Recaps

Han Mingxuan gathered Sanguinius’s soul and Essence, resurrected him, and helped establish the Eighth Legion on Punishment Star. As the Blood Angels celebrated Sanguinius’s return, Han Mingxuan prepared for the Dark King’s incursion into the 30K timeline.

• Han Mingxuan went to Baal, where Sanguinius asked him to care for the Blood Angels and he offered to gather the Primarch’s soul fragments, and Imotekh then asked Han Mingxuan to resurrect him in exchange for help fighting the Tyranids.
• Han Mingxuan and Imotekh helped the Flesh Tearers repel the Tyranids, and Han Mingxuan soothed the Black Rage before collecting Sanguinius’s soul and Essence from the Chaos Gods.
• Han Mingxuan reunited with the Night Haunter, gathered ten thousand warriors for the Eighth Legion, and established Punishment Star as its home.
• Han Mingxuan had Fabius clone Sanguinius’s body and restored the Primarch’s soul and Essence, then offered Vashtorr a post as minister of the Imperium Department of Technology.
• Han Mingxuan and Sanguinius announced the Great Angel’s resurrection on Baal, where the Blood Angels and the people of the system celebrated his return.
• Calgar asked Han Mingxuan to resurrect Roboute Guilliman, and Han Mingxuan warned the Ultramarines that Guilliman would be assigned to the Department of Internal Affairs after his return.
• Han Mingxuan returned to Punishment Star, nurtured a fragment of the Hive Mind until it chose a human body, and approved the Silent King’s list of Necrons to resurrect.
• Trazyn secured his own resurrection and gave Han Mingxuan a clone of the Emperor’s Children’s Gene-Father, while the Night Haunter reported that the Dark King had appeared in the 30K timeline and Han Mingxuan gathered several Authorities to attack him.

Han Mingxuan ignited the Golden Throne’s power, drew reinforcements through the stabilized passage, and prepared the Imperium for a war against multiple threats. The arc ends with Lion El'Jonson awakened and suspecting that the Emperor has made another bargain with Chaos.

• Han Mingxuan forged a sword from the gods’ Positive Authorities and the Dark King’s divine seat, then set the Golden Throne ablaze as the Chaos Gods rallied against him.
• Xiulikas organized a limited first wave of reinforcements, and Nova, Slazov, Laxus, Weiss, and other warriors crossed the passage to Punishment Star.
• The newcomers cleared a Warp storm, then tested their strength against the Night Lords, with Slazov training Sahar and Nova defeating Sevatar before becoming the Night Lords’ instructor.
• Han Mingxuan agreed to the Silent King’s proposed security team, brought a captured wisp of the Great Devourer’s will into a new body, and learned that a Tyranid Hive Fleet was heading for Punishment Star.
• Han Mingxuan prepared Punishment Star for the arriving Tyranids and Orks as Inquisitor Wilchatu investigated the planet and was eventually brought before him.
• Han Mingxuan secured the Emperor’s command for the High Lords to follow his plans, then enlisted Sanguinius and Corvus Corax to prepare defenses against the Orks and T'au.
• Han Mingxuan armed his forces with vast stores of supernova weapons, assigned the Silent King to hunt the Aeldari, and sent Sanguinius to awaken Lion El'Jonson.
• Sanguinius found Lion El'Jonson beneath the Rock, and Lion pardoned his Scions before learning about the changed Imperium and suspecting that the Emperor had bargained with Chaos.

Lion El'Jonson returned to the Imperium, joined the fight against the Orks, and helped turn nine fleets into Imperial allies. As Han Mingxuan faced the danger posed by Han Yuning, the Emperor found Vulkan, who returned to the Imperium with a powerful core and aid for the Imperial Fists.

• Lion El'Jonson reunited with Sanguinius, met Sinleech on Terra, and learned from the Emperor that Sinleech was the Lord of Change and that Curze was alive on Old Nostramo.
• Lion El'Jonson confronted Magnus and Mortarion in the Administratum, but Sinleech killed them before Lion left for Punishment Star and met Konrad Curze and Han Mingxuan.
• Han Mingxuan assigned Lion El'Jonson and the First Legion to fight the Orks, while Statham's young warriors joined them and destroyed much of nine arriving Ork fleets with Micro-Exterminatus weapons.
• Statham defeated Ork bosses and made Lion El'Jonson their Green Can Big Boss, then Lion brought the nine fleets to Yarrick, who formed the Cannon-Eye Clan with them.
• Han Mingxuan created Han Yuning from a cultivated Hive Mind wisp, apologized for making her as a weapon, and named her, while Sinleech warned that her Tyranid nature and Horus's script could threaten humanity.
• Yarrick and Statham prepared human troops and Ork allies to counter Ghazghkull Thraka Saraka's Waaagh! Storm, and the Emperor answered Statham's call through the Psychic Power of the Commissar Boyz.
• The Emperor found Vulkan through the Commissar lads' Psychic Power, and Han Mingxuan awakened him on Punishment Star, where Vulkan wounded Konrad Curze but spared him and demanded he make amends.
• Han Mingxuan sent Vulkan to Terra with a powerful core and Imperial Fists gene-seeds and surgical procedures, and the Emperor briefed him on the coming war before Sinleech took him to the Phalanx.

Han Mingxuan and the Imperium prepared for the Tyranid invasion while Xiao Ning seized control of the Hive Mind. The God of War then killed Khorne, stabilized the Warp, and sent Khorne’s godhood toward Abaddon, as Han Mingxuan told Slaanesh that fate had decreed his death.

• Sinleech installed an adaptive core in the Phalanx, and Vulkan gave the Imperial Fists Gene-seed and procedures while agreeing to join the coming war.
• Vulkan and Corvus challenged Han Mingxuan over the Supernova weapons, but Han Mingxuan sent them to rebuild and prepare for the Tyranids as he went to Terra.
• Han Mingxuan arranged for the God of War and the World Eaters to travel to the 40K era, while the God of War and Slaanesh made plans involving the passage between timelines.
• The Imperium faced the Tyranids and Chaos across several fronts, and Xiao Ning entered the hive to disrupt the Tyranid network before sacrificing her consciousness to seize the Great Devourer.
• The God of War and Angron arrived in the Webway to aid the Imperium, where Nova and the loyalists fought the Daemon Primarchs and the God of War confronted Khorne.
• Xiao Ning took control of the Tyranids, but the Great Devourer overcame her, and Angron and the Night Haunter brought her to Han Mingxuan as the legions and the Phalanx attacked the hive.
• Han Mingxuan and the God of War arranged a confrontation with Khorne, while Abaddon believed he was destined to inherit Khorne’s power and the Chaos Gods feared the Tyranids could devour the Warp.
• Angron defeated the Daemon Primarch counterpart and showed him his memories before the Beast chose death, and the God of War killed Khorne, stabilized the Warp, and sent Khorne’s godhood toward Abaddon.
• Han Mingxuan left Slaanesh’s palace and told her that fate had decreed his death.