hh8节译:战火九头蛇

The size and organisation of the Alpha Legion contingent assigned to the Chondax system remains difficult to fully confirm. The information provided by the Unbalanced Scales and other Imperium sources does not tally with the account of the White Scars present at that engagement, though it should also be noted that several of those White Scars who recorded their recollection of events have contradicted each other. Such is the nature of the Alpha Legion, given as they were to deception and trickery, that it is likely that much of the confusion was an intentional battle tactic. As such, the author has chosen to include a full listing of those forces recorded as in-system by all sources. Those assets that can only be confirmed by one of the many sources, and must therefore be considered potential errors, have been noted as such.

被派往Chondax星系的阿尔法军团部队的规模和组织仍旧难以完全确认。失衡天称号星舰和帝国其他资料来源提供的信息与参战的白疤军团阿斯塔特的证言并不一致。不过我们也应该注意：很多白疤战士对此次战役的回忆记录也是互相矛盾的。阿尔法军团天性如此，他们负责欺诈和欺骗，很可能大部分混乱是他们有意的战术策略。因此，作者选择包括所有来源的记录作为星系内双方军力的完整清单。有些参战的军事资源只能被众多资料来源中的某一项加以确认，因此我们必须认为它们是存在着潜在错误的，我们已经指出了这一点。（机仆：说白了，下文有些内容是孤证，未必符合真实战况）

Alpha Legion Fleet Assets: 

阿尔法军团舰队力量

The Alpha Legion fleet, which managed to deploy combat flotilla against multiple Legions in disparate sections of the galaxy and still maintain numerical superiority, has been shown to be vastly larger than any pre-Heresy estimates and had two distinct components at Chondax. The first of these was made up of several squadrons of small, fast destroyers. These squadrons interdicted all traffic bound for the Chondax system, and are assumed to have accounted for the destruction of over a dozen merchant craft as well as four Imperial cargo-arks, and a single Thousand Sons cruiser that escaped sanction during the assault on Prospero and sought sanctuary with the White Scars. These ships are thought to number no more than 100 vessels, all kept supplied by the Tenebrae stations and active from some point in early oo 1.M31.

阿尔法军团舰队设法在银河的不同区域部署战斗舰队来与多个军团对抗，而且他们仍然保有数量优势。阿尔法军团舰队规模已经被证明比大叛乱之前的任何估计都要大得多，他们在Chondax有两支不同的分遣舰队，第一支是由小型快速的驱逐舰们组成的多个中队构成的，她们拦截了所有前往Chondax星系的交通线，而且被认为要对超过十几艘的商船、四艘帝国货运舰以及一艘在普罗斯佩罗会战中逃过制裁并向白疤军团寻求庇护的千子军团巡洋舰的毁灭负责。我们认为这些驱逐舰的数量不超过100艘，所有这些舰船都由Tenebrae空间站提供补给，并从001.M31早期的某个时间点就开始行动了。

The second deployment was on a fleet scale, comprising at least 600 capital class craft and upwards of 1,000 smaller strike craft. This second fleet was intended as a last resort, and represents the first stage of the Alpha Legion's deviation from Horus' orders - for it was obviously formed with the intention of engaging and destroying the White Scars fleet in open void war. Assembled during the years which the White Scars spent on-campaign in Chondax, it is not believed to have been on-station until mid-006.M3i，at which point it took up a position in the neighbouring Angvor system. It must be noted that many accounts taken from those involved in the later combat at Chondax make plain that many of the ships fielded by the Alpha Legion were not dedicated combat vessels, but rather converted bulk haulers and other noncombat craft cleverly disguised and provided with minimal armaments. Other ships in use by the Alpha Legion, later destroyed in combat and analysed, have been positively identified as craft originally belonging to other Legions and listed as missing long before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy.

另一支分遣队则是舰队规模，由至少600艘主力级别的舰船和超过1000艘小型攻击舰船构成。这第二支舰队被作为最后的手段，而且代表着阿尔法军团偏离荷鲁斯命令的第一步——阿尔法军团组建这支舰队显然是为了在公开的虚空战中与白疤舰队交战并将其摧毁。这支舰队在白疤军团于Chondax星系中激战欧克兽人的那几年中集结起来，据信该舰队直到006.M31中期才开始上线运作，这时她们在邻近的angvor星系中占据了一个位置。必须指出的是，许多取自后续的Chondax战役参战者的证言明确表示：阿尔法军团部署的许多舰船并非专用的战舰，而是巧妙地掩盖了其改装痕迹的大型运输船和其他非战斗艇，并只装备了很少的武器。阿尔法军团使用的其他舰船在后续的战斗中被摧毁，经过分析，她们已经被确认原本属于其他军团，在荷鲁斯叛乱爆发很久之前，这些星舰就已经被列入失踪名单了。

Alpha Legion Assets: Compared to the vast naval deployment made in and around the Chondax system, the number of ground troops committed by the Alpha Legion is comparatively small. Based on combat reports from the few known surface encounters and the information contained in the Unbalanced Scales, the total number of Alpha Legionnaires present within the Chondax system is unlikely to have exceeded 30,000. For the most part, this strength was divided into far smaller strike groups, each tasked with monitoring part of the sprawling Chondax system, though two larger hidden outposts on the fourth moon of the cold gas giant Phemus and the world of Byfrust probably held larger reserve forces. In addition to these forces, there were also small garrison cadres aboard the Tenebrae stations, but these troops were not part of the larger battle within the Chondax system. However, records indicate that several of the Tenebrae stations are noted to have included a small number of Word Bearers among their garrison. These specialist troops appear to have been linked to the Alpha Legion's efforts to keep the system isolated from warp travel and communications.

相比于部署在Chondax星系内部和周边的的庞大海军力量，阿尔法军团派出的地面部队数量相对较少。根据少数已知地面遭遇战的战斗报告与失衡天秤号记录的信息，出现在Chondax星系内的阿尔法军团战士总数不太可能超过30000。大部分兵力都划分为了小得多的打击部队，每支打击部队都要负责监视庞大的Chondax星系的一部分。不过，在冰冷的气态巨星Phemus的第四颗卫星与Byfrust世界上还有两座隐藏起来的大型哨站，其中可能驻扎了更大规模的后备部队。除此之外，在Tenebrae空间站上还有少量的精锐驻军，只不过这些部队并非是Chondax 星系内部大规模战斗的一部分。但是，记录显示多个Tenebrae空间站的驻军部队被指出包含了少量怀言者军团战士。这些专业化部队似乎与阿尔法军团隔绝Chondax星系的亚空间航行与通讯的尝试有关。

Command and Control: Even with all of the resources now available to us in the wake of Horus' defeat, it is still unknown who commanded the Alpha Legion task force at Chondax. Some after-action reports by combat veterans of the incident have claimed that Alpharius himself was present, though these accounts are often contradictory, placing him in vastly different locations at the same time. Given the Alpha Legion Primarch's fondness for misdirection, and the diversionary nature of the encounter at Chondax, it is unlikely that the Primarch himself oversaw the combat. The only other insight available is the Unbalanced Scales, and that source of information must be considered to be of dubious provenance, which lists the commander at Chondax only by the pseudonym of“Desidero”, likely some internal cypher with meaning among the hierarchy of the Alpha Legion.

指挥与控制：虽然在荷鲁斯战败后我们调阅了目前所有可用的资料，但我们仍然不知道是谁在Chondax星系指挥了阿尔法军团的任务部队。某些参战老兵的战后报告声称阿尔法瑞斯本人当时在场，不过这些证言通常是相互矛盾的，结果就是阿尔法瑞斯在同一时间处于了完全不同的地方。考虑到阿尔法军团的原体喜好误导战术，已经Chondax遭遇战的牵制性质，原体本人不太可能监督这场战斗。唯一可用的其他见解是失衡天秤号（的记录），但我们也必须考虑到信息来源的可疑性，这份信息仅用化名“ 设计者”列出了参与Chondax战役的指挥官们，这些信息可能是一些内部密码，在阿尔法军团的指挥等级体系中具有意义。