Chapter Summaries

Evan prepared Atris to become the Crimson Tide's homeworld while investigating a rogue planet carrying an alien species toward the system and contradictory reports from distant war zones. Elsewhere, Boomblasta and Crazy Tim continued their massive space battle, with both Ork warlords ordering their fleets into a head-on assault.

• Salvage crews stripped the Ashishk wreckage, while Evan's troops secretly took equipment from the Black Ship and the Crimson Tide trained with its surplus Terminator Armour.
• Evan chose to establish an underground chapter fortress beneath Atris's northern ice wastes, including facilities for transforming neophytes.
• Observers detected a rogue planet on course for Atris in thirty-six years, and Evan sent small ships to deploy psyker beacons while his main force prepared to leave.
• Evan examined conflicting reports about battles in the Calixis Sector and marked reported fallen regions as enemy-occupied, but could not explain the silent areas or suspected Tyranid activity.
• Crazy Tim and Boomblasta identified their enemy as a fast-moving force of Evil Sunz and ordered their fleets to ram the opposing ships and prioritize speed.

Boomblasta and Crazy Tim’s Ork armies fought a massive war across their ships and Battle Moons while Imperial observers realized they could not exploit the conflict. As elite troops reached Boomblasta, he revealed his enormous Mek and fought off their attack, though the Jumper’s headless body kept charging.

• Boomblasta’s forces and Crazy Tim’s forces clashed across their Battle Moons and warships as the Ordo Xenos abandoned hopes of reclaiming planets during the fighting.
• Boomblasta’s troops used scavenged adamantium to build Firepower Fortresses, and a Blood Axes boss hauled a ship cannon into battle and blasted one apart.
• Crazy Tim strode onto the battlefield, smashed vehicles and installations with his Battering Ram, and demanded that Boomblasta come out to fight.
• Crazy Tim’s Weirdboss teleported elite Big Bosses close to Boomblasta, where they fought his Deff Dreads and personal Guard.
• Boomblasta activated his enormous Mek and its weapons tore through the attacking Big Bosses while its psyker-powered shields resisted Waaagh! Lightning.
• The Jumper charged Boomblasta’s Mek and lost his head to its power saw, but his headless body continued attacking until Boomblasta kicked it away.

Crazy Tim battered his way through Boomblasta’s defenses and fought the Boomblasta Mech, while the Imperium considered a risky plan to exploit the Ork war. The giant Mek and Crazy Tim’s Battering Ram traded heavy blows, and the chapter ended with Crazy Tim denting the Mech above its Plasma Cannon.

• Boomblasta’s psychic power devastated his troops and tore through the warship, while Crazy Tim advanced with Snakebite reinforcements and spaceborne Ork special forces.
• Crazy Tim’s army detoured around successive laser, plasma, and melta defenses before breaking through the bolter sector with a hastily assembled siege tank.
• The Inquisitors and Deathwatch assessed the danger posed by the two Ork forces and submitted a risky plan to relieve pressure on the front lines.
• Crazy Tim confronted Boomblasta in the Boomblasta Mech, enduring its weapons and closing to fight with his Siegebreaker Hammer.
• Crazy Tim’s waaaaaagh energy disrupted the Mech’s power saw, but Boomblasta used smoke and flight thrusters to evade him and attack from above.
• Crazy Tim spun up a dark hurricane that scattered Boomblasta’s missiles, then struck the Mech above its Plasma Cannon with the Battering Ram.

Crazy Tim and Boomblasta fought amid the arrival of Khorne’s forces and a Raven Guard suicide mission to destroy the secret technology for mass-producing Space Marines. After the battle scattered the fleets, Kafka arrived to deliver the Crimson Tide Chapter’s founding charter, only for a Chaos trace near the document to force Evan to consider destroying it.

• Crazy Tim battered Boomblasta’s mech until Boomblasta escaped in its flying head, while Crazy Tim’s Weirdboss later teleported him back to his flagship.
• A Raven Guard vessel carrying the secret mass-production technology entered the battle, drew Khorne’s forces into combat with the Orks, and destroyed its cargo before the surviving warriors tried to escape.
• The Raven Guard’s wreckage fell toward the Battle Moon as disguised escape vessels scattered anti-Warp devices among nearby Ork ships.
• Kafka arrived at Scaria with the Department of the Interior’s tax fleet and the Crimson Tide Chapter’s founding charter, and Evan welcomed him before ordering a Chaos inspection.
• Crimson Tide warriors detected Chaos traces aboard Kafka’s ship, and Sisyphus located concealed Warp energy near the charter, prompting Evan to ask whether they should destroy it along with the surrounding compartments.

Evan’s Crimson Tide Chapter destroyed Ork pirates who had shattered its monument, then tried to seize the human pirate ship Fountain of Wealth. Captain Siwana escaped the blockade in a burst of speed, leaving Evan determined to catch her.

• Evan used Ina to eliminate the threat aboard the tax officials’ ship, then told Kafka that the corrupted charter had burned and sent him away with tax schedules and White Jade Fruit.
• Over ten years, Evan completed the initial neophyte base while the Chapter trained recruits and expanded its forces.
• Siwana’s pirate ship Fountain of Wealth fled Ork pirates through the Warp and emerged near Taste, where the Orks destroyed the Crimson Tide’s monument.
• Evan deployed more than three hundred Astartes and the Chapter’s warships, overwhelming the Ork vessel with a massive barrage.
• Evan’s fleet fired on the Fountain of Wealth after Siwana claimed it was an escort ship, and its crew rushed for lifeboats.
• Siwana activated the ship’s modified drive, broke through the blockade, and raced toward the Mandeville Point as Evan ordered his ships to stop her.

The Sons of the White Scars captured Siwana’s ship and its unusual acceleration technology, while Kazhaniv’s disastrous misunderstanding of Siwana’s advances forced Evan to take over her interrogation. Siwana agreed to serve as a scout for the Chapter’s coming expedition into Segmentum Obscurus, and Annos woke from a dream of Evan pressuring him to finish his research.

• Kazhaniv teleported onto Siwana’s accelerating ship, seized her, and held the command room until the crew surrendered.
• Evan jailed Kazhaniv and offered the pirates freedom and legal residency in exchange for information about mineral deposits, while William struggled to interrogate Siwana.
• Siwana demanded to speak with Kazhaniv, who mistook her romantic advances for a desire to defect and explained how she might serve aboard a ship.
• Evan ended their confused conversation and privately persuaded Siwana to become an advance scout for the Chapter’s expedition into Segmentum Obscurus.
• Annos woke from a dream in which Evan repeatedly urged him to hurry his research, then welcomed Evan into his workspace.

Evan prepared a pirate-hunting force by trading for stealth assault transports, while Cancero accidentally injured him with uncontrolled psychic power and was ordered to help repair the ship. Meanwhile, five Raven Guard warriors tried to approach the Orks amid the battle against Khorne's forces.

• Evan asked Annos to develop a realspace acceleration device and a psychic-powered warp membrane, and Annos agreed to procure psykers and verify the technology.
• Evan decided to disguise his forces as pirates and traded technologies with Archbishop Froes for transport craft, which he developed into Shadowbee Type I and Type II vessels.
• Cancero sought advice from Librarian Sisyphus about controlling his psychic powers, but his attempt at mental emptiness tore through two decks and severely injured Evan.
• Evan ordered Cancero to work on repairing the ship, while Ina chased him with a martial arts staff and Sisyphus stood ready to stop him if he used his powers.
• Five Raven Guard warriors disguised their small spacecraft as debris and drifted toward the Ork forces while Khorne's fleet monitored the battlefield debris.

Five Raven Guard survivors emerged from a decade lost in the Warp and were rescued by Evan’s Chapter. A hostile exchange with Nidal ended with Evan badly wounded, and Situval attacked Nidal after discovering what had happened.

• Five Raven Guard warriors disguised their ship as debris, escaped the Ork and World Eaters battle, and eventually entered the Warp, where they drifted for roughly ten years.
• The Raven Guard detected a Psyker Beacon and emerged near Evan’s forces; the Penitent Company prepared to destroy their corrupted ship until Dovrit recognized them as survivors.
• Evan welcomed the five warriors, and Nidal questioned the legitimacy and mixed gene-seed of the Crimson Tide before criticizing Evan for delaying an expedition to Segmentum Obscurus.
• Nidal called Evan’s Chapter cowardly and punched him, reopening his wounds; Evan concealed how severe his injuries were while the Raven Guard tried to treat him.
• Situval arrived, treated Evan, and then drew a scalpel and attacked Nidal for injuring the Chapter Master.

The Raven Guard learned that Evan's Chapter had survived a legendary battle, while Evan and Annos explored the possibility of Astartes piloting Titans. On Emperor's Ascension Day, a disguised attacker used Grand Duke William's appearance to bomb the Departmento Munitorum building in the name of the Four-Armed Emperor.

• Sharia reminded the Raven Guard that Situval's Chapter had fought in the battle against the Forces of Khorne in the Taste System, and the visitors realized they had insulted celebrated survivors.
• Situval scolded Evan for risking his life, while Annos studied Mapus's theories about Astartes controlling Titans and discussed them with Evan near Ina.
• Grand Duke William celebrated his retirement with his family until an uninvited red-armored warrior left a photograph showing his son among the Astartes.
• Astartes on the planet uncovered a wave of plots and attacks as Emperor's Ascension Day celebrations continued.
• A disguised attacker used Grand Duke William's stolen identity to enter the military administration office and detonate a biomass bomb, destroying the Departmento Munitorum building.

Bars traced the attacks to a Genestealer Cult hiding beneath the Desert Hunters' Home and fought his way into its nest. As the Patriarch ordered the brood to flee, Bars continued his assault alone.

• Bars found records of an asteroid impact and suspected the attacks were part of a wider infiltration.
• Bars investigated settlements with unusual population movements and traveled to the Desert Hunters' Home.
• Bars discovered psychic corruption at an inn, ordered his companions to escape, and investigated the settlement while contact with other Astartes was jammed.
• Bars ambushed a Hybrid Neophyte, but Genestealers and cultists swarmed him, forcing him to retrieve his power sword and bolter.
• Bars slaughtered the attackers while the Patriarch, realizing the brood could not withstand him, ordered the others to flee.

Bars pursued the Genestealer Cult convoy and awakened powerful telekinetic psyker abilities, though their uncontrolled use left him vulnerable to the Warp. The Baina Robe shielded him from daemons and helped him unleash a final psychic wave that destroyed the Archbishop and the remaining cultists before Bars collapsed unconscious.

• Bars pursued the convoy after spotting it fleeing north and fought through its escorts to reach the central transport.
• Bars's newly awakened psyker power crushed the convoy's vehicles and enemies, while the Archbishop's Counterspell released the compressed air around him.
• Bars fought the Aberrant Overlord and other cultists, mistakenly believing the strange psychic events were Chaos corruption.
• Bars exhausted his psyker power and struggled against Warp whispers as the Archbishop prepared to shoot him with a Timber Rifle.
• The Baina Robe repelled the daemons in Bars's mind, and human battle cries strengthened him enough to unleash a psychic wave that killed the Archbishop and flattened the surviving cultists.
• Bars collapsed unconscious after the psychic attack.

Sara killed the Genestealer Patriarch while Bars awakened powerful psyker abilities, and Evan’s Chapter investigated Bars’s mysterious power before discovering a wrecked battleship worth salvaging. As the fleet headed for the frozen battlefield, a Drukhari ship arrived first.

• Sara found that the Genestealer Patriarch had hidden nearby, killed it, and then discovered Bars unconscious after a powerful psychic shockwave.
• Evan sent Situval and Librarian Sisyphus to examine Bars, who recovered and described two voices battling in his mind before the people’s cries prevailed.
• Sisyphus recognized Bars’s psychic energy as resembling the power around Evan’s Baina Robe and confirmed that it was not corruption by a dark god.
• Evan ordered the fleet to salvage a ruined Retribution-class Battleship after a probe discovered it embedded in a frozen planet.
• A Drukhari ship emerged from the Webway and approached the frozen planet ahead of Evan’s fleet.

Evan’s forces fought off the Drukhari who had attacked the neophytes, captured their ship, and pursued the surviving raiders into the frozen planet. The chapter left Chief Sanchez reaching an underground palace while Evan’s forces advanced toward the danger below.

• Evan sent Terminators to rescue the neophytes after learning Drukhari had boarded the wreck, and Xiao Lan’s bolter helped Evan kill one raider.
• Twenty Terminators arrived, forcing the surviving Drukhari to flee, while Evan ordered his troops to seize and secure their ship.
• Chief Sanchez learned the Drukhari had lost control of the hangar and led his main force underground to claim the relic weapon.
• Librarian Sisyphus sensed danger below, and Evan ordered an accelerated assault as his warriors burned several Drukhari scouts.
• Chief Sanchez reached a magnificent underground palace surrounded by colored ice and moving Drukhari silhouettes.

The Drukhari tried to free the Sword of Gleikvhand by feeding T'au blood to the ice while the Astartes attacked their position. Evan's forces overran the defenders and pushed into the caves, where fleeing Drukhari headed toward a trap set by Sisyphus, Kazhaniv, and Lakshen.

• Sanchez and Garcia discovered that T'au blood slowly melted the ice sealing the Sword of Gleikvhand, but learned that Astartes were attacking the Frozen Gate.
• Evan ordered captured enemy warships sent to Mavrek Forge World as Arnos and the Iron Warriors led the assault against the Drukhari defenders.
• Evan and the Astartes defeated the Drukhari Reaver riders, while Cancero used wreckage from the battleship to trigger cave traps and strike enemies hiding inside.
• Sanchez and the surviving Drukhari shut the palace doors, then some of his warriors fled through another tunnel rather than stay and fight the Astartes.
• Sisyphus, Kazhaniv, and Lakshen concealed themselves near the cave entrance as Lakshen lured approaching Drukhari into their ambush.

Evan’s Space Marines broke into the palace and fought through the Drukhari, while Garcia tried to claim the Sword of Gleikvhand. After Garcia activated the relic with his blood, he witnessed its history and the battle of an ancient Aeldari champion against the Necrons.

• Kazhaniv and Lakshen ambushed the Drukhari emerging from the poisoned tunnels, while Sisyphus burned the last survivor and sent the others to help Evan.
• Evan ordered the warriors to blast through the wall beside the Bronze Gate, and Cancero used metal fragments to shield their assault into the palace.
• The Space Marines fought Sanchez’s forces across the frozen plaza, and Kazhaniv killed Sanchez after the Drukhari leader’s allies abandoned him.
• Evan’s warriors advanced into the palace as Garcia struggled to free the Sword of Gleikvhand from the Grand Array and the Drukhari fought to hold them back.
• Garcia cut his finger and let his blood touch the relic, which drew him into a vision explaining the sword’s soul-consuming power and its ancient Aeldari history.
• Garcia watched an Aeldari champion draw the sword for a final stand against a Necron army after becoming surrounded.

Garcia accepted the Sword of Gleikvhand, severed his soul’s connection to Slaanesh, and led the newly freed Ancient Eldar in a desperate breakout against the Astartes. Cancero confronted Garcia in the tunnels, but Garcia’s soul burned away and the sword could not unleash its full psychic power, leaving him believing he had failed the Aeldari.

• Garcia agreed to share his soul with the Sword of Gleikvhand, cut its threads to Slaanesh, and vowed to restore the Aeldari’s glory.
• Garcia used the relic to free nearby Drukhari from Slaanesh’s curse and unleashed an Ice Storm that forced Evan and the Astartes to retreat behind the bronze doors.
• Garcia led six Ancient Eldar through the doors while Cancero and the exhausted Sisyphus tried to hold back their advance with metal and psychic attacks.
• Garcia’s Ice Storm destroyed Doverlit’s relic and severed his sword arm, but Evan escaped with Doverlit by blasting into the ground.
• Cancero arrived to face Garcia as the battle intensified, while Garcia’s soul and the Sword of Gleikvhand weakened under the strain.
• Garcia realized the sword could not use its powerful psychic attacks after absorbing an inferior soul and believed he had failed the Aeldari.

Garcia sacrificed himself to save the Aeldari, while Lakshen died stopping the Sword of Gleikvhand and the Crimson Tide Chapter secured the relic. Evan then opened the Webway Gate and followed a scout inside, where he learned that a mechanical device and a cage awaited them.

• Garcia froze the passage and escaped underground with Cancero, Evan, Doverlit, and the Aeldari as the battle raged across the surface.
• Garcia formed a Frost Ship and sent the Aeldari fleeing, but Kazhaniv attacked him and Lakshen seized the Sword of Gleikvhand, halting it at the cost of his life.
• The Aeldari escaped aboard the Frost Ship, while the Crimson Tide Chapter mourned its heavy losses and honored Lakshen for saving the sword.
• Evan ordered the Webway Gate opened, and Arnos led a ten-warrior squad through it to scout what lay beyond.
• A returning Iron Warrior reported finding a mechanical device and a cage, so Evan entered the Webway with his personal guard to inspect them.

Evan traded the Crimson Tide Chapter’s captured ships and Aeldari technology to the Mavrek and Stolov Adeptus Mechanicus for supplies, vehicle production lines, and biological technology. The Chapter ended at Taste, which Evan considered a suitable place for a secret base.

• Evan and Arnos removed a sealed C'tan Shard prison from the Webway and left the connected palace for the Mechanicus to handle.
• Archbishop Froes told Evan that Mavrek lacked materials, so Evan offered shipwrecks in exchange for a century-long supply contract.
• Evan showed Froes an intact Drukhari Golden Birdwing and negotiated Nova Cannons, production lines for Land Speeders, Land Raiders, and bikes, training, and other supplies without surrendering a Titan.
• An anonymous Astartes reached a deal with Archmagos Phinnis of Stolov for biological-organ technology by revealing the Aeldari ruins and safe Webway passage.
• Evan and the Crimson Tide Chapter arrived at Taste, which he chose as a potential secret base.

Zhou Evan woke in his ordinary university life with fragments of unfamiliar memories, then learned that Malcador had brought him from another world into the Imperium’s future. Malcador’s power was fading, and he left Evan with a warning to seek the Blanks before the Dark Gods discovered him; years later, Evan stepped down as acting Chapter Master of the Crimson Tide Chapter and put William in charge.

• Zhou Evan spent the day at university, wandered through the city, and lost consciousness on the last subway train.
• Evan reached Martyrs' Cemetery Station after the last train had ended and asked the cemetery watchman for somewhere to stay.
• Evan recognized the watchman as Malcador the Sigillite, who froze the world and explained that he had brought Evan from another world to help humanity.
• Malcador revealed that his power was nearly exhausted and warned Evan to go to the Blanks so the Dark Gods could not detect him.
• In human year 42K611, Evan announced that William would take over the Crimson Tide Chapter's administration as acting Chapter Master.

The Crimson Tide Chapter launched an expedition into Segmentum Obscurus, and Evan’s fleet seized a pirate base to gather materials for its production lines. As Evan began building up supplies, an Astropathic Distress Signal revealed possible survivors of the Lamenters.

• The Crimson Tide Chapter set sail from Scaria with two Companies, while its forces in Segmentum Pacificus maintained reduced garrisons and trained neophytes.
• Annos transformed Chief Librarian Mororis into a heavily armed, mobile Dreadnought equipped with Knight legs, powerful weapons, and a Void Shield.
• The fleet emerged from the Warp near a concealed pirate base, and Evan announced that the Astartes were robbing it.
• Evan captured Oren and demanded the minerals on his supply lists, while Crimson Tide specialists began assessing the pirates’ ships and materials.
• Kazhaniv chased a smuggler-bred creature across the Dead Planet as the Chapter split over the decision to rob pirates.
• An Astropathic Distress Signal arrived, and Evan realized it might have come from survivors of the Lamenters.