Chapter Summaries

Lian Leilo’s forces fought mechanized Genestealers on Teks 23 World and shifted to a prolonged siege, while Evan visited Christina and learned that T’au meninges could provide a limited anti-psyker effect. The Genestealers prepared a mass tunnel assault, and Evan left with a possible new resource for the Chapter’s plans.

• Lian Leilo’s forces discovered that the apparent Mechanicus on Teks 23 World were mechanized Genestealers and fought them with support from the Mighty Heavenly Dragon.
• Lian Leilo followed the Librarian’s advice, ordered an orbital bombardment, and deployed artillery and armoured vehicles to hold the mining tunnels at range.
• The Genestealer patriarch dug beneath the mortal troops and prepared to unleash a mass attack through a vast network of tunnels.
• Evan visited Christina on Langjuxu, where she explained that T’au meninges could reinforce the barrier between the Warp and realspace but were far weaker than a Blank.
• Christina told Evan that killing about five million T’au could produce an anti-psyker effect roughly one-third as strong as a Blank’s.

Evan tested Christina’s six suits of Anti-psyker Armour, negotiated a plan to gather materials and T'au for more, and discussed Sage Haituo’s oversized warship engine. Months later, Evan returned to the chaotic base with more than eighty high-magic-resistance warriors and the six suits, where a Dreadnought was making a scene.

• Christina showed Evan six Anti-psyker Armour suits made using T'au, and Evan tried one on as Christina and Sage Haituo traded loudspeaker taunts.
• Evan’s armour test nearly brought him into a fight with Sage Haituo, but Evan revealed he was conscious and persuaded both tech-priests to stand down.
• Evan arranged a T'au points system that would trade minerals and population for colonial worlds, while Christina gave him technical information for producing more armour.
• Evan discussed Sage Haituo’s oversized engine and the need for a battleship, then departed with six suits of Anti-psyker Armour.
• Evan visited Hou Wenk World, where two Techmarines received a large shipment of materials and the Apothecary trained ten apprentices.
• Several months later, Evan returned to the base with more than eighty high-magic-resistance warriors and the six suits, as a Dreadnought made a scene.

Kalon returned to the Lamenters after the Crimson Tide negotiated his release from the Deathwatch, but he mistook his Chapter’s actions for treason and wrecked their base before Kazhaniv calmed him. Meanwhile, Lian Leilo’s force killed a mechanized Genestealer Patriarch and, with Ming’s help, defeated the remaining Genestealers.

• The Crimson Tide persuaded the Inquisitor to expel Kalon from the Deathwatch and sent him back to the Lamenters, who had returned to the T'au Three Hundred Worlds.
• Kalon berated Maturio for the Lamenters’ conduct and smashed their newly built fortress, while Larior and the Techmarine failed to restrain him.
• Evan rushed to the fortress with the Beiwei Army, mistook Kalon for a rampaging Death Company Dreadnought, and fought him until the Lamenters intervened.
• Kazhaniv defeated Kalon and convinced him that he was the Emperor’s chosen, allowing Larior to soothe him and place him in a stasis field.
• Lian Leilo led an underground assault on a mechanized Genestealer Patriarch, which the Astartes killed after discovering its vital point.
• The fleet returned and the Astartes joined the Auxilia in crushing the Genestealers; Commissar Ming led a flanking maneuver and received the Lian Leilo Commendation.

Evan reorganized the Chapter’s forces, established new governing and military structures, and launched an expedition to help a world under attack by Nurgle’s forces. As the Lamenters and Claws of Reality prepared to bombard a Chaos-corrupted Void Whale corpse, the Chapter’s assault was about to begin.

• Evan reviewed the Chapter’s manpower and shortages, named its nearly completed Forge World Stone City, and arranged to trade warship technology to Mavrek for more armaments.
• Evan established advisory groups for governing the Three Hundred Worlds, formed the anti-daemon force Claws of Reality under Rogier, and called for local populations to support a unified military.
• Ralph sought help from Kazhaniv over growing spiritual pressure, and the Baina Robe concealed itself as a powerful warp assault passed through the area.
• A month later, Evan and Maturio arrived with the Mother of Tears at a world besieged by Nurgle’s forces after a Void Whale corpse crashed there.
• Kuroser found the defenses facing daemons and plague zombies in a dense Chaos-tainted fog, and Evan ordered the mortal troops to finish their lines before the Chapter bombarded the corpse.

The Claws of Reality and their allies destroyed a Chaos Warp stabilizer, closed a rift before the Great Unclean One Poxwalker could fully emerge, and left the region to another Chapter’s supervision. Afterward, Li Anjun completed his transformation into an Astartes and began psychic training under Bars.

• Rogier led the Claws of Reality and the Space Wolves’ Eleventh Company into the corrupted Void Whale, where their anti-psyker suits and shield devastated Nurgle’s forces.
• Ina clung to Evan as he prepared to join the battle, and the two remained aboard the Eternal Mountain while Rogier and Kuroser searched for the Warp stabilizer.
• Rogier’s force and the supply train uncovered and destroyed the Chaos machine, but its self-destruct procedure opened a Warp Rift for Poxwalker.
• Rogier threw his shield to Evan, and Evan and Ina struck together, severing the Great Unclean One’s antler and arm and closing the rift.
• The Claws of Reality and their allies finished the battle with few casualties, then departed before the Silent Sentinels arrived and declared the area off-limits.
• Li Anjun completed his Neophyte Transformation despite a failed Belisarian Furnace implant, and Bars began training him to control his powerful psychic abilities.

A Haemonculus’s experiment created Dust, an Aeldari Chaos Astartes, who escaped into a Great Crusade-era Night Lords ship and became locked in a hunt with Lepcher. After the Hidden Terror emerged from the Warp, it drifted into the T’au Three Hundred Worlds, where Ashlan’s garrison responded.

• A Haemonculus used Emperor’s Children gene-seed to transform an Aeldari test subject, and Dust broke free and slaughtered the laboratory’s inhabitants.
• Lepcher’s Night Lords crashed into Commorragh during a dissociation disaster, and Lepcher rescued Dust before escaping aboard the Hidden Terror.
• Dust hid aboard the Hidden Terror, where Slaanesh empowered him and he hunted the Night Lords as Lepcher tried to contain him.
• Slaanesh sent Lucius the Eternal after Dust, while Trazyn arranged for a Dark Angels warship to engage the Emperor’s Children fleet so he could collect the Hidden Terror.
• The Hidden Terror emerged near Sorok World, and Ashlan’s garrison arrived after the local escort ships called for Astartes support.

Ashlan and the Crimson Tide boarded a Night Lords warship, where they fought Lepcher and Dust before a sudden explosion engulfed them. Trazyn stole the combatants as a collection, leaving Ashlan and his company missing while Evan received the news; elsewhere, Lucius continued battling the Dark Angels.

• Ashlan led the Supreme Abyss's boarding assault on the Hidden Terror and clashed with Dust, while Lepcher ambushed the Crimson Tide warriors.
• Lepcher ordered a ceasefire and spoke with Ashlan, but their conversation was cut short when Dust damaged the ventilation system and an explosion engulfed the boarding party.
• Ashlan led another assault through the ship, fought Dust and Lepcher, and redirected his unit toward the gas valves before another explosion swallowed them.
• Trazyn the Infinite departed with the Night Lords, Dust, and the captured Primaris boarding party, while the Supreme Abyss pursued the vanished ship and failed to find Ashlan.
• Evan learned that Ashlan and his company were missing and wept aboard the Mother of Tears as it headed for Sorok World.
• Lucius the Eternal defeated Astro in a duel, and the Emperor's Children continued their prolonged battle against the Dark Angels.

The Dark Angels and Emperor’s Children fought over a vanished target before the Lamenters and Crimson Tide joined the battle, while the Dark Angels discovered they had been displaced to the Five Hundred Worlds. Years later, Nian Cijin led the expanding Trade Fleet to pressure a Forge World into accepting the Chapter’s terms, leaving its representative awaiting the archmagos.

• The Dark Angels inflicted heavy casualties on the Emperor’s Children, but Lucius revealed himself and Slaanesh recalled him after the target disappeared.
• Evan and the Lamenters boarded the Emperor’s Children warship; the Space Wolves overwhelmed Fu Luha and routed its defenders, while the Dark Angels realized they had reached the northern Five Hundred Worlds.
• Lian Leilo recruited Blackshield warriors and built up a trading fleet, while Nian Cijin expanded the Chapter’s holdings by forcing Rogue Traders and rebellious worlds into its growing network.
• Three years later, Nian Cijin confronted a Forge World representative, accused the Forge World of possessing Drukhari weapons, and advanced the Trade Fleet toward its spaceport.
• Nian Cijin presented the Chapter’s technology catalogue and threatened the representative until he agreed to summon the archmagos.

Nian Cijin traded for a Forge World’s surplus goods, while Evan gathered materials for forty cruisers by exploiting the T'au and raiding Ork territory. Evan’s fleet overwhelmed Boss Slaughterer’s forces at home, and Slaughterer turned his fleet back to confront the invaders.

• Nian Cijin negotiated with Archmagos Andor, buying nearly all the Forge World’s surplus goods and trading them for basic ores at mining stations and Micro-Worlds.
• Christina’s first tank-core-powered Power Pack exploded, and she continued redesigning the power supply for Evan’s heavier Anti-psyker Suit.
• Evan arranged trades and resource schemes with the T'au and Rogue Trader territories, then led an expeditionary fleet to raid Ork ships for adamantium and other materials.
• Evan’s fleet seized several Ork worlds, and Boss Slaughterer sent Kekro, Old Broken Fang, and Big Choppa to drive the invaders back; each force was defeated, and Big Choppa’s fleet was captured.
• After survivors reported that thirty enemy warships had attacked, Slaughterer turned his fleet around and ordered it to return home and fight Evan.

Evan used his fleet as bait to draw Slaughterer and rival factions across the Ultima Segmentum, disrupting Imperial fronts and attracting major reinforcements. After ten years of pursuit, he lured Huron’s Red Corsairs into an ambush, where concealed Astartes overwhelmed their boarding parties.

• Evan ordered three worlds evacuated and booby-trapped, then led his fleet through repeated Warp jumps while Slaughterer pursued and reclaimed his planets.
• Evan’s fleeing fleet drew Chaos forces, other Ork Waaaaaghs, and eventually Imperial forces into a sprawling pursuit that disrupted the Ultima Segmentum.
• Huron sent the Red Corsairs toward the fighting after receiving a garbled distress signal, while Slaughterer tried to intercept Evan by another route.
• After ten years, Evan led the surviving eight Ambition-class Cruisers into Huron’s fleet, where Red Corsairs boarded them and discovered Astartes instead of Rogue Trader crews.
• Evan’s larger force passed through Huron’s fleet, while more than six hundred concealed Astartes aboard the cruisers attacked and overwhelmed the Red Corsairs’ boarding parties.

Evan survived a disastrous duel with a Chaos Sorcerer, then joined the Emperor’s Blades as they expanded through hundreds of worlds while major Imperial and Chaos forces clashed elsewhere. The chapter ended with two newly purified warships arriving at the Three Hundred Worlds, now called the Greater Worlds.

• Evan lost his sword arm to the Chaos Sorcerer but helped his warriors kill the enemy and survived after his Power Pack was pierced.
• Anthony’s force and the Dawn Angels joined Evan’s battered fleet, while Huron’s forces were caught in a vast battle involving Slaughterer and a major Imperial Expeditionary Force.
• Evan returned to his territory and began reclaiming roughly six hundred worlds, with the fleet clearing hundreds before Orks spread across the remaining planets.
• Huron abandoned the Blood Legion’s attempt to trap the Expeditionary Force, allowing Calgar to drive the daemons back into the Warp.
• Evan stopped the Dawn Angels from boasting about their victory and accepted their agreement to keep the campaign’s claims modest.
• Lian Leilo took delivery of a Battle Barge and a Strike Cruiser purified after more than two hundred years, and sent them to the Greater Worlds.

Evan commissioned two warships and learned that Annos had become the captain and machine spirit of a repaired ancient warship, which became the Crimson Tide’s flagship, the Light of the People. Meanwhile, Anthony concealed the Chapter’s growing numbers from the Imperium and turned to reclaiming territory with the recovered warriors of the Steel Jungle.

• Evan ended Annos and Situval’s argument over his replacement arm, named the Strike Cruiser the Secret Stash of Dusk Valley, and let Annos name the Battle Barge the Glory of Annos.
• Annos secretly took control of the Secret Cult Warship and became its captain after the ship was repaired and brought into service.
• Evan read Annos’s parchment, caught a falling length of rebar with his newly attached arm, and ordered the warship’s related technology sealed away.
• The Crimson Tide made the warship its monastery and flagship, renamed it the Light of the People, and preserved Annos’s likeness in a memorial hall.
• Anthony transferred eighty Astartes to cover up the Chapter’s numbers, then secured continued supplies after Inquisitors and other allies intervened in the investigation.
• Anthony led the recovered warriors of the Steel Jungle to the Kannister Bastion Subsector, where they presented themselves as loyal Astartes and openly stationed themselves among the people.

Evan struggled to recruit people and expand his forces, sending Nian Cijin out with a fleet to resume trade after Rogier refused to leave. In the Warp, Angron defeated a Greater Daemon and was sent by Khorne to attack Fulgrim, while a Chaos Warband invaded a reclaimed moon and Evan arrived to investigate.

• Evan considered the realm’s low population and the difficulty of purifying salvaged warships, then asked Rogier to lead the Wolf Cubs on an independent campaign, but Rogier refused.
• Evan summoned Nian Cijin and assigned him ships and personnel to resume trading and develop the fleet.
• Angron defeated an Eight-Blade Spider in Khorne’s arena and asked to kill his brother, so Khorne sent him to teach Fulgrim a lesson.
• The Eight-Blade Spider recovered and vowed to kill 888 Astartes to regain its Greater Daemon status.
• A Chaos Warband attacked a reclaimed moon, massacred its defenders and arriving mortals, and fought among itself for control of its Strike Cruiser.
• Evan arrived with his forces after receiving the moon’s distress signal.

Evan used the People's Light to destroy the Khorne forces and their altar, then sent new Astartes toward future wars. Meanwhile, Anthony led Imperial forces gathering at Alisas, where a Tyranid invasion began with a fleet attack and boarding organisms.

• Evan arrived at the colony with the Eternal Mountain, then brought in the People's Light and destroyed the Chaos warship and Khorne altar with overwhelming firepower.
• Evan assigned Astartes to garrison the People's Light and urged his warriors to prepare to attack humanity's enemies across the galaxy.
• Anthony dispersed much of his force before accepting a Deathwatch request to lead a joint operation against the Tyranids at Alisas.
• Anthony met Dragonhead and arranged defensive boundaries between the Crimson Tide and Black Dragons before the Tyranid vanguard attacked the Imperial fleet.
• Tyranid boarding pods struck Imperial warships, corroded their armor, and released parasites and Hormagaunts.

The Imperium fought Tyranid assaults across its warships, the system’s defensive line, and Arisath III, while a Raven Guard successor team searched for the enemy Hive Ship. The Tyranids established a foothold on the planet, and the Chogoris Eagle Chapter raced into the ground battle as the war council coordinated the defense.

• A Sister of Battle led naval personnel against boarding Hormagaunts, killed one Lictor, and was rescued from another by an Astartes.
• The Imperial Navy used a feigned weakness and hidden guns to punish the Tyranid fleet, while the Bite of Kiavahr Chapter covertly followed biomass-recovery vessels in search of the Hive Ship.
• Tyranids broke through the system’s defenses and assaulted Imperial warships; a Victory-class Battleship destroyed a Voidstalker Hunter that had clamped onto a Cruiser.
• Tyranids landed on Arisath III’s frozen north, where Valhallan Astra Militarum troops and Cadian reinforcements fought back as the Hive Ship deployed Capillary Towers and other ground infrastructure.
• Imperial aircraft and antiaircraft guns battled Tyranid flyers while Coriassus directed the war council’s response.
• The Chogoris Eagle Chapter and other White Scars successor chapters deployed across Arisath III on motorcycles, leaving their representative absent from the war council.

Imperial forces fought the Tyranids across Arisath III while the War Council tried to delay the Hive Ship and draw it into a trap. As the battle shifted to the concealed Armageddon Steel Legion, Anthony and the Black Dragons faced a charging Hive Tyrant, and their Librarian prepared a psychic attack.

• Coriassus directed the Imperial defense as the Tyranids repaired their Hive Ship, attacked ground forces, and sent Serpents against Basilisk artillery, where the Crimson Tide's Third Combat Squad destroyed them.
• The Tyranids attempted to tunnel behind the Cadian Shock Troops, but an Astartes detected them and warned the troops.
• A macro-cannon destroyed a capillary tower, prompting the Hive Ship to move toward another region while its Hive Tyrant led heavy creatures after it.
• The Salamanders, Crimson Tide, and Black Dragons engaged the Tyranids at the concealed Armageddon Steel Legion position, where Dragon Head fought Tyrant Guard and a charging Hive Tyrant arrived.
• Anthony led an assault to divert the Hive Tyrant, which sent a Tervigon against his squad and was struck by the Black Dragons' Librarian's Psychic Slap.

Imperial forces killed the Hive Tyrant and pushed the Tyranids back on the ground, while the Dominatrix and the expanding swarm kept the battle raging. The Imperial fleet remained in dire straits as Tyranid ships pressed the assault, and the War Council faced a newly identified tendril named Nidhogg.

• Imperial Navy bombers struck the Tyranids, and a Dominatrix arrived to attack the armored column with acid shells and parasite spikes.
• The Black Dragons Chief Librarian battered the Hive Tyrant with psychic lightning, but the Salamanders Terminator Squad teleported in and the Lord of Drakes killed it with the Spear of Vulkan.
• The Dominatrix attacked Anthony's forces, and Titan support and Crimson Tide tactics helped the Imperial ground forces destroy it, encircle Tyranid groups, and advance several kilometers.
• Coriassus held the ground forces in position to draw out more Tyranids, while Death Korps of Krieg and Deathstrike Missile launchers remained ready for a larger assault.
• The Imperial fleet's defenses contracted under relentless Tyranid attacks, and both sides turned the asteroid belt into a minefield as the naval battle worsened.
• The Inquisitor identified the Tyranid force as a new tendril and recommended naming it Nidhogg, but the War Council dismissed his assessment.

The Tyranid biological mothership strengthened its forces, escalating the invasion as Imperial Titans fought back across the surface and Tyranids breached an underground factory. The Hive Tyrant attacked the Black Dragon Chapter, where Dragon Head’s clash with the monster ended with a fragment of his bone spur broken away.

• The biological mothership converted an Infective Devourer into an incubation chamber, doubled Tyranid reinforcements, and created larger combat organisms to counter Imperial weapons.
• The Tyranid mothership deployed five Titan-class organisms and the enhanced Hive Tyrant, while the Mourning Bell Legion and other Imperial forces brought numerous Titans into battle.
• The Burrowing Python and Corrosive Bug broke into an underground factory, where the Dark Nest Guard Chapter closed the bulkheads and met the Tyranids in combat.
• Tyranid Sky Daemons attacked Imperial aircraft and supply routes as the Hive Tyrant’s forces pressed the Black Dragon Chapter and its exhausted defenders.
• The Neuron Creature knocked down a Reaver Titan, but Imperial Titans continued fighting the Ammonite Cultists at close range.
• Dragon Head attacked the Hive Tyrant to protect the standard-bearer, but the monster struck him back and their weapons collided until a fragment of Dragon Head’s bone spur broke off.

The Imperium’s forces withdrew and reorganized while fighting Tyranids across the surface, underground, and in space. Anthony’s Crimson Tide advanced through the tunnels with help from the ancient Dreadnought Kroken, while Raven Guard successors discovered a massive Tyranid fleet consuming another fleet and rushed to warn the Imperial Main Force.

• Dragon Head fought the Hive Tyrant as the Black Dragons and White Scars Sons battled to rescue warriors, then withdrew under Coriassus’s orders as bombardment cleared the battlefield.
• Coriassus reassigned Anthony’s depleted force to the underground tunnels, where Anthony met Kroken, a Dark Nest Guard Chapter Champion entombed in an Ironclad Dreadnought.
• Raven Guard successors discovered a colossal Tyranid mothership consuming another fleet and ordered their stealth ships to break concealment and race back with a warning.
• Anthony led the Crimson Tide through the tunnels, ordering his Astartes to fire on parasite-controlled corpses and repel a Tyranid assault with Hellfire Bolts and melta weapons.
• Anthony fell behind as the Primaris Warriors charged ahead and resolved to undergo Ascension Surgery when he returned.

The Crimson Tide and Imperial forces fought on across Arisath as the Navy uncovered vulnerable Tyranid Hive Ships and prepared a desperate assault. Anthony’s force suffered devastating losses while waiting for a signal beacon to finish calibrating, and his warriors dragged their wounded Chapter Master from the front.

• Anthony led the Primaris Warriors through the Storage Area, where they built defenses and the Techmarine installed a super-heavy Laser Cannon.
• The Primaris Warriors attacked the Tyranids at the breach, killed a Burrowing Python, and placed a beacon to help locate the enemy signal.
• Admiral Blitz learned that three Hidden Slaughterer warships had entered the enemy fleet and that the Tyranid Hive Ship was consuming another tendril; he ordered his Battleship to provide Lance cover.
• A Galaxy Hunters Strike Cruiser drew Bio-ships away from Blitz’s Battleship, while Coriassus learned of the Hive Ships and prepared an Astartes assault with Biological Annihilation Fusion Bombs.
• Anthony’s warriors endured escalating Tyranid attacks as their weapons overheated and casualties mounted, and a Primaris Warrior forcibly pulled the wounded Anthony away from the battle.