HH1节译：Gorro的毁灭（荷鲁斯之子军团战例）
The Gorro Hollowing
The Great Crusade exrerminated hundreds of alien races, and the darkness of space is a cemetery strewn with the husks of dead empires and lifeless worlds that are graves to civilisations that defied Mankind's dominance of the stars, but despite all the Ork is a menace that we could not destroy. Perhaps now we never will.
人类在大远征中灭绝了数百个异形种族。黑暗的太空是一片坟场，期间散落着已然消亡的帝国的空壳与毫无生机的世界——那些曾经阻碍人类支配群星的文明埋葬于此。但欧克兽人是一个我们无法摧毁的威胁，或许现在的我们永远也不能做到了。
In hundreds of ramshackle empires they infest the galaxy and as the Great Crusade moved ever outwards from Terra the Ork proved to be a constant foe. We raised thousands of their junk-strewn worlds and killed them in their billions, but still they persisted. The larger their numbers the greater the threat, for it seems that as their numbers increase so the Ork becomes more deadly in every way. The Orks within the greatest Ork domains are huge and capable of shrugging off heavy weapons fire as if it were rain. As their population increases so their ramshackle technology increases in inexplicable sophistication. The Orks that dominate such bloated empires are vast creatures, covered in muscle and possessed of a dangerous level of intelligence. Much is written of the Ullanor Crusade, but there were other Ork empires, some rivalling that centred on Ullanor. The Telon Reach was home to one such Ork empire, and at its heart was the scrap sphere of Gorro.
随着大远征部队从泰拉向群星进发，人类遇到了数百个组织松散的（异形）帝国，而欧克兽人被证明是一种永远的敌人。我们拔除了它们数千个遍地废料的世界，杀戮了它们数十亿个体，但它们仍然顽强地生存着。欧克兽人的数量越多，威胁就越大——似乎数量越是增加，欧克兽人在各个方面就越是致命。那些由最强大的兽人军阀统治的欧克兽人们体型庞大，重武器射击就像雨点一样奈何它们不得。而且随着人口增加，它们粗陋的科技也会提升其莫名其妙的复杂性。统治如此臃肿巨大异形帝国的欧克兽人是一只巨兽，不仅满身（发达的）肌肉，而且拥有危险的智力水平。虽然描写乌兰诺远征的著作繁多，但银河中也有过其他兽人帝国，其中的某些也能够匹敌以乌兰诺为中心的兽人帝国。在Telon边境就有过这样一个兽人帝国，其核心位于废料堆叠而成的Gorro星球。
The Ork tech-caste dominated the Orks of Gorro and had made the world their own. Gorro was a layered sphere of debris and scrap sifted from the space lanes and wreck drifts of the Telon Reach. It hung in the light of a red sun like a rolled ball of crushed metal held together and shielded by magnetic and gravitational field generators. In thousands of levels beneath its surface the Ork machine shops worked without ceasing. The dominant tech-caste on Gorro seem to have been fascinated by a form of plasma technology never encountered before or since. Capable of destructive yields of terrifying potency these plasma weapons had done much to blunt the Crusade's advance across the Telon Reach.
Gorro兽人帝国由欧克技师族群统治，它们制造了自己的世界。Gorro是一个由废料和残骸组成的分层球体，原料挑选自太空航道（中的废物）和Telon边境的残骸悬浮物。它悬在红色恒星的光芒下，就像是一个用被压碎地金属拼凑在一起组成的旋转球体，由磁场和重力场发生器进行保护。在其表面之下的数千层结构中，欧克兽人的机械工厂无休止地工作着。统治Gorro的欧克技师族群似乎沉迷于某种前无古人，后无来者的电浆技术。这种电浆武器能够产生出效能恐怖的毁灭性火力，它在很大程度上拖延了大远征在Telon边境的进程。
Knowing that this campaign hinged on the death of the scrap world, the Emperor decreed that Gorro must be destroyed. Many expected the Emperor to give the task to Horus and his Luna Wolves, in this they were wrong. When a thousand strong fleet dropped out of the Warp above Gorro it was the Emperor himself who gave the order to begin the assault. Horus, the ever dutiful and favoured son, stood at the Emperor's side and watched as tens of thousands of assault craft spread out from the fleet.
帝皇明白征服Telon边境的战役何时胜利取决于废料世界何时消亡，他宣布Gorro必须被摧毁。许多人都认为帝皇会将这项任务交给荷鲁斯与影月苍狼军团，但他们想错了。当一千艘战舰组成的强悍舰队从Gorro上空脱离亚空间（进入现实宇宙）时，下令开始进攻的正是帝皇本人。人类之主尽责且受到器重子嗣——荷鲁斯则站在帝皇身侧，观赏着数万艘突击舰艇飞离舰队扑向目标的场景。
The fields holding Gorro together also made it highly resistant to bombardment .The Luna Wolves would have to hollow Gorro out from within and as the drop pods struck the rust-crusted surface, speartips of Luna Wolves teleported into the layers beneath. In the vanguard was the Emperor and by his side was Horus and a guard of black armoured Justaerin Terminators and golden- clad Legiones Custodes. As they attacked, the Ork resistance they faced was near overwhelming. The Orks of Gorro were huge and augmented with scrap bionics. Some stood taller than dreadnoughts and their weaponry burned through power armour like a candle flame through parchment.
保护Gorro的力场共同运作起来，对舰队轰炸表现出极高的抗性。影月苍狼军团将不得不从内部掏空Gorro，在空降舱砸向星球结满铁锈的地表的同时，帝国的矛尖部队也被传送进了下层结构中。帝皇一马当先冲锋在前，荷鲁斯追随在他身旁，身着黑色动力甲的杰斯特林终结者和身披金甲的禁军组成的卫队在旁边保护二者。他们在进攻中面对着兽人近乎压倒性的抵抗力量。Gorro兽人体型巨大，而且用废品制成的生化义肢增强了自身。某些兽人站起来比无畏机甲还要高大，它们的武器能像蜡烛燃穿羊皮纸一般烧透动力甲。
As the surface assault fought to break through to the deeper levels, the speartips fought towards the centre of Gorro. It is said that at the height of the battle the fury of the Orks split the Emperor from his guards. Alone he slew hundreds of them until a blast from an Ork plasma weapon opened his guard and one of the Ork leaders seized him. The tales say that the creature s strength was so great that as it took hold of the Emperor it buckled his armour. As the creatures grasp closed Horus stormed through the press of battle and cut the Orks arms from its body with a single blow.
随着地表的进攻奋力突破战线，进入更深层的结构，矛尖部队也朝着Gorro的中心发起了进攻。据说在战斗的高潮阶段，狂暴的欧克兽群使帝皇与他的卫队分隔开来。帝皇独自屠戮了数百只欧克兽人，直到一发兽人电浆武器的射击炸开了他的防线，而他本人也被一只兽人头目抓住。根据传说，这只野兽的力量极其强大，他控制住了帝皇并将人类之主的甲胄掐到变形。在这只野兽握紧帝皇的同时，荷鲁斯也如同风暴般冲破战阵，冲上前去，一击便斩断了兽人的胳膊。
Together father and son led their forces deeper and deeper into the sphere until they reached the centre of Gorro. The heart of the scrap planet was a self-sustaining plasma sphere contained by a warp-fold envelope the like of which had never been seen before or since. It is said that the Emperor himself worked to collapse the plasma sphere allowing it to implode into the Warp. In its place he opened a hungering hole into unreality. Without its power source Gorro's magnetic field generators and power shields collapsed into the vortex and the internal structure of the scrap sphere began to fall apart. Metal sheered and crumpled, levels twisted together and the whole structure began to deform. Gorro ate itself from within as the Imperial forces withdrew. When the vortex collapsed a hollow skin of rusted metal around an empty void was all that remained to mark the death of the Ork world.
父子二人率领部队极限深入球体结构，最终抵达了Gorro的中心。这个废料星球的核心是一个包含在亚空间折叠容器中自我运行的电浆球体，帝国在之前未尝见过这种技术，之后也没有见过。据说是帝皇亲自摧毁了电浆球体，使其向亚空间内部坍塌，现实宇宙中出现了一个吞噬万物的亚空间裂口。失去了动力来源，Gorro的磁场和重力场发生器崩塌成了亚空间漩涡，废料星球的内部结构也开始崩溃。金属剥落变形，各层壳体扭曲在一起，整个星球结构开始变形损毁。帝国部队撤离，而Gorro在从内部吞噬自身。当漩涡崩塌后，整个星球只剩下一层生锈的金属空壳，它飘在空旷的虚空中，标志着兽人世界的毁灭。
机仆：本文内容对应的是小说《焚尘之狼》。
配图是荷子的，因为月狼的几乎没找到。
