Recaps

The Art Student gained power from the Void Dragon, rescued Underhive survivors, and built a technologically advanced force devoted to the Lord of the Stars. After expanding and training his followers, he launched a campaign to seize the Underhive, while Dok Monde fled an Ork fleet into the Teda system.

• The Art Student was expelled from the Warp after the Chaos gods and the Emperor attacked him, then discovered he had absorbed part of the Void Dragon and gained powerful abilities.
• The Art Student explored the Underhive, killed a Genestealer, and recruited Gray Mark’s desperate group, offering them clean water, food, medical treatment, and a hidden home aboard his flagship.
• Gray recruited thousands for the Lord of the Stars, while the Art Student developed genetic enhancements and established military branches for recruits who could not join the Space Marines.
• Gray, David, and Nack qualified for enhancement and trained for years with the growing Space Marine force, which later prepared for combat in improved Power Armour.
• After the Art Student’s Psychic Null Field killed psykers across much of the planet and chaos spread through the Underhive, he and his administrators agreed to occupy it.
• Gray led the Space Marines into the Underhive, where they destroyed the gang forces in Totka City, while the Navy and Defense Force moved to occupy other settlements.
• Dok Monde fled an Ork fleet into the Teda system, while soldiers in Totka City distributed food, water, and vaccines and killed a man who praised the Four-Armed Emperor.

Art Student’s forces paused their expansion to consolidate their gains, then faced a massive Ork invasion of the Teda Hive Worlds. After the Defense Force and Space Marines held their base against repeated assaults, Gray killed Iron Bull and the Orks fled.

• Art Student halted the campaign to address garrison, food, and water shortages, then arranged for the Defense Force to support Space Marine operations without surrendering its principles.
• Crooked Mouth attacked the Teda Hive Worlds, and Art Student rejected evacuation as Orks overran the planet’s defenses and drove survivors into the Lower Hive.
• Art Student’s commanders prepared the base while Anrida organized the Defense Force and Gray sent Tina’s squad to lure Orks into an ambush.
• The Defense Force repelled Iron Bull’s first assault, and Anrida rotated the troops while Iron Bull gathered more Orks and weapons.
• Iron Bull returned with over thirty million Orks, and the Defense Force, Apocalypse Tanks, and Space Marines met the attack with heavy fire.
• Gray led the Space Marines through the Ork lines to destroy their armored vehicles while Anrida’s forces targeted the Killa Kans and held their positions.
• Gray killed Iron Bull and raised his head, causing the Orks to lose heart and retreat as the Space Marines and tanks pursued them.

Gray and the Star Space Marines defeated Crooked Mouth’s Orks and the pursuing Defenders Chapter, then escaped the Imperium and spent three years building up their forces. The arc ends with Art Student’s fleet preparing to intervene in Star Sea I World’s civil war, first offering the nobles surrender without their former privileges.

• Gray led the pursuit of the fleeing Orks, then celebrated the victory with Mo Tuo, Anrida, and Mendeleev as the Art Student praised their performance.
• Copperhead and Crooked Mouth rallied the Greenskin bosses to invade Hive World Two, though Big Head’s failed teleportation killed many bosses and damaged their mechs.
• The Art Student mobilized 1.5 million engineering robots, and Anrida directed them against the Ork horde as the Greenskins’ war machines fought the robots.
• Gray and Mo Tuo teleported into Crooked Mouth’s Gargant and destroyed its reactor, then Gray killed Copperhead and beheaded Crooked Mouth as the Greenskins broke and fled.
• Bartos’s Defenders Chapter fought Gray’s Star Space Marines, but Gray killed Bartos and the Star Space Marines wiped out the pursuing Astartes.
• The Art Student evacuated his forces aboard the warship, and Mendeleev teleported it to deep space before guiding it toward Segmentum Pacificus.
• Over three years, Gaia’s robots built a space dock and the fleet expanded to twenty-nine warships, while the Art Student developed Spatial-Folding Magazines and tested Dreadnoughts and Aerospace Fighters.
• After Milos briefed the officers on the civil war in Star Sea I World, Anrida proposed offering the nobles surrender, and Gray insisted they would not regain their privileges.

Gray’s forces conquered both inhabited worlds of the Star Sea Galaxy, then began relocating the population and rooting out hidden cults. The pursuit of Bishop Vane led the Defense Force into Genestealer territory, where John arrived to begin clearing the tunnels.

• Mendeleev brought thirty warships into the Star Sea Galaxy, and Milos broadcast the Lord of the Stars’ demand for surrender as the nobles and clergy organized resistance.
• Zakli gathered Governor Dol and Grand Duke Willy’s nobles to plan a defense, but Gray and Mo Tuo landed their forces and began attacking both worlds.
• Gray’s Space Marines breached the city wall, defeated the defenders and their Psyker, captured Kadir, and spared the ordinary soldiers who surrendered.
• Gray’s forces seized the city’s power station and cathedral, Wright killed Zakli, and Mo Tuo reported that World Two had also been captured.
• Hogood and Anglie began building new cities and relocating people, while the Defense Force screened, vaccinated, and processed civilians for transport.
• An informant exposed the God of Magic cult, and Tal’s troops attacked its hidden bases, killed David, and pursued the fleeing Bishop Vane into the underground pipelines.
• The Genestealers ambushed Tal’s soldiers, but the Defense Force repelled them and forced their retreat before John arrived with reinforcements to clear the tunnels.