hh5节译:无印之子

Of the entire Legion, only five whole chapters of the Ultramarines and a handful of separate detachments from other chapters were spared the Mark of Calth. As with those Legiones Astartes of other Legions who had lived through the Isstvan massacres, an unspoken rift formed between the veterans of Calth and those who had not passed through the fires of betrayal. No official designation to mark the veterans of Calth was ever promulgated amongst the XIIIth Legion, nor did Guilliman ever sanction any division between the warriors of his Legion, yet on those occasions where the Ultramarines gathered afterwards in numbers, the survivors of Calth ever formed a separate body. The bitter wound of base betrayal was one they carried through all their days, the lasting legacy of the Word Bearers’assault on the worlds of Ultramar; trust came to them only with difficulty and always there was a hint of paranoia in their preparations for war and the execution of their campaigns.

在整个极限战士军团当中，只有五个完整的战团和少数来自其他战团的分遣队未被印上考斯的印记。就如同其他军团那些活过伊斯特万大屠杀的阿斯塔特一样，考斯老兵和那些未经受过背叛的战火的阿斯塔特之间形成了一道不言而喻的裂隙。第十三军团中从未颁布过正式的标志来纪念考斯会战的老兵，基里曼也从未认可批准极限战士们之间的任何区分。然而随后在极限战士们大量集结的场合中，考斯幸存者们会形成一个分离的群体。背叛所造成的苦涩伤痛将会纠缠他们一生，这是怀言者们进攻奥特拉玛诸世界所留下的长久遗产；他们很难获得信任，在准备战争和进行战役时也总会有些偏执。

Of the so-called 'Unmarked' chapters, two had been assigned to distant Great Crusade forces at the time of the Calth atrocity; the 7th Chapter was divided amongst the vast reaches of the Dominion of Storms and the 10th Chapter was battling through the xenos- infested Eastern Fringe. The remaining chapters, the 19th, as well as those which bore the title the 24th and 25th, had been assigned garrison and training duties amongst the myriad worlds of Ultramar. Though none escaped the fires of Horus' rebellion, none were tested as were those few who had stood against the unthinkable at Calth, none ever stood at the brink of annihilation and the edge of madness as did their brothers.

在这些所谓的“无印”战团中，当考斯暴行发生时，有两个是被分配到了遥远的大远征部队当中，第七战团分布在Dominion of Storms的广阔区域，第十战团则在遭到异形侵扰的东部边境奋战。恶人那些剩余的战团中，第十九战团，以及那些拥有第二十四战团和第二十五战团头衔的部队呗指派到奥特拉玛的无数世界中被执行驻军和训练任务。虽然这些战团没能逃过荷鲁斯叛乱的战火，但也没有人经受过考斯那般的考验：对抗无法想象的敌人与可怖之物，他们也未曾像自己的兄弟一样处于灭绝和疯狂的边缘。

In the later years of the Scouring, the Unmarked would continuously see assignment to operations removed from the main body of their brethren; even Guilliman seemed averse to their company on campaign, perhaps seeing in them a reminder of days now lost. Eventually, the Unmarked would be among the first of the Legion to be renamed and separated during the Second Founding, and remain perhaps the truest reflection of the Ultramarines of old.

在荷鲁斯叛乱之后的大清洗中，无印战团们不断地被派去执行那些被从兄弟主体中移除的任务，甚至基里曼似乎也反对他们参战，也许是因为从他们身上看到那些逝去的岁月。最终，无印之子们在第二次建军中优先被重新命名并从军团中拆分出去，而且他们也许仍然是曾经的极限战士军团的最为真实的反映。