hh8节译: 巴克苏里亚教团

The Baksuryan Orders

Elucidators of the Office of the Sigillite in the process of purging the city of Thelmpacia of a group of cannibals and Warp-worshippers recovered an unexpected item in their possession: the intact helmet of a Thousand Sons Legionary. Concealed within its lining was a scrawled parchment, assumed to have been written by its erstwhile owner, recalling in summary the findings of an investigation into the organisation. According to the handwritten notes, which remain uncorroborated due to the thorough punitive efforts of the Elucidators, Thelmpacia had fallen under the thrall of an ancient faith. Calling themselves the Devourers, the members of this group worshipped an entity called Haksujan, a "holy being' renowned for its insatiable appetites. Haksujan, according to local myths, judged its servants by their martial strength, its worshippers meeting in secret to undertake ritual melees. The leaders of the Order were the most accomplished pugilists in these brawls, their might and martial prowess being their criteria of selection, and their strength only appeared to grow with the favour of their brethren and their deity. If the combat resulted in a death, as it should per the tradition of the Order, all of the fighters present would partake in eating the corpse of the fallen, emulating the appetites of their unearthly master.

在清理Thelmpacia城中的一群食人暴徒和亚空间崇拜者的过程中，掌印司的宣道官们从这些人手中回收到了一件意料之外的物品：一顶完好无损的千子军团战士头盔。其内衬中隐藏着一张潦草的羊皮纸，被认为是它以前的主人写下的，概括性地回顾了对该组织的调查结果。根据这些手写的笔记（由于宣道官们施加的彻底性惩罚措施，其中的内容尚未得到证实）来看，Thelmpacia城已经受到了某种古老信仰的奴役。该团体中的成员们自称为“暴食者”，他们崇拜某个被称为哈克苏甘的实体，这位“圣者”因其不知餍足的食欲而著称。根据当地神话，哈克苏甘用军事力量来判别自己的仆从，他的崇拜者们会秘密会面来进行仪式性的混战。教团的领袖们是这些斗殴中技艺最为精湛的格斗士，他们是因为自己的力量和武力而被选出的，而且他们的力量似乎也会随着兄弟和神明对其偏爱（的增加）而变强。如果格斗导致了死亡，那么按照教团的传统，在场的所有战士都要享用死者的尸体，以此来模仿他们神秘主人的食欲。

Parallels were drawn on the recovered parchment Between the behaviour of the Devourers and dozens of other incidents of occult activities throughout the galaxy, tracing back to pre-Unification Terra. apparently well-versed in the occult, the author of the note linked the ritual practices of the Devourers with the Brotherhood of Godann on Beta Hethacon, and with the Children of Jumnuka on Rothberg VI. The author goes on to theorise that all such organisations descend from that of the Order of Baksurya the Hungerer, a faction encountered by the Emperor on the sub-Indus archipelagos of Ancient Terra. Though ostensibly eliminated by the forces of Unification, their beliefs remained subtly present in His domains and were carried across the stars by His armies. This is substantiated, claims the scrawled text, by the fact that all worlds touched by the outbreak of similar groups were brought to Compliance by the 73rd Expeditionary Fleet, which carried warriors from that region of Terra. Though purged one by one, similar groups have appeared in other areas of the galaxy and are thought to have been propagated by soldiers of the Great Crusade, who in the field may have witnessed and then imitated their saviours amongst certain Legions of the Space Marines partaking in a limited form of anthropophagy.

这份回收羊皮卷上所记录的暴食者们的行为，与遍及银河各处的其他数十起神秘事件有着相似性，其内容可以追溯到统一前的泰拉。这份记录的作者明显精通神秘学，他将暴食者们的仪式行为与Beta Hethacon世界上的高登兄弟会、Rothberg VI世界上的朱姆卡之子教团的表现进行了联系。作者继续论证到：所有此类组织都源自巴克苏利亚教团——“饥渴者”教团，帝皇在古泰拉英杜次大陆群岛上遇到了该教派。虽然教团在表面上被统一力量所消灭，但其信仰仍然微妙地存在于帝皇的疆土内，并被帝皇的军队带往群星。羊皮卷上潦草的文字声称这些内容是有事实依据的：所有爆发了相似团体（活动）的世界都是第73远征探索舰队令其归顺的——其运载的士兵就是来着泰拉英杜次大陆群岛地区。尽管帝国将其一个又一个地剿灭，但类似的团体还是出现在了银河系其他区域，并被认为是由大远征士兵们传播的——这些士兵可能是在战场上目击并（在之后）模仿了他们来自某些星际战士军团的拯救者，参与了形式有限的食人行为。

When eventually returned to the XVth Legion, the helmet was identified as that of Mykolayiv Bast, Fated Vigilator of the Thousand Sons Ammitara Occult, who was declared missing in 890.M30. Bast's helmet was re-powered by the armourers of his Legion and extensive audio dictation was discovered in its data-core, detailing the findings of his investigation into the Haksujan Order and presumably other such groups. The Thousand Sons deemed this report to be too dangerously arcane to share with the officers of the Sigillite, and accordingly claimed to have destroyed the helmet and its contents. Though multiple petitions were filed, the XVth Legion would not explain the reason behind Bast's concealed presence in Thelmpacia, or the extent of his investigations.

在最终被归还给第十五军团后，这顶头盔被识别阿米达拉隐修会的命定守夜官——尼古拉耶夫 巴斯特，此人被宣称失踪于890.M30。千子军团的武库军官们重新为巴斯特的头盔输入能量，并在其数据核心中发现了大量口述音频文件，这些资料详细说明了巴斯特对哈克苏甘教团以及其他可能的类似团体的调查结果。千子军团认为这份报告神秘到过于危险，以至于不能和掌印司的官员们进行分享，因此他们声称已经摧毁了头盔和其内部的资料。尽管被提出了多项申请，但第十五军团并不愿解释巴斯特隐藏在Thelmpacia的原因以及他调查的范围。