Recaps

Lox returned to Ganymede after a century away, where the High Technology Community welcomed him as its founder and shared its progress. He told Guilliman, Arkhan Land, and Cawl about the multiverse and his discoveries, ending with news of a physical faster-than-light technology that left Cawl regretting that he had not made the journey himself.

• Lox warned Guilliman that placing Ultramarines in administrative posts would alarm the High Lords, but Guilliman remained silent as he considered the political risk.
• The Red Alert reached Jupiter, where the High Technology Community staged a grand welcome for Lox and presented him with its developing Book of the Omnissiah.
• Lox reunited with Arkhan Land and Cawl, then learned how the High Technology Community had advanced during his absence.
• Lox described the 1661 X-Men Universe, the Celestials, and the Human Expeditionary Force’s battles against their forces.
• Lox revealed that the X-gene had enabled him to create Primaris Astartes with an Infinite Engine, then announced that he had discovered a physical method of faster-than-light travel.
• Cawl regretted giving his personality copy to Lox instead of traveling to the other universe himself.

Lox returned to the High Technology Community and demonstrated the Cybertronian Space Bridge, a physical faster-than-light technology, to Sage Land, Cawl, Guilliman, and the Tech-priests. The first test succeeded, sending a starship 93 light-years to the HD 110067 system.

• Cawl regretted that his personality copy, Cawl One, had helped Lox decipher Space Bridge technology, while Cawl and Sage Land asked to travel with Lox; Lox told them to remain and help safeguard the Warhammer universe.
• Lox listed the technologies he had brought back and introduced Trazyn as the Necron Overlord who had regained his soul through the AllSpark and promised to foster friendly relations with humanity.
• Sage Land showed Lox the High Technology Community’s research into faster-than-light travel, including recovered black glass fragments associated with the Webway.
• Lox assembled the Space Bridge’s 121 pillars and used power drawn from Jupiter to open a traversable passage near Ganymede.
• Tech-priest Leonidas Cox volunteered to cross the passage, and his starship arrived 93 light-years away in the HD 110067 system.

Lox’s successful space bridge experiment thrilled Guilliman and sparked plans for an Imperial network, but Cawl warned that the technology threatened the Navigators’ power and could provoke retaliation. As Guilliman backed the project and ordered its rapid expansion, Lox revealed that a vast Ork tide was gathering, leaving the Imperium facing a new war.

• Ophelia Amengard decided to seek a meeting with Archmagos Belisarius Cawl and offer her family’s STC fragment as a sign of sincerity toward the new technology.
• Lox and the Mechanicus sages confirmed that the cruiser Stuart had crossed the 93-light-year space bridge and returned safely to Ganymede, while Magos Land urged them to develop a wider network.
• Guilliman celebrated the space bridge and considered using the accompanying Stellar Harvester as a weapon, while Lox withheld news that Chaos rebels had released a Krork from Trazyn’s collection.
• Cawl warned Lox and Guilliman that space bridges could threaten the Navigators’ influence, and Land recounted how Navigator agents had destroyed the Black Glass research site to protect their families’ interests.
• Guilliman backed Lox, ordered the space bridge network and Black Glass research accelerated, and declared that the Imperium would use Warp travel, space bridges, and the Webway together.
• Lox warned Guilliman that a green tide greater than the old Ullanor Ork Empire was gathering, signaling that another war was coming.

Guilliman learned that Abaddon’s forces had unleashed ancient Orks capable of becoming a galaxy-threatening green tide, and he redirected the Imperium toward preparing for war. Lox then ordered the High Technology Consortium and Adeptus Mechanicus to accelerate Space Bridge production and replace the old Astartes enhancement program with the completed Primaris upgrade.

• Lox told Guilliman that Abaddon’s reunited traitor forces had released ancient Orks, and Guilliman identified Lorgar or Erebus as likely architects of the scheme.
• Lox explained that ancient Orks were powerful, intelligent weapons from the War in Heaven, while Trazyn offered forces from the Nihilakh Dynasty to help fight them.
• Guilliman ordered Archmagos Land to verify and replicate Space Bridge technology, resolved to mobilize the Imperium, and planned to summon his missing brothers.
• Guilliman and Lox agreed to divide their responsibilities, with Guilliman handling the High Lords of Terra and Lox managing the Adeptus Mechanicus.
• Lox convened the technology assembly and ordered Space Bridge research and production to become the top priority, overriding objections from the assembled sages.
• Lox announced the completion of the Primaris Astartes upgrade project and ordered the old enhancement procedures suspended as the new technology replaced them.

Lox agreed to investigate Grand Sage Ezekiel while Cawl continued the Primaris Space Marine project. On Terra, Guilliman confronted the High Lords over political resistance to the Space Bridge, revealed an approaching Ork crisis, and secured their submission to his wartime command.

• After the Council of Truth, Cawl warned Lox that Ezekiel’s ambitions might exceed his loyalty to the Omnissiah, and Lox decided to investigate Ezekiel himself.
• Guilliman summoned the High Lords and senior officials, then argued with Custodian Tribune Diocletian as the council assembled.
• Guilliman announced that a new catastrophe was approaching and demanded temporary command of the Astra Militarum and Imperial Navy for wartime mobilization.
• Navigator Ambassador Alicia Cortes challenged Guilliman’s Space Bridge plans, and Guilliman lifted her by the collar before denouncing the factions resisting the technology.
• Guilliman revealed that a powerful ancient Ork had entered the galaxy and was gathering strength, then threw Shield-Captain Decian into a wall when he questioned the report.
• Keeler, Imperial officials, and Decian pledged support for Guilliman, restoring his control of the High Lords’ council.

Guilliman forced the High Lords to accept his authority and prepare the Imperium for the ancient Ork threat, while Euphrati Keeler conveyed the Emperor’s support for sweeping changes. On Ganymede, Lox recruited Rogue Trader Orphe Agamend as the first partner in deploying space bridges and considered where the ancient Ork might be hiding.

• Diocletian and most of the High Lords sided with Guilliman, while Guilliman compelled the Navigator Envoy and the military leaders to submit and ordered intelligence networks to investigate the Greenskin Orks.
• Guilliman tasked Diocletian with finding his scattered brothers and mobilizing their legions, then heard Euphrati Keeler say the Emperor supported him acting without restraint.
• On Ganymede, Lox and Trazyn discussed ways to locate the ancient Ork, narrowing its likely hiding places and considering asking the Aeldari for help with Webway records.
• Cawl brought Rogue Trader Orphe Agamend to meet Lox, and she recognized the potential of the space bridge technology after Lox explained its planned deployment.
• Lox offered Orphe a partnership in building space bridges, with Terra providing the technology and local systems supplying resources and operating the ports; Orphe accepted.

Orphea Armengarde and Belisarius Cawl began constructing the first Space Bridge hub beyond the Sol System in the Calixis Sector, giving the Armengarde Dynasty control over a major transportation route. Back on Terra, Lox struggled to advance the wider network and Primaris program while searching for the Krork and other missing figures.

• After three months of Warp travel, Belisarius Cawl arrived in the Calixis Sector with an Ultramarines escort and agreed with Orphea Armengarde to build the Space Bridge hub at Agaria.
• Orphea committed the Armengarde Dynasty’s resources to Cawl’s project, and Cawl used the King Seeker to mine difficult deposits and manufacture an expanded Space Bridge matrix.
• Cawl delivered Orphea a Stellar Harvester vessel with safeguards and left her in charge of the hub’s construction and operation.
• Orphea rallied her exhausted family, promising that the Space Bridge would make the Armengarde Dynasty powerful and allow it to charge rival Rogue Trader families higher fees.
• Lox continued planning the galaxy-wide Space Bridge network while searching unsuccessfully for the Krork and dealing with resistance to Primaris transformation from the Imperial Fists and Black Templars.

Kork Da Vinci’s Greenskin empire destroyed the Saisomon homeworld, suppressing the xenos’ ability to return after death and devouring their gas giant. With the Ghoul Stars’ other major enemies defeated, Da Vinci made the Flayer-infected Necrons of the Drazak Bone Kingdom his final target before taking the Great Green Tide into the wider galaxy.

• Bloodhowl Zack reported that the Greenskins had crushed the Saisomon nest, and Da Vinci demanded the Saisomons submit to his empire; when their captive refused, Zack stomped it to pulp.
• Kork Da Vinci’s Greenskin fleet attacked Tomb Core 9836-18, using battle moons, gravity weapons, and Waaagh-powered defenses to tear apart the Saisomon stronghold.
• The Greenskins overwhelmed the Saisomon forces, and the region’s Waaagh energy suppressed their ability to reload a save, making those killed in battle truly dead.
• Bloodhowl Zack killed the Saisomon leader and reported the victory to Da Vinci, who rejected Zack’s suggestion to call him the Earth Emperor.
• Kork Da Vinci named the Drazak Bone Kingdom his last target in the Ghoul Stars and swore vengeance for Kork and the Old Ones.
• The Greenskin battle planet and battle moons devoured the Saisomon homeworld and entered the Webway, leaving the system empty.

The Greenskin Orks, led by Kork Da Vinci, invaded the Drazak Bone Kingdom and destroyed its Flayer-infected Necron forces. After Bloodhowl Zack killed Vargul, Kork Da Vinci prepared to lead the Orks out of the Ghoul Stars and into the wider galaxy.

• Vargul awoke when the Greenskin Orks tore through the Drazak Dynasty's dimensional barrier with a Battle Moon.
• The Orks' Battle Moon and Battle Planet bombarded the royal court world while Vargul awakened the Necron forces and tried to hold the planet together.
• Greenskin Orks descended in meteor pods, and Bloodhowl Zack led the ground assault against the Flayed Ones.
• The Orks overwhelmed the Flayed Ones, and Zack fought through the defenders to reach Vargul's palace.
• Zack crushed Vargul's body and cognitive processor after revealing that Kork Da Vinci led the Orks.
• Kork Da Vinci celebrated the destruction of the Drazak Dynasty and declared that the Greenskin Orks would leave the Ghoul Stars for the galaxy.

Kork Da Vinci resolved to use the Greenskin Orks to remake the galaxy while the Ashen Claws survivors fled the Ghoul Stars. Uslan brought Zoe Slyke to the Sol System through the Webway, carrying news of Kork and preparing to meet Lox.

• Kork Da Vinci planned to defeat humanity and cleanse the galaxy as Orks scavenged the Necron Crownworld for weapons and technology.
• Ainstein refused Zak Bloodhowl's request to modify his power claws until Zak offered Vargul's corpse, prompting Ainstein to accept the work.
• Zoe Slyke led the depleted Ashen Claws aboard the Malicious Claw out of the Warp, but Uslan froze the crew and confronted him.
• Uslan offered to take Zoe to Terra in exchange for information about the Ghoul Stars, and Zoe accepted after sensing the Emperor's aura in Uslan's double-headed eagle statue.
• Uslan learned from Zoe that the Greenskin Orks had evolved under a new leader named Kork, then traveled with him through the Webway toward the Sol System.
• Uslan reached the Jupiter sector, identified himself to Lox, and Lox ordered the defenses to stand down.

Ulthwé brought Zoey of the Ashen Claws to meet Lox and Guilliman, warning them that a powerful Greenskin Ork empire had risen in the Ghoul Stars. As they prepared to confront the threat, Trazyn revealed how the ancient Aeldari had betrayed the Old Ones during the War in Heaven.

• Lox learned that Ulthwé had arrived aboard the Malicious Claw, an ancient Raven Guard ship carrying Ashen Claws from the Ghoul Stars.
• At Ganymede, Iron Men subdued the Ashen Claws after one warrior fired on them, and Ulthwé escorted Zoey to meet Lox and Guilliman.
• Zoey reported that the Orks had overwhelmed the Ashen Claws, killed Natra Kelin, and grown into a major threat; Guilliman forgave the Chapter's secession and promised resources to rebuild it.
• Lox, Guilliman, Ulthwé, and Trazyn concluded that a vast Greenskin Ork empire had risen in the Ghoul Stars, possibly surpassing Ullanor.
• Trazyn warned that the Bone Kingdom of Drazak was entrenched in the Ghoul Stars and recounted how the ancient Aeldari sealed the Webway before the Old Ones and their allies had fully retreated, helping the Necrons defeat them.

Trazyn revealed that the ancient Aeldari had betrayed the Old Ones and their allies, and Eldrad Uthlan accepted his ancestors’ guilt while pledging to atone. The group planned to counter the Krork threat, but Guilliman learned that his missing brothers had been causing havoc in the Webway.

• Trazyn recounted how the ancient Aeldari sealed the Webway gates, abandoned the Old Ones, and helped the Necrons destroy the C’tan, while the Necrons cursed the ancient Orks into devolution.
• Eldrad Uthlan admitted the Aeldari ancestors’ betrayal, revealed that he had uncovered the truth, and vowed to spend his life atoning for their crimes.
• Lox, Trazyn, Uthlan, and Guilliman agreed to cooperate against the Krork: Uthlan would seek contact with the Krork, Trazyn would request Necron forces, and Guilliman would prepare humanity for war.
• Guilliman asked Uthlan about Lion, Russ, and Jaghatai, who had entered the Webway, and Uthlan identified them as the likely human raiders attacking Aeldari throughout it, including Commorragh.

Guilliman learned that Lion, Leman Russ, and Jaghatai Khan were fighting the Drukhari in the Webway while searching for the Heart of Pestilence, and he ordered the Imperium to mobilize after confirming the Ghoul Stars had fallen to the Greenskin Orks. As forces gathered for war, Lox left Terra for the front, and he and Guilliman shared a photograph before parting.

• Guilliman and Ulthwé discussed the three Primarchs in the Webway, and Guilliman asked Ulthwé to tell them to return because the Imperium faced the Krork threat.
• Leman Russ explained that he, Lion, and Jaghatai Khan had entered the Webway to find and destroy the Heart of Pestilence, then led the Space Wolves onward against the Drukhari.
• Guilliman showed the High Lords recordings of the Greenskin Orks conquering the Ghoul Stars and declared total war, securing the Imperium's military support and help from the Aeldari and Necrons.
• The Imperium began mobilizing its forces across the galaxy, and Lox told Guilliman he was leaving for the Ghoul Stars to coordinate the war effort.
• Guilliman and Lox took a new photograph together before Lox departed for the front.

Lox coordinated Imperial and Necron preparations to contain the Ork empire emerging from the Ghoul Stars, while warning Trazyn that Chaos would exploit the Imperium’s redeployment. He reached Nostramo to seek the Night Lords’ cooperation, but War Sage Macarion challenged Terra’s authority until Lox offered news of Curze and a token from him.

• Lox arranged for Trazyn’s Necron fleet to attack from the Obscurus Sector and chose Nostramo as a forward base for the campaign.
• Lox sent Auguston to Macragge to coordinate the Five Hundred Worlds’ forces, and Auguston described the territorial dispute between the Ultramarines and the Night Lords.
• Auguston returned to Macragge while Lox led a fleet toward Nostramo, warning Trazyn that Chaos would hinder Imperial reinforcements and exploit the weakened rear.
• Lox’s fleet reached the Nostramo system and was met by Night Lords cruisers led by War Sage Macarion.
• Macarion challenged Lox’s claim to bring Terra’s will, and Lox offered news of Curze and a token he had received from him.

Lox reunited with the Night Lords on Nostramo, proving he had news of Konrad Curze and explaining that Curze and Sevatar were safe and leading a new Legion. After confronting the Eighth Legion about its refusal of the Primaris upgrade and its underpreparedness for the Krork-led Ork threat, Lox won their cooperation and prepared to change Nostramo.

• Lox showed Macarion Curze's flaying knife, convincing the Night Lords that he knew their missing primarch, and descended to Nostramo with Trazyn.
• Lox told Macarion, Shen, and Talos that Curze and Sevatar had survived and were organizing a new Legion, prompting Talos to question why Sevatar remained with Curze while they did not.
• At the Midnight Court, Lox rebuked the Night Lords for rejecting the Primaris upgrade and underestimating the Orks, then revealed that Sevatar and Curze's new Legion had already adopted the upgrade.
• Macarion agreed to have the Eighth Legion undergo the Primaris upgrade and admitted that the Night Lords feared the Imperium's mobilization might conceal a purge like the betrayal at Isstvan III.
• Lox turned to planning the defense against the Orks and announced that he would first make changes to Nostramo.

Lox secured the Night Lords’ commitment to the war against the Ghoul Ork Empire and made Nostramo the main frontline, with Makarion placing the Legion under his command. Lox began transforming the sector into a military hub and purging Nostramo’s corrupt society, leaving the planet’s nobles slaughtered and its rescued citizens hopeful for a new beginning.

• Lox outlined a defensive strategy against the Ghoul Ork Empire, assembling forces from several Legions, Necrons, and Aeldari while warning against underestimating the enemy.
• Makarion agreed to place the Night Lords’ forces under Lox’s command and accepted Nostramo’s role as the frontline fortress.
• Lox expanded Nostramo’s spaceports and orbital stations to support the arriving Imperial fleet and began moving the planet’s impoverished population to safe work and housing.
• The Night Lords and their mortal auxilia evacuated lower-hive residents, screened them for serious crimes, and transported those who passed to orbital stations.
• When Nostramo’s nobles challenged the evacuations, Macarion ordered the Night Lords to arrest and execute the corrupt aristocracy after psychic examinations.
• The purges killed the planet’s ruling nobles, and rescued Nostramans celebrated their downfall as Nostramo’s chance for a new dawn.

Damien accompanied Erlin Duke back to Nostramo, unaware that the supposed fellow worker planned to sacrifice him to the Silverglow Fateweaver. When the entity revealed Damien as the offspring of a cursed one, Damien transformed into a towering armored giant and confronted it.

• Damien and Erlin Duke left Teneus Orbital Station to search for Erlin's family in Nostramo's abandoned hive city.
• Erlin revealed that he was the surviving heir of the purged Duke family and intended to use the Silverglow Fateweaver to restore his family's power.
• Erlin led Damien into the hidden psychic chamber beneath the Duke estate and tried to sacrifice him on the Loom of Fate.
• The Silverglow Fateweaver appeared and recognized Damien as the offspring of a cursed one, warning Erlin that he had brought the wrong sacrifice.
• Damien broke free, destroyed the Duke family's divine relic, and transformed into a three-meter armored giant wielding a spear.

Omegon revealed that he had impersonated Damien for ten years and killed Erling while exposing the Silver Weaver of Fate as Kairos Fateweaver. He trapped Kairos with Blackstone and a forged daemon-name book to learn about the Well of Eternity, then left Kairos furious and the Duke estate in ruins.

• Omegon revealed his identity and explained that he had replaced Damien after the boy died, then killed Erling with the Pale Spear.
• Omegon identified the Silver Weaver of Fate as Kairos Fateweaver, and Alpha Legionnaires raised a Blackstone field that cut Kairos off from the Warp.
• Omegon used a book of daemon true names to frighten Kairos into revealing what it knew about the Well of Eternity.
• Omegon and the Alpha Legionnaires withdrew, and Kairos discovered that the book contained only part of its true name and had been used to deceive it.
• Kairos escaped through a Warp rift after destroying the Duke estate, while Night Lords sealed the ruins and considered notifying Lord Lox.

Lox investigated signs of a Tzeentch daemon on Nostramo, then ordered the planet’s surface bombarded and rebuilt into a fortified mobile war world. As Salamanders reinforcements led by Vulkan approached, Lox prepared to test the Ghoul Ork Empire.

• Lox and Talos traced the daemon’s appearance to the vanished Erling Duke and Damien, while Lox suspected that an unknown figure had fought the Greater Daemon of Tzeentch.
• Lox ordered the Night Lords and their mortal auxiliaries to withdraw, then an elder deceived Nostramo’s criminal leaders with a false escape plan and killed them to harvest their souls.
• Lox unleashed more than a hundred warships to bombard Nostramo, destroying its old cities and killing the criminals who remained on the planet.
• Lox reshaped Nostramo with asteroids, new oceans, and a renewed atmosphere, then built cities, defenses, and planet-scale weapons to turn it into a mobile battle planet.
• Makarion reported that Greenskin Ork scout ships had entered the Ghoul Stars and that about a quarter of the Night Lords would complete Primaris conversion before war began.
• Shen announced that the Salamanders Legion and Vulkan would reach the Nostramo system in three solar days, and Lox prepared to launch a probing attack against the Ghoul Ork Empire.

Vulkan arrived at Nostramo with the Salamanders fleet, and he and Lox discussed the Primaris technology and the looming war. When Ulan Huda approached claiming to flee the Orks, Lox and Vulkan suspected a trap and ordered the Imperial fleet to attack, exposing Greenskin forces hidden inside the forge world.

• Vulkan arrived at Nostramo seven days after sending his message, and Lox welcomed him at the Night Lords' fortress-monastery.
• Vulkan told Lox that the Salamanders had begun adopting Space Bridge and Primaris technologies, and Lox reunited with Tassa, now the Legion's Chief Apothecary.
• An alarm announced that the mobile forge world Ulan Huda had translated from the Ghoul Stars and was approaching Nostramo.
• Ulan Huda's representative requested safe passage in exchange for intelligence, but Vulkan and Lox suspected the forge world concealed an Ork trap and ordered Admiral Raeder to attack.
• Imperial warships bombarded Ulan Huda until its core revealed a powerful Ork barrier and junk warships emerged from the wreckage.

Human forces destroyed a Greenskin Ork fleet after uncovering the Waaagh Gate hidden in Ulan Huda, while Bloodhowl Zakk resolved to study humanity after his Trojan Horse plan failed. The chapter left Zakk newly blessed by Mork and determined to build an Ork civilization that learned from its enemies.

• Vulkan and Lox discovered that Orks had infiltrated Ulan Huda and opened a Waaagh Gate, and Grand Admiral Raeder coordinated the human fleets against the arriving Ork armada.
• Vulkan placed the Salamanders fleet under Raeder's command, and human battle lines surrounded the Orks while Sigismund and the Black Templars repelled boarding assaults.
• The fourth battle line destroyed the Waaagh Gate, and Raeder ordered the remaining Ork ships annihilated and their wreckage cleared.
• Vulkan and Lox assessed the threat posed by the Orks' vast forces and discussed the need for reinforcements as the wider war spread.
• Bloodhowl Zakk brooded over his failed Ulan Huda deception, concluded that he needed to understand human tactics and history, and received Mork's blessing.
• Zakk declared that the Greenskin Orks should create their own civilization and learn from other races.

Bloodhowl Zack began reshaping the Greenskin Orks by recruiting talented thinkers and adapting human systems of command, economics, and warfare. He appointed Edison as finance minister and Schwarzenegger as an infiltrator warlord, sending him to Skullcrusher Star to prepare attacks behind human lines.

• Bloodhowl Zack held back his forces while calling for Orks of every rank and clan to present ideas for reforming Ork society.
• Edison proposed companies, wages, quotas, and performance evaluations, and Zack appointed him finance minister and acting interior minister.
• Schwarzenegger argued for human military strategy and guerrilla warfare, including raising Ork forces behind human lines.
• Zack named Schwarzenegger Blood Axe Fang Schwarzenegger, promoted him to Infiltrator Warlord, and gave him Skullcrusher Star to train an elite assault force.
• Zack continued selecting Ork generals and specialists, overturning the old promotion system and transforming Greenskin society.

Lox’s Imperial forces launched an assault on Skullcrusher, the Ork bridgehead, after Sigismund laid out a plan to defeat its defenders. The human fleet destroyed the Ork ships and battered the planet with orbital weapons, and Astartes drop pods descended to hunt the surviving warlords.

• Lox assembled Imperial reinforcements and ordered an assault on Skullcrusher, while Zoe accepted thousands of Primaris replacements for the Ashen Claws.
• At a war council aboard the Nightfall, Zoe described the Orks’ vast numbers and warned that their warlords were protected; Sigismund outlined a plan to crush their fleet, bombard the planet, and hunt their leader.
• Sigismund led the Imperial expeditionary force to Skullcrusher and provoked the Orks into a void battle, then destroyed their warships over three days.
• The human fleet bombarded the planet until the Orks’ Waaagh! shield contracted, then dropped Life-Eater virus bombs that killed billions but left survivors in underground shelters.
• As the virus-induced firestorm burned across Skullcrusher, Imperial drop pods descended to search the planet for Ork warlords.

Zoe infiltrated Skullcrusher’s underground Ork strongholds and discovered that the Greenskins had developed an organized society that trained and evolved its warriors through combat and propaganda. He also found Catachan fighters captured by the Blood Axe Clan, who had recruited Rambo to train their Boyz in a replica jungle; the chapter ended as Rambo and Yaitelong led the trainees into the lethal forest.

• Zoe and the other Astartes infiltrated Skullcrusher’s underground passages to map Ork bases and search for the warlord and WAAAGH Gate.
• Zoe observed Orks fighting, recovering through Painboy treatments, and evolving under the influence of propaganda performances and organized training.
• Zoe spotted captured human soldiers and recognized them as Catachan Jungle Fighters, including Rambo, whom the Blood Axe Clan had asked to train its Boyz.
• Rambo agreed to train the Orks after Yaitelong showed him a vast underground jungle modeled on Catachan and filled with copied dangers from his home world.
• Rambo laid out a survival course in the fungal jungle, then he and his comrades disappeared into it as Yaitelong sent the Blood Axe Boyz after them.

Zoe observed the Blood Axe Orks’ disastrous training in the Ork-made Catachan jungle and learned that their leaders were reforming the Greenskin Empire. After Rambo arranged support for human prisoners, Zoe coordinated with Talos Soul Hunter to deliver their intelligence and penetrate the Orks’ heartland.

• Zoe followed the Blood Axe trainees into the lethal jungle, where plants and predators killed most of their squad while Rambo watched and maneuvered them toward further dangers.
• Rambo and Yaitelon discussed the Orks’ training program and the empire-wide reform led by Boss Kork, Ork Warlord Bloodhowl Zak, and Warlord Blood Axe Blade Schwarzenegger.
• Rambo decided the Catachans would stay, train the Orks, and seek a chance to coordinate with human forces; he requested weapons, supplies, and the transfer of other human prisoners.
• Rambo loudly repeated the intelligence he had learned, and Zoe realized the Catachan had sensed his presence and was trying to help him pass the information outside.
• Zoe reviewed the missing intelligence about the Ork warlord and Waaagh gate, then proposed that the infiltrators gather, send their findings, and push into the Orks’ heartland.
• Talos Soul Hunter agreed to Zoe’s plan to deliver the intelligence first and then penetrate the Greenskin Orks’ territory.