Chapter Summaries

The Solitaire infiltrated the Light of the People and fought his way toward the Relic Chamber, while Evan took command from a mobile Silver Throne. The chapter ended with Victor’s thrown axe closing in as Evan stabbed the Solitaire at point-blank range.

• The Solitaire broke through the flagship’s corridors, battled the technical expert and Victor, and evaded their pursuit with psychic illusions.
• Enke converted Evan’s command setup into a fast-rolling Silver Throne, and Evan tested it with two Beiwei Army soldiers before learning of the Harlequin invasion.
• The Solitaire attacked the Relic Chamber and fought a Custodian while trying to seize the Sword of Gleikvhand.
• The Solitaire reached the holy sword but was blocked by Evan’s Silver Throne and its anti-psyker field, then fought Evan, Victor, Ina, and the Custodian near the chamber.
• Victor hurled the Bloodspawn Axe at the Solitaire as Evan, concealed beside Ina and the Adamantium Armor, drove a Combat Knife toward his heart.

The Solitaire infiltrated the Light of the People but was driven off by Evan, Ina, Victor, and the Adeptus Custodes, while the Laughing God recovered him and sent him back to the Black Library. There, Jaghatai Khan learned that a fake Sanguinius carrying an Aeldari sacred sword had appeared aboard the ship, as the White Scars struggled against Boomblasta’s Ork fleet and called for reinforcements.

• The Solitaire used relics and psyker powers to escape the Custodes’ attacks, but Evan shattered his bracelets and the Solitaire exploded to open a narrow rift.
• The Laughing God retrieved the Solitaire’s soul, and the Solitaire concluded that the Light of the People was too well defended for the Harlequins to capture and crew.
• The Solitaire told Jaghatai Khan that a fake Sanguinius carrying an Aeldari sacred sword had been aboard the ship that destroyed Commorragh, and Jaghatai struck him down before sending him away.
• The White Scars sent a distress signal, and Guilliman combined two Expeditionary Forces to rush to their aid against the Orks.
• Khan Morigen led his fleet in evasive turns against Boomblasta’s Space Gungat, but the Orks hurled a warship at the White Scars and captured another Battle Barge.
• The Bad Moons and Goffs fought over the White Scars’ arrival, while the Bad Moons boss ordered his forces to keep firing.

The White Scars used a decapitation plan to draw the Ork forces apart while Khan Morigen and Kor'sarro Khan struck at their leaders. Guilliman's reinforcements arrived amid the battle, and Kor'sarro pressed the attack against Boomblasta's forces.

• Kor'sarro Khan took command of the White Scars fleet and baited Goff ships into pursuing, prompting the Bad Moons to chase after them.
• Khan Morigen prepared a Warp jump while the Space Gungat battled the Orks, then led the White Scars toward a strike on the enemy bosses.
• Kor'sarro fought through boarding Orks and killed the cleaver boss, while Morigen led an assault on the Great Shiny Moon.
• Guilliman arrived with reinforcements and ordered the Black Consuls to assist Morigen while Macragge's Honour attacked the Space Gungat.
• Guilliman sent Titus and the Victrix Guard to investigate the opening in the Gungat, as Kor'sarro urged the Librarian to jump without a beacon.

The White Scars and Victrix Guard attacked Boomblasta inside the Space Gungat, but his layered armor and speed overwhelmed their forces. After Guilliman and Titus helped expose and damage the Ork boss, Boomblasta survived, seized the C'tan Phase Sword, and turned the battle back against the Imperials as Alpharius prepared to strike from concealment.

• Kor'sarro Khan teleported into Boomblasta's mech, but his foot became trapped in a wall, and Boomblasta's explosive armor forced the White Scars assault back.
• Boomblasta's golden inner armor let him destroy the remaining White Scars gunship and threaten the arriving Victrix Guard, prompting Guilliman to confront him.
• Guilliman used the Wings of Despair's metal feathers to tear apart Boomblasta's mech joints, while Titus launched himself onto the Ork and planted a Melta Bomb in its food pipe.
• The damaged mech crashed into the Gungat's inner wall, injuring Titus and dislodging the C'tan Phase Sword, but Boomblasta survived and pulled the weapon from his body.
• Boomblasta used the Phase Sword and metal debris to attack Imperial craft as Orks overwhelmed the Imperial defenders, while Alpharius waited in concealment with the Emperor's Sword.

The Deathskulls ambushed the Imperial fleet while Alpharius fought Boomblasta inside the Space Gungat, and Calgar battled Bloodskull Boss amid the escalating Ork assault. Boomblasta survived Alpharius’s attack, and Alpharius emerged battered as another immensely powerful Ork kept fighting.

• The Deathskulls fleet jumped into the battle and struck the Imperial rear, forcing Calgar to reorganize the Expeditionary Force and prepare an assault on the Space Gungat.
• Alpharius pursued Boomblasta through the Gungat’s cramped passages, where Boomblasta built improvised armor and fought back with powerful Waaagh energy.
• Alpharius and Boomblasta exchanged devastating blows until a Weirdboss’s psychic blast extinguished the flames; Boomblasta survived and was carried toward a Mekboy forge.
• Varro Tigurius exposed the teleporting Bloodskull Boss’s attack, and the Space Marines killed his Weirdboss and trapped his bodyguards in crossfire.
• Calgar fought Bloodskull Boss, breaking his arm and landing heavy blows, but Bloodskull Boss healed and drew more Orks into the battle.
• Alpharius climbed back from beneath the Gungat’s decks and saw another huge, psyker-powered Ork charging through the battlefield.

Alpharius and the Ultramarines tried to escape the collapsing Space Gungat while Ork clans attacked the Imperial fleet. After surviving the blast and recovering from his wounds, Boomblasta challenged the Deathskulls boss and emerged in newly assembled Power Armor, ready to fight.

• Alpharius tore off Bloodskull Boss’s arm, ate Ork flesh for energy and information, and prepared to defeat him as Guilliman while Calgar and the other Astartes fought on.
• The Deathskulls boss sensed danger and led his fleet toward the Space Gungat, but Boomblasta’s fast-moving Evil Sunz forces arrived and attacked the Deathskulls ships.
• Morigen led the White Scars through the Golden Battle Moon and reached the Bad Moons Boss after cutting through his bodyguards.
• Guilliman ordered the Imperial forces to evacuate and detonate their charges, destroying much of the Gungat but leaving Boomblasta alive as the Orks and Imperial fleets began trading fire.
• The Deathskulls boss entered the damaged Gungat, while Boomblasta recovered from emergency surgery and confronted him after breaking through the surrounding wall.
• The Deathskulls boss struck Boomblasta with his Psykic Cannon, but Boomblasta grew stronger, regenerated his arm, and dismantled the boss’s mech before assembling its armor into a new suit of Power Armor.

Morigen’s White Scars killed the Bad Moons boss, while Guilliman’s forces fought the remaining Orks and Magnus’s invasion of Macragge’s Honour. Magnus trapped Guilliman aboard the Space Hulk, but Boomblasta defeated the Deathskulls boss, united the clans, and set his sights on the Hulk as a new flagship.

• Morigen led the White Scars’ armored assault and killed the Bad Moons boss, allowing Guilliman to order an attack on the Golden Battle Moon.
• Guilliman boarded an Ork ship and destroyed the Deathskulls boss’s ship, then returned to Macragge’s Honour as Magnus and his daemons breached the flagship.
• Magnus attacked the ship, and Guilliman called for the Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence before confronting Magnus in the hot spring.
• Magnus transported Guilliman and the bathroom to the Space Hulk, where the Primarchs fought while Imperial forces struggled to reach Guilliman.
• Boomblasta defeated the Deathskulls boss, took command of the clan, and drew the Orks’ attention toward the Space Hulk as his next flagship.

Evan weighed plans to deal with the Dark Angels while his forces fought a Sons of Horus warband that had invaded the Great Thousand World. As new threats spread through Segmentum Obscurus, Evan headed toward a distress signal involving missing Space Wolves and sent Rogier to discuss their conversion into Adamantium Warriors.

• Evan and Victor discussed the risks of confronting the First Legion and considered provoking the Dark Angels or disguising their forces as a warband led by the Fallen.
• The Wolves of Horus invaded a world in the Great Thousand World, and Kazhaniv led an assault on their Strike Cruiser to capture the traitors and their Apothecary.
• The Justaerin veteran used a Singularity Seal to teleport a boarding party onto Evan's warship, where they found Terminators waiting for them.
• Kazhaniv captured the enemy Apothecary, but a spacetime-distorting device trapped his forces aboard the enemy ship while Evan's flagship had slipped away.
• After Librarian Sisyphus warned that a dormant power was stirring, Evan moved his flagship toward the threats in Segmentum Obscurus and received signals about widespread attacks and missing Space Wolves.
• Evan recruited Rogier to investigate the missing Space Wolves, then sent him to discuss their conversion into Adamantium Warriors with the Space Wolves.

Rogier and the Wolf Brothers prepared to join the Space Wolves, while Evan coordinated armor and military support for several Chapters and redirected the Light of the People toward Guilliman and Khan Morigen’s battle. Meanwhile, Kazhaniv and Nian Cijin interrogated captured Luna Wolves, and Kazhaniv declared his intention to destroy Abaddon and the Black Legion.

• Rogier armed the Wolf Brothers, moved the Wolf Pack aboard the Wolf of Fenris, and Kuroser left the Dawn Angels to join them.
• Evan woke Anthony and sent him on a diplomatic mission to persuade the Salamanders to equip their Veterans with Adamantium Armor.
• Evan reviewed the Imperium’s campaigns and chose to seek the Iron Hands’ help repairing two Gloriana-class Battleships, but Ina reported that Guilliman’s forces had joined Khan Morigen in fierce fighting.
• Kazhaniv and Nian Cijin questioned a captured Luna Wolves Apothecary and Justaerin Veteran after Barton helped defeat them.
• Kazhaniv declared that the Luna Wolves would fight their way back to Terra and vowed to kill Abaddon and exterminate the Black Legion.
• Nian Cijin gave the Apothecary a Small Green Orb during their interrogation, and the Apothecary died after Kazhaniv and Nian Cijin left.

William’s fleet found his abandoned pirate outpost and began scouting toward the fighting, while Major General Barov led a desperate boarding assault against Orks and died helping his crew defeat their Warboss. The chapter ended with William’s group choosing the 46th Supply Line as its next destination and wondering whether Barov’s mortal forces there had survived.

• William found his former outpost deserted and sent reconnaissance ships toward the battlefield and nearby Deathwatch fortresses.
• Major General Barov prepared a mass charge against the Orks after his fleet ran short of ammunition and officials withheld supplies.
• Barov and many of his family and crew died in the assault, but Herrick and an old galley worker helped bring down the Ork Warboss.
• Herrick announced victory, ordered the crew to withdraw, and carried the Warboss’s head back to the warship.
• Xiao Lan identified the 46th Supply Line as a possible source of intelligence, and William said the mortals he had trained there were the best.

Herrick uncovered evidence that Barov’s crew had been betrayed by Imperial bureaucracy and chose to share it with William, while the Crimson Tide fleet joined the battle at the Space Hulk. Guilliman pursued Magnus as the hulk’s soul-powered ritual began dragging its central warship into Slaanesh’s domain.

• Herrick recognized the Emperor’s Angels’ words from the hidden book, recited its contents, and was taken aboard William’s warship for questioning.
• Herrick told William that Barov and his people had died after ammunition failed to arrive, and chose his crew over his family when William tested his loyalty.
• Guilliman fought Magnus inside the corrupted bathhouse while Tzeentch prepared to send him into Slaanesh’s palace using the Space Hulk’s accumulated souls.
• The Red River fleet arrived with more than fifty capital ships, and the Adamantium Warriors led by the Chief Librarian and Lamenters attacked the Space Hulk.
• Evan deployed his forces as Boomblasta drove his warship toward the hulk, while Guilliman renewed his pursuit of Magnus.
• The Space Hulk’s ritual tore through reality and began pulling its central warship into Slaanesh’s domain.

The Imperial forces and Crimson Tide pushed into the Space Hulk as it faded into the Realm of Slaanesh, while the Chief Librarian and Alpharius became trapped there with Magnus and Fulgrim. William’s forces fought the Tzeentch Daemons and Alpha Legion, and the chapter ended with Kazhaniv facing the Greater Daemon as Adamantium Warriors opened fire.

• Mororis ordered the Terminators to enter the Hulk and place Teleport Beacons while the Black Consuls launched a boarding assault to find their stranded forces and hunt the Word Bearers.
• The Black Consuls Company Commander met William, then Orks attacked the command post and the Adamantium Warriors defended it with overwhelming firepower.
• Mororis teleported into a Transport Ship, broke through traitor defenses with his weapons, and led the Terminators through the Hulk toward Boomblasta and the Greater Daemon.
• The fading ship rammed into the Realm of Slaanesh, where Alpharius encountered Magnus and Fulgrim as the Chief Librarian arrived to save a Black Consuls warrior and was corrupted by Slaanesh.
• William’s forces reached the battlefield, Kazhaniv killed the Alpha Legion sorcerer and several traitors, and the Greater Daemon raised a metal wave against him while the Adamantium Warriors fired back.

William’s forces fought off a Tzeentch Greater Daemon as the Space Hulk’s central ship fell into Slaanesh’s realm, where Guilliman and Kaldor faced Fulgrim. Boomblasta unleashed the Orks’ gathered Waaagh energy through a chain-built iron ball, returning the ship and its defenders to reality.

• The Tzeentch Greater Daemon twisted nearby Sisters and an Inquisitor with its sorcery while William’s Adamantium Warriors advanced through its psychic shields.
• Mad Wolf attacked the Greater Daemon with his Lightning Power Claws, but the Daemon revived from a hidden fruit and dragged him toward William.
• Tzeentch’s Daemons vanished as Slaaneshi Daemons emerged, trapping Guilliman, Kaldor, and the Chief Librarian in Slaanesh’s realm while Fulgrim attacked Guilliman.
• Boomblasta gathered chains onto his mech, formed an iron ball, and channelled the battlefield’s Waaagh energy through it with a mighty war cry.
• Boomblasta’s Waaagh blast drove Shalaxi away from the Chief Librarian and knocked Fulgrim back, returning the ship and its defenders to reality.

The Imperials recovered Guilliman and the Chief Librarian from the devastated warship and withdrew as Boomblasta’s Orks took control of the Space Hulk. After the Ork fleet’s defeat, Boomblasta escaped into the Warp to build his forces for a future attack on Terra, while Morigen’s forces prepared to meet with the Wind and Cloud-class Battleships.

• Alpharius spotted an Aeldari blade, and its blast tore open the warship’s stern, leaving Guilliman and the Chief Librarian gravely wounded.
• William ordered the Imperial forces to retreat from the Orks, and Kazhaniv arranged an evacuation after being blasted away from the Space Hulk.
• Evan rushed to the Chief Librarian’s aid, while Morigen took command of the Imperial war effort as much of its leadership remained incapacitated.
• Boomblasta led the Space Hulk into the Warp to seek a stronger enemy, leaving the Deathskulls Boss in charge of the fighting.
• The Red Talons arrived with supplies, and the Imperial fleet crushed the Orks, forcing the Deathskulls Boss to flee into the Warp.
• Morigen contacted the Pipi Shrimp, flagship of the Wind and Cloud-class Battleship group, as the White Scars prepared to discuss the ships.

Evan welcomed Khan Morigen and the White Scars aboard a Wind and Cloud-class Battleship, where he demonstrated its speed, weapons, and unusual wall-mounted banquet. As the Chapters negotiated their reunion and exchanged relics, Evan presented Morigen with artifacts from the nine Traitor Legions and a T'au battlesuit, hoping to secure more gifts in return.

• Khan Morigen ordered the White Scars fleet to pursue the fleeing Orks, while the Phantom Dragon-class warships vanished into the Warp and the Imperial forces stayed behind.
• Evan and the Beiwei Army met Morigen and the White Scars aboard a Wind and Cloud-class Battleship, showing them the Coiling Dragon Staff, the ship's weapons, and a high-speed racing circuit.
• Evan hosted Morigen and the White Scars in a wall-mounted banquet, where Morigen pulled the acceleration lever and the guests sampled canned meats and Kolan Wine.
• Evan explained that the battleships had been commissioned by the Adeptus Custodes and that preparations for a major operation were nearly complete, reassuring Morigen about the ships' origins.
• Morigen presented Evan with the masterwork sword Snow Eagle, and Evan replied with relics from the nine Traitor Legions and a T'au KV87 Battlesuit.

Evan traded weapons, vehicles, and supplies with Khan Morigen and the White Scars, then warned him to prepare for distant campaigns and a coming crisis. The Crimson Tide departed for the Iron Hands, where Enke and the Techmarines faced the problem of treating the corrupted Chief Librarian.

• Evan and Khan Morigen joined forces against the fleeing Bad Moons, while the White Scars grew suspicious after their Battle Barge arrived at the target region without the Wind and Cloud-class Battleship.
• William and Evan arranged exchanges with the White Scars, including Shadow Wasp Fighters, Hedgehog transports, equipment, and Cyber-Eagles, while Evan demonstrated his rice-cake food and armor.
• Evan privately urged Morigen to keep his fleets supplied during their distant campaigns and to strike the enemy's rear when a major event occurred.
• The Crimson Tide formally parted from the White Scars and headed toward the Iron Hands, while Morigen ordered his successor Chapters to prepare for prolonged war.
• Enke rejected interring the corrupted Chief Librarian in a Contemptor Dreadnought, and the Lamenters offered an empty Death Company Dreadnought as a possible alternative.

Evan's Crimson Tide fleet joined the Iron Hands' campaign against the Drukhari, but a battle around the Adeptus Mechanicus Ark Mechanicus Hope's Wish turned into a confrontation between the allied forces. As Patriarch Hammonk demanded compensation, William threatened the damaged Ark with orbital bombardment, leaving Hammonk to weigh whether accusing them of treason would get it destroyed.

• Nian Cijin negotiated with an Adeptus Mechanicus Archmagos to have Crimson Tide forces work as battlefield scavengers, then learned that Evan's fleet was arriving to join the campaign.
• Evan's fleet reached the Drukhari-held world, where Hammonk's forces had been fighting to locate a Webway Gate, and the Iron Hands ordered the newcomers to capture a mining area.
• The Crimson Tide fleet encountered the continent-sized Ark Mechanicus Hope's Wish, then came under attack when the Drukhari struck during the chaos around the vessel.
• The Iron Hands' Ark Mechanicus and the Crimson Tide fleet exchanged fire after the Hope's Wish's defenses targeted Evan's ships, while the Drukhari's destruction triggered a spatial storm that badly damaged the Ark.
• Patriarch Hammonk blamed the Crimson Tide for ruining his plan and demanded compensation, while William positioned his warships for orbital bombardment and Hammonk judged there was over a 90% chance they would destroy the Ark if he declared them traitors.

The Iron Hands and the Crimson Tide maneuvered around the battle while Emperor’s Thunder devastated the Drukhari, and the Adeptus Mechanicus secretly profited from both sides. William then revealed that the Crimson Tide had captured a Gloriana-class Battleship and sought Iron Hands support, leaving the patriarch stunned by the possibility that the Crimson Tide had access to more than one.

• Hammonk sent the Iron Father to keep the Crimson Tide’s fleet away from the battlefield while Emperor’s Thunder deployed against the Drukhari.
• Emperor’s Thunder and the allied forces shattered the Drukhari defenses, prompting rebel Kabals to escape through the Webway and scattering the remaining Drukhari.
• The Adeptus Mechanicus arranged for five Deathwatch warriors to survive the bombardment and withdrew its Skitarii with Drukhari salvage, seeking profit while avoiding the Chapters’ conflict.
• William and the Adamantium Warriors met the Hammonk patriarch aboard Hamonk Glory, where the Iron Hands scrutinized their armor and weapons.
• William asked the Iron Hands to help repair a captured Gloriana-class Battleship and disclosed that the Lord Regent and an Adeptus Custodes were involved in the secret operation.
• The patriarch asked how many Gloriana-class Battleships the Crimson Tide had.

William and the Iron Hands negotiated cooperation and the repair of the Iron Fist, while the Tech Mogul Custodian emerged from hiding and agreed to design its refit. The Iron Hands paused their campaign to gather for the project, leaving the Dawn Goddess Chapter to take over command as xenos flight and raiding reshaped the war.

• William and the Iron Hands agreed that every Hammonk warrior and Iron Council member would join the project, while the Dawn Goddess Chapter offered support on the front lines.
• The two sides held a joint live-fire exercise against xenos, and William revealed that his Chapter included Sons of Iron Hands.
• Lian Leilo rejected sending troops to Segmentum Pacificus, reported on his expedition beyond the Macharius Rampart, and vowed to eradicate the parasitic xenos he had encountered.
• The Adamantium Warriors found the Tech Mogul Custodian after searching the Light of the People, and he emerged after they discovered a welded-shut passage and triggered his concern about the hidden traps.
• The Tech Mogul Custodian agreed to meet the Iron Hands Techmarines and presented them with a draft design for the Gloriana-class Battleship repairs.
• The Iron Hands halted their advance while their leaders gathered, and the Dawn Goddess Chapter took over command as xenos began fleeing and raiding while Evan prepared to target Rogue Traders.

Rogue Trader Hatutàn’s profiteering from a xenos world brought him under scrutiny when an Astartes fleet arrived and uncovered parasite eggs disguised as jade. The Iron Hands forces seized his ships and information, then guided an Imperial Navy assault that left a noble admiral eager to claim the world for military honors.

• Hatutàn exploited the Hruk’s abandoned holdings and sold deceptive xenos jade while planning to profit from the Imperium’s expeditionary campaign.
• An Astartes fleet arrived, boarded Hatutàn’s ships, and began investigating his crew and cargo.
• Outales and the Techmarine discovered that the supposed jade contained parasite eggs, and the Astartes destroyed the infected grox and confiscated Hatutàn’s escape device.
• The Librarian interrogated Hatutàn about other Rogue Traders while the Crimson Tide swept through his ships and uncovered his contacts.
• An Imperial Navy force and a Vostroyan Firstborn regiment arrived several days later, and their admiral agreed to follow the Astartes’ orders.
• The Imperial Navy bombarded the xenos bunkers where the surviving defenders had taken shelter, giving the admiral a chance to claim military honors.