荷鲁斯叛乱典范战例：考斯地下战争
By mid 007.M31, the Ultramarines Legion was called to muster at Calth alongside the Word Bearers (XVIIth) Legion at the behest of Horus, seemingly to put to rest the long-held grudge that existed between them since the destruction of Monarchic. Unaware of the civil war already engulfing other parts of the Imperium, the Ultramarines were utterly unprepared for the sudden betrayal of the Word Bearers when Lorgar's sons turned the guns of their warships on the XIIIth Legion's anchored fleet and began its systematic destruction. just as in orbit, the mustering fields on the surface of Calth played host to a carefully planned and heinous campaign of betrayal and fratricide. Countless warriors of Ultramar, some of them veterans that had fought to expand the Imperium's borders since the early days of the Great Crusade, were mercilessly slaughtered where they stood by their erstwhile brothers. The Ultramarines and their Solar Auxilia allies suffered crippling losses at the opening stages of the Calth Atrocity, but eventually, the proud scions of Roboute Guillthlan overcame their shock and disbelief, rallied their forces and fought back. With countless already dead, the Word Bearers set in motion long-laid plans to murder the system's star and bring about the birth of the Ruinstorm.
在007.M31中期,在荷鲁斯命令下，极限战士军团被要求前往考斯世界与怀言者（第十七）军团进行会合，这似乎是为了平息完美之城毁灭事件后两者之间长期存在的积怨。极限战士们并未意识到内战已经席卷了帝国的其他部分，所以当珞珈的子嗣们将自己战舰的炮口转向第十三军团的锚定舰队，并对其进行系统性毁灭时，他们对于怀言者的背叛没有丝毫的防备。星球地表上的状况与轨道中的如出一辙，位于考斯地面上的集结场上爆发了一场精心策划且令人发指的战役：忠诚派们遭到背叛，星际战士们相互残杀。无数的奥特拉玛勇士们都被他们曾经的兄弟无情屠杀，横死当场，其中某些还是从大远征早期便（开始）为帝国英勇奋战开拓边疆的老兵。极限战士和他们的太阳军盟友在考斯暴行的开始阶段遭受了极其严重的损失，但罗伯特 基里曼的高傲子嗣们最终还是克服了惊愕与（自我）怀疑，集结起部队并进行反击。随着无数人死亡，怀言者也执行了他们蓄谋已久的计划：毁灭这个星系的恒星，并且创造出毁灭风暴。
The Veridia star was poisoned through occult rituals of cosmic significance and ravaged by a sustained bombardment from the captured guns of Calth's orbital weapons grid, causing devastating solar flares that reduced the planet's cities to radiation-bathed ruins and ash.
怀言者们通过（具有）重大意义的神秘仪式毒害了Veridia星系的恒星，并且用被俘的考斯轨道武器网络蹂躏了它，由此造成了毁灭性的太阳耀斑，令星球上的城市们化为了遍地辐射的废墟和灰烬。
So lethal was the fell light of the star of Veridia that even the genetically enhanced warriors of the Legiones Astartes were forced to seek shelter. Within days of fleeing the surface, the fighting moved to Calth's underworld, where the surviving forces of the two Legions that were stranded on the planet continued their internecine war. With billions of lives having been lost in the opening attacks, the Ultramarines evacuated the surviving civilians to Calth's subterranean arcologies in an effort to provide some shelter from the jaws of total catastrophe.
Veridia爆发出的恶毒光芒是如此致命，以至于接受过基因强化的阿斯塔特军团战士都要被迫寻找庇护所。在逃离地表的过程中，战斗（区域）也转入到了考斯的地下世界，被困在这颗星球上的两支军团的幸存部队也继续着他们间的相互厮杀。开始阶段的进攻已经造成数以亿计的死亡，（所以）极限战士们将幸存的平民疏散到了考斯地下的生态建筑群，试图为其提供一些躲避全面灾难的庇护所。
Brutalised by the rad-storms they themselves created, the Word Bearers too sought refuge beneath the surface, butchering any Imperial defenders they came upon and taking over several of the arcologies. From these conquered underworld strongholds the predatory hosts of the XVIlth Legion, cut off from the main body of the Shadow Crusade, ventured forth to scavenge essential supplies for the ongoing conflict and to raise dark shrines to their hungry gods. Countless atrocities took place in the months following the devastation of Calth's surface, not least the desecration of the Uranik arcology and the ritual sacrifice of its defenders by Legionaries belonging to the Graven Star Chapter of Captain Hol Beloth, or the destruction of CV427Praxor and the three hundred thousand souls it sheltered, burnt to ash alongside the cultist infiltrators who detonated atomantic devices stolen from Ultramarines Legion armouries within the arcology.
怀言者们同样被自己所造成的辐射风暴残忍相待，他们也在地表下方寻找着避难所，屠杀掉遇到的所有帝国守军，并占领几座生态建筑。在这些被征服的地下世界据点中，掠夺成性的第十七军团部队被切断了与暗影远征主力部队的联系，他们冒险离开栖身之处去寻找补给品，用于进行冲突战争和搭建供奉饥渴诸神的黑暗神庙。在考斯地表被毁灭后的几个月中，地下世界也发生了无数暴行，尤其是来自不灭铁星战团的连长——霍尔 贝洛斯率领麾下的军团战士们对乌兰尼克生态城进行的亵渎，他们将当地守军仪式性地献祭；或者是对于CV427 普拉克索尔生态城的毁灭——混沌邪教徒渗透进入了这座建筑，引爆了盗取自极限战士军团武库的原子炸弹，将自己和在这里避难的三十万人烧成灰烬。
One such location that stands out in Imperial records amongst the myriad disasters that befell Calth was that of the Auroran arcology. Auroran is noted as the rallying point for the shattered remnants of the Ultramarines' 547th Company, led there by Consul-Chaplain Ankarion, and shelter to two hundred thousand civilians. Amidst the chaos and confusion caused by the surge of enemy incursions following the retreat from the surface, the XIIIth Legion Calth central command lost contact with the Auroran arcology, soon after receiving a fragmentary vox signal requesting immediate assistance. The transmission bore Ultramarines Legion encryption codes of the highest priority, and so the task of investigating the incident fell to a force vastly unsuited to mount a search and rescue operation: Captain Valius Thesian and the 4th Destroyer Company of the 22nd 'Nemesis' Chapter. Known for their extensive use of volatile and hazardous weaponry, the Nemesis Chapter was deliberately mustered in isolation far from Catch's centres of population, and as such they were spared the catastrophic losses suffered by the majority of their Legion during the opening stages of the conflict. In the aftermath of the Word Bearers' betrayal, the 4th Destroyer Company had fallen back to occupy a series of subterranean bunkers scattered beneath the ruins of what was once the Aesperia Praefecture. Unfit for the role of saviour though they were, the Destroyers often shunned and deemed somehow tainted by their brethren because of the dark arsenal of forbidden weapons they employed in battle, they were the only sizable concentration of force the Ultramarines Legion could muster near the Auroran arcology. Captain Thesian swiftly mobilised his Legionaries when the call came to establish contact with the lost 547th, and soon several hundred ebon-armoured Ultramarines passed through the reinforced gates of the Auroran arcology and advanced towards their designated targets, armed and arrayed more for open battle than for a mission of mercy.
无数劫难从此类区域降临到了考斯，其中之一便是奥罗兰生态城，它在帝国记录中脱颖而出。奥罗兰被记录为极限战士第547连队破碎残军的集结点，领导他们的是军团牧师——安卡里昂，此地还为二十万名平民提供了避难所。在从地表撤退之后，敌人入侵的激增造成了混乱不安局面，第十三军团的考斯中央指挥部失去了与奥罗兰生态城的联系，但不久之后他们收到了（此地）要求立即援助的碎片化音频信号。传输这份信息使用的是极限战士军团中优先级最高的加密代码，所以调查这一事件的任务落到了一支极其不适合执行搜救任务的部队肩上——瓦里乌斯 瑟希安连长和来自第22战团“复仇女神”的第4毁灭者连队。复仇女神战团因大量使用不稳定且危险的武器而著称，所以他们被特意集结在远离考斯人口中心的隔离区，但他们也因此而躲过军团大部分成员在战役开始阶段所遭受的灾难性损失。在遭受到怀言者的背叛之后，第4毁灭者连队撤退到了地下，占领了分散在曾为阿斯佩里亚行省的废墟群下方一系列地下碉堡。虽然他们并不适合承担救援任务——由于他们在战斗中使用黑暗武库中的禁忌武器，毁灭者通常被他们的兄弟回避，并后者视为有某种污点；但第4毁灭者连队是唯一能够在奥罗兰生态城附近集结起来的规模可观的极限战士部队。当接到要求他们前去和失踪的第547连队建立联系的命令之后，瑟希安连长迅速动员起麾下的军团战士们，不久后数百名身穿黑色动力甲的极限战士们便穿过了奥罗兰生态城加固过的大门，朝着他们被指定的目标前进，他们全副武装且队列整齐，与其说是去执行仁慈的救援任务，不如说是去进行公开战斗。
Fifty groups, each numbering up to thirty Space Marines, supported by talons of Contemptor Dreadnoughts were individually assigned a different vital objective; from securing air filtration centres and power generator hubs to scouting missions that would range ahead of the main relief force to seek out survivors or signs of the 547th Company. The cavernous subterranean chambers of the arcology were filled with the detritus of halted construction operations, upturned earth-moving machines, bulk crawlers and deactivated drilling engines. The ground was littered with the corpses of Pioneer Auxilia labourers, exhibiting extreme and unnatural degrees of decomposition, the rictus grin of their rotting skulls leering from inside the cracked visors of their environment suits as maggots and centipedes crawled out of their empty eye sockets. A foul stench surrounded the corpses, a putrid miasma that somehow managed to penetrate even the air filters of the Destroyers' sealed power armour. The equipment throughout the tunnels and chambers of the site bore signs of similar degradation; extreme corrosion and decay that should have been the results of decades of abandonment, not days.
搜救部队被分为五十个行动组，每组最多有三十名星际战士，而且有蔑视者无畏机甲分队为其提供支援；每个行动组都被独立指派了不同的重要任务，从确认空气过滤中心和动力发电中心的安全，到前往救援主力部队前方去寻找幸存者和第547连队信号的侦查任务，不一而足。生态城洞穴般巨大的地下坑洞中堆满了施工作业停止前挖出的碎石、翻倒的挖土机、体积庞大的履带车和失效的钻探引擎；辅助军拓荒劳工们的尸体横七竖八地倒在地上，而且尸体展现出了极端且非自然程度的分解现象：腐烂的颅骨露出狞笑，从环境服破裂的面罩里斜睨着来人，同时蛆虫和蜈蚣从空洞的眼眶里爬出来。尸体上弥漫着一股腐坏的恶臭，而且这股腐臭的瘴气甚至以某种方式穿透了毁灭者们密封式动力甲的空气过滤机。坑道和坑洞里的设备都有类似的劣化迹象；其上出现的极端侵蚀和腐朽状况应当是数十年而非数天的结果。
There, in a place reminiscent of some hell of Ancient Terran myth, the Ultramarines Legion met their hated foe. Across the many chambers and halls of the Auroran arcology, hundreds of Word Bearers rose from concealed positions amongst abandoned engines and stacks of armoured containers to open fire with bolters and heavy weapons, scything down the front ranks of the advancing Ultramarines. The Nemesis Destroyers recovered quickly and returned fire, bracketing the enemy positions with volleys of rad missiles, phosphex bombs and heavy bolter shells without breaking their advance. Volkite energy beams lanced from the double-barrelled culverins mounted on the arms of the Ultramarines Contemptors, melting away armour and burning flesh to the bone. With little hope of maintaining a defensive position in the face of such devastating firepower, the Word Bearers sacrificed the advantage of cover and charged the Ultramarines in a howling rush.
在这片令人们回想起古代泰拉神话中的某些地狱的场景中，极限战士军团遇到了他们痛恨的敌人。在奥罗兰生态城的诸多坑洞和走廊中，数百名怀言者军团战士从废弃的引擎和成堆的装甲集装箱之间的隐蔽位置站起身来，用爆弹枪和重武器开火射击，扫倒了前排行进中的极限战士。复仇女神毁灭者们快速恢复战斗状态并开火还击，他们并未停止前进，而且用辐射导弹、磷火炸弹与重爆弹的齐射覆盖了敌军阵地。安装在极限战士无畏机甲臂部的双管长炮射出的爆燃能量光束熔穿了怀言者的动力甲，烧化皮肉露出骨骼。面对如此毁灭性的火力，怀言者们几乎无望守住防御阵地，他们放弃了掩体的优势，咆哮着冲向了极限战士们。
These sons of Lorgar bore little resemblance to the warriors that the Ultramarines had faced during the opening stages of the Calth Atrocity. Their power armour had mutated to resemble bloody, sinewy flesh and bony protrusions had erupted from the ceramite, as much a part of the body beneath as they were grisly additions to the plate itself. Among the ranks of the Word Bearers, stranger silhouettes lurked — hulking Legionaries who had devolved into nightmarish creatures that barely resembled their original form, their hands transformed into vicious claws and their jaws distended into slavering, fang-filled maws. Dozens of Word Bearers were cut down as they broke from their positions of concealment but the rest swiftly closed the distance separating them from the Ultramarines. Reacting swiftly to their enemy's sudden assault, the Nemesis Destroyers unleashed a volley of rad grenades before pulling their own close combat weapons, meeting their enemy blade to claw. The subterranean realm was filled with a rad storm no less potent than that which ravaged the surface, as Nemesis Destroyers and Word Bearers clashed in bitter, unremitting combat. The taint of the Warp was heavy upon the scions of Lorgar, and where they fought, formless things of grasping arms and gaping mouths erupted from the ground and walls to attack the warriors of Ultramar. Viciously hooked axes and hideously mutated talons clashed against revving chainswords and artisan-made gladius blades as ghostly laughter echoed through the halls of the Auroran arcology. The XIIlth Legion vox band was flooded with a blizzard of static signals interspersed with the primal howls of otherworldly beasts, while warriors were swallowed whole by unnatural clouds of hellish light and shadow. Amongst the horrors that accompanied the twisted Legionaries of the Word Bearers, the Ultramarines caught sight of cadaverous creatures wearing the shattered remnants of power armour that unmistakably bore the colours and crests of their own Legion. The creatures' dead eyes burned with the ethereal flames of the Empyrean and their flesh hung loose in the places where their armour was missing, bloated and bruised like that of a drowned corpse. Puppeted by some hideous sorcery, the lost brothers of the 547th Company came forth in a shambling horde to slay their gene-kin.
这些珞珈子嗣们与极限战士在考斯暴行开始阶段所面对的那些第十七军团战士几乎相似之处。他们的动力甲变异成了类似血淋淋的强健肉体的事物，骨质凸起物从陶钢板中突出——板甲上这些可怕的附着物就像是星际战士躯体的一部分。在怀言者的部队中，还潜伏着某些更为怪异的剪影——那些身形庞大的军团战士已经堕落为了噩梦般的生物，其现在形体相比于过去几乎就是面目全非，他们的双手转变为凶恶的利爪，下巴扩张为满是尖牙流着唾液的巨口。有数十名怀言者在冲出隐蔽处时被击倒，但其余的却迅速地缩短了自己和极限战士间的距离。对于敌军的突然进攻，复仇女神毁灭者们也迅速做出回应：他们齐射了一波辐射榴弹，之后便抽出了自己的近战武器，与敌军利刃相对。现在这片地下区域中充满了辐射风暴，其强度不亚于在地表肆虐的那些辐射流，同时复仇女神毁灭者和怀言者陷入了一场苦涩且接连不断的鏖战。珞珈子嗣们身上的亚空间污浊极为浓重，在他们交战的区域里，握着武器、张着巨口的不定形事物从墙壁和地面上突然扑出，袭击着奥特拉玛的战士们。凶残的钩斧和可怕的变异魔爪碰撞着快速旋转的链锯剑和手工制作的短剑，同时幽灵般的笑声回荡在奥罗兰生态城的大厅间。第十三军团部队的通讯频段涌入了一阵暴风雪般的静电信号，其中还夹杂着来自另一个世界的野兽的原始嚎叫，同时地狱般的光影所构成的超自然云团将星际战士们整个吞没。在这些与扭曲的怀言者军团战士们共同参战的恐怖之物中，极限战士们看到了一些如尸体般苍白枯槁的生物：他们穿着动力甲的破碎残骸，其上的纹章和配色毫无疑问是属于极限战士军团。这些生物的死人眼睛中燃烧着至高天的以太烈焰，皮肉从他们身上失去动力甲的部位松弛地垂下来，如同溺亡的尸体那般肿胀和带着淤伤。在某种可怕巫术的操纵下，第547连死去的兄弟们成为了蹒跚的尸群，他们走上前来想要杀死自己的基因亲族。
Caught in a sudden tempest of warp-born nightmares, the Ultramarines' legendary coordination was stretched to breaking point across the arcology, with some battlegroups attempting to advance into contact with the enemy just as others were falling back from ambush to regroup. Captain Thesian's unit formed the anchor of the Ultramarines' battle lines, with Thesian himself fighting at the forefront of the fiend-haunted chambers, but he could only intervene at one point at a time and several of the Ultramarines battlegroups were isolated and destroyed. Three squads of Nemesis Destroyers fought alongside their Captain, laying down a withering hail of bolter shells that kept their foes at bay. Those who ran out of ammunition mag-locked their bolters onto their armour and drew chainswords and combat blades to dispatch any foe that penetrated their units' interlocking fire. Honoured-ancients Andronicus and Dorian advanced steadily behind their kindred, the two Contemptor Dreadnoughts reducing Word Bearers and warp creatures alike into chunks of meat and ceramite with an unrelenting stream of high calibre shells from their Kheres-pattern assault cannons. Thesian's battlegroup moved steadily upon what had once been the Legion command strategium in the Auroran arcology, coordinating with their scattered forces as best they could. The remaining Ultramarines battlegroups abandoned their original objectives and began converging on their Captain’s position.
在遭到这群诞生自亚空间的梦魇的风暴般突然袭击后，极限战士们传奇般的协作能力在整个生态城中被绷紧到了极点，一些战斗群试图前进到战区与敌人接战，其他的则从埋伏中撤退以进行重整。瑟希安连长的战斗组成为了极限战士战线的精神支柱，连长本人奋战在坑洞中恶魔出没的最前线，但他一次也只能干预影响到一个点的战斗，数个极限战士战斗组遭到孤立和毁灭。三支复仇女神毁灭者小队与他们的连长并肩战斗，他们发射出毁灭性的冰雹般（密集的）爆矢弹以阻止敌人。耗尽弹药的战士们用磁力锁将爆弹枪挂在身上，他们拔出链锯剑和战斗刀，杀死所有进入其部队连锁火力（范围）的敌人。荣耀古战士安德鲁尼库斯和多里安跟在亲族兄弟们身后稳步前进，这两台蔑视者无畏机甲用克瑞斯型突击炮连续射出大口径子弹，让怀言者和亚空间生物化为碎肉和陶钢碎块。瑟希安的战斗组在这片曾是极限战士军团位于奥罗兰生态城的指挥战情室的区域中稳步推进，尽可能与他们分散的部队配合作战。剩余的极限战士战斗组们也都放弃了初始目标，开始向连长的位置靠拢。
After hours of brutal fighting, the Ultramarines' spearhead reached what had once been the headquarters of the 547th Company. The walls of adamantium and marble adorned with the icons of the Imperium and Ultramar had been torn down and in their place stood a temple of the damned, a fane that was the epicentre for all the corruption spreading through the Auroran arcology. Gilded pillars that had carried the proud banners of Imperial conquest now bore savagely cut sigils that caused nauseating pain to those who looked upon them. The crucified bodies of Ultramarines were arrayed around an enormous totem of bones in the shape of an eight-pointed star. Before a gathering of misshapen mutant creatures stood Consul-Chaplain Ankarion of the 547th Company bearing a spear of glistening obsidian. The azure-blue that once marked him out as a warrior of the Ultramarines was replaced with a shimmering crimson and his helmet was an indistinguishable mass of eyes, fanged mouths and curving horns. The fallen Chaplain was surrounded by a throng of monstrous Word Bearers Legionaries whose crimson armour was freshly daubed with the blood of Guilliman's sons. As their eyes fell upon the approaching Loyalists, the Word Bearers and nightmare creatures, led by the fallen Ultramarines Chaplain, bellowed a challenge in ancient Colchisian and charged.
在经过数个小时的残酷战斗后，极限战士的矛头部队抵达了曾是第547连队（指挥）总部的区域。此处原本有精金与大理石建成的护墙，其上还装饰着帝国与奥特拉玛的圣符，但这些墙壁现在已经被拆毁了。其曾经所在的位置上耸立起了一座被诅咒的圣堂——所有腐化都是以这座神庙为中心点散播到奥罗兰生态城各处的。帝国征服者们自豪的战旗被从镀金的柱子上扯下，现在取而代之的是野蛮切刻而出的标记——看着它们会令人感到作呕的痛苦。围绕着一个巨大的白骨图腾，受过凌虐的极限战士尸体被按照八芒星的形状进行排列。一人手执闪闪发光的黑曜石长矛，站在一群畸形的变异生物面前——他正是第547连队的牧师：安卡里昂。动力甲上曾经表明他极限战士身份的天蓝色现在被替换为了微微发亮的猩红色，头盔则变为了一堆眼睛、长着尖牙的嘴和弯曲的角所构成的难以辩识的混杂物。堕落的牧师身边围着一群怪物般（可怕）的怀言者军团战士，后者猩红色的动力甲上新涂抹了基里曼子嗣们的鲜血。当他们的目光落在逼近自己的效忠者身上时，在堕落的极限战士牧师的带领下，怀言者们和噩梦般的生物们用古老的科尔奇斯语咆哮着发起挑战，并发起了冲锋。
The Ultramarines had already fought through a seemingly unending sea of terrors and now, at the end, they had discovered that the one responsible for the death of their brethren and the corruption of this subterranean realm was one of their own. Abandoning the measured and tactical approach to warfare their Legion was famed for, the Nemesis Destroyers broke into a charge themselves. Honour demanded that the foe was met head-on, the enemy's blood spilt by Ultramarines blades face to face; only this could expunge the stain of blackest treachery. The two forces crashed against each other with the war cries of their respective Legions on their lips; noble words uttered in defiance of the unhallowed screaming of the damned mixed with the thunder of bolters and the howls of chainswords as they bit deep into armour and flesh. Shapeless creatures slammed into the Ultramarines ranks, bearing the Destroyers to the ground where they tore them apart in a vicious frenzy. Viscous darkness slithered over the floors, stretched and swelled across walls and loomed down from the cavern roof, plucking Ultramarines from the ground and dragging them into the centre of its growing mass.
极限战士们一路鏖战，穿过了看似无尽的恐怖之海，而现在他们终于发现：原来要为自己兄弟的死亡以及地下王国遭受的腐化所负责的人就（曾）是他们当中的一员。复仇女神毁灭者们放弃极限战士军团以慎重和战术而著称的战争方式，他们也自行发起了冲锋。荣誉要求极限战士们与敌人正面交锋，他们要手持利刃，面对面地放干叛徒们的血；唯有以此才能抹去这种最黑暗的背叛所造成的污点。两支部队碰撞在了一起，双方都在高喊着各自军团的战吼；勇士们无视被诅咒者亵渎的嚎叫，呼出高尚的言辞，爆弹枪发出雷霆般的轰鸣，链锯剑汹汹咆哮，武器击穿动力甲，撕入人体深处；人声与武器的声响混合到了一起。不定形的生物猛冲进极限战士的队伍，将毁灭者们推倒在地，以恶毒的狂暴撕碎他们。粘稠的黑暗在地板上蔓延，在墙壁上延伸和膨胀，从洞穴顶部逼向下方，它将极限战士们从地面上拽起，拖入到自己那质量在不断增长的中心部位。
Amidst the chaos of the brutal melee, Thesian confronted Ankarion, swinging his relic blade two-handed in a savage downwards blow that was blocked by the traitor's spear. Ankarion's return strike impaled Thesian through the chest, the obsidian spear splitting the golden winged Ultima on the Captain's breastplate and erupting from his back. As if sensing the mortal wounding of the Ultramarines Captain, the dark intensity surrounding the totem's aurora shone brighter and began tearing ragged holes in the fabric of realspace; breaches from which tendrils of cyclopean creatures sought to break into this dimension. Ankarion lifted his transfixed foe high upon his spear, savouring the taste of victory.In a moment of desperate rage, Thesian pushed his failing body to one last act of vengeance. With agonising effort, the loyal son of Guilliman pulled the spear's haft through his sundered chest, and with a roar of defiance, stabbed the traitor through the throat with his relic gladius. Before the Chaplain could react, Thesian pulled a melts bomb from his belt and pressed it against Ankarion's chest, activating the device and embracing his fallen brother in death.
在这场残酷的混战中，瑟希安直面对抗这安卡里昂。连长双手持握着圣物剑，向下挥出野蛮的一击，却被叛徒的长矛格挡住。安卡里昂的还击则刺穿了瑟希安的胸膛，黑耀石长矛从连长胸甲上金色有翼极限战士纹章处刺入，然后从他背后穿出。仿佛是感知到了极限战士连长所遭受的致命伤，白骨图腾上的极光变得更为黑暗，并且开始在现实宇宙的结构上撕开破洞；状如独眼巨人生物的触手从缺口伸出，试图闯入这个维度。安卡里昂用长矛将被刺穿的敌人挑到高处，享受着胜利的滋味。在绝望的愤怒中，瑟希安迫使自己衰弱的身体去完成最后的复仇之举。这位基里曼的忠诚子嗣痛苦地发力，让矛柄穿过了自己支离破碎的胸膛，他发出一声抗争的怒吼，用自己的圣物短剑刺入了叛徒的喉咙。在牧师能够做出反应之前，瑟希安就从自己的腰带上拽下了一枚热熔炸弹，按在了安卡里昂的胸口；他激活了爆炸装置，并在死亡时抱缚住了自己堕落的兄弟。
The two warriors were consumed utterly in a blast of thermal energy that rendered ceramite, flesh and bone to ashes. As Ankarion disintegrated, the aurora around the totem disappeared and the tears in real-space began to weaken and fade away. The Nemesis Destroyers fought on, and though only one in ten of their original number remained, they were enough to hold the line. Against other Legionaries the warp-born horrors might have prevailed but the warriors of the Nemesis Chapter were a breed apart from their brother Ultramarines. These sons of Guilliman fought with a fury born of bitterness, and a disregard for survival that stemmed from the certainty of their own demise, for they already knew well that it was a death sentence to wield the pernicious arsenal of the Nemesis Chapter. Hordes of nightmare-creatures assailed them but the Destroyers kept them at bay with unrelenting volleys of bolter fire, the deadly them-agents and toxins within their shells quickly adapting to the strange genetic makeup of their warp-infused targets and dissolving them from within. When their ammunition ran dry, the Ultramarines switched to their chainswords and hacked at tainted flesh until their scalded armour was covered with blood and ichor. Honoured-ancient Andronicus went on a wild rampage when his brother Contemptor Dorian fell, tearing Word Bearers abominations apart with his crackling power claws, and is recorded to have been the one to fell the profane bone icon that syphoned the aetheric energies into the Auroran arcology. With the destruction of the totem, the misshapen creatures began dissolving into formless puddles of primordial ooze and the remaining warp-possessed Ultramarines collapsed to the ground, the strings of their esoteric puppeteers cut. Upon the death of the last Word Bearer and the battle's conclusion, Destroyer Veteran Sergeant Cassian took command of the remaining Ultramarines forces and proceeded to direct the withdrawal of his surviving men.
能将陶钢、血肉和骨骼化为灰烬的高热能量爆炸彻底焚化了两名战士。随着安卡里昂粉身碎骨，图腾周围的极光也消失了，现实宇宙中被撕开的裂口也开始变弱并渐渐消失。复仇女神毁灭者们仍在奋战，尽管他们现在的数量只剩下了最初人数的十分之一，但他们仍足以控制住阵线。在与其他军团战士交锋时，这些诞生自亚空间的恐惧生物可能会占上风，但复仇女神毁灭者与他们的极限战士兄弟们截然不同。这是基里曼的子嗣们是带着生于痛苦的怒火在作战，他们对生存的漠视源于对自身死亡的确信，因为他们早就明白：使用复仇女神战团险恶的武器库就是被宣判了死刑。噩梦般的生物向他们成群袭来，但毁灭者们用爆弹枪的不断齐射阻挡着它们，爆矢弹内致命的化学制剂和毒素迅速适应了这些受到亚空间影响的目标的奇怪基因组成，将之从内部溶解。当弹药耗尽时，极限战士们便换用链锯剑，劈砍敌人污秽的血肉，直到他们被烫焦的动力甲上沾满鲜血和脓液。蔑视者无畏多里安倒下了，荣耀古战士安东尼库斯则还在敌群中狂野地横冲直撞，用自己噼啪闪烁着力场的动力爪撕碎怀言者恶物。根据记载，正是安东尼库斯击倒了那个将以太能量吸入奥罗兰生态城的亵渎白骨纹章。随着图腾被毁灭，那些畸形的生物开始溶解为不定形的原始淤泥，剩余的那些遭到亚空间控制的极限战士（活尸）们也倒在了地上——他们背后神秘操纵者的控制线被切断了。当杀死最后一名怀言者并结束战斗时，老兵士官卡西安接手了剩余极限战士部队的指挥权，他继续指挥幸存的战士们撤退。
No concrete narrative of the concluding horror of the battle's final hours can be given as extant records of the events are fragmentary, incomplete and often unreliable. Of the thousands of civilians who took shelter within the halls of the Auroran arcology no further records exist, and no eye-witnesses have come forth to speak of those events, but it is widely assumed that they perished in their entirety at the hands of the traitorous Word Bearers. The only fact that is known is that atomantic bombs were later brought into the Auroran arcology by the Ultramarines, who detonated the devices remotely upon their departure. The resulting blast annihilated the entire site in a nuclear firestorm that ensured the taint of the Empyrean would not spread further. It would be many years before the Underworld War on Calth would be won, but the Nemesis Destroyers would go on to play a major role in numerous conflicts of the Age of Darkness. Even though the fierce losses suffered by the Nemesis Chapter on the soil of Calth would eventually be replenished, the wounds in the souls of its warriors would never fully heal, leaving them as grim shadows of their former selves.
关于这场战斗最后几个小时的恐怖结局，并没有任何具体的叙述文件，因为现存的记录都是支离破碎、不完整也通常是不可靠的。关于躲在奥罗兰生态城走廊中避难的数千名平民，也并不存在进一步的记录，而且也没有目击者站出来讲述这些事件，不过人们普遍推测：这些人们已经全部死于怀言者叛军之手。我们可知的唯一事实是：极限战士们之后将原子炸弹运往了奥罗兰生态城，他们在离开后远程引爆了炸弹。之后爆炸所产生的核火焰风暴中摧毁了整个地区，确保了至高天的污染不会进一步蔓延。考斯的地下战争在很多年之后才会胜利，但复仇女神毁灭者们将继续在黑暗年代的众多冲突中扮演重要角色。尽管复仇女神战团在考斯的沙地上遭受的严重损失最终会得到弥补，但这些战士们灵魂中的伤口永远都不会完全愈合，这让他们成为了过往自身的残酷阴影。
