Recaps

Pollux’s forces defended Pluto as the Blade of the Gods Legion launched a full-scale assault, while Lox ordered a nanite swarm to exploit the enemy flagship’s energy shield. The swarm weakened the shield, allowing Crimson Fist to strike the flagship as the battle raged on.

• Pollux and Cyril discussed the enemy’s possible neutron-star weapon and detected a powerful gravitational fluctuation beyond the Solar System.
• The Blade of the Gods Legion committed more than a thousand warships to an assault on Pluto’s defenses.
• Pollux ordered Crimson Fist to evade Final Judgment’s main cannon while orbital platforms and ground weapons attacked the enemy fleet.
• Lox ordered Pluto’s macrocannons to launch nanite swarms that absorbed and rapidly consumed Final Judgment’s energy shield.
• Pollux ordered Crimson Fist to fire on Final Judgment after the swarm collapsed its shield, causing severe damage to the enemy flagship.

The Solar Fleet repelled the Blade of the Celestials with Lox’s nano swarm, but the enemy’s hidden Shadow Hunters devastated Los Angeles and captured Scott’s team. Lox and Charles recognized that the bioweapons threatened humanity’s rear and began planning a response.

• Lox’s nano swarm infected Celestial warships and warriors, forcing elderly Magneto to cut away contaminated sections of the flagship.
• Pollux withdrew the Solar Fleet to Pluto for repairs as the expanding swarm salvaged enemy wreckage and bodies.
• Lox and Charles discussed the battle at the X Academy, then answered Scott’s distress call from Los Angeles.
• Lox reviewed the attack and discovered that Shadow Hunters had killed thousands and captured Scott and other X-Men.
• Charles could not control the Shadow Hunters because a stronger psychic presence directed them, while Lox identified their phasing ability and planned to mobilize Sentinel Iron Men.

As Earth’s civilians fled the Shadow Hunters, Emperor’s Creed priests helped evacuate them while Hunter’s family traveled toward Detroit Base City. In Los Angeles, Janus disrupted Cassandra’s control of the Shadow Hunters, allowing Sharrowkyn and his forces to begin exterminating them.

• Hunter’s family left their hometown for Detroit Base City while their elderly neighbor chose to stay behind.
• An Emperor’s Creed priest gave Hunter’s family food and water and encouraged the civilians to remain united.
• Thunderhawks and Overlord Assault Gunships deployed Sharrowkyn, Janus, Primaris Astartes, and Sentinel Iron Men to Los Angeles.
• Janus used his psychic power to disrupt Cassandra’s control over the Shadow Hunters.
• The Shadow Hunters lost their restraint and attacked the city as Sharrowkyn’s Astartes and the Sentinel Iron Men hunted them.

Barabas Dantioch and the X-Men fought the Shadow Hunters in Los Angeles, then destroyed their fused flesh mountain with a targeted virus bomb. The city was left in ruins, Scott and the captured X-Men survived, and Barabas suspected they had been tampered with.

• Janus severed the Shadow Hunters’ psychic control, and Barabas Dantioch tested their abilities while the Space Marines and gunships battled them across Los Angeles.
• Storm froze the battlefield as the Sentinel Iron Men copied the Shadow Hunters’ phasing ability, while Barabas used a gravity generator to tear apart their teleporting enemies.
• The surviving Shadow Hunters merged into a massive flesh creature that absorbed atmospheric elements, so Barabas withdrew his forces and ordered the virus bomb deployed from orbit.
• The virus bomb infected and dissolved the flesh mountain, and Janus taunted Cassandra, who ended their psychic connection and turned her anger toward Mr. Sinister.
• Barabas returned with his battle-brothers to search the ruins, where the Sentinel Iron Men rescued Scott and the other captured X-Men; Barabas suspected their captors had tampered with them.

After the Los Angeles massacre, humanity rallied against the Celestial Blade Legion as civilians fled to fortified refuge cities and enlisted in the PDF. Little Hunt joined the fight after confronting defeatists, while Charles and Erik prepared to support Lox’s planned decisive battle.

• Lox ordered Barabas Dantioch and the Primaris Space Marines to search and purge Earth while humanity strengthened its defenses and evacuated civilians to refuge base cities.
• At the Detroit base city, Little Hunt beat two men who mocked the front-line soldiers and called for Lox’s death, and the PDF captain offered to waive his punishment if he enlisted.
• Little Hunt accepted the PDF appointment despite his family’s fears, deciding that protecting humanity required him to step forward.
• Mutants from Xavier’s School left to enlist in the PDF despite Charles’s concerns, and Erik challenged Charles to respect their choice.
• Erik told Charles that Lox planned a decisive battle against the Blade of the Gods and pledged to join him.

Lox ordered the Solar Fleet to launch a decisive counterattack against Cassandra’s Blade of the Celestials, and the two forces clashed in a brutal space battle. As human ships gained the upper hand and began boarding enemy vessels, Cassandra prepared to use her hidden neutron battle star.

• Hill reported that Corswain’s First Fleet had explored a universe of giant beasts and Sevatar’s Second Fleet had encountered the Shinra Civilization; both fleets returned to the 1661 X-Men Universe a month later.
• Lox ordered Pollux to gather the Solar Fleet at Pluto and prepare to defeat the Blade of the Celestials, whose fleet outnumbered the humans and concealed a neutron battle star.
• Cassandra gathered the Blade of the Celestials fleet and faced the Solar Fleet across the Kuiper Belt as Lox, Pollux, Aenid Hill, and the X-Men prepared for battle.
• Lox rallied humanity, and both fleets opened fire; his power strengthened the human warships as they fought through devastating losses and turned the battle in their favor.
• Barabas Dantioch, Hal, Qin Xin, Wolverine Logan, and other leaders launched boarding assaults with Primaris Space Marines and Sentinel Iron Men, crippling enemy ships as Cassandra decided to use her last trump card.

The Iron Men Legion and Primaris Astartes boarded the Blade of the Celestials’ warships, where Sentinel Iron Men overwhelmed the mutants and Eternals defending them. Aenid Hill’s force reached the End Judgment’s reactor and destroyed it with planted bombs, leaving the flagship crippled amid a massive explosion.

• Sentinel Iron Men countered the Blade of the Celestials’ mutants and Eternals with adaptive abilities, killing Firegirl, Fluid, and many other defenders while collecting genetic samples.
• Lox monitored the fleet’s assault as boarding torpedoes breached the End Judgment’s shields and armor, allowing Iron Men and Astartes to enter the flagship.
• Aenid Hill divided the boarding force, sending Endred Hall to attack the enemy aboard the ship while Qin Xin prepared support and Barabas Dantioch pursued Cassandra.
• Hill led his troops through the End Judgment’s defenders to its rear reactor, where they planted antimatter bombs, melta bombs, and nuclear warheads before withdrawing with Qin Xin’s Tengu Mechs.
• The bombs triggered a chain of explosions that ruptured the reactor and the End Judgment’s rear hull, sending the flagship off course as Lox watched the blast.

Lox observed the battle turning against the Celestial Blade after the Final Judgment’s reactor exploded, while boarding forces fought through the crippled ship. Hill and Qin Xin pushed toward Barabas Dantioch’s strike as they faced psychic bio-weapons and encountered Charles Xavier’s X-Men; meanwhile, Hal’s squad breached Mr. Sinister’s defenses and engaged him.

• Lox realized a powerful magnetist had limited the damage to the Final Judgment, while the Solar Fleet overwhelmed the Celestial Blade and its commanders launched suicidal attacks rather than surrender.
• Hill regrouped with Qin Xin and joined the push toward Barabas Dantioch’s decapitation strike as their forces advanced through the ship.
• Qin Xin’s squad destroyed psychic bio-weapons in Sector E-16, and Qin Xin disabled Beihai’s Tengu Mech after Beihai nearly attacked his allies under an illusion.
• Hill verified Charles Xavier’s identity through a Librarian’s psychic examination and allowed the X-Men to follow his forces toward the command center.
• Charles explained that the Celestial Blade’s mutants had been mentally reconstructed into loyal servants of the Celestials, and he led the X-Men onward to fight them.
• Hal’s squad broke through to Mr. Sinister, who unleashed fungal flesh, genetic monsters, and psychic illusions, but Hal rallied his warriors into battle.

Endred Hall’s forces fought Mr. Sinister’s adaptive bio-weapons until the Emperor erased Mr. Sinister through Hall’s memories. Barabas Dantioch’s assassins then attacked Cassandra Nova Xavier; although they killed Psylocke, Cassandra survived and unleashed a psychic storm that destabilized the Warp corridor.

• Endred Hall and the Iron Men fought off Mr. Sinister’s bio-weapons as he created psychic creatures that bypassed their armor and forced them to relive buried memories.
• Mr. Sinister probed Hall’s memories, discovered the Emperor performing Hall’s Thunder Warrior enhancement, and was burned out of existence when the Emperor noticed him.
• Hall broke free of the psychic attack, saw the bio-weapons and mycelial carpet die, and ordered his warriors to kill the remaining xenos.
• Barabas Dantioch and four assassins attacked Cassandra Nova Xavier and Psylocke, but Cassandra repelled their opening strikes while Psylocke wounded one Night Lord.
• Dantioch emerged from the shadows and killed Psylocke, but Cassandra’s Dominator Helmet blocked his strike; he withdrew with the other assassins.
• Cassandra’s psychic scream shook the Final Judgment and tore open a rift between The Empyrean and the material universe, as the unstable Warp corridor began to leak and corrupt the battlefield.

As humanity overwhelmed the Celestial Blades, the souls of Psylocke and other fallen warriors fueled the miniature Astronomican and weakened the curse binding Sanguinius and Curze. Magneto, Professor X, and Janus confronted the Celestial Blades’ leaders, but Cassandra’s defeat triggered a final catastrophe: she sent her soul into the neutron warstar, which charged toward the battlefield.

• Lox drew Psylocke’s soul and other fallen Celestial Blades souls into the miniature Astronomican, weakening the curse on Sanguinius and Curze as their awareness returned.
• Humanity’s Space Marines and Iron Men broke the Celestial Blades’ defenses, while Hill, Qin Xin, Barabas Dantioch, and Endryd Haar pressed the attack.
• The younger Magneto and Professor X confronted the aged Magneto and Cassandra, while Janus sealed the psychic combatants inside a barrier that suppressed enemy Psykers.
• Professor X entered Cassandra’s soul world and, with the sacrificed consciousnesses of other Charleses, shattered her mind; Janus then struck Cassandra with psychic sorcery.
• Cassandra sent her soul into the neutron warstar, which accelerated toward the battlefield and began destroying everything in its path.

Cassandra's attempt to control the neutron battle star instead awakened the Shattered Celestial within it, which devastated both fleets before Lox's antimemetic generator erased it. Lox captured the Shattered Celestial's core to accelerate the cleansing of Sanguinius's and Curze's souls, then left for Mars as Pollux took charge of the victorious fleet.

• Cassandra entered the neutron battle star's control center, where the Shattered Celestial devoured her soul and awakened inside its body, the giant guard.
• The Shattered Celestial rampaged through both fleets, destroying more than a hundred warships, while Professor X seized control of Magneto after Cassandra's death.
• Calthwain and Sevatar returned with their fleets, and four Thundercloud-class warships attacked the neutron battle star until antimatter torpedoes disrupted its dimensional jumps.
• Lox deployed the antimemetic generator from the Crimson Fist, which erased the neutron battle star and began dissolving the Shattered Celestial.
• Lox pulled the Shattered Celestial's core into his hand and fed it to the miniature Astronomican, speeding the purification of Sanguinius's and Curze's souls.
• Lox left for Mars and told Pollux to inform Sevatar and Azkaellon that their wish would soon come true; Pollux began directing the battlefield cleanup.

Lox used the Shattered God's Warp essence and the faith of their sons to break Horus's curse and resurrect Sanguinius and Konrad Curze on Mars. The two primarchs reunited with their sons, while Lox promised to test the AllSpark on Trazyn.

• Lox began the resurrection ritual, using psychic fire to burn away Horus's curse and the lingering shadows of the Heresy.
• Sevatar, Azkaellon, and thousands of Astartes prayed outside the chamber, and the Blood Angels and Night Lords offered their blood to strengthen their gene-fathers.
• Sanguinius awakened first, and Lox shut down the stasis field as the Great Angel rose with his wounds still severe.
• Konrad Curze overcame Nostramo's visions and fate's influence, then emerged from the ritual with immense psychic power.
• Sevatar and Azkaellon entered and embraced their resurrected fathers, while Sanguinius and Curze reunited with their sons.
• Trazyn asked Lox about reviving his people, and Lox said he would begin testing the AllSpark on Trazyn himself.

After humanity’s victory over the Celestials, Lox used the AllSpark to restore Trazyn’s soul and give him a new Cybertronian-Necron body. Trazyn awoke reborn, pledged to stand with Lox, and agreed to attend Earth’s Victory Day celebration.

• Lox turned the wreckage of the Judgment of Doom into a monument proclaiming that humanity’s light endured, while human fleets began expanding beyond the Solar System.
• Lox told Trazyn he hoped to develop stable travel between independent universes and might relocate humanity from the ruined Warhammer universe.
• Lox, Trazyn, Jazz, Cawl, Angie, and Hank gathered in the Mars laboratory to use the AllSpark on Trazyn.
• The AllSpark revived Trazyn’s memories of his Necrontyr childhood, forced biotransference, and the C’tan’s betrayal, while the scientists observed his visions.
• The AllSpark transformed Trazyn and restored a new soul, leaving him with 63% soul integrity and a new body combining Necron and Cybertronian traits.
• Trazyn accepted his new identity, pledged to stand with Lox even if their peoples became enemies, and agreed to attend the Victory Day celebration.

On Earth’s Victory Day, Lox and Trazyn witnessed humans and mutants celebrating together, while Lox explained that he planned to return to the Warhammer universe and help save his homeland. Sanguinius accepted command of the Human Expeditionary Force as Lox prepared for that journey, though the Emperor’s Compass still needed time to recover.

• Lox and Trazyn walked among the Victory Day crowds, where mutants celebrated alongside humans and Trazyn experienced the festival’s joy through his newly restored soul.
• Hunter Kurand bought rainbow cotton candy for nearby children, while Charles told Lox that a mutant girl performing on the street had once been attacked for her appearance.
• The crowd honored fallen soldiers and welcomed Hill and the Space Marines in a parade, as Lox and Trazyn discussed the Celestials, Chaos, and humanity’s future.
• Lox told Trazyn he intended to return to the Warhammer universe once the Emperor’s Compass recovered, and said Sanguinius and Curze would lead the expeditionary forces in his absence.
• Sanguinius descended before the crowd, honored the dead, and inspired humanity with a speech, while Curze complained that he was being overlooked.
• After Sanguinius rejoined Lox and Curze, he accepted the expeditionary command and asked Lox to send his regards to the Emperor and their brothers.

Lox returned to the Warhammer universe with Trazyn and a ship carrying advanced technologies, finding that more than a century had passed. After Trazyn invited him to Solemnace, their arrival was met by Necron warships that attacked them and denounced Trazyn as a thief and invader.

• Lox ordered Hill, Calthwain, Azkaellon, and the other Legion warriors to resume conquering universes and spread faith in the Emperor while he prepared to return to the Warhammer universe.
• After five years, Lox boarded the Red Alert with Trazyn and several Stone Men, carrying technologies including a Space Bridge, Primaris upgrades, and Sentinel Iron Men manufacturing data.
• During the journey through the Warp, Trazyn recounted the Old Ones' downfall, and Lox studied the AllSpark and reflected on the Warhammer universe's decay.
• Lox and Trazyn emerged in the Ghoul Stars and learned that the current date was 114.M31, more than a hundred years after Lox had left.
• Trazyn persuaded Lox to visit Solemnace before traveling to Terra, and they entered the hidden pocket dimension containing his tomb world.
• Dozens of Necron raiders attacked the Red Alert, while Necron warriors called Trazyn a thief, liar, robber, and invader.

Trazyn discovered that Vashtorr and Abaddon had raided Solemnace sixty-five years earlier, killing his avatar and releasing a Krork along with other exhibits. Fearing the Krork could build a new Ork empire, Trazyn confessed his illegal collection to the Silent King, who appeared with the Triarch as the chapter ended.

• Trazyn read a Necron pilot's memories and learned that Abaddon and Chaos Space Marines, aided by Vashtorr, had attacked Solemnace sixty-five years earlier.
• Trazyn and Lox inspected the damaged museum, found several exhibits missing, and freed captured Space Marines whom Lox restrained and told that the Horus Heresy was over.
• Trazyn discovered that his prized Krork had escaped, and Lox feared the ancient Ork could gather Greenskin tribes and secretly build a powerful empire.
• Trazyn asked Lox to accompany him to meet the Silent King, and they contacted Szarekh and the two phaerons, Hapsetra and Mesophet.
• Trazyn knelt before the Silent King and confessed that he had hidden a Krork in Solemnace and that Vashtorr's assault had released it.

Lox and Trazyn learned that Szarekh had tested Trazyn’s identity and warned him to keep the soul-restoration technology secret amid Necron political rivalries and the approaching Tyranids. Lox then explained the situation outside Solemnace to the rescued Space Marines, including Cassiel.

• Szarekh subjected Trazyn to pressure to verify that he was still himself, then revealed the Tyranids were advancing toward the Milky Way and ordered him to test soul restoration in secret.
• Trazyn told Lox that Imotekh the Stormlord opposed Szarekh, and Lox reasoned that the Silent King was maneuvering to bind humanity to the Necrons while keeping the Matrix of Leadership from destabilizing the dynasties.
• Lox warned Trazyn that restoring Necron souls could threaten Imotekh’s rule and ignite conflict, and Trazyn realized Szarekh’s warning was meant to protect him and conceal the discovery.
• Lox and Trazyn shared wine in Solemnace while Canoptek constructs repaired the museum and the rescued Space Marines gathered around Lox.
• Cassiel identified himself as a former Blood Angels Ninth Company captain, and Lox began telling the Space Marines what had happened outside.

Lox freed the stasis-bound Space Marines from Trazyn’s museum, left a psychic beacon on Solemnace, and headed for Terra. Meanwhile, the escaped Krork settled among the Ghoul Stars’ Greenskin Orks, named himself Da Vinci, and discovered that his offspring could only grow into ordinary Orks.

• Lox told Casil and the other Space Marines that Horus had rebelled against the Emperor, and Calanti confirmed the account from his own knowledge.
• Lox agreed to take Calanti and the liberated Space Marines back to the Imperium, then left a psychic beacon on Solemnace before departing for Terra.
• The escaped Krork defeated Bloodhowl Zak and took his throne on Greenskin Planet, where he brooded over how far the Orks had fallen.
• The ancient Ork chose the name Krork Da Vinci and used his spores and Waaagh energy to try to grow new Krork.
• After three days, Da Vinci’s first offspring emerged but grew only into a roughly three-meter Ork, leaving him frustrated and doubtful about taking revenge on the Necrons.

Krork Da Vinci accepted the Greenskin Orks as his descendants and learned that they had forgotten the Old Ones and their ancient past. After identifying the curse and divisions that held the Orks back, he rallied them to conquer the Ghoul Stars and lead a new Waaagh against their enemies.

• Da Vinci revealed his true appearance, and the Greenskin Orks acclaimed him as their new Boss while their Waaagh field began to influence him.
• Da Vinci questioned Bloodhowl Zack and a Runtherd about Ork history, learning that the Orks remembered the Brain Boyz but believed an extinction plague had killed them.
• Da Vinci deduced that the Orks had been weakened through blocked knowledge, genetic corruption, and a drive toward infighting, while their gods Gork and Mork were divided against each other.
• Da Vinci declared that the Orks' true enemy was the curse on their bloodline and called on them to become Krork again; the Orks roared their support and began changing toward their ancestors.
• Da Vinci set the first goal of uniting the Ghoul Stars, gathering resources to build battle moons and other war machines, and launching a Waaagh against the Necrons and every other enemy.

Kork Da Vinci strengthened and unified the Greenskin Orks, received the blessing of Gork and Mork, and vowed to conquer the galaxy. As Ashen Claws ships approached his planet, Da Vinci prepared to fight them while Narath Kyllin led his Chapter toward a battle he feared they could not survive.

• Da Vinci named a Big Mek Einstein and used intelligence-awakening mushrooms to help the Meks devise plans for building asteroid and planetary warships.
• Einstein identified powerful enemies in the Ghoul Stars, and Da Vinci swore to destroy the Necrons after learning about the Dzarakh Bone Kingdom's Flayers.
• Da Vinci's waaagh field reached Gork and Mork, who blessed him and made him the appointed leader of the Greenskin Orks.
• Da Vinci learned that human ships were approaching and ordered the Orks to ensure the humans never left their planet.
• Narath Kyllin and Chief Librarian Zoe Slyke prepared the Ashen Claws to attack the Ork planet, despite Zoe's vision of an overwhelming green tide and Narath's ominous premonition.

Kirin led the Ashen Claws’ desperate assault on Greenskin Planet, hoping to kill the Ork warlord Bloodhowl Zack and destroy the planet afterward. The Orks’ strength proved far greater than expected, and the chapter ended as Kirin challenged their boss to single combat.

• Kirin rejected Zoe’s suggestion to seek help from the Imperium and committed the Ashen Claws to fighting the Orks in the Ghoul Stars.
• Kirin ordered the fleet to bombard the enormous Ork towers, but their Waaagh!-powered defenses resisted the attack and the Orks retaliated against the ships.
• Kirin and nearly two thousand Ashen Claws launched an orbital assault and fought their way toward the Ork warlord, facing heavy casualties and powerful Ork machines.
• Kirin realized the Orks had far more Mega Armored Bosses and large walkers than before, while Kork’s name and the growing Waaagh! energy surged across the battlefield.
• Kirin challenged the Ork warlord to fight him one-on-one, and the Orks fell silent as heavy footsteps approached.

Natra Kirin and the Ashen Claws faced annihilation on the Ork world, where Bloodhowl Zack defeated Kirin despite his final explosive attack. Chief Librarian Zoe escaped with several hundred survivors, while the true Ork leader, Kork Da Vinci, let their warship flee to warn humanity of the coming Green Tide.

• Natra Kirin realized the Ashen Claws were surrounded by overwhelming Ork forces, including hidden Gargants, and ordered his warriors to lure out Bloodhowl Zack and attack him together.
• Bloodhowl Zack arrived, and Librarian Zoe warned Kirin that the Orks' powerful waaagh field obscured an even stronger presence on the planet.
• Kirin fought Zack, wounded his leg, and was crushed in Zack's power claw, but he tore out Zack's eye and detonated a melta bomb that grievously wounded the warlord.
• Zoe teleported several hundred Ashen Claws to the Ashen Claw, but Kork Da Vinci emerged, healed Zack, and slaughtered warriors who tried to delay him.
• Kork Da Vinci allowed Zoe and the warship to escape so they could warn humanity that the great Green Tide was coming.

Lox returned to the Imperium after more than a century away, learning that Terra had changed while Guilliman bore the burden of ruling it. The chapter ended with Guilliman recognizing Lox and embracing him joyfully in his office.

• Bloodhowl Zak's Orks overwhelmed the Ashen Claws, while battle moons destroyed their escort fleet with Einstein's gravity lash and the Malicious Claw escaped into the Warp.
• Lox and Trazyn traveled from Solemnace to the Solar System, where Lox reflected on the slow changes across human worlds.
• Enrico Nicholson welcomed Lox aboard the Red Alert and explained that Malcador had vanished, the primarchs had scattered, and Guilliman ruled as Lord Commander.
• Lox met Decimus at the Imperial Palace and learned that Stone Men and bureaucrats helped Guilliman manage Terra's administration.
• Lox found Guilliman buried in paperwork, and Guilliman recognized him, rushed over, and embraced him.

Lox returned to Terra and found Guilliman exhausted by a century of ruling the Imperium, then told him about his travels beyond the universe and the technology he had brought back. Guilliman eagerly embraced Space Bridge technology as a way to transform Imperial travel and communication.

• Guilliman broke down in Lox's arms and vented his anger at Malcador for leaving him to govern the Imperium alone.
• Guilliman described the burden of rebuilding the Imperium, managing the High Lords, and coping with the absence of his brothers.
• Lox told Guilliman that Sanguinius and Curze were alive in another universe, that he had defeated a Celestial, and that he hoped to share other universes' technology with humanity.
• Guilliman explained that Mortarion remained imprisoned in the Palace's shadow cells because she refused to become an envoy to the Aeldari.
• Guilliman recounted how he had stabilized the Imperium through reconstruction, military campaigns, and technological development, and Lox praised his efforts.
• Lox revealed that he had brought back Cybertronian Space Bridge technology, and Guilliman immediately resolved to build Space Bridges across the galaxy.

Guilliman explained his plans to contain the Eye of Terror with a fortress line led by Rogal Dorn and to reshape the Imperial Creed into a faith centered on the Emperor and material reason. After hearing that Lox’s parallel universe had successfully developed Primaris Astartes, Guilliman headed with him to Ganymede to meet the project’s scientists, while Lox worried that tensions between ordinary humans and Space Marines remained unresolved.

• Guilliman told Lox and Enrico that he wanted Rogal Dorn to command the defenses around Cadia and keep Chaos forces inside the Eye of Terror.
• Guilliman described how he had rebuilt Terra and adapted the Lectitio Divinitatus into an Imperial Creed that affirmed the Emperor’s divinity while promoting scientific reason.
• Lox suggested that the original copy of Guilliman’s scripture could be used to lure Lorgar, and Trazyn showed interest in collecting it.
• Lox told Guilliman that Primaris Astartes were being mass-produced in another universe, and Guilliman hurried with him to Ganymede to meet Arkhan Land and Belisarius Cawl.
• Guilliman discussed the prospect of upgrading the Ultramarines, while Lox reflected that the conflict between humans and Astartes still threatened the Imperium.