Recaps

Cheng Mingrui defeated the World Devourer, built up the Fengrao system, and led a vast Ork fleet through the Warp to Tarrok. After reaching the system and driving the Tyranids back, he found himself trapped with Khorne’s forces in a crimson region of space as Chaos Space Marines boarded Boss Slick’s Ship.

• Cheng Mingrui and the Orks destroyed the World Devourer, and Rottooth joined the Screw Clan as the Tyranids withdrew from Fengrao.
• Cheng Mingrui organized the Fengrao system’s development, planned an Ork Battle Star, and promoted Crooked Mouth to Big Mek while upgrading Boss Slick’s Ship.
• Cheng Mingrui left Fengrao with five thousand warships, and the Waaagh! Field guided the fleet through the Warp toward Tarrok despite daemonic dangers.
• Cheng Mingrui arrived in Tarrok as Orks, Tyranids, and Khorne’s forces fought, while Vorda’s ritual summoned daemons and infected the Tyranid Swarm Consciousness.
• The Swarm Consciousness abandoned infected forces and withdrew as Cheng Mingrui pursued the remaining Tyranid fleet with Boss Slick’s Ship.
• Khorne’s fleet attacked Boss Slick’s Ship, but Cheng Mingrui found the ship trapped in crimson space with its Dimensional Rumble Cannon disabled.
• Khorne’s Chaos Space Marines teleported aboard Boss Slick’s Ship to confront Cheng Mingrui.

Cheng Mingrui defeated Angron but fell into a coma after a crimson thread entered his heart, while the Screw Clan fought the Tyranids and Necrons across the Tarrok System. Three years later, Daft destroyed a World Devourer with the Mighty Big Boss, but the Great Devourer possessed a Slaughter Tyrant and advanced on the unconscious Boss Slick.

• Boss Copperhead and the Screw Clan crushed Khorne's forces across the Abyss worlds, while Cheng Mingrui's blood summoned Angron aboard Boss Slick's Ship.
• Cheng Mingrui drew on the Orks' Waaagh! energy to fight Angron for three days, killed him, and mounted his skull on his Boss Rack before collapsing in his Medical Pod.
• Trazyn and Afentis destroyed Tyranid forces and prepared to seize the Ork Great Warboss, while Yriel's Aeldari fleet fought through a Tyranid encirclement and escaped through the Ghostgate.
• The Great Warboss was isolated from the Orks, killed a Hive Tyrant, and died after the Tyranids sabotaged his equipment, causing the Waaagh! Field to collapse across Octarius.
• In a crimson desert dream, Cheng Mingrui resisted Khorne as Slick and fought the Black-Armored Warrior, while Gork and Mork shielded their souls from crimson threads.
• While Boss Slick slept for three years, Rottooth and Kuka kept the Screw Clan united, and the Orks fought off Tyranid and Necron fleets across the Tarrok System.
• Daft piloted the Mighty Big Boss and destroyed a World Devourer attacking Boss Slick's Ship, but a Slaughter Tyrant then struck the ship and the Great Devourer sent Warrior Bugs toward Boss Slick.

Boss Slick awakened, gathered the Screw Clan’s forces, and led them into Octaria, where they broke through the Tyranid fleet and conquered Ork V. As Boss Slick prepared to face the fortified Tyranids at Number 2, Kuka won Kundra’s permission to show the Blood Axes the Great Waaagh.

• Hols awakened Boss Slick, who rallied the Orks, protected them from the Tyranids’ attacks, and defeated the Slaughter Tyrant.
• Ovisus described a prophecy of a crimson-bathed Ork demigod, while Rottooth told Boss Slick that Octaria had fallen and rival Warbosses claimed the title of New Great Warboss.
• Boss Slick organized his forces across the sector, gathered fifty thousand warships and three billion Orks, and prepared to attack Octaria.
• The Great Devourer rejected Tzeentch’s offer of aid and evolved the Tyranids for an all-out war, while Magnus mobilized the Thousand Sons’ cults.
• After two months of travel, Boss Slick arrived at Octaria and used the C’tan Shard Cannon, Dimensional Rumble Cannons, and the Waaagh! field to devastate the Tyranid fleet.
• Rottooth drew thousands of Ork ships through Warp Portals, and the Orks joined Boss Slick in driving the Tyranids toward Ork V.
• Dio helped destroy the World Devourer, and Boss Slick led the Orks in conquering Ork V before repairing the fleet for the coming battle at Number 2.
• Kuka defeated Kundra in a wrestling contest and earned permission to connect the Blood Axes’ Waaagh! field, allowing Kundra and his Boys to watch Boss Slick’s battle against the Tyranids.

Boss Slick rallied Orks against the Tyranids while the Emperor’s command to kill him haunted him, and a growing rebellion tied to Cheng Mingrui threatened the Imperium. The arc left the Ork war still raging and Hols approaching a hidden entrance near the Tarrok System.

• Kuka’s battle broadcasts drew Kundra’s Waaagh! toward Octaria, while Grem and Goldtooth ended their feud and joined Boss Slick’s Great Waaagh.
• Boss Slick led the Orks in a costly war against the Tyranids, destroyed World Devourers, and used salvaged resources and Waaagh! energy to rebuild the Matter Generator.
• Trazyn plotted to give Ghazghkull Thraka a Krork specimen, while Ghazghkull conquered Armageddon and renamed it Ullanor.
• The Emperor asked Boss Slick to come to Terra and kill him, but Boss Slick used the Tears of the Old Ones to shield his mind and guided Orks trapped in the Warp to Ork V.
• Hundreds of thousands of Ork warships joined the battle, and Boss Slick rallied the Boyz while the Great Devourer advanced its plan against him.
• Inquisitor Sahansen learned that Zhang Jiao’s rebellion was spreading Chaos-tainted power, while Levinie and the Grey Knights identified Cheng Mingrui as the Daemon behind it.
• Cheng Mingrui taught the rebels and argued with Khorne that knowledge and education made a stronger army, while Khorne concealed their discussion from him.
• Hols approached the edge of the Tarrok System in an Ork warship, found a hidden entrance, and asked his father if he was doing the right thing.