The temple-arcologies of Prospero's principal psyker Cults were among the primary objectives of any invasion of Tizca, for they served both as the headquarters for the various branches of the Thousand Sons hierarchy as well as the most fortified strongholds in that great city. Each of these structures encompassed training halls, barracks and armouries for a full Fellowship as well as housing and other facilities for several thousand thralls and dependents, all within a relatively small footprint due to the complex internal construction and layered sub-levels. With deeply sunk internal generators and extensive hydroponic facilities, they were also close to self-sufficient and in the event of a siege could likely last for years without outside aid, a fact the Censure Host's planners were well aware of.?As such, each of these fortresses would need to be taken by storm as early as possible in order to avoid a protracted and costly siege.

在對(duì)于提茲卡城的所有入侵行動(dòng)中，屬于普羅斯佩羅主要靈能者學(xué)派的神廟生態(tài)建筑體都位列首要目標(biāo)當(dāng)中——因?yàn)檫@些建筑即是千子軍團(tuán)等級(jí)體系中各分支的總部，也是這座巨大城市中防御最為精良的據(jù)點(diǎn)。這些結(jié)構(gòu)體當(dāng)中的每一座都包含了訓(xùn)練大廳、屬于一整個(gè)學(xué)會(huì)的軍營和武庫、以及供數(shù)千名奴仆及其家屬使用的住房和其他設(shè)施，不過這些建筑有復(fù)雜的內(nèi)部結(jié)構(gòu)和分層的子樓層，所有這些都位于一個(gè)占地面積相對(duì)較小的空間內(nèi)。這些建筑里配備了沉入地下深處的內(nèi)置發(fā)電機(jī)和大量水培設(shè)施，它們近乎自給自足，在被圍困時(shí)也可能在沒有外界援助的情況維持?jǐn)?shù)年之久。懲戒部隊(duì)很清楚這一事實(shí)，所以他們將會(huì)需要盡快以風(fēng)暴般的猛烈攻勢(shì)攻占這些要塞中的每一座，以避免卷入一場(chǎng)曠日持久的消耗性攻城戰(zhàn)。

However, on arrival at Prospero a more brutally direct strategy was made available, one dictated by an unexpected twist in the defence of the planet—the absence of the Thousand Sons fleet. Considered a significant threat to the Censure Host, the massed void craft of the Thousand Sons fleet had been another focus of contingency planning, with the fleet possessing a number of assets intended purely to combat it. Yet on arrival at Prospero, the fleet was not to be found and those assets sat unused, including several squadrons of fully equipped Caestus Assault Rams. These craft, designed to pierce the armoured hulls of void craft and disgorge Legiones Astartes warriors into their vulnerable interiors, were ill-suited to atmospheric operations or ground attack roles, and had originally been disregarded by the distant strategists of Terra in such actions. Yet, in the immediacy of the battle for Prospero, the Space Wolves showed little hesitancy in co-opting the unused craft for a new mission: the assault on the temple-arcologies.?

但是一經(jīng)抵達(dá)普洛斯彼羅，懲戒部隊(duì)發(fā)現(xiàn)他們可以采用一種更殘酷的直接戰(zhàn)略，這是由星球防御中一個(gè)未被預(yù)料到的變故決定的——千子軍團(tuán)艦隊(duì)的缺席。懲戒部隊(duì)曾將千子軍團(tuán)艦隊(duì)聚集起來的虛空艦船視為一個(gè)重要威脅，將之列為意外事件（應(yīng)急）計(jì)劃中的另一個(gè)關(guān)注點(diǎn)——這支艦隊(duì)擁有大量完全用于對(duì)抗他們的裝備。但當(dāng)懲戒部隊(duì)抵達(dá)普羅斯佩羅時(shí)，千子軍團(tuán)艦隊(duì)并未被發(fā)現(xiàn)，那些裝備也未被使用，其中包括數(shù)個(gè)中隊(duì)裝備完整的拳套突擊艇。這些突擊艇是被設(shè)計(jì)用于穿透虛空艦船的裝甲船體，并在其脆弱的內(nèi)部放出大量阿斯塔特軍團(tuán)戰(zhàn)士，它們并不適合進(jìn)行大氣層內(nèi)部作戰(zhàn)或地面攻擊，那些身處遙遠(yuǎn)泰拉的戰(zhàn)略家們最初都在此類行動(dòng)中忽視了這種裝備。然而，在普羅斯佩羅之戰(zhàn)的迫切性的驅(qū)使下，太空野狼毫不猶豫地選擇這些未被使用的飛船去執(zhí)行一項(xiàng)新任務(wù):對(duì)于神廟生態(tài)建筑體的突襲行動(dòng)。

In total, over fifty Caestus Assault Rams were deployed in three squadrons, targeting those temple-arcologies in the direct path of the Censure Host, those of the Athanaen,Raptora and Corvidae Cults.Of these assaults the most dramatic was that made upon the Raptora Cult, for the razor edge of the 'kine'?shields that protected its armoured flanks tore apart almost all of the aircraft assigned to the attack, releasing a shower of grey- armoured corpses upon the battlefield below. Only two of the craft survived to impact the upper levels of the temple-areology, releasing over a dozen of the Black Cull into the structure. Their numbers insufficient to affect a full assault, the warriors of that dour cult separated into smaller teams and attempted to fight their way to the more vulnerable systems of the arcology to set off the phosphex charges they carried. Of their exact fate little is known for none survived the assault, but during the ferocious fighting at the foot of the areology, three separate internal explosions that served to debilitate the structured defences were recorded by those fighting outside.

總計(jì)超過五十架次的拳套突擊艇被部署到了三個(gè)中隊(duì)，它們的目標(biāo)是那些位于懲戒部隊(duì)直接路徑上的神廟生態(tài)建筑體——屬于天梟、獵鷹和黑鴉學(xué)派的要塞。對(duì)于獵鷹學(xué)派的突襲是這些行動(dòng)中最具戲劇性的：保護(hù)要塞裝甲側(cè)面的“雌牛”型護(hù)盾的剃刀狀邊緣撕開了幾乎所有被指派到這場(chǎng)進(jìn)攻中的突擊艇，大量身穿灰色動(dòng)力甲的尸體掉落在下方的戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)上。只有兩艘突擊艇幸存下來，撞入了神廟生態(tài)建筑體的上方樓層，向結(jié)構(gòu)體中放出了超過十二名黑色屠宰手（機(jī)仆：太空野狼內(nèi)部對(duì)于死誓群狼的稱呼）。他們的數(shù)量不足以發(fā)動(dòng)一場(chǎng)全面進(jìn)攻，這些來自陰郁教派的戰(zhàn)士們分散成了規(guī)模更小的團(tuán)隊(duì)，他們?cè)噲D殺出一條前往生態(tài)城更為脆弱系統(tǒng)的通路，以引爆他們攜帶的磷火炸彈。由于無人從這次突襲行動(dòng)中生還，所以我們幾乎不知道這些戰(zhàn)士們的確切命運(yùn)。但那些在生態(tài)城外側(cè)作戰(zhàn)的戰(zhàn)士們的（作戰(zhàn)）記錄表明：在雙方于生態(tài)城腳下進(jìn)行激戰(zhàn)時(shí)，三次獨(dú)立的內(nèi)部爆炸削弱了生態(tài)城精心組織的防御。

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