hh7节译:猎鹰教派之死

The temple-arcologies of Prospero's principal psyker Cults were among the primary objectives of any invasion of Tizca, for they served both as the headquarters for the various branches of the Thousand Sons hierarchy as well as the most fortified strongholds in that great city. Each of these structures encompassed training halls, barracks and armouries for a full Fellowship as well as housing and other facilities for several thousand thralls and dependents, all within a relatively small footprint due to the complex internal construction and layered sub-levels. With deeply sunk internal generators and extensive hydroponic facilities, they were also close to self-sufficient and in the event of a siege could likely last for years without outside aid, a fact the Censure Host's planners were well aware of. As such, each of these fortresses would need to be taken by storm as early as possible in order to avoid a protracted and costly siege.

在对于提兹卡城的所有入侵行动中，属于普罗斯佩罗主要灵能者学派的神庙生态建筑体都位列首要目标当中——因为这些建筑即是千子军团等级体系中各分支的总部，也是这座巨大城市中防御最为精良的据点。这些结构体当中的每一座都包含了训练大厅、属于一整个学会的军营和武库、以及供数千名奴仆及其家属使用的住房和其他设施，不过这些建筑有复杂的内部结构和分层的子楼层，所有这些都位于一个占地面积相对较小的空间内。这些建筑里配备了沉入地下深处的内置发电机和大量水培设施，它们近乎自给自足，在被围困时也可能在没有外界援助的情况维持数年之久。惩戒部队很清楚这一事实，所以他们将会需要尽快以风暴般的猛烈攻势攻占这些要塞中的每一座，以避免卷入一场旷日持久的消耗性攻城战。

However, on arrival at Prospero a more brutally direct strategy was made available, one dictated by an unexpected twist in the defence of the planet—the absence of the Thousand Sons fleet. Considered a significant threat to the Censure Host, the massed void craft of the Thousand Sons fleet had been another focus of contingency planning, with the fleet possessing a number of assets intended purely to combat it. Yet on arrival at Prospero, the fleet was not to be found and those assets sat unused, including several squadrons of fully equipped Caestus Assault Rams. These craft, designed to pierce the armoured hulls of void craft and disgorge Legiones Astartes warriors into their vulnerable interiors, were ill-suited to atmospheric operations or ground attack roles, and had originally been disregarded by the distant strategists of Terra in such actions. Yet, in the immediacy of the battle for Prospero, the Space Wolves showed little hesitancy in co-opting the unused craft for a new mission: the assault on the temple-arcologies. 

但是一经抵达普洛斯彼罗，惩戒部队发现他们可以采用一种更残酷的直接战略，这是由星球防御中一个未被预料到的变故决定的——千子军团舰队的缺席。惩戒部队曾将千子军团舰队聚集起来的虚空舰船视为一个重要威胁，将之列为意外事件（应急）计划中的另一个关注点——这支舰队拥有大量完全用于对抗他们的装备。但当惩戒部队抵达普罗斯佩罗时，千子军团舰队并未被发现，那些装备也未被使用，其中包括数个中队装备完整的拳套突击艇。这些突击艇是被设计用于穿透虚空舰船的装甲船体，并在其脆弱的内部放出大量阿斯塔特军团战士，它们并不适合进行大气层内部作战或地面攻击，那些身处遥远泰拉的战略家们最初都在此类行动中忽视了这种装备。然而，在普罗斯佩罗之战的迫切性的驱使下，太空野狼毫不犹豫地选择这些未被使用的飞船去执行一项新任务:对于神庙生态建筑体的突袭行动。

In total, over fifty Caestus Assault Rams were deployed in three squadrons, targeting those temple-arcologies in the direct path of the Censure Host, those of the Athanaen,Raptora and Corvidae Cults.Of these assaults the most dramatic was that made upon the Raptora Cult, for the razor edge of the 'kine' shields that protected its armoured flanks tore apart almost all of the aircraft assigned to the attack, releasing a shower of grey- armoured corpses upon the battlefield below. Only two of the craft survived to impact the upper levels of the temple-areology, releasing over a dozen of the Black Cull into the structure. Their numbers insufficient to affect a full assault, the warriors of that dour cult separated into smaller teams and attempted to fight their way to the more vulnerable systems of the arcology to set off the phosphex charges they carried. Of their exact fate little is known for none survived the assault, but during the ferocious fighting at the foot of the areology, three separate internal explosions that served to debilitate the structured defences were recorded by those fighting outside.

总计超过五十架次的拳套突击艇被部署到了三个中队，它们的目标是那些位于惩戒部队直接路径上的神庙生态建筑体——属于天枭、猎鹰和黑鸦学派的要塞。对于猎鹰学派的突袭是这些行动中最具戏剧性的：保护要塞装甲侧面的“雌牛”型护盾的剃刀状边缘撕开了几乎所有被指派到这场进攻中的突击艇，大量身穿灰色动力甲的尸体掉落在下方的战场上。只有两艘突击艇幸存下来，撞入了神庙生态建筑体的上方楼层，向结构体中放出了超过十二名黑色屠宰手（机仆：太空野狼内部对于死誓群狼的称呼）。他们的数量不足以发动一场全面进攻，这些来自阴郁教派的战士们分散成了规模更小的团队，他们试图杀出一条前往生态城更为脆弱系统的通路，以引爆他们携带的磷火炸弹。由于无人从这次突袭行动中生还，所以我们几乎不知道这些战士们的确切命运。但那些在生态城外侧作战的战士们的（作战）记录表明：在双方于生态城脚下进行激战时，三次独立的内部爆炸削弱了生态城精心组织的防御。

机仆：死誓群狼/黑色屠宰手详见下文。