Chapter Summaries

Nack introduced the Star Army’s individual weapons to Tyberos and the other Astartes, who eagerly collected the firearms after he offered them as many as they needed. The Astartes left equipped for future battles in Imperium star systems.

• Nack demonstrated the combat performance of several weapons, and Arjinto recognized a Space Marine-customized Gauss Rifle as a more powerful version of the kind used by combat robots.
• Tyberos asked how many weapons each Chapter could take, and Nack told the Astartes to take as many as they needed.
• Azrael ordered the Minotaurs to take one of every weapon first and choose suitable combinations for battle.
• The Minotaurs rushed to collect firearms, and the other Astartes followed as Star Space Marines handed out weapons.
• The Astartes received large quantities of firearms while the Star Army treated the supplies as an investment in seizing Imperium star systems.

Nack showed Tyberos and the other Astartes an enormous stockpile of heavy weapons and vehicles, setting limits on strategic cannons while offering extensive equipment to their Chapters. The Astartes prepared to take the weapons back to the Jesta Galaxy, where their captured Imperial warships were being modified.

• Nack allowed each Chapter to take up to thirty Earthshaker Cannons and thirty Volcano Cannons, while letting them take as many other heavy weapons as they needed.
• Nack agreed to transport heavy weapons for Chapters that could not carry them, and the captured Imperial warships were undergoing modifications in the Jesta Galaxy.
• Nack announced that each Chapter could receive five hundred Apocalypse Tanks, five hundred missile launch vehicles, and ten Earth Dreadnoughts.
• Nack explained that the Astartes would need to select and train their own vehicle pilots, and that Earth Dreadnoughts required especially capable operators.
• Arjinto, Zuckerberg, and the others asked whether Apocalypse Tanks had shields, and Nack said they had Void Shields, plasma shields, and small Void Shields.

Tyberos asked Nack to upgrade the Chapters’ Dreadnoughts and save the veterans entombed inside them, and Nack said he would consult the logistics and medical departments. When Tyberos noticed the Chapters had no assault boats, Nack revealed that the Hummingbird Assault Boat was still being designed and would enter mass production in a week.

• Arjinto admired the Apocalypse Tank’s powerful shields, while Tyberos marveled at the Earth Dreadnoughts and asked Nack if they were standard Space Marine equipment.
• Nack confirmed that Earth Dreadnoughts were standard equipment and provided powerful fire support.
• Tyberos asked Nack to upgrade the Chapters’ Dreadnoughts and rescue their veteran occupants, and Nack said the logistics and medical departments might be able to help.
• Nack asked whether the Chapters needed any other weapons or equipment, and Tyberos realized they had not received assault boats.
• Nack checked his terminal and showed Tyberos and the others the Hummingbird Assault Boat design, explaining that it would take another week to begin mass production.

Nack presented the Hummingbird Assault Boat, a fast and heavily armed craft that combined the capabilities of bombers, fighters, and traditional assault boats, and assured the gathered Astartes officers that it had no flaws. The officers mocked the Adeptus Mechanicus, and Arjinto asked whether they could equip the craft within a week.

• Azrael and the seven other Astartes officers examined the Hummingbird Assault Boat’s specifications and reacted with astonishment.
• Nack explained that the craft combined bombing, fighter, and assault capabilities without sacrificing performance.
• Tyberos questioned whether combining so many aircraft roles would cause flaws, and Nack insisted the boat excelled in every regard.
• Nack mocked the Adeptus Mechanicus’s reliance on slow rituals, and Tyberos joined him as the officers laughed.
• Arjinto asked Nack whether they would be able to equip the Hummingbird Assault Boat in a week.

Nack equipped the Chapters with plans for Hummingbird Assault Boats and personal terminals, which the Astartes used for training, learning, and browsing bounty missions. Tyberos discovered a restricted special bounty mission on his terminal.

• Nack promised that each Chapter would receive one hundred Hummingbird Assault Boats, with replacements for any destroyed in battle.
• Tyberos and the other Astartes collected personal terminals and returned to the Recruit Training Camp to train with their new equipment.
• The Astartes used their terminals to study, relax with entertainment, and browse bounty missions offered by people under the Lord of the Stars.
• Tyberos examined prices and considered buying practical supplies for daily life and voyages.
• A mysterious, authorization-restricted bounty mission appeared on Tyberos's screen.

Tyberos discovered that a bounty mission offered Star Coins for Blackstone and realized it matched a planet the Carcharodons had traded to the Matos Forge World. He and El planned to reclaim the planet and use its Blackstone to acquire vast supplies and possibly a warship.

• Tyberos paid ten Star Coins to view a bounty mission offering ten thousand Star Coins per cubic meter of Blackstone.
• Tyberos recognized that the mission’s description matched a Blackstone planet he had once traded to the Matos Forge World for weapons and equipment.
• Tyberos called El and asked him to recall where the planet was located.
• El remembered the planet in the Dark Star Region and saw the bounty details in Tyberos’s holographic projection.
• Tyberos and El became excited about reclaiming the planet and using its Blackstone to earn Star Coins for supplies and a possible Emperor-class Battleship.

Gaia appeared before Tyberos and El, revealed that she had created a bounty mission for their Astartes Chapter to find Blackstone, and explained its powerful effects on the Warp. Tyberos learned Blackstone could either suppress or amplify the Warp, and Gaia left him with the revelation that refined Blackstone could even destroy a star.

• A holographic projection appeared in the training room, and Gaia introduced herself as the artificial intelligence behind the Lord of the Stars' technological devices.
• Gaia told Tyberos and El that she had not been monitoring them and had created the bounty mission specifically to obtain Blackstone from their Astartes Chapter.
• Gaia explained that Space Marines could encounter rare resources and trade them with the Adeptus Mechanicus, and she was surprised that Tyberos knew where to find Blackstone.
• Tyberos questioned why the Lord of the Stars wanted Blackstone, and Gaia said refined Blackstone could isolate the Warp's influence.
• Gaia added that Blackstone could also amplify the Warp's influence and that psykers could refine it into a weapon powerful enough to destroy a star.

Gaia explained Blackstone’s destructive potential and offered Tyberos an Emperor-class Battleship, additional equipment, and permission to expand the Carcharodons Chapter in exchange for the location of a vast Blackstone planet. He displayed a map of the Milky Way, but Tyberos and El could not identify the region they knew.

• Gaia told Tyberos and El that psyker-refined Blackstone could draw immense power from the Warp and destroy a star, while explaining that the rare material was difficult to locate.
• Tyberos asked whether revealing the Blackstone’s location would earn him an Emperor-class Battleship, and Gaia asked how large the planet was.
• Tyberos said the Blackstone planet was about three thousand kilometers in diameter, so Gaia offered him an Emperor-class Battleship and a large supply of weapons and equipment.
• Gaia also allowed the Carcharodons Chapter to grow from three thousand to five thousand members, and Tyberos and El thanked him.
• Gaia projected a map of the Milky Way and asked Tyberos and El to identify the Blackstone’s location, but they could not recognize the region on the map.

Tyberos and El gave Gaia the location of Blackstone Planet, earning the Carcharodons an Emperor-class Battleship as their flagship. Gaia then reported the coordinates to the Art Student, who planned to use the blackstone to complete his stargate and isolate its territory from Warp travel.

• Gaia narrowed the Milky Way map to the dark regions beyond Segmentum Pacificus and asked Tyberos to identify Blackstone Planet.
• Tyberos located Blackstone Planet near the Yabuyato system, about one hundred thousand kilometers beyond the Yabuyato Galaxy, and swore the coordinates were accurate.
• Gaia promised Tyberos and El that the great Lord of the Stars would transfer their reward once he claimed Blackstone Planet.
• Tyberos and El celebrated receiving an Emperor-class Battleship and resolved to take on more bounty missions.
• Gaia told the Art Student that Tyberos had reported Blackstone Planet's coordinates, giving him the final blackstone needed for his stargate design.

Art Student learned that a Blackstone Planet lay near the Yabuyato Galaxy and hurried there to claim it. He discovered the galaxy had been overrun by Genestealers and that a massive Tyranid fleet was approaching.

• Gaia located the Blackstone Planet one hundred thousand kilometers outside the Yabuyato Galaxy, and Art Student decided to leave at once.
• Gaia reminded Art Student that he had promised Tyberos an Emperor-class Battleship, and Art Student said he would craft one after obtaining Blackstone.
• Art Student praised Gaia and traveled with her true body through dimensional space to the outer edge of the Yabuyato Galaxy.
• Art Student sensed Genestealer life-force fields and saw that the galaxy’s two inhabited planets were covered with Genestealers.
• Art Student detected an abnormal stellar magnetic field and spotted a huge Tyranid fleet approaching from more than a hundred light-years away.

Art Student seized the Blackstone Planet and confronted the Tyranid fleet approaching the Yabuyato Galaxy. His disintegration energy overwhelmed the fleet’s psychic defenses, leaving the battle in chaos.

• Gaia detected Genestealers and a Tyranid fleet approaching the Yabuyato Galaxy, and Art Student decided to secure the Blackstone Planet first.
• Art Student destroyed the Adeptus Mechanicus mining fleet and moved the Blackstone Planet into his personal dimension beside his War Star.
• Art Student used two Dimensional Transits to reach the Tyranid fleet more than a hundred light-years away.
• Art Student unleashed green disintegration energy, destroying the Tyranid biological motherships and shattering the Brain Bugs’ psychic barriers.

Art Student and Gaia destroyed the Tyranid fleet, then hurried to the Yabuyato Galaxy to eradicate the Genestealers. Art Student began exterminating them by intensifying gravity across an inhabited planet.

• Gaia attacked from dimensional space as Art Student swept through the Tyranid fleet, destroying more than a thousand bio-ships in under a minute.
• Gaia praised Art Student and asked to attack the Genestealers in the Yabuyato Galaxy.
• Art Student agreed that the Genestealers had to be eradicated before they could assimilate more humans, then used Dimensional Transit to reach the Yabuyato Galaxy.
• Art Student enveloped an inhabited planet in his power and increased its gravity, crushing buildings and killing the Genestealers beneath the pressure.
• Genestealer bishops and other Genestealers tried to use their psychic powers to investigate the destruction.

Art Student eliminated the Genestealers on multiple planets while preserving the worlds, explaining that the War in Heaven had devastated the Milky Way and corrupted the Warp. He continued his campaign against the Genestealers, leaving Gaia with a history of the catastrophe that created the Chaos Gods.

• Art Student wiped out the Genestealers on a planet, flattened its terrain, and raised its temperature until it became barren.
• Gaia praised Art Student, who accepted the flattery before heading to another planet to eliminate more Genestealers.
• Gaia asked why Art Student did not simply destroy the planets, and Art Student explained that planets were precious resources worth preserving.
• Art Student recalled how the War in Heaven destroyed countless star systems and disrupted the balance between the material universe and the Warp.
• Art Student explained that the deaths and resentment caused by the war flooded the Warp with negative emotions, leading to the birth of the Chaos Gods.

Art Student explained to Gaia how the Necrons defeated the weakened C'tan and how their absence let the Warp expand, then clarified that protecting the Milky Way meant avoiding unnecessary planetary destruction. Gaia relayed his guidance to Gray and the others, distinguishing Exterminatus from destroying a planet outright.

• Art Student recounted how the Necrons exploited the C'tan's civil war to shatter and imprison them, then entered deep slumber after suffering heavy losses against the Aeldari.
• Art Student explained that the C'tan had strengthened the barrier between the real universe and the Warp, and Gaia processed his account after restoring the planet to its ancient state.
• Gaia asked whether Art Student avoided destroying planets to preserve the Milky Way's stability, and Art Student agreed that wanton destruction would bring disadvantages.
• Art Student told Gaia that Gray and the others should minimize direct planetary destruction but could still use Exterminatus or destroy a planet if its danger warranted it.
• Gaia conveyed Art Student's instructions to Gray and the others, and the chapter explained that Exterminatus killed planetary life while leaving the planet itself largely intact.

After eliminating the Tyranids and Genestealers in the Yabuyato Galaxy, Art Student returned to Star Sea to finish the Star Gate Project and fulfill Gaia’s promise to Tyberos. He created a fifteen-kilometer Emperor-class Battleship and left Gaia in control of it until Tyberos completed his training.

• Art Student confirmed that no Genestealers remained in nearby star systems and decided to return to Star Sea with the Blackstone.
• Art Student used Dimensional Transit to reach the edge of the Star Sea Galaxy and asked Gaia about the promised Emperor-class Battleship for Tyberos.
• Art Student transformed a meteorite into a fifteen-kilometer Emperor-class Battleship.
• Art Student ordered Gaia to guard the battleship until Tyberos finished training, and Gaia informed Nack and Tyberos of its arrival.

The Art Student began refining Blackstone to strengthen the barrier between reality and the Warp, while Tyberos and El learned that the Lord of the Stars had claimed the Blackstone Planet and completed Tyberos’s promised Emperor-class Battleship. They resolved to serve him more devotedly and bring humanity under his protection.

• The Art Student returned to his flagship and focused on refining Blackstone, prioritizing its ability to reinforce the barrier between reality and the Warp.
• Tyberos received Gaia’s information and was stunned that the Lord of the Stars had claimed the Blackstone Planet and built his Emperor-class Battleship in two days.
• Tyberos and El marveled at the Lord of the Stars’s power and compared him to a god who could travel freely through the galaxy.
• Tyberos and El vowed to serve the Lord of the Stars wholeheartedly and bring all humanity under his protection.

Nack arrived at the training camp with Star Space Marines and tens of thousands of robots, saying he had come to congratulate Tyberos and deliver supplies for the Chapters. He revealed that the robots were medical and equipment-repair specialists, not combat units.

• Nack strode up to Tyberos with more than a hundred Star Space Marines and tens of thousands of robots behind him.
• Nack congratulated Tyberos on earning the Lord of the Stars' favor, but Tyberos questioned the force he had brought.
• Nack explained that the robots were supplies prepared for the Chapters, and Tyberos remained doubtful.
• Astartes training in the gravity chamber stopped and came outside to inspect the robots.
• Tyberos asked whether the robots were combat units, and Nack clarified that they were expert medical and weapons-equipment repair robots.

Nack explained that the delivered repair and medical robots could support Chapters far beyond ordinary equipment and battlefield care, then asked how Tyberos had earned an Emperor-class Battleship. Tyberos revealed that he had completed Lord Gaia’s bounty mission to find Blackstone, leaving Nack and the other Chapter leaders astonished.

• Nack explained that the robots could repair weapons, armor, vehicles, and warships, while the medical robots could save injured humans and Space Marines.
• Nack claimed the robots surpassed Chapters’ Techmarines and Apothecaries, causing the specialists in the crowd to fall silent in resentment.
• Tyberos and the other senior officers thanked Nack for the resupply, and Nack asked how Tyberos had earned an Emperor-class Battleship.
• Tyberos revealed that he had completed a bounty mission personally issued by Lord Gaia, prompting the others to ask what it was.
• Tyberos answered that the mission concerned Blackstone, shocking Nack, who realized Tyberos had discovered what the Star Army had long searched for.

Tyberos explained that his Chapter had discovered an entire Blackstone Planet, earning an Emperor-class Battleship from Lord Gaia. Nack then announced that the Chapters’ warships had finished refitting, and Tyberos and the others planned to return to the Jesta Galaxy the next day.

• Tyberos projected the Blackstone bounty mission and explained that his Chapter had reported an entire Blackstone Planet to Lord Gaia.
• Arjinto, Dalaran, and the others reacted with envy, and Tyberos urged them to watch for bounty missions while Nack reminded them that the Blackstone search mission was permanent.
• Nack announced that the Chapters’ warships had completed their refits.
• Tyberos and the others agreed to return to the Jesta Galaxy the next day, and Nack said he would arrange their trip.

Tyberos and the other Astartes returned to the Jesta Galaxy aboard a newly refitted Emperor-class Battleship, where Nack assigned the Chapters to inspect their ships and select recruits for augmentation. Tyberos found the Carcharodons’ Battle Barge transformed, with its Servitors and all symbols of the Emperor removed.

• Nack led Tyberos and the other Astartes back to the Jesta Galaxy and transferred control of the Emperor-class Battleship to Tyberos.
• Nack told the Chapter commanders to inspect their refitted warships, choose mortal auxiliaries and augmentation recruits, and send the recruits to him for transport to Star Sea.
• Nack explained that the Star Army had left the Jesta Galaxy, while more than a thousand captured Imperium warships remained there awaiting refits.
• Azrael and his group went to inspect their Chapter’s warships, while Tyberos, El, and the others headed to the Carcharodons’ Battle Barge.
• Tyberos and the others found the Battle Barge renewed, with Servitors and the Emperor’s statues, banners, and other religious symbols removed.