HH5节译：命运的艏波、亚空间之瓶

The Bow Wave of Fate

命运的艏波

As the seas drain at the approach of a tsunami, so an event of such import as the betrayal of the Calth Conjunction was foreshadowed by numerous portents, few of which were noted at the time but which in retrospect are telling of its cataclysmic scale. Vox operators, for example, reported abnormal interference on a wide spectrum of channels, including distant chanting, eerie whispering and intermittent screams. Tragically, the Ultramarines had followed the Edict of Nikaea and relegated their Librarians to the line, and many of these individuals reponed later that they had experienced a range of inexplicable effects, including auditory and visual aberrations, and profound feelings of impending horror. Only in the aftermath of the Battle of Calth would the Ultramarines rescind the edict, in recognition of the manifest necessity of maintaining a cadre of warriors who could warn of the approach of such dire events.

就像海水会在海啸逼近时（后退）排空那样，在如同考斯集结地的背叛这般重大的事件发生之前，也会出现诸多预兆；虽然在当时，这些现象中只有极少数会被注意到，但当我们回想起来，便知晓其都说明了考斯事件的灾难性规模。例如，音频通讯器操作员们就报告称，某条广谱通信频道上出现了异常干扰，其中的杂音包括遥远的诵经声、诡异的低语声和断断续续的嚎叫声。但悲剧的是，极限战士们已经遵守了尼凯亚法令，将智库们全都左迁至前线部队；其中的很多人之后都回忆称，自己受到了一系列无法解释的影响，包括视觉听觉失常现象，以及对于恐怖事件即将发生的深切感觉。但直到考斯之战结束后，极限战士们才会废除法令，他们承认了保有一支智库队伍的明显必要性——后者能对此类可怕事件的到来发出警告。

The Warp Flasks

亚空间之瓶

For the duration of the Calth war, the Loyalist formations were plagued by an inability to communicate between themselves. The destruction of both key orbital and surface facilities in the opening stages of the attack had utterly destroyed the vox network that had once allowed instantaneous communication between Imperial units anywhere on the surface of Calth or even in high orbit. Short range lowband vox transmissions were garbled beyond recognition by the worsening solar interference and the bizarre interruption of distant chanting and sibilant whispers. Despite this, the Word Bearers seem to have maintained the cohesion of their forces, displaying few signs that they experienced the same problems which bedevilled the Ultramarines.

在考斯之战期间，忠诚派编队们饱受军团内部无法通讯这一问题的掣肘。在进攻的开始阶段，怀言者便破坏了（考斯）轨道与地表上的关键设施，此举彻底摧毁了（当地的）音频通讯网络——这套系统曾允许位于考斯地表，甚至是高空轨道上任意地点的帝国部队们之间进行即时通讯。而由于持续加剧的恒星（活动）干扰，以及遥远诵经声与嘶嘶低语声所造成的诡异中断，短距离低频段语音通讯也混乱到无法被辩识。但尽管如此，怀言者的部队似乎仍保持着连贯性，几乎没有迹象表明他们经历了困扰着极限战士的相同问题。

Artefacts recovered from Calth suggest they employed a device that operated by transmitting communications through the Warp, thus bypassing the interference which ruined more conventional communications devices. The few accounts of those artefacts recovered from the archives of the Word Bearers hint at their operation; most tellingly in fragments of almost ritualistic verse that speak of enslaved symbiotic warp entities and ritualistic psychic disciplines that predate the arrival of the Imperium on Colchis.

那些从考斯回收的制品表明：怀言者们使用了一种通过亚空间传输通讯信息的装置，由此避免了那种破坏传统通信设备的干扰。帝国从怀言者的档案库中回收了极少数关于此类制品的报告，这些资料暗示了其运作机能；最能说明问题的是某些近乎仪式性的诗歌片段，其中提及了被奴役的亚空间共生实体，以及仪式性的精神训练，这些内容起源于人类帝国到达科尔奇斯之前的岁月中。