八版圣典节译：马库拉格之战
THE FIRST TYRANNIC WAR
The arrival of the Tyranids' Hive Fleet Behemoth in the Eastern Fringe was the single greatest threat to the realm of Ultramar since the darkness of the Horus Heresy. Upon Macragge would the future of the entire sector be decided.
自从荷鲁斯叛乱之后， 贝希摩斯虫巢舰队抵达东部边境是奥特拉玛所面临过的最严重威胁。马库拉格上的战斗决定了整个星区的未来。
Many thousands of years after the fall of their Primarch, the Ultramarines still stood proud as the masters of Ultramar amidst the gathering darkness of the late 41st Millennium. They had defeated countless invasions by heretics, xenos and traitors all across the Imperium and, while Ultramar was not as vast an empire as it had once been, it still stood as a proud testament to Guilliman's legacy. Then came the Tyranids.
在原体陨落后的数千年中，极限战士们依旧高傲地担任奥特拉玛的主宰，他们在第四十一个千年的末期抵挡在不断聚集起的黑暗与五百世界之间。他们击败了来自帝国各处的异端、异形和叛徒无尽的入侵。虽然奥特拉玛（口袋）帝国的疆域已经不像过去那样辽阔，但它仍是基里曼遗产的自豪证明。但这之后，泰伦虫族入侵了这里。
Unutterably alien, endlessly hungry, these swarming bio-horrors could not be negotiated with, reasoned with or even truly understood. Hive Fleet Behemoth ploughed into Ultramar from the outer darkness of the Eastern Fringe like a chitinous battering ram, forcing the Ultramarines to fight for the survival of their entire realm.
泰伦虫族是一种无法言说的异星人，这些蜂拥而至的异形有着无穷无尽的饥渴，帝国无法与它们谈判，无法推论它们的行动，甚至都理解不了它们。贝希摩斯虫巢舰队如同凶猛的几丁质撞锤一般从东部边境的外侧黑暗中冲入奥特拉玛，迫使极限战士们为自己整片封疆的存亡而战。
Once he learned of the imminent threat of Hive Fleet Behemoth, Marneus Calgar ordered Macragge's formidable defences to be immediately bolstered. between a vast fleet of warships and the planet's mighty orbital defence stations, everyone on Macragge readied themselves to face the Tyranid menace. Only a scant few weeks later, the Tyranids' vanguard fleet attacked. Hundreds of bio-ships swept through the Ultramarines' blockade and swarmed over Macragge, and countless thousands of alien beasts soon rampaged across the planet. Major population centres such as Magna Macragge Civitas and its surrounding districts were kept free of xenos invaders thanks to the dedicated efforts of the planet's defence platform, and the Tyranids were therefore forced to make planetfall where they could. They massed their strength and prepared to converge upon the biomass-heavy settled regions lying near Macragge's equator. However, Calgar would not allow this to come to pass.
一经了解到贝希摩斯虫巢舰队迫在眉睫的威胁，马里乌斯 卡尔加便下令马上强化马库拉格那可畏的防御体系。在得到庞大的战争舰队和强悍的轨道防御太空站保卫的同时，马库拉格上的每个人都做好了面对泰伦虫族威胁的准备。仅仅几周之后，泰伦的先遣舰队就发动了进攻。数以百计的生物战舰冲破了极限战士的封锁线，数以千计的成群异形野兽在马库拉格的各处横行肆虐。由于行星防御平台的抵抗，诸如大马库拉格城及其周边区域之类的人口中心未受到异形进攻的波及，泰伦虫族也因此被迫在可以的地方进行行星登陆。他们聚集起兵力，准备在在位于马库拉格赤道附近的生物质密集的定居区进行会师。但卡尔加不会允许这一切发生。
Deeming the Tyranid threat too massive to oppose piecemeal, Calgar combined his ground forces into three armies. The first and second task forces each garrisoned one of Macragge's polar fortresses, targets to which the xenos horde would deliberately be drawn. Taking the fight directly to the foe, Calgar himself led the third force in a series of rearguard actions with the aim of slowing the Tyranid advance.
卡尔加认为泰伦虫族的威胁过于庞大，无法零碎渐进地击破，（于是）他将地面部队合并为三支军队。第一支和第二支各自驻守一座马库拉格极点要塞，异形虫群会被故意吸引到这两个目标处。卡尔加本人则率领第三支军队进行了一系列殿后作战行动，他们直接进攻敌军，旨在减缓泰伦虫族的前进（速度）。
COLD STEEL RIDGE
冷钢山脉
Displaying his prodigious strategic cunning, Calgar utilised the landscape of Macragge as a weapon. He funnelled the xenos swarm into valleys and onto ice bridges where their numbers could not be brought to bear. Ultramarines gun-lines held back the tide while long-range barrages and enfilading fire reaped a bloody harvest. Battleline and dose support elements launched opportunistic strikes to cripple Tyranid hive-nodes and leader beasts while their fire support brethren held back the swarming tide.
为了执行他伟大的战略谋划，卡尔加将马库拉格的地形用作了武器。他让异形虫群经由一个狭窄的通道进入了山谷和冰架——这些区域容纳不了泰伦虫族的数量。极限战士们的枪炮线列会组织虫巢（逃离），同时远程炮击和纵射火力会对异形进行血腥的收割。战线部队和支援分队会趁机进攻虫巢节点生物和野兽领袖，同时火力支援部队会控制住虫巢。
At Cold Steel Ridge, the Tyranid swarms massed so thickly that such tactics could not hold them at bay. It was during this battle that the Ultramarines faced the most dangerous Tyranid creature yet encountered. Codenamed the Swarmlord, this enhanced Hive 'Tyrant displayed strategic acumen equal to the Ultramarines' and began to overrun the Adeptus Astartes' positions. Knowing that to remain planetside would doom his warriors in the field, Calgar ordered gunships to extract the Ultramarines to the orbiting battle barge Octavius. Sensing its prey was about to escape, the Swarmlord plunged into the fray alongside a horde of elite hive-warriors, cutting a path straight towards Calgar and engaging the Chapter Master in a brutal duel. Calgar and his Honour Guard fought like gods of war, but even they were sorely mauled and survived only thanks to the timely arrival of the evacuation gunships. Marneus Calgar would live to fight its but Cold Steel Ridge was lost.
在冷钢山脉，泰伦虫群聚集得过于稠密以至于这种战术无法将它们困在山坳中。极限战士们在这场战斗中面对了他们迄今遭遇过的最危险的泰伦生物。这种代号为虫群之主的生物是强化版的虫巢暴君，它展现出了匹敌极限战士的战略敏锐，开始压垮阿斯塔特们的据点。卡尔加明白这片战场上的战士（如果）留在行星边缘的话就会遭遇毁灭，他命令炮艇将极限战士们疏散到轨道上的战列母舰“奥克塔维乌斯号”上。意识到自己的猎物将要逃跑，虫群之主在一群精英虫巢武士的簇拥下冲入战斗，它砍杀出了一条直通卡尔加的血路，与这位战团长进行了一场残酷的决斗。卡尔加和他的荣誉护卫们如同战争之神般与异形们对决，但即便如此，他们也伤亡惨重，幸亏疏散炮艇及时赶到，众人才得以幸免。马涅乌斯 卡尔加会活下来继续战斗，但冷钢山脉已然沦陷。
MACRAGGE BESIEGED
围攻马库拉格
Hours later, the main strength of the Tyranids arrived above Macragge. Refusing all but the most vital medical attention, Calgar quickly resumed command of the fleet and pressed the attack. Caught between the blistering firepower of Macragge's polar fortresses and the vengeful hammer blows of Calgar's fleet, Tyranid vessels were destroyed in droves but hundreds yet remained. As the battle raged, the remaining lyranid ships unleashed thousands of brood-bearing invasion spores above the polar fortresses before retreating from orbit. Trusting to his Ultramarines to hold the vital strongholds, Calgar pursued the hive fleet, determined to prevent it from bringing ruin to any other worlds.
几小时后，泰伦虫族主力抵达马库拉格上空。在仅仅接受了最为必要的医学治疗后，卡尔加很快就重新指挥舰队发动进攻。泰拉生物舰遭到了马库拉格极地要塞的凶猛炮火与卡尔加舰队重锤般复仇进攻的夹击，成群的生物战舰被摧毁，但仍有数百艘留存。随着战斗愈演愈烈，剩余的泰伦生物舰在从轨道撤退前向着极地要塞释放出数千个孢子囊。卡尔加相信他的极限战士们能够守住这些关键据点，他（下令）追击虫巢舰队，决心阻止它们将毁灭带往其他任何世界。
Meanwhile, on Macragge's surface, the valour of the Ultramarines was being tested as never before. The 1st Company Veterans repeatedly led daring counter-attacks to stymie the Tyranid advance before withdrawing to defend every wall and trench. The Titans of the Legio Praetor stalked the ice fields and shot smoking furrows through the onrushing hordes with their apocalyptic weaponry. But the roiling swarm's ferocity was relentless. At the northern fortress, they overran the walls using the stearning piles of their own dead for cover. Even the towering god-machines were dragged down by sheer weight of numbers. Ammunition ran low, though the stockpiles had been established to hold out through months of siege. In the end, the 1st Company gave their lives to the last to hold back the Tyranid threat at Macragge's north pole, and by their sacrifice they broke its might.
同时，在马库拉格的地表上，极限战士们的勇气正在接受前所未有的考验。在撤退前去保卫每一道防御墙和战壕之前，第一连的老兵们都反复发动英勇的反击以阻碍泰伦虫族的前进。执法官军团的泰坦们在冰原上大步前进，用他们的启示录武器射向汹涌而来的虫群，让成行的异形成为冒烟的残骸。但虫群沸腾般的凶猛攻势是无情的。在北极要塞，他们用同族的尸堆作为掩护，翻越了城墙。哪怕高耸的神之机械也被它们靠着纯粹的数量优势所拉倒。尽管储备可供应对数个月围攻的军火库存，但守军的弹药还是耗尽了。最终，第一连战士们牺牲自己的生命将泰伦虫族的威胁遏制在了北极点，他们的牺牲耗尽了泰伦虫族地面部队的力量。
In space, Calgar pursued the Tyranid fleet towards the world of Circe, where the arrival of Battlefleet Tempestus from Bakka finally sealed the Tyranids' fate, catching the xenos ships in a vice between the two forces. Though many Imperial battleships and cruisers were destroyed, the hive fleet was obliterated and Calgar's ships raced back to Macragge. By the time Calgar and his warships reached orbit the battle was all but done. All that remained was to exterminate the last scattered xenos broods and count the cost of victory.
在太空中，卡尔加将泰伦舰队赶往Circe世界，来自Bakka的暴风星域战争舰队最终在这里终结了泰伦虫族们的命运，两支舰队夹击了异形舰船。尽管损失了众多帝国战列舰和巡洋舰，但虫巢舰队被摧毁了，卡尔加的舰船也去驰援马库拉格。等卡尔加和他的战舰抵达马库拉格轨道时，战斗基本结束了。剩下的工作就是灭绝剩余的零散异形群落，统计取得这次胜利的代价。
THE ENDLESS SWARM
无尽虫巢
The onslaught of Hive Fleet Behemoth was but the first Tyranid invasion of the galaxy. Hive Fleet Kraken came next, and then the tendrils of Leviathan inveigling their way up from below the galactic plane. More and more bio-swarms enter Imperial space with every passing year, and many have hurled at least a portion of their strength at the worlds of Ultramar.
贝希摩斯舰队的进攻仅仅是泰伦虫族对于银河系的第一次入侵。之后到来的克拉肯舰队，以及再后的利维坦舰队触须从银河系银盘的下方蜿蜒而上。随着时间流逝，越来越多的虫群进入帝国的疆域，而且许多虫群都至少将一部分力量投向了奥特拉玛的世界。
Guilliman's sons have not forgotten the lessons they learned during the First Tyrannic War; nor have they forgiven the hurts done to their Chapter or their worlds by the monstrous xenos. The Ultramarines thus fight at the forefront of the ongoing war against the Tyranid menace, employing their hard-won knowledge of the rapacious aliens' combat capabilities and doctrines to exterminate the Tyranids wherever they encounter them. It is a bloody and gruelling conflict, with no end in sight.
基里曼的子嗣们从未忘记自己从第一次泰伦战争中学到的教训，也从未忘记这些异形恶兽们对他们的战团和他们的世界所造成的伤害。极限战士们因此奋战在抗击泰伦威胁的前线，无论在何处遭遇到这些异形，极限战士们都会凭着自己关于如何对抗这些贪婪异形的来之不易的知识和技艺消灭泰伦虫族。这场战争血腥艰苦，而且看不到尽头。
