HH7节译：普罗斯佩罗审判的血腥计数

The Bloody Tally of Justice

All told well over 30,000,000 lives were lost in the prosecution of the Emperor's justice, the vast majority of these deaths being those citizens of the Imperium on Prospero at the time of the fleet's arrival. Official records place the number of survivors from Prospero's civilian population at zero, and while in actuality there were certainly some thousands at large in the galaxy or potentially escaped with one of the few bands of Thousand Sons to leave the planet alive, as a people the Prosperine branch of Mankind was now extinct. Of the Thousand Sons, official records from before 014.M31 no longer list the Legion, assuming it was completely destroyed until the Siege of Terra. Again, the actual truth is somewhat different, but still places the losses incurred for those Thousand Sons on Prospero at the time of the fleet's arrival at near total, with the survivors scattered across the galaxy.

在惩戒部队于普罗斯佩罗降下帝皇审判的过程中，总计有超过30,000,000人丧生，其中绝大部分死者都是在舰队抵达时位于普罗斯佩罗世界上的帝国公民们。虽然官方记录显示普罗斯佩罗平民的幸存人数为0，但事实上，肯定有数千名普罗斯佩罗公民存活，他们或是在银河中逃亡，或是可能与极少数活着离开星球的千子部队一并逃走。不过作为一个民族，普罗斯佩罗人这一人类（种群）分支现在已经灭绝了。至于千子军团，014.M31之前的官方文件已经不再将其列出，官方假定该军团已经完全被摧毁，直到泰拉围城时期。虽然实际情况再次与官方记录出现了差异，但我们仍然可以声称：当惩戒舰队抵达时，处于普罗斯佩罗世界上的千子部队几乎全部战死，幸存者们逃散到了银河系中。

Some of those detachments fighting in the Great Crusade elsewhere in the Imperium were to be destroyed by their allies before news of Prospero's destruction reached them: 2000 under Sentor Rahme of the Ninth Fellowship were slaughtered in their encampments by the Ultramarines attached to the same force, and 300 veterans of the Seventh Fellowship were abandoned to their deaths during the assault on Maktor VIII by the Imperial Fists to name but two of the more prominent cases. Of all the main contingents of the Thousand Sons abroad in the galaxy, only two were known to have escaped Imperial justice, the majority of the Fourth Fellowship, some 5000 Legiones Astartes who fled their Great Crusade assignment after hearing of the attack on Prospero, and a force, perhaps of several thousand, of the Sixth Fellowship present on Zhao-Arkhad as part of the agreement between the Legion and that distant and enigmatic forge. Worse still for the Legion, the destruction of Prospero and their status as renegades left them bereft of all support and succour within the borders of the Imperium, with no means to resupply or recruit, barring open piracy.

彼时，还有千子军团分队在帝国其他区域为大远征而战，其中的某些分队在得知普罗斯佩罗被毁灭的消息之前，便遭到了盟友们的毁灭：第九学会的军官森托尔 拉莫所率领的2000名战士被极限战士友军们屠杀于营地中，后者被与他们分派到了相同的部队；在对Maktor 8号世界的进攻中，第七学会的300名军团老兵被帝国之拳友军们抛弃在战场上等死。这是两个较为突出的例子。在所有乘坐飞船处于银河各处的主要千子分遣队中，只有两个已知逃过了帝国的审判：在听说普罗斯佩罗遭到进攻后，第四学会的大部分成员——约5000名阿斯塔特军团战士从自己被指派的大远征任务中逃脱；来自第六学会的大约数千人组成的一支部队出现在了赵—阿卡达世界，他们的存在是军团与那个谣远且神秘的铸造世界的协议的一部分。对千子军团（残部）而言，更糟的是：普罗斯佩罗的毁灭与变节者身份导致他们在帝国境内失去了所有的支持和帮助，他们无法再进行补给和征兵，也被禁止公开进行海盗劫掠。

The Censure Host fared only somewhat better, taking combined casualties of perhaps 49,000 in total and a far greater toll of munitions and machinery either destroyed or abandoned on Prospero. Driven by the cold rage of their Primarch to engage in some of the bloodiest fighting of the campaign, the Space Wolves suffered the heaviest casualties, with some 25000 listed as killed in combat, and several thousand more besides, mostly of the Thirteenth Great Company, simply listed as missing. This figure constituted a substantial amount of the Space Wolves' total strength and by the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, a mere handful of standard months later, they'd had little chance to replenish their numbers. Just as serious for the Space Wolves was the expenditure of munitions and equipment——such was the zeal with which they prosecuted the war on Prospero that their reserves of such things were badly depleted and left them unable to engage in more than limited warfare during the early stages of the Heresy. The Imperial Army units attached to the Censure Host, although an auxiliary, also suffered badly in the fighting, with an estimated 23000 dead. Indeed, several units were simply disbanded or merged with other formations on their return to Terra. The Legio Custodes and Silent Sisterhood suffered relatively light casualties by contrast, although considering the smaller relative size of those forces, they could still be considered severe. Perhaps more telling was the damage done to the Legio Custodes' mythical invincibility in the minds of some—for during the fighting on Prospero, some of their number had been engaged and beaten by mere Space Marines, a lesson that would be remembered by cenain of the Legiones Astartes in later years. However, the wiser minds among the Legiones Astartes noted with just what ease the Custodians had despatched their kind in turn, and wondered perhaps if this had been the very task they had been made for.

惩戒部队的表现也只是稍好一些，综合伤亡人数总计为49,000 ，而被摧毁或遗弃在普罗斯佩罗战场上的弹药和机械损失数量更要大的多。在其原体冷酷怒火的驱使下，太空野狼军团参与了这场战役中某些最为血腥的战斗，记录中列出了大约25000名死于战斗的军团战士，此外还有数千人被简单得列为失踪人员——其中大部分都来自第十三大连。这个数字在太空野狼军团的总兵力中占了相当大的比例，等到荷鲁斯叛乱在仅仅数个标准月之后爆发时，它们几乎没有机会补充自己的人数。对太空野狼而言，弹药和装备的消耗同样严重——他们在普罗斯佩罗战争中表现得如此狂热，以至于严重消耗了自己的储备；这导致他们在大叛乱早期阶段只能参与（规模）有限的战争。指派到惩戒部队中的帝国军部队虽然只是一支辅助军，但也在战斗中损失惨重，死亡人数大约为23000。事实上，有些单位在返回泰拉时被简单地解散或与其他编队进行了合并。相比之下，禁卫军团和寂静修女会遭受的损失相对较少，不过考虑到这些部队相对较小的规模，其损失也能被视为严重。但更能说明问题的，是禁卫军团在某些人心中神话般的不败地位受到了损害——在普罗斯佩罗之战期间，某些禁军与区区星际战士交战并被其击败，这个教训将会在以后的岁月里被某些阿斯塔特军团战士们所铭记。不过，阿斯塔特军团战士中那些更为聪慧的成员们也注意到禁军们是如何轻松地轮流处决他们的同胞们，并怀疑就这就是他们被赋予的使命。