Recaps

Chelast destroyed the Tree imprisoning Dawn station’s souls, while Lorgar met the Emperor and later reached Nostramo as Curze hunted the planet’s oppressors. The arc ended with Curze taking control of Nostramo’s broadcast system to address its people.

• Chelast and Lucius fought through the replicas to Dawn station’s core, where they found a vast Tree that trapped the victims’ souls.
• Chelast resisted the Tree’s illusion, wounded its trunk, and detonated explosives that destroyed the core and freed the imprisoned souls.
• Chelast awoke after three days in a Medical Pod, and Lucius and Saul Tarvitz told him he had survived the station’s destruction.
• Lorgar took Anastasia to Terra, met the Emperor, and was ordered to have her core data backed up before continuing the Great Crusade.
• Doram learned that the 48th Colchis Auxiliary Army would deploy in fifteen days alongside at least five Space Marine Legions, and ordered preparations for departure.
• Curze killed members of Nostramo’s elite, destroyed the Max Family, and forced Loman Max to suffer the effects of the family’s drug concentrate.
• Aeldari abducted Teresa and confronted Curze, but Lorgar intervened, drove them away, and offered Curze companionship and support.
• Curze called on Nostramo’s people to judge their oppressors, then seized the planetary broadcast system and told the city to look at him.

Curze led Nostramo’s uprising while Lorgar gathered forces to confront the Rangdan, whose invasion devastated Imperial fleets and ground forces. The arc left the defense of Shina still raging, with Raven Guard and White Scars containing Worm Men near the factory.

• Curze called Nostramo’s people to revolt, and they stormed the ruling class’s estates and executed those they blamed for their oppression.
• Lorgar and the insurgents breached the Iron Curtain Fortress, after which Curze began reorganizing Nostramo and met Saladin, Lord of the Second Legion.
• Saladin warned Lorgar that Rangdan forces had attacked Imperial outposts, and an Imperial fleet arriving at the Dawn Star System was surrounded and destroyed by Rangdan warships.
• Leki and the 48th Army fought the Rangdan invasion at Norman Cathedral before Ding Xiu ordered the survivors to evacuate and the army regrouped on Shina.
• Lorgar committed twenty-five thousand Word Bearers to the Rangdan campaign, while Mortarion and Perturabo also promised forces for the battle.
• The Rangdan fleet attacked Shina’s defense ring, and the Hammer of God array destroyed several enemy capital ships before the Rangdan struck its shield generators.
• Captain Consgett rammed the Mountains into a Rangdan warship and detonated its reactor, destroying the enemy vessel in a vast explosion.
• Korolia ordered Raven Guard squads to contain Worm Men near the factory, but Lorne’s Lightning Claws could not stop one from regenerating.

Lorne and the Second Legion fought the Rangdan while Imperial forces mounted a costly counterattack, and Lorgar and Mortarion prepared for a predicted enemy strike. The Khrave emerged from the Warp and attacked the Endurance’s Bridge, where Mortarion fought back.

• Lorne isolated and killed the Worm Men by exploiting their suspicions, traps, and concealed sniper positions.
• Saladin led the Second Legion into the Rangdan ambush, destroyed a hidden capital ship, and boarded it, where he refused the Commander’s duel and ordered the Primarch Guard to shoot it.
• Saladin reflected on a foreboding vision after the battle, then met Lorgar, who searched for signs of Chaos and proposed a joint eastern assault with Mortarion.
• Lorgar and Mortarion discussed the assault, while Mortarion’s warriors fought Rangdan forces and Garro described Mortarion’s care for his sons.
• Leki took command of the depleted 13th Armoured Grenadier Regiment as Sechter and Ling Huang planned a counterattack that Kott’s Skitarii would not join.
• The Hand of Flame and other Titans broke through Rangdan lines, and the White Scars and Imperialis Militia advanced through the gaps.
• Mortarion predicted a major Rangdan counterattack against the fleets of Lion El'Jonson and Saladin, and Lorgar planned to set a flank trap.
• Lorgar and Mortarion’s fleets ambushed the Rangdan vanguard, but the Khrave appeared and attacked the Endurance’s Bridge, where Mortarion killed several attackers.

Lorgar and his allies defeated the Khrave Primals, while the Skulls Regiment fought a costly defense against the Rangdan in Pascal Hive City. Lorgar then led the fleet to Xana, where a barrier and a hostile Rangdan force confronted them.

• Mortarion faced the Khrave Primals until Lorgar and Hercules arrived, and Lorgar, Hercules, and Angron destroyed all five.
• Mortarion left the Bridge, and Lorgar ordered Angron to clear the battlefield and prepare repairs to the Endurance.
• Leki’s militia withdrew into Pascal Hive City as the disciplined 103rd Skulls Penal Infantry Regiment marched toward District 28.
• Korolia and the Raven Guard ambushed a Rangdan Overlord, while Warren Heinrich’s Skulls Regiment prepared to defend District 28.
• Warren and the Skulls fought successive Rangdan assaults, killing a number of attackers but suffering heavy losses.
• Ding Xiu battled Rangdan Elites alongside the Skulls, and he and Warren were left standing after the enemy withdrew when Angron attacked from behind.
• Lion El'Jonson sent Lorgar’s fleet to reinforce Xana, where Lorgar found the star system enclosed by a vast blue barrier.
• Lorgar opened a temporary breach for Angron’s fleet, then faced a hostile Rangdan fleet as biomechanical warships emerged and the allied fleets prepared to fire.