Recaps

Bona’s empire fought the T'au while he pursued alliances and weapons, and the conflict spread across Anreva, Phelio, and the Damocles Gulf. After Bona broke the T'au blockade and recovered the Psyker Beacon Tower, both sides agreed to a prisoner exchange on T'au'n, though Farsight remained wary.

• Guilliman reviewed Cawl’s Primaris Space Marines and learned that a gene-modified Astartes project had altered their emotional responses, while Antonia authorized limited frontline use of daemonhost-powered Frenzied Automata.
• Bona escaped Trazyn’s Necron trap with Magladroth’s help, returned to Hexen, and later created a human-bodied Trazyn who agreed to seek an audience with Szarekh.
• Bona rejected Vre Vem’s offer of cooperation and demanded T'au surrender their sovereignty, prompting both empires to prepare for war as Farsight and Shadowsun rallied against the human advance.
• Horus’s forces invaded Anreva, routed its defenses, and executed human T'au troops as traitors, while the wider war on Phelio exacted heavy casualties from both sides.
• Farsight and Shadowsun launched counterattacks against Imperial forces, while Perturabo’s assault on Larsk ended in retreat after Aeldari and Imperial reinforcements intervened and the Iron Blood was destroyed.
• Bona completed the Fear of the Living virus and sent his fleet to reinforce the Damocles Gulf, where Horus’s forces were trapped by the T'au blockade and Farsight’s attack on the Luna Wolves inflicted heavy losses.
• Bona used Mag'drala'ros to turn T'au ships against one another, broke the blockade, and retook the Psyker Beacon Tower after Thunder Warriors captured the T'au flagship.
• The T'au council accepted a prisoner exchange on T'au'n after Horus proposed a ceasefire, but Farsight suspected a deeper human plan and remained uneasy about the promised limits on Imperial forces.

Bona led the Dawn Army through the fall of the T'au Empire and a desperate assault on the Ancient Ship, then vanished into the Warp Rift after severing the Tyranids from the Great Devourer. As the survivors dealt with the aftermath, Sanguinius set out for Vigilus and Trazyn secretly kept a chainsword from the Ancient Ship.

• Bona pursued the fleeing T'au fleet after the Thunderhawk Empire conquered their homeworld, while T'au'va’s intervention left him blind and the survivors became second-class citizens.
• Szarekh resurrected Sanguinius, while Perturabo adjusted to life on Cabalide and later completed the Iron Edict before giving Gell leadership of the Iron Warriors.
• As the Tyranid threat and the Ancient Ship grew, Bona joined Horus, Perturabo, and the Necrons in a plan to clear the Hive Fleets and fire a planet-killing weapon.
• The Tyranids overran Asdenak and delayed its cannon, but Bona and Gell defended the energy hub long enough for the weapon to fire and badly burn the Ancient Ship.
• When the cannon failed to destroy the ship, Bona rallied humans and Orks to board it, then opened a Warp Rift in the Ventricular Chamber that severed its connection to the Great Devourer.
• The Lamenters and Imperial forces helped break the Tyranid assault, but Bona disappeared into the Warp Rift and Magnus later told Horus that Bona should be all right for now.
• Valdor guided the Thunder Warriors back toward Cabalide, while Guilliman and Sanguinius discussed the crisis on Vigilus and Sanguinius decided to go there.
• Trazyn stored the Ancient Ship’s severed head in his Tesseract Labyrinth and secretly kept a chainsword embedded in its brain.

Bona forged an alliance between the Necrons and the Imperium as Sanguinius and Horus helped repel Abaddon at Vigilus and leaders planned an assault on the Eye of Terror. Fulgrim was freed from Slaanesh’s control, but Imotekh launched a Necron civil war that swept across the Eastern Fringe and left Imperial forces struggling to survive.

• Trazyn escaped the Blood Ravens with the Chainsword, while Gabriel recovered the Holy Relics and returned to his warriors.
• Szarekh named Bona the new Silent King, and Bona accepted the role before announcing the Necrons’ alliance with the Thunderhawk Empire.
• Sanguinius lured Abaddon into a battle at Vigilus, where Horus arrived and drove him off as Imperial and Necron forces defeated the Black Fleet.
• Horus presented a plan to use a World Engine and Blackstone matrices to close the Eye of Terror, and Imperial, Necron, and Aeldari leaders agreed to cooperate.
• Bona and Fulgrim confronted one another, and Fulgrim broke free of Uranikore’s control before agreeing to join the Redemption Legion.
• The Votann High Father ordered the Hearthkyn to cut ties with other peoples, triggering fighting that forced Farsight and his allies to flee the Iron Hearth.
• Imotekh activated the Dolmen Gates and launched a Necron assault across the Eastern Fringe, while the World Engine broke the human defenses near Cabalide.
• Sergeant Adrian’s squad fought Necrons in City Seventeen, then joined Captain Alm’s Luna Wolves reconnaissance team as they searched for blackstone Obelisks.

Bona’s campaign against the Necrons and the Imperium’s war against Bonebreaka both reached decisive turns, while revelations about the Golden Throne and humanity’s past raised new dangers. The story left Bona preparing to negotiate with Huron for a Blackstone Fortress component as Abaddon made a bargain with Vashtorr.

• Alpha Legion infiltrators killed Alm and attacked Adrian’s squad, but Cole killed both attackers before Adrian’s survivors carried the data onward.
• Bona drew Imotekh’s forces into a battle at Death’s Decree, and Perturabo defeated the C’tan Thunderer while Bona confronted Imotekh and destroyed him with the scholar’s intervention.
• Guilliman learned from Cawl that the Golden Throne was failing, while Bonebreaka rallied the Orks and launched a vast Waaagh toward Armageddon.
• Russ led the Space Wolves in a surprise assault on Bonebreaka, but Bonebreaka transformed into a towering Warboss and escaped after a clash with the Primarchs.
• Bonebreaka’s Orks breached Armageddon’s defenses, and Yarrick killed him with Guilliman’s help before the Orks fled and Yarrick died in the flames.
• The Emperor confronted his own guilt and a colder version of himself, while Little Tower and Little Card fought alongside Imperial defenders on Azte II.
• Bona learned from Mother that humanity’s ancient attempt to unite all human souls had destroyed the galaxy, then traveled to Desq II and ordered a fleet to meet Huron for a Blackstone Fortress component.
• Abaddon appointed Honsou Lord Unifier and accepted Vashtorr’s offer of daemon engines and a Forge of Souls in exchange for aid against the Leagues of Votann.