Recaps

A psychic broadcast drove Atalos Hive City into mass madness, while Li Wei remained unaffected because he was a Pariah. He and Aurelia reached the landing pad, where they discovered Valorian had stayed behind as a colossal entity appeared in the sky and trapped them inside its stomach.

• The psychic broadcast drove Aurelia and the Rampant Servitors into madness and suicide, but Li Wei resisted its effects as a Pariah.
• Li Wei slapped Aurelia back to clarity, and they crossed the corpse-filled corridors while the city’s inhabitants acted out horrifying hallucinations.
• At the blast door, Valerius told Aurelia that their father had left with the god, and Li Wei shot him dead.
• Li Wei and Aurelia found the landing pad empty of the governor’s Private Yacht, with Valorian standing at its edge.
• Valorian revealed that a colossal purple-eyed entity had appeared in the sky and declared that Atalos Hive City was already inside its stomach.

Li Wei and Aurelia escaped the collapsing landing pad by entering the corrupted Golden Eagle, where Governor Tiberius revealed the ship was taking them underground. As the ship plunged toward the hive city’s depths, Li Wei’s Inquisition Data-slate activated an Exterminatus countdown, revealing that it was an orbital strike beacon.

• Li Wei’s laser curved around Valorian, who dissolved into purple spores as reality began to warp around the landing pad.
• The Golden Eagle opened its hatch, and Li Wei and Aurelia were pulled aboard when the landing pad broke apart.
• Inside the ship, Li Wei and Aurelia encountered grotesque illusions and faceless crew members who announced that the destination was the digestion pool.
• Li Wei found Governor Tiberius fused into the cockpit and learned that the Golden Eagle was carrying them toward the geothermal depths of Atalos Hive City.
• Li Wei’s Inquisition Data-slate activated and displayed a fifteen-minute countdown to a Vortex Torpedo impact, revealing it was a targeting beacon for Exterminatus.

Li Wei and Aurelia escaped the living Golden Eagle and fought their way toward an updraft in the alien hatchery as the Inquisition's Vortex Torpedo closed in. They rode the vent upward just as the torpedo struck, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Li Wei and Aurelia discovered the Golden Eagle had descended into a vast flesh cavern filled with eggs and a pulsing biological spire.
• Li Wei drove the Exterminatus beacon into Governor Tiberius, provoking the living ship to convulse and eject them through its rear opening.
• Li Wei and Aurelia ran toward an updraft beneath the spire while the approaching Vortex Torpedo's countdown neared zero.
• Valorian manifested a giant psychic hand to block their escape, but Li Wei destroyed it with an explosive Hellgun blast empowered by his Void Field.
• Li Wei and Aurelia leaped into the biological vent and were carried upward as the Vortex Torpedo struck the cavern.

As Atalos Prime broke apart, Li Wei and Aurelia reached the Hive City’s summit and encountered Ultramarines sent to purge the survivors. Aurelia secured Li Wei a place aboard their Thunderhawk, but the Imperium took him prisoner as the gunship escaped the doomed planet.

• Li Wei and Aurelia landed atop Atalos Hive City as the planet’s core destruction caused the world to collapse beneath an Imperial Navy blockade.
• More than a dozen Ultramarines arrived in drop pods and killed the surviving Genestealers on the platform.
• The sergeant identified Aurelia as the planetary governor’s daughter and ordered her to board a Thunderhawk for questioning by the Inquisitor.
• Aurelia insisted that Li Wei be taken with her, and the sergeant agreed to let him board under restraint for assessment as a Pariah.
• The Ultramarines locked Li Wei in an isolation cage, and the Thunderhawk escaped into space as Atalos Prime broke apart.

Li Wei survived a Warp entity’s attack by using his Pariah nature to drive it away. An Alpha-level Psyker then contacted him, claiming someone had deliberately shut off the Gellar Field and inviting him to the lowest deck for a way to survive.

• Li Wei endured the Black Ship Angel of Death’s Warp jump while the imprisoned Psykers screamed around him.
• A Warp entity broke into the corridor and attacked the prisoner next door, then tried to force its way into Li Wei’s cell.
• Li Wei pressed his emptiness against the door and drove the entity away.
• An Alpha-level Psyker used a dead servitor’s intercom to tell Li Wei that someone had deliberately shut off the Gellar Field.
• The Psyker invited Li Wei to meet him in the containment block on the lowest deck, promising a way to survive.

As the Gellar Field faltered and Warp energy disrupted the ship’s security systems, Li Wei used his Void Field to open his cell. He armed himself with a Shock Baton and headed toward the lowest detention block to find the Alpha-level Psyker who had sabotaged the field.

• Li Wei used his Void Field to short-circuit the unstable electronic lock and escape his cell.
• He emerged into a corridor filled with blood, corpses, and wreckage.
• Li Wei picked up a guard’s Shock Baton and tested its electric charge.
• Following the servitor’s hint, Li Wei headed for the lowest detention block to find the Alpha-level Psyker.

Li Wei escaped a Warp Labyrinth aboard the Black Ship and fell into its Psyker Reactor Shaft, where the ship’s Machine Spirit revealed that someone had lured him there to use his emptiness as a key. The flesh web broke beneath him, sending him plunging toward the opened door and the Alpha-level monster below.

• Li Wei saw through the Warp Labyrinth’s false corridor and crawled through a ventilation shaft toward the D-5 Special Containment Level.
• He found five Sisters of Silence transformed into salt and surrounded by Hollow Clothes, then followed a mysterious voice’s warning to dive into a hazardous-waste chute.
• Li Wei landed on a web made of human bodies inside the Black Ship’s core Psyker Reactor Shaft.
• The ship’s Machine Spirit, speaking through a Teddy Bear held by a blind boy, revealed that the voice had tricked Li Wei into becoming a key to the door below.
• A black shockwave shook the shaft, the flesh web snapped, and Li Wei fell toward the opened door.

Li Wei destroyed the Alpha-level Psyker’s life-support throne, triggering a collapse that severed the Black Ship’s lower deck and threw him into the Warp. He emerged on a bleak world marked by a black sun and a towering obelisk, realizing it might be a Necron Tomb World.

• Li Wei confronted the Alpha-level Psyker, who tried to use Li Wei’s Pariah nature to stabilize the Warp rift and escape his prison.
• The Alpha-level Psyker bound Li Wei with ash and dragged him toward the throne, but Li Wei shorted out its life-support system and disrupted its suppression runes with his Shock Baton and Void Field.
• The old man disintegrated, and the unstable Warp rift collapsed into a miniature black hole that began consuming the lower deck.
• The Black Ship severed the collapsing deck, and the black hole’s repulsive force flung Li Wei into the Warp, where he drifted unharmed until a rift pulled him into realspace.
• Li Wei landed in a gray wasteland among rusted weapons, enormous skeletons, and faceless figures, then recognized a black sun carved on a stone tablet and suspected he was on a Necron Tomb World.

After waking in a gray wasteland, Li Wei scavenged water and supplies from a dead Imperial expedition and discovered that a Necron pulse had killed the camp and destroyed its weapons. With hundreds of scarabs pursuing him and another pulse due in five minutes, he ran toward the Black Monolith’s Silent Zone as his only chance to survive.

• Li Wei searched a ruined Imperial camp and found a canteen, purification tablets, and tasteless nutrient blocks among the mummified dead.
• He scavenged a thick cold-weather cloak and found that every weapon had overheated and self-destructed at once, suggesting a deadly pulse had struck the camp.
• A Canoptek Scarab disintegrated a corpse but failed to detect Li Wei, whose pariah nature made him register as background noise.
• Li Wei grabbed a still-active Imperial auspex, alerting the scarab and bringing hundreds more scarabs out of the ruins to chase him.
• The auspex revealed that the camp lay on a tomb world, the next Stasis Pulse would erupt in five minutes, and the Black Monolith’s Silent Zone offered the only shelter.
• Li Wei turned toward the Black Monolith and charged for the Silent Zone with the scarab swarm close behind.

Li Wei escaped the stasis pulse by reaching a Necron tomb, where he met Elena, a stranded Hospitaller who recoiled from his soulless nature but shared her food. Their fragile refuge ended when a Necron Lord awakened, and Li Wei stood between it and Elena.

• Li Wei outran the scarab swarm and reached the obelisk just as a stasis pulse swept across the badlands.
• Inside the tomb, Li Wei found Elena, a Hospitaller medical officer who had survived there for three days.
• Elena identified Li Wei as a Soulless but let him shelter near her camp and shared a cup of hot soup.
• A Necron Lord rose from a platform in the hall and declared that it would purge the intruders.
• Li Wei picked up his broken sword, stepped in front of Elena, and challenged the Necron Lord while unleashing his void field.

Li Wei and Elena hid from a Necron Lord inside a cramped stasis crypt, where Li Wei’s Void Field concealed them from its scan. After the Lord left, they emerged and prepared to enter the tomb’s core, with Elena’s feelings toward Li Wei growing more complicated.

• The Necron Lord attacked Li Wei and Elena, forcing Li Wei to carry her toward the stasis crypts.
• Li Wei shoved Elena into a half-open crypt and squeezed inside with her, closing the door as the Necron Lord searched nearby.
• The Lord’s scan detected no sign of life because Li Wei’s Void Field masked Elena, and it eventually left the hall.
• Li Wei teased Elena about her racing heartbeat, then let her out of the crypt and told her the Lord had opened the way to the core.
• Elena fixed her torn robe and followed Li Wei toward the tomb’s depths, no longer looking at him with pure disgust.

Li Wei and Sister Elena descended into the Tomb World to find its control room and stop the accelerating Stasis Pulse, where they discovered Archmagos Kilgrave had been turned into a living translator. The Tomb Technician seized Elena and forced Li Wei into a Soul Stripping Chamber, leaving his fate uncertain as green lightning struck him.

• Li Wei and Elena went underground, hoping to reach the control room and find Archmagos Kilgrave alive.
• Li Wei used his Void Field to disrupt the turning gears, helping himself and Elena cross the deadly mechanism-filled abyss.
• Li Wei and Elena found Kilgrave wired into a Necron console, and the Tomb Technician used his body to speak to them.
• The controlled Kilgrave grabbed Elena, and the Tomb Technician threatened to kill her unless Li Wei entered the Soul Stripping Chamber.
• Li Wei entered the chamber and challenged the Tomb Technician to use its full power; green lightning struck him as the cage closed.

Li Wei and Sister Elena escaped the tomb after Li Wei’s Void Field crashed the Tomb Technician, while Archmagos Kilgrave sacrificed himself to help them flee. They arrived in a desert beneath a Necron soul-severing field, where Elena began losing her sense of self but Li Wei felt strangely at home.

• Li Wei’s Void Field turned the Tomb Technician’s energy attack back on the control console, crashing the AI node and freeing him from the cage.
• Elena found Archmagos Kilgrave barely alive, and he revealed a Phase Transmitter and stayed behind to hold back the tomb’s security system.
• Li Wei took Elena and used a Phase Transfer Orb to escape as Kilgrave was overrun by Scarabs.
• Li Wei and Elena landed in a white desert beneath a Necron Dead Space of Exorcism node, and Li Wei realized the planet was designed to sever souls from the Warp.
• Elena began losing her faith and sense of identity within the field, while Li Wei felt unusually comfortable.

Li Wei and Elena entered a dead zone that stripped away emotions and souls, leaving Elena nearly catatonic and the town’s residents as mechanical shells. When the shells targeted Elena as a source of noise, Li Wei hid her soul’s presence by covering her with his blood, allowing them to escape notice.

• Li Wei found Elena incapacitated by the Dead Space of Exorcism and jolted her back to awareness by slapping her.
• Li Wei led Elena into an Imperial mining settlement, where they encountered residents mindlessly repeating their work.
• A broadcast signal caused the hollow residents to identify Elena as a noise source and converge on her.
• Li Wei smeared his blood over Elena, using his pariah trait to mask her soul from the residents.
• The residents lost track of Elena and returned to work, and Li Wei told her he would need to reapply the blood every two hours.

Li Wei and Elena boarded a Necron transport barge with thousands of hollowed-out people, hoping it would take them to the inverted pyramid and the core of the Dead Space of Exorcism. As the ship approached the pyramid, Li Wei began testing the energy barrier imprisoning him and spotted something organic writhing in a mist-filled crater beneath the structure.

• Li Wei and Elena joined the silent crowd being collected by the Necron transport barge, and Li Wei explained that they needed to reach the inverted pyramid to shut down the field.
• Li Wei and Elena passed the ship's soul scan and were forced into separate metal compartments among thousands of human captives.
• The barge flew toward the inverted pyramid while Li Wei quietly tested whether his sweat could damage the living-metal barrier.
• Li Wei saw black mist and a huge writhing shape in the crater beneath the pyramid and wondered what the Necrons were using the field for.

Li Wei and Elena were sent down a Necron assembly line that fed human souls to a captive C'tan Shard, but they escaped into a waste chute by making themselves appear lifeless. The C'tan recognized Li Wei as a key, and Li Wei planned to reach the machinery powering its prison.

• Li Wei and Elena were carried with thousands of Hollow Shells toward an abyss where a Necron device drained their souls and turned their bodies to ash.
• Li Wei used his Soulless Vision to identify a chained C'tan Shard in the abyss, which the Necrons were exploiting as a source of power.
• Li Wei suppressed Elena's vital signs with his Void Field so the sorting machinery would classify them as corpses and throw them into a waste chute.
• As they were tossed aside, the C'tan Shard addressed Li Wei with the concept of entropy and called him the key it had awaited.
• Li Wei and Elena emerged in a garbage dump, where Li Wei spotted a damaged maintenance door and decided to pull the C'tan's power plug.

Li Wei and Elena crossed the Necron pyramid’s maintenance shaft and reached a control room containing a captive C’tan fragment. Li Wei freed it to clear a path toward the core, and he and Elena followed as Necron defenses began to awaken.

• Li Wei guided Elena through a corpse dump and a Blackstone conduit, suppressing the psychic whispers that began to torment her.
• They found a shaft filled with cages holding frozen moments and phenomena, then crossed its energy pipes while evading Crypt Wraiths.
• Li Wei and Elena entered a control room where a C’tan thought-tentacle was imprisoned as the power source for a Tesseract Labyrinth.
• Li Wei realized the fragment would head toward its main body and destroy obstacles along the way, then burned out the force-field generator to free it.
• The C’tan Tentacle smashed through the control room wall toward the core, and Li Wei told Elena to follow it as their vanguard.

Li Wei overloaded the Necron system with the data it forced into his mind, escaped the collapsing tomb with Elena, and watched an Inquisition warship drive off the C'tan before targeting the survivors. As a Vortex Torpedo struck, a strange portal seized Li Wei and Elena and pulled them to an unknown destination.

• Li Wei charged into the time loop, endured the Necron Technician's forced data transfer, and caused its system to crash.
• Li Wei gained knowledge of the Necrons and the C'tan as the Nightbringer derivative shattered the Hypercube and the tomb began to collapse.
• Li Wei dragged Elena out of the ruins while the powerless Necron Warriors fell apart around them.
• An Inquisition warship bombarded the C'tan, which escaped, then launched a Vortex Torpedo to purge the Tomb World.
• A dark green portal opened and a mechanical claw dragged Li Wei and Elena away just before the torpedo struck.

Li Wei survived the destruction of the planet but was captured by Archmagos Axis aboard the Forge of Vashtorr, where the Dark Mechanicum sought to exploit his Pariah nature and Necron knowledge. Imprisoned with the captured Iron Hands Sergeant Atticus while Elena remained in Axis’s custody, Li Wei began planning to sabotage the ship.

• Li Wei sealed the overwhelming Necron data inside his mind and awoke in Axis’s corrupted factory, where Axis identified him as a Pariah and questioned him about the Necron tomb.
• Li Wei pretended to know nothing, then claimed his presence had disrupted the tomb; Axis stopped the planned dissection and ordered him taken to Sector D-9 while keeping Elena for experiments.
• As Li Wei was dragged away, he found knowledge of a Necron countermeasure called Waste Code and resolved to wait for a chance to use it against the ship.
• Li Wei was thrown into a prison pen, where he met Atticus, a captured former Sergeant of the Iron Hands, and told him that he made soul-bearing people uncomfortable.
• Unable to sleep, Li Wei struggled to control the Necron knowledge flooding his mind and decided he had to stay alive, free Elena, and destroy Axis’s ship.

Li Wei used his Necron knowledge and Atticus’s strength to sabotage a crane and rescue Elena from Tech-Priest Dominus Axis. The three escaped into the ship’s sewers, where Li Wei discovered a C'tan Shard or something similar powered the Chaos warship.

• Li Wei told Atticus he could exploit the cell door’s faulty wiring, and Atticus revealed that Li Wei’s presence silenced the ship’s Warp influence.
• Skitarii forced Li Wei, Atticus, and other prisoners to work in a furnace hall, where Li Wei secretly gathered scrap parts while Atticus shielded him.
• Tech-Priest Dominus Axis lowered Elena toward a furnace to use her pain as fuel, so Li Wei planned to sabotage the crane with Atticus.
• Atticus smashed an exhaust pipe with an armor plate, and Li Wei ignited the escaping gas, causing an explosion that dropped Elena’s cage onto a cooling platform.
• Li Wei rescued Elena, and Atticus carried them through Skitarii fire into a sewer as Axis pursued them.
• Li Wei’s Necron database detected a C'tan Shard or something similar in the ship’s core, revealing its power source.

Li Wei, Atticus, and the unconscious Elena crossed the corrupted lower decks of the Pain, fighting their way toward Axis’s laboratory. They reached the central waste-disposal platform and its main power conduit, leaving them poised to climb toward the laboratory.

• Li Wei and Atticus assessed their injuries in the ship’s lower sector, then followed the energy flow deeper while Li Wei carried the unconscious Elena.
• Atticus silently killed a mutated servitor with Li Wei’s broken sword after Li Wei identified its weakness.
• Li Wei and Atticus used a suspended tank wreck to cross the acid pool, where Li Wei’s Void Deterrence frightened off the tentacled creature attacking them.
• The three landed on the central island beside the energy conduit that led up toward Axis’s laboratory.

Li Wei, Atticus, and Elena reached the core laboratory and discovered the Dark Mechanicum was torturing a C’tan Shard to power its Demon Engine. Li Wei joined forces with the shard to stop the machine, and his Void Collapse swallowed the core chamber.

• Li Wei, Atticus, and Elena climbed the conduit into the core laboratory, where they found a C’tan Shard chained inside the Demon Engine Core.
• The C’tan Shard asked Li Wei to help it turn the warship into its body, while Archmagos Axis fed captured Psykers into the machine to contaminate it with Warp energy.
• Li Wei identified the suppression field generator as the machine’s weakness and planned to reach it with his broken Living Metal sword.
• Atticus charged the Skitarii to clear a path for Li Wei, but Axis struck him down and wounded Elena with a Melta Ray.
• Li Wei threw the broken sword to the C’tan Shard, which used its control over gravity to crush Axis and clear the way to the pedestal.
• Li Wei activated Void Collapse at the pedestal, and black lightning swallowed the core chamber as the Demon Engine exploded.

Li Wei, Elena, and Atticus escaped the warship Pain as the awakened Shard of the Void Dragon transformed and destroyed it. They headed for Medusa, where the Iron Hands planned to take Li Wei for questioning, while the Necron database remained active in his mind.

• The Shard of the Void Dragon awakened, dismantled Archmagos Axis, and began rewriting Pain into a Necron tomb ship.
• Li Wei and Elena rescued the injured Atticus and reached an escape shuttle, but Pain’s daemon-infested Machine Spirit tried to drag them into its jaws.
• Li Wei injected Necron anti-Warp data into Pain’s nerves, freeing the group and allowing them to launch the shuttle.
• The Shard compressed Pain into a sphere and destroyed it with a gravitational eruption as the shuttle escaped.
• Atticus decided to take Li Wei to the Iron Hands’ Chapter Monastery, and Elena chose to stay with them after Li Wei saved her.
• Li Wei set the shuttle’s course for Medusa and fell asleep while the Necron database continued searching the system.

Li Wei and his companions reached Medusa and were taken to the Iron Hands fortress, where Karrg threatened to dissect Li Wei for the Necron data in his brain. Li Wei discovered a logic-virus infecting Karrg’s machinery and offered to remove it, leaving his survival dependent on proving he could.

• Li Wei explained to Elena why Medusa was their safest destination and brought the shuttle into the Iron Hands’ exclusion zone.
• Atticus identified himself to Medusa’s defenses and secured landing clearance for the shuttle at the mobile fortress Iron Fist.
• Karrg detected Necron residue in Li Wei and ordered him taken to the laboratory, while Atticus was sent for surgery.
• Karrg threatened to experiment on Li Wei, who claimed he could decode the Necron data and improve Iron Hands technology.
• Li Wei’s Necron database revealed scrapcode contamination in Karrg’s logic engine, and Li Wei persuaded Karrg to let him prove he could purge it.

Li Wei purified the Iron Fist’s corrupted console with his pariah power, convincing Archmagos Karrg to keep him as a specialist. Elena left with the Adepta Sororitas, while Li Wei accepted a data implant and began his new role with Clan Raukaan.

• Li Wei used his pariah power to purge the chaos waste code from the console, and Karrg declared him a valuable logic purifier.
• Karrg arranged for Elena to be transferred to the Adepta Sororitas, and Elena chose to return to her sisters rather than remain with Li Wei.
• Elena boarded the Sororitas transport after bowing toward the shadow where Li Wei stood.
• Li Wei watched Elena’s ship depart, then accepted Karrg’s offer to work for Clan Raukaan in exchange for help suppressing the Necron database’s effects.
• Li Wei implanted the data interface and followed Karrg into the factory to begin his new work.