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In the days before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, Xana II rivalled the greatest of Forge Worlds of the Imperium for their command of the arcane secrets of the Machine Cult and the sheer scale of their production capacity. Their capability to produce Ordinatus Minoris, even in a supremely limited capacity, is a feat that a mere handful of?other Forge Worlds could duplicate, and one that caused a great stir among the magi of Mars— for the secrets of?the manufacture of such titanic engines of war were closely guarded and whose appearance on the very edges of Imperial space where no such power should exist proved a deeply vexing mystery. Yet as the Horus Heresy moved from a conflict limited to a few isolated worlds to total galactic warfare, the magi of Xana revealed not a single example of such devastating artifice, but three, all destined to augment the Warmaster's already potent hordes.

遠在荷魯斯叛亂爆發(fā)之前，由于其對于機械教派奧秘的掌握和其生產(chǎn)能力的巨大規(guī)模，Xana II能與人類帝國最偉大的鍛造世界們相抗衡。它生產(chǎn)小將軍炮的能力——雖然極其有限，但也是少數(shù)幾個鍛造世界才可以復制的壯舉。這樣的能力能夠在火星的三賢會當中引起巨大的轟動——因為創(chuàng)造此等超大型戰(zhàn)爭引擎的秘密被機械神教嚴密守衛(wèi)著，如此神機出現(xiàn)在不應該擁有這種力量的帝國空間邊緣的這一事實被證明是一個令人深深困擾的謎團。然而，隨著荷魯斯叛亂從僅限于個別被孤立世界的沖突發(fā)展為一場席卷銀河的全面戰(zhàn)爭，Xana的三賢會顯示出自己并非只有一臺毀滅神機，而是擁有三臺，所有三臺小將軍炮都注定要增強戰(zhàn)帥那業(yè)已強大的叛軍陣營。

The few records of Xana that survived the Horus Heresy show that the Ulator class Ordinatus Minoris was the only artefact of this scale that the magi retained the required knowledge to construct , or at least the only class that has ever been known to have been fabricated by those reclusive magi. The Ulator class Ordinatus is built around a colossal sonic destructor; a directional sonic transduction generator that was capable of?sweeping a battlefield clean of enemy combatants and armour. Generating a hyperdestructive wave-pulse that resonated with force equal to the mass of the object struck, the impact of the weapon was as deadly to the mighty super-heavy tanks of the Legiones Astartes as it was to the humble infantryman of the Imperial Auxilia. This awe inspiring weapon, rivalling as it did the destructive power of the mighty God-engines of the Legio Titanicus, was the main focus of?the Ordinatus'?artifice. The main structure of the vehicle itself was a reinforced tractor unit to allow the weapon to be moved into firing position and in which to mount the immense fusion reactor required to power the sonic destructor.

從荷魯斯叛亂中幸存下來的極少數(shù)關于xana的記錄顯示：在制造小將軍炮這種尺寸的武器的問題上，xana三賢會只保留了建造烏拉托級小將軍炮所需的知識，或者說，它至少是唯一一種已知被隱居遁世的xana三賢會制造過的小將軍炮型號。烏拉托級小將軍炮是圍繞一座巨大的聲波毀滅炮建造的，后者是一種能夠掃清戰(zhàn)場上敵方戰(zhàn)斗人員和裝甲單位的定向聲波變頻發(fā)生器。它能產(chǎn)生一道能夠以等于被撞擊物體的質量的力來產(chǎn)生共振的毀滅性超強的脈沖波，這種武器的效果對于阿斯塔特軍團使用的強大超重型坦克和卑賤的帝國輔助軍步兵而言是同樣致命的。這種令人敬畏的武器是小將軍炮妙計的主要焦點，其破壞力能夠與泰坦軍團的神之機械們相抗衡。載具自身的主要結構是一臺強化過的牽引機，它能讓武器被移動到開火位置，為聲波毀滅炮供能的巨大的聚變反應堆也安置在其中。

The example displayed here is the Ordinatus Minoris Ashurax, one of two Ordinatus captured by the Imperial-aligned force that raided Xana II in 007.M31. Control of the Ashurax was seized by a cabal of Loyalist Techmarines, of whom seven suffered fatal neuro-cortical damage as they attempted to master the unchained machine-spirit the magi of Xana had bound to the workings of the Ordinatus. Its subsequent live-fire testing saw the decimation of?those taghma the Xanite magi ordered forth to reclaim the priceless artefact.

我們在此展示的是小將軍炮阿蘇拉克斯，在007.M31，一支與帝國結盟的黑盾部隊掠襲了Xana II，阿蘇拉克斯是他們奪取的兩臺將軍炮之一。奪取阿蘇拉克斯控制權的是一個忠誠派技術軍士秘會，而在他們試圖掌控xana三賢會綁定到小將軍炮上的不受束縛的機魂時，當中的七名成員遭受致命的神經(jīng)皮層損傷(機仆：就像海爾斯瑞奇小說里的鑄造大師一樣，腦子燒了)。隨后的實彈測試表明：小將軍炮對于那些被xana三賢會命令前去奪回這些無價之寶的部隊造成了嚴重的殺傷。

Safely evacuated from the surface of Xana- Tisiphone, the Ashurax was removed to Beta—Garmon, there to rest in the hands of Loyalist tech-magi charged with its maintenance until the campaign known only as the Titandeath unfolded on that same world.

阿蘇拉克斯被從Xana- Tisiphone表面安全撤離，它之后被轉移到了貝塔—伽爾蒙，在那里，負責維護工作的忠誠派技術三賢會對他進行了維修保養(yǎng)，直到被后世稱為泰坦之死的貝塔—伽爾蒙戰(zhàn)役爆發(fā)。