hh8節(jié)譯:迷失與棄絕之鷹

The withdrawal of Jaghatai Khan and his fleet from the Chondax system marks the end of the fighting there in most conventional records. Few scholars make any further reference to the Chondax system during the years of the Horus Heresy. Indeed, even today it is considered a desolate backwater of no strategic worth. However, there were small warbands of White Scars active within the system for a number of years after the withdrawal, far longer than most accounts acknowledge.
在大多數(shù)的傳統(tǒng)記錄中,察合臺可汗與白疤艦隊(duì)撤出Chondax星系標(biāo)志著Chondax戰(zhàn)役的結(jié)束。在荷魯斯叛亂時(shí)期,幾乎沒有學(xué)者進(jìn)一步提及Chondax星系。事實(shí)上,即便是在今天Chondax星系也被視為沒有戰(zhàn)略價(jià)值的偏僻荒涼落后的世界。然而,在白疤軍團(tuán)撤離后,仍有一個(gè)小型白疤戰(zhàn)幫在星系中活動(dòng)了很多年,遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超過大多數(shù)報(bào)告所承認(rèn)的時(shí)間。

These stubborn bands of survivors were forced to turn to hit and run warfare, relying on their speed to keep them ahead of their pursuers. Most numbered little more than a few dozen warriors and were quickly reduced to scavenging the wreckage of past battles to remain combat capable, in many ways aping the tactics of the Orks they had hunted to extinction only a short time before. Most of these holdouts were exterminated by the Alpha Legion within a few short weeks, but a few lasted much longer.
這些頑強(qiáng)的幸存者戰(zhàn)幫們被迫轉(zhuǎn)向了游擊戰(zhàn),依靠他們的速度來趕在追兵們前面。多數(shù)戰(zhàn)幫僅有十幾名戰(zhàn)士,他們被迫搜尋之前戰(zhàn)爭的殘骸來維持戰(zhàn)斗能力,在很多方面他們都模仿了獸人的戰(zhàn)術(shù)——就在不久之前白疤們還在狩獵殲滅后者。此類抵抗者中的多數(shù)都在短短幾周中慘遭阿爾法軍團(tuán)的毀滅,但也有少數(shù)人堅(jiān)持了很久。

The last such group of White Scars survivors to have been rescued from Chondax was discovered in 017.M31, ten long years after the Alpha Legion had abandoned the system, by a Raven Guard patrol cruiser seeking the trail of the Traitor fleets fleeing the failed Siege of Terra. Having been trapped on Irra Minor for a decade, the warriors of the Brotherhood of the Black Axe, led by Sengur One-arm, who was known to his troops as the Iron Khan due to the patchwork augmetics that sustained him, initially assumed the Raven Guard to be a hostile force. A long, solitary war against Alpha Legion headhunters, Dark Mechanicum hunter-killer servitors and foul apparitions of the Warp had made a virtue of paranoia. It was only after a short and abortive skirmish that the XIXth Legion warriors managed to convince them of their intent. Sengur Khan and his surviving eight warriors were invited to Terra by no less a personage than Rogal Dorn to receive honours for their valour, but they instead chose to return quietly to Chogoris without fanfare.
最后一個(gè)被從Chondax星系救出的白疤幸存者戰(zhàn)幫被發(fā)現(xiàn)于017.M31——阿爾法軍團(tuán)遺棄Chondax星系十年之后,發(fā)現(xiàn)他們的是一艘巡邏中的暗鴉守衛(wèi)巡洋艦,她正在尋找從失敗的泰拉圍城戰(zhàn)中逃離的叛軍艦隊(duì)的蹤跡。在已經(jīng)被困在Irra Minor世界十年之后,黑色利斧兄弟會(huì)的戰(zhàn)士們最初將暗鴉守衛(wèi)視為了敵對力量。兄弟會(huì)的領(lǐng)袖是“獨(dú)臂”僧格爾,他由于使用拼湊起來的仿生器官維持自己的生命而被他的部隊(duì)稱為“鐵汗”(機(jī)仆:機(jī)械戰(zhàn)汗…),對抗阿爾法軍團(tuán)獵頭者、黑暗機(jī)械神教獵殺者機(jī)仆和亞空間腐壞惡靈的漫長且孤獨(dú)的戰(zhàn)爭造就了他那偏執(zhí)的優(yōu)點(diǎn)。僅僅在一場短暫且未遂的小沖突之后,第十九軍團(tuán)的戰(zhàn)士們就使白疤幸存者們確信了自己的意圖(是追殺叛軍)。一位不遜于羅格? 多恩的要人(機(jī)仆:基里曼?)邀請僧格爾可汗和他麾下八位幸存的戰(zhàn)士被邀請前往泰拉去接受表彰他們勇氣的榮譽(yù),但他們還是選擇不舉行任何隆重的儀式就悄悄返回了巧高利斯。
機(jī)仆:萬里赴戎機(jī),關(guān)山度若飛,朔氣傳金度,寒光照鐵衣,弟兄百戰(zhàn)死,壯士十年歸。終得兄弟助,原體彰其榮,健兒不需凱旋堂,無息馳星艟,送兒還故鄉(xiāng)