ranking priests ordered their troops to keep charging despite devastating casualties.

• Mo Tuo and the others noticed that the plasma orbital cannon now took ten minutes to gather energy instead of five, and they reaffirmed their faith in the Lord of the Stars.
• The Defense Force's Apocalypse Tanks and a Knight mech's Rotary Gatling Cannon bombarded the Adeptus Mechanicus forces advancing on Orbital Defense Platform One.
• The high-ranking priests ignored the casualties and ordered their troops to keep attacking so they could reclaim the platform and save Dokra Forge World's remaining warships.
• A Gatling round destroyed a Leman Russ Conqueror Tank and its nearby Combat Servitors, while artillery and cannon fire tore through the charging troops.
• A mechanical soldier used its Repulsor Grid to deflect a shell aimed at a high-ranking priest, but the blast killed more than a hundred Skitarii behind him.
• The high-ranking priest ordered the advance to continue, and uninjured Servitors and Skitarii trampled their wounded comrades as they charged.

The Adeptus Mechanicus launched a desperate counterattack toward No. 1 Orbital Defense Platform, but the Defense Force’s weapons annihilated its forces before they could reach the platform. The assault ended with the Adeptus Mechanicus reinforcements completely wiped out.

• A high-ranking priest ordered the Skitarii and Servitors to charge through the Defense Force’s machine-gun fire without retreating.
• More than a hundred Kastelan Robots advanced under Repulsor Grid protection, but Gauss energy beams overwhelmed their grids and disintegrated them.
• Gauss beams also destroyed a Datasmith after he watched the Kastelan Robots under his control fall.
• Gallon Cannon shells engulfed the advancing Leman Russ Conqueror tanks and destroyed hundreds of them.
• The Defense Force’s artillery wiped out the Adeptus Mechanicus force before it could reach No. 1 Orbital Defense Platform.

The Star Army seized Dokra Forge World's orbital defenses and destroyed its remaining fleet, leaving Yeks and Kahil to prepare a desperate defense while hoping for Archmagos Cawl's reinforcements. Commander Mo Tuo then launched a full-scale assault across the Forge World, ordering the Star Army to eliminate the Adeptus Mechanicus.

• The Star Army captured Dokra Forge World's remaining orbital platforms, spaceports, and fortresses, then destroyed the five warships outside the planet's orbit.
• Yeks despaired over the fleet's defeat, but Kahil urged him to hold out for reinforcements from Archmagos Belisarius Cawl.
• Yeks and Kahil agreed to commit their forces to defending Dokra Forge World until reinforcements arrived.
• The Star Army assembled two armies, including millions of soldiers and robots, hundreds of thousands of Apocalypse Tanks, and two thousand Space Marines.
• Star Army Aerospace Fighters bombed Adeptus Mechanicus defensive positions, exploiting Dokra Forge World's loss of air superiority.
• Commander Mo Tuo ordered the Star Army to attack and kill every Adeptus Mechanicus member, and its forces advanced across Dokra Forge World.

The Skitarii captain and his forces prepared a bunker ambush against the advancing Defense Force, using prayers to rouse their heavy weapons. Their Melta Cannons and Heavy Bolters opened fire, and the Skitarii noticed their ammunition was being depleted unusually slowly.

• Twenty Apocalypse Tanks advanced through Dokra Forge World with Defense Force soldiers and combat robots as nearby battalions attacked the Adeptus Mechanicus.
• Inside a concealed bunker, more than a hundred Skitarii gathered with over a thousand Servitors and laborers to pray before two Melta Cannons and ten Heavy Bolters.
• The Skitarii captain stopped the ritual when he heard the tanks approaching and ordered his forces to prepare for battle.
• The Skitarii positioned the heavy weapons at firing ports while Servitors and laborers knelt behind them, praying to soothe the weapons’ machine spirits.
• After the Defense Force entered firing range, the captain ordered an attack, and the Melta Cannons and Heavy Bolters unleashed a barrage.
• The Skitarii loading ammunition found that the explosive bolts were being depleted incredibly slowly.

The Defense Force destroyed the Adeptus Mechanicus bunker and the Melta Cannon that continued firing after its operators were killed. The battalion commander ordered his soldiers to advance and wipe out the remaining Adeptus Mechanicus members on the planet.

• The Skitarii attacked the Apocalypse Tanks, but their fire failed to penetrate the tanks' Void Shields.
• The Apocalypse Tanks and anti-aircraft guns battered the bunker until it collapsed, killing the Skitarii, Servitors, and laborers inside.
• A surviving Melta Cannon continued firing at the Defense Force despite being unmanned and heavily damaged.
• The battalion commander ordered the Apocalypse Tanks to keep firing, and their siege shells finally destroyed the Melta Cannon.
• The battalion commander ordered his soldiers to advance and wipe out the remaining Adeptus Mechanicus members on the planet.

Five Star Space Marines and their Exploding Hounds attacked an Adeptus Mechanicus weapons workshop deep beneath Dokra Forge World. They overwhelmed the Skitarii defenders, leaving the position in ruins as they pressed toward the workshop gate.

• Five Star Space Marines advanced through Dokra Forge World's underground complex, killing Adeptus Mechanicus forces while sparing unaugmented humans who surrendered.
• The squad detected a fortified position guarding a weapons and equipment workshop and decided to attack.
• The five Exploding Hounds charged the iron gate and drew the Skitarii's fire.
• The Star Space Marines emerged from cover and destroyed the defenders with Ripper Rifles, a Gauss weapon, and a Blast Gun.
• The Exploding Hounds rushed into the ruined position and tore through the remaining Skitarii and Servitors.

Five Space Marines and five Exploding Hounds overran an Adeptus Mechanicus defensive position and forced open a steel gate. They entered a brightly lit production hall where Servitors worked nonstop on assembly lines, seemingly oblivious to the intruders.

• Five Space Marines and five Exploding Hounds slaughtered the Adeptus Mechanicus defenders and headed for the steel gate.
• A Servitor embedded in the gate scanned the Space Marines and sounded an alarm, but one of them killed it with a punch.
• One Space Marine forced the heavy steel gate open with his bare hands.
• The five Space Marines saw a vast, orderly workshop where Servitors assembled weapons and equipment.
• The Servitors continued working without reacting, their bodies sustained by nutrient tanks and fused with machinery.

Space Marines encountered the brutal treatment of Servitors in a Dokra Forge World factory and reacted with horror. After a blind Servitor pleaded for its eyes back, the squad leader killed it and ordered the others to burn the Servitors in the hall.

• A Space Marine condemned the Adeptus Mechanicus for their cruelty, and the squad leader struggled to comfort him.
• A Servitor accidentally struck a Space Marine, then knelt and begged forgiveness, mistaking the squad for Tech-Priests.
• The blind Servitor pleaded with the Space Marines to restore its eyes so it could work more effectively.
• The squad leader crushed the Servitor's head and told his comrades to grant the others a final mercy.
• The Space Marines fired incendiary rounds into the hall, burning the Servitors to ashes.

Mo Tuo and his Space Marines and Earth Dreadnoughts stormed the fortress where Fabricator-General Yeks and Dokra Forge World’s ruling Magos had taken refuge. They crushed the defenders and advanced toward the fortress core, where the Adeptus Mechanicus resistance grew increasingly desperate.

• Mo Tuo led one hundred elite Space Marines and ten Earth Dreadnoughts toward Dokra Forge World’s heavily defended central fortress.
• The Earth Dreadnoughts unleashed their weapons on the Skitarii, tearing through their defenses and destroying Kastelan Robots and tanks.
• The Skitarii launched suicidal charges against the Dreadnoughts, but Gauss beams and the machines’ heavy armor stopped them.
• Mo Tuo and the Space Marines advanced through the fortress, killing Adeptus Mechanicus reinforcements as bodies piled up around them.
• As Mo Tuo’s force neared the fortress core, the Adeptus Mechanicus intensified its resistance and used extreme tactics to defend Fabricator-General Yeks and the ruling Magos.

Mo Tuo’s force attacked the underground fortress by blasting through a wall instead of storming its guarded main gate. The surprise assault overwhelmed the Adeptus Mechanicus defenders, and Mo Tuo’s Space Marines charged into the hall to slaughter them.

• Mo Tuo and his group reached the central gate after defeating the Adeptus Mechanicus reinforcements, and Mo Tuo destroyed the alarm Servitor above it.
• Fan Lun Tien warned Mo Tuo that the defenders would expect an attack through the gate, so Mo Tuo chose to catch them off guard.
• Mo Tuo ordered ten Earth Dreadnoughts to blast through a wall several hundred meters from the gate and charge into the hall.
• The Earth Dreadnoughts opened fire on the surprised Servitors and Tech-priests, tearing through their ranks.
• Mo Tuo led the Space Marines into the hall, where they attacked and killed the Adeptus Mechanicus defenders.

Space Marines and Earth Dreadnoughts broke through the fortress hall’s walls and overran the Adeptus Mechanicus defenses. As the Earth Dreadnoughts devastated the Kastelan Robots, Mo Tuo led twenty Space Marines toward Tech-Priest Dominus Kahil and Forge General Yeks while the others held back the defenders.

• Space Marines and Earth Dreadnoughts smashed through the hall’s walls and caught the Adeptus Mechanicus defensive line by surprise.
• Tech-Priest Dominus Kahil ordered the Adeptus Mechanicus to attack, and the senior priests and Forge General Yeks led their forces into battle.
• The Earth Dreadnoughts charged the Kastelan Robots, whose fire failed to stop them behind their triple-layered energy shields.
• The Earth Dreadnoughts’ machine-gun barrage overloaded the Kastelan Robots’ Repulsor Grids and destroyed the robots, killing many Multi-clawed Guards and Datasmiths in the explosions.
• Mo Tuo led twenty Space Marines toward Tech-Priest Dominus Kahil and Forge General Yeks while the remaining eighty Space Marines held off the Adeptus Mechanicus forces.

Mo Tuo and the Space Marines fought through the Adeptus Mechanicus forces as they advanced toward Kahil and Yeks. Mo Tuo unleashed the Flame Sword, wiping out the enemy army and leaving the two leaders terrified on the raised platform.

• Mo Tuo shot and killed a charging Tech-priest with his Plasma Pistol.
• Mo Tuo and the Space Marines evaded the Combat Servitors' and Skitarii's attacks while their energy shields protected them.
• Mo Tuo powered up the Flame Sword and ordered the Space Marines to move behind him.
• Mo Tuo unleashed a vast wave of fire that consumed the Adeptus Mechanicus army and burned away the steel floor in its path.
• Kahil and Yeks watched the devastation in terror and wondered what kind of weapon Mo Tuo wielded.

Mo Tuo and his Space Marines fought through the Adeptus Mechanicus defenders to reach Kahil and Yeks. Mo Tuo killed Kahil and broke Yeks's Power Axe, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Mo Tuo led twenty Space Marines through the Adeptus Mechanicus forces, burning aside anyone who blocked their advance.
• Kahil ordered the Multi-clawed Guards and five armored Ogryns to attack, while ten Space Marines charged into the defenders to hold them back.
• Mo Tuo and the remaining ten Space Marines reached Kahil and Yeks, who charged at them with their Power Axes.
• Mo Tuo dodged Kahil's strike and cut him down with his Flame Sword, burning him to ash.
• Yeks attacked Mo Tuo in rage, but Mo Tuo's Flame Sword cleaved his Power Axe in two.

Mo Tuo killed Yeks, and the Space Marines overwhelmed the leaderless Adeptus Mechanicus forces in the fortress. He then led his troops to reinforce the remaining battles, and by moonrise the Star Army had taken Dokra Forge World.

• Mo Tuo split Yeks's Power Axe and killed him with a blow from his Power Fist.
• The deaths of Kahil and Yeks threw the Adeptus Mechanicus army into disarray, and the Space Marines and Earth Dreadnoughts routed the remaining defenders.
• Tie'en reported that every Adeptus Mechanicus member in the fortress had been killed, and Mo Tuo praised his troops.
• Mo Tuo ordered his soldiers to reinforce their comrades and eradicate the remaining Adeptus Mechanicus forces across Dokra Forge World.
• By moonrise, the fighting ended and Dokra Forge World had fallen to the Star Army.

Bulon gathered the Imperial Combined Fleet’s surviving warships as it retreated toward the Provence Sector Capital, believing he could rebuild after its defeat. He then learned that the Star Sea World heretics were attacking the capital and Dokra Forge World, and he was left stunned by their ability to arrive before his fleet.

• Bulon reunited scattered Imperial fleets until the Imperial Combined Fleet had recovered to nearly six hundred warships.
• Bulon reviewed intelligence about the heretics and considered returning to Segmentum Solar to rebuild his forces.
• A communications officer reported urgent calls for aid from the Provence Sector Capital and Dokra Forge World, which were under attack.
• The communications officer identified the attackers as the Star Sea World heretics, and Bulon questioned how they had arrived ahead of his Warp-traveling fleet.
• Bulon dismissed the communications officer and recognized that the heretics’ speed had made the situation difficult.

General Bulon told Sage Cawl that Provanse’s capital and Dokra Forge World were under attack and asked whether they should be relieved. Cawl decided the Imperium’s fleet could not risk the fight, ordered the Adeptus Mechanicus fleet to leave the Provence Sector, and left Bulon to choose whether to aid the worlds.

• Bulon contacted Sage Cawl and reported that heretics were attacking Provanse’s capital and Dokra Forge World.
• Cawl questioned how the heretics had moved from the Jesta Galaxy, and Bulon explained the available intelligence.
• Cawl considered the heretics’ technology and his captured Space Marines, then warned that the fleet could not safely reinforce the invaded worlds.
• Cawl told Bulon he could take the fleet to provide aid while Cawl took the Adeptus Mechanicus fleet out of the Provence Sector.
• Bulon accepted Cawl’s decision and noted that they had at least brought detailed intelligence back to the Imperium.

The Fourth and Fifth Fleets abandoned their wait for the escaped Imperial Combined Fleet and began planning to conquer nearby star systems. Nack brought surrendered Astartes officers to the Star Sea Galaxy and warned them that psykers faced instant death inside the Lord of the Stars' anti-psychic field.

• Wood and Xavier concluded that the Imperial Combined Fleet had escaped the Provence Sector and redirected their forces toward conquering nearby systems.
• A Star Navy cruiser carrying Nack and surrendered Astartes officers arrived at the edge of the Star Sea Galaxy.
• Nack teased Tyberos, Arjinto, Azrael, and the other officers about the Star Army's luxurious treatment, and they fell silent.
• Nack asked the officers to disclose any hidden psykers and warned that psychic power in the Lord of the Stars' anti-psychic field would make them explode and die.

Nack explained that psykers in the Star Sea Galaxy would explode if they tried to use their powers, and the Chapter officers confirmed they had disclosed their psykers. He ordered Psyker-Suppression Bracelets distributed to them, then directed the cruiser into the Star Sea Galaxy.

• Isel questioned why the surrendered soldiers should worry about the Lord of the Stars' anti-magic field if they had no chance of meeting him, and Nack warned that psykers who used their powers in the Star Sea Galaxy would explode.
• Tyberos, Arjinto, Azrael, and the other Chapter officers confirmed they had disclosed their psykers, with Arjinto stating the Brass Dragons would purge any psyker in their ranks.
• Nack ordered a naval officer to distribute Psyker-Suppression Bracelets to every registered psyker.
• Naval soldiers gave the bracelets to the Librarians, suppressing most of their psychic powers and shocking anyone who tried to break free.
• Nack told the pilot to take the cruiser into the Star Sea Galaxy, and the cruiser began its journey.

Nack showed the Astartes officers the Star Sea Galaxy’s prosperous trade and enormous shipyards, boasting that twenty Gloriana-class Battleships were under construction. Tyberos then asked whether his Chapter could obtain a cruiser as its flagship.

• Nack showed the officers a holographic view of the busy, orderly Star Sea Galaxy.
• Azrael noticed a vast complex of space docks, and Nack explained that its shipyards were building the navy’s warships.
• Nack said two enormous docks could build twenty Gloriana-class Battleships at once, though completion would take fifteen years.
• The Astartes officers envied the ships but resented Nack’s smug boasting, knowing they lacked the strength to claim one.
• Tyberos asked Nack whether the Carcharodons Chapter could secure a cruiser for its flagship.

Nack showed Tyberos and the Astartes officers the Star Sea Galaxy and its shipyards, where they glimpsed the enormous flagship of the Lord of the Stars. The officers marveled at its scale and firepower as the cruiser continued deeper into the system.

• Tyberos considered asking for an Emperor-class Battleship, but Nack said only Gray, Fleet Admiral Mendeleev, and Legion Commander Anrida could approve cruisers as Chapter motherships.
• Nack explained the purposes of the space docks and described the Star Sea Galaxy as the Star Army's capital.
• Azrael spotted a warship more than fifty kilometers in diameter, and the Astartes officers reacted with astonishment.
• Nack identified the enormous vessel as the flagship of the Lord of the Stars and said its advanced weapons and equipment had been researched aboard it.
• The Astartes officers discussed the flagship's immense firepower, while Nack joined in their speculation about its strength.

Nack brought the Astartes officers to the spaceport and offered them a choice between visiting the body enhancement laboratory and seeing civilian life on World One. Most chose to tour first, so Nack arranged Star Coins for them before leading the way.

• Nack offered the Astartes officers a choice between going straight to the body enhancement laboratory or touring civilian life first.
• Tyberos chose the laboratory, but Arjinto and Azrael favored seeing how civilians lived, and most of the officers agreed with them.
• Nack decided to take the group around World One before bringing them to the laboratory, and Tyberos agreed to follow.
• Nack ordered the navy to give every Astartes ten thousand Star Coins, and the soldiers soon distributed the currency.
• Arjinto tried to crush a hundred-Star-Coin note, and Nack explained that Adamantium and nanomaterials made the currency hard to damage and that civilians needed Star Coins to buy supplies.

Nack led Azrael and the Astartes through the spaceport and into World One, where they encountered a bustling society that treated them with respect but did not worship them. The group reached City One and stared in amazement at its towering buildings and busy streets.

• Nack had logistics personnel register identification cards for every arriving Astartes before leading them into the spaceport.
• Arjinto admired the busy port, while Azrael wondered why civilians did not kneel to the Space Marines; a Star Space Marine warned him to abandon his pride from the Imperium.
• Nack led the group onto a military teleportation platform, which carried them to the Governor's Building in City One of Star Sea I World.
• Officials warmly greeted Nack as he led the group through the Governor's Building and outside.
• The Astartes marveled at City One's skyscrapers, crowds, and hovering vehicles.

Arjinto, Azrael, Tyberos, and the other Astartes officers toured a prosperous human world while Nack mocked them for being unable to marry or have children. Nack revealed that he had two adult sons and that women served among the Star Space Marines, though they were difficult to distinguish in power armor.

• Arjinto and Nack praised the human world's prosperity, and Nack claimed every planet in the Star Sea World would eventually be rebuilt to look as beautiful.
• Nack admired a group of women, then taunted Tyberos by claiming normal people could marry and enjoy family life unlike the Astartes.
• Nack told the officers that he was married and had two sons, and that his eldest son would graduate from military academy and enter the Lord of the Stars' Imperial Guard selection.
• Nack said many Star Space Marines had families, provoking disbelief and anger from Tyberos, Arjinto, and the other Astartes officers.
• Nack explained that women served among the Space Marines and that power armor made them hard to distinguish.

Nack arranged for Star Space Marines to guide the Astartes through City One, then took Tyberos, Arjinto, and others on a tour. When ordinary people were frightened by Tyberos’s face, he accepted Nack’s suggestion to repair his injuries.

• Nack ordered the Star Space Marines to show the Astartes around and told them to assemble at the Governor's Building by ten o'clock.
• More than a thousand Star Space Marines led several thousand Astartes out to explore the unfamiliar area.
• Nack guided Tyberos, Arjinto, several Librarians, and others through City One’s busy streets.
• Passersby mistook Tyberos for a frightening prisoner and questioned whether he could be a Space Marine.
• Tyberos suppressed his anger, and after Nack suggested he repair his face, he silently agreed.

Tyberos and the others explored a busy street and became fascinated by grav-bikes, seeing their potential as rapid battlefield transport. Nack offered to supply military versions and explained that his Space Marines relied on teleport beacons instead of vehicles.

• Tyberos noticed that people in the Lord of the Stars' realm admired Space Marines rather than fearing them.
• Tyberos and the others stopped to watch grav-bikes flying through the air and considered their battlefield usefulness.
• Nack told them civilian grav-bikes cost two thousand Star Coins, and Azrael said he wanted to equip the Chapter with them.
• Nack offered to open production lines for military grav-bikes to meet the Chapter's needs.
• Tyberos asked why Nack's forces did not use such vehicles, and Nack explained that teleport beacons let them reach support missions instantly.