Recaps

Lynn recognized that the Chaos cultists, Luna’s calamity army, and the Thousand Sons were coordinating a planned operation, while his Warp Essence began awakening. He suspected their true objective was not simply to trap him and ordered Rena to show him the live battle in Midtown.

• Lynn learned that Leo’s signal had disappeared and realized the castle’s security had been compromised.
• Lynn suffered a vivid vision of Chaos energy and confirmed that his Warp Essence was awakening.
• Lynn assessed the forces surrounding the castle and considered using the nearby Vanguard to break the siege.
• Lynn suspected the Thousand Sons, Luna, and the Chaos Undivided cultists had joined forces for a deeper purpose.
• Lynn asked Rena to relay the Midtown battle through the shared vision of frontline junior officers, and images flooded his mind.

Lynn realized the Thousand Sons were fortifying Midtown to withstand the Tyranid Swarm he might summon, rather than trying to conquer all of Brevis. He ordered a coordinated assault on Midtown and placed the forces on Dead World A on high alert, leaving the story with the possibility of exposing the Tyranids and Orks to stop Chaos.

• Lynn saw that Chaos had seized more than thirty percent of Midtown and was building an entrenched stronghold instead of expanding.
• Lynn suspected the Thousand Sons had sensed the swarms hidden on Dead World A and Dead World B and planned to use Midtown's defenses against them.
• Lynn ordered Isolde to assemble northern and southern coalitions to assault Midtown, while a small rescue team pinned down the enemy perimeter without risking a breakthrough to him.
• Rena reported that the upper-city forces were assembling and lower-city groups had eagerly agreed to fight.
• Lynn ordered Rena to contact the swarm on Dead World A and have Toothy prepare for war, warning that he would expose the Tyranids and Orks rather than let Chaos take Brevis.

The northern coalition army and lower-city militia launched a coordinated assault on Chaos-held Midtown, supported by the Tithe Fleet’s orbital bombardment. The Thousand Sons sorcerers and Supreme Thrallband held their fortified positions as the Warp domain continued to expand.

• Isolde coordinated Brevis’s forces as the northern coalition army and lower-city civilians assembled and advanced toward Midtown.
• Dominic ordered the Gemstone to bombard Chaos fortifications, beginning the decisive battle.
• The northern coalition army charged, but Nosak sorcerers struck the Vanguard soldiers with psychic attacks and fire, disrupting their formation.
• The lower-city militia charged into heavy gunfire while scavengers used alleyways and explosive charges to attack Chaos positions from the flanks.
• The Supreme Thrallband repelled repeated assaults from its fortifications as the Warp domain continued to expand.

Atia recovered Tzeentch’s STC spell fragment and used it to raise a blasphemous barrier around Brevis, empowering the Warp domain. The barrier absorbed the Gemstone’s bombardment and struck back at the Imperial fleet, leaving Dominic to seek its limits and weaknesses.

• Imperial allied forces advanced through Midtown while the lower-city coalition captured three Chaos supply warehouses.
• Atia’s priests revealed that they had retrieved Tzeentch’s lost fragment from the St. Garus Family’s castle, and Atia transformed the STC with sorcery.
• Atia raised the fragment to the spire’s summit, where it unleashed a rainbow barrier over Brevis and intensified the Warp domain.
• Dominic ordered the Gemstone to attack the barrier, but it absorbed the ship’s shells and lances before firing back and stripping the Indomitable Warrior’s void shields.
• Dominic halted the bombardment and ordered the fleet to contact Brevis to investigate the barrier’s limits, workings, and weaknesses.

Luna recognized the Profane Barrier’s energy as that of the STC aggregate and convinced herself the Adeptus Mechanicus had betrayed her, then renewed her effort to capture Lynn for the Lord of Change. In Midtown, Atia ordered a counterattack that devastated the Lower City coalition as the barrier fed on the dead and spread across Brevis.

• Luna recognized the energy behind the Profane Barrier as that of the STC aggregate and suspected the Adeptus Mechanicus had taken it to the Thousand Sons.
• Luna rejected the idea that the Lord of Change had abandoned her and resolved to capture Lynn as her greatest offering.
• Luna unleashed a stronger sorcerous assault against Lynn, determined to finish the fight and reclaim what she believed was hers.
• Atia ordered the Chaos army to counterattack and target the Lower City coalition on the southern front.
• Tzeentch Horrors, Chaos Sorcerers, and Nosak Chaos Warriors tore through the civilian militia as the Profane Barrier harvested the dead and expanded.
• The Vanguard struggled to hold the northern front, leaving Brevis in peril while the Profane Barrier remained in place.

After three days of brutal fighting on Brevis, Dominic learned that the Profane Barrier briefly weakened when its vortex dissipated and ordered a Sword-class Frigate to attempt a crossing. The First Blood endured violent Warp turbulence and passed through the barrier, leaving the way open for a possible attack from within.

• The Lower City Allied Forces and the Vanguard's assaults repeatedly faltered as Chaos strengthened beneath the expanding Profane Barrier.
• Dominic and the Tech-Priests found that the barrier's energy fell to seventeen percent of normal when its vortex dissipated, and the Navigator proposed crossing it with a ship's Gellar Field active.
• Despite Karen's objections, Dominic ordered the First Blood to attempt the crossing at the vortex's weakest point.
• The First Blood entered the vortex as its energy bottomed out, while its crew fought to keep the Gellar Field functioning against Warp turbulence and daemons.
• The First Blood passed through the Profane Barrier after the distorted mist dispersed and the ship's alarms fell silent.

Dominic’s fleet exploited a weakness in the Warp barrier, allowing several warships to reach Brevis and support the allied forces. After two successful crossings, Dominic led the Gemstone and Pegasus into the barrier, unaware that Warp concentration was rising abnormally.

• The First Blood emerged over Brevis and bombarded Chaos forces in Midtown, lifting the southern allied soldiers’ morale.
• Dominic granted Gus permission to cross the barrier, and the Pinnacle Black Obsidian and two Lunar-class Cruisers reached low orbit safely.
• Dominic ordered the Gemstone and Pegasus to prepare for the crossing, then led them into a dissipating vortex to reach Brevis.
• The Gemstone and Pegasus crossed amid Warp turbulence, while Dominion planned their attacks and an unnoticed display reading showed Warp concentration skyrocketing.

Atia transformed the blasphemous barrier into a trap, swallowing the Gemstone and Pegasus in a Warp Storm and cutting them off from the fleet. The barrier then struck the northern allied forces with a psychic blast, allowing the Chaos counterattack to retake the ground they had lost.

• Atia revealed that the barrier's apparent energy trough was bait and used runes to transform it as the Gemstone and Pegasus entered the vortex.
• Dominic's ships were caught in an expanding Warp Storm, while the Gellar Field strained and contact with the outside was lost.
• Adjutant Karen saw the barrier seal over the vortex, suspended bombardment, and ordered the ground forces to hold their positions.
• The barrier fired a psychic blast into the northern allied positions, killing soldiers and igniting others' souls.
• Chaos forces, including daemons, Cultists, and Thousand Sons warriors, charged and drove the northern allied forces back to their former line.

Lynn and his rescue force emerged from Saint Garus Castle into Atia’s psychic assault, where daemons and Helbrutes overwhelmed their defenses. With Luna’s Chaos Knights closing in from behind and Atia’s forces advancing from ahead, Lynn faced capture or death just as a dragon’s cry rang out.

• Atia focused on capturing Lynn to trace his connection to the Tyranids.
• Lynn met the Sisters of Battle captain and led the rescue force out of Saint Garus Castle as the battle in Midtown worsened.
• Atia unleashed psychic fire on the plaza and confronted Lynn, while Helbrutes and daemons descended to attack the defenders.
• Lynn and the survivors fought back, but their casualties mounted and their defensive line retreated.
• Luna pursued Lynn with eight Chaos Knights, trapping him between her forces and Atia’s army.
• As Lynn’s remaining protectors fought desperately, a clear dragon’s cry pierced the battle.

Rena descended as the Dragon of Frost and helped Lynn defeat a Helbrute while battling Atia above Saint Garus Castle. Meanwhile, the gravely wounded Leo St. Garus lay dying in an underground storeroom as Warp whispers tempted him with power and revenge.

• Rena arrived in dragon form with disguised Tyranid Warriors, who tore through the daemons and protected Lynn.
• Two of the young dragons knocked a charging Helbrute off course, allowing Lynn to destroy its Daemon Engine core with the Sword of Valenia.
• Rena confronted Atia, who was eager to capture her and Lynn, and their psychic attacks collided above Saint Garus Castle.
• Leo St. Garus lay near death in a sealed underground storeroom, remembering his family and Brevis as the Warp offered him power and revenge.

Leo St. Garus returned to life after a black sun cleansed the Chaos-tainted Warp around his soul. He discovered the St. Garus Family’s hidden Castellan-class Knight, Wrath of Holy Judgement, and prepared to use it against the forces threatening his family and planet.

• Leo’s soul was pulled back from the edge of the Warp by a black sun that silenced the Chaos whispers.
• Leo awoke in the underground warehouse with his fatal wound healed and a cold, familiar power coursing through him.
• Leo followed the family insignia deeper into the warehouse and uncovered the St. Garus Family’s secret war machine.
• Leo revealed Wrath of Holy Judgement, the family’s legendary Castellan-class Knight once piloted by its High Kings.
• Leo celebrated the discovery and resolved to defend St. Garus against Luna, the Chaos Cultists, and the Thousand Sons Sorcerers.

Leo found his missing grandfather, Caladogon St. Garus, inside the Wrath of Holy Judgement’s cockpit, where Chaos corruption transformed him into a monster. As Leo fought the creature, it revealed that Caladogon had accepted the Lord’s gift ten years earlier.

• Leo opened the Wrath of Holy Judgement’s cockpit and found his missing grandfather, Caladogon St. Garus, sitting inside.
• Caladogon tried to warn Leo away, but dark red tentacles erupted from the seat and transformed him into a Chaos creature.
• Leo punched the creature and fired his laspistol, but its flesh regenerated and tried to consume him.
• Leo emptied his laspistol, then drew his activated tactical dagger and vowed to kill the creature.
• The creature mocked Leo and revealed that Caladogon had accepted the Lord’s gift ten years earlier.

Leo confronted a Chaos abomination that had infested the warehouse and the Wrath of Holy Judgement, then unleashed golden holy flames that burned the creature and revealed his power frightened it. As he stabbed the abomination, it defended its corruption by claiming that joining Chaos offered Caladogon and the St. Garus family a path to eternity.

• Leo realized the Chaos abomination had spread through the warehouse and was trying to assimilate him into its mass of flesh.
• Leo deduced that the creature needed a St. Garus descendant to unlock the Wrath of Holy Judgement and gain control of it.
• When the tentacles attacked, Leo felt the black sun’s power surge through him, and the abomination reacted with shock and fear.
• Golden holy flames erupted around Leo, burned the Chaos growths off the Knight, and shielded him from the tentacles.
• Leo charged the abomination and drove his power shortsword into its core, while it argued that the Imperium’s sacrifices offered no hope and Chaos promised the family eternity.

Leo fought the Chaos flesh inside the Wrath of Holy Judgement until Caladogon briefly regained control and revealed that he had spent twenty years imprisoning Orian, his father and the former High King, within the mech. Caladogon asked Leo to kill them both and entrusted St. Garus to him, but Orian seized control again as the shoulder cannon prepared to fire.

• Leo's holy flames held back the Chaos flesh, but the mech's shoulder cannon began targeting him while tentacles trapped his legs.
• The flesh and cannon abruptly froze as Caladogon struggled through the mass and told Leo he had come.
• Caladogon explained that Aurean St. Garus, known as Orian, had survived his mortal wounds by accepting Chaos and later tempted Caladogon to do the same.
• Caladogon revealed that he had used his body and the Wrath of Holy Judgement to imprison Orian for twenty years, until Luna's ambush left him too weak to keep control.
• Caladogon asked Leo to kill them both and take charge of St. Garus, but Orian regained control and the shoulder cannon began charging again.

Leo purified the Chaos corruption in the Wrath of Holy Judgement, ending Orian and Caladogon’s suffering and fulfilling his grandfather’s wish. He claimed the High King’s authority, mastered the Knight suit’s Machine Spirit, and prepared to enter the battle outside.

• Leo remembered his grandfather and drove his holy-flame-covered dagger into the heart of the flesh, destroying Orian and freeing Caladogon.
• Leo vowed to safeguard St. Garus and protect Brevis, then sat in the High King’s pilot seat and passed the genetic authorization check.
• Servo-skulls connected Leo to the Throne Mechanicum, beginning the Ritual of Becoming.
• Leo defeated the Wrath of Holy Judgement’s Machine Spirit in a psychic contest and branded it with his identity.
• The Knight suit awakened, and Leo opened the storehouse gate as the battle outside continued.

Dominic Ventria’s battleship, the Gemstone, remained trapped in a Warp vortex as its Gellar Field weakened and Thousand Sons forces boarded. Dominic led his Celestial Lions guards toward Hangar Three to kill the enemy sorcerer, reaching the hangar as the sorcerer and his forces stood ready.

• The Gemstone’s Gellar Field fell to thirty-seven percent, and Brother Thorn died as the ship’s remaining Psykers struggled to sustain it.
• A Chaos frigate breached the Gemstone’s port bow, and the crew identified the boarders as a Thousand Sons warband.
• Dominic left Lady Link in temporary command of the bridge and led four Celestial Lions Terminators toward the boarding force.
• Dominic’s group passed through corridors full of dead and corrupted Imperial soldiers as the Warp drove the survivors mad.
• Dominic ordered his guards to circle behind the enemy through a maintenance passage and entered Hangar Three, where a Thousand Sons Sorcerer, nine Rubric Marines, daemons, and cultists awaited them.

Dominic and the Celestial Lions were overwhelmed by a Thousand Sons sorcerer and his forces until thirteen black-armoured warriors emerged from a rift and destroyed the Chaos forces. The sorcerer fled toward his frigate as the warriors pursued him.

• Dominic led the Celestial Lions into battle against the sorcerer, Rubric Marines, and cultists, but their formation and dwindling protection left them outmatched.
• A Celestial Lions guard sacrificed himself with a Melta Bomb, and Dominic ordered the bridge to begin the ship's self-destruct sequence.
• A rift opened in the hangar wall, and thirteen black-armoured warriors wreathed in pale flames emerged, frightening the daemons.
• The warriors annihilated the daemons, cultists, and all nine Rubric Marines, burning their bodies and souls away.
• The sorcerer summoned his Disc of Tzeentch and fled toward the Chaos frigate docked in the hangar.

Dominic’s battered fleet escaped the Warp through a passage burned open by pale flames, while the Profane Barrier around Brevis was breached. The Gemstone and surviving Imperial ships emerged into realspace, and Karen ordered the fleet to support the ground forces.

• The Legion of the Damned pursued the Chaos frigate and killed the sorcerer aboard it.
• The Chaos frigate became a ball of pale fire, burning a passage through the Warp to realspace near Brevis.
• Dominic ordered the Gemstone to steer through the passage after the navigator confirmed its coordinates and the Gellar Field began recovering.
• The pale flames burned a huge hole through the Profane Barrier surrounding Saint Garus Castle and Midtown.
• The Gemstone and surviving Mars-class Battlecruisers emerged from the breach into realspace.
• Karen ordered the Imperial warships to charge their main guns and attack the Chaos positions in Midtown.

The Imperial Fleet broke through the Profane Barrier and bombarded the Chaos forces in Midtown, allowing the Imperial Army to counterattack. Rena, acting through Isolde, ordered a full assault to destroy Midtown’s Warp rifts while Atia pursued Lynn in Uptown.

• The Chaos Adeptus Mechanicus magos failed to stop pale flames from widening a breach in the Profane Barrier and watched the Imperial Fleet enter.
• The Imperial Fleet bombarded Chaos positions in Midtown, and Brevis’s allied forces charged forward and reclaimed lost ground.
• Rena observed that the Chaos forces had weakened because Atia had left Midtown with his elite troops to capture Lynn in Uptown.
• Rena ordered all combat units to attack and destroy every Warp rift in Midtown, cutting off the Chaos forces’ retreat.
• Rena contacted Priest and ordered the Plague Cleansing Cult to commit all its members to battle despite the risk of their identities being exposed.

Rena fought Atia above Uptown, overwhelming him with psychic attacks and forcing him to rely on the Brazier of Ten Thousand Souls. When her assaults and physical attack left him unable to fight back, Atia tried to evade her and waited for Luna to capture Lynn.

• The Plague Cleansing Cult warriors poured into the Lower City and helped Midtown's counterattack break the Chaos forces' defensive line.
• Rena attacked Atia with a powerful psychic strike, which he blocked with the Brazier of Ten Thousand Souls.
• Rena unleashed repeated psychic spells, steadily draining the brazier's spectral flame as Atia struggled to defend himself.
• Atia tried to flee toward Lynn, but Rena lunged at him with her claws.
• Atia's Warp Ray attacks barely affected Rena's scales, so he evaded her and hoped Luna would capture Lynn.

Lynn was cornered by Luna’s forces at Saint Garus Castle as his troops and Dragons of Frost were overwhelmed. With Luna closing in, he activated Grip of Domination despite its warning that repeated use could deepen his Warp corruption.

• Luna attacked Lynn from a Heldrake while Pink Horrors and Nosac Warriors overwhelmed his remaining defenders.
• Luna’s psychic lightning killed one Dragon of Frost, and two Chaos Knights charged Lynn’s position.
• Lynn dodged the Chaos Knights’ attacks, but Luna swooped down to seize him.
• The Grip of Domination skill appeared, warning Lynn that using it risked Warp corruption.
• Seeing the wounded Dragons of Frost and remembering Rena’s fight against Atia, Lynn chose to use the skill and activated Grip of Domination.

Lynn used Grip of Domination to seize control of Luna’s Heldrake, which destroyed a Chaos Knight and badly injured Luna in the resulting explosion. As seven more Chaos Knights closed in while Lynn struggled with the power’s toll, an unknown bright-yellow Knight intervened with a barrage.

• Lynn used Grip of Domination to take control of Luna’s Heldrake and break her link to it.
• The Heldrake struck a Chaos Knight’s Volcano Cannon, triggering an explosion that destroyed the Knight and blasted Luna into nearby ruins.
• Lynn suffered severe pain from using Grip of Domination and realized he could not summon the power again without risking collapse.
• Luna ordered the seven remaining Chaos Knights to attack Lynn as the Chaos forces began losing ground.
• A heavy barrage forced the Chaos Knights to halt, and a gigantic bright-yellow Knight appeared through the smoke.

Leo arrived in the Wrath of Holy Judgement and rescued Lynn from Luna’s Chaos forces. After Luna ordered her Knights to attack, Leo’s holy weapons destroyed the nearby daemons and Cultists, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lynn nearly collapsed from the strain of repeatedly using the Grip of Domination as Chaos Knights closed in on him and the wounded Dragons of Frost.
• Leo emerged from the ruins piloting the Wrath of Holy Judgement and condemned Luna for betraying the St. Garus Family.
• Leo fired the Knight’s blessed plasma cannons at two Chaos Knights, burning through their shields and damaging their Chaos-corrupted armor.
• Luna recognized the walker, but rejected her brief regret and ordered four Chaos Knights to hold Leo while three others killed Lynn.
• Leo shielded the Wrath of Holy Judgement from the Knights’ fire and launched holy missiles that burned away the nearby daemons, Cultists, and Chaos flesh.

Lynn was on the verge of being overwhelmed by Luna’s forces when Ork reinforcements descended onto Brevis and turned their weapons against Chaos. Strange Hand Dou arrived at Saint Garus Castle to protect Lynn, leaving the battle newly contested.

• Luna summoned more daemons and sent her three remaining Chaos Knights to attack Lynn while Leo remained occupied with four Knights.
• Hundreds of Ork drop pods fell through the Profane Barrier and landed mostly in Chaos-controlled territory, where the Orks attacked daemons instead of Imperial defenders.
• Dominic discovered that the newly arrived Orks bore an unfamiliar cloud emblem crossed by a slash and used unusual biological weapons.
• A massive Ork drop pod struck the plaza before Saint Garus Castle, and Doudou emerged to fight the Chaos forces.
• Doudou tore apart a Chaos Spawn and melted a Helbrute’s mechanical arm with his Tyrannofex acid cannon, and Lynn recognized him as Strange Hand Dou.

The Hokage Clan’s Orks arrived in Midtown and turned the battle against Chaos, with Toothy leading the charge in a six-armed rock mech. As Lynn recovered and Doudou cleared the way, Toothy slowed incoming fire with a green sound wave and reached a Helbrute.

• Doudou called out to Lynn, then led the modified Orks into the fight against the daemons.
• Toothy emerged in a chainsaw-wheel mech and launched the Hokage Clan’s rock show, driving the Orks into a frenzy.
• The Imperial Fleet, Imperial Army, Plague Cleansing Cult, and Orks overwhelmed Chaos as the Warp Rift’s output diminished.
• Doudou’s modified Ogryns attacked Chaos Spawn while the small Dragons of Frost protected Lynn.
• Toothy used a green sound wave to slow the Helbrutes’ fire, then rode through the barrage toward one of them.