Recaps

Cheng Mingrui restored the Dimensional Prison, organized the Orks into a growing war machine, and began building a flagship while Kester’s forces pushed toward Pioneer City. In the Necron laboratory, Cheng Mingrui uncovered Sphinx’s experiments and discovered a Growth Vat holding a Hynth with Krork genes, but its corruption nearly let Slaanesh seize him.

• Cornwall blamed Chuck for the southern continent’s collapse, while Kester prepared to reinforce Number 3 and consider limited counterattacks.
• Iron Claw pursued Tyranids through tunnels, but Pex detonated a Tactical Nuke that buried Iron Claw and disrupted the Orks’ advance.
• Kester and Pex coordinated attacks against the Orks, and Kester’s troops advanced toward Pioneer City as Iron Claw regrouped and planned a Great Waaagh.
• Cheng Mingrui reclaimed his Workshop, revived Kuka, gathered Ork forces, and stabilized the collapsing Dimensional Prison with help from Dio and Kidd.
• Cheng Mingrui appointed Dio and Kidd as Big Meks, expanded the folded space into a vast shipyard, and began designing the flagship Boss Slick's Ship.
• Cheng Mingrui restored the new Kuka’s standing among the Orks and learned from Sphinx’s records about experiments combining Ork and Aeldari traits.
• Cheng Mingrui and the Mekboys fought the Flayed Ones in the Necron laboratory, defeated Phaeron Sphinx, and found a Growth Vat that resonated with Cheng Mingrui’s waaagh energy.
• Cheng Mingrui nearly succumbed to Slaanesh while examining the Growth Vat, then recognized that it contained a Hynth with Krork genes.

Cheng Mingrui transformed the dying Hynth into Hols and helped the Greenskins grow stronger as the Tyranid invasion reached Number 4. After Clever Git was killed in battle, Cheng Mingrui led the Orks in a counterattack and launched Boss Slick's Ship into the retreating Tyranid fleet.

• Cheng Mingrui defeated the Keeper of Secrets, then stabilized the Hynth with Squig essence, transforming it into a powerful creature that named itself Rock Phillips Pa Kimmesterk Hols.
• Cheng Mingrui studied Hols, whose ability to imitate life-forms and catalyze Orks offered hope for further Greenskin growth, while Hols joined Clever Git at the Squigball brawl.
• The Tyranids invaded Number 4, and Cheng Mingrui and the Greenskins fought back with tunnels, armored formations, and powerful Warbosses.
• The Swarm Consciousness targeted Cheng Mingrui with Tyranid behemoths, but Clever Git and Hols helped him overcome the psychic barriers and surrounding monsters.
• Norn Brutes killed Clever Git and wounded Cheng Mingrui, who rallied the Greenskins and led them in killing the Brutes and driving the Tyranids toward retreat.
• Cheng Mingrui launched the unfinished Boss Slick's Ship into the Tyranid fleet, where it burned and rammed through Bio-ships as the remaining fleet turned to attack it.

Cheng Mingrui built Boss Slick's Ship, shattered the Tyranid fleet, and united Number 3’s Orks under his command before leading them against the Tyranids and Slaaneshi forces. After Cheng Mingrui defeated Lucius and Losek, Slaanesh targeted Hols, while Tzeentch set a new scheme in motion beneath Glory Bastion.

• Cheng Mingrui survived the battle with the Tyranids, organized a planet-wide work contest, and completed Boss Slick's Ship as the Imperial fleet engaged the Tyranid Fleet above Number 3.
• The Tyranid assault and Losek’s ritual brought Slaaneshi daemons and Chaos Space Marines to Number 3, while Pex and his followers escaped the fighting aboard a shuttle.
• Lawrence and the Space Marines joined the battle against Ghazghkull, but Iron Claw and the Heavy Nobs forced the Imperial forces to retreat.
• Cheng Mingrui destroyed most of the Tyranid Fleet with his modified anti-C'tan weapon, recruited Crooked Mouth, defeated Iron Claw, and became the Orks’ recognized Boss.
• Cheng Mingrui led the Green Tide through Capello and drove the Tyranids from their living city, then fought Losek’s daemons and Lucius’s Chaos forces in a Warp-distorted battlefield.
• Cheng Mingrui and Hols defeated Losek and the Daemonettes, but Slaanesh devoured Hols’s severed arm and ordered Losek to help capture him.
• Slaanesh ordered Losek to tell Fulgrim to gather forces to obtain Hols, while Tzeentch made a replica of the Emperor’s soul and stirred a hidden basement beneath Glory Bastion’s Governor’s Palace.

Cheng Mingrui united Ork forces, built up the Starting Point System, and led a major campaign against the Tyranids. After driving the swarm into retreat in the Fengrao System, he began repairing Boss Slick's Ship while the conflict continued.

• The Prophet of Wisdom restored Cornwall and sent him to unite Secret Societies, while Cheng Mingrui used the Orks to destroy Tyranids beneath the sea on Euronia.
• Cheng Mingrui reached the Starting Point System, rescued the beleaguered Orks on Number 3, and helped defeat the Tyranid fleets across the system.
• Guilliman survived the Plague War with the Emperor's intervention, then prepared an expedition to Octarius and tasked Mathieu with watching the Orks.
• Yriel Aeshalia joined Osuwiss and Parker Pan in seeking to guide the Orks against the Tyranids, as the Great Devourer focused on killing the Ork Great Warboss.
• Cheng Mingrui divided the Orks into flotillas, strengthened the Starting Point System, and developed a more powerful Dimensional Rumble Cannon before setting out for Fengrao.
• Rottooth Boss defended Fengrao II against a vast Tyranid assault, then learned that Cheng Mingrui had arrived and was attacking the swarm elsewhere in the system.
• Cheng Mingrui's Orks overwhelmed Tyranid defenses on Fengrao V and Fengrao IV, forcing the swarm to retreat while the Norn Queen began transforming inside a cocoon.
• Cheng Mingrui and Hols fought Tyranids on Fengrao IV, and Cheng Mingrui began repairing Boss Slick's Ship with Hols's psychic power.