HH4节译：解放numinal世界（1）

Borne upon the Storm

忍受风暴

The distant Agathean Domain, an autonomous cluster of Imperial worlds sitting outside the borders of the Ultima Segmentum in the stellar deserts of the northern Fringe, was in truth only part of the Coronid Deeps by accident of history and the vagaries of Warp travel. Isolated as it was ——access was limited principally by somewhat tortuous and storm-prone warp routes from the Grail Abyss and Numinal——and strategically of no real import to their plans, the Traitors' attack on the region had bypassed it utterly, and the Agatheans' only involvement in the conflict thus far was to dispatch a cruiser squadron from its own small battlefleet in support of the general muster at Port Maw. This act, and its consequences, were however to have deep and unforeseen repercussions in the years to come. Of the eight ships which had set forth from Agathon the year previously, only a single cruiser, the Telemachus, returned, storm-wracked and battle scarred from the treachery at Port Maw. Having escaped by luck and bloody perseverance from the Traitors' trap, she bore with her not only a true account of the catastrophe at Port Maw and the perfidy of the Cyclothrathine Mechanicum, which had cost the lives of her sister ships, but also news gathered from her long and arduous journey home through star systems given up to war and anarchy. The Telemachus also carried the body of her captain, Jocasta MaSade, held in state, she having perished of her wounds after the Battle of Port Maw, having refused medical assistance until her ship was out of danger. The arrival of the Telemachus was the spark of ignition to a powder keg of fear and political division that had been fermenting on the hive world of Agathon, centre of the Agathean Domain, since the first word of the rising of Horus against the Imperium had become known.

遥远的Agathean统治域处于北部边境的星辰荒漠中，这片自治星丛中的帝国世界位于极限星域边界外侧，由于历史的偶然性和亚空间旅行的变幻莫测，它实际上只是王冠深渊的一部分。该地区偏僻孤立，进出此地主要受限于来自Numinal和圣杯深渊的较为曲折且易受风暴影响的亚空间航线。对叛军而言，该区域对他们的计划缺乏战略上的真正重要性，所以他们对于王冠深渊的进攻完全绕过了Agathean统治域，而Agathean统治域对于这场战争的参与就是从自己微小的战斗舰队中派出了一个巡洋舰中队前去响应巨口港的总动员。但是，这一举动及其后果在接下来的数年中产生深远且不可预见的间接影响。一年前从Agathean出发的八艘船中，只有一艘巡洋舰“泰勒马库斯号”（机仆：Telemachus是希腊神话中奥德修斯的儿子，本意是远离战争，后来代指回到故乡尽其天职的人）返回故乡，船身上遍布被亚空间风暴蹂躏和在巨口港遭到背叛后所留下的战争伤疤。这艘船凭着幸运和血战到底的毅力逃出了叛徒的陷阱，她不仅带回了关于巨口港灾难和铸造世界Cyclothrathine机械神教背信弃义行径的真实报告——代价是她的姊妹舰们付出了生命代价，而且在自己穿越那些屈服与战争和无政府状态的星系的漫长艰难归乡旅途中收集到了新的信息。泰勒马库斯号也一并抬回了舰长乔卡丝塔 马萨德，马萨德舰长在巨口港战斗结束后死于外伤——在战舰摆脱危险之前，她拒绝接受医疗救治。泰勒马库斯号的到来点燃Agathean统治域的中心——巢都世界Agathon的恐惧和政治分裂的火药桶，自从第一次得知荷鲁斯发动了反对帝国的叛乱，这些问题就在不断发酵。

Although a relatively minor hive world by the standards of sprawling Manachea or soaring Necromunda, it was ancient; its founding lost in the Dark Age of Technology, while its Compliance with the Imperium had not been without bloodshed. Its first Imperial rulers had been the Solar Auxilia officers of the 60th Expeditionary Fleet, whose final conquests these worlds had represented, and its first Imperial Commander had been Lord Marshal Ireton MaSade, grandfather to the slain captain of the Telemachus, and once master of the 60th. Quickly, the fleet's officer cadre had integrated with the local families of nobility and within a few generations the lines had blurred between the two, but the further down the social order, the more indifference and resentment was encountered regards Imperial rule on Agathon. Now the threat of encroaching civil war and universal fear of the whispered fates of worlds such as Moab and Manachea had given voice and power to that resentment, and Agathon's Parliament of Electors slipped into open conflict, caught between die-hard Loyalists, those who would cast their lot with Horus in fear of the consequences of not doing so, and those who would secede entirely and return Agathon to independence. Blackmail, threats and assassinations were rife, the wheels of government became paralysed, and the hive world teetered on the precipice of all-out civil war without a single Traitor's shadow falling upon its ground.

虽然根据巢都绵延伸展的Manachea或巢城高耸的涅克洛蒙达的标准来看，Agathean是一个相对较小的巢都世界，但它是一个古老的世界：它被创建于黑暗科技时代，而且兵不血刃地归顺了帝国。该世界的第一批帝国统治者们是第60远征探索舰队的太阳辅助军军官们——Agathean代表了他们最后的征服行动，它的第一任帝国指挥官是第60远征探索舰队的统帅，领主元帅伊拉顿 马萨德，同时也是泰勒马库斯号被害舰长的祖父。舰队的军官们很快就与当地的贵族世家们融合为了一体，两者之间的界限在几代人的时间内就变得模糊起来，但社会下层的人士对于帝国在Agathon的统治感到冷漠和怨恨，而且阶层越低问题越严重。现在，内战威胁不断侵蚀着帝国，人们也对诸如Moab、Manachea等世界被私下谈论的悲惨命运普遍感到恐惧，这些状况给了心怀怨念的人们力量和话语，Agathon议会中的辩论也恶化为公开冲突，誓死效忠帝国的忠诚派、由于担心反抗战帅遭受悲惨命运而投向荷鲁斯的投降派与希望让Agathon彻底脱离帝国重新独立的分裂派之间公开对峙。威胁、恐吓与暗杀接连不断，政府工作陷入瘫痪。尽管连叛军的影子都尚未笼罩此地，但巢都世界就已经在全面内战的边缘摇摇欲坠了。

Into the warring chamber of the Parliament of Electors, convened in a last desperate attempt to prevent the outbreak of overt warfare, came Ireton MaSade, the old Marshal, former Imperial Commander, nearly two centuries in age and retired from public life, and all but a recluse for nearly two decades. With him he brought the body of his granddaughter upon a floating stasis bier, flanked by a troop of Solar Auxilia Veletaris armoured in a livery of ice white in deference to Agathon's traditional colour of mourning. The chamber was forced to listen in stunned silence as MaSade spoke, first of grief and sacrifice, and then of the dream of the Imperium, of human unity and the Imperial truth. And as his oratory turned to rage at the moral weakness of his successors, he denounced the parliament and declared them traitors to the Emperor. Before the lords of Agathon could give reply or protest, the funeral guard turned their volkites on the nobles of the parliament and burned them to ash. In the days that followed, Agathon and the worlds around it were placed under martial law under the direct control of the 'Old Guard' of the 60th Expeditionary Fleet and its direct descendants, and their entire economy and society placed on a war footing. The aim of this mass mobilisation was not merely to mount a defence, but to attack. Agathon would have its vengeance on the Traitors—MaSade would have his vengeance, no matter the cost.

伊拉顿 马萨德走进了议会的会议室，这位前任帝国指挥官召开会议，最后一次绝望地试图避免公开战争的爆发。老元帅已经将近两百岁高寿，他已经辞去公职，隐居了几乎二十年。现在他扶着安置了孙女遗体的悬浮静置灵柩走入会场，一支穿着冰白色制服的太阳军维勒塔里斯部队护卫在他的身侧——制服的颜色是向Agathon的哀悼传统表示尊重。会场众人因震惊而沉默，他们被迫听着马萨德的演讲。演讲开始的部分是悲痛和牺牲，之后则是关于帝国之梦、人类的统一和帝国真理。随着老元帅的演讲变为对继任者们道德软弱行径的愤怒指责，他斥责了议会，宣布议员们都是愧对帝皇的叛徒。在Agathon的领主们回应或抗辩之前，护棺卫队便用自己的爆燃枪对准了贵族议员，将他们烧为灰烬。在之后的日子中，Agathon和周边的世界在第60远征舰队“老卫军”们的直接控制下被执行军事管制，当地人以及他们的整个经济和社会都处于了战争状态。这次大规模动员的目的不仅是防御，而且是攻击。Agathon将会对叛徒们进行报复——无论代价如何，马萨德元帅都将进行复仇。

Retribution

报应

It was not from the Agatheans that the first great blow against Traitor control of the Coronid Deeps would come, but from the outer darkness of the Grail Abyss. More than a year previously, the Gethsamaine System had submitted to Horus without resistance and this obeisance had thus far spared them the worst of the war's deprivations. The system's only inhabited world, Gethsamaine Colonus, had been forced to suffer newly imposed overlords in the shape of Tithe Aquistors bearing the serpent's eye of Horus, where once they had the raptor-headed Seal of Terra. Under their directions, the industries of Gethsamaine now laboured, and the planet's vast rain forests were being clear-cut to provide fodder for off-world export, but other than the Aquistors' harsh quotas, little in truth had changed for the people of Gethsamaine. But just as the unexpected arrival of a lone survivor from the Isstvan system in 006.M31 had gone on to herald the dawning of the terrible war that was to follow, so now with fell irony was a second survivor of that great treachery to herald a new wave of conflict.

针对叛徒控制的王冠深渊的第一波大规模攻势并非来自Agatheans统治域，而是来自圣杯深渊的外层黑暗空间中。在一年多之前，Gethsamaine星系未做任何抵抗便屈服于荷鲁斯，到目前为止，这份顺服让他们免于遭受战争中最残酷的剥削。星系中唯一的定居世界Gethsamaine Colonus的居民们被迫忍受被强行指派给他们的新主子的压迫，这些新的领主们是佩戴着荷鲁斯蛇眼标志的十一税征收官，而他们也曾是手持泰拉鹰头图章的帝国官员。在他们的命令下，Gethsamaine的工业体系现在超负荷运转，星球上巨大的雨林被砍伐一空，以腾出空地用于种植向其他世界出口的粮食。但除了征税官们实行的苛刻的配给制之外，Gethsamaine人民的生活实际上几乎没有改变。不过在006.M31，一位不速之客——某位从伊斯特万星系逃出生天的孤独幸存者造访了这个世界，他的到来继续预示着即将来临的可怕战争的前兆，现在具有讽刺意味的是，第二个逃过那次严重背叛的幸存者预示着新一波冲突。

When the ill-starred warp route from the haunted Grail Abyss tore open once more, the vessel that cut into realspace with dreadful purpose was no derelict caparisoned in Emperor's Children amaranth as that first survivor-ship had been, but a jagged and scar-hulled killer in black iron and blood crimson. It was the Red Talon, the ship of the Iron Hands Clan Morragul, and their master, Autek Mor. Gethsamaine had been stripped of much of its void defences in the Traitors' passing and now it stood all but naked before this spectre of the Imperium's grim retribution. The few remaining gun platforms which protected Gethsamaine Colonus were quickly swept away by the attacking grand cruiser, and a ruthless bombardment of the planet from low orbit immediately commenced preparatory to a ground assault. Then came the grim sons of Medusa to enact judgement.

当由灾厄缠身的圣杯深渊通往此地的混乱危险的亚空间航线再次张开时，怀着险恶目的出现在现实宇宙中的舰船并非是像第一艘幸存舰船那样，是喷涂着帝皇之子军团绛红色的被遗弃战舰，而且喷涂着铁黑与血红颜色、船身上下战疤累累的杀手凶舰——是钢铁之手军团莫拉古的战舰赤红利爪号，一并前来的还有他的主人：奥塔克 摩尔。在叛军们经过时，Gethsamaine已经被剥夺了大部分虚空防御设备，现在面对着帝国恐怖的冷酷报应，这个世界赤身裸体，毫无自我防护能力。极少数保卫Gethsamaine Colonus的残余火炮平台被进攻的重巡很快扫清，之后赤红利爪号从低轨道对星球进行了无情轰炸，迅速为地面进攻做好准备。美杜莎的冷酷子嗣们开始执行审判。

Any resistance to the Iron Hands was swiftly obliterated, and an entire cohort of planetary militia and their Horusite overseers crushed beneath the treads of Clan Morragul's armour in less than an hour settled the matter into a general rout for the defenders. Wasting no time, seats of government were blasted to rubble, and those in positions of power that had aided the Traitors or sided with their cause were methodically hunted down and executed, save for a select number of prisoners deemed to have potentially useful information, who were dragged screaming back to the Red Talon's gunships. As the Iron Hands Thunderhawks blasted off from the surface, the bulk of the civilian population, which had fled into hiding during the sudden assault, nervously rejoiced and came forth, little knowing what would come next. In each of the five major cities of Gethsamaine, the Iron Hands had left behind an improvised atomantic device fashioned by the bloody hand of their Iron-Father, each bomb clad in layer upon layer of radioactive material designed to enrich and multiply the fallout generated by its detonation a hundred fold. The Red Talon broke orbit just as the cities bloomed into fire; sentence had been passed on both the Traitors and those who had knelt before them, and notice served that there could be no bystanders in this terrible war, no civilians to be given quarter, only Loyalist and Traitor to the death.

钢铁之手们快速击溃了他们遭遇到的所有抵抗，在不到一个小时的时间里，一整支行星（防御）民兵兵团和他们效忠于荷鲁斯的监军们就成了莫拉古氏族踩在动力甲铁靴之下的尸体，守军一败涂地。铁手们没有浪费任何时间，他们把总督办公机关炸成了一片瓦砾，那些曾帮助或支持过叛军的当权者们被有条不紊地捕获和处决，只有一些被认为能提供潜在有用信息的囚犯们被留下，他们尖叫着被拖入了赤红利爪号的炮艇。大部分当地居民都在星际战士们突然发动进攻时逃入了避难所，当铁手们的雷鹰炮艇从地表飞走时，这些凡人紧张而欣喜地从避难所中走出，但他们并不知道将要发生的事情。Gethsamaine的五座主要城市都被铁手们留下了临时组装的核爆装置，这些原子炸弹是由他们的钢铁之父亲自用自己沾满鲜血的双手制造的，每颗都被一层又一层地覆盖了放射性物质，旨在浓缩其爆炸时产生的辐射尘，使其伤害倍增一百倍。随着城市被炸为一片火海，赤红利爪号也离开了轨道；叛徒和屈服于他们的走狗们已经被降下了审判，奥塔克 摩尔也告知了所有人：这场恐怖的战争中没有旁观者，不会有任何（所谓的）平民被放过，忠诚派和叛徒们将会战至你死我活。

The Hammer of the Deep

深渊之锤

In the Coronid Reach, the Taghmata Cyclothrathe was also finding its conquests far more difficult to grasp firmly than it had anticipated. Despite almost a sidereal year of armed occupation, Numinal was still not completely under its control. The remnants of the Obed Cohorts of the Imperials Auxilia that had defended it during their assault had splintered into a resistance guerrilla force, which used their expertise in the swamps and semi-aquatic terrain that dominated Numinal to their advantage, terrain that was an anathema to the Mechanicum's heaviest combat units. As a result, the Cyclothrathine forces were entangled in a continued campaign of opportunistic assaults and sabotage which required further deployments to counteract, slowing their plans of attack elsewhere in the region. Eventually, Archmagos Draykavac, Cyclothrathe's principal warlord, was forced to return from his Forge World's recently launched invasion of Cerada Secundus and command of the Taghmata war fleet to deal with a sudden and violent upswing in resistance and civil unrest from Numinal's population in response to an accelerated program of forced servitor conversion and adsecularis lobotomisation. Upon his arrival, Draykavac purged the sin of failure from his predecessor in charge of the suppression by ripping out what remained of her organic cortex and resubmitting her for purified reconstruction to the Magos Mortifex. He then immediately formulated a plan for the ordered processing of Numinal's entire population, dividing its many archipelagos and island masses up into sectors which would be dealt with in turn, and ordering the fabrication of huge amphibious crawlers for this purpose, outfitted within with servitor- controlled charnel-surgery chambers, corpse-sluice and protein recovery vats so that nothing would go to waste. These nightmarish machines went out with escort maniples drawn from Draykavac's own personal force of covenant-bound Knights, the thrall-House of Atrax. Against the power of these Knights and their hulking war machines, nothing left on Numinal could stand, and under this slow and mercilessly methodical pogrom, Numinal appeared doomed. But unknown to the inhuman Magos of Cyclothrathe, their actions were being observed and other hands were laying plans against them.

在王冠深渊中，铸造世界Cyclothrathe的机神禁卫军们发现：牢牢掌握自己的征服进程远比他们想象得要艰难。尽管他们已经武力攻占Numinal世界长达一个恒星年的时间，但这个世界仍未完全被他们所掌控。曾在他们进攻时进行过抵抗的帝国辅助军奥贝德兵团的残兵分散成反抗军游击队，反抗军利用他们在沼泽和半水生地形方面的专业知识，使 Numinal 的星球环境成为他们的优势——机械神教最为重型的战斗单位在此类地形上难以施展出实力。结果就是持续不断的游击战和暗中破坏行动缠住了Cyclothrathine部队，机械神教需要进一步部署部队以解决困境。最终，Cyclothrathe的首席军阀——大贤者德拉卡瓦克被迫从他的铸造世界最近发起的对于Cerada Secundus世界的入侵行动中返回，并指挥机神禁卫军的战争舰队去应对Numinal当地人猛烈增加的抵抗活动和内乱——当地人对于机械神教入侵者加速机仆强制转化程序和脑叶切除手术行径进行反抗。一经抵达，德拉卡瓦克就严惩了负责镇压任务的前任负责人的失职罪——剥除掉她的有机皮层，然后丢给亡灵贤者进行净化重建。之后大贤者马上制定了有序处理Numinal全部人口的计划，把星球上的许多群岛和岛屿群划分成几个分区进行依次处理，并且为此目的而订购制造了巨大的两栖履带车，这些载具上配备了机仆控制的停尸房手术室、尸体冲洗房和蛋白质回收桶，这样一来就不会浪费任何资源。这些噩梦般的机械行进时，从德拉卡瓦克的私人契约骑士家族——来自阿特拉克斯契奴家族中挑选而出的骑士们会组成护航中队为其提供保护。Numinal上没有哪些势力能抵抗这些骑士和巨大的战争机器，在这种缓慢且无情的有条不紊大屠杀下，Numinal似乎走向了毁灭。但毫无人性的Cyclothrathe贤者们不知道的是，其他人正在观察着他们，而且正在计划与他们对抗。

The attack came first not directly to Numinal, but to the system's astropathic relay station, a sprawling complex built into the polar rock plain on the barely life-sustaining dust moon of Numinal V, known as Quachil. The site had been extensively fortified by the Taghmata Cyclothrathe since their occupation, owing its strategic importance to their expansion efforts, and served now as the major Traitor-held navigational and astropathic communication nexus in the region, its transmitting power doubly important given the rising storms and turbulence plaguing the Warp. The first sign of danger was the arrival of an unexpected ramshackle flotilla of ships, mostly macro freight-haulers and warp dromons, but identified immediately as being led by the ruby-hulled galleass of the Rogue Trader Militant Charid Undine, a renowned and powerful vessel named the Hammer of the Deep, and one known to the Mechanicum as serving now the Warmaster's cause. The Cyclothrathine Magos on Quachil allowed the flotilla to approach slowly, mindful of their ultimate allegiance but warily so, and even after they were answered by vox with the relevant code cyphers and requests for trade and resupply, they would not allow the flotilla to close with the station. When it continued on its course however, they threatened to open fire; the reply to their ultimatum came from the prow lances of the Hammer of the Deep.

忠诚派的进攻并非在一开始就直接指向Numinal，他们率先进攻了星系中的星语中继站，这座蔓延伸展的综合体建筑坐落在Numinal V被称为Quachil的卫星上，矗立在这颗勉强维持生命的尘埃月球极地的岩石平原上。从他们占领此地开始，Cyclothrathe禁卫军们就对这座站点进行了大范围的要塞化；这座中继站对于黑暗机械神教的扩张征服有着战略重要性，它现在是叛军在这一地区控制的主要导航和星语通讯联结点。考虑到不断增加的亚空间风暴和扰动亚空间（航行）的湍流，该站点的传输能力显得加倍重要。最初的危险迹象是一支未曾预料的破烂不堪的舰队抵达此地，舰队中大多数船都是巨型货运舰和亚空间快船，当地驻军马上识别出领头的战舰是武装行商浪人查理德 安迪恩那艘著名且强大的红宝石色军舰——深渊之锤号，据机械神教所知，这艘船现在为战帅服务。Quachil上的Cyclothrathine贤者们允许这支舰队缓慢接近（卫星），他们知道了来者的忠诚对象，但仍旧谨慎对待，即使对方通过无线电报出了正确的密码并且要求进行贸易和补给，机械神教仍然拒绝让对方接近中继站。但是行商舰队仍然在驶向中继站，机械神教驻军威胁要开火进攻，对方也对它们的最后通牒做出了回应：深渊之锤号的船体光矛开火射击。

Battle was quickly joined, though the outranging firepower of the galleass, augmented as it was with technology rumoured to be stolen from the Eldar, was quickly proven the clear superior. Under the cover of the Hammer's guns, several of the huge warp dromons broke from the flotilla and made assault runs at Quachils surface. Detaching from the lead dromons, where it had hung concealed and limpet-like, was a Legiones Astartes strike craft, slim and predatory; a Pilum class corvette barely registerable as being clad in the azure and white of the World Eaters Legion, The strike ship raced ahead to strafe the way clear for a hostile landing in the dust dunes on the plateau directly beyond the relay station. Behind her, the huge dromons came in all but unopposed and landed with ungainly weight onto the dust, creating a minor quake with the force of their impact slamming into the moon's surface. As the tremors subsided, the dromons' vast cargo bay doors opened at once to disgorge scores of Dracosan super-heavy armoured carriers and with them dozens of supporting squadrons of augmented Solar pattern Leman Russ battle tanks. This ground attack wave, roaring into the dust storm thrown ahead of them, comprised a full armoured cohort operating as a single, unstoppable thrust. It bore the dull bronze and dark emerald heraldry that had once marked out the Solar Auxilia of the 60th Expeditionary Fleet of the Great Crusade and the white crested-helm sigil of Agathon.

战斗快速打响，深渊之锤的超远程火力被证明具有明显的优势，有谣言声称这艘军舰的火力是用盗窃自灵族的技术进行了强化。在深渊之锤号的火炮掩护下，数艘巨大的亚空间快船离开舰队，向Quachils的地表发动了突袭。领头的快船上飞出一艘身形纤长而凶悍的阿斯塔特军团突击舰——它之前像帽贝一样隐蔽地悬挂在船上，这是一艘喷涂着吞世者军团蓝白配色的几乎未注册过的短矛级轻型护卫舰。攻击舰冲向前方去扫清道路，准备在中继站正对面的高原沙丘上进行登陆进攻。在她身后，巨大的快船几乎未受阻挡地驶入了卫星，沉重地降落在沙原上，它们撞击月球表面的冲击力产生了小规模地震。随着震动平息，快船巨大的货舱门马上打开，数十辆天龙重型装甲运兵车和由强化过的太阳型黎曼鲁斯战斗坦克组成的数十个支援分队冲出船舱。地面进攻部队引擎咆哮着冲入前方的沙暴中，组成一支合而为一、不可阻挡的全副武装队伍。这支部队配戴着表明大远征时期第60远征舰队太阳辅助军身份的暗青铜色和深色祖母绿纹章，以及Agathon的白色冠盔标志。

Automated cannon turrets ringing the station's outer walls turned to track the attack, and tarantula batteries rose up from the dunes, weapons firing wildly into the wall of dust. The armoured attack column did not stop, the heavy tracked Dracosans smashing straight through the Tarantulas, pulverising the automated guns under their bulk and surging onwards, mine ploughs sending up bow-waves of debris and dust. As they closed, Demolisher cannon volleys battered and broke the station's curtain walls in a dozen locations, while the Vanquisher cannon of the Leman Russ formation punched armour-piercing shells through the turrets and gun embrasures which lined the walls. Under the onslaught, the curtain walls shuddered and suddenly collapsed, the attackers surging through the rubble as the war-scarred corvette hovered low above the station's auspex towers, grey armoured figures dropping on jump pack flares towards the devastation unfolding below. And in the void beyond, the Hammer of the Deep turned and its remaining flotilla followed with it, as gaining speed it made for Numinal.

环绕着中继站外墙的自动化炮台旋转着追踪进攻者们，狼蛛炮塔也从沙丘中升起，武器向着沙尘墙疯狂开火。装甲进攻编队并未止步，沉重的天龙运兵车笔直地冲向狼蛛炮塔，将这些自动化火炮碾碎后继续向前进发，地雷犁（在身后）扫起碎屑和灰尘的弓波。随着他们接近中继站，粉碎者加农炮的齐射在十几个位置击碎了中继站的幕墙，同时黎曼鲁斯坦克的征服者加农炮发射的穿甲弹穿过排列在墙上的炮塔和炮眼。猛攻之下，幕墙一颤，骤然倒塌。袭击者们在瓦砾中冲过，同时饱经战争沧桑的轻型护卫舰在车站的鸟卜塔楼上方低空盘旋，身穿灰色装甲的战士们启动跳跃背包，冲向下方，加入到毁灭行动中。而在天外的虚空中，深渊之锤号转变航向，剩余的舰队紧随其后，加速驶向Numinal。