Recaps

Li Qinwu rejected the planetary bishop’s attempt to promote him as a Living Saint, then accepted his elevation from baron to count. At the investiture, he used his public speech to advertise Sisterhood Foot-Trodden Wine, and his wine sales doubled.

• Li Qinwu refused to become a Living Saint or participate in the bishop’s publicity campaign, saying he wanted freedom and the sea of stars.
• The planetary bishop accepted Li Qinwu’s refusal and told him the count’s investiture ceremony was ready.
• Li Qinwu received a parchment certificate of nobility and was given the chance to address the gathered nobles.
• Li Qinwu stunned the crowd by opening his speech with “I don't eat beef!”
• Li Qinwu claimed a secret family formula explained his battlefield feats, then promoted Sisterhood Foot-Trodden Wine with a sales pitch.
• Li Qinwu’s wine sales doubled after the speech ceremony.

After the investiture ceremony, Li Qinwu visited Father Anthony to inspect the Aeldari weapons he had claimed. He learned to use the Power Scimitar and Shuriken Pistol, then received the remaining ammunition.

• Li Qinwu found Father Anthony examining the Aeldari equipment and the disassembled Aeldari Warrior.
• Father Anthony explained that the Wraithbone Power Scimitar had repaired itself and required Psychic Power to activate, and Li Qinwu tested it.
• Li Qinwu compared the scimitar’s weight, energy reserves, and self-repairing ability with those of a Standard Power Sword.
• Father Anthony showed Li Qinwu how to load and fire the Shuriken Pistol, and Li Qinwu shredded a target at fifty meters but barely hit one at two hundred.
• Father Anthony explained the pistol’s short-range strengths and gave Li Qinwu a rig containing ten clips of Monomolecular Shuriken Ammunition.

Li Qinwu arranged for a Psychic Amplifier from an Eldar helmet to be installed in a space-capable suit of Heavy Power Armor. He then examined the disabled Greenskin Battleship and resolved to board it, learning that at least twenty thousand Orks might still be alive aboard.

• Father Anthony explained that the Wraithbone Power Armor was ruined and its helmet’s war persona was dangerous, but its Psychic Amplifier could boost psychic output by 35%.
• Li Qinwu left the Wraithbone armor with Father Anthony and asked him to modify Heavy Power Armor for space combat and install the Psychic Amplifier in its arm.
• Li Qinwu visited the observatory, where the director displayed the drifting Greenskin Battleship on the central screen.
• The director said the Ork-built Space Hulk could fall apart if the Orks’ field weakened and that repairs were impossible, but Li Qinwu insisted on going aboard.
• The director estimated that the ship had originally carried eighty to a hundred and fifty thousand Orks and that a third may have died, leading Li Qinwu to conclude that at least twenty thousand remained.

Li Qinwu prepared to travel to the Ork Battleship, persuading the captain to modify his Shuttle despite the danger. While he waited, he organized his gangs, private army, and new settlers, and arranged a Nuclear Reactor to boost Garden Island’s livestock production.

• Li Qinwu obtained a navigation map and convinced the captain to modify his Shuttle for a long-range journey to the Ork Battleship, though the captain warned him he would likely die.
• After the captain agreed to help, Li Qinwu promoted Little Knife to lead the Underhive Gangs and expand their territory while preserving production.
• Li Qinwu appointed Little Joel commander of his private army, gave him heavy equipment, and ordered him to build a 3,000-member force and secure land around the 109th Regiment.
• Li Qinwu organized 400,000 Hive City migrants to settle and farm his claimed land, placing the area under Little Joel’s management.
• Li Qinwu arranged with Adviser Killian and the captain to supply Garden Island with a Nuclear Reactor in exchange for canned food.
• Engineers brought a medium-small Nuclear Reactor to Garden Island and installed it, restoring electricity across the island.

Li Qinwu prepared to leave for the Ork Dungeon and discovered that offering the Eldar Spirit Stones unlocked a quest to kill 1,000 Xenos for the Level 3 Emperor Shrine recipe. After assigning leadership and development duties to Little Knife and Little Joel, he departed in the modified Shuttle.

• Li Qinwu trained during his final ten days in the Hideout, then hung three Eldar Spirit Stone Necklaces on the Emperor Shrine.
• The God-Emperor gave Li Qinwu a quest to eliminate 1,000 Xenos and offered the Level 3 Emperor Shrine recipe as its reward.
• Li Qinwu learned that the Level 3 Emperor Shrine could protect souls across an entire planet and serve as a respawn point for him.
• After the Shuttle was modified, Li Qinwu loaded it with weapons, equipment, medicine, and food.
• Li Qinwu appointed Little Knife Lower Hive War Marshal and entrusted Little Joel with his private army and surface territory.
• Li Qinwu boarded the one-man Shuttle and flew away.

Li Qinwu traveled through space to inspect the Ork Battleship and found that damage from the Aeldari Battleship had left its stern dangerously radioactive and seemingly unoccupied. After completing his reconnaissance, he approached the battleship to land.

• Li Qinwu checked the Shuttle’s equipment and weapons, then spent fifteen days exercising and training during the journey.
• The Shuttle’s system warned Li Qinwu that the Ork Battleship was 2,000 kilometers ahead, so he slowed down and took manual control.
• Li Qinwu circled the four-kilometer battleship and saw that its rusted, patchwork hull was cracking as its Waaagh! Field weakened.
• Li Qinwu cautiously approached the battleship’s stern and detected radiation levels more than five hundred times above normal.
• Li Qinwu scanned the stern with the Bird Spectrometer, found no life signs, and piloted the Shuttle toward the battleship to land.

Li Qinwu entered the damaged Ork Battleship in space, armed himself for combat, and examined the ship and an Ork corpse as he moved toward its center. After his armor detected normal gravity and atmosphere, his Bird Spectrometer revealed living Orks nearby.

• Li Qinwu attached the Shuttle to the battleship, donned modified Power Armor, armed himself with several weapons, and jumped onto the ship’s outer hull.
• Li Qinwu cut through a steel door and entered the dark, partially depressurized passageways, using his Bird Spectrometer to check for threats.
• Li Qinwu examined a drifting Ork Boy corpse and concluded that radiation had killed it after observing its injuries and the contamination reading.
• Li Qinwu traveled toward the battleship’s center, where his armor detected normal gravity, atmosphere, temperature, and radiation levels.
• Li Qinwu spotted red dots around a corner on the Bird Spectrometer, indicating living Orks nearby.

Li Qinwu infiltrated the Ork warship, learned that its Lousy Fleet had been sent from the neighboring Industrial World to grow stronger on Agricultural World 496B, and discovered he could kill a Gretchin by destroying its confidence. He slaughtered Gretchin and an Ork Choppa Boy to advance the God-Emperor’s mission, then faced a charging squad of Ork Boyz.

• Li Qinwu captured a Gretchin, tore off its arm to make it reveal that over twenty thousand Orks aboard the ship had fled the Industrial World, and learned their Warboss had sent them to Agricultural World 496B.
• Li Qinwu insulted the Gretchin until it shrank and died, realizing that an Ork’s belief in its own weakness could make it physically weaker.
• Li Qinwu found the ship’s Mushroom Fields, where he revealed himself and began killing the Gretchin guarding them with his Heavy-Barrel Lasguns.
• Li Qinwu killed an Ork Choppa Boy with a full-power laser shot and saw the mission progress increase by one point.
• Li Qinwu put away his guns and crushed fleeing Gretchin with his armor and Heavy Logging Gun, drawing the attention of a squad of forty or fifty Ork Boyz.
• The Ork Boyz charged Li Qinwu, eager for a fight.

Li Qinwu fought through successive Ork attacks aboard the Ork warship, raising his quest progress as he advanced. Elsewhere, a bored Ork Warboss learned that humans had arrived and demanded to know where they were.

• Li Qinwu used a Psychic Blast and his lasguns to kill more than forty Ork Boyz, then cut down an armored attacker with his Power Scimitar, bringing his quest completion to 43.
• A much larger Ork force charged and fired at Li Qinwu, who emptied all 150 rounds of his 20mm Logging Gun into the mob and raised his mission progress to 257/1000.
• Li Qinwu destroyed the empty Logging Gun, killed a surviving Ork Nobz, and continued deeper into the passage.
• The bored Ork Warboss interrupted a duel and started a brawl with more than a thousand Ork Nobz.
• A Gretchin announced that humans had arrived, and the Ork Warboss grabbed him and demanded to know where they were.

Li Qinwu fought through the Orks swarming the warship corridors, using his armor, weapons, and Psychic Power to withstand their fire and kill their Nobz. The Ork Warboss led more fighters toward him, and Li Qinwu’s Melta Grenade devastated the advancing crowd.

• A Gretchin told the Ork Warboss that Li Qinwu had killed more than forty Orks, so the Warboss made the Gretchin his Shoota Gunner and led a charge after Li Qinwu.
• Li Qinwu shot down charging Gretchins and Ork Boyz with his Lasgun and stunned groups of them with Psychic Blasts.
• Armored Ork Nobz charged Li Qinwu, and he used his Bolt Carbine to kill nearly ten with headshots.
• The Nobz fired a barrage of crude ammunition at Li Qinwu, who slowed the bullets with a Psychic Shield and relied on his armor to withstand them.
• Li Qinwu threw a Melta Grenade into the Nobz, vaporizing or burning nearby Orks and killing nearly twenty outright.

Li Qinwu used precise Psychic Powers and his Power Scimitar to kill ten Ork Nobz, bringing his mission progress to 339/1000. As he looked for more enemies, an Ork Warboss and a horde of heavily armed Orks charged toward him.

• Li Qinwu blasted and beheaded the recovering Ork Nobz, then used Psychic Control and Gravity Spells to defeat the rest.
• Li Qinwu realized that small, precise uses of Psychic Power could create openings while consuming less energy.
• Li Qinwu checked his mission and saw that its progress had reached 339/1000.
• A horde of Greenskin Orks emerged from the passage, led by a heavily armored Ork Warboss and Elite Nobz.
• The Ork Warboss shouted about smashing Li Qinwu and charged while he and his followers fired their weapons.

Li Qinwu's weapons failed to hurt the Ork Warboss, so he fled and used a Gravity Spell to make the Warboss fall beneath his charging Nobz. He escaped into the battleship's vacuum passages, but the Ork Nobz pursued him by crawling along the walls.

• Li Qinwu unleashed his lasguns and Bolt Carbine on the Ork Warboss, but the Warboss's armor absorbed the attack and he charged forward unharmed.
• Li Qinwu threw a Melta Grenade, but the Ork Warboss shot it out of the air and continued his pursuit.
• Li Qinwu ran from the Warboss and used a Gravity Spell to trip him, allowing the Elite Nobz to trample their boss as they chased Li Qinwu.
• Li Qinwu reached the upper passage and entered the vacuum zone, where his Power Armor activated its magnetic adhesion system.
• The Ork Nobz followed Li Qinwu into the vacuum and crawled toward him across the passage walls.

Li Qinwu destroyed Ork Nobz and blasted apart layers of the Ork Battleship’s garbage plating. Beneath it, he discovered an Imperial Navy warship and wept as he recognized it.

• Li Qinwu escaped through the vacuum corridor while Ork Nobz pursued him, then killed the Orks at the breach with the Shuttle’s Rotary Autocannon.
• Li Qinwu fired a 300mm Rocket into the corridor, killing Ork Nobz and blasting a huge section of the Ork Battleship into space.
• Li Qinwu saw his mission progress reach 739/1000 and spotted something beneath the collapsing garbage structure.
• Li Qinwu fired twelve rockets over half an hour, peeling away layers of the Ork Battleship’s garbage plating.
• Li Qinwu found a human warship bearing Imperial Aquila emblems beneath the garbage and cried as he said he had known it was waiting for him.

Li Qinwu entered the human warship buried beneath the Ork Garbage Mountain and fought the Orks with a newly repaired Logging Gun. The gun’s Machine Spirit drove it to fire until it overheated and exploded, leaving Li Qinwu amid hundreds of dead Orks.

• Li Qinwu restocked his gear, took a rocket launcher and the Logging Gun, and entered the exposed human warship to reclaim it for himself.
• Orks charged Li Qinwu in the passageways, and he mowed them down with the Logging Gun while relocating whenever they threatened to surround him.
• The Logging Gun’s Machine Spirit increased its rate of fire as it killed hundreds of Orks, until its ammunition and cooling system were exhausted.
• The Logging Gun ignored Li Qinwu’s warnings, fired even faster, and shredded the charging Orks.
• The Logging Gun’s barrel exploded, leaving Li Qinwu holding its ruined gunstock beside a passage littered with shattered Ork corpses.

Li Qinwu fought his way through the Orks aboard the warship after his Powerful Infinite-Fire Logging Gun was wrecked. Trapped between two groups, he blasted through the floor and escaped into the hollow space beneath it while the Ork Warboss chased him.

• Li Qinwu strapped the wrecked Powerful Infinite-Fire Logging Gun to his thigh and fought off advancing Orks with his Parallel Heavy-Barrel Lasgun.
• The Ork Warboss charged through his own troops, but Li Qinwu's rockets failed to penetrate his armor after he used Ork Nobz as shields.
• Li Qinwu used Gravity Control to trip the Ork Warboss and retreated through the passages, only to find himself surrounded by Orks and Gretchin.
• Li Qinwu shredded hundreds of unarmored pursuers with Monomolecular Shuriken, but more enemies closed in from both directions.
• Li Qinwu found that the floor above a hollow space was thin, detonated two Melta Grenades to blast through it, and jumped into the hole as the Ork Warboss shouted after him.

Li Qinwu hid in a church aboard an Ork warship and watched a Mek Boy turn scraps into guns as the Orks prepared for war. Realizing his arrival had revived the tribe and would make the Orks grow stronger, he decided to change how he cleared the map.

• Li Qinwu landed atop a damaged God-Emperor Statue in a church piled with scrap and watched Gretchin search for useful parts.
• An Ork Mek Boy fashioned a Kustom Pistol from a steel pipe and scrap, then tricked a Gretchin into fetching more materials.
• An Ork Nobz told the Mek Boy that the boss was starting a Waaagh and ordered him to make a hundred guns because new Orks had appeared in the Mushroom Field.
• The Nobz explained that a human tin can had brought the Orks a great Waaagh, and the tribe planned to find and attack him.
• Li Qinwu realized that his presence was making the Orks multiply and grow more powerful, so he decided to change his approach.

The Ork Warboss rallied his newly spawned Boyz to search the ship for Li Qinwu, while recalling how killing an Astartes had once made him a Warboss. Li Qinwu appeared above the Orks, evaded their barrage, and mocked them as cowards driven from their former sector, leaving the assembled Orks in turmoil.

• The Ork Warboss ordered the Boyz to search the ship for Li Qinwu and save him for a duel.
• The Ork Warboss remembered killing a green-armored Astartes and welding the warrior's body to his throne as a trophy.
• Li Qinwu revealed himself among the pipes, dodged the Orks' gunfire and rockets, and taunted them from above.
• The Ork Warboss challenged Li Qinwu to fight one-on-one, but Li Qinwu accused the Orks of being cowards driven from their former sector.
• The older Orks reacted guiltily to Li Qinwu's insults, while the newly spawned Boyz watched in confusion.

Li Qinwu provoked the Orks by calling them losers, then escaped their warship while their Waaagh! Fields withered. The younger Orks turned on their elders, and the warship descended into a resentful brawl.

• Li Qinwu mocked the Orks as cowardly losers and taunted the Warboss for tripping while running.
• The Warboss challenged Li Qinwu, but his Rotary Shoota exploded and blew off his palm as Li Qinwu left through a passage.
• The Orks' shame caused their Waaagh! Fields to wither, killing embryos in the Mushroom Field and shriveling the spores.
• The Orks rushed after Li Qinwu, but saw his Shuttle fly away into deep space.
• The younger Orks attacked the older Orks, triggering a chaotic brawl as the Waaagh! Fields continued to weaken.

Li Qinwu returned to the Ork Battleship and found that its Orks had all died after the Waaagh! Field collapsed, leaving the vessel to break apart. He uncovered a green Astartes helmet beneath the corpses around the Iron Throne and suspected its owner was a descendant of Vulkan.

• Li Qinwu returned to the Ork Battleship and found the Warboss, Elite Nobs, Gretchin, and other Orks dead.
• Li Qinwu discovered that the Mushroom Field had shriveled and that the battleship's garbage structures were breaking away in space.
• Li Qinwu hurried to the Warboss's chamber to retrieve the Astartes helmet he had seen earlier.
• Li Qinwu cleared Ork corpses from the Iron Throne and uncovered a huge green Astartes helmet.
• Li Qinwu suspected the helmet belonged to a descendant of Vulkan and identified those Astartes as the Space Liberation Army.

Li Qinwu discovered that the Astartes welded into the Ork Warboss’s Iron Throne was still alive and brought him aboard the Shuttle. He treated the dormant warrior’s wounds and used Xiangxiang to help him recover.

• Li Qinwu cut through the Iron Throne’s metal framework and pulled an intact, heavily wounded Astartes from inside it.
• Li Qinwu identified the warrior as a Primaris Astartes with a green venomous serpent Chapter emblem, though he could not recognize the Chapter.
• Li Qinwu used the Bird Spectrometer to discover that the Astartes had two weak heartbeats and was in suspended animation.
• Li Qinwu dragged the Astartes to the Shuttle and activated its life-support system.
• Li Qinwu injected the Astartes with a Green Needle and smeared Xiangxiang over his exposed flesh to speed his recovery.

Li Qinwu asked Father Anthony whether he could claim and repair a damaged Scimitar-class Frigate hidden beneath Ork scrap. After learning that the ship’s propulsion was destroyed and that any faction capable of repairing it would likely take it, he accepted that he could not hold on to it for now; the Astartes he had rescued then woke up.

• Li Qinwu contacted Father Anthony and showed him the human warship buried beneath the scattered Ork armor.
• Father Anthony identified the vessel as a Scimitar-class Frigate and explained that its thrusters were destroyed, leaving it unable to move.
• Li Qinwu asked whether the frigate could be repaired at Industrial World 496A, but Father Anthony warned that transporting and restoring it would be difficult and costly.
• Father Anthony cautioned Li Qinwu that any faction capable of repairing the frigate would claim it for themselves.
• Li Qinwu gave up worrying about the ship for the moment, then heard the Astartes he had rescued groan as he woke up.

A Space Marine of the Crimson Bite Chapter awakened aboard an Avirlus Shuttle after lying dormant for at least a year, and Li Qinwu explained how he had found and rescued him. The Marine learned that Li Qinwu was taking him to Agri-World 496B, where he could find transport back to his Chapter.

• The Space Marine recovered from his injuries and woke to find Li Qinwu watching him.
• Li Qinwu claimed humanity had conquered the galaxy, then admitted he had been joking.
• Li Qinwu explained that he had found the Space Marine welded into an Ork boss's throne aboard a damaged battleship and was returning to Agri-World 496B.
• The Space Marine realized he had been dormant for at least a year and demanded to return to his Chapter.
• Li Qinwu offered to take the Space Marine to a transport ship bound for the Industrial World, and the Marine removed his helmet to thank him.

Li Qinwu learned about Norn Skornov’s struggle against the Greenskin Orks and asked him to help repair a captured warship, but Norn could not do so. After returning to Agricultural World 496B with Norn, Li Qinwu charged the arriving nobles for photos and access to the Space Marine.

• Norn Skornov told Li Qinwu that a warboss was pushing human forces back on the Industrial World, where nuclear weapons were being used.
• Li Qinwu asked Norn to help repair a captured Scimitar-class frigate, but Norn explained that repairing and operating it was beyond his means.
• Li Qinwu’s shuttle returned to Agricultural World 496B and underwent strict disinfection before landing to prevent Ork spores from spreading.
• Li Qinwu and Norn emerged at the space station, drawing a crowd of nobles eager to see the Space Marine.
• Li Qinwu blocked the nobles from reaching Norn and charged them for photos, printed pictures, and kissing Norn’s boots.

Li Qinwu hosted the Space Marine Norn and used his captive guest to advertise wine and canned meat while explaining that Norn would have to wait four months for a ship carrying the food to the Industrial World. Norn accepted the delay and planned to repair his armor and weapons at the Temple of the Machine God, but first joined Li Qinwu in finishing the feast.

• Li Qinwu blocked the nobles from entering General Zeppelin's residence and brought Norn to a banquet.
• Li Qinwu forced Norn to sample wine and canned meat while filming advertisements, then sent the footage to a television station.
• Li Qinwu explained that the planet's only ship was reserved for a canned-meat shipment and that production would take at least four months.
• Norn accepted that he had to wait and asked to borrow equipment from the Temple of the Machine God to repair his armor and weapons.
• Li Qinwu urged Norn to eat first, and the two shared the feast until the table was empty.

Norn used the Temple of the Machine God’s workshop to repair his Power Armor and offered to upgrade Li Qinwu’s armor if Li Qinwu brought suitable materials. Li Qinwu coaxed Norn away from forging, leaving him stunned by an enormous piece of adamantium at a Hive City ventilation opening.

• Li Qinwu brought Norn to the Temple of the Machine God, where Father Anthony supplied materials and access to the forging workshop.
• Norn made forging tools and repaired his damaged breastplate, while Li Qinwu used Warp Vision to sense the Warp Essence behind Norn’s smithing.
• Norn offered to improve Li Qinwu’s Power Armor by at least fifty percent, and Li Qinwu said he would find exceptional materials.
• Several days later, Norn finished repairing his own Power Armor and planned to forge a Boltgun and Power Maul.
• Li Qinwu persuaded Norn to leave the smithy, then showed him a huge drill-bit fragment at a Hive City ventilation opening.
• Norn recognized the fragment as adamantium.