hh6节译：乌拉托小将军炮阿苏拉克斯

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In the days before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, Xana II rivalled the greatest of Forge Worlds of the Imperium for their command of the arcane secrets of the Machine Cult and the sheer scale of their production capacity. Their capability to produce Ordinatus Minoris, even in a supremely limited capacity, is a feat that a mere handful of other Forge Worlds could duplicate, and one that caused a great stir among the magi of Mars— for the secrets of the manufacture of such titanic engines of war were closely guarded and whose appearance on the very edges of Imperial space where no such power should exist proved a deeply vexing mystery. Yet as the Horus Heresy moved from a conflict limited to a few isolated worlds to total galactic warfare, the magi of Xana revealed not a single example of such devastating artifice, but three, all destined to augment the Warmaster's already potent hordes.

远在荷鲁斯叛乱爆发之前，由于其对于机械教派奥秘的掌握和其生产能力的巨大规模，Xana II能与人类帝国最伟大的锻造世界们相抗衡。它生产小将军炮的能力——虽然极其有限，但也是少数几个锻造世界才可以复制的壮举。这样的能力能够在火星的三贤会当中引起巨大的轰动——因为创造此等超大型战争引擎的秘密被机械神教严密守卫着，如此神机出现在不应该拥有这种力量的帝国空间边缘的这一事实被证明是一个令人深深困扰的谜团。然而，随着荷鲁斯叛乱从仅限于个别被孤立世界的冲突发展为一场席卷银河的全面战争，Xana的三贤会显示出自己并非只有一台毁灭神机，而是拥有三台，所有三台小将军炮都注定要增强战帅那业已强大的叛军阵营。

The few records of Xana that survived the Horus Heresy show that the Ulator class Ordinatus Minoris was the only artefact of this scale that the magi retained the required knowledge to construct , or at least the only class that has ever been known to have been fabricated by those reclusive magi. The Ulator class Ordinatus is built around a colossal sonic destructor; a directional sonic transduction generator that was capable of sweeping a battlefield clean of enemy combatants and armour. Generating a hyperdestructive wave-pulse that resonated with force equal to the mass of the object struck, the impact of the weapon was as deadly to the mighty super-heavy tanks of the Legiones Astartes as it was to the humble infantryman of the Imperial Auxilia. This awe inspiring weapon, rivalling as it did the destructive power of the mighty God-engines of the Legio Titanicus, was the main focus of the Ordinatus' artifice. The main structure of the vehicle itself was a reinforced tractor unit to allow the weapon to be moved into firing position and in which to mount the immense fusion reactor required to power the sonic destructor.

从荷鲁斯叛乱中幸存下来的极少数关于xana的记录显示：在制造小将军炮这种尺寸的武器的问题上，xana三贤会只保留了建造乌拉托级小将军炮所需的知识，或者说，它至少是唯一一种已知被隐居遁世的xana三贤会制造过的小将军炮型号。乌拉托级小将军炮是围绕一座巨大的声波毁灭炮建造的，后者是一种能够扫清战场上敌方战斗人员和装甲单位的定向声波变频发生器。它能产生一道能够以等于被撞击物体的质量的力来产生共振的毁灭性超强的脉冲波，这种武器的效果对于阿斯塔特军团使用的强大超重型坦克和卑贱的帝国辅助军步兵而言是同样致命的。这种令人敬畏的武器是小将军炮妙计的主要焦点，其破坏力能够与泰坦军团的神之机械们相抗衡。载具自身的主要结构是一台强化过的牵引机，它能让武器被移动到开火位置，为声波毁灭炮供能的巨大的聚变反应堆也安置在其中。

The example displayed here is the Ordinatus Minoris Ashurax, one of two Ordinatus captured by the Imperial-aligned force that raided Xana II in 007.M31. Control of the Ashurax was seized by a cabal of Loyalist Techmarines, of whom seven suffered fatal neuro-cortical damage as they attempted to master the unchained machine-spirit the magi of Xana had bound to the workings of the Ordinatus. Its subsequent live-fire testing saw the decimation of those taghma the Xanite magi ordered forth to reclaim the priceless artefact.

我们在此展示的是小将军炮阿苏拉克斯，在007.M31，一支与帝国结盟的黑盾部队掠袭了Xana II，阿苏拉克斯是他们夺取的两台将军炮之一。夺取阿苏拉克斯控制权的是一个忠诚派技术军士秘会，而在他们试图掌控xana三贤会绑定到小将军炮上的不受束缚的机魂时，当中的七名成员遭受致命的神经皮层损伤(机仆：就像海尔斯瑞奇小说里的铸造大师一样，脑子烧了)。随后的实弹测试表明：小将军炮对于那些被xana三贤会命令前去夺回这些无价之宝的部队造成了严重的杀伤。

Safely evacuated from the surface of Xana- Tisiphone, the Ashurax was removed to Beta—Garmon, there to rest in the hands of Loyalist tech-magi charged with its maintenance until the campaign known only as the Titandeath unfolded on that same world.

阿苏拉克斯被从Xana- Tisiphone表面安全撤离，它之后被转移到了贝塔—伽尔蒙，在那里，负责维护工作的忠诚派技术三贤会对他进行了维修保养，直到被后世称为泰坦之死的贝塔—伽尔蒙战役爆发。