Recaps

Lox used the Thought Seal to shield mortals from the Warp and help the War Hounds remove their Butcher’s Nails. At Beta-Garmon, Lion’s fleet destroyed the Tiger Eyes Titan Legion on Bormann IV and prepared to challenge Horus’s forces.

• Lox and Malcador established the Thought Seal that the universe and humanity were rational, and Sage Land built a Mind Control Tower to implant it.
• After the first test caused some Chaos cultists to suffer brain damage or kill themselves, Lox had the Solar Auxilia receive the Thought Seal, strengthening their resistance to the Warp.
• Endryd Haar asked Lox to save the War Hounds from their Butcher’s Nails, and Lox and Sage Land used the Thought Imprint to neutralize and remove the Nails from all 193 warriors.
• Lion, Sanguinius, and Jaghatai Khan agreed to delay Horus’s forces at Beta-Garmon, then attacked Bormann IV and confronted the Tiger Eyes Titan Legion.
• Corswain boarded the disabled Phoenician Sword, defeated and captured Flavius Aelkenax, and Lion redirected the battleship’s wreckage into the Tiger Eyes Titans, destroying them.
• The Sunfire Titan Legion landed on Bormann IV, while Lion ordered Ultramarines to secure the planet and sent a transmission challenging Horus and the traitors to battle.

Lion, Jaghatai, and Sanguinius prepared their forces for the struggle at Beta-Garmon while Horus secured Vashtorr’s aid and seized a Blackstone Fortress. The loyalists advanced toward the traitor-held core as Lion waited for Horus’s unseen fleet to reveal its purpose.

• Lion purged Pullman IV, made it a forward base, and broadcast his declaration of war as Horus rallied his forces and promised a new human empire.
• Horus rejected Lorgar’s excuses, summoned Vashtorr, and accepted a pact that traded souls and flesh for military aid and the Blackstone Fortress.
• Lox designed combat Iron Men and agreed to let Trazyn join his research, then learned that the Aeldari had brought the resurrected Vulkan to Terra.
• The Emperor charged Vulkan with using the Seven-Hammer Talisman to destroy Terra and the Golden Throne if Horus defeated him, and Lox resolved to prevent that outcome.
• Jaghatai led the White Scars through the defenses at Zeta-Garmon, defeated the rebel fleet, and destroyed the underground resistance with a continental shelf oscillation bomb.
• Horus awakened and seized the Blackstone Fortress, then returned toward Beta-Garmon while Maloghurst corrupted the fortress and created Blessed Sons from Inductii.
• Horus sacrificed a rebel world to Vashtorr, who empowered the Sons of Horus by forging their victims’ souls and daemons into weapons and armor.
• Jaghatai raided Horus’s territory as Sanguinius united Titan Legions, while Lion kept his fleet in reserve and watched for Horus’s main force.

The Blood Angels rescued survivors on Minoris Garmon 147 before joining the war around Beta-Garmon, while Lorgar gathered Fulgrim and Horus trapped the White Scars. Russ reached Horus aboard the Vengeful Spirit and briefly restored his free will, but Horus returned to Chaos as Lox set out with the Iron Men for Beta-Garmon.

• Sanguinius sent the Blood Angels to Beta-Garmon, and Raldoron led a rescue assault on Minoris Garmon 147 before evacuating its children and joining the wider campaign.
• Raldoron defeated the Death Guard commander, but a Great Unclean One emerged, forcing the Blood Angels to withdraw and bombard the corrupted world.
• Lorgar and Zardu Layak entered Slaanesh’s realm, bound Fulgrim with his true name, and led him and the Emperor’s Children toward Beta-Garmon as Lorgar plotted against Horus.
• Horus’s fleet encircled Chaghatai Khan’s White Scars, and Horus fought Chaghatai in the Warp before Russ and the Space Wolves boarded the Vengeful Spirit.
• Russ used the Spear of Dionysus to reach Horus, drive the Warp’s power from him, and briefly restore Jaghatai Khan and Horus’s free will.
• The Emperor gave Lox his Omnissiah authority and faith, and Lox assembled the Iron Men, Skitarii, and loyal Knights for the expedition to Beta-Garmon.
• Horus apologized to Russ and begged him to kill him, but Russ withdrew the spear, allowing Chaos to reclaim Horus, who vowed to stop the Emperor.

Horus’s forces and the Imperial fleet clashed at Beta-Garmon as Lox’s Iron Men raided the Thousand Sons flagship and helped turn the battle. Lox joined Lion’s mission to awaken the Blackstone Fortress, while Corswain, Eldrad Uslan, Haar, and their warriors prepared to reach its core.

• Horus nearly killed Leman Russ, but Jaghatai Khan and the White Scars rescued Russ and Bjorn from the Vengeful Spirit.
• After Russ was placed in stasis and later warned Lion that Horus could not be defeated by a Primarch alone, Lion ordered the Imperial forces to hold Beta-Garmon.
• Lion and Jaghatai led the Imperial fleet against Horus’s forces and the Blackstone Fortress, while the fortress’s cannon devastated Imperial ships and its shields resisted their attacks.
• Lox arrived with a growing Iron Men force, then teleported Iron Men and Astartes aboard the Thousand Sons flagship to launch a boarding assault.
• Ahriman fought the Iron Men and Endryd Haar, summoned a Lord of Change, and watched Lox and Haar defeat it as the Iron Men resisted corruption.
• Lox learned that Konrad Curze had lured Magnus away with a claim about his final soul fragment, then let Ahriman escape with the Thousand Sons while ordering the flagship’s remaining defenders killed.
• Lox joined Lion and learned from Eldrad Uslan that the Blackstone Fortress’s Warp field was a defensive response, so Uslan proposed reaching its core to awaken its consciousness.
• Lion, Lox, Corswain, Haar, and their combined forces prepared to attack the Blackstone Fortress, while Lox took control of Infinite Loyalty and sent it racing toward the fortress.