HH5节译：风暴之域

THE DOMINION OF STORMS

The dark events which were to unfold at Calth were part of a far larger pattern known only to their creators. Not only were they bound up in the Warmaster's grand conspiracy of betrayal, but they were also bound up with the actions of two Legions, the Word Bearers and the World Eaters. Their passage would have repercussions and consequences far beyond the immediacy of Calth and Ultramar itself; to the north of the Ultramarines realm, in the desolate Dominion of Storms, the hand of the Traitor would draw blood.

那些将会发生在考斯世界上的黑暗事件是某件远为重大的事项的组成部分，而且只有其创造者才知道此事。这些事件不仅和战帅背叛帝国的巨大阴谋关系密切，也和怀言者与吞世者军团的行动密切相关。其过程中将会造成的反响和后果将会远超考斯和奥特拉玛所遭受的直接影响；在极限战士王国的北侧，荒凉的风暴之域中，叛军将会展开杀戮。

Xersinia Prohibited Zone

Xersinia禁区

A vast area of the void whose dark renown long predates the birth of the Imperium, few save the insane or desperate would venture within Xersinia's bounds. Long before the wars of the Horus Heresy, all Imperial shipping was under specific interdiction from entering the region, a fact the dual Traitor fleets approaching Calth made good use of to conceal their approach to Ultramar. All was not well though, for it was at a lonely star system scant light years coreward of the prohibited zone that a quarrel long in the making came to a head between Angron and Lorgar. The two stood on the verge of mutual destruction until, out of nowhere, the dark form of a warship of the xenos Eldar attacked the World Eaters flagship, the Conqueror, determined, so it appeared, to slay the Primarch of the XIIth Legion. Faced by a common foe, the two brother Primarchs cast aside their quarrel and forced the Eldar vessel to flee deeper into the prohibited zone, chasing it into the darkness.

早在人类帝国诞生之前，这片广阔虚空区域的黑暗名声便已存在，除了疯子和绝望之人，几乎没有人会冒险进入Xersinia禁区的疆域内。在荷鲁斯叛乱的战火燃起很久之前，帝国的所有航运都被特别禁止进入该地区，而接近考斯的双重叛军舰队很好地利用了这一事实来隐藏自己（在）靠近奥特拉玛的状况。然而一切都不太顺利，在距离禁区不到几光年的一个孤独恒星系中，安格隆和珞珈之间酝酿已久的争吵也到达了最激烈的时刻。两人分歧矛盾严重，几乎要相互毁灭，直到一艘灵族异形战舰的黑色身形不知道从何处冒出，袭击了吞世者军团旗舰“征服者”号——它们似乎是决心要杀死第十二军团的原体。面对着共同的敌人，两位兄弟原体搁置了争议，迫使灵族飞船逃往深处，进入了禁区；叛军舰队紧追不舍，一并进入了黑暗区域。

When at last the Traitor Astartes overtook the xenos, utilising the Conqueror's brutal Ursus Claws —massive harpoon torpedoes trailing kilometres-long drag chains— the two Primarchs affected a boarding action and fought side by side along the corridors until they reached the vessel's bridge and came face to face with the xenos princeling who was its captain. Before he died, apocryphal records recovered from cultic texts belonging to the Word Bearers Legion suggest that the alien shipmaster uttered a curse that to Angron was nothing but xenos duplicity, but which to Lorgar spoke of something he thought that only he was able to comprehend; that Angron was cursed to walk the Eightfold path and "...from the doomed prince, Lorgar learned how he might deliver his wounded brother from the grip of his great affliction and so was set in motion a chain of events that would come to fruition at Nuceria, by the will of the true gods..."

当叛军阿斯塔特们最终追赶上异形时，他们用征服者号上凶残的熊爪武器阵列——拖着长达数公里拖拽锁链的巨大鱼叉鱼雷控制住了敌舰；两位原体发动了一场跳帮行动，他们沿着走廊并肩作战，一路杀到了飞船舰桥，与担任飞船舰长的异形（海盗）王子正面交锋。我们从（原本）属于怀言者军团的宗教文本中恢复的可疑记录表明：在其死亡之前，这位异星人船主说出了某种诅咒——在安格隆看来这不过是异形的欺诈谎言，但珞珈则听出了某些他认为只有自己才能理解的内容；异形在诅咒安格隆走上八重之道，而且“…从那位注定遭受毁灭的（异形）王子口中，珞珈了解到他会怎样将自己受伤的兄弟从极度痛苦中解救出来，由此引发的一系列事件会在Nuceria上结出硕果，而这一切都是真神的意志…”

The Ruin of Honourum

Honourum的毁灭

One of the first worlds attested to have felt the wrath of the combined forces of the World Eaters and Word Bearers Legions after they were sent forth from Isstvan, Honourum was an Imperial outpost and colony founded as a beacon of Imperial civilisation by the Ultramarines to mark the furthest extent of their ranges into the Dominion of Storms. Its isolation meant that its demise went unnoticed as it was swiftly razed to ashes by the combined fleets of Lorgar and Angron as a bloody prologue to their assault on Ultramar itself. Subsequently, Honourum lay as a blasted ruin for much of the Horus Heresy. The scarred remains of its once proud cities had seen the worst of horrors, and even before the end of the war, it had gained an ill- favoured reputation among scavengers and Loyalists alike as a haunted ruin, echoing to the clash of chainblades, the distant calls of the dying and the battle cries of warriors long since passed beyond the mortal veil.

在怀言者和吞世者两个军团从伊斯特万星系出发后，Honourum是最初感受到其联合部队怒火的世界之一。此地由极限战士建立起的前哨站和殖民地是一座帝国文明的灯塔，标志着他们进入风暴之域的最远范围。该世界遥远孤立的位置意味着它的毁灭并不能引起人们的注意——珞珈和安格隆联合舰队迅速将这里夷为灰烬，这是他们进攻奥特拉玛本土的血腥序幕。Honourum在荷鲁斯叛乱的大部分时期都是一片被炸毁的废墟。曾经自豪的都市化为了满目疮痍的废墟，它们曾见证过最恐怖的景象；哪怕是在战争结束之前，此地在拾荒者和忠诚派当中也有着令人不快的名声——他们认为Honourum是一片幽魂作祟的废墟，链锯刃的碰撞声、遥远的垂死者呼救声和战士们的呼救声很久之前便穿过了凡世的帷幕，回荡在此地。

In 013.M31, during the early years of the Age of Darkness, an Ultramarines captain by the name of Arcaes Odenathus rallied the scattered Imperial garrisons across the Dominion of Storms and Honourum was finally recaptured. A fortified outpost was rebuilt and garrisoned by the Ultramarines and their successors, but even after this victory, its cities were left as forgotten ruins. Those surviving inhabitants of Honourum's colony, forever plagued by the horrors and trauma unleashed by the servants of Horus, have since swiftly regressed into a feral state.

在013.M31，黑暗年代的早期，一位名为阿尔凯斯 奥德纳苏斯的极限战士连长召集起了分散在风暴之域各处的帝国驻军，并最终收复了Honourum。极限战士及其后继者们（机仆：第二次建军时期Honourum被分给新星战士战团做母星）在此地重建了要塞化的哨站并驻军，但即便在忠诚派获胜之后，此地的城市也仍旧是一片被遗忘的废墟。Honourum殖民地的居民们永远被荷鲁斯的仆人们释放的恐惧和痛苦所困扰，从那以后便迅速退化到了荒蛮状态。

The Ariggata Culling

Ariggata屠杀

The world of Ariggata had long been used as a brutal training facility and storehouse of dire and forbidden weaponry by the World Eaters Legion. Dating back to before Angron had taken control, the Xllth Legion had prosecuted a successful series of Xenocide Exterminatus objectives in the region. In 017.M31, the vengeful fleets of the Loyalist Legions arrived at Ariggata, expecting to find a world held by the remnants of Angron's transfigured sons as they fled the Emperor's justice. Instead they found a dead world, a world that had been scoured clean of all life many years earlier. Hundreds of the long decayed corpses that laid there wore the white and blue livery of the Xllth Legion, and from the manner in which they were found had been locked in a frarricidal struggle before death claimed them. The bunker-storehouses hidden deep beneath the planet's surface were empty, their caches of phosphex and viral weaponry long since claimed, and it is believed by many that these stores of apocalyptic weaponry and perhaps an intake of fresh Legionaries were claimed by Angron before the start of the Shadow Crusade into Ultramar to replenish his forces after Isstvan, though it is likely that the fate of the Legionaries who perished there will forever remain a mystery.

怀言者军团长期将Ariggata世界用作自己残酷的训练场和可怕禁忌武器的储藏库。早在安格隆接手军团控制权之前，第十二军团就在该地区成功地实现了一系列灭绝异形种族的计划。在017.M31, 复仇心切的忠诚派军团舰队们抵达了Ariggata——吞世者们逃离了帝皇的审判，而忠诚派们期望能找到一个由安格隆改头换面子嗣们的残军所掌控的世界（以进行复仇）。但相反的是，他们发现了一个死亡世界——这个世界上的所有生命在很多年前就被扫清了。数百具腐烂已久的尸体躺在星球上，他们都穿着第十二军团蓝白两色的动力甲，而且从他们被发现时的死状来看，这些吞世者在死亡前经历了一场自相残杀的混战。隐藏在星球地下深处的碉堡储藏库空空如也，库存的磷火和病毒武器很久之前便被夺走。很多人相信：在入侵奥特拉玛进行暗影远征之前，安格隆带走了这些启示录级武器的储备，或许他带走的还有一批新入伍的军团战士，以此来补充自己于伊斯特万星系损失的军力；不过那些死在Ariggata上的军团战士们的命运很可能永远都是一个谜。

The Fate of the Catechism of Revelation 

“启示问答”号的命运

The Word Bearers Armiger class cruiser Catechism of Revelation is recorded as playing a key role in the orbital battle over Isstvan V which claimed the lives of so many Loyalist warriors, yet she was never to arrive at Ultramar alongside her brethren. Recovered data-chronicles of the Word Bearers note that the vessel was one of several lost in the Empyrean during the long journey through the Dominion of Storms in 007.M31, evidence perhaps that even the forbidden arts of Lorgar could not completely hold the Warp's quixotic hunger at bay.

根据记录，在伊斯特万五号上方轨道的战斗中，怀言者的佩章侍从级巡洋舰“启示问答”号扮演了关键角色，这艘飞船夺去了非常多忠诚派战士的性命，但她并未和自己的兄弟们一并抵达奥特拉玛。从怀言者处回收的数据编年史表明：这艘飞船是在007.M31穿越风暴之域的漫长航行里失踪在至高天中的诸多舰船之一，它们或许证明了哪怕是珞珈的禁忌之术也无法完全遏制住亚空间那不切实际的饥饿。

Yet this was not the end of the Catechism of Revelation. Throughout the latter years of the Horus Heresy and unto the present day, further reports of sightings of the vessel have been made. In 009.M31, images depicting the craft were recovered from the wreck of the Ultramarines Cobra class destroyer Konors Retribution on the edge of the Dominion of Storms, though an exhaustive search of the sector by several squadrons of Armada Imperialis craft were unable to find any other trace of her. Since then there have been seventeen confirmed sightings, four of which have come in the wake of an attack on Imperial shipping or on a remote colony in the far reaches of the Ultima Segmentum. In 049.M31, the Catechism of Revelation was engaged, crippled and boarded by the grand cruiser Pride of Petrabus. When naval armsmen boarded the craft, they found her a lifeless derelict, and the Pride of Petrabus withdrew after scuttling the ship. Four years later, an apparently undamaged and active Catechism of Reuelation was once again sighted by the warp runner Harra fleeing a corsair convoy raid off Espandor.

然而这并非“启示问答”号的终局。从荷鲁斯叛乱的整个后期直到现在，都有目击此船的进一步报告。在009.M31，我们从位于风暴之域边缘的眼镜蛇级驱逐舰“康诺惩戒”号上回收了描绘这艘飞船的图像资料，虽然帝国远征舰队的数个中队彻底搜索了该星区，却也未能找到“启示问答”号的踪迹。从此之后，该船出现过十七次被证实的目击报告，其中有四次都是在帝国航运或极限星域遥远边境处的偏远殖民地遭到袭击后发生的。超大型巡洋舰“佩特拉布斯”号在049.M31与“启示问答”号交战，前者击残并跳帮了后者。但当帝国海军武装兵们跳帮这艘飞船后，他们发现这是一艘无生命的弃舰，“佩特拉布斯”号也在凿沉这艘船后撤退。四年后，在逃脱掠袭了Espandor的海盗舰队（的进攻）时，亚空间快船“哈拉”号再次目击到了一艘明显完好无损且现役的“启示问答”号。