Recaps

Phoros led the assault team deeper into the mine to rescue the civilians on its lower levels while Sentoyor organized the evacuation of the first level. In orbit, Lin En got Phoros’s helmet camera feed displayed aboard the ship and watched the team advance.

• Phoros counted roughly five hundred thousand rescued civilians on the first level and ordered Sentoyor’s Blood Knights to evacuate them while he led the others toward the second level.
• Phoros and his team descended a narrow, rail-lined slope into the mine, wary that the Greenskins might retreat deeper and use civilians as shields or set traps.
• Lin En failed to observe the mine clearly with binoculars and demanded a drone from Iron Hammer, who said he had no such device.
• Lin En persuaded the system to stream Phoros’s helmet camera feed to the ship’s control console, allowing the crew to watch the team’s progress.
• Sentoyor began escorting the first-level civilians toward the mine entrance while Phoros and his team continued deeper into the mine.

Phoros led his assault squad into the second-level mine, where they found cages full of children and fought Greenskins while trying to avoid harming the captives. Meanwhile, Ork Warlord Ravager Skargel learned that Slaughterhouse Three was under attack and ordered his forces to return and crush the Astartes.

• Phoros discovered that the second-level mine held cages crowded with children and ordered the medical team to prepare.
• Phoros arranged a close-quarters assault using meltas and flamers to avoid stray bolter fire harming the children, then ordered the squad to fire.
• Ork Warlord Ravager Skargel received word that Astartes had attacked Slaughterhouse Three and were overrunning the mine.
• Skargel rallied his lieutenants and ordered all ships, boyz, trucks, and walkers to return to Slaughterhouse Three while the Greenskins there resisted.

Phoros and the Astartes cleared Slaughterhouse Mine’s second level and rescued its civilians before Skargel’s fleet could return. With more than two million people still trapped on the third level, Phoros led the assault onward and encountered a huge force of elite Greenskins.

• The Ultramarines warned Phoros that Skargel’s fleet would reach Slaughterhouse Three in about an hour, so he ordered an evacuation while sending the other companies to keep fighting.
• Gabriel led the Flesh Tearers’ charge as Phoros and the Lamenters provided covering fire, driving the Greenskins back through the mine.
• Phoros confirmed that all civilians on the second level had been rescued, and he ordered them to withdraw toward the ships with critically wounded people placed in Stasis Fields.
• Phoros, Gabriel, and the others headed for the third level while the fleet prepared to evacuate the civilians.
• On the crowded third level, Phoros’s force encountered a huge mob of armored elite Greenskins, which charged them.

Phoros and the allied Chapters routed the Greenskins on the third level and began evacuating the civilians while Skargel’s main force remained blocked outside Slaughterhouse Planet. Lin En discovered that another 80,000 civilians were trapped beyond a cave-in, where Greenskins would reach them within minutes.

• Phoros, Gabriel, and Sentoyor trapped the elite Greenskins in a passage and destroyed them with concentrated fire, stopping the attackers from using civilians as shields.
• Skargel learned that Imperial forces had intercepted his main fleet and blocked the shipping lane, leaving him unable to return to Slaughterhouse Planet.
• The remaining Greenskins fled deeper into the mine, while Sentoyor pursued them and Phoros ordered the cages opened and the civilians evacuated.
• Lin En’s system detected about 80,000 civilians trapped behind a cave-in on the third level and warned that the Greenskins would kill them before Phoros could reach them.

Lin En launched himself toward Slaughterhouse III to rescue the eighty thousand civilians, with Valerian and Carl following despite his reckless decision. While the evacuation proceeded across the mine, a hidden chamber remained sealed off, where a Greenskin boss held thousands of human captives.

• Lin En entered an Assault Pod and plunged toward the mine, ordering Valerian and Carl to follow him.
• Valerian and Carl found two more Assault Pods and launched after Lin En, who reassured them that the enemy was only Greenskins.
• Phoros and the Astartes organized the civilians' evacuation, while Gabriel and several Space Marine groups helped them reach the ships.
• Sentoyor returned after clearing most of the nearby Greenskins, and shuttles continued ferrying civilians to the fleet.
• In a sealed-off chamber, dozens of Greenskins surrounded thousands of bound human captives, and an Ork Boy asked the boss what to do with them.

Lin En burst into an Ork mine and killed the Greenskins threatening its human captives with Dimensional Slash. The rescued civilians worshipped him as an angel, while Valerian and Carl arrived too late to do more than marvel at the scene.

• The Ork boss ordered its Greenskins to kill every human captive, rejecting the idea of keeping any as workers.
• Lin En crashed an Assault Pod into the mine tunnel and emerged in a blaze of Golden Light.
• Lin En unleashed repeated Dimensional Slashes, cutting down the Greenskins and silencing the mine.
• The rescued civilians knelt before Lin En, believing the Emperor had sent an angel to save them.
• Valerian and Carl entered the mine, abandoned their planned reprimand, and silently acknowledged Lin En's feat.
• Lin En awkwardly avoided their stern looks and claimed the weather was nice.

Lin En rescued the trapped civilians from the collapsed mine, but Phoros and the other Lamenters found him before he could sneak away unnoticed. Meanwhile, Cecilia contacted Iron Hammer aboard the shuttle and demanded to know where Lin En was.

• Phoros saw Golden Light outside the mine and led Gabriel, Sentoyor, and a squad of Lamenters toward the cave-in.
• Lin En cut open the rubble with Dimensional Slash and guided tens of thousands of civilians out of the mine.
• Lin En ran into Phoros and the others, then tried to pretend he had only been passing by.
• Iron Hammer waited alone aboard the shuttle and grew anxious after Lin En and the Adeptus Custodes left.
• Cecilia contacted Iron Hammer, asked where Lin En was, and left him stammering for an answer.

The Lamenters evacuated all three million civilians from Slaughterhouse Three and destroyed the planet to eradicate the remaining Greenskins. After the rescue, Iron Hammer reunited with Lin En and angrily choked him for worrying his sister.

• Lin En watched Phoros oversee the evacuation as the Astartes moved civilians and wounded survivors onto the Transport Shuttles.
• Gabriel carried a little girl out of the mines, while Sentoyor gave his cloak to a shivering old woman.
• The fleet received the rescued civilians and treated the wounded, and Phoros ordered Exterminatus on Slaughterhouse Three.
• The Lamenters' fleet incinerated the planet after scans found no other life, completing the mission with almost no casualties.
• Iron Hammer arrived aboard the Mother of Tears and grabbed Lin En by the throat, demanding to know how he would explain Lin En's disappearance to his sister.

Lin En healed the wounded Astartes and civilians aboard the fleet, then returned to Bolomite with Iron Hammer and tried to sneak into the Governor’s Palace. Just as Lin En reached for a door, it opened by itself.

• Lin En used Healing Aura to treat the wounded and restore some strength to the civilians, who mistook him for a divine guardian and knelt before him.
• The fleet traveled safely back to Bolomite, where the civilians were sent to the city and the critically wounded to the new monastery.
• Lin En spent the voyage checking on the wounded and visiting the civilians, where he played with children and gave people more Healing Aura.
• Lin En and Iron Hammer piloted a small craft to Bolomite and landed secretly in the warehouse district to avoid being caught by their sister.
• Lin En reached to open a door on the way to the Governor’s Palace, but it opened by itself before he touched it.

Lin En and Iron Hammer returned to Bolomite and faced Cecilia after sneaking away, but their shameless apologies got them only a five-thousand-word handwritten report. The three battle groups settled three million rescued civilians into Bolomite, where preparations began for a victory banquet.

• Cecilia confronted Lin En and Iron Hammer in the corridor after their return, and they clung to her legs while blaming each other and begging forgiveness.
• Cecilia ordered the two to shower, change, and handwrite five-thousand-word reports, but they quickly followed her and joked that she loved them too much to punish them.
• The three battle groups returned to Bolomite, where three million rescued civilians filled the residential district.
• Cecilia reviewed preparations for an open-air victory banquet and welcome celebration, confirming that food and guards were arranged.
• Cecilia remained too busy with the new arrivals to attend the celebration or deal with Lin En and Iron Hammer, who celebrated their apparent escape from punishment.

Lin En watched the Blood Angels, civilians, and children celebrate together at a lavish banquet on Bolomite. The gathering ended with cheers for Lin En, the Chapter, the Emperor, and the dawn ahead, as Lin En praised the warriors.

• A Flesh Tearer lifted a boy who had bumped into him and let him sit on his shoulder.
• A little girl hugged the Flesh Tearer's leg and said she wanted to become one of the Emperor's angels, so he lifted her onto his other shoulder.
• Lin En reflected on the Astartes' inability to reproduce and compared their sacrificed lives with the Adeptus Custodes.
• The civilians and Astartes shared food and raised cups, bowls, bread, and children in cheers for Lin En, the Chapter, the Emperor, and tomorrow's dawn.
• A young warrior shouted that they had succeeded, and Lin En gave him a thumbs-up and called them all good men.

Bolomite expanded with new supplies, factories, housing, and a completed Lamenters Fortress, while Lin En and Iron Hammer were made to write self-criticism reports. Lin En used the assignment to secure Cecilia’s apparent approval for a Blood Knights homeworld project, then asked the system to help him steal an agricultural world from Tzeentch, and the system supplied its coordinates.

• Bolomite’s warehouses, factories, residential districts, and city walls expanded, and the Astartes moved into Lamenters Fortress.
• Cecilia made Lin En and Iron Hammer write self-criticism reports, but Lin En struggled while Iron Hammer filled his page by blaming him.
• Lin En replaced the back of his report with a Blood Knights Homeworld Project, and Cecilia took the paper without objecting.
• Lin En left Iron Hammer to finish the report and taunted him, while Iron Hammer threatened to dismantle Lin En’s warships.
• Lin En summoned the system and proposed stealing another planet from Tzeentch for the Blood Knights.
• The system gave Lin En the coordinates of an abandoned agricultural world with soil, water, and an intact atmosphere.

Lin En led his fleet into the Warp to reclaim a corrupted Agri World from Tzeentch’s territory. After clearing the planet of lesser daemons, he prepared to purify it, leaving Sentoyor hopeful about their new home.

• Lin En summoned Phoros, Gabriel, and Sentoyor and ordered the fleet to move before Tzeentch noticed.
• The fleet entered the Warp, where Lin En captured a blue-haired Imp and demanded nearby world coordinates, but the Imp blew itself up.
• Lin En’s fleet followed the system’s coordinates to a Warp-corrupted Agri World after traveling through the Warp for several more days.
• The fleet’s landing forces cleared the planet of lesser daemons, and Phoros told Lin En the surface was safe.
• Lin En examined the corrupted soil and said he could purify it, while Sentoyor looked over the dead fields and imagined restoring the world.

Lin En wrapped the planet in a golden psychic barrier and began towing it out of the Warp, but Tzeentch’s vortex pulled back and created a stalemate. Lin En activated Psychic Overload and realized he could purify the planet while towing it, then glimpsed the labyrinth and territories beyond the vortex.

• Lin En ordered the others to retreat two thousand meters while he prepared to move the planet.
• Lin En enveloped the planet in a golden psychic barrier and began hauling it out of the Warp.
• Tzeentch’s purple vortex increased its suction, and Lin En and the vortex became locked in a tug-of-war over the planet.
• Lin En realized he could use Psychic Overload and Purification while towing the planet, rather than performing those tasks separately.
• Lin En activated Psychic Overload, saw the labyrinth behind the vortex, and spotted a giant blue-feathered bird watching him.

Lin En purified a corrupted planet and forced it out of the Warp into Realspace. He gave the planet to the Blood Knights as their homeworld, and they trembled with emotion as they stood before him.

• Lin En layered Purification into a demigod-level halo, cleansing the planet and driving back the Warp vortex.
• Lin En poured his psychic power into the planet and forced it through the barrier into Realspace, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Lin En and his companions found that the planet had landed half a day's voyage from Bolomite.
• Lin En summoned the Blood Knights and declared the planet their homeworld.
• Sentoyor and the Blood Knights trembled as they removed their helmets and received the news, while Lin En panicked and told them not to cry.

The Blood Knights established Echo Star, where settlers began farming and building a new home. As Lin En considered educating the children there and on Bolomite, he grew furious at the Imperium’s restrictions on knowledge and vowed to challenge the Chaos Gods.

• Settlers from Bolomite arrived on the fertile new planet with construction equipment, tools, and seeds, and began building homes and planting rice.
• Sentoyor confirmed that crops could grow in the soil, and he named the Blood Knights’ new homeworld Echo Star.
• Lin En inspected Echo Star’s fields and saw its growing community, while the Blood Knights built a fortress and Iron Hammer and Cecilia managed their work on the two worlds.
• Lin En considered building schools so children could learn to read, but reflected on the Imperium’s narrow education and its fear of Tzeentch’s influence over knowledge.
• Lin En vowed that wisdom belonged to everyone and swore he would eventually kill the Four Gods, while Valerian and Carl watched flames flare around him.

Bolomite's orbital defenses detected a damaged warship's distress call from the Maelstrom and sent Lamenters Escort Frigates to meet it cautiously. Lin En learned that the survivors belonged to a squad from one of three Ultramarines Successor Chapters surrounded by Chaos, and that the Lamenters had brought them to Bolomite for him to decide what happened next.

• The Bolomite communications crew decoded a broken distress call from a loyal Chapter warship approaching from the Maelstrom, likely belonging to the Star Guardians.
• The Lamenters commander ordered two Escort Frigates to intercept the ship and instructed them to verify it before approaching, with one frigate ready to open fire if anything went wrong.
• The Lamenters commander reported the distress call to the fortress and Governor's Palace, which ordered him to keep monitoring.
• Phoros contacted Lin En on Echo Star and told him that three Ultramarines Successor Chapters were surrounded by Chaos near the Maelstrom, with only one squad escaping aboard a damaged ship.
• The Lamenters brought the surviving squad to Bolomite, leaving Lin En to decide what to do when he returned.

Lin En learned that a Nurgle fleet had ambushed three Ultramarines Successor Chapters near the Maelstrom, and he suspected Mortarion was among the attackers. After locating the danger zone, Lin En prepared to pursue the Greater Daemon.

• Lin En returned to Bolomite and met Cassius, captain of the Star Guardians, whom Phoros brought to the Governor's Palace.
• Cassius reported that a Chaos fleet had attacked three Successor Chapters near Macragge, and only their escort vessel had escaped.
• Lin En questioned Cassius about the plague fog and learned that a huge, unidentified figure had appeared within a green light.
• Lin En reassured Cassius and explained to Phoros that the figure was a Greater Daemon, then examined detection images marking the ambush near Tharsis Starway.
• Lin En identified the likely target as Mortarion and considered the misery of serving Nurgle.

Lin En led the Flesh Tearers and Blood Knights toward the Maelstrom to investigate Nurgle’s attack, leaving the Lamenters to guard Bolomite and Echo Star. A survivor revealed that three Ultramarines Successor Chapters had been trapped by plague mist, which may have been bait meant to lure Lin En into a trap.

• Lin En ordered the Lamenters to remain on Bolomite and Echo Star to protect the civilians and the settlements, reassuring Phoros that he trusted them most.
• Lin En departed with the Flesh Tearers and Blood Knights while the Lamenters stayed behind, and the fleet headed for the Maelstrom.
• Cassius told Lin En that the Star Guardians, Blue Steel Fist, and First Guardian had been summoned to Macragge and attacked by Nurgle’s plague mist while traveling through the Tharsis Starway.
• Cassius realized the mist had trapped the three Battle Barges without immediately destroying them and suspected that the attack had been designed to lure Lin En into danger.

Lin En drew the common Precise Throw trait and tested its accuracy, while his fleet entered the Great Rift to find three missing Chapter Battle Barges surrounded by Nurgle’s green mist. The ships were still intact, but Lin En suspected the mist was a trap designed to lure him there.

• Lin En drew the green Precise Throw trait, and the system concluded it might even improve his aim when throwing planets out of the Warp.
• Lin En tested the trait by tossing a pen across the bridge into a distant holder, impressing Valerian and Carl.
• Gabriel reported that the fleet had reached the edge of the Maelstrom and was half a day from the three Battle Barges’ signal location.
• Lin En led the fleet into the Great Rift and used Purification to protect his ship and the Flesh Tearers’ and Blood Knights’ Battle Barges from Nurgle’s green mist.
• Cassius found signals from the Star Guardians, Blue Steel Fist, and First Guardian Battle Barges, which remained surrounded but apparently unharmed by the mist.

Lin En led the fleet into Nurgle’s toxic fog to rescue three trapped Battle Barges, using Psychic Storm and Purification to break through. The fleet reached the fog’s defenders, and Lin En faced a wave of Plague Marines.

• Lin En ordered the fleet to enter the toxic fog despite Valerian’s concerns, while Gabriel and Sentoyor volunteered to lead the fight.
• Nurgle’s fog attacked the Geller Fields and disrupted the fleet’s sensors as the ships formed a wedge and pressed forward.
• Lin En combined Psychic Storm with Purification to disperse the fog and stabilize the Night Goddess’s Geller Field.
• A rusted Chainsword and Nurgle’s Plague Marines emerged from the fog, but Lin En’s Psychic Storm blew them away.
• Lin En looked at the corrupted Death Guard and felt pain pierce his heart.

Lin En led his fleet through Nurgle’s poisonous fog, sparing the Death Guard while destroying the daemons in their path. He found three besieged Battle Barges that did not answer his calls, and suspected they had been placed as bait for his fleet.

• Lin En withheld Purification because it might kill the Death Guard, then tore apart the Nurgle daemons with his Psychic Storm.
• Lin En’s fleet forced a path through the poisonous fog while Gabriel’s Flesh Tearers guarded the ships against stragglers.
• Lin En spotted the Star Guardians, the Blue Steel Fist, and the First Guardian surrounded by Plague Marines, daemons, and Chaos landing craft.
• The communications officer repeatedly hailed the three Battle Barges but received no reply, so Lin En ordered transmissions every thirty seconds.
• Lin En suspected the trapped ships were bait and wondered if a great creature in the fog was waiting to devour his fleet.

Lin En led a force to break the Nurgle encirclement and rescue the crews aboard three stranded Battle Barges. As Gabriel and Sentoyor’s boarding forces fought through the ships, Lin En’s Golden Light began cleansing the plague and burning the daemons.

• Lin En ordered Gabriel to lead the Flesh Tearers in a frontal assault and Sentoyor to take the Blood Knights around the rear of the three Battle Barges.
• Lin En unleashed a Psychic Storm that swept away the poisonous fog and broke the enemy encirclement, then activated Group Healing and Purification Aura around the fleet.
• Gabriel and Sentoyor led their warriors aboard the Battle Barges and attacked the Plague Marines and Nurgle daemons inside.
• Star Guardians and mortal crew on the Star Guardians' Battle Barge desperately defended the bridge against the invaders.
• Golden Light spread through the besieged ship, cleansing the plague and burning the Plague Marines and Nurgle daemons.

Golden Light healed the Imperial forces and weakened the Nurgle attackers, allowing the Flesh Tearers, Blood Knights, Star Guardians, and Blue Steel Fist to retake the Battle Barges. Gabriel explained that their lord had created the light and protected the warriors with a Healing Aura.

• The Golden Light healed the Astartes and mortal crews, halted the spread of rot, and burned the Plague Marines and Daemons of Nurgle.
• The Astartes and mortal crew killed the weakened enemies with Melta Guns and glowing weapons, clearing the bridges.
• Gabriel led the Flesh Tearers to the Star Guardians' bridge, where the surviving crew greeted him and asked him to help find their Chapter Master.
• Sentoyor met the battered Chapter Master of the Blue Steel Fist, confirmed the bridge was secure, and ordered the Blood Knights to keep clearing the ship.
• The First Guardian's Battle Barge was cleared, and the Flesh Tearers joined forces with the Star Guardians after locating their Chapter Master.
• Gabriel told the Star Guardians' Chapter Master that their lord had created the Golden Light and activated a Healing Aura to protect the reinforcements.

The Star Guardians, Blue Steel Fist, and First Guardian reclaimed their three Battle Barges, and Lin En arrived to meet their Chapter Masters and purify the ships. As the repairs began, Mortarion emerged from the poisonous fog to face them.

• The three Chapters and their mortal crews cleared their Battle Barges, restored control, and began repairing the ships.
• Gabriel and Sentoyor reported 1,143 surviving Astartes to Lin En, who boarded the ships with Valerian and Carl to meet Chapter Masters Vadsim, Seprus, and Cordova.
• Lin En used his Purification Aura to cleanse all three Battle Barges and restore their corrupted crews.
• Mortarion emerged from the green fog and stood before the Battle Barges at the edge of Lin En’s Golden Light.