Recaps

Lorgar defeated Saladin and returned to Colchis to recover, but an investigation on Yriel's World led him to the ancient Superstar, a human-built weapon capable of destroying stars. As he began planning to turn it into a military asset, the ship's systems trapped him and threatened to purge him.

• Lorgar fought Saladin across the Hall and, with the Emperor's power and the aid of the Heroic Spirits, bound him before the Golden Cross.
• The Emperor executed Saladin, and Lorgar returned to Colchis to recover and oversee its affairs.
• Lorgar visited Colchis's people and recruitment offices, then was alerted that an exploration team on Yriel's World had vanished.
• Lorgar found the buried Superstar and confronted Trazyn, who freed the frozen survey team and revealed the vessel could destroy a star.
• Lorgar secured the armory schematics and discovered that the Superstar had once been advertised as a luxury ship with a nightly star-destroying display.
• Lorgar interpreted the vessel as a potential mobile fortress, gave the Adeptus Mechanicus authority to study it, and planned to repurpose it for his secret blueprint.
• A machine aboard the Superstar welcomed Lorgar, but communications failed, the corridor sealed around him, and a human-looking figure threatened to begin a purge.

The Word Bearers defeated traitors at Absolution and absorbed Biberus’s loyal warriors into the 616 Chapter, while Lorgar ordered harsher measures against possible corruption. Kael Valen’s forces destroyed Twilight and attacked the Cult stronghold on Exile, where Best defeated the ancient psychic guarding its power source.

• Beowulf and Tyr destroyed Shirku’s fleet and boarded the Sandstorm, where they killed Shirku and ended the traitors’ resistance.
• Abdullah raided Absolution, but Biberus fought him until Abdullah escaped by unstable teleport and died in Catachan’s swamp.
• Tyrion welcomed Biberus and his warriors into the Word Bearers as the 616 Chapter and charged them with hunting Saladin’s traitors.
• Kael Valen’s fleet found survivors under attack by the Cult’s flesh constructs, defeated the assault, and learned that the Cult was using the Core’s power.
• Lorgar ordered the survivors screened and relocated, and Kael authorized Cyclonic Torpedoes to destroy Twilight Primary before directing the fleet toward Exile.
• A planetary cannon on Exile damaged an Imperial frigate, so Dexter led Best and other Word Bearers into its base to destroy its control hub.
• An ancient, gaunt figure immobilized Dexter’s squad, but Best broke the gravity field and the Word Bearers attacked the figure inside the hub.
• Dexter and Lei En distracted the figure while Best shattered the black crystal in his chest, allowing Best’s flames to burn him to ash.

Lorgar uncovered a hidden reserve of frozen Space Marines, encountered the Thunder Warrior Cassios, and faced Erda’s attempts to reach him and his brothers. He joined the fight against the Rangdan Emperor Dido, then returned to Colchis with the war over and new responsibilities underway.

• Lorgar showed Hercules the hidden complex on Arka, including its vast cryopod reserve, and explained that it would preserve the Imperium if its visible hopes fell.
• Cassios, a surviving Thunder Warrior, arrived on Colchis as a refugee, fought off traitor Space Marines attacking the settlement, and was detained by the Holy Word Army.
• Lorgar offered Cassios a place in the Legion, and after Hercules defeated him in a duel, Lorgar ordered his treatment and augmentation.
• Erda confronted Lorgar, who rejected her claim to be his mother, and she later invaded Angron’s and Curze’s minds before the Emperor drove her away.
• Lion El'Jonson killed the Rangdan Warmaster Hannibal, but the Rangdan Emperor arrived and attacked the four Primarchs.
• Lorgar, Angron, and Curze fought the Rangdan Emperor, while Lorgar faced it alone and destroyed it with a golden firestorm, ending the battle.
• The Emperor and Malcador pressed Lorgar to stop monopolizing Angron and Curze, while Lorgar agreed to handle the Eleventh Legion in exchange for a favor.
• Anastasia began synchronizing with the Superstar to assist Rockefeller, and Lorgar tested himself against an Angron simulation before accepting that Angron was physically stronger.

Lorgar navigated Fulgrim’s request, Perturabo’s burdens, and the Iron Hands’ campaign before meeting Alan Turing and Silverheart on Novalors. When the Emperor arrived, he rejected Silverheart and ordered her dismantled, leaving Turing pleading with Lorgar for help.

• Lorgar welcomed Fulgrim, recognized the Laer Blade, examined it for corruption, and promised support for the relief of Laconia Prime.
• Aerion led the Iron Hands’ 29th Company into the Vashtorr Forge, where the STC’s influence branded Vashtorr’s name into his mind and began to alter him.
• Lorgar visited Perturabo on Olympia, sought his strategic advice, and encouraged him to refuse the ill-suited Hrud campaign, which the Emperor reassigned to Ferrus Manus and the Iron Hands.
• Lorgar and Konrad Curze’s tribunal brought Governor Edwards and his family to Truth Star to face charges and punishment.
• Lorgar landed on Novalors, met Alan Turing and Silverheart, and learned that Turing regarded the living Man of Iron as his mother and Novalors as home.
• Turing showed Lorgar Novalors’s AI-supported society and proposed AI implants for Space Marines, but Lorgar refused to approve them before the Emperor’s judgment.
• The Emperor arrived with Valdor and a vast Imperial fleet, and Silverheart submitted as the Emperor ordered Turing to remove everything he had not created.
• Turing resisted the Emperor’s demand to dismantle Silverheart, but the Emperor overwhelmed him and ordered her taken apart, prompting Turing to beg Lorgar for help.