Chapter Summaries

Lion El'Jonson and Statham turned the Orks of Nine Fleets into reinforcements by convincing them to help Yarrick fight other Orks. As the Ork fleet headed for the planet, Yarrick prepared his troops to welcome them by imitating his own distinctive appearance.

• Statham led the Orks and Dark Angels in calling Lion El'Jonson the Green Can Big Boss, and the gathered Orks joined in.
• Statham persuaded the Orks that helping Yarrick fight other Orks would lead to an even greater waaaagh.
• Lion El'Jonson accepted the Orks of Nine Fleets as reinforcements and led them toward the planet, while Statham stayed behind to manage the fleets.
• Statham told Yarrick that the Orks would arrive in a few hours to support him, and Yarrick agreed to prepare for the handover.
• Yarrick ordered his adjutant to paint strong soldiers green and give their armor a skull design resembling Yarrick, hoping it would help welcome the Orks.

Lion El'Jonson placed the Ork fleets under Yarrick, who formed them into the Cannon-Eye Clan. As Lion's guard offer was refused, Ghazghkull Thraka Salakka approached Yarrick's territory, intent on starting a fight.

• Lion El'Jonson brought the Warbosses of nine Ork fleets to Yarrick and left him in charge of them.
• Yarrick persuaded the Warbosses to form the Cannon-Eye Clan and chose its emblem, while they planned to dress as Commissars like him.
• Lion offered Statham and his squad places in his guard, but Statham refused on their behalf, citing their loyalty to the Father of Night and concerns about the First Legion's unity.
• Lion ordered Statham and his squad out, then wondered how he might get along with his younger self.
• Ghazghkull Thraka Salakka led his Orks toward Yarrick's territory, eager to fight and sensing a massive waaagh! nearby.
• Yarrick, deploying defenses on the planet, sensed something and looked up at the sky.

Yarrick learned that a massive Ork Waaagh! led by Ghazghkull Thraka was approaching, while Han Mingxuan prepared to implant a captured fragment of the Hive Mind into a grown body. The alarms in the laboratory stopped after the implantation, leaving the fragment’s condition unknown.

• Yarrick visited the Ork bosses and found they had formed the Cannon-Eye Clan, dressed themselves as “commissar boyz,” and named him their commissar boss.
• An Ork boss sensed a huge Waaagh! as big as Ghazghkull Thraka’s, and Yarrick warned the planet’s forces to prepare for battle.
• Statham suspected the Orks had help from the Lord of Change and sent the news to the Father of Night.
• Han Mingxuan praised the commissar boyz but told Konrad to focus on the coming battle against the Hive Fleet and Chaos interference.
• Han Mingxuan went to the Father of the Evernight and implanted a captured wisp of the Hive Mind into a grown woman’s body; after the laboratory alarms stopped, Krete warned that they could not know what had changed.

Han Mingxuan discovered that the woman created from a strand of the Hive Mind contained his consciousness, the Great Devourer, and Slaanesh. After sealing Slaanesh’s influence, he brought her to his home to stay until the coming war, where she asked Urtana for a name of her own.

• The woman emerged from the cultivation pod, and Han Mingxuan sensed the Great Devourer and Slaanesh within her alongside the consciousness he had cultivated.
• Slaanesh demanded access to positive authorities, so Han Mingxuan sealed Slaanesh’s consciousness in the woman and part of his power in the Warp.
• The woman called Han Mingxuan her father and the Great Devourer her mother, then agreed to stay with Han Mingxuan until her so-called mother arrived.
• At Han Mingxuan’s home, Urtana asked whether the woman was a tool, and Han Mingxuan hurried away to see Konrad.
• Urtana showed the woman an empty room and warned her not to cause trouble, while the woman asked for a name of her own.

Han Mingxuan discussed his unease over creating the individual with the Night Haunter, who helped him accept her as a younger sister and recognize his own mistakes. After the individual’s consciousness clashed with the Great Devourer, Han Mingxuan apologized to her for creating her as a weapon and failing to consider what she would face.

• Han Mingxuan told the Night Haunter that he had been unsettled by the individual’s appeal to human emotions and moral standards.
• The Night Haunter reassured Han Mingxuan that speaking openly with his son showed a strength the Emperor lacked, and accepted the idea of having a younger sister.
• The Great Devourer told the individual she was merely a tool created to make the Tyranids fight and consume each other, and she lashed out with a surge of consciousness.
• Urtana considered killing the individual, but Han Mingxuan arrived and told her he would take responsibility for the danger himself.
• Han Mingxuan apologized to the individual for creating her too hastily as a weapon and for failing to consider her situation, leaving her bewildered by his remorse.

Han Mingxuan accepted the newly born Han Yuning as his daughter, gave her his surname, and promised to introduce her to the others. Meanwhile, Han Yuning revealed her conflicting human and Tyranid instincts, while Tzeentch and Sinleech struggled to understand the bizarre developments surrounding Han Mingxuan.

• Han Mingxuan accepted the being and named her Han Yuning, calling her Xiao Ning and agreeing to introduce her to everyone soon.
• Han Mingxuan told Urtana that he would take events one step at a time as long as Han Yuning did not threaten humanity.
• Han Yuning reflected on her birth, her connection to the Hive Mind, her dislike of her true body, and her complicated view of Han Mingxuan as both father and a source of valuable genes.
• A section of Tzeentch's Crystal Labyrinth shattered, and Tzeentch decided to seek help from his other self, Sinleech.
• Tzeentch and Sinleech examined the developments involving Han Mingxuan and were both baffled by an alien Horus S Plus Pro Max Flagship gender-swapped edition.

Sinleech and Tzeentch warned Han Mingxuan that Xiao Ning, despite her human body, still thought like a Tyranid and had inherited Horus’s role in the Horus Heresy. Han accepted a plan to use her against the Tyranids, then sacrifice himself to ensure she could never threaten humanity.

• Sinleech and Tzeentch rushed to find Han Mingxuan because Xiao Ning’s success could let the Tyranids consume the Warp.
• Sinleech and Tzeentch told Han that Xiao Ning was a Tyranid whose consciousness still followed Tyranid thinking, and that she had inherited Horus’s script.
• Han asked how to stop Xiao Ning, and Sinleech proposed having her destroy the Tyranids in both the 40K universe and the 30K era.
• Han ordered Sinleech to strip away his Perpetual trait after the mission, destroy his body and genes, and ensure Xiao Ning never noticed or threatened humanity.

Han Mingxuan and Sinleech discussed how to deal with Han Yuning and agreed that the Tyranids were the immediate threat. Sinleech revealed his plan to use Han Mingxuan’s dark Warp counterpart, the Father of Night, to destroy the Great Devourer’s soul after Han Mingxuan eventually leaves.

• Han Mingxuan and Sinleech decided to postpone dealing with Tzeentch and focus first on defeating the Tyranids.
• Sinleech warned that Han Yuning must not be allowed to build forces and proposed destroying her Tyranid consciousness with Han Mingxuan’s dark side.
• Sinleech explained that Tzeentch had only seen Han Mingxuan’s positive side, so he had concealed the plan to prevent Tzeentch from exploiting the dark power.
• Sinleech showed Han Mingxuan the Night Haunter wielding the Father of Night’s power of absolute punishment and explained that it arose from hatred of evil and people’s faith in Han Mingxuan.
• Sinleech said Han Yuning’s complete soul made her vulnerable to Warp powers and assured Han Mingxuan that he and the other gods could handle the Great Devourer.
• Han Mingxuan told Sinleech to keep matters normal until the world’s other problems were resolved, then leave Han Yuning to him.

Han Mingxuan learned that Corvus had devastated most of the T'au Empire and let him withdraw to recover, while the Night Haunter investigated Han Yuning’s danger. Sinleech confirmed that Han Mingxuan would handle the threat, and the Night Haunter turned his attention to the Great Devourer’s invasion.

• Sinleech recommended that the God of War be the first God to come over because his authority included justice.
• Han Mingxuan asked Xiao Ning about her plans, and she said she would wait for her other self rather than integrate into human society.
• Han Yuning reported that Corvus had eliminated over seventy percent of the T'au Empire’s fighting strength, and Han Mingxuan ordered him to leave the front lines and rest.
• The Night Haunter used Sinleech’s Warp Rift to meet him and asked whether Han Yuning had taken Horus’s script.
• Sinleech confirmed the danger but told the Night Haunter that Han Mingxuan would resolve it, so the Night Haunter left without seeking out the Emperor.
• The Night Haunter focused on the Tyranid invasion, noting that the Great Devourer itself was entering the fight.

Ghazghkull Thraka Saraka gathered Weirdboyz to unleash a massive Waaagh! Storm, forcing Yarrick and Lion El'Jonson to devise a way to counter it. Statham proposed teaching Imperial soldiers Ork language so their emotions could create a rival Psychic Power Field, and the Shoota Commissar began preparing the human troops.

• Saraka saw Ghazghkull Thraka's Orks charging under the Emperor's name and encountered the Green Can Big Boss and Old One-Eye.
• Ghazghkull Thraka recruited Weirdboyz to build a Waaagh! Storm and challenge Old One-Eye's forces.
• The Shoota Commissar warned Yarrick that Ghazghkull Thraka Saraka's gathering Psychic Power could destroy the forces and planet.
• Yarrick consulted Lion El'Jonson, who ordered Statham to plan a response to the Psychic Power assault.
• Statham proposed teaching Imperial soldiers Ork language to stir emotions and generate a countering Psychic Power Field.
• Yarrick put the human troops under the Shoota Commissar's command, and the Shoota Commissar rallied them to fight for the Emperor.

Yarrick put Ork Commissar Boyz into human units and made the soldiers adopt Ork fighting methods, while Statham punished an Inquisitor who objected. As Saraka’s psychic storm gathered, Lion El'Jonson prepared to assault the Warp Rift once it opened.

• Yarrick assigned Ork Commissar Boyz to human combat units and had them teach the soldiers to fight like Orks.
• An Inquisitor demanded that Yarrick stop using Orks, but Statham ordered two Orks to beat him and sent the Inquisitors to the front line.
• Lion El'Jonson brought everyone to the front as a sandstorm began, and Yarrick ordered them to prepare for Ghazghkull Thraka’s advance.
• Statham gathered firing-port Boyz and Commissar Boyz, who waited for the most formidable enemy to appear before charging.
• Saraka sacrificed most of his Weirdboyz to unleash a great Waaagh!, and Lion El'Jonson prepared to lead a boarding assault when the Warp Rift opened.

Statham, Lion El'Jonson, and the Commissar Boyz charged into Saraka's massive Waaagh! storm to reach its center and confront Gork and Mork. The Emperor manifested through the Orks, and he prepared to question the projections about Vulkan's whereabouts.

• Ghazghkull Thraka rallied the Orks to capture Old One-Eye alive while Statham's squad prepared for battle with Psychic Power Bombs.
• Lion El'Jonson led his forces and the Commissar Boyz toward the front, and Statham's squad used the bombs to tear a path into Saraka's psychic storm.
• Statham and the Commissar Boyz saw the projections of Gork and Mork at the storm's center, and Statham called on the Emperor.
• The Emperor answered Statham's cry with his Psychic Power, making the nearby Orks glow with golden light.
• The Commissar charged the projections, while the Emperor resolved to find out from them where Vulkan was.

Han Mingxuan revived the Lord of Drakes and sent him to the shipyard to forge something while unconscious. When the Lord of Drakes awoke, the Night Haunter offered him his Lightning Claws and invited him to judge him for his past crimes.

• The Emperor found the Lord of Drakes with the Commissar lads' Psychic Power and sent him to Punishment Star.
• Han Mingxuan arranged for Strike Cruisers to be built and agreed with the Night Haunter that the Lord of Drakes should be allowed to judge him for past torture.
• Han Mingxuan used his pen and power to awaken the Lord of Drakes, then ordered the Night Haunter to take him to the shipyard while he was unconscious.
• The unconscious Lord of Drakes made a powerful, self-iterating core in the shipyard.
• The Lord of Drakes awoke, confronted the Night Haunter, and received his Lightning Claws as the Night Haunter offered himself for judgment.

Vulkan confronted Konrad over the Night Haunter’s past crimes, but refused to kill him and demanded that he atone. Han Mingxuan healed Konrad, explained that the Emperor had sent Vulkan to Punishment Star, and sent him through a warp rift to Terra.

• Konrad offered himself to Vulkan for judgment, and Vulkan wounded him with his Lightning Claws.
• Vulkan refused to kill Konrad and demanded that he live to make amends for his betrayal of humanity.
• Han Mingxuan arrived, healed Konrad, and sent him to wash while he spoke with Vulkan.
• Han Mingxuan told Vulkan that the Emperor had sent him to Punishment Star and directed him to take his constructed device to Terra.
• Han Mingxuan opened a warp rift and kicked Vulkan through it toward Terra.

Vulkan awakened in the Warp and learned that the Emperor was recovering while the Imperium prepared for a vast war against the Tyranids, Chaos, and Orks. The Emperor sent Vulkan to Sinleech, who brought him and his newly made core to the Phalanx to begin his next assignment.

• Han Mingxuan sent Vulkan to deliver the core to the Emperor and Imperial Fists Gene-seeds and surgical procedures to the Imperial Fists.
• Sinleech kicked Vulkan into the Throne Room, where Vulkan learned from the Emperor that the Imperium was facing a major war and that Sanguinius had been resurrected.
• The Emperor told Vulkan that Curze had changed, Lion El'Jonson was fighting Orks, and Sanguinius, Curze, and Corvus were preparing their forces.
• The Emperor sent Vulkan to Sinleech, who confirmed Vulkan had made a core while unconscious and said it had been placed beside the Phalanx.
• Sinleech took Vulkan to the Phalanx, where the Imperial Fists saluted them and were surprised to see the Lord of Drakes.

Vulkan helped Sinleech activate the Phalanx with a Planetary Fortress Adaptive Core, then received plans to rebuild the Imperial Fists and promised to join the coming great war. News of Vulkan’s return reached Corvus, who went to find him, unaware that the meeting would bring him trouble.

• Sinleech explained that the adaptive core came from the Dark Age of Technology and installed it in the Phalanx, which began activating and repairing itself.
• Sinleech told Vulkan that the core used a distilled human soul rather than a Machine Spirit, and said the Phalanx could consume ships or Warp Daemons for repairs.
• Vulkan gave the Imperial Fists the Gene-seed and augmentation procedures, and Sinleech told them to gather repair materials without seeking Administratum approval.
• Sinleech gave Vulkan a genetic enhancement plan for the Super Sons of the Fire Dragon and required him to attend the coming great war with the other Primarchs.
• The Emperor spread news of Vulkan’s return, and Corvus set out to meet him, hoping for help.

Corvus warned Vulkan that Han Mingxuan had ordered him to exterminate the T'au Empire using weapons that triggered supernovae. Vulkan and Corvus returned to Punishment Star to confront Han Mingxuan, who agreed to discuss the plan before the coming war.

• Corvus told Vulkan that the Night Haunter had restored his sanity and that Han Mingxuan was Konrad's father.
• Corvus explained that Han Mingxuan had ordered him to destroy the T'au Empire with staffs containing suns on the verge of exploding.
• Corvus revealed that Han Mingxuan had roughly ten thousand such weapons and warned Vulkan that the Necrons would oppose the Imperium if it tried to stop him.
• Vulkan decided to meet Han Mingxuan and discuss the weapons' use, and Corvus agreed to accompany him.
• Vulkan and Corvus returned to Punishment Star, where Han Mingxuan agreed to discuss the plan before the great war began.

Han Mingxuan defended his extreme methods against Vulkan, arguing that humanity had to survive the hostile universe before it could consider the future. As the Tyranids’ main force neared, he ordered Vulkan to rebuild his legion and prepared to travel to Terra.

• Vulkan challenged Han Mingxuan over the Supernova weapons and warned that exterminating other species could endanger humanity’s future.
• Han Mingxuan argued that humanity faced enslavement and extinction if it did not use ruthless means to survive.
• Han Mingxuan told Vulkan to leave, rebuild his legion, and join the coming battle against the Tyranids.
• After Vulkan and Corvus left, the Night Haunter reported that Xiao Ning’s brain waves had shifted abnormally and that the Tyranid main force would arrive soon.
• The Night Haunter described the legions’ mobilization and estimated they had less than half a year before the Tyranids arrived.
• Han Mingxuan told the Night Haunter to prepare for the war and said he was going to Terra to make arrangements.

Han Mingxuan prepared to bring the God of War and the World Eaters into the 40K era as the Tyranid Hive Fleet approached, while Krete secretly planned to eliminate Xiao Ning. The chapter ended with Slaanesh and the God of War both seeking confinement in Nurgle’s Garden to prevent anything disrupting Han Mingxuan’s plan.

• Han Mingxuan reassured Xiao Ning that the plan would succeed, while she acknowledged that she was part of the Great Devourer.
• Krete concluded that Xiao Ning’s creation might kill Han Mingxuan and secretly planned to erase its cause by using Orikan’s time travel and killing the captured Zoanthrope.
• On Holy Terra, Han Mingxuan told Sinleech that the next stage of the plan was ready, then asked Malcador to send the God of War and the World Eaters to the 40K era.
• The God of War agreed to go, intending to close the passage temporarily and kill Khorne to gain enough authority to stabilize the connection between the two worlds.
• Slaanesh asked the God of War for his authority, then went to Nurgle’s Garden to be confined; she found the God of War there with the same intention.

Slaanesh asked to be confined after sensing that something was wrong with her, but Grandfather sent her to seek love as part of reclaiming her Positive Authority. The God of War devised a plan to redirect her future hatred through Mr. Han, while Angron prepared to depart for 40k and found Vulkan waiting to see him off.

• Slaanesh asked Grandfather to confine her, but he told her to seek love so she could complete her transformation as the Goddess of Love.
• Grandfather and the God of War worried that Slaanesh might become their enemy and agreed to redirect her hatred toward a target in another timeline through Mr. Han.
• The God of War planned to stabilize the passage between timelines and have Mr. Han form a relationship with someone there for Slaanesh to sense.
• At the World Eaters' encampment, Curze told Angron he had been growing stronger to help their father, and Angron prepared to leave for 40k.
• Angron reached the departure site and found Vulkan there to see him off.