hh9节译：受损者、致盲者和被缚者

Broken, Blinded and Bound

Among the many plans set in place by Horus, before even the first bombs fell on the ruined worlds of Isstvan, were those intended to see the most potent threats to his supremacy removed from contention. For though the Warmaster would acknowledge no public rival, in private he held several of his brothers as objects of no little discomfort, warriors that he would prefer not to meet on the field of battle. For these paragons amongst the Primarchs would not bow to the skill at arms or the might of Horus' armies, but the subtle skills that had earned him his title of Warmaster would see them neutered and rendered powerless before they could even raise their hands against him.

哪怕早在第一批炸弹落在被毁灭的伊斯特万世界上之前，荷鲁斯便制定了众多的计划，意图见证帝国中对于他至高无上的地位最为重要的威胁被从竞争当中移除。尽管战帅不会承认自己有任何公开的竞争对手，但他在私底下仍然将某些兄弟视为令自己不爽的对手，这些原体是荷鲁斯不想在战场上遇到的战士们。因为这些原体之间的典范们不会对着荷鲁斯的军团武力或个人武艺卑躬屈膝，但牧狼王那为自己赢得了战帅头衔的狡黠技艺也将见证一件事：哪怕在他们起手反抗荷鲁斯之前，这些典范原体们就会陷入绝望且无能为力的境地。

There were three among the Primarchs that stood as the most dire threats to the Warmaster and his nascent schemes. Lion El'jonson was a warrior without equal whose loyalty to the Imperium could not be subverted, Sanguinius held the awe and trust of all his brothers which Horus had long envied, and Guilliman possessed an army and strategic genius that could doom any rebellion if left unchecked. Horus laid plans to remove each of these from his path, the preparations in place long years before he would reveal his desire to rule and standing as the signposts to the Horus Heresy visible only to us now through the clarity of hindsight.

在众位原体当中，有三人对于战帅和他萌芽中的阴谋是最为严重的威胁。莱昂 艾尔庄森对于帝国忠义无双，他是一位无法被策反的战士；圣吉列斯在所有兄弟中都享有着的名望和信任，这份人望让荷鲁斯都长期嫉妒；而倘若让基里曼放手一搏，他拥有的军队和战略才能可以终结任何叛乱。荷鲁斯制定计划将这三人从自己道路上移除，而在他显露出统治帝国的野心之前，他经过了多年的准备，而我们只有到了现在才能从事后者的角度清晰地看出：这一切都为荷鲁斯叛乱树立了路标。

Once confirmed in his position as Warmaster, the ultimate authority barring only the Emperor Himself over the armies of the Great Crusade, Horus was granted the most effective of tools for dealing with these formidable threats. By official writ and warrant of the Warmaster, the Lion and the great majority of his forces were sent out beyond the borders of the Imperium, there to wage war in the darkness where little news of the Imperium could reach. Ever isolated from his peers. Lion El'jonson made little complaint at such a task, accepting the grim duty as if it was his due and granted Horus the time he would need to set in motion his plans. Sanguinius and his Blood Angels would likewise see orders from their new Warmaster send them to the far corners of the Imperium, not simply led astray but trapped by secrets the Warmaster had long kept in readiness. Here he sought to dispose of the troublesome Angel and suborn his Legion to the service of his rebellion in a space where none could come to their aid. The system of Signus had been crafted into a killing ground in which the Blood Angels would fight and die alone or pledge their very souls to the Warmaster.

一经确认自己荣升战帅，大远征军队中对于自己的最终权力限制只剩下帝皇本人，荷鲁斯便获得了解决这些可怕威胁的最有效的武器。在战帅的军令和授权下，莱昂和绝大部分第一军团部队被派往帝国边境之外的区域，他们要在帝国讯息几乎传递不到的地方发起战争。莱昂 艾尔庄森与同胞兄弟们交际甚少，他几乎没有抱怨这项任务，而是接受了这项艰难的职责，仿佛这是他应有的责任，这给了荷鲁斯用于准备计划的时间。圣吉列斯和他的圣血天使们也同样从新上任的战帅处获得了前往帝国某个遥远角落的命令，他们不只是误入歧途，而是被战帅长期准备就绪的秘密所困。荷鲁斯试图让这位棘手的天使在那个无人能前去营救协助的星系屈服于自己，收买第九军团为自己的叛乱服务。西格纳斯星系已经被打造成了一片杀戮场，圣血天使们要么在那里孤独奋战并埋骨沙场，要么就把自己的所有灵魂贱卖给战帅。

Guilliman and the serried ranks of his Ultramarines were more troublesome, for they were such a force that they could not be dispatched to chase after some petty threat on the edges of space. Instead, the Warmaster's orders would bring them to a battlefield of Horus' choosing, the industrial stronghold of Calth at the borders of Ultramar itself. There, lured by the promise of glory and put at ease by the seal of the Warmaster, the Ultramarines would fall to treachery and deceit, their numbers decimated by those they had thought to be allies. Last of those to be led astray by the Warmaster and his subtle strategies was the Khan and his White Scars, though unlike the others Horus would seek not to kill his old friend but rather to keep him isolated at Chondax by his order until he could be convinced of the justice of Horus' cause. It would only be the interference of the Alpha Legion that would set these plans awry and spoil the carefully set snare that the Khan had been lured into.

基里曼和密集的极限战士部队则更为棘手，这股力量是如此庞大，以至于荷鲁斯不能派遣他们去解决边缘地区某些次要威胁。相反，战帅的命令会吧他们带往荷鲁斯选定的战场——位于奥特拉玛星区边境地带的工业要塞考斯世界。极限战士们被战帅“获取荣誉”的承诺诱骗至此，并对这份来自战帅的命令掉以轻心，他们将会惨遭背叛，那些被他们视为盟友的人将会屠杀摧毁第十三军团。可汗和白疤军团是最后一批将会被战帅和他的奸诈战略引入歧途的部队，但不同于其他人，荷鲁斯并未试图杀死自己的老友，而是利用自己的命令将他们孤立在Chondax星系，直到他们被说服，承认荷鲁斯行径的正义性。只不过阿尔法军团的干预将会导致这些计划横生枝节，破坏了荷鲁斯为了引诱可汗进入而精心设置的罗网。