HH5节译：考斯集结、极限战士装甲预备队
The Calth Muster
考斯集结
Gathering at the command of Warmaster Horus, the world of Calth was host to such military power matched by few other campaigns of the Great Crusade; the forces of the Ultramarines reinforced just prior to the projected assault by the fateful arrival of the Word Bearers Legion, and their allies:
按照战帅荷鲁斯的命令，一支庞大的军队集结在了考斯世界上——只有大远征时期的较少数其他战役能在（投入的）军力上与之匹敌。就在怀言者军团及其盟友注定到来并发动蓄谋已久的进攻之前，极限战士的部队力量得到了强化：
The Legiones Astartes XIlIth Legion——'The Ultramarines'
第十三阿斯塔特军团——“极限战士”
1st Chapter, 2nd Chapter, 3rd Chapter, 5th Chapter, 6th Chapter, 9th Chapter, 11th Chapter, 12th Chapter, 13th Chapter and 16th Chapter——full deployment at Calth, all at a nominal strength of 10,000 Legionaries. These chapters were concentrated around Calth's primary spaceport at Numinus City in western Erud.
第1、2、3、5、6、9、11、12、13和16战团：这些战团将全部兵力部署到了考斯，每个战团名义上的兵力都为10,000名军团战士。他们驻扎在Erud大陆西侧，集中在Numinus城处的考斯主太空港周围。
8th Chapter, 14th Chapter and 15th Chapter——deployed to Calth after seeing heavy combat in the Eastern Fringe, all at a nominal strength of at least 6,000 Legionaries and slated for full resupply at the munitions plants of Dainhold before loading for transport outsystem.
第8、14和15战团：在经历过远东边境的大规模战斗后，这些战团被部署到了考斯，每个战团名义上的兵力都为至少6,000名军团战士，而且他们计划在登舰离开考斯星系之前，先前往Dainhold的弹药工厂进行充分补给。
17th Chapter, 18th Chapter, 23rd Chapter and 4th Chapter——comprising those chapters whose order of battle included large numbers of armoured vehicles, especially the 4th, known as the 'Auroran'. These chapters were assigned to muster in the largely uninhabited continent of Ithraca.
第4、17、18和23战团：这些战团的战斗序列中包含大量的装甲载具，被称为“极光”的第4战团尤其如此。他们被指派去Ithraca大陆进行集结——该区域有大片无人居住的土地。
20th Chapter and 21st Chapter——known informally within the Legion as 'The Eagles' and 'The Hawks', the 20th Chapter having trained extensively for void combat and the 21st being renowned for the skill of its pilots. These two chapters were assigned to security duties among the orbital platforms and docked warships in Calths local orbit.
第20和21战团：军团内部将他们非正式地称呼为“雄鹰”和“猎隼”，第20战团接受了大量虚空作战训练，第21战团因部队中飞行员们的技艺而著称。这两个战团被派往轨道平台与停泊在考斯星球轨道上的战舰中，负责执行安保任务。
22nd Chapter——comprising the majority of the XIIIth Legion's Destroyer assets, and the stores of volatile and hazardous weaponry that characterised their operations. The 22nd Chapter, known as the 'Nemesis' Chapter, was often deployed in small formations alongside other chapter units. At Calth, 2,000 Nemesis Legionaries were mustered along the desolate Thrascias Highlands, furthest from the densely populated cities of Calth.
第22战团：该战团中容纳了第十三军团的绝大多数毁灭者部队，他们运作行动的特点是储存了大量危险且不稳定的武器。第22战团被称为“复仇女神”，他们通常以小规模编队的形式与其他战团的部队一起行动。考斯世界上有2,000名复仇女神军团战士，他们沿着荒凉的Thrascias高地进行集结，与那些人口稠密的城市相距最远。
XIIIth Legion records of the Calth muster remain highly accurate with regards to their own numbers, and place the total amount of combat-ready Legiones Astartes deployed by the Ultramarines at 185,923 Space Marines.
在第十三军团关于考斯集结的记录文件中，对于己方人数的记载仍然极其精准：极限战士军团总共部署了185,923名做好战斗准备的阿斯塔特军团战士。
The Ordo Titanicus Legio Praesagius—'The True Messengers'
Long allied to the warriors of Ultramar, the Legio Praesagius deployed to Calth at full Legio strength, with nearly 118 godengines landed in the southern continent of Ithraca prior to embarkation.
天马泰坦军团——“真言使者”：天马泰坦军团长期与奥特拉玛的战士们结盟作战，其将全部兵力都部署到了考斯世界，这118台神之引擎降落到了Ithraca大陆南侧，他们原本准备登舰离开。
The Ordo Titanicus Legio Suturvora (Infernus)—'The Fire Masters'
苏图沃拉（炼狱）泰坦军团——“火焰之主”
Secret agents of the Warmaster, this powerful Legio was deployed at full strength to the Calrh muster with the goal of destroying the Loyalist Titan force. The Legio, comprising at least 130 Titans, was further reinforced by a demi-Legio of the Deaths Heads.
作为战帅的秘密爪牙，强大的炼狱泰坦军团将全部兵力都部署到了考斯集结地，目标是摧毁忠诚派泰坦部队。该军团包含至少138架泰坦，而且得到了死颅泰坦军团半数兵力的支援。
The Ordo Titanicus Legio Oberon—'The Death Bolts'
欧泊龙泰坦军团——“死亡箭矢”
Wardens of the newly founded Forge of Anvari, a thrall domain of mighty Accatran, the Legio Oberon had undertaken to provide a demi-Legio force for the Ghaslakh Crusade. However, only two maniples of god-engines were to make planetfall before the arrival of the Word Bearers forces, grounding in eastern Ourosene and northern Erud. The remainder of the Legio's forces would not arrive until after the fighting had concluded.
欧泊龙泰坦军团守卫着新进建成的Anvari铸炉——这里是强大的Accatran铸造世界所控制的封地，他们答应为Ghaslakh远征提供半个军团的兵力。但在怀言者抵达之前，仅有两个欧泊龙神之引擎支队降落到了考斯世界，驻扎在Ourosene大陆东侧和Erud大陆北侧。直到战事结束之后，剩余的欧泊龙军团部队才会抵达。
The Knight House of Vornherr
沃恩赫尔骑士家族
One of the largest Knight Houses in the Segmentum, the Vornherr were oathed to fight alongside the Five Hundred Worlds unto death. Aside from a small honour guard of squires and barons left on their home world of Luhnborg-IX, the entire Household, consisting of around five hundred Knights, were mustered at the Platia island-city in Calth's southern oceans.
沃恩赫尔是极限星域中最庞大的骑士家族之一，他们宣誓与五百世界并肩作战，至死方休。整个家族只留下一支由扈从和男爵组成的小规模荣誉卫队驻守母星Luhnborg-IX，其余的大概五百名骑士都集结在了考斯南侧海洋中的Platia岛屿城。
The Excertus Imperialis
帝国民兵
Over a million soldiers of the Imperial Army were mustered for the planned Ghaslakh Crusade, including several established army groups such as the Calaq War Host, and nearly a dozen newly raised regiments from the various cities and agricultural provinces of Calth. Also added to the muster was a number of Solar Auxilia pattern regiments in anticipation of void actions against Ork asteroid-craft at Ghaslakh, including the much renowned 41st Espandor High Guard.
为了计划中的Ghaslakh远征，有超过一百万名帝国军士兵被集结起来，其中包括多支已被建立的部队——例如Calaq战争军，以及将近十二支新组建的帝国军（步兵）团——其兵员来自考斯的各个城市与农业行省。此外，因为预计要对Ghaslakh处的兽人小行星飞船发动虚空作战行动，数个太阳军模式的（步兵）团也被集结起来，其中就包括极富盛名的Espandor第41至高守卫团。
The Legiones Astartes XVIIh Legion——'The Word Bearers'
第十七阿斯塔特军团——“怀言者”
Of those who arrived under the banner of the Word Bearers, exact information is more difficult to discern, as many units arrived under false colours and forged identification signals. Based on the pict-records of surviving Ultramarines units and other sources, the fallowing Word Bearers chapters are known to have been present, at least in part, during the Calth atrocity:
对于那些举着怀言者的旗帜抵达考斯的部队，要了解分辨他们的准确信息则更为困难，因为很多单位都使用了虚假的涂装配色并伪造了身份识别信号。基于幸存的极限战士单位所提供的图像记录与其他来源的资料，我们可知以下怀言者战团于考斯暴行期间现身——至少是部分参与其中。
The Exalted Gate Chapter
显赫高门战团
The Unspeaking Chapter
无言者战团
The Twisting Rune Chapter
扭曲符文战团
The Third Hand Chapter
第三之手战团
The Black Comet Chapter
玄色彗星战团
The Osseus Throne Chapter
枯骨王座战团
The Graven Star Chapter
不灭辉星战团
The Asps of the Sacred Sands Chapter
圣沙之虺战团
The Flayed Hand Chapter
剥皮之手战团
The Inscribed Chapter
铭刻者战团
The Trifold Crown Chapter
三重宝冕战团
In total, it is believed that the Word Bearers deployed no less than 50,000 Space Marines to the surface of Calth, few of which were evacuated. There appears no tactical basis for the chapters selected by Lorgar to participate in the Calth attack. Evidence acquired long after the events of the Battle for Calth suggests that these units were instead chosen for lack of devotion to Lorgar's new path or because of dangerous instability. In this Calth served as the Word Bearers' crucible, burning away those elements of the Legion which had failed to prove themselves adequately to their fickle master.
人们相信，怀言者军团部署在考斯地面的星际战士总数不超过50,000，其中只有极少数人疏散撤退。在选择哪些战团参与考斯进攻行动的问题上，珞珈似乎并未遵循（特定的）战术基准。一些于考斯之战（结束）很久之后被获取的证据表明：这些单位之所以被选中，要么是由于他们对于珞珈的新道途缺乏忠诚敬拜之心，要么是由于其存在危险的不稳定性。因此考斯战场也充当了怀言者军团的坩埚，烧掉军团中那些未能向其善变的主宰者充分证明自己的成员。
In addition to Legiones Astartes assets, a great mass of cultic auxiliary units that accompanied the Word Bearers which may have numbered in excess of half a million men-under-arms, though the proficiency and sanity of most was questionable.
除了阿斯塔特军团战士之外，还有巨量的邪教徒辅助军随同怀言者而来，其中武装人员的数量可能超过五十万，不过其大多数成员的（武器）熟练度和理智程度都值得怀疑。
极限战士装甲预备队
The Calth Conjunction was intended as an auspicious gathering of the combined forces of two entire Legions and as such the Ultramarines mustered not only the war machines of the line formations and those of the Legion armoured reserve, but also hundreds of vehicles manufactured especially for the campaign against the Orks of the Ghaslakh Xeno-hold. Many of these assets were gathered together at Calth and mustered at the macro landing fields in and around Ithraca City to be reviewed by the Primarch Roboute Guilliman and the assembled Chapter Masters before being loaded into heavy orbital transports. As with so many other elements of the XIIlth Legion, all but a handful would be destroyed at the opening of the Battle of Calth.
考斯会师（原本）被认为是一场将两个完整军团的力量合而为一的喜庆集结仪式，因此极限战士们集结起的不仅有属于前线编队和军团装甲预备队的战争机械，还有数百辆专门为这场战役而铸造的载具——此次行动旨在对抗兽人异形所控制的Ghaslakh世界。这些装备中有很多都被共同聚集到了考斯世界，并且集结到了Ithraca城内部和周边的巨型登陆场中，在被送上重型轨道运输艇之前，它们将接受原体罗伯特 基里曼与集合起来的战团长们的检阅。而就像第十三军团中的其他很多事物那样，这些载具只有极少数能幸存下来，其余的则在考斯之战的开局阶段便被摧毁。
Many of the war engines of the XIlIth Legion Reserve had been formally prepared for the Calth Conjunction in a manner befitting the traditions of the Ultramarines, while others were so new they had never borne any other colours. Heraldry of cobalt blue and white was often rendered with a distinctive marbled surface pattern reminiscent of the magnificent stone architecture of Macragge, polished to a sheen as bright as that of any palace of governance. The flanks of many vehicles were plated with gold, inspired by the war-thrones of the Battle-kings of Macragge. Each was further adorned with a complex array of symbols, drawing from the iconographic traditions of both Macragge and Terra, and exemplifying the shared cultural heritage of both worlds. The ultima symbol, long associated with the region of Ultramar and adopted as the Legion's icon, was displayed prominently, as were the speartipped lightning bolts of Unification.
在第十三军团预备队中，很多战争引擎都是按照符合极限战士传统的方式为考斯会师进行了正式准备，其余的载具则极为崭新，以至于从未被喷染过其他颜色。其上钴蓝和纯白两色的纹章呈现出独特的大理石表面般花纹图案，这令人们想起了马库拉格那些宏伟的石质建筑，而且这些纹章都被打磨得如同一切政务宫殿那般光洁。每台载具还都装饰上了一套复杂的标志，其设计借鉴了泰拉与马库拉格的图像传统，展示出这两个世界共同的文化遗产。“极限”符号也被显著地展示出来——它长期以来都被与奥特拉玛区域联系起来，并且被应用为军团的图符纹章，还被装饰上了带有矛尖的雷霆标志——该图案代表着统一。
The ostentation lavished upon the armoured vehicles of the Legion Reserve might appear excessive or superfluous to some outsiders, especially given that within days the war machines were to be loaded onto combat transports and shipped to war, much of their finery to be obscured by more practical battlefield markings. The phenomenon is in keeping with the tradition of the Imperium,however, for Roboute Guilliman had learned from his father the value of such a visible statement. It was Guillimans hope that the display would honour his sons in his own Legion and the sons of his brother Primarch, Lorgar and bind them together in common endeavour.
在某些外人看来，这种对于军团预备队中装甲载具的大肆炫耀可能显得过分或多余，尤其是考虑到这些战争机械于几天之内就要被装入战斗运输舰，并被星舰运往战场，其大部分装饰都会被更实用的战地标记所掩盖。但这种现象与人类帝国的传统是一致的，罗伯特 基里曼从他的父亲那里学到了这种可视性表达的价值，他希望用这种（武力）展示来令极限战士，以及自己的原体兄弟——珞珈的子嗣们感到荣誉，通过共同的努力令二者团结一心。
One tragedy amongst the many heaped upon the Ultramarines during the Battle of Calth was the fact that many of their war machines met their deaths clad in the finery intended to honour their brother Astartes. Instead of returning that honour, the Word Bearers offered only betrayal and death to their erstwhile brothers.
在考斯之战期间，会有众多的悲剧堆积在极限战士们身上，而且这个事实便是其中之一：他们的很多战争机械被毁灭时，仍旧披着那层装饰，而这席华服原本是用于向他们的阿斯塔特兄弟表示敬意。对于自己往昔的兄弟，怀言者回馈的并非荣誉，而是只有背叛与死亡。
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