八版圣典节译：净化Contqual次星区
Contqual had ever been a prosperous domain, considered by its citizens to be an earthly paradise far removed from the turmoil and ugliness of the rest of the universe. Alas contentment has ever turned to complacency, and so it was at Contqual. Soon enough, that complacency begat decadence, and at last, decadence begat heresy.
Contqual次星区曾是一片繁荣的区域，当地居民视之为远离宇宙其他地方的混乱和丑恶的尘世天堂。可惜满足会变为了自负，Contqual也未能脱俗。很快，自负招致了堕落，堕落最终恶化为了异端。
As best as can be determined, the corruption of Contqual began in late M41, when the high governor succumbed to the false promises of the Chaos God Slaanesh. Whether he did so knowingly was never discovered, and nor did it greatly matter. By the time his fecklessness was discovered, the taint of Chaos had blossomed like a sickly rose. Feeding off the desires and weaknesses of those in power, it rippled through Contqual society, the perversions of the rich trickling down through social strata to infect the poor. Soon the six deadly seductions of Slaanesh held unbreakable sway on Contqual itself.
基本可以确定Contqual的腐化开始于M41晚期，当时的次星区高级总督屈服于混沌神祇色孽的虚假承诺。我们无法查证他的行为是否是在明知故犯，但这并不是非常重要。当他软弱无能的行径被发现时，混沌污染的病态毒花已经盛开了。混沌腐化以当权者的欲望和弱点为食，它在Contqual社会中泛滥，富人的变态行径通过社会阶层渗透到穷人身上。很快色孽的六种致命诱惑就对对 Contqual 社会本身产生了牢不可破的影响。
Formerly productive hive cities became fanes to twisted perversion and the rapacious quest for sensory excess at any price. Defence garrisons threw down their weapons and abandoned their posts in favour of bloody bacchanal, or else turned those weapons upon those they had once protected, as Astra Militarism officers appointed themselves the petty tyrants of their own twisted kingdoms. Imperial shrines and cathedrums echoed to the screams of excruciated clergy whose mortal forms were sustained far past their physical limits by foul warpcraft, so that their former flocks could torment them all the longer. Profane banners unfurled from the highest pins of Contqual's cities, obscene sheet of flapping skin flensed from the bodies of donors willing and unwilling alike; they bore the sigils of Slaanesh embossed upon them in tainted inks and visceral fluids. Gunfire echoed through ruined hab-blocks as the last loyal defenders of Contqual were hunted down by packs of barely human cultists and the hellish entities they had rashly conjured into reality. Within a month, the entire sub-sector writhed with the corrupting essence of Chaos.
曾经欣欣向荣的巢城沦为了容纳扭曲的变态行径和不惜任何代价贪婪追求对感官过度刺激的混沌神殿。守备当地的驻军也丢下武器，将职责抛诸脑后，享受着鲜血狂欢，也有其他人将武器对准了那些他们曾经保护过的人们；星界军的军官们也自封为他们自己扭曲王国的口袋暴君。帝国圣堂和修道院中回荡着受折磨的神职人员的嚎叫，他们的凡人形体被邪恶的亚空间造物维持得远远超过他们的生理极限，这样一来他们以前的信众就可以继续折磨他们。亵渎的旗帜从Contqual巢城最高的塔尖展开——混沌信徒从自愿或非自愿捐赠者的尸体上剥下皮肤，拍打平整，制成了这些秽亵的旗子；其上还用被污染的墨水与内脏磨制的液体压印了色孽的标志。枪声回响在化为废墟的大楼间，成群的凡人邪教徒和他们贸然释放到现实宇宙中的凶恶存在猎捕着仅存的Contqual忠诚守军。在一个月的时间内，整个次星区就被混沌的腐化本质所扭曲。
The task of cleansing Contqual fell to the Iron Hands, chiefly to the warriors of Clan Company Raukaan and a conclave of Librarians assembled in anticipation of daemonic sorceries. The battle-brothers embraced their duty with accustomed stoicism, but all felt the seed of wrath burning within. The scions of Medusa have ever loathed Slaanesh above the other Chaos powers, not just for Fulgrim's slaying of Ferrus Manus on the killing fields of Isstvan V. but because those who follow the Dark Prince practise abandon with as much dedication as the Iron Hands themselves pursue restraint.
净化Contqual的重任落到了钢铁之手战团身上，主要由拉卡恩氏族连队的战士和一群为预测恶魔巫术而聚集起来的智库们负责。战斗兄弟们以惯常的坚忍态度接受了他们的职责，但他们也都能感受到怒火在胸中燃烧。美杜莎的子嗣们厌恶色孽胜过其他混沌神祇，这不仅是因为福格瑞姆在伊斯特万五号的战场上杀害了费鲁斯 马努斯，更是因为那些追随黑暗王子的人所放弃的克制就像铁手们所追求一样多。
Thus, Clan Raukaan stormed the sub-sector, taking several planets before any form of resistance could be assembled. The sprawling pleasure cults that had overtaken society were ruthlessly wiped out, slaughtered while their pleas for mercy went unheard - the Iron Hands had no time for those who would let corruption take over their worlds. The death of every heretic and traitor only strengthened the Imperium. Yet for every planet scoured of Slaaneshi filth, another shuddered in the grip of unbridled, unclean emotion. Such challenge could be met only with unflagging fortitude. Chanting the mantras of Ferrus Manus to ward off the temptations of false pleasures, Clan Raukaan marched mercilessly on.
于是，拉卡恩氏族风暴般地席卷了次星区，数个星球在能够组织起任何形式的抵抗之前就被拿下了。盘踞在当地社会中的四处蔓延的欢愉教派被无情地屠杀扫清，而他们的请求却无人理会——铁手没有时间可以浪费在这些让自己的世界堕入腐化的人们身上，所有异端分子和叛徒的死亡都只会增强帝国。然而，在一颗星球被冲刷掉色孽污秽的同时，都会有另一个星球在肆无忌惮的肮脏情绪中颤抖。只有凭借着不屈不挠的毅力才能迎接这样的挑战。拉卡恩氏族战士们朗诵费鲁斯·马努斯的格语以抵御虚假欢愉的诱惑，毫不留情地继续前进。
The pivotal battle came on the hive world of Shardenus, where a tear had appeared in the fabric of real space, opening a direct and hungry link to the war, Daemons poured through the rift to be welcomed and embraced by the twisted inhabitants of the planet. Once this was discovered by the Iron Hands, it served only to feed and inflame their righteous wrath.
关键战役发生在巢都世界Shardenus，此处的现实宇宙结构出现了一条裂缝，向亚空间打开了一条直接而饥渴的连接通道，恶魔们通过裂隙涌入现实宇宙，星球上扭曲的居民们欢迎并拥抱了它们。发现这个世界令铁手们的义愤怒火燃烧得更为剧烈。
By this time, the sons of Manus had been joined in duty by several regiments of the Astra Militarum, and even a handful of god-machines of the Adeptus Titanicus. Clan Raukaan took the god-machines' arrival as proof positive of the Omnissiah's favour, but did not allow themselves a moment of laxness. Disdaining calls for caution from Militarism command, the Iron Hands launched an all-out assault on the bunker complexes of Shardenus Prime. Untold thousands of traitors and twisted mutants assailed the invaders, but the Iron Hands merely cursed their names and fought on. Daemons taunted the sons of Manus, hoping to goad them into additional rash action, but the Iron Hands remained committed to their purpose.
此时，已经有数个星界军团前来帮助美杜莎的子嗣们分担责任，甚至还有泰坦修会的数台神之机械前来支援。拉卡恩氏族将神之机械的到来视作万机神垂爱的积极证明，但他们不允许自己有片刻的懈怠。铁手们对于星界军指挥官保持谨慎的提醒不屑一顾，他们对Shardenus Prime的堡垒复合体建筑发动了全力进攻。数以千计的叛徒和扭曲的变种人进攻了这些入侵者，但钢铁之手们只是诅咒着他们的秽名，继续作战。恶魔们嘲弄着马努斯的子嗣们，意图刺激他们采取额外的鲁莽行动，但钢铁之手们仍然致力于完成他们的目标。
Casualties were heavy, especially within the Militarum formations that advanced in Clan Raukaan's wake. But the Iron Hands never slowed and never yielded, meeting each fresh battle with redoubled determination. Spire by spire they cleaned Shardenus Prime, until their unremitting fury washed up against the walls of the capitol itself. In that desperate hour, treachery within the Militarum High Command saw Clan Raukaan abandoned by its supposed allies, but they simply did as Ferrus Manus would have done: cursed the weakness of lesser men and strode anew into the fire.
帝国部队伤亡严重，尤其是跟在拉卡恩氏族身后前进的星界军编队。但钢铁之手们从未减缓步伐也从未屈服，他们凭着加倍的决心迎战每一次新的战斗。星际战士们清理了Shardenus Prime的一座又一座塔尖，直到他们的不懈愤怒对上了议会大厦的围墙。在这个绝望的时间段里，星界军高级指挥部内发生了叛乱，拉卡恩氏族被他们所谓的盟友抛弃了，但钢铁之手们只是做了费鲁斯 马努斯在这种情况下将会采取的行为：他们咒骂了低等凡人的软弱，再次冲向了战火。
During a climactic battle to seal the warp rift, the architect of Contqual's horrors at last revealed himself: Julius Kaesoron, Fulgrim's right hand and slayer of countless loyal sons of Manus, First Captain Gabriel Santar amongst them. Now elevated in Slaanesh's sight as a loathsome Daemon Prince of terrifying power, Kaesoron toyed with the Iron Hands, boasting of his past deeds and taunting them with claims of Ferrus Manus' final words.
在封印亚空间裂隙的战斗高潮，Contqual恐怖惨剧的始作俑者最终亲自现身：朱利乌斯 凯索隆，福格瑞姆的右手，他杀害了无数忠诚的马努斯子嗣，其中就包括第一连长加伯利尔 桑塔。现在，凯索隆在色孽的注视下被升格为了令人厌恶的恶魔王子，他手握恐怖的力量，玩弄着钢铁之手战士们。他吹嘘他过去的事迹，并用费鲁斯·马努斯的遗言来嘲弄钢铁之手们。
Yet Kaesoron had been so long in the warp that he had forgotten the fortitude of the sons of Manus, or else he was so blinded by his own dark brilliance that he grew careless in the moment of triumph. Thus, even as the Daemon crowed of victories past and yet to come, Chief Librarian Telach made the ultimate sacrifice, harnessing the power of his own unbending soul to collapse the warp rift, weakening Kaesoron's connection to his blasphemous patron and leaving him vulnerable to the righteous fury of the surviving Iron Hands.
然而凯索隆浸泡在亚空间中的时间过久，以至于忘记了马努斯之子们的英勇刚毅；或者说他是对于自己的黑暗荣耀（事迹）过于盲目自信，以至于在胜利的那一刻变得粗心大意。于是，当恶魔为过去和未来的胜利而欢呼时，首席智库泰勒奇做出了最终牺牲，他驾驭自己不屈灵魂的力量，瓦解了亚空间裂隙，削弱了凯索隆与他那位亵渎主子之间的联系，这让恶魔王子在幸存铁手战士们的正义怒火面前变得不堪一击。
With the warp rift closed and the Daemons banished, Clan Raukaan were free to purge the world of Shardenus of all taint. Their judgement was exacting, their punishment uncompromising. Like reapers of ancient legend they strode through the ruined streets, driving mutants and madmen before them. They rooted out all lingering corruption, driving all suspected of heresy or contamination into the cleansing flames.
随着亚空间裂隙被关闭，恶魔被放逐，拉卡恩氏族得以自由地净化Shardenus世界上的所有污秽。他们做出了严厉的审判，毫不妥协地惩罚敌人。他们如同古代传说中的收割者们那般大步冲过被摧毁的街道，驱赶着面前的变种人和疯子们。他们了铲除一切挥之不去的腐败，将所有疑似沦为异端和遭到亚空间污染的人驱逐进入净化烈焰中。
No tally of the dead exists in Imperial records, for Clan Raukaan found little evidence of innocence on Shardenus, and proof of guilt all around the corpses were simply too numerous to count. The pyres burned for days, fed by an implacable advance that left no sector of Shardenus free of scrutiny. Those few who survived the purges carried with them tales of black-garbed executioners who slaughtered at will and had only unfeeling metal where their hearts should have lain.
帝国记录中并未记载死亡人数，因为拉卡恩氏族几乎未在Shardenus上找到无辜者存在的证据，而尸体周围的罪证简直数不胜数。尸堆燃烧了数天，Shardenus上的所有区域都受到了审查，异端分子和叛徒被揪出并丢入火堆中。极少数从净化中幸存下来的人们讲述了这样的故事：身披黑甲的侩子手们随意进行着屠杀，他们心如铁石，毫无人性。
After the scouring of Shardenus, the rest of the sub-sector was quickly forced into submission as these tales spread. One by one, worlds turned on their perverted overlords and begged for clemency from the vengeful Space Marines, but the Iron Hands were without pity for such callow folk. In the year of bloodshed that followed, fully a third of Contqual's population was deemed to be in the grip of the heretical cults, and Clan Raukaan executed every last one - a grim tally, but one far lesser than that inflicted on Shardenus, where the dead outnumbered the living many times over.
在肃清了Shardenus之后，随着这些故事的传播，次星区的其他区域很快就被迫屈服。一个又一个的世界背弃了它们变态的霸主，乞求前来复仇的星际战士们赐予仁慈宽恕，但钢铁之手对于这些幼稚愚蠢的愚民们毫无怜悯。在之后一年的血腥屠杀中，整整三分之一的Contqual人口被认为处于异端邪教的控制之下，拉卡恩氏族处决了最后一名异端分子——这是一个冷酷的数字，但远好于 Shardenus上的情况，这个世界上死者的数量比生者的多出数倍。
The message was clear - to court damnation was to invite only complete and utter destruction. Not one survivor doubted that the Iron Hands stood ready to mete out punishment once more, should the slightest need arise.
钢铁之手们传递了一条明确的信息——做出受诅咒的行径只会引来彻底的毁灭。所有幸存者的相信：钢铁之手已经准备好在任何有需要的时候再次进行惩罚。
In the years since, faith in the Emperor has blazed like never before over Contqual. Its cowed populace pray, praise and worship not for his beneficence, but for his mercy, out of hope that the warriors of Clan Raukaan will never have cause to return to finish what they began.
从那以后的几年里，对于皇帝的信仰在Contqual次星区以前所未有的速度盛行开来。胆怯的民众们向帝皇祈祷、赞美和崇拜，但他们乞求的并非帝皇的恩惠，而是他的仁慈；他们希望拉卡恩氏族的战士永远不会得到任何回到此地完成他们开始的净化惩戒任务的理由。
