Chapter Summaries

William’s force destroyed the Genestealer Cult fortress with a tower-toppling trap and orbital bombardment, breaking the cult’s hold over the human coalition. Evan then returned to the resort world to investigate its Slaaneshi Cult, where the nobles and cultists prepared to resist the Astartes.

• Evan left the Bronze Claws and hurried to the next battlefield, while William’s force advanced on the Genestealer fortress and planted energy-core bombs beneath its central tower.
• William’s warriors held off the Genestealers with a modular Lance-ion turret and Jump Pack troops while Terminators captured the tower’s upper levels.
• William ordered the warriors to retreat through the fallen tower as orbital bombardment incinerated the fortress and severed the Genestealers’ psychic hold over the human coalition.
• Evan returned to the resort world, overruled the governor’s objections, and sent Astartes to hunt down the Slaaneshi Cult and expose its corruption.
• Evan’s anti-Warp shield burned corrupted nobles and cultists, while the surviving cult leaders gathered their guards and prepared to fight the Astartes.

Evan negotiated with the nobles for valuable equipment after his Chapter slowly cleared a pleasure world, then returned to the Provisional Second Segmentum Pacificus to answer a psyker uprising. The chapter ended with the Psyker Alliance learning that Evan himself had arrived with many Astartes.

• Evan met with Khalid and pressed the nobles for compensation, securing a Mastodon and two Storm Eagle Gunships while the Chapter detained corrupted personnel.
• Evan and the Astartes left the tourist world with the equipment, then returned to the Provisional Second Segmentum Pacificus to address a psyker rebellion.
• The Psyker Alliance, led by five powerful psykers, had risen against the local government, but Chaos corruption and internal divisions complicated its effort to protect psykers.
• Ina joined the operation aboard a Land Raider as the Astartes entered the familiar hive city.
• Number Four told Number One that many Astartes had arrived and that Chapter Master Evan was among them.

Evan confronted the Psyker Alliance and proposed strict training, work, and containment rules while revealing his plan to strengthen the barrier between the warp and reality. The story then shifted to the history of a false Sanguinius and the Fallen before describing how Boomblasta was swept to a new battlefield.

• Number One learned Evan was alive, while Evan arrived at the local headquarters and accepted Lian Leilo's gift of a Termite-class Assault Drill Vehicle.
• The local leader explained that the Psyker Alliance had split, with Number Three leading a rebellion and Numbers One, Two, and Four seeking negotiations.
• Evan demanded that psykers work in designated roles, submit to Chaos screening, and attend psychic-control classes, while Number One argued that they wanted ordinary lives.
• Evan revealed he was pursuing a way to seal the warp and proposed psyker communities managed around Librarian training centers, with service to the Chapter as another option.
• The narration recounted how Cypher's Fallen rescued a false Sanguinius, whose memories intensified the Lamenters' Black Rage.
• Boomblasta drifted into a new location after fighting Khorne's forces and began rebuilding its depleted strength.

Cypher and False Sanguinius rescued a world from Boomblasta’s Orks, while Evan’s forces defeated Number Three’s psyker uprising and uncovered no sign of Number Five’s Chaos plots. Evan returned to production planning with Annos, who rejected mass-producing assault drills and prioritized the Roscoe Ground Sweeper line.

• Cypher and False Sanguinius routed Boomblasta’s Orks, and Boomblasta escaped by activating his mech’s self-destruct system.
• Evan organized psyker oversight as the local population and Atris Astra Militarum helped hunt down Number Three’s rebels.
• Evan and Ina’s forces trapped rebel psykers, and Evan defeated Number Three before questioning him about the other psykers and their plans.
• Number Five and his Chaos-worshipping followers secretly established Warp altars across the world.
• Evan asked Annos to assess mass-producing the Termite-class Assault Drill Vehicle, but Annos refused and chose to focus on a Roscoe Ground Sweeper production line.

Evan’s forces hunted down the remaining Chaos-tainted psykers while the Crimson Tide Chapter renovated its Battle Barges. After the Baina Robe lost its power, Evan prepared to investigate Atris and Taste as the Chapter faced new recruitment and gene-seed problems.

• The Baina Robe followed a strange mass through the Warp as it broke through a storm toward the Imperium.
• Evan struggled to capture the Psyker Alliance’s remnants and expanded training and monitoring efforts for psykers.
• Osk met disguised psykers at Heroes’ Memorial Park, rejected their offer to restore his family through their rule, and triggered an alarm before they killed him.
• Evan and the Astartes arrived and killed the psykers, while the Crimson Tide Chapter completed renovations to its Battle Barges and Hall of Loyalty.
• Evan discovered that the Baina Robe had lost its power and ordered Librarian Sisyphus to guard it before they traveled to Atris and Taste.
• Rogier explained Space Wolves transformation rituals to Situval as Evan considered where to recruit Neophytes despite the gene-seed’s high mutation rate.

Rogier watched the Rookie Cup on Taste and secretly selected young warriors for the Space Wolves, while Evan organized recruitment and interplanetary development on Atris. The chapter ended with Evan considering William’s request to turn the Righteous Vigil into a combat mothership with a biological organ production line.

• Rogier assessed the Rookie Cup contestants on Taste as Kuroser’s Withered Forest Tribe and Kas’s Bloodthirsty Thorn Tribe competed to capture beasts, including a dangerous Taste Koko Beast.
• Kuroser outwitted Kas by pretending his team was exhausted, and the Withered Forest warriors continued the fight after Kas was struck unconscious.
• Rogier secretly selected promising young warriors during the feast and left their parents wolf-totem pendants.
• Evan arrived on Atris and promoted a trade and aid network linking Atris and Scaria with poorer worlds such as Olaye.
• Evan began neophyte recruitment and established several auxiliary units while William requested permission to use the Righteous Vigil for biological organ production.

The Lamenters fought a swarm of black beetles while Inquisitor Iselena investigated their loyalty and urged them to relocate. After the Lamenters departed, the Crimson Tide Chapter received a repaired battleship and Evan reorganized his depleted veteran forces.

• Black beetles poured through the Krork's feeding rift, and Maturio's warning sent Sage Haituo and the Adeptus Mechanicus rushing to battle with a formidable arsenal.
• Inquisitor Iselena arrived with Kafka, questioned Maturio about the Lamenters' record and the Crimson Tide Chapter, and searched a local thug's memories for evidence of the Emperor's blessing.
• A Black Beetle Queen rallied the swarm, but Haituo assembled a Six-Barrel Hellstorm Gun and the Lamenters drove the queen's forces into retreat.
• Iselena persuaded Maturio to take the Lamenters to Eikfort World, leaving some warriors behind on Langjuxu, where they later contacted the Crimson Tide Chapter for support.
• A repaired Slaanesh Battleship reached Atris from Mavrek, and Evan refused the Mechanicus demand to conserve supplies before the ship joined the Atris Astra Militarum as its flagship.
• Evan sent the Righteous Vigil to rendezvous with William and reorganized his depleted forces, requisitioning veterans to fill out an all-Terminator First Company.

Evan led the Crimson Tide fleet to investigate a rogue planet, but a Chaos warband ambushed the ships and boarded them. The Crimson Tide fought back fiercely, turning the battle against the attackers, while a Night Lord remained hidden aboard a ship as Atris Astra Militarum soldiers searched for him.

• Evan set out aboard the Infinite Loyalty with two Lunar-class Cruisers to investigate a rogue planet, leaving the Eternal Mountain behind during the neophytes’ training.
• A Chaos warband detected the fleet, blinded its scanners, and launched an assault with bombardment and Warp-teleported boarding parties.
• Evan and the Terminators repelled Chaos attackers aboard the Infinite Loyalty, with neophytes providing support and psykers led by Bars fighting the Chaos Sorcerers.
• Evan’s forces killed the Chaos leaders, forced three remaining warriors to surrender, and teleported seventy Terminators aboard enemy warships to continue the fight.
• Evan led troops to hunt Night Lords aboard his ship, while one hidden Night Lord killed an Atris Astra Militarum squad leader and left the soldiers searching for him.

Evan and his fleet survived a devastating Warp battle, then returned to Atris towing captured warships. Meanwhile, William established the Crimson Tide Chapter’s recruiting base on Langjuxu and took command in Segmentum Obscurus.

• Evan fought a Night Lord and an Iron Warrior aboard a warship, using an Anti-Vehicle Bomb to defeat the Iron Warrior while Chaos forces overran the vessel.
• Evan and his surviving warriors defended the damaged fleet from daemons until the Techmarine repaired the Gellar Field, and they emerged from the Warp towing five warships.
• On Langjuxu, Magos Haituo’s Warp-rift weapon was stored away after the Lamenters objected to its danger.
• William arrived with reinforcements, took over Langjuxu’s defenses, and refused the Lamenters’ request to borrow his Strike Cruisers.
• The Crimson Tide Chapter gathered crystals, searched for hidden bases, and began establishing a permanent recruiting ground on Langjuxu.

While the Eternal Mountain traveled to destroy the Rogue Planet, Annos decoded a STC fragment containing the Krogus Defense Turret. On Kampes, Siwana and Sovazh tracked down the treasure-seeking Psyker Outlets after spotting a valuable Typhon Heavy Siege Tank at an auction.

• The Astartes departed aboard the Eternal Mountain to destroy the Rogue Planet with Bipolar Cyclonic Torpedoes, while Annos told Evan about the Krogus Defense Turret.
• Siwana and Sovazh reached Kampes to find Outlets, a Psyker who could sense the surroundings of treasures, and entered an auction house to learn what the world had to offer.
• The auction house presented a Typhon Heavy Siege Tank, prompting Siwana and Sovazh to flee before the factions drawn by the treasure turned the venue into a battlefield.
• Siwana and Sovazh found Outlets eating at a food stall and chased him through the shanties after he tried to run.
• Siwana cornered Outlets, threatened him with her pistol, and had him stuffed into a burlap sack.

Siwana and Sovazh tried to recruit the thief Outlets while a battle erupted over a Typhon Heavy Siege Cannon Tank on a chaotic world. As William's fleet and several rival forces joined the fighting, the Stone Will arrived and its Librarian received a vision of a red river, falling waters, and a strange vortex.

• Siwana and Sovazh held Outlets captive and tried to recruit him, while Evan’s recorded persuasion program wore him down over four hundred hours.
• The auctioned Typhon tank became the focus of a battle between Blood Axes Orks, Dark Mechanicum forces, pirates, and other factions, prompting Siwana to send a psychic beacon for help.
• Evan destroyed a corrupted planet, while Rogier reported that only seven of twenty Space Wolves aspirants had survived their trial on Atris.
• William answered the beacon and brought his fleet to the planet, where his ships attacked a Chaos Strike Cruiser as ground forces fought over the tank.
• A Khorne warrior crashed into the Ork truck carrying the tank and killed its driver, setting off a larger fight among six factions.
• The Stone Will arrived in a Strike Cruiser, and its Librarian fell into a prophetic vision of a red celestial river, transparent waters, and a swirling vortex.

Stone Will joined William's Crimson Tide Chapter, and their Astartes forces seized the spaceport and attacked the planet's defenses. Stone Will fought the Khorne Berserkers over the Typhon Heavy Siege Cannon Tank, ending with Chapter Master Kurens facing the towering Possessed leader.

• Stone Will's Librarian urged Chapter Master Kurens to aid the Crimson Tide Chapter, and Stone Will's warship turned its weapons away to signal peaceful intentions.
• William and Kurens met aboard William's warship, agreed to cooperate, and Stone Will offered to help recover the Typhon Heavy Siege Cannon Tank.
• The Crimson Tide forces destroyed the planet's defenses and assaulted the Void Shield installation while fallen noble Hiraklisi rallied robots to resist them.
• Stone Will's warriors engaged the Khorne Berserkers, using shields and supporting fire to withstand their charge and wound their Possessed leader.
• Kurens taunted the Khorne leader, who charged through a minefield and grew into a towering daemonic form as he reached the Stone Will line.

Kulens and William’s forces destroyed a Khorne champion, looted a war-torn world, and then attacked a weakened Red Corsairs base. As William pursued the next raid, Evan focused on securing rare metals to expand production of the powerful Ion Storm weapons.

• Kulens lured the Khorne champion to an explosive trap, where the Librarian’s Waaagh! Lightning helped him survive the blast that destroyed the enemy.
• William’s forces finished looting the planet and withdrew before an approaching tide, while William gifted Kulens the recovered Typhon heavy siege tank.
• William persuaded Kulens and the Stone Will to join a raid on a lightly defended Red Corsairs mining base, then left Kulens in command of the ground assault to investigate the space station.
• Evan learned that the Ion Storm production line needed rare metals and decided to obtain them through looting and trade.
• Evan’s heavy firepower squads used Ion Storms, Ion Pistols, Melta weapons, and specialized ammunition to prepare for future battles.

William’s forces reached Atris and encountered a damaged Black Ship carrying the Sisters of Silence and scattered Imperial survivors. Evan resisted the Sisters’ request to take Ina, leaving her future unresolved as the survivors rested on Atris.

• William’s forces returned to Langjuxu with spoils, strengthened its defenses, and tried to unite the Lamenters and Stone Will through red ideology.
• Zholigetu invited Clemens to become an Astartes, and Clemens left his mother to join the warriors while she picked up her husband’s Warblade.
• William completed the Star System Defense System and led his forces through a difficult Warp journey to Atris.
• Evan learned that the Sisters of Silence wanted help repairing their Black Ship and intended to take Ina, while the ship carried scattered survivors from several Imperial regiments.
• Evan and the Sisters’ leader deadlocked over Ina, with Evan demanding compensation and refusing to surrender her easily.
• The Astra Militarum survivors relaxed and shared food and exaggerated war stories with Atris’s people.

The Crimson Tide Chapter reunited with thirty-one returning warriors, expanded its forces, and set out for Segmentum Obscurus. On Flos, House Greene battled Shieldbreaker’s Orks until the Chapter arrived and launched an assault on the Ork rear while the battle remained fierce.

• Ina chose to join the Sisters of Silence, and the Crimson Tide Chapter sent twenty warriors with them in exchange for a chance to earn a Sister’s shield.
• Thirty-one warriors returned to the Ashishk Star System, and Evan welcomed them before spending three years refitting the Chapter and expanding its ranks beyond six hundred.
• House Greene deployed twenty-six Knights to defend Oscoria’s industrial world from Shieldbreaker’s Orks, but Green Karlog’s Knight Warden was destroyed by a trap.
• Shieldbreaker’s Orks deployed a Gork Dreadnought, and House Greene’s advance faltered as the human defenders faced a growing threat.
• Evan and William brought the Crimson Tide Chapter to Flos, where the Astartes attacked the Orks’ rear base and joined House Greene in a pincer assault.
• Kazhaniv led Terminators and fire support squads into an all-out attack on the Orks while the human defensive lines struggled to hold.

Shieldbreaker’s Ork forces were crushed by the combined Imperial assault, though the battered Warboss survived the battle. As William’s forces departed after completing their salvage operation, the surviving Ork opened his eyes in a crater.

• Shieldbreaker’s Gork Dreadnought used hidden Melta guns to bring down a Greene Knight, while Orks attacked the Knights and the Imperial lines from multiple directions.
• The Valhallan Astra Militarum reinforced the battlefield, and Vlorus fought an Ork Big Boss before an Atris soldier’s bomb detonated and Ogryns stormed the melee.
• Evan sent the Mastodon and its Iron Hands aboard to reinforce the mortal lines as Titans, Knights, and Astartes converged on Shieldbreaker.
• The War Angel Titan’s shot and the Imperial assault overwhelmed Shieldbreaker’s Gork Dreadnought, scattering the Orks as their Waaagh Energy field collapsed.
• William delayed the local authorities until the salvage force finished its work, then led his troops away with fruit and pastries from the meeting room.
• A battered psychic Ork opened his eyes in a scorched crater on the devastated battlefield.

The Crimson Tide Chapter divided into three fleets, and Evan recruited Outlets as a Special Psyker to help locate treasures. Evan’s fleet was swept off course into the dangerous Hou Wenk Star System, where local explorers had just uncovered an ancient underground ruin as the fleet arrived above their world.

• Kazhaniv teased William for acting like Evan by pointing out that he had saved leftover fruit after a meeting.
• The Chapter split into three fleets led by William, Anthony, and Evan, each assigned different military roles.
• Evan asked Outlets to serve humanity as a Special Psyker, and Outlets led him around the Eternal Mountain to find valuable Techmarine devices.
• Ternos and Sak’s exploration team spotted a mysterious fleet approaching Hou Wenk World while searching for ancient technology.
• The explorers followed the missing deputy leader into a hidden ruin, where Ternos and Sak discovered a silent underground world and triggered its alarms.
• Evan’s Eternal Mountain emerged from a Warp vortex in the previously inaccessible Hou Wenk Star System, and he eagerly prepared to search the planet for treasures.

Evan’s forces uncovered an ancient underground city whose machines attacked the explorers, prompting the Astartes to fight their way in. As Enke and Bars disabled the flying robots, the city’s systems restarted and revealed that its machines had been trying to revive Lady Emanuela for more than two thousand years.

• Evan learned that his motorcycle was not ready because Rogier had drunk an ingredient for its fuel, while Rogier and Bars led the Wolf Cubs into the jungle and followed the explorers’ trail.
• Ternos and Sak suffered stomach trouble in the ruins, then fled when they saw machines chasing the explorers.
• Rogier’s Astartes rescued Ternos and Sak, and Bars used his psychic power to repel the robots and clear their mines.
• Enke arrived to support the team, identified the robots as a possible sign of STC technology, and helped Bars disable the flying machines with an Exotic Pulse Bomb.
• The underground city restarted its machinery, and surgical robots fed human tissue into a mechanical organism as a screen ordered them to revive Lady Emanuela.

The Crimson Tide Chapter fought through an ancient underground city in search of a likely STC fragment while Evan chose Vlorus for the Chapter’s first Ascension Surgery. The Astartes reached the palace, where a gigantic armed transport vehicle awakened beneath it.

• Evan sent the Lamenter to assist at a lunar mining base and kept the Raven Guard warriors aboard the ship after their escape attempt failed.
• Enke led the Imperial Fists through the underground city, breaching its gates as Rogier and Bars helped them fight robots and defensive cannons.
• Evan selected Vlorus as candidate 001 for the Crimson Tide Chapter’s first Ascension Surgery.
• Enke reported a likely STC fragment and encountered powerful Defender Type VI robots as the Astartes pushed toward the palace.
• Bars saved Enke from an Ion Wind, and the warriors saw a gigantic armed transport vehicle awaken beneath the palace.

The Crimson Tide warriors fought through the palace and destroyed the Iron Serpent’s control core, while Evan considered how the Chapter could safely leave Hou Wenk World. A message revealed that Ms. Emanuela was dead and the ancient system had entered standby.

• Bars and the Firefighting Squad attacked the Iron Serpent, but its modular body and missile weapons wounded several warriors.
• Enke held the Iron Serpent’s fire while the Eternal Mountain’s teleportation squad brought in twenty Terminators, who blasted the machine apart.
• Evan considered building a hidden base on Hou Wenk World but worried about finding a stable route through the Warp.
• The Terminators entered the palace and found the Iron Serpent’s head concealed inside a Firepower Fortress.
• Kazhaniv charged through the flames and destroyed Python Head, while the other Terminators recovered the enemy’s control core.
• A red screen displayed a message stating that Ms. Emanuela was deceased and the system was on standby.