The genius Lord Commander of the Segmentum Solar has a chance to put deed to his legend when a battle against the Orks goes disastrously wrong from the offset, and the Lord Solar finds himself pitched into an active warzone aboard a saviour pod. Attacks from a roving Speed Waaagh! and a population enslaved to produce effigies of the Orks’ brutal gods don’t dampen his spirit, however. Leontus doesn’t just want to survive this war – he plans to win it.