hh6节译:梅左阿赠礼

Established as a way station for the Great Crusade and the ever-expanding armies of the Emperor's attempt to reunite the worlds of the galaxy under his rule, Mezoa had ever been dedicated to the construction of war machines for the Legiones Astartes and many other branches of the Imperial armies. Under the watchful eyes of the Tech-adepts of the Eternal Flame, uncounted armoured vehicles were produced for the Emperor's finest warriors, yet with the advent of the Horus Heresy, all supply routes to those enclaves known to have remained loyal were cut off. Left with no means to disburse these armaments, the artificers of Mezoa placed them into the vast storage vaults beneath their forge-fanes to await the day when their anger would be unleashed against the Traitors.

铸造世界梅佐阿是为大远征和帝皇在试图将整个银河的诸世界统一在自己统治之下的过程中（动用的）不断扩张的部队而建立起的中途站，它致力于为阿斯塔特军团和帝国军的很多其他分支建造战争机械，在永恒烈火教派技术牧师们的严密看管下，它为帝皇最优秀的战士们生产出无以计数的装甲载具，然而随着荷鲁斯叛乱的到来，通往那些已知仍然忠诚的被占领区的所有补给路线悉数被切断。梅佐阿的工匠们将这些无法支付的军备安置在铸造神殿下方巨大的仓库中，来等待将它们的怒火向着叛徒们释放的日子。

With the arrival of Cassian Dracos and the Ebon Drake，alongside other fleeing stragglers from Isstvan and other fallen  loyalist strongholds, these found new purpose. In defiance of ancient treaties, which put strict limits on both who might receive the fruits of Mezoa's labour and the quantity of arms which might be made available, the Norn- regents of Mezoa granted gifts of tanks and weapons to those bands of the Legiones Astartes willing to carry the war to Horus, both on the surface of Mezoa and across the sector. Many of those who had escaped the wrath of the Warmaster chose to accept these gifts and make their stand on the worlds around Mezoa, now with the tools to exact a high price in blood from the Traitors, but of all those present, it was the company of the Ebon Drake who received the prize of Mezoa's output.

随着卡西安 德拉库斯、乌木火龙号突击巡洋舰以及逃离自伊斯特万星系和其他沦陷的忠诚派据点的残兵们到来，它们找到了新的目标。无视了古老的禁令——这些禁令严格限制了能够接受梅佐阿产品的人和他们能接受的装备数量，梅佐阿三贤摄政将坦克和武器赠予了这群愿意参加抵抗荷鲁斯战争的阿斯塔特军团战士们，他们的战场既在梅佐阿的地表，也在整个星区当中。许多已经逃过战帅怒火都选择接受这份礼物并在梅佐阿周边的世界抵抗叛军，而且他们现在拥有了工具，定会让叛军在鲜血中付出高昂代价。但在所有这些在场部队中，是乌木火龙号上的火蜥蜴连队得到了梅佐阿产出的奖品。

Where they had arrived at Mezoa few in number and equipped with little beyond their boltguns and man-portable heavy weaponry, the Disciples of the Flame now found themselves replete with the finest of Mezoa's creations—chief among them several newly finished super-heavy tanks that had previously been intended for the IXth Legion and a number of command Rhino variants whose design had only been recently approved for production. These weapons of war were quickly adorned with the heraldry of the Dragon Revenant and his followers and prepared for war, in many cases proving vital to the defence of Mezoa in the battles that followed. In particular, the glaive pattern super-heavy tank designated Dragon eternal was responsible for the defence of Mezoa's Septum Gateway for four hours, after an Alpha Legion diversionary attack drew off the other defending elements. Even in death the tank did not abandon its purpose, the crew manoeuvring the vehicle so that its hulk blocked all access to the gate following its final explosive end.

抵达梅佐阿的火蜥蜴军团烈火信徒人数稀少，而且除了爆弹枪和手提重武器之外，他们几乎身无长物，现在他们发现自己被充足提供了梅佐阿最精良的造物——其中的翘楚是之前本打算交付给第九军团的几辆新进完工的超重型坦克，以及数辆其设计最近才被批准投产的指挥犀牛改型。这些战争武器被快速地装饰上了龙之复仇者（机仆：卡西安的尊称之一）及其追随者们的纹章，它们蓄势待发，而且在之后的战斗中，它们在许多情况中被证明对于梅佐阿的防御至关重要。尤其是被命名为永恒之龙号的飞刃型超重坦，在阿尔法军团的牵制攻击引爆了其他防御设施之后，它负责防御梅佐阿的大门隔离通道长达四小时。哪怕是在死亡时这辆坦克也未放弃自己的目标，乘员们操纵载具移动，这样，在最终的殉爆发生后，坦克的巨大残骸堵住了所有通往大门的道路。