hh8节译：不朽战将

The first and last warlord of the IXth Legion, other than Sanguinius himself was warrior who fought under the name of Ishidur Ossuros. His is a legend that spans nearly 80 years of war, fighting in battles from the rad-wastes of Ancient Terra to the rocky heights of Saiph, a legend of blood and death that charts a course across the most hazardous battlefields of the Great Crusade. He was the hero of the assault on Kum-karta in Yndonesia, where he reaped such a toll of lives that his warriors emerged from the fortresses' sunken vaults painted crimson head to foot, and the champion of the Ghost Wars on Saiph. If the records of the Divisio Militaris are to be believed then Ishidur fought in 317 separate major engagements 一 and yet these same records also show his death on at least four verified occasions.

除了圣吉列斯本人之外，第九军团最初和最后的战将都是是一位以伊什杜尔 奥苏罗斯之名战斗的武士。他是一个跨越近80年战争岁月的传奇人物，从古老泰拉的辐射废土一路打到参宿六的岩石高地，这个关于鲜血和死亡的传奇绘制出了穿越大远征中最危险战场的路线。他是进攻英多尼西亚联邦Kum-karta城的英雄，在这次战役中，他收割的生命是如此之多，以至于当他的战士们走出堡垒塌陷的拱顶时，全身都溅满鲜血，连动力甲都被涂为了猩红色（机仆：大多数军团在早期穿着的都是灰色动力甲）；他也是参宿六上幽灵战争的冠军。如果军务庭的报告可信的话，伊什杜尔参加过317次独立的主要战斗——同样的记录还显示他至少在四次已核实的情况中战死。

Given the nature of the IXth Legion in those blood-soaked years before Sanguinius' return, and those few oral records from the warriors of the Legion itself it is likely that the true Ishidur Ossuros fell in battle in 802.M30. His lieutenants then took his memories and his name, by means of that singular mutation of the IXth Legion, and continued his legacy for the sake of the Legion. Each time Ishidur Ossuros fell, he would rise again like some gore-soaked phoenix, to once more take the reins of the IXth Legion. The last known reference to this warrior is during the Battle for Teghar Pentaurus, there the enemy's last gasp was a ferocious assault that threatened to overrun the Primarch and his guard. It was the final Ishidur and his warriors who would save the Great Angel, staging a suicidal counter-assault into the teeth of the foe and holding them at bay for almost an hour as reinforcements rushed to Sanguinius' aid. Ishidur Ossuros perished one final time, his body never recovered, exchanging his long life for that of the Primarch in whom he had entrusted the future of the IXth Legion.

考虑到第九军团在圣吉列斯回归之前血腥岁月中的天性，以及来自该军团战士们的极少数口头信息记录，很可能真正的伊什杜尔 奥苏罗斯已经死在了802.M30的战斗中。通过第九军团独特变异所形成方式，他的副官们继承了他的记忆和姓名，为了军团的利益而继续他未竟的事业。每次当伊什杜尔 奥苏罗斯陨落之后，他都会再次像浴血重生的凤凰那般崛起，再度掌控第九军团。已知的最后一次涉及这位战士的事件发生在Teghar Pentaurus之战中，在这次战斗中，敌人的最后喘息是一次险些淹没原体及其卫队的凶猛攻击。最后一位伊什杜尔 奥苏罗斯和他的战士们救下了大天使，他们对于敌军的强悍主力发动了自杀式的反击，在增援部队冲过来援助原体的过程中，伊什杜尔的部队阻击了敌人将近一个小时。这是伊什杜尔 奥苏罗斯最后一次战死沙场，他的尸体再未被兄弟们回收吞食，他用自己漫长的生命换来原体的幸存——他将第九军团的未来托付给了圣吉列斯。