Recaps

Lorgar’s forces rescued prisoners, uncovered an STC, and prepared Hercules for Legion service as a spreading Xenos machine threat consumed planets. The Primarchs’ coalition drove the Constructs from one world and evacuated the Ultramarines before destroying its core.

• Angron and Lorgar broke into the Healing Brotherhood’s prison, freed its captives, and defeated the Brotherhood’s leader while Lucasstro recovered an STC that produced the Aurelian Heavy Tank.
• Hercules survived a catastrophic gene-seed rejection that left him extraordinarily strong, then endured Menoetius’s training and earned the name Strangler after killing several Ant Bulls.
• A mining crew awakened a black-metal Xenos Factory that consumed a planet and its fleet, prompting the Emperor to summon Lorgar and other Primarchs to fight the spreading threat.
• Lorgar sent forces to Ultramar and joined Guilliman, Vulkan, Perturabo, and Angron in planning to contain the enemy and rescue besieged Imperial troops.
• Harris’s Ultramarines fought repairing Constructs until a humanoid Construct infected his arm, forcing him to blast it off with his Volkite Pistol.
• Word Bearers, Iron Warriors, and World Eaters reinforced the defenders and drove the Constructs from the planet, after which the Ultramarines evacuated and the Iron Warriors destroyed the Planetary Core.

The Word Bearers repelled nanometal boarders while Perturabo destroyed their planetary factory, and Hercules earned command of Fifth Squad. After strengthening ties with other Legions, the Word Bearers saved Tians Prime and stayed to rescue its civilians and celebrate their victory.

• Hercules overcame his fear of death and helped Brother Skranchi and the Word Bearers defeat the Constructs boarding the Iron Resolve.
• Lorgar arranged personnel exchanges with Perturabo and Vulkan, and Vulkan offered weapons and armour to the Word Bearers.
• Perturabo destroyed the Black Planet after its nanites and metal Tentacles attacked his fleet, while Trazyn secretly destroyed an escaping nanometal seed.
• Lorgar honored the fallen Word Bearers, and Norskar returned Brother Skranchi to hibernation.
• Hercules completed his black carapace implantation and took command of Fifth Squad, which included Frank and Perseus.
• Lorgar accepted the Tians Federation’s submission, and the Word Bearers destroyed the Gexi fleet and advanced against its stranded ground forces.
• Lorgar granted Tians World a tax exemption and promised future protection, then secretly ordered the killing of the official who objected.
• The Word Bearers rescued civilians and restored essential services before a victory parade, where Rockefeller carried a little girl on his shoulder.

Lorgar and the Word Bearers discovered Anastasia, an ancient construct whose arrival drew an Aeldari attack. The Imperial forces invaded the Craftworld, where Lorgar and Angron pushed toward the Aeldari’s stronghold.

• Lorgar persuaded Angron to let the War Hounds join Tians’s celebrations, and the crowd’s gratitude helped Angron see how his warriors could protect people.
• After the fleet departed Tians, Orks attacked the Law of Faith, and Hercules’s squad cleared them from the lower decks before finding a strange white craft in the damaged hull.
• Lorgar awakened the silver-haired construct, who named herself Anastasia and agreed to a temporary alliance with the Word Bearers.
• When the Aeldari demanded Anastasia, Lorgar refused to hand her over and prepared the fleet for battle.
• The Aeldari infiltrated the Law of Faith to seize Anastasia, but she slaughtered their Bishop and elite warriors, while an intrusion erased the attack’s recordings.
• Xinaniels unleashed a Warp storm against the Imperial fleet, but Lorgar led an assault on the Craftworld while Angron and the War Hounds established a landing zone.
• Lorgar’s forces destroyed an Aeldari Wraithknight, and Gallagher’s Warlord Titan joined the battle against the Phantom Titans, destroying one before another killed the Vengeful Fire.
• Lorgar attacked a Phantom Titan, then fought through Aeldari Bishops and Farseers near the temple as he sent Hercules to reinforce Angron’s flank.

Lorgar and Angron destroyed the Aeldari Craftworld and moved on to a joint campaign with Fulgrim’s Legion. Their forces boarded the station Dawn, where Lucius and Chelast discovered that the station was a living xenos trap and fought to escape.

• Lorgar defeated the Khaine Shard, reunited with Angron, and led the assault that killed Supreme Seer Xinaniels and broke the Aeldari defense.
• The Aeldari destroyed their own Craftworld after the Imperial fleet escaped, while Angron arranged for the wounded Anglia to recover aboard the Law of Faith.
• Lorgar and Anastasia discussed the limits of her allegiance as he searched for the fleet’s next target, while Sergeant Chelast’s squad joined the Emperor’s Children aboard the Will of Eternity.
• Fulgrim assigned Lucius and the Word Bearers to purge Dawn station after its communications failed and it registered a nonhuman biological signal.
• Chelast exposed the station’s disguised xenos, while Lucius discovered that Major Mass and the station’s personnel were mimics, and the station then destroyed their transport and cut off communications.
• Lucius and Chelast fought through puppets, shifting corridors, and tanks as they tried to regroup, eventually learning that a central consciousness controlled the copies.
• The station revealed itself as a living organism, separated the Space Marines, and attacked them with replicas, tentacles, and green slime.
• Lucius ordered Tarvitz to send an evacuation transport and bombard the station, while he and Chelast led the survivors toward the extraction point through pursuing duplicates.