Recaps

Twenty Space Marines fought a hundred Ogryns, and their Captain charged the Ogryn leader after witnessing severe rookie casualties. The Captain’s Power Axe became lodged in the leader’s Adamantium mace, leaving the two locked in a clash of strength.

• A Space Marine killed a charging Ogryn, retrieved his Power Sword, and joined the fight against the Ogryn pack.
• Twenty Space Marines battled a hundred Ogryns, while the leader’s powerful blows incapacitated several rookies and killed another.
• The Space Marine Captain saw the Ogryn leader smash a rookie’s head and charged him, determined to kill him.
• The Ogryn leader met the Captain’s charge with a strike from his massive mace, and the Captain blocked it with a Power Axe.
• The Captain’s Power Axe cut only halfway through the mace, revealing it was made of Adamantium, and the two fighters strained against each other.

The Space Marine captain outmaneuvered and killed the Ogryn leader in a brutal duel. The twenty Space Marines then annihilated more than a hundred Ogryns and all the noble coalition soldiers defending the position.

• The Space Marine captain evaded the Ogryn leader’s powerful strikes and broke his spiked club with a Power Axe.
• The captain severed the Ogryn leader’s arm, dodged his counterattack, then cut off his remaining arm and knocked him down.
• The captain killed the helpless Ogryn leader and hung his head from his waist.
• Twenty Space Marines slaughtered more than a hundred Ogryns and all the noble coalition soldiers in just over ten minutes.

The Carcharodons Space Marines and mortal auxiliaries slaughtered gang members in the Jerma Hive World's Underhive. After someone in the darkness addressed the captain as Tyberos, five cloaked figures in worn military-green power armor emerged, leaving their identities unclear.

• The Space Marines and mortal auxiliaries pursued the fleeing gang members deeper into the Underhive.
• A gang leader charged the Space Marines with a Meltabomb, but a Ripper Rifle round killed him before he could attack.
• The gang members fled after seeing their boss die, and the Carcharodons caught and slaughtered them despite their pleas for mercy.
• Someone in a dark corner applauded, and the Space Marine captain aimed his Gauss Rifle and demanded that the stranger come out.
• A voice from the darkness identified himself as Farahel and told Tyberos not to fire.
• Five cloaked figures in worn military-green power armor stepped out of the darkness.

Farahel and four Dark Angels mistook a Carcharodons captain for Tyberos while seeking him in the Underhive. Tyberos arrived through a teleport beacon and confronted them, leaving Farahel stunned by how much taller he had become.

• Farahel identified the Carcharodons captain as Tyberos, despite the captain repeatedly denying it.
• The captain reported that Farahel and four Dark Angels had come specifically to find Tyberos, and asked whether he should eliminate them.
• Tyberos ordered the captain to activate a teleport beacon so he could meet the visitors himself.
• Tyberos emerged from the teleportation passage with El, Garland, Kurland, and other warriors, overwhelming Farahel with his imposing presence.
• Farahel stared at Tyberos and stammered in disbelief that he had grown from around three metres tall to 3.5 metres.

Tyberos confronted Farahel and learned that he and his warriors were members of the Fallen, hunted by the Dark Angels and trapped in the Jerma System. Farahel asked to pledge allegiance to the Lord of the Stars and seek his protection, and Tyberos assured him that the Lord welcomed brave fighters.

• Tyberos demanded to know why Farahel and his companions had come, and openly admitted that he had surrendered to the Lord of the Stars.
• Farahel revealed that he was one of the Fallen, whom the Dark Angels called traitors, and said he did not know why they were being pursued.
• Tyberos asked how Farahel had learned of the attack on the Provence Sector and entered the Jerma System despite the sealed Mandeville Points.
• Farahel explained that his psychic ability let him eavesdrop on Astropath communications and that he and over a hundred Fallen had entered the Jerma Hive World for supplies before its Mandeville Point closed.
• Farahel said he wanted to pledge allegiance to the Lord of the Stars, and Tyberos declared that the Lord would grant strength and protection to those who fought for humanity with courage.

Tyberos questioned whether Farahel’s tiny group could survive as an independent force, but Farahel revealed that more than a hundred Fallen Space Marines and a fleet were stranded in the Jerma System. Tyberos confirmed they met the minimum strength to establish their own Chapter, leaving Farahel hopeful that their organization could survive.

• Tyberos warned Farahel that his four companions were too few to carry out missions or fight effectively, and Farahel insisted he wanted to keep battling and avenge his fallen brothers.
• Tyberos offered the Carcharodons Chapter as a temporary refuge until Farahel gathered more than a hundred Fallen and could seek permission from Chapter Master Gray to form a Chapter.
• Farahel said that more than a hundred Space Marines, a strike cruiser, and several other warships were in the Jerma System.
• Tyberos asked why his flagship’s scanners had detected no ships, and Farahel explained that their warships had exhausted their energy and shut down their systems.
• Tyberos told Farahel that his force met the minimum standard to establish an independent Chapter, and Farahel asked whether their organization could be preserved.

After Tyberos left Jerma Hive World, he arranged repairs and fuel for Farahel’s damaged strike cruiser and promised to contact Chapter Master Gray about Farahel’s future. Farahel accepted an escort and felt reassured that joining the Lord of the Stars had been the right choice.

• The Space Marine captain rallied his nineteen recruits to purge the Underhive of gangs, xenos, and cultists.
• Tyberos ordered Evans to send repair robots and personnel to Farahel’s strike cruiser and replenish its fuel.
• Tyberos told Farahel that he would contact Chapter Master Gray to arrange what came next.
• Farahel thanked Tyberos, who said that joining Gray’s forces would let them support one another.
• Mortal auxiliary troops escorted Farahel, whose admiration for their advanced armor strengthened his confidence in his decision.

After the Carcharodons Chapter captured Jerma Hive World in a recruitment trial, Tyberos ordered the surrendered prisoners to fight one another for a chance to join the Chapter. The prisoners began attacking each other as the armed forces prepared to execute anyone who refused.

• The Carcharodons Chapter captured Jerma Hive World in twenty-four hours, though five Space Marine recruits died in the assault.
• Tyberos accepted the victory and left the world for logistical departments and the Defense Force to administer.
• A Carcharodons Space Marine addressed more than a hundred thousand surrendered prisoners and offered them the choice to live or die.
• The Space Marine told the prisoners they had to kill those beside them to qualify for recruitment, and threatened to execute anyone who did not act within ten seconds.
• The armed forces aimed their weapons at the prisoners, and one man lunged at a comrade, who fought back by removing his helmet and striking him with it.

The Carcharodons Chapter tested more than one hundred thousand prisoners on Jerma Hive World in a brutal melee, stopping the slaughter only after a few thousand survivors remained. The survivors were taken for treatment while the dead were burned on the battlefield.

• Prisoners fought and killed one another as the Carcharodons and mortal auxiliaries watched from the field’s edge.
• After the survivors dwindled to several thousand, a Space Marine announced that they had passed the test.
• When the prisoners ignored him and continued fighting, Space Marines fired their Ripper Rifles into the air to stop them.
• The Space Marine warned the survivors against fighting again and ordered the mortal auxiliaries to take them away, treat the wounded, and burn the corpses.
• The mortal auxiliaries escorted the survivors to treatment and burned the dead on the battlefield.

Tyberos defended the Carcharodons Chapter’s brutal recruit trials and confirmed that its forces had cleared threats from the Jerma Hive World. A squadron sent by Commander Kanas arrived to escort the Fallen Angel, and Tyberos told Farahel the news.

• The Defense Force commander criticized the Carcharodons Chapter’s recruitment trials, but Tyberos defended them and the commander agreed not to interfere.
• Tyberos assured the logistics department chief that xenos, Chaos cultists, and gangs had been eliminated from the Jerma Hive World, and said the Carcharodons had seized only a small number of vehicles and artillery pieces.
• A frigate and four destroyers entered the Jerma System and sent a communication request to the Carcharodons flagship.
• A squadron commander under Commander Kanas told Tyberos that he had come to escort the Fallen Angel.
• Tyberos contacted Farahel, who was excited to learn that his escort had arrived.

Dalaran sent Ralph and an elite force to infiltrate the Fulas Galaxy and eliminate its leaders before the Raptors’ fleet attacked. Ralph assembled his team and launched toward the system, beginning the covert operation.

• Dalaran ordered Ralph to lead a covert decapitation strike in the Fulas Galaxy while he held the fleet outside the system.
• Ralph accepted the mission, determined to prove himself as captain of the 1st Company.
• Ralph selected 120 Space Marines, including 30 veteran Raptors and 90 recruits with Astra Militarum combat experience.
• Ralph briefed the force on its infiltration mission and ordered them to move out.
• The Space Marines boarded Hummingbird Assault Boats and sped toward the Fulas Galaxy.

Ralph and his Space Marines infiltrated Industrial World One, concealed their Hummingbird Assault Boats, and began reconnaissance for an assassination mission. Their surveillance revealed key figures whose roles were vital to the planet’s operations.

• The six Hummingbird Assault Boats crossed the Fulas Galaxy’s defenses, and Ralph’s team approached Industrial World One.
• Ralph ordered his sixty-four Space Marines to hide the boats after they landed on the planet.
• Ralph and his men activated their modified power armor and traveled toward the northern industrial city.
• The Space Marines split into teams of four and surveyed the city before beginning their assassination plan.
• Ralph’s team gathered intelligence and identified key figures essential to the planet’s operations.

Ralph and his squads prepared to launch an assassination and decapitation operation. At Marshal Wendigo’s residence on Vlas I, officials discussed shortages of weapons for the expanded Planetary Defence Force as the threat of invasion stirred panic across the Provence Sector.

• Ralph confirmed that every squad was ready and ordered the assassination operation to begin.
• Ralph led three Space Marines toward the target’s location.
• A staff officer told Marshal Wendigo that fifty-six percent of the Planetary Defence Force lacked necessary weapons and equipment.
• Wendigo said he had ordered military-industrial factories to work overtime and expected deliveries within days.
• Officials continued discussing military matters as the sector’s industrial worlds struggled to arm newly conscripted civilians.

Ralph led three Space Marines into the Marshal's residence and assassinated Marshal Wendigo and the other senior officials gathered in the council hall. The guards discovered the bodies, the residence erupted into chaos, and urgent reports spread the news through the city.

• Ralph and three Space Marines used their assassination mode to infiltrate the Marshal's residence and reach the council hall undetected.
• Ralph assigned each teammate a target, and the four Space Marines entered the hall and silently killed the officials, including Marshal Wendigo.
• The assassins withdrew into the corridors, where Ralph monitored outgoing communications for evidence and possible communications hubs.
• Guards rushed into the council hall, found the dead officials, and raised the alarm that Marshal Wendigo had been killed.
• The guards moved to seal the residence as urgent messages spread the news to the city's nobles and residents.

Ralph assassinated the real Wendigo after discovering that the marshal had used a double to maintain order on Industrial World One. As assassination teams reported success across both industrial worlds, Ralph ordered them to stay hidden and kill anyone who tried to restore control.

• After high-ranking officials were assassinated and chaos spread across Industrial World One, the real Wendigo emerged from a hidden passage and began issuing orders.
• Ralph mocked Wendigo's use of a body double, then shot him in the head with a Plasma Pistol.
• Ralph hid in the corridor and monitored the residence, waiting for signs that another Wendigo was still alive.
• An assassination squad reported that it had killed Industrial World II's high-ranking figures, and Ralph ordered the team to remain undercover and eliminate anyone who tried to take control.
• Other squads reported completing their operations, and Ralph learned that nearly all high-ranking figures on Industrial World One had been assassinated.

Ralph reported that the leaders and senior officers on both industrial worlds in the Fulas Galaxy had been assassinated, and Dalaran ordered the Raptors Chapter to launch its assault. The fleet reached the spaceports and sent Space Marines to capture them, while the worlds below descended into chaos.

• Ralph told Dalaran that assassinations on both industrial worlds had left the enemy in disarray, and Dalaran ordered him to continue his missions and provide teleportation coordinates for the main force.
• Dalaran broadcast the order to attack, and the Raptors Chapter fleet charged into the Fulas Galaxy.
• The fleet’s arrival triggered alarms at both spaceports, worsening the chaos on the industrial worlds, where the surviving Planetary Defence Forces lacked senior officers to coordinate a response.
• The spaceports fired macro-cannon volleys at the Raptors warships, but their Void Shields absorbed the attacks.
• Dalaran ordered Space Marines aboard Hummingbird Assault Boats to seize both spaceports rather than destroy them.

The Raptors overwhelmed Vulas's two spaceports with a rapid assault and psychological warfare, securing them for the next stage of the invasion. Dalaran ordered Ralph to activate teleport beacons so the main force could begin landing on the two industrial worlds.

• The Raptors stormed the spaceports in Hummingbird Assault Boats and forced many Planetary Defence Force soldiers to surrender.
• A pale green Gauss beam disintegrated a noble officer who tried to shoot the surrendering soldiers, prompting the remaining defenders to give up.
• The Raptors captured both spaceports in less than ten minutes.
• Dalaran informed Ralph that the spaceports were secured and ordered the teleport beacons activated.
• Ralph relayed the Chapter Master's order to the squads responsible for deploying the beacons.

Soldiers used transmission beacons to teleport Apocalypse Tanks and mortal auxiliary troops onto two industrial worlds in the Fulas Galaxy, where they attacked the Planetary Defence Force. The assault shattered the defenders’ positions, but surviving soldiers continued to resist as the auxiliary troops advanced.

• Soldiers placed glowing transmission beacons and opened passages to the industrial worlds.
• Apocalypse Tanks and mortal auxiliary troops entered the worlds and attacked the Planetary Defence Force positions.
• The defenders’ machine guns and artillery fired on the attackers, while the tanks and Chimeras returned fire and devastated the defensive line.
• An auxiliary company commander ordered his troops to advance across the battered position.
• The Planetary Defence Force survivors counterattacked, and the auxiliary troops replied with Gauss energy rays and Blast Guns.
• A Gauss energy ray disintegrated one Planetary Defence Force soldier, but the remaining defenders held their positions.

The Raptors overwhelmed the Planetary Defence Force and captured two industrial worlds in the Fulas Galaxy, gaining a vast haul of tanks and artillery. Dalaran wondered whether their maintenance robots could build field shield generators to upgrade the captured vehicles.

• The auxiliary forces and Space Marines breached the Planetary Defence Force positions, and many defenders surrendered as the Raptors took two industrial worlds in less than half a day.
• The Raptors inventoried the captured equipment, including more than twenty-five Conqueror Tanks, over one hundred and fifty Chimera armoured personnel carriers, thousands of artillery pieces, and two Volcano Cannons.
• Dalaran celebrated that the Raptors now had nearly a thousand tanks, while Ralph asked how they could improve the captured vehicles' combat power.
• Dalaran proposed equipping the tanks with field shields, but Ralph warned that they lacked enough battle merit to upgrade several hundred vehicles.
• Dalaran suggested that the equipment maintenance robots might be able to manufacture field shield generators.

Dalaran asked the repair robots to build Void Shields for the Raptors’ tanks, and they agreed to install them externally despite the effect on the vehicles’ appearance. The robots estimated that equipping all five hundred tanks would take about a month.

• Dalaran teleported to the flagship’s repair bay and greeted the robots working there.
• Dalaran asked the repair robots to manufacture Void Shields for tanks and showed them data on the Chimera armored personnel carrier, Predator Tank, and Conqueror Tank.
• The repair robots determined that the tanks needed medium-to-large Void Shields but lacked the interfaces for internal installation.
• Dalaran accepted that the shields would have to be mounted externally, prioritizing protection over the tanks’ appearance.
• The repair robots agreed to equip the Raptors’ tanks and estimated that producing shields for all five hundred would take about one month.

The Star Army conquered the Provence Sector and expanded its offensive into neighboring sectors, with the Delma Galaxy falling under its attack. As Kanas oversaw the campaign, reports arrived of a mysterious giant in golden power armor slaughtering Star Army forces in the Underhive, and footage showed him tearing open an Apocalypse Tank with a Power Halberd.

• The Star Army secured the Provence Sector and began reconstructing its captured systems while pressing into Delma, Fanjing Mountain, Aplos, and Jierta.
• The Star Army attacked the Delma Sector capital, overwhelming its defenses and forcing the Planetary Defence Force to surrender.
• While Defense Force soldiers cleared the Underhive, a three-meter-tall figure in golden power armor attacked them, killing more than a hundred soldiers and destroying thousands of combat robots.
• Kanas demanded to know the strongman's identity after learning that reinforcements, robots, and two Apocalypse Tanks had failed to stop him.
• The cruiser captain showed Kanas battle footage of the golden figure massacring Star Army forces and slicing through an Apocalypse Tank with his Power Halberd.

A burly warrior overwhelmed the Defense Force and five Star Space Marines, prompting Kanas to learn that the fighter was likely an Adeptus Custodes. Kanas drew his flaming sword and prepared to confront him despite not knowing why he had appeared in the capital of the Delta Sector.

• The burly man used a Void Shield to repel the Space Marines’ fire, then charged them and killed three in close combat.
• Kanas watched the fight through a holographic projection and recognized the burly man’s abilities as surpassing most ordinary Space Marines.
• The cruiser captain told Kanas that the AI had identified the burly man as likely an Adeptus Custodes from the Imperium.
• Kanas and the captain could not explain why a lone Adeptus Custodes had appeared in the capital of the Delta Sector.
• Kanas drew his flaming sword and ordered the burly man dealt with first.

Kanas arrived with twenty battle-hardened guards and an Earth Dreadnought to aid the beleaguered Defense Force and two remaining Space Marines. Their assault brought down the Adeptus Custodes, leaving him dismembered and badly burned but still alive.

• The Defense Force captain reactivated the teleport beacon and sent Kanas precise coordinates.
• Kanas arrived in the Underhive with twenty battle-hardened guards and an Earth Dreadnought.
• The Earth Dreadnought fired its anti-aircraft machine gun at the Adeptus Custodes, forcing him to evade and weakening his Void Shield.
• The two Space Marines and Defense Force soldiers withdrew as Kanas and his guards charged the Custodian.
• Kanas struck the Custodian with his Flame Sword, and its flames engulfed him and blasted him across the battlefield.
• The Custodian survived the explosion but lost his limbs, and his power armor and body were severely burned.

Kanas killed the defeated Adeptus Custodes commander after demanding to know why he had attacked in the Delta Sector capital. He sent his wounded Space Marines back for treatment, then withdrew with his guards as the Defense Force captain led the remaining soldiers deeper into the Underhive to avenge their fallen comrades.

• Kanas questioned the badly wounded Adeptus Custodes commander, who said slaying heretics was his sacred duty and refused to explain further.
• Kanas crushed the commander’s skull, killing him.
• Two wounded Space Marines apologized to Kanas for their failure, but he praised their courage and sent them back to the warship with their three fallen comrades.
• Kanas ordered his guards to take the Adeptus Custodes corpse and teleported away with them.
• The Defense Force captain sent the wounded back to base and led the rest of his soldiers farther into the Underhive, shouting for revenge.

Dorak's detachment discovered a Black Ship of the Sisters of Silence in the Themis Galaxy, and Dorak decided to alert Inquisitor Tina in hopes of recruiting Blanks aboard it. Before Jie'er could contact her, the Black Ship fleet attacked the Star Army.

• Jie'er identified the black warship as a Black Ship of the Sisters of Silence and informed Dorak.
• Jie'er urged Dorak to attack, but Dorak refused and suspected the ship might be carrying newly discovered Blanks sought by the Judgement Custodes.
• Dorak decided to risk notifying Inquisitor Tina about the possible Blanks, despite Jie'er's warning that false intelligence could bring severe punishment.
• Jie'er agreed to help contact Tina, but an alarm revealed that the Black Ship fleet had opened fire on the Star Army and was charging toward it.