Recaps

Han Mingxuan helped relocate Barbarus, then the Primarchs faced the Administratum’s workload and gathered on Nostramo to recruit new warriors. The arc ended with Han taking charge of the First Legion’s recruits and securing the Emperor’s approval for a sweeping Exterminatus plan, while the Warmaster question remained open.

• Han Mingxuan arranged for the Iron Warriors and Imperial Fists to relocate Barbarus to the Peaceful Star System, where Mortarion passed Trazyn’s assessment and the settlers began their new lives.
• Horus struggled to manage the Administratum after the Astartes took over its civil-service work, but Dorn, Ferrus Manus, and the Iron Hands helped him organize the workload and improve efficiency.
• Han Mingxuan gave Szarekh his heart’s blood and ash, revived him, and entrusted Trazyn with the Staff containing the Miracle fragment before the Primarchs arrived on Nostramo to recruit.
• The Primarchs competed for recruits, while the Nostramans’ distrust of noble influence hindered several Legions and Nova Spes passed Curze’s assessment to join the Eighth Legion.
• Han Mingxuan recruited for the Alpha Legion and helped Lion attract thirty thousand S-ranked recruits to the First Legion, then offered to oversee the new recruits and Calibanites.
• The Legions implanted Gene-seed in the Nostramo recruits with more than seventy percent success and no deaths, including among those who became Simplified Astartes.
• Han Mingxuan demanded discretionary authority to use Exterminatus and proposed publicly producing Micro-Exterminatus for every Legion, and the Emperor accepted a division of responsibilities that left him to work on the Webway.
• The Emperor asked Han Mingxuan whether he still wanted Horus as Warmaster, and Han’s recommendation remained unanswered.

Han Mingxuan led the Ullanor campaign while preparing secret safeguards for the Imperium and arranging for the Emperor to give the Night Haunter a new body. After Dante agreed to become an anchor for the Warmaster’s fate, Xiulikas took him away to alter the fate that had brought him there.

• Han Mingxuan chose Lion El'Jonson as his Warmaster candidate, warned the Emperor that the succession could cause civil war, and received a blank Letter of Appointment.
• Han Mingxuan launched the Glory Expedition, tested Micro-Exterminatus weapons, and used the resulting reforms and recruitments to strengthen the Legions.
• After Vulkan reported the Orks’ massive operation, Han Mingxuan assembled six Legions and the Sisters of Silence to confront Ulg at Ullanor.
• The Emperor joined Han Mingxuan at the front and named Oll Persson Warmaster for the Ullanor Crusade, while Han Mingxuan prepared the Legions and their defenses against the Orks.
• Han Mingxuan wrote secret instructions and gathered aid from Slaanesh, Khorne, and Nurgle, then returned to Ullanor as the first stage of the campaign continued.
• Han Mingxuan detonated the stars within the Teeth of Gork and Mork, destroying Ulg’s forces, then confronted the Emperor over the Warp, the Astartes, and humanity’s psychic awakening.
• Han Mingxuan secured the Emperor’s agreement to protect the Space Marines, create a body for Curze’s other consciousness, and provide Legion Gene-seed designs, then established the Dawn Protocol with Magnus and Lorgar.
• Han Mingxuan brought the Night Haunter to the Emperor for the new-body procedure, while Xiulikas led Dante away to correct the fate that had brought him there and Sanguinius continued the fleet’s march beyond Ullanor.

As the Primarchs prepared for the appointment of a Warmaster, Curze proposed a pact to keep the brothers united, while Eldrad sought help for the Aeldari and Slaanesh began guiding Fulgrim toward the Laer. The Third Legion’s assault ended with Fulgrim joining the Nostramo-descended recruits for tea amid the battlefield wreckage.

• Han Mingxuan stayed with Curze as the Night Haunter awakened in a new body, welcomed him, and assigned him to the Shadowbat Guard.
• Perturabo and Defensio developed Psychic Power Retainers that strengthened materials by forty percent, while Sigismund came to Nostramo and was drawn into its training and civilian life.
• After three years of study and work, Sigismund told Dorn that he had become a lawyer and salesman and ranked first in the Evernight Legion Reserves.
• Dante awoke in Imperium Nihilus with relics from his vision of the Great Crusade, and the Emperor ordered him and the Grand Master to keep the experience secret.
• As news spread that a Warmaster would be appointed, Curze proposed that the Primarchs share the Warmaster’s duties and fate through an ancient pact, and his brothers pledged themselves to it.
• Eldrad sought Han Mingxuan’s help for the Aeldari, while Slaanesh offered to guide Fulgrim and awaken his Warp Essence through the Laer campaign.
• Fulgrim sent the Third Legion against the Laer, authorizing Pulchri’s Micro-Exterminatus plan as the Nostramo-descended recruits led the attack.
• After a week of bombardment and a ground assault that crushed the weakened Laer, Fulgrim found the recruits resting with tea and military chess and asked for tea with fresh milk.

Han Mingxuan helped establish a new order for the Imperium, then vanished during his Rejuvenat Treatment and set his allies scrambling to find him. While he rested on Earth, Tzeentch became Chancellor in the future and Han prepared to return to 30k as the crisis worsened.

• Fulgrim resisted Slaanesh’s temptations, and Han Mingxuan and the Emperor arranged Lion El'Jonson’s investiture as Warmaster and a meeting on Psykers.
• Han Mingxuan named the Necrontyr newborn Continuum, then led the Psyker meeting to ban Legion Librarians while approving contracts to stabilize Psykers’ powers.
• Han Mingxuan underwent Rejuvenat Treatment in the Webway, but vanished after the procedure as the Emperor and Malcador searched for him.
• Curze and Han Mingxuan’s other allies mobilized across the Legions, while Trazyn discovered that Han was absent from the world but his soul remained stable.
• Curze interrogated the Perpetuals, learned that a plan involving the Emperor, the Warp, and Klein had sacrificed Han, then demanded answers and set out for Terra.
• Klein told Trazyn and Oll Persson that Han had gone through a Klein bottle to stabilize Nostramo, while Orikan identified the missing Fate Assassin Xiulikas as a lead.
• On Earth, Han Mingxuan watched Tzeentch become Chancellor Sinleech and agreed to return to 30k after a week of preparation as the Will of Earth warned that both timelines were worsening.