HH5节译：复仇之债（极限战士军团战例）
The Debt of Vengeance
复仇之债
Since his takeover of the Legion in the fourth decade of the Great Crusade, Roboute Guilliman had succeeded in transforming the XIIIth into an intricate and highly functioning weapon of war, and in doing so had built upon a track record of success in battle which held very few stains of defeat. For more than half a century the Legion had gone from strength to strength, waging Compliance actions and liberating worlds for the Imperium across the eastern reaches of the galaxy, and forging the realm of Ultramar in the process. Though not yet having reached the decisive numerical superiority of the other Legions, it would manifest by the time of the Horus Heresy, yet the Ultramarines of 899.M30 were perhaps on the cusp of becoming so, as their ranks, then at around approximately 166000 Legionaries, stood them in the forefront of their peers. The Dark Angels, who in the previous decade to this had been undoubtedly the most powerful single Legion, had fallen in number and evened this figure, having suffered massive casualties holding the line during the famed Third Rangdan Xenocide; the blood of 50,000 Space Marines spent in preventing the destruction of perhaps the entire northern Imperium by the menace from the outer darkness. The Ultramarines in contrast had spent decades in building up their forces and expanding the frontiers in the east, having had the advantage of their excellent network of supply and recruitment, and their Primarchs formidable generalship was at a zenith of its strength thus far.
自从在大远征的第四十年接手他的军团之后 基里曼成功地将第十三军团转化为一件错综复杂且运转高效的战争武器，这也是建立在极限战士军团在战斗中少有败绩的成功记录上。军团在超过半个世纪的时间里不断壮大，他们在的整个银河东部边境区域中为帝国执行归顺行动，解放了诸多世界，并在这一过程中铸就了奥特拉玛的版图。虽然尚未形成对于其他军团的决定性数量优势，他们的兵力优势到荷鲁斯叛乱时期才会显现出来，不过 899.M30时的极限战士可能即将在兵力上力压群雄，他们此刻大约有166000名军团战士，这让他们在兄弟中位居前列。在之前的十年中，黑暗天使军团无疑是单个军团中最为强悍的，但由于在第三次冉丹异形灭绝战中坚守阵线，第一军团遭受了大量伤亡——50,000名星际战士血洒星辰才阻止了来自黑暗外域的威胁摧毁大概整个帝国北境，这导致黑暗天使出现减员并拉平了人数。极限战士则相反，他们耗费了数十年的时间巩固实力并拓张东部边界，军团绝佳的供给和征兵网络体系为他们提供了优势，而且迄今为止，他们的原体那可怖的领导能力已经达到了巅峰水平。
Yet for all this, Roboute Guilliman knew that a shadow of doubt afflicted his Legion's soul. That doubt had its origins in its darkly storied defeat during the disastrous intervention in the Osiris Cluster Rebellion a few short years before the Primarch's reuniting with his Legion. Marius Gage's tenure in command had commenced with this disaster, and it became a baleful influence in the psyche of the Legion, a thing which while left unspoken nevertheless had power, and that even seemed to cast a pall over the Legion's recruits unborn when the battle was lost. The Primarch knew that the only way to truly purge his Legion of this shadow of the mind was to find once more the xenos known as the Osirian Psybrids, and with the Ultramarines at his back, destroy them utterly.
尽管实现了这一切，但罗伯特 基里曼知道军团的灵魂仍然遭受着一片怀疑阴影的折磨。这种（自我）怀疑源自极限战士军团对奥西里斯群星叛乱进行灾难性介入时所遭受的黑暗传说般的失败，此事发生于原体和军团重逢的短短数年之前。马里乌斯·盖奇就是从这场灾难后开始担任军团长，这场失败对于军团士气造成了恶毒的影响，它的影响不言而喻，当极限战士们战败时，似乎连军团中未接受完改造的新兵们心中都蒙上了阴影。原体明白：只有再次找到那群被称为奥西里斯灵能种的异形，并且率领着身后的极限战士们彻底将其毁灭，方能扫除军团心中的阴影。
To this end, ever since he had first reviewed reports of the action when he took over his Legion, Roboute Guilliman had begun planning the Psybrids' destruction, analysing and re-analysing every facet of the Legion's battle-logs, gun-picter footage and even the deep auspex data gathered from the aetheric cogitators of the warships that had survived for microscopic fluctuations. In the decades as his Legion had gone from Compliance to Compliance, war zone to war zone, the Primarch had never stopped running continued theoretical battle scenarios against the macabre and powerful xenos, knowing that one day they would make their reappearance and that he and his Legion would be waiting. But decades passed and they did not return.
因此，从接手军团时第一次重新审阅这次行动的报告开始，罗伯特 基里曼就已经开始计划灵能种们的毁灭，他反复分析军团战斗日志、爆弹枪上图像采集器收集图片资料、甚至还有从那些极其侥幸地幸存于那次冲突的战舰的以太沉思者上收集到的深度鸟卜探测数据，他分析这些资料的每个方面。极限战士军团在数十年的时间中令一个又一个世界归顺，奔赴到一个又一个战区，他们的原体也从未停止过针对可怕而强大的异形进行持续的理论战斗场景推测。基里曼知道总有一天这些异形会再次出现，他的军团也在等待着它们，但数十载岁月匆匆流去，旧敌却从未卷土重来。
There had been rumours of course, unsubstantiated accounts passed on from frontier Rogue Traders, intermittent reports of inexplicable massacres and mass disappearances, but the galaxy, even within the fold of the growing Imperium, was a strange and dangerous place, and the evidence was seldom conclusive as to the culprit, or pointed to the more commonplace if no less deadly privations of the Khrave, the Enslavers or degenerate Eldar corsairs. Only at Maxilla Veritas near the Maelstrom, twenty-six standard years after the Osiris Rebellion, was the evidence for the Psybrids involvement considered viable. Here an agri-world had been robbed of a third of its population almost overnight, the remainder simply lying down in the fields to starve to death, their minds and wills utterly destroyed. But by the time fast cruisers from the Ultramarines fleet had arrived, the trail was already long cold and the planets dead bore silent witness to the Psybrids' passing.
当然，也曾有过一些谣言，边境的行商浪人们传递着未经证实的故事，关于莫名其妙的大屠杀和大规模失踪的断断续续报道也偶尔传来，但哪怕是在成长壮大中的人类帝国疆域内，银河系也是一个怪奇危险的地方；证据从未决定性地证明灵能种就是造成这些惨剧的罪魁祸首，或者指向某些更常见的原因——倘若克拉夫人、奴役者或堕落的灵族海盗在该地区并不是极其罕见的话。只有灵能种入侵了大漩涡附近的Maxilla Veritas世界的证据被认为是真实可行的，此事发生于奥西里斯群星叛乱后的第二十六个标准年。这个农业世界几乎在一夜之内就被掠走了三分之一的人口，剩下的人只能躺在地上被活活饿死，他们的心灵和意识都被彻底摧毁了。但是当来自极限战士军团舰队的快速巡洋舰抵达时，这条线索就已经断开很久了，只剩下死亡的行星默默目睹着灵能种们远去。
It was in the closing segments of 899.M30 that conclusive word finally reached the Ultramarines Primarch that the Psybrids had not only been encountered, but met in battle. Relayed from the central Astrotelepathic chamber of Terra, the strange report had come from a sub-fleet of the XIIth Legion, then in its last days as the War Hounds before its own Primarch, Angron, was found.
在899.M30的年末，极限战士原体最终得到了确切的消息：帝国不仅偶遇了灵能种，而且与它们进行了交战。消息转发自泰拉的中央星语室，这份奇怪的报告来自第十二军团的分遣舰队，仅仅几天之后战犬军团就发现了自己的原体——安格隆。
The fleet, under the command of Praetor Erad Krug, was fighting on the south-western extreme of the Great Crusade's frontier near Eurydice Terminal. Here the War Hounds had been engaged in repelling an attack on the frontier outpost world by Ork void raiders from the self-styled Glortian Empire from the untracked abysses beyond. The War Hounds, though severely outnumbered, had held off the repeated Ork attacks through a series of savage boarding actions in close orbit and high intensity assaults on their landing zones, preventing the xenos from gaining a foothold on the ground. It had been during the latest of these assaults, the largest yet attempted by the Orks, that a mysterious third party had attacked both sides.
这支由军团执政官艾拉德 克鲁格指挥的舰队当时正在靠近Eurydice Terminal的西南端大远征边境作战。战犬军团在这里抵抗了欧克兽人虚空掠夺者对于这个前线前哨世界的进攻，后者自称来自无迹可寻的深渊外侧的Glortian兽人帝国。尽管数量处于严重劣势，但战犬部队仍然在近轨道区域进行了一系列残忍野蛮的跳帮行动，并高强度进攻兽人的登陆区，以此遏制住了兽人的反复进攻，阻止异形们在地面上获得落足点。在攻击的最后阶段，绿皮们进行最大规模的进攻尝试时，一股神秘的第三方势力攻击了双方。
A duo of immense hourglass-shaped vessels had appeared and launched a devastating assault, which the Orks —reacting in a frenzy unwarranted even for their kind— had responded by immediately abandoning the planetary assault and turning on the newcomers with suicidal abandon. The War Hounds had taken advantage of this unexpected respite to regroup and then counter-attack the Orks' all-but-unprotected flank, so savagely were the raiders engaged in attacking the hourglass vessels, many of their warships simply ramming the enemy, all guns blazing. The War Hounds battle barges massacred a path through the Orks and carried through to the unknown foe, encountering the Osiran Psybrids firsthand as the nightmarishly powerful xenos smashed the War Hounds void shields and teleported aboard. In the chaotic void melee that followed, only the savage tenacity of the War Hounds allowed them to survive, as dozens of their own ships and hundreds of Ork vessels were shattered and left as burning wreckage in the skies above Eurydice Terminal before the two hourglass ships were finally driven off.But not before one Psybrid vessel made a low pass of the planet's surface and strange energy readings spiked across its ground stations.
两艘巨大的沙漏状飞船出现在此地，并发动了毁灭性的进攻。兽人们马上放弃了行星进攻作战，以自杀式的狂热来对抗新到场的敌人。战犬部队利用这次意外的喘息机会重新集结，并且反击了兽人毫无保护的侧翼。兽人掠夺者对于沙漏飞船的进攻极其野蛮凶狠，他们的许多战舰都是简单地撞向敌舰，（同时）所有火炮全力开火。战犬的战斗母舰们在兽人群中屠杀出来一条血路，面对了这群未知的敌人。他们直接与奥西里斯灵能种发生了遭遇战，这些噩梦般的强大异形攻破了战犬舰队的虚空盾，进行了传送跳帮攻击。在之后混乱的虚空混战中，战犬们只是靠着自己野蛮的韧性才得以幸存。在两艘沙漏飞船最终离开之前，数十艘军团战舰和数百艘兽人舰船被炸碎，成为漂浮在Eurydice Terminal上空熊熊燃烧的残骸。但在此之前，一艘灵能种飞船低空掠过行星表面，奇怪的能量读数在星球地面哨站中飙升。
By the time the report had reached Guilliman, thanks to the vagaries of astrotelepathic communications, it was already several standard months out of date, and he knew that his own orders, sealed under his authority as a Primarch and a Lord Marshal Primus of the Great Crusade, for the War Hounds to hold at all cost and if possible crack the hourglass ships to their source might arrive too late. Regardless, Roboute Guilliman swung his long-planned strategy into action, and with nearimpossible dispatch, a powerful Ultramarines Retribution fleet was soon underway to Eurydice Terminal.
但由于星语通讯的变幻莫测性，当报告送到基里曼手中时，已经延迟了数个标准月之久。基里曼知道：现在以一位原体和一位大远征至高领主元帅的身份下令，要求战犬军团不惜一起代价拖住敌人，有可能的话就破解出沙漏飞船的来源可能太迟了。不论结果如何，罗伯特 基里曼都将自己长期计划的战略付诸实践，经过一次几乎不可能的调度安排后，一支强悍的极限战士报应舰队很快就向Eurydice Terminal开拔。
The Killing Star
杀戮之星
When the retribution fleet arrived, not even the intellect of the Ultramarines Primarch could have predicted what his Legion would find there. The entire star system had been sundered into a battleground littered with burning debris and the radioactive echo of heavy weapons fire. The dead and broken hulks of Ork and Imperial warships, as well as less readily identifiable wrecks, were scattered everywhere, and the atmosphere of Eurydice Noctis, the systems only life-sustaining world, was scorched and blackened with the fires of war. Above this battle-torn orb, at the heart of a sea of orbital wreckage, no fewer than seven of the monolithic, clockwork-spinning shapes of the Psybrid hourglass vessels hovered, several badly damaged by intense conflict.
当报应舰队抵达时，即便是以极限战士原体的超凡才智也无法预见到他们在此将会发现的事物。整个恒星系都被分割成为了战场，其间遍布着燃烧的碎片与重型武器开火的辐射回音。兽人和帝国战舰被摧毁后剩下的破碎废船，以及一些不太容易被识别的残骸飘散到了各处。恒星系中唯一能够维持生命的世界是Eurydice Noctis，战火将它的大气层烧焦熏黑。在这个饱受战争蹂躏的星球上方，有不少于七条单体发条旋转形状的灵能种沙漏船在轨道上残骸海洋的中心盘旋着，其中一些在激烈冲突中严重受损。
Immediately coming under scattered attacks by Ork gunships stalking the debris fields, the Ultramarines fleet began scanning the system in an attempt to comprehend just what was transpiring there, but it was not until they were contacted by a narrow band Imperial vox signal from the surface of one of the systems outer ice moons that matters became clear. The signal was from the badly damaged War Hounds battle cruiser Cold Cerberus, which had made an emergency landing on the ice moon to make repairs. On board were the last surviving few hundred Legionaries of the XIlth, the remnants of a force that had once been ten times its number, led by the terribly wounded but still commanding Erad Krug.
在残骸碎片区巡逻盯梢的兽人炮艇马上进行了分散进攻，极限战士舰队开始扫描这个恒星系，试图理解发生了什么，直到他们联系上了一个来自恒星系内外行星带某颗冰封卫星表面的窄频带帝国通讯信号，事情才明了起来。信号来自严重受损的战犬军团战斗巡洋舰“冷酷魔犬”号，它在那颗冰封卫星上紧急迫降以进行维修。船上有最后数百名幸存下来的第十二军团战士，他们曾经的部队人数是这群残军数量的十倍，领导他们的是受伤严重但仍在指挥的艾拉德 克鲁格。
The arrival of the Ultramarines fleet was a welcome surprise to him, for he had received no orders to stand and fight to the last against the xenos menace—he hadn't needed any. He detailed to the Primarch the story of a strange and terrible battle in which the Psybrids had managed through their mental powers to enslave a vast feral population of Orks to do battle for them against their own kind, and had sought to do the same to the Imperial defenders of Eurydice. Only the War Hounds had proved able to resist the creatures' baleful influence, but massively outnumbered they had paid for their resistance in blood, and would have been overwhelmed regardless if huge numbers of enraged Orks, seemingly the massed forces of the entire GIonian Empire, had not swarmed into the system.
对艾拉德而言，极限战士舰队的到来是个意外之喜。他并未接到坚守战场并与异形威胁血战到底的命令——他也并不需要。执政官向原体详细叙述了那场恐怖而诡异的战争：灵能种们利用自己的精神力量奴役了大量野蛮的欧克兽人，使其自相残杀，他们还试图对Eurydice上的帝国防御者们施加相同影响。只有战犬军团的星际战士们被证明能够抵抗这些生物的恶毒影响，但他们的数量处于严重劣势。星际战士们为自己的抵抗付出了血的代价：如果没有巨量暴怒的兽人大军（似乎是整个GIonian帝国的庞大兵力）蜂拥闯入这个星系，星际战士们就会被击溃。
The Orks had fought with unbelievable fury even given their warlike species’mien, seeking either reVenge or compelled by some inbuilt genetic drive to exterminate the Psybrids. More of the gargantuan hourglass ships in turn had appeared to reinforce their fellows, and with them thousands of enslaved xenos warriors and ships, few of which were known even to the lexicanic datacores of the Imperial ships. Eurydice Terminal had become a killing star; a vortex of destruction that was even now calling more armies to their deaths, and here the Ultramarines had come to restart the battle afresh.
尽管兽人们是一个好战的种族，但它们在这次战斗中所展现出的愤怒也令人难以置信；它们要么是在寻求报复，要么就是被某种内在基因驱使着来消灭灵能种。更多巨大的沙漏飞船依次现身，似乎是前来增援它们的同伴；它们一并带来的还有数以千计被奴役的异形战士和舰船，哪怕帝国舰船的词典数据核心也仅仅是知道其中的极小部分。Eurydice Terminal 已经变成了一颗杀戮之星；这个毁灭漩涡正在召唤更多军队走向死亡，而极限战士军团则在这里重新开始了战斗。
Guilliman, having apprised himself of the tactical situation, modified his battle plans accordingly and without pause put his strategy of attack into operation. Despite Erad Krug's request for his surviving Legionaries to be lifted from their wrecked vessel and given a place in the line of battle, the War Hounds were denied; this would be a battle for the Ultramarines alone. It was to be a tactical operation more traditionally the speciality of other Space Marine Legions than his, but at which his own warriors were still well versed—a full assault-strike boarding assault.
基里曼将（当前的）战术形势告知了自己，他针对性地调整了自己的战斗计划，并且毫无迟疑地执行了自己的进攻战略。尽管艾拉德 克鲁格要求第十三军团将他们带离失事飞船，并在战斗中被给予一席之地，但战犬们的要求遭到了拒绝：这是一场只属于极限战士军团的战斗。极限战士们将采取一项战术行动，虽然在传统上其他军团比他们更为专长于此类行动，但第基里曼的战士们也同样精通此道——他们要进行全面的跳帮突击进攻。
Having long poured over the action reports from the disaster at Osiris, Guilliman had parsed out a number of cohesive facts about his enemy that he planned to exploit to their downfall. The first was that despite their vast ships and the enslaved hosts they deployed with such ruthless determination, the real enemy, the semi-vaporous Psybrid-creatures themselves, were relatively few in number. Their entire style of combat, to fight battles first by proxy as marshals rather than as frontline warriors, intervening only to tip the balance with their prodigious psychic powers, was predicated on keeping their own exposure to casualties as low as possible. The hourglass vessels, as massive as they were from what he could ascertain from data gathered via auspexes, were themselves more akin to mobile space stations than warships, and their internal habitation limited in scope, the rest a vast provision for supply and self-sufficiency. This supposition was now confirmed by his warships, concentrated scanning as the Ultramarines fleet approached their targets; the Psybrids had no home system, no empire; they were nomads, wanderers with all they possessed on their backs, and they were few. The war upon the surface of the world, the Orks, the mind- blasted slave-soldiers, all were irrelevances—a smoke screen— the enemy was the masters of war, the puppeteers aboard the nomad ships, and Roboute Guilliman would not suffer them to live.
基里曼已经长时间反复研究过了来自奥西里斯灾难事件的行动报告，他解析了许多关于敌人们的综合性事实，他计划利用这些事实来击溃它们。第一条是要凭着极为无情的决心无视灵能种们巨大的飞船和它们部署的大量受奴役宿主，这些半雾气状的灵能生物本身才是真正的敌人，它们的数量相对稀少。他们的整套战斗风格是优先以元帅而非前线战士的身份进行战斗，它们依靠自己惊人的灵能力量介入战斗只是为了使战局平衡发生倾斜，而且前提是尽可能降低他们自己的伤亡风险。极限战士们通过鸟卜仪收集到的数据确定了这些沙漏飞船的大小，判断它们更像是移动的空间站而非战舰。他们的内部居住空间范围有限，其余的巨大空间被提供给了后勤补给和自给自足设施。这一推测得到了战舰扫描结果的证实——极限战士舰队在接近目标时进行了集中扫描；灵能种们没有故乡星系，没有属于自己的帝国，它们是游牧种族，是随船携带自己一切资源的流浪物种，而且它们数量稀少。星球表面的战争，兽人和疯狂的奴隶士兵都是无关紧要的——这些只是灵能种们打掩护的烟幕，极限战士们的敌人是战争统帅——那些身居游牧舰船上操纵心理受控奴隶的灵能种们，罗伯特 基里曼不会放过它们。
The Fire upon the Deep
深渊上的火
The Primarch's plan of attack was a shockingly direct one. His fleet would not pause for long range bombardment, it would not present broadside and pound the enemy at close quarters as a High Admiral of the Imperialis Armada might have done, but rather he would conduct a full boarding strike without prelude. Guilliman would drive the core of his fleet and with it nearly 100,000 Ultramarines into the heart of the enemy. Unlike Thetos, where it had been the Ultramarines who had been outnumbered and slowly overwhelmed, now it would be the Psybrids, forced to contend with a blazingly blue armoured mass of super human warriors whose only purpose was their utter annihilation. It is not without irony that Roboute Guilliman records in his own testimony about the assault that in the past some had thought to opine that he and his Legion were adverse to strategies which resulted in a heavy cost of Ultramarines' lives; this single action would dispel that myth and illustrate the truth that such tactics were often wasteful and unneeded by a skilled general, but when such sacrifice was the most efficient and indeed perhaps the only path to victory, he and his Legion would pay that price with fervour and unbreakable determination.
原体的进攻计划直接到令人震惊。他的舰队不会停下来（对星球）进行远程轰炸，基里曼没有效仿一位帝国舰队高级上将的可能做法：冲向敌人侧舷，发起近距离猛攻，而是将会发动一次没有预兆的全面跳帮进攻。基里曼将派出舰队核心与将近100,000名极限战士直击敌军心脏。这次的战况不同于Thetos世界上的那次——在那次战争中，极限战士们处于劣势并被敌军慢慢压垮，现在的状况是灵能种们被迫与一群穿着亮蓝色动力甲甲的超人战士交战，而后者的唯一目的就是彻底铲除它们。罗伯特 基里曼在自己的证词报告中记录了这次进攻，具有讽刺意味的是，过去有些人认为基里曼和他的军团反对这种以大量极限战士的生命为代价的战略；而这次行动将消除这种误解，并且说明一个事实；对一位技艺高超的统帅而言，尽管这种战术通常是浪费且不被需要的，但当这种牺牲是最为高效，而且也是事实上唯一通往胜利的途径时，基里曼和他的军团也将以热情和坚不可摧的决心付出这份代价。
So it was that the huge fleet set off its engines at maximum burn with at its centre the Primarch himself aboard the Macragge's Honour, spearheading a dozen battle barges and a score of cruisers. While in parallel,the two other giants of the fleet, the Spear of Konor under Marius Gage and the Thunder of Hera under the command of Severin Vale, led their own strike groups of battle barges and cruisers, while the heavier line of battle void ships of the fleet, more suited to firepower than assault, formed an echelon behind.
极限战士的庞大舰队把引擎提升到了最大出力，原体本人就位于舰队中央的马库拉格之耀号上，十多艘战列母舰和数十艘巡洋舰担任着矛头。与其并行的是其他两支举行舰队：马里乌斯 盖奇指挥着康诺坚矛号，赛维利安 瓦雷指挥着赫拉雷霆号，他们各自率领着战列母舰和巡洋舰组成的攻击群，同时舰队中那些更适合进行火力输出而非突击的虚空战舰也排成了重型战列线，组成了后方梯队。
This rear echelon broke in parallel as the fleet made its final approach, sweeping out to encirde the enemy and cutting off any avenue of escape. At first, the Psybrid nomad vessels responded by closing ranks and hurling out great pulses of sheering gravitational force in the path of the oncoming Ultramarines, hoping to break their formation and crush or deflect the volleys of fire they expected to be unleashed against them at any moment. But too late they realised the danger they were in as no such bombardment was forthcoming.
随着舰队最终接近目标，前方梯队改变了平行列队的阵型，它们全力包围敌人，切断一切逃跑的途径。灵能种游牧舰船首先做出的回应是集结部队，并在即将赶到的极限战士的路径上释放出了强大的偏导重力脉冲，希望能破坏星际战士们的编队，并粉碎或偏转星际战士们在任何时候期望对他们释放的炮火。但当他们意识到自己处于危险中时已经太迟了，因为这样的轰炸并未到来。
Instead the Ultramarines fleet ploughed on through the spacial-gravitic turbulence, their pilots and captains having practised such manoeuvres in endless simulations at their Primarch's command, and few ships were lost to the roiling void, though many were pounded and battered like flotsam in a terrible sea storm. The Psybrid vessels began to scatter, but slowed by their own huge mass, which rendered them ungainly in the planet's gravity despite their power,could not break away in time to avoid the vast fleet of warships hurtling at them.
相反，极限战士舰队在空间重力湍流中艰难前行——在原体的指挥下，军团中的飞行员们和船长们已经在无尽的模拟训练中实践过了此类机动。尽管很多舰船都像处于可怕的海上风暴中的船骸那样遭受着连续的冲击拍打，但只有少数舰船损失在了翻涌搅动的虚空中。灵能种飞船开始分散开来，但他们自身庞大的体积拖慢了速度，尽管这些飞船实力强大，但在星球的引力下它们却显得笨拙，无法及时逃离以躲避向他们猛冲过来的庞大舰队。
At a range of no more than a handful of kilometres apart, the Ultramarines at last unleashed their wrath, and before the afterimage of the blinding fire-flash of a thousand lance batteries and macro cannon unleashed could fade, hundreds of gunships and assault rams were roaring from their flight bays to the attack. The Psybrid nomad-vessels lashed about them with frenzied whips of elemental energy, and all around them hulls burst and ships burned, but it was too little against the unstoppable tide of ire which crashed against them. The Ultramarines fleet engulfed the towering Psybrid vessels, strike cruisers and battle barges themselves ram-charging into the turning clockwork-like cores of the nomad-ships, grapple nets and corvus bridges piercing the alien ships' sides. They were as giants beset by hundreds of birds of prey and slowly torn to pieces.
在不超过几公里的距离之外，极限战士们最终释放了怒火，上千门光矛和宏炮释放出的炫目火焰的残影还尚未消失，数百艘炮艇和突击艇便咆哮着冲出飞行港前去进攻。灵能种的游牧飞船用狂暴的能量长鞭疯狂地抽打着它们，周围的飞船船壳破裂，舰体燃烧，但这不足以抵挡向灵能种袭来的势不可挡的愤怒浪潮。极限战士舰队包围了巨大的灵能种飞船，打击巡洋舰和战列母舰冲进了游牧飞船那状如时钟的旋转核心，钩网和鸦嘴跳帮桥刺穿了外星飞船的两侧。异形的飞船现在就像被数百只掠食猛禽围攻的巨人，它们会被慢慢撕碎。
Through maze-like networks of turning corridors like the innards of a great machine, the Ultramarines stormed with deadly intent, destroying as they went. The ghoulish, half solid vapour forms, lean and gaunt without their exo-armour, fought with the savagery of caged animals, burning bright with psychokinetic energy and striking out with mind-burning blasts of power, but for every Legionary who fell, a dozen pressed forward in their place and, one by one, the Psybrids began to be corralled, cornered and killed. Led by axe and shield-wielding Invictarii and moving bulwarks of Terminator armourclad veterans, the Ultramarines pressed into the heart of the great vessels, mining the corridors and power junctures with melta- bombs and atomantic implosion charges as they went. The armoured claws of the Ultramarines Dreadnoughts tore open bulkheads to reveal vaults of plundered treasures and the wealth of innumerable worlds, but the Ultramarines were not swayed by such wonders any more than they were halted by the larder-surgeries they encountered, where the cephelvoric aliens hung the still-living heads of their victims by the hundreds for later consumption,for the warriors of the XIIIth Legion were implacable, and in them had been woken a rarely displayed drive for Vengeance that could not be diverted nor denied.
穿过了就像一台巨大机器的内部结构的迷宫般转弯走廊网络，极限战士们以致命的意图发起了攻击，摧毁了沿途的一切。灵能种们有着幽灵状的半固体蒸汽态形体，他们没有外在盔甲的身体瘦削而憔悴，以困兽的野蛮凶狠与星际战士们交战。异形们燃烧着明亮的念力能量，发射出燃烧意识的能量爆炸，但每当有一名军团战士倒下，就会有数十名同袍冲上前去接替位置，灵能种们开始遭到围困，被逼到墙角，然后被杀死。在手持战斧和盾牌的常胜军，以及身披终结者动力甲宛如移动堡垒般的老兵们的率领下，极限战士们冲入巨型飞船的核心区域，在经过的同时，他们在走廊和动力交汇处埋设了热熔炸弹和原子内爆炸弹。极限战士无畏机甲的装甲利爪撕开了舱壁，露出了盛放掠夺自无数世界的珍宝和财富的仓库，但极限战士们并没有为这些奇迹所动摇，也并未因他们在异形们的食品储藏室中遇到的场景而止步：这些以头颅为食的外星人将数百颗仍然活着的受害者头颅挂起来供以后食用，因为第十三军团的战士们是毫不留情的，他们身上有一种罕见的复仇冲动，这种冲动是无法改变的，也无法否认。
It was Roboute Guilliman himself who breached the innermost chamber of the largest of the hourglass ships to find the master of the Psybrids. It was a towering, multi-limbed gestalt-thing, thrice the Primarch's own height, whose long, almost equine head screamed out shockwaves of ceramite-breaking force as its inner sanctum was invaded. But even as his own Terminator armoured bodyguard staggered and fell under the psychokinetic onslaught, the Primarch, with his chief battle psyker Aaroth Ptolemy beside him, charged. The Psybrid-King reared up above them, its clawed arms bearing strange weapons like the image of some forgotten devil-god of Old Night, but Guilliman with the strength and speed born of the Emperor’s unmatched arts struck, cleaving the creature limb from vaporous limb as Ptolemy fought it on the psychic plane with very ounce of power in his possession, sacrificing his life so that Guilliman would be defended from the nightmarishly powerful creatures psychic assault. The monster fell and the Primarch of the Ultramarines enacted his Legion's Vengeance, ripping the things glowing brain from its skull and crushing it under his heel.
罗伯特 基里曼本人亲自攻破了最大沙漏飞船的最内侧舱室，找到了灵能种之主。那是一只高大且有着众多肢体的格式塔生物，身高是原体本人的三倍，在它的内部圣所被入侵的同时，它那几乎状如马头的修长头部吼出了一阵力道能击碎陶钢的冲击波。尽管自己身披终结者动力甲的卫队在异形的念力猛攻下蹒跚倒地，但原体还是和身边自己的首席战斗灵能者阿罗斯 托勒密发起了冲锋。灵能种之王站着俯视他们，它的爪子上带着奇怪的武器，形象宛如旧夜中某个被遗忘的恶魔之神。但基里曼以帝皇那无可匹敌的（基因）技术所赋予的力量进攻着，他从异形之王蒸汽般的躯体上砍下（有实体）的生物肢体；同时托勒密释放在灵能领域和异形交战，他释放出自己所拥有的全部灵能力量，牺牲了自己的生命，这样来保护基里曼不受这只噩梦般强大生物的灵能进攻。这只怪物倒下了，极限战士的基因原体执行了军团的复仇仪式，基里曼从头骨上扯下异形发光的大脑，抬起战靴一脚踩碎。
One by one the towering hourglass vessels of the Osiran Psybrids fell, either torn apart by explosive charges from within, or rent to flinders in the crossfire of the waiting Ultramarinesechelons as they tried to break free. There was no escape. As the Psybrids died, so too did their slave armies still warring on the ground, and soon only the Glortian Orks, already mauled and all but exhausted, remained, and the Ultramarines made short work of driving them away once more into the outer darkness. The blood price of the battle had been high enough, several thousand Legionary casualties, and many among them veterans of the Legion's Terran roots, eager to be the first in battle in order to expunge the failings of the past. But it had been a price willingly paid for Vengeance, and it would be a price and more that the Ultramarines Legion would willingly pay again in the future.
巨大的奥西里斯灵能种沙漏飞船一艘接一艘的陨落，它们要么是被内部的爆炸撕开，要么是在努力逃脱时被等候中的极限战士梯队用交叉火力轰为碎片。他们无一逃脱。随着灵能种死亡，那些仍在地面上混战的奴隶军队也一并暴毙；很快，地面上就只剩下来自Glortian帝国的欧克兽人，它们已经遭受重创，几乎筋疲力尽，极限战士通过一场短暂的战斗就将它们再次驱逐回了外域黑暗空间中。极限战士为这次战斗付出了足够惨重的鲜血代价：数千名军团战士伤亡，其中很多都是军团的泰拉裔老兵，他们热衷于冲在战斗第一线来消除过去的失败。但这是第十三军团为复仇而心甘情愿付出的代价，而且在未来，极限战士军团也将会心甘情愿地再次付出更多代价。
