HH6节译：未被铭记的英雄们

Unheeded Heroes

Some Loyalist forces pledged themselves to defend individual worlds against the depredations of the Traitors, in particular if they found themselves stranded by the coming of the Ruinstorm and unable to penetrate its depths. History can never make a full accounting of the number of such actions fought by stoic and self-sacrificing Loyalists far from the main war zones; indeed, only they and possibly those they protected will ever know of the sacrifices made. Recently surfaced is a rare account of such an action - the Defence of Nagathar, where several scattered Legiones Astartes forces sought refuge in a pocket of relative calm against the suddenly tempestuous Warp. Not all of these groups were loyal to Terra though, for one belonged to the Legiones Astartes Word Bearers and was somehow able to navigate the surrounding warp routes and avoid the horrendous calamities that had befallen so many other vessels attempting to do so. Nagathar itself remained untouched as the storms swallowed nearby worlds, but the Word Bearers sought to prey upon its scattered settlements and enslave its peoples, and it was only the efforts of the Loyalists of the Imperial Fists and Dark Angels that saved a million souls from being sacrificed by the sons of Lorgar for an end that no sane man would attempt to perceive.

在黑暗年代中，某些忠诚派部队自己会保卫某些单独的世界，令其免造叛军的掠夺破坏，尤其是在他们发现自己受困于毁灭风暴的到来，并且无法深度穿越亚空间的情况下。至于坚忍且富有自我牺牲的忠诚者们在那些远离主要战区的战场上执行过的此类任务的数量，历史学家们从未完全统计过。最近就有一份关于此类行动的罕见报告被披露出来——Nagathar防御战，此战中有数支破碎的阿斯塔特军团部队在这个相对平静的世界上寻求避难，以避免被混乱狂暴的亚空间现象所伤害。但并非所有到达此地的部队都忠于泰拉，一支属于怀言者阿斯塔特军团的部队能通过某种（未知）方式在周边亚空间航线中导航，避免了发生在许多其他试图这样做的船只上的可怕灾难。在亚空间风暴吞噬了周边世界的同时，Nagathar本身却仍未受到波及，但怀言者们试图掠夺星球上分散的定居点并奴役当地人民，全凭帝国之拳和黑暗天使军团的努力，一百万人的灵魂得到了拯救，否则他们将被珞珈的子嗣们献祭以换取一个任何理智的人都不会试图去感知的结果。

Other Legiones Astartes ranged for thousands of light years across the galaxy, braving the perils of the storm-wracked Warp in an effort to engage the enemy wherever they were to be found. Of this type of action there exist more examples than others, but many are known to us only by hearsay alone. The names of some of these groups appear in accounts of battles the length and breadth of the galaxy, making it nigh- impossible for historators to compile a true or complete accounting of their deeds. One name that is known however is Roscius, an Assault-Captain of the Legiones Astartes Ultramarines who had been assigned pathfinder duties ahead of the doomed 933rd Expeditionary Fleet by his Primarch soon after Roboute Guilliman assumed command of the Legion——Assault-Captain Roscius is not listed amongst those officers ordered to muster at the Calth Conjunction.

其他阿斯塔特军团在分布中银河系中数千光年的范围中，他们冒着风险勇敢穿越被风暴破坏摧残的亚空间，努力在任何地方与他们找到的敌人交战。相比于其他类型的行动，此类行动存在更多的案例，但我们所知道的也仅仅是传闻而已。某些部队的名称甚至出现在了某些远度和广度遍布银河的战斗记录中，这使得历史学家们几乎不可能对他们的事迹进行真实或完整的统计。在这些战士中，我们已知的一个名字是劳西乌斯，他是一位极限战士军团突击连长。在罗伯特 基里曼接手军团指挥后不久，他就被原体派往注定遭受毁灭的第933远征舰队前方承担寻路者职责——被命令前往考斯集结点进行集合的军官名单中并不包含突击连长劳西乌斯。

Several months after the outset of the Shadow Crusade against Ultramar, Roscius' assault company boarded and captured a strike cruiser of the Legiones Astartes Sons of Horus at Plutol, a segmentum away from Ultramar. Six weeks later, that cruiser ambushed and crippled a Death Guard heavy transport at Terrax out-system and a month after that conducted a lightning strike against a Traitor Mechanicum void fuelling station at Yspotua. The cruiser does not appear in any extant historical archives for the next year, but resurfaces when it is reported to have led a ragged flotilla of vessels against Traitor supply lines at Toreus, 3000 light years away where Assault-Captain Roscius commanded a force of over 3,000 Legionaries drawn from as many as four different Legions. The last engagement where Roscius is known to have commanded was the Duthovan Blockade, conducted against Traitor forces stranded on Duthovan by the coming of the Ruinstorm, a battle few of either side survived.

在暗影远征在奥特拉玛星区爆发数个月之后，劳西乌斯的突击连队在Plutol跳帮并俘获了一艘荷鲁斯之子军团打击巡洋舰，此地并不位于奥特拉玛所在的极限星域。六周后，这艘巡洋舰在Terrax恒星系外环区域伏击并重创了死亡守卫军团的重型运输舰。在此事件一个月之后，这艘船对机械教叛军位于Yspotua的虚空燃料补给站发动了闪电突袭。在之后的一年中，这艘巡洋舰未出现于任何现存的历史档案中，但当它再次出现时，报告声称这艘巡洋舰率领一支破旧的舰队在位于3000光年之外的Toreus攻击了叛军的补给线，突击连长劳西乌斯率领的则是一支由来自四个不同军团的3000多名军团战士组成的部队。已知劳西乌斯指挥的最后一次战役是Duthovan封锁战，他率军进攻了被毁灭风暴困在Duthovan世界的叛军部队，双方几乎都无人从战斗中幸存。

Lorgar's invocation of the Ruinstorm had cut the galaxy asunder, and so most Legiones Astartes forces not operating under the personal command of their Primarch were often required to act under their own cognisance for extended periods, in many cases for the entirety of the Horus Heresy and long after. The Ruinstorm did not serve only to stymie the coordination of far-flung armies, but had a more unsettling effect born of the dark powers underpinning the entire conflict. Even though it existed primarily in the other-dimension of warp space, the Ruinstorm bled through into realspace in many regions, the raw stuff of the Immaterium tainting the void itself with coiling setheric tendrils and kaleidoscopes of unseen colours. From the surface of many worlds, the stars appeared to have been swallowed by the void or the night skies were transformed into a canvas upon which were rendered scenes from the hells of ancient superstitious texts. On the worst afflicted worlds, nightmares made flesh walked the lands, the veil between reality and the Immaterium stretched beyond breaking point and the infernal denizens first encountered by the Ultramarines at Calth —named by some 'Daemons'— spewing forth. Thus, in many cases, it was the smaller, detached Legiones Astartes forces that first encountered such abominations as they fought far from the key war zones, prosecuting isolated wars against creatures that defied all sanity and had no place in the secular Imperium the Great Crusade had founded upon the bedrock of Imperial Truth.

珞珈召唤毁灭风暴的举动使银河系变得四分五裂，所以大多数没有受到原体本人亲自指挥的阿斯塔特军团部队通常都会被（指挥官）要求按照他们自己的认知行动很久，在某些情况中，这种现象（甚至）在整场荷鲁斯叛乱与内战结束很久之后都还在持续着。毁灭风暴阻碍了远方部队之间的协调，而且支持整场冲突的黑暗力量也产生了更令人不安的影响。尽管它主要存在于亚空间（所处）的另一个维度中，但毁灭风暴仍然在许多地方撕开裂口侵入现实宇宙，来自非物质宇宙的原始生猛之物用卷曲的卷须和看不见的颜色的千变万化形态污染了虚空本身。从许多世界的地表上来看，星辰似乎被虚空所吞没，或者夜空变成了画布，其上描绘了古代迷信文本中的地狱场景。在受影响最为严重的世界上，噩梦让血肉行走于大地之上，现实宇宙和非物质宇宙之间的纱幕延伸到了断裂点，极限战士们在考斯首次遇到的地狱居民——有些人称之为“恶魔”——奔涌而出。所以在很多情况中，第一次遇到这种可憎的生物的都是是规模较小的独立阿斯塔特军团军团，因为他们在远离主要战区的地方作战。它们对这些亚空间生物进行孤独的恶战，而后者否认所有理智，在大远征中建立于帝国真理基石上的世俗帝国内没有一席之地。

By 010.M31, the Imperium that had been stood no more. The fires of the Horus Heresy were consuming hundreds of systems in all- out war, while innumerable conflicts burned in the darkness for beyond the central war zones.

到了010.M31，曾经屹立不倒的人类帝国已经不复存在了。荷鲁斯叛乱的战火在这场全面战争中吞噬了数百个恒星系，而在中心战区之外的黑暗虚空中，无数冲突的战火也在熊熊燃烧。