Recaps

Evan led the Crimson Tide through battles against the Dark Angels, daemons, Aeldari, Necrons, and a Genestealer Cult while Imperial forces prepared to defend Terra. The arc ended with Alpharius killing the Genestealer Patriarch on Terra and taking Guilliman’s form.

• Sisyphus’s forces drove the xenos alliance from Imperial territory, and Victor ordered Evan to stage a destructive conflict in the Ghoul Stars to draw Imperial forces back toward Terra.
• Azrael and Evan’s forces clashed on the Savage World as Marbas and the World Eaters joined the battle, and Azmodai eventually destroyed the altar that had absorbed Marbas.
• Evan led the Crimson Tide into the Ghoul Stars, defeated the Husai Bees with help from the Light of the People, and evaded both Necron attacks and the Dark Angels’ pursuit.
• Victor and Azrael joined forces against a xenos faction, while Yvraine’s Reaper Host emerged from the Webway and battled the Adamantium Warriors and Dark Angels.
• Evan’s fleet wore down the First Expeditionary Force through ambushes and attacks on its supply routes, while Guilliman recalled expeditionary forces to defend Terra.
• The Crimson Tide raided a Sanctuary World and attacked a Forge World, where the Genestealer Cult’s Ascension Platform was buried beneath a collapsing spaceport.
• Ans led an underground assault on the Forge World’s Genestealers, but Evan ordered a withdrawal after the High Priest’s psychic attack.
• Alpharius killed the Genestealer Patriarch on Terra, and then took Guilliman’s form.

Evan’s fleet fought the forces of Chaos and the Imperium while pursuing its campaign toward Fengyan Star. The arc left the Light of the People damaged, Victor rescuing a mysterious boy, and the Nemesis Chapter still trapped under Iron Warriors assault.

• The Changeling infiltrated the Light of the People, but Evan, Victor, and the Tech Mogul drove it away after it attacked Ina and damaged the fleet.
• The Crimson Tide defeated the Minotaurs, fought off Tzeentch’s daemons, and expanded its campaign while Guilliman ordered Imperial forces to hold their positions.
• Lucius attacked the Crimson Tide, but Kuroser crushed him and later entered stasis after the Masque Dancer’s curse triggered the Wolf Brothers’ transformations.
• Evan rescued the Alpha Legion from a Tyranid swarm, then captured the Marines Malevolent’s forces and headed toward Vigilus to find Cawl’s Blackstone research sites.
• Evan reunited with Christina at Langjuxu, where she repaired his strength and built him new power armor during four years of preparation.
• Perturabo attacked the Light of the People, but the False Archangel rose with the Sanguinor’s power and wounded him before Vashtorr and Tzeentch pulled him into the Warp.
• Ka’Bandha attacked the Light of the People, and Evan and his allies banished him at the cost of severe injuries and damage to the fleet.
• As the Crimson Tide continued toward Fengyan Star, Sisyphus reached the trapped Nemesis Chapter, rescued Victor, and took a mysterious boy from a crystal coffin.

Evan led the Crimson Tide through a spreading Warp crisis, drew the Necrons into the fight, and reached Guilliman at the Antalis Node. Guilliman assigned the Crimson Tide new defenses and prepared to take Evan to meet the Emperor, while other factions made their own moves.

• The Emperor hid one twin in Hylikeus’s Blank Bone Shield and used the other to steal from the Warp as daemons converged on Fengyan Star.
• Evan brought the Lawful Talon and other warships through Chaos forces, then traded supplies with Genestealer Cults while the Nemesis Chapter’s Gloriana was repaired.
• Anwar Dewin fought alongside the Space Wolves and Alpharius against Lorgar’s Word Bearers, while Corax pursued Lorgar into the Warp.
• Evan mobilized the Crimson Tide and attacked the Hecarimo Iron Curtain as the fleet battle drew Nurgle, Khorne, and the other Chaos powers into the system.
• Evan drew the Sautekh Dynasty into the conflict, and its Pariah Nexus helped the Light of the People destroy Karkarim before Evan negotiated a ten-year wager with Imotekh.
• Evan returned to Chogoris, then led the Crimson Tide to the Antalis Node, where Guilliman’s fleet arrived and both sides halted their bombardment.
• Guilliman and Evan negotiated, and Guilliman assigned the Crimson Tide to defend several systems before offering to escort Evan to meet the Emperor.
• Azrael restored the Dark Angels’ nine Hosts, while Honsou agreed to seek Huron for Felix Cross’s weapon technology and Blackhawk survived a daemon attack after the Legion of the Damned appeared.

Evan and the returned Primarchs prepared Terra for the Chaos assault as the Emperor’s power flowed through Evan and the Blackstone network. Across the Imperium, Imperial forces fought on multiple fronts, while the Emperor’s disappearance and the Astronomican’s shutdown left the war unresolved.

• Blackhawk helped the Emperor’s Champion fight Huron aboard the Blackstone Fortress, and a device healed Blackhawk after the Champion left him for dead.
• Jaghatai Khan returned to the Imperium, reunited with Guilliman, and was named Warmaster, while Evan and thousands of Adamantium Warriors survived Cawl’s Psi-Titan experiment.
• Evan pursued a stolen battleship and stopped a Chaos ritual, while Leman Russ returned to Terra and was reunited with the other Primarchs.
• The Imperium prepared for war as Evan connected to the Golden Throne and the Blackstone network, helping suppress the Webway breach while Rogal Dorn defeated the daemons’ leaders.
• The Emperor’s body vanished and the Astronomican went dark, while Evan received the galaxy’s prayers and watched Chaos forces attack across the Imperium.
• Dante’s Blood Angels defeated a Genestealer assault on their fleet, and Leman Russ destroyed Angron’s material form in battle.
• Angel DeWyn took over the Grey Knights’ defense of the Golden Throne, while Abaddon’s forces and Slaanesh’s armies continued attacking Imperial worlds and fleets.
• The Iron Hands and their allies defeated the King of Sapphires, and the Morlag Clan launched a counterattack against the Slaaneshi fleet.