Recaps

The human fleets, Imperial forces, and Chaos warbands fought the Orks and then turned on one another across the Jesta Galaxy. After Kam fell and One-Eye’s psychic shield held off the tanks, Neketz summoned a vast mech force to break the Orks’ defenses.

• Arjinto defended the Imperium’s weapons after a Defense Force soldier mocked Servitors, then tested a Ripper Rifle and learned it could hold one hundred thousand rounds as Orks attacked the coalition’s positions.
• The Imperial Combined Fleet and Star Navy fought the Orks as Chaos fleets arrived, and Mendeleev and Kanas decided to destroy the Orks before confronting the Chaos forces.
• Bloodhand Kam and One-Eye battled aboard a space hulk while Chaos warbands attacked, but Ork reinforcements overwhelmed the Chaos forces and drove them to retreat.
• The Ork space hulks crashed onto Jesta Planet, where the Defense Force, Astra Militarum, and Chaos forces wiped out the Orks before the human forces turned against the Chaos warbands.
• Neketz led a hundred thousand Apocalypse Tanks against the Chaos cultists, while the surviving Orks and Bloodhand Chaos Space Marines regrouped near the crash site.
• Kam charged the tanks and killed or injured the defenders until Neketz arrived and killed him with his Flame Sword.
• One-Eye survived a massive artillery barrage behind a green shield, and Neketz ordered his tanks to retreat slowly while continuing to suppress the Orks.
• Neketz placed a teleportation beacon, and reinforcements including Exploding Hounds, Earth Dreadnoughts, Knight mechs, and Reaver Titans arrived and overwhelmed the Orks with their assault.

Gray defeated the Orks on Jesta, then persuaded the Imperial forces to surrender and helped establish terms for integrating their Astartes into the Star Army. The Star Army launched a counteroffensive into the Provence Sector and captured key positions on Dokra Forge World, where Mo Tuo’s forces turned an orbital cannon against the Adeptus Mechanicus fleet.

• Gray led the assault on One-Eye and killed him, breaking the Orks’ psychic link and sending their forces fleeing.
• The Astra Militarum and Defense Force wiped out the retreating Orks and Chaos forces, then Velov, Arjinto, and their troops surrendered to Gray.
• The Star Navy defeated the Imperial Combined Fleet, and Mendeleev proposed a counterattack into the Provence Sector.
• Gray and the commanders agreed to let surrendered Astartes keep their Chapter structures, expand to three thousand warriors, and receive Star Army equipment and training.
• Xavier’s Fourth Fleet captured the Provence System’s spaceports and three hive worlds, while Wood’s Fifth Fleet attacked Dokra Forge World.
• Star Army forces seized Orbital Defense Platform One after Earth Dreadnoughts, Knight mechs, tanks, and Space Marines broke through its defenses.
• Mo Tuo’s engineers struggled to control the captured platform’s plasma cannon, but eventually aimed it at an Adeptus Mechanicus warship and struck its Void Shield.

The Star Army conquered Dokra Forge World and forced the Imperial Combined Fleet to abandon the Provence Sector. Nack then brought surrendered Astartes to the Star Sea Galaxy, where they encountered its civilian society and advanced technology.

• Mo Tuo's forces overwhelmed the Adeptus Mechanicus defenses across Dokra Forge World, killed Kahil and Yeks, and secured the planet.
• Bulon rebuilt the Imperial Combined Fleet to nearly six hundred warships, but Sage Cawl warned that reinforcing the invaded worlds was unsafe and withdrew the Adeptus Mechanicus fleet from the Provence Sector.
• Wood and Xavier redirected their forces toward nearby systems as Nack escorted surrendered Astartes officers into the Star Sea Galaxy and issued Psyker-Suppression Bracelets to their Librarians.
• Nack showed the Astartes the Star Sea Galaxy's shipyards and the Lord of the Stars' enormous flagship, then gave each officer ten thousand Star Coins.
• Nack led the officers through City One, where they saw its prosperous streets and learned that Star Space Marines could marry and raise families.
• Tyberos and the other Astartes explored City One, watched grav-bikes in flight, and heard Nack offer to open production lines for military versions.

Nack brought Tyberos and the other Astartes to the laboratory, where they learned about cloned gene-seed and underwent body enhancement. After training at the Recruit Training Camp, they received custom power armor and began selecting weapons, leaving them equipped for the next stage of their service.

• Nack led the Astartes to the laboratory, where Wells showed them cloned gene-seed and a mindless clone of Roboute Guilliman, and Tyberos arranged for Wells to clone Raven Guard gene-seed.
• Tyberos underwent the enhancement procedure and emerged five times stronger, prompting Azrael, Arjinto, and the other Astartes to receive the serum as well.
• Nack took the enhanced Astartes to the Recruit Training Camp, where Tyberos defeated seven commanders before losing to a larger group in a mass brawl.
• The Astartes trained in gravity chambers for four days, then met Nack and the Star Army to collect their custom weapons and equipment.
• Nack showed them their custom power armor, which mechanical arms fitted to each Marine, and they tested its protection, Void Shields, and auxiliary AI.
• Nack explained the armor’s teleportation and told the Astartes not to decorate it with Aquila wings or skulls, and they agreed to enforce the rule.
• Tyberos chose Power Claws, the Astartes selected power weapons, and Nack began introducing the firearms available in the warehouse.