Recaps

Saul led the Sons of Sorrow through the Badab conflict, defeated Huron’s Chaos fleet, and was declared the Living Saint Ember before rebuilding his Chapter into a vast force. He split the Sons of Sorrow between the Tyranid war and the Damocles Crusade, where his campaign against the T'au stalled amid devastating guerrilla attacks on Dal'yth Prime.

• Saul rejected special status at his coming-of-age ceremony, but after Van Helsing accused him of heresy, Saul’s golden flames exposed the Inquisitor’s crimes and left the Sons of Sorrow disillusioned with the Imperium.
• When the High Lords sent the Minotaurs to destroy the Sons of Sorrow, Saul defeated Asterion Moloc and stopped the battle, but the High Lords branded the Chapter rebels and ordered Exterminatus.
• Saul exposed Huron’s betrayal, killed his Chaos Lord, and used a golden torrent to destroy Huron and his fleet while cleansing the Maelstrom’s corruption.
• Trajann Valoris delivered the Golden Throne’s decree naming Saul the Living Saint Ember, absolving the Sons of Sorrow, and permitting their unlimited expansion, after which Saul helped purge the High Lords.
• Saul worked with Belisarius Cawl to stabilize the Sons of Sorrow’s gene-seed, and the Chapter expanded to six thousand warriors before growing into a vast force over the following centuries.
• Saul and Phoros divided the Sons of Sorrow, with Phoros taking sixty thousand warriors to reinforce Calgar against the Tyranids and Saul taking forty thousand to the Damocles Crusade against the T'au.
• Saul took supreme command of the Damocles Crusade, captured Cysel and Sydas, rejected Po Dalis’s peace offer, and ordered the Imperial fleet to continue its advance.
• After Imperial forces drove Farsight’s fleet back to Dal'yth Prime, Shadowsun and other T'au forces inflicted heavy losses on General Gage’s troops, so Saul equipped disguised Astartes with anti-stealth gear to join Imperial patrols and logistics teams.

Saul’s forces conquered the T'au defenses at Dalis but suffered devastating losses in the T'au ambush at Viola, where Saul halted the campaign after a volcanic catastrophe. He awakened the Ember Legion on XR-734 and sent Ghazghk and Sharpfang to exploit the T'au network, leaving the Strong Shield-01 system blind and its minefield as their next target.

• Disguised Astartes destroyed a Vespid raiding force, and Shadowsun discovered that Imperial soldiers were using hidden weapons to ambush T'au teams.
• Farsight launched a desperate strike at Saul’s Twin Peaks command center, but Saul killed him and broadcast his death across the Dalis System.
• Aun'Va concealed the defeat and detained Shadowsun, while the Imperial fleet entered the Viola nebula and was caught in her three-phase attack.
• Saul shielded key Imperial ships from a coronal mass ejection, then led the Space Marines onto Viola as T'au defenders inflicted heavy losses.
• Aun'Ve activated the Blackstone Device, suppressing luck and psychic powers, but Saul destroyed it and the Military Academy after a railgun strike left him gravely wounded.
• Shadowsun triggered the Scorched Earth Protocol, and Saul suppressed the collapsing energy wells long enough to protect Imperial survivors before ordering a halt to the campaign.
• Saul traveled to XR-734 and awakened Sharpfang, Ghazghk, and the Ember Legion, who built a fleet from the scrapyard to infiltrate the T'au Empire.
• Ghazghk’s Brain Massager overwhelmed the T'au system’s Pure Thought AI with contradictory signals, shutting down its sensors and defenses as he and Sharpfang turned toward the mines.

Ghazghk’s Gretchin crippled the T'au defenses while Saul’s Imperial forces conquered Sa'cea and killed Aun'Ve. The T'au gathered at their homeworld, where the Imperial invasion began despite the planetary shield and fierce resistance.

• Ghazghk’s Logic Blenders confused the T'au minefield’s Watcher AIs, causing the mines to attack Korsar’s fleet and destroy most of it.
• Sharpfang led Gretchin forces through Fist of the Firmament-03, overwhelmed its defenders, and destroyed the platform.
• Qingxi took command of the Fire Caste and devised a trap as Aun'Ve concentrated T'au forces around Sa'cea.
• Saul received Imperial Fists and Adeptus Custodes reinforcements, then sent Admiral Yanis’s fleet to invade Sa'cea.
• Aun'Ve broadcast a message to rally Sa'cea, allowing Saul’s Tech-Priests to locate his command center.
• Saul and Vilen led the Custodians through Sa'cea’s defenses, killing Kor, Monta, and Aun'Ve before Shadowsun ordered the T'au forces to evacuate.
• Shadowsun’s fleet fought the Imperials at T'au, but the T'au lost hundreds of ships before Aun'Va ordered a retreat beneath the planetary shield.
• Saul launched a ground invasion of T'au, where Victor’s forces suffered heavy losses before the Sons of Sorrow and their Company Captain joined the battle.

Saul destroyed the T’au homeworld, became Chapter Master of the Lamenters, and sacrificed himself to save the Star of Hope. Liu Zhipeng then returned as a C’tan Shard, consumed powerful shards and the Void Dragon’s energy, and escaped Mars with Ghazghk.

• The Company Captain called down three Imperial Knights, helping the Sons of Sorrow break through the T’au defenses as Saul led attacks on the shield generators.
• Saul’s forces destroyed the shield network, and the Imperium bombarded New Dawn City before Saul launched a Dual-Stage Cyclonic Torpedo that destroyed T’au.
• Shadowsun escaped with 180,000 survivors and vowed revenge, while Saul mourned Phoros and accepted command of the Lamenters.
• Saul led the Lamenters to liberate Ragnarok, then later absorbed the Abyss Engine’s power to save the Star of Hope and died.
• Liu Zhipeng awakened as a C’tan Shard, broke free from Necron control, and consumed seven of Trazyn’s captured shards.
• Liu Zhipeng traveled to Mars and devoured the Void Dragon’s energy, crippling the planet’s systems.
• Liu Zhipeng escaped Mars through a spatial rift and reunited with Ghazghk while the troops below attacked Trazyn.