Chapter Summaries

Tyberos and El inspected the Carcharodons’ modernized flagship and reflected on the Chapter’s surrender and new allegiance. After reuniting with their personnel on Planet Three of Jesta, they faced major staffing gaps and accepted a Star Army plan to rebuild the Chapters with larger Space Marine forces and mortal auxiliaries.

• Tyberos and El admired the flagship’s technological upgrades and recalled how surrender had saved the Carcharodons from destruction.
• Tyberos told El that the Chapter would serve the Lord of the Stars and help free humanity from the Imperium, while they approved of removing the Emperor’s and primarchs’ statues.
• Tyberos and his battle-brothers inspected the Chapter’s other warships before traveling to Planet Three of Jesta to gather its former crews and combat personnel.
• The Carcharodons discovered that purging their Servitors and slave laborers had left severe organizational and staffing shortages.
• Gray and the other generals proposed expanding each surrendered Chapter to three thousand Space Marines and assigning it one million mortal auxiliaries with Star Army equipment.
• Tyberos and the other Astartes leaders accepted the restructuring, which would pair Space Marines’ assaults with auxiliary support in large-scale battles.

Tyberos returned to the Carcharodons’ former camp on Planet Three of Jesta and found its mortal personnel well supplied, equipped, and adapting to their new life under the Lord of the Stars. Evans explained how the mortals had received advanced weapons and were learning to pilot new warships, leaving Tyberos pleased with their progress.

• Tyberos and his companions arrived above the camp, where the mortal personnel greeted them with cheers.
• The mortals knelt before Tyberos, who told them they no longer belonged to the Imperium and did not need to kneel to him.
• Tyberos greeted Evans and remarked that the former mortal captain looked stronger and healthier.
• Evans described the abundant supplies, advanced equipment, and warship training the mortals had received.
• Evans showed Tyberos his Gauss Rifle and Power Sword and explained why the mortals had chosen them.

Tyberos discovered that Evans and the other Carcharodons had each taken only one Gauss Rifle, and regretted that they had missed the chance to choose more weapons. He sent El to prepare the warriors for their new warships and went to recruit sailors and mortal auxiliaries.

• Tyberos learned that Evans and the other warriors had chosen only Gauss Rifles, then scolded them for not taking additional weapons and equipment.
• Evans offered to ask the Defense Force for more supplies, but Tyberos said it was too late to change their decision.
• Tyberos ordered El to lead the warriors back to the fleet and have them learn to operate the new warships.
• Tyberos set out to recruit sailors and mortal auxiliary troops, while El took the Carcharodons aboard a transport ship to their fleet.
• Defense Force guards checked Tyberos's credentials at the former Astra Militarum and Navy camps and allowed him inside.

Tyberos gathered over a million Navy sailors and Astra Militarum soldiers to recruit candidates for the Carcharodons Chapter, offering exceptional recruits the chance to become Space Marines. The selection began in a frenzy, and a former cruiser captain was accepted directly into the Chapter for his experience.

• Tyberos ordered his guards to gather every Navy sailor and Astra Militarum soldier in the camp.
• Tyberos announced that the Carcharodons Chapter would recruit outstanding volunteers, with the exceptional candidates eligible to become Space Marines.
• The gathered soldiers cheered and rushed to register with the Astartes recording their information.
• A burly former cruiser captain described his naval and combat experience and asked to join the Chapter directly.
• An Astartes accepted the former Navy officer into the Carcharodons Chapter without requiring him to take the selection.

The Carcharodons Chapter recruited surrendered troops and expanded its fleet as Tyberos considered candidates for the Chapter’s mortal auxiliary forces. When one hundred thousand qualified volunteers gathered, he ordered them to fight hand-to-hand until only ten thousand remained, while questioning the command led to immediate elimination.

• The Carcharodons recruited technical specialists directly and screened ordinary soldiers for a chance to join.
• The Chapter added warships to its fleet, bringing its total to one Emperor-class Battleship, two Battle Barges, five Strike Cruisers, twenty frigates, and fifty destroyers.
• An Astartes reported that one hundred thousand volunteers at the camp had passed preliminary screening.
• Tyberos said he needed only ten thousand of them and would seek the remaining recruits at another camp.
• An Astartes ordered the volunteers to remove their power armor and fight until ten thousand remained standing.
• When soldiers questioned the unusual selection method, the Astartes declared them all eliminated for doubting orders.

The Carcharodons Chapter made more than ninety thousand soldiers fight hand-to-hand to select recruits under the Defense Force’s ban on unjustified killing. Fewer than ten thousand remained standing and qualified to join, and the Astartes ordered them to gear up and follow him.

• The Carcharodons Astartes ordered the soldiers who wanted to join the Chapter to remove their power armor and fight one another.
• The soldiers fought fiercely for nearly half an hour while Tyberos watched, pleased by the wounded fighters who kept getting back up.
• Tyberos signaled an Astartes to stop the fight when fewer than ten thousand soldiers remained standing.
• The Astartes declared the survivors qualified to join the Carcharodons Chapter, and they celebrated while the fallen soldiers regretted losing their chance.
• The Astartes told the victors to put on their power armor, take their weapons and equipment, and follow him.

As the Chapters filled their depleted ranks with recruits, Tyberos asked two medical robots to save a grievously wounded Carcharodons warrior. The robots said they could restore him by either replacing his body with steel prosthetics or rebuilding it with bioengineered organs, leaving Tyberos to choose.

• The Astartes Chapters completed recruitment, with Tyberos leaving some Carcharodons vacancies to fill later and the other Chapters selecting enough recruits to meet their targets.
• The Chapters sent candidates for Astartes transformation to the cruiser where Nack was stationed.
• Tyberos, El, and an Apothecary pleaded with two medical robots to save a badly mutilated Astartes who had been removed from a Dreadnought.
• The medical robots scanned the warrior and determined that they could save him and free him from the Dreadnought.
• The robots presented Tyberos with two options: a body of steel prosthetics and advanced life-support systems, or a body rebuilt with bioengineered organs.

Tyberos chose bionic organs to restore Kurland while preserving his human senses and emotions. The medical robots said the surgery required a day to grow the organs, and the Apothecary received permission to study their treatment methods.

• The medical robots explained that steel prosthetics would rob Kurland of his senses and gradually dull his emotions, while bionic organs would preserve his humanity.
• Tyberos looked to El and the Apothecary for advice, but both stayed silent, leaving the decision to him.
• Tyberos ordered the medical robots to use bionic organs to replace Kurland's lost body parts.
• The medical robots said they needed genetic samples and maintenance robots to grow the organs, a process expected to take one day.
• The Apothecary asked to learn the robots' methods, and they allowed him to bring his apprentices.

The Apothecary and medical robots completed Kurland’s restorative surgery, and the Apothecary confirmed that he had recovered perfectly. The Carcharodons celebrated the prospect of healing their other Dreadnought-bound veterans, while Kurland remained unconscious from the anesthesia.

• The Apothecary and two apprentices watched medical robots install Kurland’s bio-engineered organs, which were made from his own genetic samples.
• Tyberos, El, and several Captains anxiously waited outside the operating room, hoping Kurland’s successful treatment would offer the other Dreadnought-bound veterans a chance to recover.
• The Apothecary announced that Kurland’s operation had succeeded and that his physical condition was flawless, prompting the waiting Carcharodons to cheer.
• Tyberos asked to see Kurland, and the group entered the infirmary to find him fully restored but still unconscious.
• A medical robot explained that Kurland remained unconscious because the surgical team had administered a large amount of anesthesia to spare him unbearable pain.

After Kurland and the Carcharodons Chapter’s other Dreadnought-bound veterans were healed, Tyberos faced their fury over surrendering to the Lord of the Stars. The veterans learned that their Chapter had gained an Emperor-class Battleship, leaving Kurland stunned.

• Kurland awoke fully healed, and Tyberos ordered the medical robot to treat the other wounded Chapter veterans.
• Over two days and nights, medical robots, Apothecaries, and apprentices rescued the Carcharodons Chapter’s five remaining veterans from their Dreadnoughts.
• On the Emperor-class Battleship’s bridge, former Chapter Master Garland accused Tyberos and the others of betraying the Imperium by surrendering.
• Tyberos and El explained that surrender had saved the Chapter and won it the battleship, advanced weapons, and other equipment.
• Kurland condemned the surrender, then froze in disbelief when El revealed that the Chapter had received an Emperor-class Battleship.

Tyberos told Garland and four other Carcharodons veterans that their Chapter had gained a vast fleet, expanded numbers, gene-seed, and mortal auxiliaries after pledging loyalty to the Lord of the Stars. He offered them the choice to leave and remain loyal to the Imperium, but Garland and the others chose to stay with the Chapter.

• Tyberos described the fleet and resources the Carcharodons had gained after surrendering to the Lord of the Stars.
• Tyberos revealed that the Chapter could expand to five thousand Space Marines and command a million power-armored mortal auxiliaries.
• Garland accepted that Tyberos's decisions as Chapter Master were final, while El and the other officers urged Tyberos not to dismiss the veterans.
• Tyberos offered Garland and the other four the chance to leave and continue serving the Imperium, severing ties with the Chapter.
• Garland chose to remain with the Carcharodons, and Kurland and the others followed; Tyberos welcomed them as Astartes officers applauded.

After more than a year of fighting and preparations in the Provence Sector, Garland returned to the Carcharodons Chapter with recruits who had completed their enhancements. Tyberos welcomed him aboard the Emperor-class Battleship and learned the modifications had taken two months, followed by a year of training.

• The Star Army captured hundreds of systems in the Provence Sector while its logistics department worked to make barren systems habitable.
• Astartes sailors trained with their new warships, and the mortal auxiliary forces received power armour, weapons, and vehicles.
• Tyberos studied how to command the Carcharodons Chapter's fleet aboard an Emperor-class Battleship.
• Garland arrived on the bridge and told Tyberos he had returned with the modified recruits.
• Garland explained that the recruits' enhancements took two months and their training took a year.

Garland praised the logistics department’s rapid augmentation of the recruits and agreed with Tyberos that the Carcharodons Chapter was moving in a better direction. After Tyberos urged him to become Vice Chapter Master and command the First Company, Garland accepted the posts.

• Tyberos and Garland praised the logistics department for completing the recruits’ augmentation in two months and reflected on how much the Chapter had improved.
• Tyberos asked Garland why he had previously refused to resume leadership, and Garland said Tyberos’s experience and the warriors’ loyalty made him the right Chapter Master.
• Tyberos told Garland that the Chapter had agreed to appoint him Vice Chapter Master and First Company Captain.
• Garland hesitated, considering how another refusal might be seen as resentment toward Tyberos, then accepted both positions.
• Tyberos joyfully welcomed Garland’s decision.

Art Student completed a Blackstone Obelisk that strengthened the barrier between the real universe and the Warp, then began testing its range. He sent four escort ships in different directions to test Warp travel and report when the barrier could be breached.

• Art Student finished refining the Blackstone Obelisk until it retained only its barrier-strengthening ability.
• Art Student ordered the Lord of the Stars Flagship out of the Star Sea Galaxy, prompting the garrison fleet to follow.
• Art Student placed the Blackstone Obelisk in space, where it began reinforcing the barrier between the real universe and the Warp.
• Art Student gave four escort ships enhanced Warp engines and ordered their commanders to test Warp breaches at ten-light-year intervals.
• Gaia provided the captains with mission guidance, and the four escort ships departed in their assigned directions.

Art Student used four patrol fleets to measure the Blackstone Obelisk’s coverage, which had reached one hundred light-years as they tested their Warp engines. As the fleets continued their mission, their passage through unfamiliar star systems triggered panic and military alerts, though they did not attack.

• Art Student sent four patrol fleets in the cardinal directions to map the Blackstone Obelisk’s range, while Gaia monitored them.
• The fleets’ Warp engines failed to respond despite repeated tests, and Art Student concluded that the Obelisk’s energy field extended one hundred light-years so far.
• Art Student estimated that the Obelisk could eventually cover a radius of around five hundred light-years, though he was uncertain.
• After leaving the Lord of the Stars’ territory, the expeditionary fleets entered other star systems and departed without attacking, alarming their governors.
• Governors and nearby sectors raised their combat readiness and requested aid, fearing the fleets were heretical forces preparing to invade.

Art Student used the expeditionary fleets’ movements to determine the Blackstone Obelisk’s coverage, then created an Adamantium Stargate and integrated the Obelisk into it. He left the Stargate equipped with both powerful defenses and weapons.

• Gaia reported that the four expeditionary fleets had reached 530 light-years away, and Art Student inferred that the Blackstone Obelisk covered about 520 light-years.
• Art Student recalled the fleets and transformed a rogue planet into a massive Adamantium Stargate with dimensional transport devices.
• Art Student transferred the Blackstone Obelisk into the Stargate, strengthening its ability to reinforce the barrier between the real universe and the Warp.
• Art Student realized the Stargate needed offensive power and added arrays of lances and Dimensional Shock Cannons to its surface.
• Art Student admired the completed Stargate, satisfied with its defenses and weapons.

Blackstone Obelisks near the Provence Sector prevented Imperial ships from entering the Warp, isolating several sectors and forcing their leaders to appeal to Terra. The crisis also disrupted Aeldari prophecies, leaving Segmentum Pacificus’s future impossible for the seers to discern.

• Sector authorities dispatched reconnaissance fleets after reports that the heretic fleet had appeared in nearby systems.
• The fleets reached Mandeville Point but could not activate their Warp engines, and further ships failed to enter the Warp as well.
• System governors confirmed that every attempt at Warp travel had failed, isolating the sectors beneath the Blackstone Obelisk’s influence.
• Sector officials sent urgent psychic messages to the High Lords of Terra, the only communication channel still functioning.
• Aeldari seers learned of the upheaval in Segmentum Pacificus, and their prophecies could no longer reveal the region’s future.

Aeldari seers could not foresee the upheaval in Segmentum Pacificus, so Great Seer Shano rallied them to send warriors there to investigate. As their forces set out, Kairos Fateweaver discovered that the Blackstone Obelisk had blocked its blessings from reaching the real universe.

• Aeldari seers gathered to probe the changes in Segmentum Pacificus but found their prophecies blocked by an unknown force.
• Great Seer Shano calmed the panicking seers and urged them to send warriors to investigate the upheaval directly.
• Craftworld Aeldari forces traveled through the Webway toward Segmentum Pacificus, while Exodites and Commorrites also dispatched elite forces to learn why the Craftworlds had mobilized.
• Kairos Fateweaver tried to bless a Tzeentch follower resisting the Star Army but found that the Blackstone Obelisk had stopped its magic from entering the real universe.
• One of Kairos Fateweaver's heads speculated that their failure might be punishment from the Lord of Change.

Tzeentch punished Kairos Fateweaver for his fearful, contradictory behavior, then explained that the stowaway had gained the Void Dragon Mag'ladroth's power. Kairos realized the stowaway's flaming sword contained a C'tan fragment, but took comfort in the fact that the Warp was the Chaos Gods' home ground.

• A bolt of lightning struck Kairos Fateweaver as Tzeentch mocked his fear and authority.
• Kairos Fateweaver's two heads argued with each other until Tzeentch saw their behavior and angrily summoned a barrage of lightning.
• Kairos Fateweaver begged Tzeentch for mercy, and Tzeentch stopped the assault and revealed that the stowaway had gained Mag'ladroth's power.
• Kairos Fateweaver recognized that the flaming sword had contained a fragment of The Burning One, explaining The Flayer's disappearance from the Warp.
• Tzeentch slapped Kairos Fateweaver and reminded him that the stowaway would not dare enter the Warp, leaving Kairos reassured.

Tzeentch sent Kairos Fateweaver to the Maelstrom to beguile the soon-to-awaken Roboute Guilliman, sparing him from confronting the stowaway. Khorne attacked the barrier around the Star Sea Galaxy but failed to break it, then vowed that war would keep his power growing.

• Tzeentch reassigned Kairos Fateweaver to go to the Maelstrom and persuade Roboute Guilliman to believe in him.
• Kairos Fateweaver accepted the mission and rejoiced at escaping the dangerous task of confronting the stowaway.
• Khorne sensed the stowaway’s use of Blackstone to strengthen the barrier between the material universe and the Warp.
• Khorne hurled an axe-light at the barrier, causing a massive Warp explosion that erased countless daemons, but the barrier held.
• Khorne declared that war and slaughter would continue to strengthen him, while his laughter blasted nearby daemons apart and terrified the survivors.