Recaps

The Art Student developed weapons and expanded the Star Sea Galaxy’s forces as the Imperium assembled a crusade against them. When the Imperial fleet invaded, the Star Navy and its fighters crippled the attackers, and boarding battles began.

• Tina tested the Daemon-Slaying Incendiary on a Genestealer, and the Defense Force cleared the threat from Star Sea I World.
• The Art Student tested the Planetary Gravity Engine on a dead planet, then approved mass production of the engine and other weapons.
• Gray, Anrida, and Mendeleev expanded and organized the Space Marines, Defense Force, and navy while the galaxy developed new planets and training grounds.
• The Imperium assembled a crusade fleet, and the Adeptus Mechanicus joined it before the combined force entered the Warp for the Star Sea Galaxy.
• Lilith’s fleet engaged the invading Imperial ships, then Mendeleev brought reinforcements and broke the enemy’s battle line.
• Archimonde launched three black missiles, but Mendeleev’s Planetary Gravity Engine triggered their antimatter bombs, and the Star Navy escaped the blast while the Imperial fleet suffered heavy losses.
• Gray arranged a boarding operation as Star Navy fighters disabled Imperial ships and wingmen opened teleportation routes for the Defense Force and Space Marines.
• The wingmen and Aerospace Fighters attacked the Iron Wall Chapter’s battle barge, and an Astartes captain ordered his Space Marines to destroy a teleportation beacon before reinforcements arrived.

The Star Space Marines and Defense Force attacked Imperial warships, defeating their defenders and killing Iron Wall Chapter Master Shino and Judge Lena. Gray’s forces invaded an Adeptus Mechanicus cruiser, where Gray confronted Archimonde, the Dominus, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Kanas led the Star Space Marines through the Iron Wall Chapter’s battle barge, where they killed Chapter Master Shino, his champion, and the Librarian before reporting their losses to Mo Tuo.
• Tal’s Defense Force teleported aboard Imperial Navy ships and attacked the defenders with soldiers and combat robots, wiping out the 173rd Regiment and capturing weapons chambers.
• Lena led the Sisters of Battle into the fighting, but Wumu Weien and his teammates killed her after she challenged him to a duel.
• Gray and his forces teleported aboard an Adeptus Mechanicus cruiser, destroyed the Servitors, and advanced through the ship while Archimonde, the Dominus, ordered the defenders to deploy Kastelan Robots.
• Star Space Marines defeated Tech-Priests and destroyed ten Kastelan Robots, though two Space Marines died when a damaged robot’s reactor exploded.
• Gray led ten Earth Dreadnoughts through the cruiser and annihilated Skitarii and Tech-Priests guarding the route to the bridge.
• Gray confronted Archimonde, the Dominus, and accused the Imperium and Adeptus Mechanicus of oppressing his family and withholding technology before their forces began fighting.
• Gray fought Archimonde while the Dreadnoughts battled the Kastelan Robots, and Archimonde fired his gravity gun at Gray after a Dreadnought’s blast made him stumble.

Gray and the Star forces defeated the Imperium fleet, captured warships and Titans, and returned to the orbital fortress. Art Student rewarded the commanders and administrators, arranged the captured ships and Titans for reassignment, and sent everyone to handle the aftermath.

• Gray killed Archimonde and helped his forces defeat the Adeptus Mechanicus on the captured flagship, while the Defense Force and Mo Tuo’s troops overcame their own opponents.
• David’s squad captured ten Imperial Titans, and Gray ordered the remaining enemy forces cleared while Navy sailors prepared the captured cruiser for its return.
• Gray, Mendeleev, and Anrida led the victorious forces back to the orbital fortress, where Hogood, Anglie, and other administrators welcomed them.
• Art Student praised the commanders and logistics personnel, accepted their reports of casualties and captures, and approved compensation for fallen soldiers’ families and treatment for the wounded.
• Art Student discovered Archimonde’s brain was still alive, extracted its memories, and found no valuable technology before destroying it.
• Art Student gave Gray and two others data-reading ports and announced that Milos would broadcast footage of exceptional battlefield service.
• Art Student assigned the captured Titans to Anglie for research and approved transferring captured warships to the logistics department for modification.

After defeating the Imperial fleet, Art Student and his officers prepared to expand from the Star Sea Galaxy while avoiding an overstretched occupation. Gray’s forces launched their first campaign against an Imperial system, destroying its spaceport and defenses before landing troops to attack a major industrial city.

• Yiluo informed Provence Sector officials that the joint fleet had been wiped out, and the Governor ordered defenses strengthened and the defeat reported to Terra.
• Art Student focused on building the Star Navy, training the forces, and studying nearby systems before authorizing an advance within thirty light-years.
• Gray and the senior officers assigned fleets, troops, and administrators to the campaign, then sent four fleets from the Star Sea Galaxy.
• Tulas’s fleet approached an Imperial system with agricultural and industrial worlds, prompting the Governor and local nobles to organize a defense and destroy fleeing transports.
• Gray ordered Aerospace Fighters to destroy the spaceport and fleeing transports, then strike defensive positions on both planets.
• After the bombardment, Gray sent Space Marines and Defense Force troops to land, and the forces assembled to advance on the industrial city.