hh1节译：余烬群狼和猩红牧师（吞世者军团相关）

Close knit and often isolated as the World Eaters Legion was, it is important to note that it was nor without it's allies and support structures. Originally the make-up of the 13" Expedirionary fleet of which Angron had been placed in command had contained a number of auxiliary forces, although many of these would be destroyed by attrition or as punishment for their failures. One, the Legio Audax——or the Ember Wolves to give them their common name—would continue on to become synonymous with the World Eaters Legion. Originally a Vanguard Demi-Legio, comprising only of Scout class Titans of various types, the Legio had quickly developed an alarmingly savage and dangerous reputation, and was looked on as becoming almost bestial by the Titan Legions it fought alongside. The match of this savage set of semi-outcasts with the World Eaters was a natural one, and in battle the tendencies of both for brutal, direct assault married well together, although the close allegiance of the Ember Wolves to the Primarch Angron, over their distant Mechanicum masters was cause for growing concern for the Collegia Titanica. This matter only worsened with the breaking of the siege of Sarum by the 13th Expeditionary fleet in the opening action of the great Golgothan Slaughter.

有一个重要的情况我们要指出：就像吞世者军团一样，第十二军团的盟友和支援部队之间紧密团结，也经常被孤立。最初由安格隆指挥的第13远征舰队的组成部分中包含许多辅助部队。虽然这些部队当中的许多会因战争损失而被摧毁，或者因失败而遭受惩罚。而奥达科斯泰坦军团——通常被称为余烬群狼继续成为吞世者军团的代名词。余烬群狼最早是一个担任先锋的次级泰坦军团，仅由各种类型的侦查泰坦组成，这个泰坦军团很快发展出了令人震惊的野蛮和危险的名声，他们几乎被与之并肩作战的泰坦视为野兽。这支被半放逐的泰坦军团和吞世者军团简直就是天生一对，在战斗中，两者残酷直接的攻击倾向也相吻合。虽然灰烬群狼泰坦军团对于原体安格隆有着紧密的忠诚，然而在遥远的地方，机械神教的主宰们引起了泰坦修会越来越多的关注。随着第十三远征舰队在Golgothan大屠杀的开始阶段打破了对于Sarum世界的围攻，情况恶化了。

Sarum was a besieged Age of Strife Mechanicum outpost with whom shaky and intermittent contact had been maintamed for nearly a century. It's masters, the Tech-priests of the Redjak Covenant, had remained nominally loyal to Mars down the centuries, but had been forced by fighting a relentless battle for survival alone to become something many within the wider Mechanicum were deeply suspicious of—a highly militant and schismatic sub-faith with secrets of their own. The Redjak Mechanicum of Sarum quickly embraced their saviours, the World Earers，as allies and swore to Angron and his Legion directly many oaths of fealry and entered into pacts of mutual protection and support.

Sarum是一个建立于纷争纪元的被围困的机械教前哨基地，帝国和它之间不稳定且断断续续的接触已经持续了近一个世纪。当地的统治者——红色激酶同盟的科技神甫们几个世纪以来一直在名义上忠于火星，但由于他们要为独自生存而进行残酷的战斗，他们被迫成为了一种在机械神教内部饱受质疑的存在——某个有着自己秘密的高度好战且赞成分裂的次级信仰组织。Sarum的机械神教成员很快与自己的救星——吞世者军团结为盟友，他们直接向安格隆和第十二军团宣誓效忠，并签订了相互保护和支持的协议。

For the World Eaters this provided the Legion and its Techmarines with a ready source of resupply and armament far outside the Imperium's inner spheres. This allowed, among other benefits, the reconstruction of the Legions badly damaged flagship Battle Barge, the Adamant Resolve into the heavily-armoured Conqueror, fitted with arrays of Ursus Claw systems——great void-harpoons designed to spear enemy vessels and drag them within reach of bloody boarding actions. Smaller-scaled versions of these Ursus weapons would be modified to also arm the Warhound Titans of the Legio Audax and the World Eaters* assault Dreadnoughts in turn. As for the crimson Redjak Magos, in the World Haters they gained powerful protectors who shielded them from the scrutiny of their erstwhile brother Mechanicum. Although as the Warmaster's rebellion drew close, this relationship prompted the suspicious Fabricator-general of Mars (and ally of Horus) to despatch Archmagos Veneratus Vel-Kheredar as representative to the World Eaters Legion both as spy and ambassador on the eve of the war.

对吞世者而言，这为军团和他的技术军士们提供了远在帝国内部地区之外的再补给和军备的现成来源。除了其他好处，Sarum把吞世者军团受损严重的军团旗舰——战斗母舰坚毅果敢号重建为装甲厚重的征服者号，并且配备了熊爪系统阵列——某种强大的虚空鱼叉，被设计用于刺中敌舰并把它们拖入到血腥的跳帮行动的攻击范围之内。小型化的熊爪武器被调整后可以依次安装到余烬狼群的战犬泰坦和吞世者的突击无畏机甲上。而对于Sarum那些猩红的科技神甫而言，他们获得了保护他们免受昔日机械神教兄弟的审查的强大保护者。即使战帅荷鲁斯的叛乱越来越近，两者间的密切关系仍然促使多疑的火星铸造将军（以及荷鲁斯的盟友）卡尔波—哈尔在战争前夜派遣高阶大贤者维尔—科勒达尔作为代表前往吞世者军团担任间谍和大使。