Recaps

Lin En led the Purple Carapace Chapter through campaigns against the Imperium’s enemies, then diverted to Paradis III to rescue survivors trapped by the Necrons’ Pariah Nexus. He freed the survivors from the Nexus’s influence and led them into the tomb, where Zeras’s forces opened fire as Lin En called him out.

• Gulga’s Greenskins fell to the Tyranids, and Lin En returned the growing swarm to orbit before finding human survivors on Isman and assuring them that the Tyranids were the loyal Purple Carapace Chapter.
• Lin En gained Imperial approval to lead the Purple Carapace Chapter through the Maelstrom, where it consumed Greenskins and fought Drukhari and Chaos forces while the Lamenters battled daemons.
• Lin En’s forces defeated a Behemoth splinter fleet, pursued a fleeing Kraken splinter, and were declared the Emperor’s Swarm as the Ecclesiarchy registered Lin En as a Living Saint.
• After learning that the Pariah Nexus crisis was unfolding nearby, Lin En took the Night Goddess to Paradis III and landed his twelve motherships to attack the Necrons and destroy their Blackstone Array.
• Lin En’s Tyranids rescued survivors from Necron attacks, while he and the Lamenters found Danica, Agrippa’s Ultramarines, Varlock Squad, and other soldiers and civilians.
• Lin En used Indomitable Will to stabilize soldiers whose senses and wills had been stripped away by the Pariah Nexus, then gave the assembled forces Thirty Days as they cleared Necrons and destroyed the Blackstone Obelisks.
• Lin En led the survivors and Tyranids to the tomb beneath Sanctuary Cathedral, shattered its defenses, and drove through the corridors as Zeras ordered his remaining forces to resist.
• Lin En reached the central tomb doors, told Phoros to take them as trophies, and called for Zeras to come out and talk, but the Necrons opened fire from both sides of the passage.

Lin En dismantled the Necron Blackstone network, then brought his forces to Terra to face Abaddon’s invasion. He took command of the eastern defenses and turned back the Chaos fleet’s advance, while Dante and the loyalist Space Marines fought Abaddon aboard the Spear of Terra.

• Lin En destroyed the Necrons’ Memory Engrams and Blackstone installations across the Napheli Sector, prompting many Phaerons to withdraw from the Human Extermination Plan.
• Lin En cleared the remaining Blackstone Network and prepared to enter the Great Rift, but the system warned him that Chaos and an Aeldari-led alliance threatened humanity.
• Lin En gathered his forces and joined Dante near the Solar System, where Guilliman appointed him supreme commander of the eastern outer defenses.
• Lin En arranged the Solar Fleet, Blood Angels, Purple Carapace Chapter, and Hive Ships into defensive formations, then blessed the fleet as the Vengeful Spirit emerged from the Warp.
• Lin En used his powers and fleet orders to disrupt Abaddon’s attack, destroy Chaos ships, and rescue the crew of a shattered Escort Frigate.
• Lin En mocked Abaddon over the fleetwide channel by speaking in Horus’s voice, then grounded and swept aside daemons as the Chaos advance faltered.
• Abaddon split his fleet and led a boarding assault on the Spear of Terra, while Lin En ordered its mortal crew to escape and sent Dante’s Astartes to repel the attackers.
• Dante and the Blood Angels attacked Abaddon aboard the Spear of Terra, joined by the Lamenters, Flesh Tearers, and Blood Knights, and Dante wounded Abaddon.