The Calth Muster

考斯集結

Gathering at the command of Warmaster Horus, the world of Calth was host to such military power matched by few other campaigns of the Great Crusade; the forces of the Ultramarines reinforced just prior to the projected assault by the fateful arrival of the Word Bearers Legion, and their allies:

按照戰(zhàn)帥荷魯斯的命令，一支龐大的軍隊集結在了考斯世界上——只有大遠征時期的較少數(shù)其他戰(zhàn)役能在（投入的）軍力上與之匹敵。就在懷言者軍團及其盟友注定到來并發(fā)動蓄謀已久的進攻之前，極限戰(zhàn)士的部隊力量得到了強化：

The Legiones Astartes XIlIth Legion——'The Ultramarines'

第十三阿斯塔特軍團——“極限戰(zhàn)士”

1st Chapter, 2nd Chapter, 3rd Chapter, 5th Chapter, 6th Chapter, 9th Chapter, 11th Chapter, 12th Chapter, 13th Chapter and 16th Chapter——full deployment at Calth, all at a nominal strength of 10,000 Legionaries. These chapters were concentrated around Calth's primary spaceport at Numinus City in western Erud.

第1、2、3、5、6、9、11、12、13和16戰(zhàn)團：這些戰(zhàn)團將全部兵力部署到了考斯，每個戰(zhàn)團名義上的兵力都為10,000名軍團戰(zhàn)士。他們駐扎在Erud大陸西側，集中在Numinus城處的考斯主太空港周圍。

8th Chapter, 14th Chapter and 15th?Chapter——deployed to Calth after seeing heavy combat in the Eastern Fringe, all at a nominal strength of at least 6,000 Legionaries and slated for full resupply at the munitions plants of Dainhold before loading for transport outsystem.

第8、14和15戰(zhàn)團：在經歷過遠東邊境的大規(guī)模戰(zhàn)斗后，這些戰(zhàn)團被部署到了考斯，每個戰(zhàn)團名義上的兵力都為至少6,000名軍團戰(zhàn)士，而且他們計劃在登艦離開考斯星系之前，先前往Dainhold的彈藥工廠進行充分補給。

17th Chapter, 18th?Chapter, 23rd Chapter and 4th Chapter——comprising those chapters whose order of battle included large numbers of armoured vehicles, especially the 4th, known as the 'Auroran'. These chapters were assigned to muster in the largely uninhabited continent of Ithraca.

第4、17、18和23戰(zhàn)團：這些戰(zhàn)團的戰(zhàn)斗序列中包含大量的裝甲載具，被稱為“極光”的第4戰(zhàn)團尤其如此。他們被指派去Ithraca大陸進行集結——該區(qū)域有大片無人居住的土地。

20th?Chapter and 21st?Chapter——known informally within the Legion as 'The Eagles' and 'The Hawks', the 20th Chapter having trained extensively for void combat and the 21st?being renowned for the skill of its pilots. These two chapters were assigned to security duties among the orbital platforms and docked warships in Calths local orbit.

第20和21戰(zhàn)團：軍團內部將他們非正式地稱呼為“雄鷹”和“獵隼”，第20戰(zhàn)團接受了大量虛空作戰(zhàn)訓練，第21戰(zhàn)團因部隊中飛行員們的技藝而著稱。這兩個戰(zhàn)團被派往軌道平臺與停泊在考斯星球軌道上的戰(zhàn)艦中，負責執(zhí)行安保任務。

22nd Chapter——comprising the majority of the XIIIth?Legion's Destroyer assets, and the stores of volatile and hazardous weaponry that characterised their operations. The 22nd Chapter, known as the 'Nemesis' Chapter, was often deployed in small formations alongside other chapter units. At Calth, 2,000 Nemesis Legionaries were mustered along the desolate Thrascias Highlands, furthest from the densely populated cities of Calth.

第22戰(zhàn)團：該戰(zhàn)團中容納了第十三軍團的絕大多數(shù)毀滅者部隊，他們運作行動的特點是儲存了大量危險且不穩(wěn)定的武器。第22戰(zhàn)團被稱為“復仇女神”，他們通常以小規(guī)模編隊的形式與其他戰(zhàn)團的部隊一起行動。考斯世界上有2,000名復仇女神軍團戰(zhàn)士，他們沿著荒涼的Thrascias高地進行集結，與那些人口稠密的城市相距最遠。

XIIIth Legion records of the Calth muster remain highly accurate with regards to their own numbers, and place the total amount of combat-ready Legiones Astartes deployed by the Ultramarines at?185,923?Space Marines.

在第十三軍團關于考斯集結的記錄文件中，對于己方人數(shù)的記載仍然極其精準：極限戰(zhàn)士軍團總共部署了185,923名做好戰(zhàn)斗準備的阿斯塔特軍團戰(zhàn)士。

The Ordo Titanicus Legio Praesagius—'The True Messengers'?

Long allied to the warriors of Ultramar, the Legio Praesagius deployed to Calth at full Legio strength, with nearly 118 godengines landed in the southern continent of Ithraca prior to embarkation.

天馬泰坦軍團——“真言使者”：天馬泰坦軍團長期與奧特拉瑪?shù)膽?zhàn)士們結盟作戰(zhàn)，其將全部兵力都部署到了考斯世界，這118臺神之引擎降落到了Ithraca大陸南側，他們原本準備登艦離開。

The Ordo Titanicus Legio Suturvora (Infernus)—'The Fire Masters'

蘇圖沃拉（煉獄）泰坦軍團——“火焰之主”

Secret agents of the Warmaster, this powerful Legio was deployed at full strength to the Calrh muster with the goal of destroying the Loyalist Titan force. The Legio, comprising at least 130 Titans, was further reinforced by a demi-Legio of the Deaths Heads.

作為戰(zhàn)帥的秘密爪牙，強大的煉獄泰坦軍團將全部兵力都部署到了考斯集結地，目標是摧毀忠誠派泰坦部隊。該軍團包含至少138架泰坦，而且得到了死顱泰坦軍團半數(shù)兵力的支援。

The Ordo Titanicus Legio Oberon—'The Death Bolts'?

歐泊龍?zhí)┨管妶F——“死亡箭矢”

Wardens of the newly founded Forge of Anvari, a thrall domain of mighty Accatran, the Legio Oberon had undertaken to provide a demi-Legio force for the Ghaslakh Crusade. However, only two maniples of god-engines were to make planetfall before the arrival of the Word Bearers forces, grounding in eastern Ourosene and northern Erud. The remainder of the Legio's forces would not arrive until after the fighting had concluded.

歐泊龍?zhí)┨管妶F守衛(wèi)著新進建成的Anvari鑄爐——這里是強大的Accatran鑄造世界所控制的封地，他們答應為Ghaslakh遠征提供半個軍團的兵力。但在懷言者抵達之前，僅有兩個歐泊龍神之引擎支隊降落到了考斯世界，駐扎在Ourosene大陸東側和Erud大陸北側。直到戰(zhàn)事結束之后，剩余的歐泊龍軍團部隊才會抵達。

The Knight House of Vornherr

沃恩赫爾騎士家族

One of the largest Knight Houses in the Segmentum, the Vornherr were oathed to fight alongside the Five Hundred Worlds unto death. Aside from a small honour guard of squires and barons left on their home world of Luhnborg-IX, the entire Household, consisting of around five hundred Knights, were mustered at the Platia island-city?in Calth's southern oceans.

沃恩赫爾是極限星域中最龐大的騎士家族之一，他們宣誓與五百世界并肩作戰(zhàn)，至死方休。整個家族只留下一支由扈從和男爵組成的小規(guī)模榮譽衛(wèi)隊駐守母星Luhnborg-IX，其余的大概五百名騎士都集結在了考斯南側海洋中的Platia島嶼城。

The Excertus Imperialis

帝國民兵

Over a million soldiers of the Imperial Army were mustered for the planned Ghaslakh Crusade, including several established army groups such as the Calaq War Host, and nearly a dozen newly raised regiments from the various cities and agricultural provinces of Calth. Also added to the muster was a number of Solar Auxilia pattern regiments in anticipation of void actions against Ork asteroid-craft at Ghaslakh, including the much renowned 41st?Espandor High Guard.

為了計劃中的Ghaslakh遠征，有超過一百萬名帝國軍士兵被集結起來，其中包括多支已被建立的部隊——例如Calaq戰(zhàn)爭軍，以及將近十二支新組建的帝國軍（步兵）團——其兵員來自考斯的各個城市與農業(yè)行省。此外，因為預計要對Ghaslakh處的獸人小行星飛船發(fā)動虛空作戰(zhàn)行動，數(shù)個太陽軍模式的（步兵）團也被集結起來，其中就包括極富盛名的Espandor第41至高守衛(wèi)團。

The Legiones Astartes XVIIh Legion——'The Word Bearers'?

第十七阿斯塔特軍團——“懷言者”

Of those who arrived under the banner of the Word Bearers, exact information is more difficult to discern, as many units arrived under false colours and forged identification signals. Based on the pict-records of surviving Ultramarines units and other sources, the fallowing Word Bearers chapters are known to have been present, at least in part, during the Calth atrocity:

對于那些舉著懷言者的旗幟抵達考斯的部隊，要了解分辨他們的準確信息則更為困難，因為很多單位都使用了虛假的涂裝配色并偽造了身份識別信號。基于幸存的極限戰(zhàn)士單位所提供的圖像記錄與其他來源的資料，我們可知以下懷言者戰(zhàn)團于考斯暴行期間現(xiàn)身——至少是部分參與其中。

The Exalted Gate Chapter

顯赫高門戰(zhàn)團

The Unspeaking Chapter

無言者戰(zhàn)團

The Twisting Rune Chapter

扭曲符文戰(zhàn)團

The Third Hand Chapter

第三之手戰(zhàn)團

The Black Comet Chapter

玄色彗星戰(zhàn)團

The Osseus Throne Chapter

枯骨王座戰(zhàn)團

The Graven Star Chapter

不滅輝星戰(zhàn)團

The Asps of the Sacred Sands Chapter

圣沙之虺戰(zhàn)團

The Flayed Hand Chapter

剝皮之手戰(zhàn)團

The Inscribed Chapter

銘刻者戰(zhàn)團

The Trifold Crown Chapter

三重寶冕戰(zhàn)團

In total, it is believed that the Word Bearers deployed no less than 50,000 Space Marines to the surface of Calth, few of which were evacuated. There appears no tactical basis for the chapters selected by Lorgar to participate in the Calth attack. Evidence acquired long after the events of the Battle for Calth suggests that these units were instead chosen for lack of devotion to Lorgar's new path or because of dangerous instability. In this Calth served as the Word Bearers' crucible, burning away those elements of the Legion which had failed to prove themselves adequately to their fickle master.

人們相信，懷言者軍團部署在考斯地面的星際戰(zhàn)士總數(shù)不超過50,000，其中只有極少數(shù)人疏散撤退。在選擇哪些戰(zhàn)團參與考斯進攻行動的問題上，珞珈似乎并未遵循（特定的）戰(zhàn)術基準。一些于考斯之戰(zhàn)（結束）很久之后被獲取的證據表明：這些單位之所以被選中，要么是由于他們對于珞珈的新道途缺乏忠誠敬拜之心，要么是由于其存在危險的不穩(wěn)定性。因此考斯戰(zhàn)場也充當了懷言者軍團的坩堝，燒掉軍團中那些未能向其善變的主宰者充分證明自己的成員。

In addition to Legiones Astartes assets, a great mass of cultic auxiliary units that accompanied the Word Bearers which may have numbered in excess of half a million men-under-arms, though the proficiency and sanity of most was questionable.

除了阿斯塔特軍團戰(zhàn)士之外，還有巨量的邪教徒輔助軍隨同懷言者而來，其中武裝人員的數(shù)量可能超過五十萬，不過其大多數(shù)成員的（武器）熟練度和理智程度都值得懷疑。

極限戰(zhàn)士裝甲預備隊

The Calth Conjunction was intended as an auspicious gathering of the combined forces of two entire Legions and as such the Ultramarines mustered not only the war machines of the line formations and those of the Legion armoured reserve, but also hundreds of vehicles manufactured especially for the campaign against the Orks of the Ghaslakh Xeno-hold. Many of these assets were gathered together at Calth and mustered at the macro landing fields in and around Ithraca City to be reviewed by the Primarch Roboute Guilliman and the assembled Chapter Masters before being loaded into heavy orbital transports. As with so many other elements of the XIIlth Legion, all but a handful would be destroyed at the opening of the Battle of Calth.

考斯會師（原本）被認為是一場將兩個完整軍團的力量合而為一的喜慶集結儀式，因此極限戰(zhàn)士們集結起的不僅有屬于前線編隊和軍團裝甲預備隊的戰(zhàn)爭機械，還有數(shù)百輛專門為這場戰(zhàn)役而鑄造的載具——此次行動旨在對抗獸人異形所控制的Ghaslakh世界。這些裝備中有很多都被共同聚集到了考斯世界，并且集結到了Ithraca城內部和周邊的巨型登陸場中，在被送上重型軌道運輸艇之前，它們將接受原體羅伯特 基里曼與集合起來的戰(zhàn)團長們的檢閱。而就像第十三軍團中的其他很多事物那樣，這些載具只有極少數(shù)能幸存下來，其余的則在考斯之戰(zhàn)的開局階段便被摧毀。

Many of the war engines of the XIlIth Legion Reserve had been formally prepared for the Calth Conjunction in a manner befitting the traditions of the Ultramarines, while others were so new they had never borne any other colours. Heraldry of cobalt blue and white was often rendered with a distinctive marbled surface pattern reminiscent of the magnificent stone architecture of Macragge, polished to a sheen as bright as that of any palace of governance. The flanks of many vehicles were plated with gold, inspired by the war-thrones of the Battle-kings of Macragge. Each was further adorned with a complex array of symbols, drawing from the iconographic traditions of both Macragge and Terra, and exemplifying the shared cultural heritage of both worlds. The ultima symbol, long associated with the region of Ultramar and adopted as the Legion's icon, was displayed prominently, as were the speartipped lightning bolts of Unification.

在第十三軍團預備隊中，很多戰(zhàn)爭引擎都是按照符合極限戰(zhàn)士傳統(tǒng)的方式為考斯會師進行了正式準備，其余的載具則極為嶄新，以至于從未被噴染過其他顏色。其上鈷藍和純白兩色的紋章呈現(xiàn)出獨特的大理石表面般花紋圖案，這令人們想起了馬庫拉格那些宏偉的石質建筑，而且這些紋章都被打磨得如同一切政務宮殿那般光潔。每臺載具還都裝飾上了一套復雜的標志，其設計借鑒了泰拉與馬庫拉格的圖像傳統(tǒng)，展示出這兩個世界共同的文化遺產。“極限”符號也被顯著地展示出來——它長期以來都被與奧特拉瑪區(qū)域聯(lián)系起來，并且被應用為軍團的圖符紋章，還被裝飾上了帶有矛尖的雷霆標志——該圖案代表著統(tǒng)一。

The ostentation lavished upon the armoured vehicles of the Legion Reserve might appear excessive or superfluous to some outsiders, especially given that within days the war machines were to be loaded onto combat?transports and shipped to war, much of their finery to be obscured by more practical battlefield markings. The phenomenon is in keeping with the tradition of the Imperium,however, for Roboute Guilliman had learned from his father the value of such a visible statement. It was Guillimans hope that the display would honour his sons in his own Legion and the sons of his brother Primarch, Lorgar and bind them together in common endeavour.

在某些外人看來，這種對于軍團預備隊中裝甲載具的大肆炫耀可能顯得過分或多余，尤其是考慮到這些戰(zhàn)爭機械于幾天之內就要被裝入戰(zhàn)斗運輸艦，并被星艦運往戰(zhàn)場，其大部分裝飾都會被更實用的戰(zhàn)地標記所掩蓋。但這種現(xiàn)象與人類帝國的傳統(tǒng)是一致的，羅伯特 基里曼從他的父親那里學到了這種可視性表達的價值，他希望用這種（武力）展示來令極限戰(zhàn)士，以及自己的原體兄弟——珞珈的子嗣們感到榮譽，通過共同的努力令二者團結一心。

One tragedy amongst the many heaped upon the Ultramarines during the Battle of Calth was the fact that many of their war machines met their deaths clad in the finery intended to honour their brother Astartes. Instead of returning that honour, the Word Bearers offered only betrayal and death to their erstwhile brothers.

在考斯之戰(zhàn)期間，會有眾多的悲劇堆積在極限戰(zhàn)士們身上，而且這個事實便是其中之一：他們的很多戰(zhàn)爭機械被毀滅時，仍舊披著那層裝飾，而這席華服原本是用于向他們的阿斯塔特兄弟表示敬意。對于自己往昔的兄弟，懷言者回饋的并非榮譽，而是只有背叛與死亡。

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