hh8节译:迷失与弃绝之鹰

The withdrawal of Jaghatai Khan and his fleet from the Chondax system marks the end of the fighting there in most conventional records. Few scholars make any further reference to the Chondax system during the years of the Horus Heresy. Indeed, even today it is considered a desolate backwater of no strategic worth. However, there were small warbands of White Scars active within the system for a number of years after the withdrawal, far longer than most accounts acknowledge.
在大多数的传统记录中,察合台可汗与白疤舰队撤出Chondax星系标志着Chondax战役的结束。在荷鲁斯叛乱时期,几乎没有学者进一步提及Chondax星系。事实上,即便是在今天Chondax星系也被视为没有战略价值的偏僻荒凉落后的世界。然而,在白疤军团撤离后,仍有一个小型白疤战帮在星系中活动了很多年,远远超过大多数报告所承认的时间。

These stubborn bands of survivors were forced to turn to hit and run warfare, relying on their speed to keep them ahead of their pursuers. Most numbered little more than a few dozen warriors and were quickly reduced to scavenging the wreckage of past battles to remain combat capable, in many ways aping the tactics of the Orks they had hunted to extinction only a short time before. Most of these holdouts were exterminated by the Alpha Legion within a few short weeks, but a few lasted much longer.
这些顽强的幸存者战帮们被迫转向了游击战,依靠他们的速度来赶在追兵们前面。多数战帮仅有十几名战士,他们被迫搜寻之前战争的残骸来维持战斗能力,在很多方面他们都模仿了兽人的战术——就在不久之前白疤们还在狩猎歼灭后者。此类抵抗者中的多数都在短短几周中惨遭阿尔法军团的毁灭,但也有少数人坚持了很久。

The last such group of White Scars survivors to have been rescued from Chondax was discovered in 017.M31, ten long years after the Alpha Legion had abandoned the system, by a Raven Guard patrol cruiser seeking the trail of the Traitor fleets fleeing the failed Siege of Terra. Having been trapped on Irra Minor for a decade, the warriors of the Brotherhood of the Black Axe, led by Sengur One-arm, who was known to his troops as the Iron Khan due to the patchwork augmetics that sustained him, initially assumed the Raven Guard to be a hostile force. A long, solitary war against Alpha Legion headhunters, Dark Mechanicum hunter-killer servitors and foul apparitions of the Warp had made a virtue of paranoia. It was only after a short and abortive skirmish that the XIXth Legion warriors managed to convince them of their intent. Sengur Khan and his surviving eight warriors were invited to Terra by no less a personage than Rogal Dorn to receive honours for their valour, but they instead chose to return quietly to Chogoris without fanfare.
最后一个被从Chondax星系救出的白疤幸存者战帮被发现于017.M31——阿尔法军团遗弃Chondax星系十年之后,发现他们的是一艘巡逻中的暗鸦守卫巡洋舰,她正在寻找从失败的泰拉围城战中逃离的叛军舰队的踪迹。在已经被困在Irra Minor世界十年之后,黑色利斧兄弟会的战士们最初将暗鸦守卫视为了敌对力量。兄弟会的领袖是“独臂”僧格尔,他由于使用拼凑起来的仿生器官维持自己的生命而被他的部队称为“铁汗”(机仆:机械战汗…),对抗阿尔法军团猎头者、黑暗机械神教猎杀者机仆和亚空间腐坏恶灵的漫长且孤独的战争造就了他那偏执的优点。仅仅在一场短暂且未遂的小冲突之后,第十九军团的战士们就使白疤幸存者们确信了自己的意图(是追杀叛军)。一位不逊于罗格 多恩的要人(机仆:基里曼?)邀请僧格尔可汗和他麾下八位幸存的战士被邀请前往泰拉去接受表彰他们勇气的荣誉,但他们还是选择不举行任何隆重的仪式就悄悄返回了巧高利斯。
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