hh1節(jié)譯:余燼群狼和猩紅牧師(吞世者軍團相關(guān))

Close knit and often isolated as the World Eaters Legion was, it is important to note that it was nor without it's allies and support structures. Originally the make-up of the 13" Expedirionary fleet of which Angron had been placed in command had contained a number of auxiliary forces, although many of these would be destroyed by attrition or as punishment for their failures. One, the Legio Audax——or the Ember Wolves to give them their common name—would continue on to become synonymous with the World Eaters Legion. Originally a Vanguard Demi-Legio, comprising only of Scout class Titans of various types, the Legio had quickly developed an alarmingly savage and dangerous reputation, and was looked on as becoming almost bestial by the Titan Legions it fought alongside. The match of this savage set of semi-outcasts with the World Eaters was a natural one, and in battle?the tendencies of both for brutal, direct assault married well together, although the close allegiance of the Ember Wolves to the Primarch Angron, over their distant Mechanicum masters was cause for growing concern for the Collegia Titanica. This matter only worsened with the breaking of the siege of Sarum by the 13th Expeditionary fleet in the opening action of the great Golgothan Slaughter.
有一個重要的情況我們要指出:就像吞世者軍團一樣,第十二軍團的盟友和支援部隊之間緊密團結(jié),也經(jīng)常被孤立。最初由安格隆指揮的第13遠征艦隊的組成部分中包含許多輔助部隊。雖然這些部隊當中的許多會因戰(zhàn)爭損失而被摧毀,或者因失敗而遭受懲罰。而奧達科斯泰坦軍團——通常被稱為余燼群狼繼續(xù)成為吞世者軍團的代名詞。余燼群狼最早是一個擔任先鋒的次級泰坦軍團,僅由各種類型的偵查泰坦組成,這個泰坦軍團很快發(fā)展出了令人震驚的野蠻和危險的名聲,他們幾乎被與之并肩作戰(zhàn)的泰坦視為野獸。這支被半放逐的泰坦軍團和吞世者軍團簡直就是天生一對,在戰(zhàn)斗中,兩者殘酷直接的攻擊傾向也相吻合。雖然灰燼群狼泰坦軍團對于原體安格隆有著緊密的忠誠,然而在遙遠的地方,機械神教的主宰們引起了泰坦修會越來越多的關(guān)注。隨著第十三遠征艦隊在Golgothan大屠殺的開始階段打破了對于Sarum世界的圍攻,情況惡化了。




Sarum was a besieged Age of Strife Mechanicum outpost with whom shaky and intermittent contact had been maintamed for nearly a century. It's masters, the Tech-priests of the Redjak Covenant, had remained nominally loyal to Mars down the centuries, but had been forced by fighting a relentless battle for survival alone to become something many within the wider Mechanicum were deeply suspicious of—a highly militant?and schismatic sub-faith with secrets of their own. The Redjak Mechanicum of Sarum quickly embraced their saviours, the World Earers,as allies and swore to Angron and his Legion directly many oaths of fealry and entered into pacts of mutual protection and support.
Sarum是一個建立于紛爭紀元的被圍困的機械教前哨基地,帝國和它之間不穩(wěn)定且斷斷續(xù)續(xù)的接觸已經(jīng)持續(xù)了近一個世紀。當?shù)氐慕y(tǒng)治者——紅色激酶同盟的科技神甫們幾個世紀以來一直在名義上忠于火星,但由于他們要為獨自生存而進行殘酷的戰(zhàn)斗,他們被迫成為了一種在機械神教內(nèi)部飽受質(zhì)疑的存在——某個有著自己秘密的高度好戰(zhàn)且贊成分裂的次級信仰組織。Sarum的機械神教成員很快與自己的救星——吞世者軍團結(jié)為盟友,他們直接向安格隆和第十二軍團宣誓效忠,并簽訂了相互保護和支持的協(xié)議。
For the World Eaters this provided the Legion and its Techmarines with a ready source of resupply and armament far outside the Imperium's inner spheres. This allowed, among other benefits, the reconstruction of the Legions badly damaged flagship Battle Barge, the Adamant Resolve into the heavily-armoured Conqueror, fitted with arrays of Ursus Claw systems——great void-harpoons designed to spear enemy vessels and drag them within reach of bloody boarding actions. Smaller-scaled versions of these Ursus weapons would be modified to also arm the Warhound Titans of the Legio Audax and the World Eaters* assault Dreadnoughts in turn. As for the crimson Redjak Magos, in the World Haters they gained powerful protectors who shielded them from the scrutiny of their erstwhile brother Mechanicum. Although as the Warmaster's rebellion drew close, this relationship prompted the suspicious Fabricator-general of Mars (and ally of Horus) to despatch Archmagos Veneratus Vel-Kheredar as representative to the World Eaters Legion both as spy and ambassador on the eve of the war.
對吞世者而言,這為軍團和他的技術(shù)軍士們提供了遠在帝國內(nèi)部地區(qū)之外的再補給和軍備的現(xiàn)成來源。除了其他好處,Sarum把吞世者軍團受損嚴重的軍團旗艦——戰(zhàn)斗母艦堅毅果敢號重建為裝甲厚重的征服者號,并且配備了熊爪系統(tǒng)陣列——某種強大的虛空魚叉,被設(shè)計用于刺中敵艦并把它們拖入到血腥的跳幫行動的攻擊范圍之內(nèi)。小型化的熊爪武器被調(diào)整后可以依次安裝到余燼狼群的戰(zhàn)犬泰坦和吞世者的突擊無畏機甲上。而對于Sarum那些猩紅的科技神甫而言,他們獲得了保護他們免受昔日機械神教兄弟的審查的強大保護者。即使戰(zhàn)帥荷魯斯的叛亂越來越近,兩者間的密切關(guān)系仍然促使多疑的火星鑄造將軍(以及荷魯斯的盟友)卡爾波—哈爾在戰(zhàn)爭前夜派遣高階大賢者維爾—科勒達爾作為代表前往吞世者軍團擔任間諜和大使。