Chapter Summaries

The Salamanders Sixth Company, led by Ulusa, attacked the Iron Warriors and Dark Mechanicum forces, captured the Iron Warriors’ commander, and drove the enemy fleet into retreat. Morgen escaped aboard a damaged Strike Cruiser, which was lured into the Warp by the Baina Robe’s faint psychic beacon.

• Morgen led Iron Warriors through the Mechanicus warship’s defences while their Psyker and Chaplain helped break through the Skitarii blockade.
• Ulusa and the Salamanders Sixth Company boarded the fight and attacked the Iron Warriors from behind, forcing them into a desperate counterattack.
• Ulusa defeated the Iron Warriors’ commander and captured him for interrogation, while the Mechanicus gunships battered the Dark Mechanicum fleet.
• Morgen took command, teleported his warriors outside the Mechanicus ship, and tried to regroup after the Iron Warriors’ Strike Cruiser fled without them.
• The Salamanders retook their captured Strike Cruiser as the Dark Mechanicum ships lost their Void Shields and were trapped near the Mandeville Point.
• The Baina Robe revealed a tiny sliver of psychic beacon light, and Morgen’s damaged Strike Cruiser plunged into the Warp toward it.

Evan’s forces captured a damaged Iron Warriors Strike Cruiser and defeated the traitors aboard it. After discovering valuable supplies and a mysterious Force Weapon, Evan arranged to trade the plunder for repairs and covertly take the cruiser to Forge World Mavrek.

• Evan’s fleet crippled an enemy Strike Cruiser as it emerged from the Warp, then sent transports carrying Astartes and Imperialis Militia to board it.
• Evan’s forces secured the ship’s command room and fought the Iron Warriors holding the storage area, killing all ten without losing anyone, though three sons of the Imperial Fists were severely wounded.
• The Adeptus Mechanicus assessed the corrupted ship and its plunder, while the Techmarine found a strange Gourd Hammer that he identified as a likely Force Weapon.
• Annos told Evan that the supplies were valuable enough to trade for a budget repair of the Strike Cruiser, and Evan decided to have the cruiser repaired for free in exchange.
• Evan summoned Xiao Lan to negotiate with Forge World Mavrek as a Cruiser Squadron towed the captured ship toward the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Evan arranged a survival-based graduation assessment for the Fifth Batch and considered how the Crimson Tide Chapter should govern worlds it reconquered. The chapter ended with his resolve to keep the Chapter involved in planetary governance and ignore the Codex Astartes when necessary.

• The Salamanders pursued a stolen Relic, interrogated Morgen, and negotiated with the Adeptus Mechanicus to search its ships and supplies.
• Evan secured the Gourd Hammer aboard the Righteous Vigil after suspecting it might be dangerous.
• Evan told William that the Fifth Batch would form the Eleventh Company and earn graduation by surviving alongside veteran Astartes in the next war.
• Evan considered how abandoned, devastated worlds could fall back into Chaos when Imperial forces left without rebuilding or governing them.
• Evan decided the Crimson Tide Chapter had to participate in governance and rejected the Codex Astartes as a constraint on the Chapter's rule.

The Adeptus Mechanicus awakened a gigantic deep-sea monster while building an Ocean Agri World, and Priest Mapus was ordered to capture it or face expulsion. Meanwhile, Evan welcomed the sixth batch of recruits with an oath to fight for humanity, then received an urgent communication from the Adeptus Mechanicus.

• The Crimson Tide Chapter left Scaria to recruit on another planet, entrusting selection to Nian Cijin.
• Priest Mapus oversaw construction on an ocean world and dismissed concerns about surveying the deep seabed.
• The Adeptus Mechanicus drilling awakened a Leviathan-class monster, which destroyed a transport before returning to the depths.
• Archbishop Froes ordered Priest Mapus to capture the monster or be expelled, leaving Mapus considering asking Evan for help.
• Evan led the sixth batch of recruits in an oath to fight for humanity and the Emperor.
• Evan received an urgent communication from the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Evan and the Crimson Tide Chapter tried to capture a twelve-kilometre sea beast and recover a wreck for Priest Mapus, but their weapons barely hurt it. They lured the creature to the surface and sent three teams of Astartes into its mouth, where the chapter ended with the beast diving back into the deep.

• Evan accepted Priest Mapus's request and brought three Lunar-class Cruiser Squadrons and nearly sixty warriors to the Unnamed Star System.
• Priest Mapus showed Evan how the enormous sea beast had bitten a transport ship apart and asked him to recover the wreck, the beast, and its scattered teeth.
• The Crimson Tide Chapter fired Lance salvos and a Space Torpedo at the beast, but it survived the attacks and swam away.
• Evan planned to use the beast's missing teeth as markers and prepared three teams of Astartes to board it with Melta Bombs.
• The Chapter lured the beast toward the surface with a decoy ship and repeated attacks, then the warriors leapt into its open mouth.
• The beast shut its jaws without catching the Astartes and swam back toward the deep sea.

Evan and the Crimson Tide Chapter planted Melta Bombs inside the Leviathan-sized sea monster and survived its destruction and recovery, securing Tech-Priest Mapus's memory backup as payment. After the fleet returned from the Warp, it found the Emperor's Spears waiting in the system, setting up a tense meeting with the Chapter.

• Evan led three squads through the sea monster's mouth, where the Astartes used the Omophagea to learn its anatomy and blasted their way toward its brain.
• The squads planted bombs along the monster's nerves and withdrew as slime closed in, then the explosions crippled the creature and a transport hauled up its corpse and the surviving Astartes.
• Tech-Priest Mapus honored his deal by handing over his hidden memory backup, and Evan guarded it as the three Lunar-class Cruiser flotillas departed.
• The flotillas emerged from the Warp and found the Emperor's Spears resupplying in the system aboard the Righteous Vigil.
• The Emperor's Spears questioned the Crimson Tide Chapter's political conduct, while the Crimson Tide claimed ignorance and awaited Evan's return.
• Evan brought his fleet back to the station as the Emperor's Spears waited to meet him.

Evan argued with Captain Doverlit about the Ecclesiarchy, while Librarian Sisyphus experienced a prophecy showing Evan beside the Golden Throne and the Emperor’s return. As the Emperor’s Spears debated whether the vision was true, a daemon sent by Tzeentch infiltrated the Crimson Tide Chapter’s planet.

• Evan welcomed Captain Doverlit and defended expelling the Ecclesiarchy, arguing that loyalty to the Emperor was distinct from loyalty to the Church.
• After the Emperor’s Spears returned to their ship, Librarian Sisyphus entered a prophecy in which he saw Evan connected to the Golden Throne and a living Emperor return through a Warp Rift.
• Sisyphus woke from the vision and warned Doverlit that Evan was the key, leaving the Emperor’s Spears divided over whether the prophecy was genuine or a Chaos deception.
• Evan put the Crimson Tide Chapter on alert and ordered its warriors to monitor the Emperor’s Spears and prepare their weapons.
• Tzeentch sent a rune-bound daemon through a Warp Rift at the system’s Mandeville Point, and it infiltrated the planet where the Crimson Tide Chapter was stationed.

A Tzeentch Daemon infiltrated the Emperor's Spears and manipulated their warriors into provoking a conflict with Evan's Crimson Tide Chapter. The deception escalated into a battle aboard the Righteous Vigil, where Kazhaniv joined the fight by crashing into the enemy boarding force.

• A Tzeentch Daemon possessed a meteorite scanner, passed through a series of objects, and reached the Emperor's Spears' Strike Cruiser.
• The daemon manipulated Old Wolf Dun into joining a conspiracy to kill Evan, and the Emperor's Spears planned to provoke the Crimson Tide Chapter.
• After reports that the Emperor's Spears had killed people on the planet, Evan ordered his fleet to target their Strike Cruiser, while conspirators sabotaged communications.
• Captain Doverlit launched boarding pods disguised as missiles, and the Emperor's Spears opened fire after their troops suffered casualties in an apparent attack.
• William and Evan led the Crimson Tide Chapter's defense aboard the Righteous Vigil as Evan fought Doverlit and Old Wolf Dun attacked him.
• Kazhaniv flew to the Righteous Vigil in a Fury-class Interceptor and leapt into the enemy Assault Pod to join the battle.

The Crimson Tide Chapter and Captain Doverlit’s warriors fought a deadly battle aboard the mothership, while Kazhaniv nearly killed Old Wolf Dun and exposed the Tzeentch daemon manipulating events. The daemon escaped its skull, unleashed a devastating psychic storm, and was brought down by Librarian Sisyphus’s Psychic Smite.

• Kazhaniv wounded Old Wolf Dun with his Lightning Claw as William directed reinforcements and the Imperialis Militia joined the fight.
• Evan and Captain Doverlit continued their duel while both sides suffered heavy casualties, and Evan damaged Doverlit’s armour and broke his weapons.
• The Tzeentch daemon revealed itself to save Old Wolf Dun, then fled as Evan, Kazhaniv, Doverlit, and their warriors attacked it.
• The daemon’s interrupted teleportation triggered a psychic explosion that killed the remaining mortals and threw Evan, Kazhaniv, Old Wolf Dun, and Doverlit away.
• The daemon conjured a dangerous psychic illusion, but Librarian Sisyphus arrived and struck its true body with a Psychic Smite.

Librarian Sisyphus and the Crimson Tide warriors defeated the Tzeentch Daemon, then Evan forced the surviving Emperor's Spears into the Penitent Company rather than let their deaths go unanswered. Six months later, Evan held a battle review that examined the fighting and discussed how the Chapter could improve its tactics.

• Librarian Sisyphus arrived and struck the Tzeentch Daemon with psychic Smites, while Evan, Captain Doverlit, and the warriors attacked until the daemon was destroyed.
• Evan learned that twenty-three Crimson Tide warriors had died and forty-one were severely wounded, then gave the surviving Emperor's Spears the choice of fighting to the death or joining the Penitent Company.
• Librarian Sisyphus urged the Emperor's Spears to trust his prophecy about Evan and the Emperor's resurrection, and they agreed to serve under Evan.
• Evan ordered searches for lingering traces of the daemon, and six months later the Chapter had returned to routine patrol duty.
• At Evan's post-battle review, William discussed Jump-Pack assaults, Xiao Lan proposed changes to squad equipment, and Kazhaniv explained how he fought larger opponents.
• Doverlit criticized the Crimson Tide's failure to attack the Emperor's Spears from the flanks and rear, and Evan ended the review by challenging William to explain the tactical mistake.

Evan’s fleet was lost in the Warp after its Navigators died, then emerged into the Panova System and joined an Imperial assault on Slaanesh’s forces. The Crimson Tide Chapter boarded the enemy fleet and fought Noise Marines aboard the Righteous Vigil, where Evan and his warriors began gaining the upper hand.

• The Crimson Tide Chapter completed its anti-boarding defenses and left its training system to recruit its eighth batch of initiates.
• The fleet’s Navigators suddenly died in the Warp, and Sisyphus prophesied a direction for the ships to follow.
• Evan’s fleet emerged amid fighting in the Panova System and joined Captain Sloft’s Imperial forces against Slaanesh’s fleet.
• Evan coordinated a concentrated salvo that broke the linked enemy ships’ Void Shields while the Battle Barges attacked at close range.
• Nearly seventy Noise Marines teleported aboard the Righteous Vigil and overwhelmed the Imperialis Militia with sonic weapons.
• Evan and the Eleventh Company joined the Penitent Company in battle, and the Crimson Tide warriors began to overpower the Noise Marines.

Evan’s forces defeated the Noise Marines aboard the Righteous Vigil and prepared to assault the Slaanesh-corrupted planet. Below, Ina fled her transformed family through the Hive City’s maintenance passages and collapsed near the Underhive.

• Evan used the Baina Robe to reach the Noise Marines’ Psychic Shield, shattered it after thirteen strikes, and led the Penitent Company in wiping out the defenders.
• The Crimson Tide fleet destroyed or pursued the enemy warships, but the planet’s intact Void Shields forced Evan to plan a ground assault.
• Evan gave Sisyphus the Gourd Hammer, which amplified his psychic power and could attack targets across a wide area, though using it exhausted him.
• Ina’s family turned into a mass of flesh and drove her away, so she gathered food and water and escaped toward the lower levels.
• Slaaneshi corruption spread through the Hive City as daemons and grotesque factories exploited the population, while Ina descended the maintenance passage and fell asleep at its bottom.

Astartes forces assaulted the Slaaneshi-held Hive City, fought through its corrupted districts, and broke into the central Void Shield facility. In the Underhive, Xiao Lan's squad found Ina, who had survived behind a door protected by a Blank's presence.

• Ina woke in a transformed Underhive and hid in a maintenance passage, terrified and longing for her family.
• Evan divided the Astartes forces across the Hive City while Xiao Lan led recruits through the Underhive and other squads fought toward the Void Shield facility.
• Evan, Kazhaniv, and Librarian Sisyphus defeated the regenerating Mammon Daemon, allowing the Crimson Tide Chapter to enter the facility.
• Xiao Lan's squad searched the Underhive for survivors and found Ina after a Chaos Cultist forced open her door.
• Xiao Lan reported to the Chapter Master that his squad had found a Blank.

Evan’s forces destroyed the hive city’s warp-enhancement devices and antiaircraft batteries, allowing Imperial troops and Titans to land and push back the daemons. As the city’s last powerful daemon was banished, Captain Sloft’s Astra Militarum prepared to join the fight, and the warriors of Krieg began their atonement.

• Evan’s warriors discovered people fused inside a device feeding anguish into the void shield generator, then planted charges to destroy it as William and Kazhaniv headed for other targets.
• Explosions destroyed warp-amplifier junctions and the stellar defense battery, while Sisyphus shielded Evan’s force as the daemons weakened and Xiao Lan brought Ina, a Blank, to support them.
• Tzeentch noticed another disturbance in the threads of fate and asked Kairos to examine the changed future, but Kairos could not identify its cause.
• Imperial transports landed through the opening in the defenses, and the Imperialis Militia and Titans established positions around the hive city as Kazhaniv searched the Spire for enemies.
• Anthony and his squad tracked down and banished the hive city’s remaining powerful Slaaneshi daemon, though Anthony was badly wounded and placed in a stasis field.
• Captain Sloft argued for deploying his Astra Militarum, then received word that the time had come; the warriors of Krieg began their atonement.

Vlorus and the Imperialis Militia endured a Slaaneshi assault until Xiao Lan led the Tenth Company, Titans, tanks, and Death Korps of Krieg in a counterattack through the blood fog. The Imperial force reached an enormous flesh-built structure that appeared to be the enemy's core.

• Vlorus helped Old Booze and Delie survive the bombardment and first assault, while the Militia held its position behind a newly formed magma river.
• Xiao Lan arrived, assessed the blood fog and enemy defenses, and prepared the Tenth Company to destroy the device at the heart of the Slaaneshi army.
• Xiao Lan led Titan and tank formations into the blood fog as daemons and corrupted machines inflicted heavy losses.
• Death Korps of Krieg cavalry charged through the gaps in the armored line, sacrificing themselves to secure the flanks.
• The Mechanicum and Sons of Iron Hands resumed the advance and spotted a vast structure made of flesh ahead.

The Crimson Tide Chapter and the Death Korps of Krieg destroyed the Slaaneshi Flesh Factory, reclaimed the planet, and gathered to mourn their losses and celebrate victory. As the Chapter promoted its surviving Neophytes, Evan tried to comfort the grieving Ina before being summoned to speak with the Oberon-class Battleship's captain.

• Xiao Lan ordered the Titans to fire their Quake Cannons at the Flesh Factory, triggering a devastating explosion that dispersed the blood mist and drove the Slaaneshi Daemons away.
• Evan halted Xiao Lan's advance and assigned the Second Company and Penitent Company to attack the final Flesh Factory as the other forces swept the Hive City.
• The Slaaneshi Daemons withdrew into the Warp, and Evan led the Titans and ground forces through the enemy's defenses while the Imperial Navy continued its bombardment.
• Delie woke in an isolation cell, remembered his time with Old Booze, and learned that the planet had been reclaimed while the survivors were being screened for Chaos corruption.
• Evan invited Ina to stay with the Chapter and summoned Xiao Lan to meet her, then led a memorial, promotion ceremony, and victory banquet aboard the Light of Dawn.
• Evan tried to console Ina with food, then went to answer a call from the captain of the Oberon-class Battleship.

Evan returned from the war to find that four years had passed and his contingency plan had created a provisional force in his absence. As the Crimson Tide Chapter resumed recruitment and repairs, Boomblasta led an expanding Ork waaaagh into the Segmentum Obscurus, where it encountered a rival force.

• Evan negotiated with Captain Sloft for Navigators and agreed to send ten warriors, while both sides promised to praise each other’s battlefield record.
• Annos discovered Slaaneshi Cultists aboard the Righteous Vigil, prompting Evan to organize searches; Sisyphus detected and killed hidden cultists with the Gourd Hammer.
• After four days of screening, the Crimson Tide Chapter departed for its recruitment planets and learned that its warp journeys had cost four years.
• Evan disbanded the provisional Second Crimson Tide Chapter, resumed recruitment, and took a Krieg artillery commander as an instructor for the Imperialis Militia.
• Boomblasta grew into a powerful Ork warlord, led a waaaagh into the Segmentum Obscurus, and prepared to fight a Blood Axes force.

Evan recruited the powerful psyker Cancero by offering him time near Ina, then took them both to enjoy the seaside before Ina returned to her studies. As the Crimson Tide Chapter neared its hundredth birthday, Evan reflected on a century of campaigning and the monument drifting near Taste.

• Boomblasta fought the Blood Axes across Ork star systems as both sides expanded their forces and war machines.
• Evan took Ina to the Underhive to find the psyker Cancero, whom he identified at a marketplace stall.
• Cancero agreed to join Evan’s forces and teach Ina psyker combat in exchange for time near her and military support.
• Evan brought Ina and Cancero to the seaside, where they ate grilled fish at Omani’s restaurant.
• Ina returned to her studies with Cancero, while the Crimson Tide Chapter approached its hundredth birthday and Evan remembered the monument near Taste.

The Crimson Tide Chapter retrieved the repaired Eternal Mountain and Blessed Forest from Stolov, then rushed to the Ashishk System after Inquisitor Collins’s Black Ship came under attack by Orks. Evan led the Chapter’s forces into battle, where they fought to relieve the Black Ship and reclaim a wrecked Cruiser.

• Evan collected the repaired Eternal Mountain and Blessed Forest from Bishop Phinnis, but Stolov refused to supply ammunition without an STC Fragment.
• The Crimson Tide fleet returned to the Taste System before Evan sent three warships and four Cruiser Squadrons to reinforce the Ashishk System against an Ork fleet.
• Inquisitor Collins’s Black Ship entered the Orks’ battle by mistake, fled into the Warp under fire, and emerged in the Ashishk System with Ork ships in pursuit.
• Evan’s reinforcements arrived to find Ork warships rammed into the Black Ship and a Crimson Tide Cruiser destroyed, so he ordered rescue teams to the wreck and attacked the Orks.
• Evan and the Crimson Tide warriors boarded the Black Ship, joined the Deathwatch’s defense, and fought through the Orks as Cancero unleashed a Metal Storm.

Evan, Cancero, and the Crimson Tide Chapter defeated the Ork fleet and rescued Inquisitor Collins and the Deathwatch. After the survivors regrouped at Stolov, Evan arranged Collins’s return while Ashishk World funded new ships, leaving Evan pleased that the purchases could help cover his Chapter’s repair costs.

• Cancero used metal constructs and flying blades to kill the fleet’s largest Ork Boss, while Evan and the assault force helped rout the Orks and eliminate their remaining leaders.
• The Crimson Tide Chapter joined Inquisitor Collins and the Deathwatch, and the combined forces killed the final Ork Boss, ending the battle.
• After three days of recovery at Stolov, Inquisitor Collins asked Evan for transport to Segmentum Obscurus, and Evan offered a Lunar-class Cruiser.
• Evan emphasized the cruiser losses while bidding Collins farewell, privately hoping to recover his costs by asking the Inquisitor for favors.
• Ashishk World approved funding for a navy and ordered a cruiser and escort ships from Stolov, delighting Evan because the purchases could help pay for his repaired warships.