The Baksuryan Orders

Elucidators of the Office of?the Sigillite in the process of purging the city of Thelmpacia of?a group of cannibals and Warp-worshippers recovered an unexpected item in their possession: the intact helmet of a Thousand Sons Legionary. Concealed within its lining was a scrawled parchment, assumed to have been written by its erstwhile owner, recalling in summary the findings of an investigation into the organisation. According to the handwritten notes, which remain uncorroborated due to the thorough punitive efforts of?the Elucidators, Thelmpacia had fallen under the thrall of an ancient faith. Calling themselves the Devourers, the members of this group worshipped an entity called Haksujan, a "holy being' renowned for its insatiable appetites. Haksujan, according to local myths, judged its servants by their martial strength, its worshippers meeting in secret to undertake ritual melees. The leaders of the Order were the most accomplished pugilists in these brawls, their might and martial prowess being their criteria of selection, and their strength only appeared to grow with the favour of their brethren and their deity. If the combat resulted in a death, as it should per the tradition of the Order, all of the fighters present would partake in eating the corpse of the fallen, emulating the appetites of their unearthly master.

在清理Thelmpacia城中的一群食人暴徒和亞空間崇拜者的過程中，掌印司的宣道官們從這些人手中回收到了一件意料之外的物品：一頂完好無損的千子軍團戰(zhàn)士頭盔。其內(nèi)襯中隱藏著一張潦草的羊皮紙，被認(rèn)為是它以前的主人寫下的，概括性地回顧了對該組織的調(diào)查結(jié)果。根據(jù)這些手寫的筆記（由于宣道官們施加的徹底性懲罰措施，其中的內(nèi)容尚未得到證實）來看，Thelmpacia城已經(jīng)受到了某種古老信仰的奴役。該團體中的成員們自稱為“暴食者”，他們崇拜某個被稱為哈克蘇甘的實體，這位“圣者”因其不知饜足的食欲而著稱。根據(jù)當(dāng)?shù)厣裨挘颂K甘用軍事力量來判別自己的仆從，他的崇拜者們會秘密會面來進行儀式性的混戰(zhàn)。教團的領(lǐng)袖們是這些斗毆中技藝最為精湛的格斗士，他們是因為自己的力量和武力而被選出的，而且他們的力量似乎也會隨著兄弟和神明對其偏愛（的增加）而變強。如果格斗導(dǎo)致了死亡，那么按照教團的傳統(tǒng)，在場的所有戰(zhàn)士都要享用死者的尸體，以此來模仿他們神秘主人的食欲。

Parallels were drawn on the recovered parchment Between the behaviour of the Devourers and dozens of other incidents of?occult activities throughout the galaxy, tracing back to pre-Unification Terra. apparently well-versed in the occult, the author of the note linked the ritual practices of the Devourers with the Brotherhood of Godann on Beta Hethacon, and with the Children of Jumnuka on Rothberg VI. The author goes on to theorise that all such organisations descend from that of the Order of Baksurya the Hungerer, a faction encountered by the Emperor on the sub-Indus archipelagos of Ancient Terra. Though ostensibly eliminated by the forces of Unification, their beliefs remained subtly present in His domains and were carried across the stars by His armies. This is substantiated, claims the scrawled text, by the fact that all worlds touched by the outbreak of similar groups were brought to Compliance by the 73rd Expeditionary Fleet, which carried warriors from that region of Terra. Though purged one by one, similar groups have appeared in other areas of the galaxy and are thought to have been propagated by soldiers of the Great Crusade, who in the field may have witnessed and then imitated their saviours amongst certain Legions of the Space Marines partaking in a limited form of anthropophagy.

這份回收羊皮卷上所記錄的暴食者們的行為，與遍及銀河各處的其他數(shù)十起神秘事件有著相似性，其內(nèi)容可以追溯到統(tǒng)一前的泰拉。這份記錄的作者明顯精通神秘學(xué)，他將暴食者們的儀式行為與Beta Hethacon世界上的高登兄弟會、Rothberg VI世界上的朱姆卡之子教團的表現(xiàn)進行了聯(lián)系。作者繼續(xù)論證到：所有此類組織都源自巴克蘇利亞教團——“饑渴者”教團，帝皇在古泰拉英杜次大陸群島上遇到了該教派。雖然教團在表面上被統(tǒng)一力量所消滅，但其信仰仍然微妙地存在于帝皇的疆土內(nèi)，并被帝皇的軍隊帶往群星。羊皮卷上潦草的文字聲稱這些內(nèi)容是有事實依據(jù)的：所有爆發(fā)了相似團體（活動）的世界都是第73遠征探索艦隊令其歸順的——其運載的士兵就是來著泰拉英杜次大陸群島地區(qū)。盡管帝國將其一個又一個地剿滅，但類似的團體還是出現(xiàn)在了銀河系其他區(qū)域，并被認(rèn)為是由大遠征士兵們傳播的——這些士兵可能是在戰(zhàn)場上目擊并（在之后）模仿了他們來自某些星際戰(zhàn)士軍團的拯救者，參與了形式有限的食人行為。

When eventually returned to the XVth Legion, the helmet was identified as that of Mykolayiv Bast, Fated Vigilator of the Thousand Sons Ammitara Occult, who was declared missing in 890.M30. Bast's helmet was re-powered by the armourers of his Legion and extensive audio dictation was discovered in its data-core, detailing the findings of his investigation into the Haksujan Order and presumably other such groups. The Thousand Sons deemed this report to be too dangerously arcane to share with the officers of the Sigillite, and accordingly claimed to have destroyed the helmet and its contents. Though multiple petitions were filed, the XVth Legion would not explain the reason behind Bast's concealed presence in Thelmpacia, or the extent of his investigations.

在最終被歸還給第十五軍團后，這頂頭盔被識別阿米達拉隱修會的命定守夜官——尼古拉耶夫 巴斯特，此人被宣稱失蹤于890.M30。千子軍團的武庫軍官們重新為巴斯特的頭盔輸入能量，并在其數(shù)據(jù)核心中發(fā)現(xiàn)了大量口述音頻文件，這些資料詳細說明了巴斯特對哈克蘇甘教團以及其他可能的類似團體的調(diào)查結(jié)果。千子軍團認(rèn)為這份報告神秘到過于危險，以至于不能和掌印司的官員們進行分享，因此他們聲稱已經(jīng)摧毀了頭盔和其內(nèi)部的資料。盡管被提出了多項申請，但第十五軍團并不愿解釋巴斯特隱藏在Thelmpacia的原因以及他調(diào)查的范圍。