hh9节译：Diamat(迪亚马特)入侵战

Diamat Incursion

The Dark Angels had been dispatched by Horus to the distant Shield Worlds, an enclave of Mankind situated in the black between galaxies and bound in some fashion to a xenos breed unknown within our own realm. The war to subjugate this realm had kept the Lion absent from the Imperium while Horus made the first moves of his rebellion, but still rumours of unrest and tragedy would eventually reach him. His Legion fully engaged in the war with the Shield Worlds, the Lion could spare only a small force to investigate the situation within the Imperium, to verify the mad rumours of Horus turning traitor and gauge what measures should be taken by the First Legion in response.

荷鲁斯曾派遣黑暗天使军团前往遥远的盾卫诸世界——这片遥远的人类飞地处于银河系间的黑暗地带，这片地区以某种方式绑定了某种在我们的国度中未知的异形种族。当荷鲁斯迈出叛乱的最初几步时，征服这片区域的战争让莱昂在帝国中缺席，但关于动乱和惨剧的流言最终还是传递到了他的耳中。第一军团完全投入到了盾卫世界的战争中，莱昂只能分出一支小规模部队去调查帝国境内的情况，去核实荷鲁斯叛变这一疯狂的流言（是否属实），并且权衡第一军团应该做出怎样的举措作为回应。

The Lion chose 15 of his fastest capital ships and a small host of warriors, veterans all, to accompany him and charted a course to Tanagra. This system lay at the very edge of the Imperium's newly-laid borders and sat at the conflux of a number of stable warp corridors that would allow rapid redeployment to locations deeper in Imperial space. Furthermore, it hosted a Forge World of some size, Diamat, which could serve to re-equip and rearm the Dark Angels fleet and supply them with news of the Imperium. It was a well-laid plan, one that considered almost every possibility, but what the Lion could not know was that Diamat had long since given its loyalty to the Warmaster and had taken up arms in his cause. Almost immediately upon arrival, the Dark Angels came under fire from Traitor craft, swiftly verifying the rumours of civil war within the Imperium, and records discovered within the broken forge after the Lion had pacified it confirmed that Horus was at its head. Amid the ruins of the forge, the Lion would discover that these plans of rebellion were no sudden madness but a long-seated cancer. For stored in the depths of the Forge Worlds vaults was a trove of vast ordinatus built to a pattern unknown in the Imperium, based on a technology long since forbidden to the priests of Mars and commissioned in secret by Horus some 50 years before.

莱昂选择了十五艘他最快的主力舰和一小群战士——全部都是老兵来陪伴他，他们设定了前往Tanagra星系的航线。该星系位于帝国新近规划出的边境上都极其边缘的地带，位于一些稳定的亚空间走廊的交汇处，这些走廊允许莱昂在帝国宙域的更深处进行快速部署。另外，Diamat(迪亚马特)这个颇具规模的铸造世界也位于此处，它能负责为黑暗天使舰队重整军备并提供关于帝国的消息。这个精心安排的计划考虑到了几乎所有的可能性，但莱昂并不知道Diamat铸造世界已经效忠战帅很久了。几乎在到达的一刻，黑暗天使便遭到了叛军舰船的攻击，这一行为马上验证帝国爆发内战的谣言的确属实。在战斗结束后，莱昂在破碎的铸造厂中发现了（一些）文件，它们证实领导叛乱的正是战帅荷鲁斯。在铸造厂的废墟中，莱昂将会发现：荷鲁斯的叛乱计划并非是突然发疯，而是很久之前就埋下的毒瘤，因为他发现在铸造世界地下仓库的深处储存着一批型号在帝国中未知的大将军炮，这些武器是基于某些长久以来被火星科技神甫们所禁止的技术建造的，由荷鲁斯在大约五十年前秘密委托他们制造。

He was met in the ruins of Diamat by Perturabo, the lord of the Iron Warriors whom the Lion believed to still hold true to his oaths of loyalty to the Emperor. From Perturabo he learned of the Night Haunter's assault on the Eastern Fringe and the massacres at Isstvan, though the whole truth was concealed from him by the false Primarch. For Perturabo acted to divert the Lion on Horus’ orders, keeping him from Terra and Isstvan by means of Konrad Curze 一 a lure to keep the First Legion occupied while the rebellion continued apace. When the Lion departed Diamat he did so just as the Warmaster had planned, throwing himself into a war that would keep his powerful Legion neutered while Horus pressed on to Terra 一 worse still, he left the recovered treasures of Diamat in the hands of the Iron Warriors, from whence they would pass to Horus himself .Little realising that his brother had played him false, the Lion departed for the nearby Forge World of Triplex with those forces he had brought to Diamat, hoping to reach it before his brother and called for all his Legion still fighting past the bounds of the galaxy to join him there. The Imperium stood on the brink of destruction and the Dark Angels would not permit such a tragedy to come to pass while they still drew breath.

莱昂之后在Diamat的废墟中遇到了钢铁勇士之主——佩图拉博（机仆：小说里老皮是前往伊五时路过，好像还象征性地支援了一下DA），雄狮相信铁主真的仍然坚持着对于帝皇的忠诚誓言。他从佩图拉博处听说了午夜幽魂对于东部边境的突袭和发生在伊斯特万星系的大屠杀，但虚情假意的佩图拉博并未说出全部真相——因为荷鲁斯命令他支开莱昂的注意力，让莱昂远离泰拉和伊斯特万星系。荷鲁斯利用康拉德 科兹作为诱饵来牵制第一军团，同时叛乱会不断推进。当莱昂离开Diamat时，他就像荷鲁斯所计划的那样将亲自投入到了萨拉马斯远征当中，在荷鲁斯挺进泰拉的同时，这场战争将会脔割削弱强大的第一军团；而且更糟的是，他把从Diamat夺得的大将军炮留在了钢铁勇士的手中，第四军团将会把这些武器献给荷鲁斯。但莱昂几乎没有意识到自己遭到了兄弟的戏耍，他率领着被自己带到Diamat的部队启程前往铸造世界Triplex，期望在他的兄弟到来之前抵达那里。他呼叫了在帝国边境四处作战的所有黑暗天使军团部队，命令他们在Triplex加入自己的平叛部队。帝国已然颤抖在了毁灭的边缘，但只要一息尚存，黑暗天使军团就绝不会允许这样的悲剧发生。