Recaps

The Star Army defeated the industrial world's resistance, killed its governor, and secured the planet. As the fleet moved into the Conard Galaxy, Marshall Conard surrendered after Willy's visions convinced him his family could prosper under the Lord of the Stars.

• The Defense Force broke through the industrial city's defenses, and a noble commander transformed by Chaos was killed by the company commander and his soldiers.
• The governor rallied the remaining enforcers and noble forces for a counterattack, but Ebony's Blast Gun killed him and the coalition broke apart.
• Otto reported that the planet had been taken, and Gray ordered his army to keep order and hunt cultists while planning the next steps for rebuilding.
• Lilith sent a vanguard into the Conard Galaxy, where three Cobra-class Destroyers offered to surrender on Marshall Conard's behalf.
• Nack teleported aboard the frigate with one hundred Space Marines and summoned Marshall to meet him aboard the warship.
• Willy told Nack that he had foreseen the Star Army's arrival and the Conard Knight Family's renewed prosperity if it joined the Lord of the Stars.
• Nack explained the Lord of the Stars to Marshall and Willy, then demonstrated technology that made drinks appear on the table.

Marshall agreed to surrender the Conard Family’s management rights and integrate its capable pilots into the Star Army. Meanwhile, Xavier’s forces attacked Milzhi Planet, defeated the Genestealers and began clearing the Orks, while Space Marines moved underground to support Shino’s besieged squad.

• Marshall agreed to relinquish the Conard Family’s management rights, and Nack showed him the Star Army’s ships and mechs before introducing him to Lilith and Anrida.
• Xavier followed York’s advice to investigate Milzhi Planet, where scans revealed humans, Genestealers and Orks fighting amid the ruins.
• The Orks overwhelmed the Genestealers’ defenses, and their boss killed the Bishop and led the Orks to slaughter the survivors.
• Xavier sent Aerospace Fighters and Intelligent Wingmen to bombard xenos positions and destroy the Ork aircraft, then York and Dorak led ground forces onto the planet.
• Captain Kus’s Space Marines began clearing the planet and hurried to help a human settlement under attack by Orks.
• Shino led an elite squad out of the underground fortress to seek supplies and assess the surface, but Orks forced his team to retreat into the pipes.
• Shino’s squad held the underground passage against repeated Ork attacks until Kus’s Space Marines and five Earth Dreadnoughts arrived.
• Captain Magras brought reinforcements, and after the forces cleared the Orks above ground, he led the Space Marines underground to support Shino.

Magras rescued Shino’s survivors, exposed the Genestealers among them, and uncovered an ancient weapons research facility beneath their fortress. Meanwhile, the Art Student pursued and captured the Void Dragon and Burning One fragments, then erased the star system’s timeline to hide the evidence.

• Shino’s squad became trapped by a collapse while retreating from the Orks, but Magras and his Space Marines arrived and rescued the survivors.
• Magras promised Shino’s people safety and supplies under the Lord of the Stars, then led them to their underground fortress.
• Magras and Kus detected Genestealers among the survivors, and Kus subdued their Bishop as the Space Marines killed the attackers.
• Magras arranged food and water for the fortress residents, while Kus discovered a hidden chamber containing a sealed Weapons Research Institute.
• Magras’s technical team powered up the facility, recovered records about the robot uprising and an Amizi-pattern Anti-gravity Tank, then took the tank to the fleet.
• The Art Student pursued the Void Dragon Shard to the Dark Nebula and fought it after it destroyed a Necron dynasty.
• The Art Student captured the Void Dragon Shard and the Burning One Shard in the Dimensional Cube after a three-way battle.
• The Art Student erased the star system’s timeline and sent the cube into a chaotic dimension to keep the Necron dynasties from tracing him.

Art Student consumed the Void Dragon fragments, forged daemon-killing Flame Swords, and expanded the Star Navy’s strength while heretics and daemons spread through the Dalavan Galaxy. The Star Navy began purging the overrun Hive World One, with Mo Tuo and the Space Marines preparing to hunt down anything that survived the incineration.

• Art Student devoured the remaining Void Dragon fragments, gained greater energy and authority over machinery, and found that he could not consume a fragment of The Burning One.
• Art Student forged Flame Swords from The Burning One fragment, and Tina used one to destroy Amostian and devour his soul, proving that it could kill daemons permanently.
• Art Student enlarged the Lord of the Stars and built shipyards capable of producing Gloriana-class Battleships, though he lacked the workers and robots to operate them at full capacity.
• Holy Terra promised Seth and the other Provence Sector officials reinforcements and ordered them to investigate the heretics.
• Isel summoned Sestian through a mass sacrifice, and Sestian possessed her, opened a Warp rift, and unleashed daemons across the Dalavan Galaxy.
• Tina delivered Flame Swords and demonstrated Gauss Rifles and Sonic Guns to Mo Tuo, Wood, John, and the other senior officers.
• The Fifth Fleet entered the Dalavan Galaxy and found Hive World One overrun by daemons, so Mo Tuo ordered its atmosphere incinerated while John took command of the operation on Daravan II Industrial World.
• Wood launched an atmospheric incineration torpedo at Hive World One, and after it scorched the planet, Mo Tuo sent Darryl and the Fourth Battalion’s Space Marines in drop pods to kill everything still alive.