Thirteen times shall the Traitor King go forth. In the End Times the iron fortress shall be cast down. Its walls breached and its Gate forced open. Those that dwell beyond shall spill through it. The air shall burn and the ground shall melt, The Daemon shall lie down with the machine, Brother shall slay brother with fire and sword. And the sky-wound shall pour its malice forth. The Eye shall stare unblinking at its prize, and the Traitor King shall cross the bridge of stars. He shall return to finish the Warmonger's red work, Upon holy soil shall the fate of man be decided. - The Liber Malefact

叛徒之王将行军十三次。在终结之刻，钢铁堡垒将被推倒。它的城墙被攻破，城门被迫打开。栖身远处的人将从中溢出。空气将燃烧，地面将融化，恶魔将与机械躺在一起，兄弟将用火和剑杀死兄弟。天空的伤口将倾泻出它的恶意。眼睛将不眨地盯着它的战利品，叛徒之王将穿过群星之桥。他将回来完成好战者的血红工作，在神圣之地上，人类的命运将被决定。- 《邪恶典籍》

The 13th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler began in 999.M41, and resulted in the largest mobilisation of both Imperial and Chaotic forces seen since the Horus Heresy.

掠夺者阿巴顿的第13次黑色远征始于999.M41，导致了自荷鲁斯叛乱以来最大规模的帝国和混沌部队的动员。

Abaddon's strategy was based around the concept of The Crimson Path: by summoning enough Daemons to the surface of Cadia, he intended to overload the Pylons holding back the tides of the Warp on the planet. If he had succeeded, the Eye of Terror would have enveloped Cadia and transformed it into a hellish Daemon World, after which Abaddon would jump from planet to planet from the Segmentum Obscurus, expanding the Warp rift until Terra itself was swallowed up into the Eye.

阿巴顿的战略是基于“深红之路”的概念：通过召集足够多的恶魔到卡迪亚表面，他打算让阻止行星上的亚空间潮的方尖碑超负荷。如果他成功了，恐惧之眼就会包围卡迪亚，把它变成一个地狱般的恶魔世界，之后阿巴顿会从一个行星跳到另一个行星，扩大亚空间裂隙，直到泰拉本身被吞噬在恐惧之眼中。

Artwork depicting Abaddon the Despoiler and his legions spilling from the Eye of Terror on the 13th Black Crusade 描绘掠夺者阿巴顿和他的军团在第13次黑色远征中从恐惧之眼溢出的画作

• Date:999.M41

• 日期：999.M41

• Location:Segmentum Obscurus

• 地点：朦胧星域

• Outcome:Cadia destroyed

• 结果：卡迪亚被毁

• Combatants:Imperium of Man, Eldar, Necrons/Forces of Chaos

• 作战人员：人类帝国，灵族，死灵/混沌部队

• Commanders: Lord Castellan Ursarkar E. Creed (MIA), Governor Primus Marus Porelska (KIA), Logistar-General Conskavan Raik, Supreme Commissar Audaria Zabine (MIA), Grand Admiral Kozchokan, Admiral Quarren(KIA), Admiral Dostov, Admiral Minzet, Admiral Venesca Catallia, Lord Marshal Attica, Great Wolf Logan Grimnar, Iron Father Kardan Stronos, Jarl Sven Bloodhowl (KIA), Jarl Orven Highfell (KIA), Master Korahael, Saint Celestine, Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl, Inquisitor Talia Daverna (KIA), Inquisitor Katarinya Greyfax, Baroness Vardus (KIA), Captain Tor Garadon, Marshal Marius Amalrich, Eldrad Ulthran, Trazyn/Abaddon the Despoiler, Urkanthos (Banished), Devram Korda, Ygethmor the Deceiver, Zaraphiston, Zagthean the Broken, Druxus Bale, Krom Gat (KIA), Typhus the Traveller, Kossolax the Foresworn, Erebus, Ahriman, Lucius the Eternal, Tarraq Darkblood, Kranon the Relentless, Varan the Undefeatable (KIA), Daemon Primarchs (Rumored)

• 指挥官：领主堡主乌萨卡·E·克里德（MIA），首席总督马鲁斯·珀勒斯卡（KIA），后勤将军康斯卡万·莱克，至高政委奥达利亚·扎比内（MIA），海军大将科兹乔坎，海军上将夸伦（KIA），海军上将陀思妥夫，海军上将明泽特，海军上将韦涅斯卡·卡塔莉亚，领主元帅阿提卡，头狼罗根·格里姆纳尔，铁父卡丹·斯特罗诺斯，狼主斯文·血嚎（KIA），狼主奥尔文·高落（KIA），导师科拉海尔，圣塞勒斯汀，统御大贤者贝利撒留·考尔，审判官塔莉娅·达韦尔纳（KIA），审判官卡塔琳娅·格雷法克斯，瓦杜斯女爵（KIA），连长托尔·加拉顿，元帅马里乌斯·阿马里奇，埃尔德拉德·乌斯兰，塔拉辛/掠夺者阿巴顿，乌尔坎托斯（被放逐），德夫拉姆·科尔达，欺诈者伊戈瑟默，扎拉菲斯顿，破灭者札格辛，德鲁克斯·贝尔，克罗姆·盖特（KIA），旅行者泰丰斯，背誓者科索拉克斯，艾瑞巴斯，阿里曼，永恒者卢修斯，塔拉克·暗血，无情者克拉能，无敌者瓦兰（KIA），恶魔原体（谣传）

• Casualties:Massive casualties, at least several trillion/Massive casualties

• 伤亡人数：大规模伤亡，至少数万亿/大规模伤亡

Overview 概述

Prelude 序曲

As the end of M41 drew to a close, the first signs that Abaddon the Despoilers long-feared Thirteenth Black Crusade was imminent came in the form of numerous sightings of Space Hulks emerging from the Warp around the Cadian Sector. Though some were boarded by the Adeptus Astartes and others destroyed by orbital defenses, those that got by the Imperial blockade struck strategically important worlds and naval bases throughout the sector, crippling the region's naval forces. It was then that the dreaded Chaos vessel of Nurgle, Plagueclaw appeared in the outer reaches of the Urthwart system, further spreading pestilence wherever it went. Famed Imperial Admiral Quarren would launch a hunt for the vessel but soon encountered something far more terrible. Ambushed around the Frenerax Dust Cloud, Quarren discovered, to his horror, that the Chaos Fleet was led by the dreaded Terminus Est, flagship of Typhus of the Death Guard, Herald of Nurgle. Quarren's fleet barely managed to survive the trap and escape. The Battle of Frenerax had been a costly disaster, but there was worse to come.

随着M41的结束，长期以来一直担心掠夺者阿巴顿的第十三次黑色远征即将到来的第一个迹象是，在卡迪安星区周围的亚空间中出现了许多太空废船的身影。尽管一些被阿斯塔特修会拦截，另一些被轨道防御摧毁，但那些被帝国封锁的人袭击了整个星区具有战略意义的世界和海军基地，削弱了该地区的海军力量。就在那时，可怕的纳垢混沌战舰瘟疫之爪号出现在厄斯里奇星系的外围，无论它走到哪里，瘟疫都会进一步传播。著名的帝国海军上将夸伦对这艘战舰展开追捕，但很快遇到了更可怕的事情。在弗兰尼莱克斯尘埃云周围埋伏时，夸伦惊恐地发现，混沌舰队是由可怕的终焉号领导的，终焉号是死亡守卫的泰丰斯的旗舰，也是纳垢的先驱。夸伦的舰队勉强从陷阱中逃脱。弗兰尼莱克斯之战是一场代价高昂的灾难，但更糟糕的事情还在后面。

Now operating with impunity, Typhus's Plague Fleet spread pestilence throughout the Sector and the Officio Medicae were helpless to stop it. As the epidemic spread, apocalyptic sects began appearing on worlds afflicted, preaching that the Emperor's wrath had descended upon them and was a punishment for their sins. In what became known as the Plague of Unbelief, Chaos spread throughout the sector as the fanatical sects rioted against Imperial authorities. To compound the Imperium's problems, Plague Zombies soon emerged from the bodies of those struck down by disease. The Hive World of Belis Corona in the Agripinaa Sector was particularly affected by both the Plague of Unbelief and an infestation of Plague Zombies, and by the time Typhus's Plague Fleet arrived in the system the world was completely unable to resist him.

现在，泰丰斯的瘟疫舰队肆无忌惮地运作，将瘟疫传播到整个星区，而医疗部却无能为力。随着疫情的蔓延，末日教派开始出现在受影响的世界上，宣扬帝皇的愤怒已经降临到他们身上，是对他们罪行的惩罚。在后来被称为无信瘟疫的事件中，随着狂热的教派对帝国当局的暴乱，混乱蔓延到整个星区。为了加剧帝国的问题，瘟疫僵尸很快从那些被疾病击倒的人的身体中出现。阿格里皮纳星区的贝利斯·科罗纳巢都世界特别受到无信瘟疫和瘟疫僵尸侵扰的影响，当泰丰斯的瘟疫舰队到达星系时，世界完全无法抵抗他。

As Chaos swept through many Imperial worlds surrounding the Agripinaa, Cadian, and Belis Corona Sectors, cults preaching that the Imperium had forsaken the teachings of the Emperor grew in number. Imperial authorities, crippled by plague, could do little to stop the ensuing chaos and mob rule that these cults unleashed. Mysterious yet brutal raiders began to strike without warning throughout these sectors, annihilating small settlements and Agri Worlds. Meanwhile, Astropaths and the Emperor's Tarot consistently produced dire predictions. On Cadia itself, the worlds mysterious pylons erupted into life and vibrated intense psychic energy. The pylons appeared to be fighting to hold back the powers of the Warp that were pouring from the Eye of Terror at an unprecedented level but they were slowly destroying themselves in the process.

随着混乱席卷了阿格里皮纳、卡迪安和贝利斯·科罗纳星区周围的许多帝国世界，宣扬帝国抛弃了帝皇教义的教派越来越多。被瘟疫摧毁的帝国当局几乎无法阻止这些教派引发的混乱和暴民统治。神秘而残酷的袭击者开始毫无预警地袭击这些星区，摧毁了小定居点和农业世界。与此同时，星语者和帝皇塔罗牌一直在做出可怕的预测。在卡迪亚本身，世界神秘的方尖碑爆发了生命，并激发了强烈的灵能能量。方尖碑似乎在努力阻止从恐惧之眼以前所未有的水平倾泻而出的亚空间力量，但在这个过程中，它们正在慢慢摧毁自己。

Between the anarchy, plague, and vicious raids spreading throughout the Agripinaa sector, the Imperial Navy's Battlefleet Agripinaa was forced to retreat back to its bases. Yet an even greater disaster was in the making on the Imperial world of Lelithar where a powerful figure arouse amongst the raving cults and fanatics, proclaiming himself the Voice of the Emperor. The Voice of the Emperor's cult spread throughout nearby worlds and he encouraged rebellion against Imperial rule. Soon, vicious battles between the Voice of the Emperor's cult and the faithful followers of the Ecclesiarchy erupted on the streets of worlds such as Bar-El, Yayor, Amistel, and Albitern. Attempts by the Officio Assassinorum to dispose of the Voice of the Emperor proved unsuccessful.

在无政府状态、瘟疫和遍布阿格里皮纳星区的恶性袭击之间，帝国海军的阿格里皮纳亚战斗舰队被迫撤退回基地。然而，一场更大的灾难正在莱利瑟帝国世界中酝酿，一位强大的人物在狂热的教派和狂热分子中觉醒，宣称自己是帝皇之声。帝皇之声教派传遍了附近的世界，他鼓励反抗帝国统治。很快，在巴-埃尔、亚约尔、阿米泰尔和阿尔比滕等世界的街道上，帝皇之声教派与国教忠实信徒之间爆发了激烈的战斗。刺客庭试图处理帝皇之声的尝试被证明是不成功的。

Betrayal on Cadia 卡迪亚上的背叛

Despite the deteriorating security situation and internal strife in the Imperial territories surrounding the Eye of Terror, Cadia remained a beacon of stability. But in order to counter the increasing frequency and scale of Chaos activity around the Cadian sector, the Cadian High Command issued an order that every regiment of the Cadian Shock Troops were to muster on Cadia itself. As a result, hundreds of extra landing fields were assembled at Kasr Tyrok fields in preparation for the reinforcements. Millions of men had already been assembled when the Volscani Cataphracts regiment, considered by many to be the most hardened fighters in the sector, landed on Cadia. In honor of the reputation of the Volscani regiment, the Cadian High Command itself gathered at Tyrok Fields to personally greet the arriving forces. However this would prove to be a disastrous decision for Cadia, as the Volscani soon revealed their true colours.

尽管恐惧之眼周围的帝国领土的安全局势不断恶化，内部冲突不断，但卡迪亚仍然是稳定的灯塔。但为了应对卡迪亚星区周围日益频繁和规模的混沌行动，卡迪亚最高指挥部发布了一项命令，要求卡迪亚突击军的每个兵团都在卡迪亚集结。因此，数百个额外的登陆场在提洛克堡野外集结，为增援做准备。当被许多人认为是该星区最坚硬的战士的沃斯卡尼铁骑兵团降落在卡迪亚时，数百万人已经集结。为了尊重沃斯卡尼铁骑兵团的声誉，卡迪亚最高司令部亲自聚集在提洛克野外迎接抵达的部队。然而，这对卡迪亚来说将是一个灾难性的决定，因为沃斯卡尼很快就暴露了他们的真实面目。

Exchanging their Cadian and Imperial banners for those of Chaos, the Volscani forces opened fire on the Cadian assembly on Tyrok Fields and annihilated most of the Cadian High Command in one fell swoop. Only a skillful counterattack by Lord Castellan Ursarkar E. Creed, who managed to take control of the reeling Cadian forces, prevented further calamity. Now installed as Governor of Cadia due to the murder of the previous holder of the position, Creed ordered the Cadian forces to dig in as he dispatched requests for aid throughout the whole of the Imperium. The Administratum and Space Marines heeded the call, mobilizing the sector with unprecedented scale and pace. After an engagement with a raiding party of Night Lords led by the vicious Tarraq Darkblood, a unit of highly trained Kasrkin were dispatched into the Eye of Terror directly on a reconnaissance mission, desperate to find some kind of indication of where the first blow of the inevitable Chaos invasion would land. The reconnaissance mission proved a disaster when the force became stranded on the Daemon World of Urthwart and was subsequently destroyed by the dreaded ship Planet Killer. As Urthwart collapsed into itself, a Chaos fleet of hundreds of warships, Space Hulks, and transports emerged from the depths of the Eye of Terror. Accompanying them were not only the Plagueclaw and Terminus Est but also two captured Blackstone Fortresses. Imperial Admiral Pulaski mustered whatever ships he could in the Ormantep system, ready to fight and die to give the defenders of Cadia whatever time they could to prepare themselves. Though the Imperial fleet fought bravely, it was annihilated by the massive Chaos armada. Quarren, however, managed to escape with what remained of his fleet, but in doing so had left the way clear for a splinter Chaos Fleet to ravage the Agripinaa Sector.

沃斯卡尼部队将他们的卡迪亚和帝国旗帜换成了混沌的旗帜，向提洛克野外的卡迪亚集会开火，一举歼灭了大部分卡迪亚最高指挥部。只有领主堡主乌萨卡·E·克里德的巧妙反击，才阻止了进一步的灾难，他成功地控制了摇摇欲坠的卡迪亚军队。由于前任职位持有者被谋杀，克里德现在被任命为卡迪亚总督，他命令卡迪亚部队在向整个帝国发出援助请求时进行阵地挖掘。内务部和星际战士响应了这一呼吁，以前所未有的规模和速度动员了该星区。在与邪恶的塔拉克·暗血领导的午夜领主突袭队交战后，一支训练有素的卡舍津部队被直接派往恐惧之眼执行侦察任务，迫切希望找到某种迹象，表明不可避免的混沌入侵的第一击将落在哪里。侦察任务被证明是一场灾难，因为部队被困在乌尔斯勒恶魔世界，随后被可怕的行星杀手摧毁。当乌尔斯勒自行坍塌时，一支由数百艘战舰、太空废船和运输舰组成的混沌舰队从恐惧之眼的深处出现。陪同他们的不仅是瘟疫之爪号和终焉号，还有两座被俘的黑石堡垒。帝国海军上将普拉斯基在奥尔曼泰普星系中召集了他所能召集的任何舰船，准备战斗和死亡，让卡迪亚的守军有足够的时间做好准备。尽管帝国舰队英勇作战，但被庞大的混沌舰队歼灭。然而，夸伦设法用剩下的舰队逃脱，但这样做为分裂的混沌舰队蹂躏阿格里皮纳星区扫清了道路。

The Battle of Tyrok Fields 提洛克野外之战

Now virtually defenseless, the worlds of the Agripinaa Sector were ravaged by the Plague Fleet of Typhus and his legions of Death Guard and Daemons of Nurgle. Only an intervention by the Howling Griffons Space Marine Chapter, Jouran Dragoons Imperial Guard, and Legio Astorum Titan Legion prevented the total collapse of Imperial rule in the sector. The Imperial forces, further reinforced by the Death Spectres Chapter, even managed to lay siege the world of Lelithar, the original world of the Voice of the Emperor which had since been captured by Typhus's forces and legions of crazed cultists. However, the bloody siege has cost the lives of millions and is grinding mercilessly towards an uncertain conclusion.

现在，阿格里皮纳星区的世界几乎毫无防御能力，被泰丰斯的瘟疫舰队、他的死亡守卫军团和纳垢的恶魔蹂躏。只有咆哮狮鹫星际战士战团、朱兰龙骑兵帝国卫队和星象军团泰坦军团的干预，才阻止了帝国在该星区的统治彻底崩溃。帝国军队在死亡幽灵战团的进一步加强下，甚至设法围攻了莱利萨世界，这是帝皇之声的起源世界，后来被泰丰斯的军队和疯狂的邪教徒军团占领。然而，血腥的围困已经夺去了数百万人的生命，并且正在无情地走向一个不确定的结局。

Meanwhile the Emperor's Children, led by Lucius the Eternal, butchered the world of Belisar while warbands of Night Lords moved onto Scarus Sector, spreading terror and fear to the Imperial Populace. Cells of Alpha Legion revealed themselves across Segmentum Obscurus, badly delaying Space Marine reinforcements in protracted struggles. In the wake of the Traitor Marines came terrifying hordes of Chaos: Mutants, Chaos Cultists, and Daemons as well as the Traitor Titan Legions of the Dark Mechanicum. Soon, every world within a thousand light years of the Eye of Terror became embroiled in conflict.

与此同时，由永恒者卢修斯领导的帝皇之子屠杀了贝利萨世界，而午夜领主的武装部队则进入了斯卡鲁斯星区，向帝国民众传播了恐怖和恐惧。阿尔法军团的小队在朦胧星域中现身，在漫长的战斗中严重拖延了星际战士的增援。在叛徒战士之后，出现了可怕的混沌部落：变种人、混沌邪教徒和恶魔，以及黑暗机械教的叛徒泰坦军团。不久，恐惧之眼一千光年范围内的每个世界都卷入了冲突。

While hordes of Chaos forces ravaged the surrounding sectors, the main Chaos Fleet of Abaddon the Despoiler and the World Eaters Chaos Lord Kossolax the Foresworn pushed towards Cadia itself. The Chaos fleet quickly overwhelmed the defenses on the world of Solar Mariatus, the outermost planet of the Cadian System. Here, traitor forces established a forward base of operations to launch attacks throughout the entire system. Capturing the prison world of St. Josmane's Hope, the Violators Chaos Space Marine warband managed to capture its millions of inmates and use them as slaves or conscript them into its armies. Admiral Quarren had done what he could, but the overwhelming Chaos Fleet could not be stopped and after three days of hard fighting, the majority of the Imperial Fleet in the Cadian System had either been crippled or destroyed. After overrunning Cadia's orbital bases, the planet finally stood defenseless and Abaddon's long awaited invasion of Cadia had finally begun.

当成群的混沌部队蹂躏周围星区时，掠夺者阿巴顿和吞世者混沌领主背誓者科索拉克斯的主要混沌舰队向卡迪亚本身推进。混沌舰队迅速突破了卡迪亚星系最外层行星索拉·玛丽亚图斯世界的防御。在这里，叛徒部队建立了一个前沿作战基地，在整个星系中发动攻击。在占领圣若斯曼之希望监狱世界后，违背者混沌星际战士战帮设法俘虏了数百万囚犯，并将他们用作奴隶或征召入伍。海军上将夸伦已经尽了最大努力，但压倒性的混沌舰队无法被阻止，经过三天的艰苦战斗，卡迪亚星系中的大部分帝国舰队要么被削弱，要么被摧毁。在占领了卡迪亚的轨道基地后，这颗行星终于毫无防备，阿巴顿期待已久的对卡迪亚的入侵终于开始了。

The Battle of Medusa 美杜莎之战

Meanwhile, Abaddon launched a massive assault on Medusa, homeworld of the Iron Hands Space Marine Chapter. As the Iron Hands recruited strictly from Medusa, the Marines were forced to defend it above all else. All ten of the immense Land Behemoth mobile Fortress-monasteries of the Chapter were mobilized along with the heavily armored Planetary Defense Forces of Medusa for the defense. Assaulted by armoured regiments of the Haradni 13th Traitor Guard, the ensuing armoured clash was one of the largest in the Imperium since the Battle of Tallarn during the Horus Heresy, with the Chaos forces fielding over ten thousand tanks. The ensuing battle raged for five days, with the Traitor forces gradually pushing towards the mobile fortresses of the Iron Hands. The Fortresses, each possessing the firepower of the mighty Ordinatus war machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus, decimated hundreds of tanks with each salvo.

与此同时，阿巴顿对钢铁之手星际战士战团的家园世界美杜莎发动了大规模袭击。由于钢铁之手严格从美杜莎招募，战士被迫保卫它。战团所有十座巨大的陆地巨兽移动堡垒修道院都与全副武装的美杜莎行星防御部队一起动员起来进行防御。在哈拉德尼第13叛徒卫队装甲兵团的袭击下，随之而来的装甲冲突是荷鲁斯叛乱时期塔兰之战以来帝国最大的冲突之一，混沌部队部署了一万多辆坦克。随后的战斗持续了五天，叛徒部队逐渐向钢铁之手的移动堡垒推进。每座堡垒都拥有机械神教的强大将军炮战争机械的火力，每次齐射都摧毁了数百辆坦克。

Using this support to finally break the Traitor lines, the Iron Hands were nonetheless outflanked by enemy armour, which began to pour fire into the vulnerable rear of their mobile fortresses. This forced the Iron Hands to launch a furious counter-attack led by Assault Squads, taking heavy casualties in the process but succeeding in stopping the traitor flanking maneuver and sending them into a disorderly retreat. The Iron Hands then used their Predator Annihilator tanks to decimate the retreating Traitor forces, securing Medusa at last.

利用这种支援最终打破了叛徒的防线，钢铁之手仍然被敌人的装甲包围，敌人的装甲开始向他们移动堡垒的脆弱后方开火。这迫使钢铁之手在突击小队的带领下发动了猛烈的反击，在此过程中造成了重大伤亡，但成功阻止了叛徒的侧翼行动，使他们陷入混乱的撤退。钢铁之手随后使用他们的掠食者歼灭者坦克摧毁了撤退的叛徒部队，最终保护了美杜莎。

The Battle for the Cadian Gate 卡迪亚之门之战

Meanwhile, Abaddon began his long-awaited invasion of Cadia with a fierce orbital bombardment, one so powerful it shook even the vaunted Cadian Shock Troopers. Along with the bombardment came legions of Chaos Space Marines, the Lost and the Damned, Daemons, and Titans, who flooded the fortress world of Cadia in unprecedented numbers. The Cadian forces fought bravely and stubbornly, however, and were aided by the legendary Thirteenth Company of the Space Wolves.

与此同时，阿巴顿以猛烈的轨道轰炸开始了他期待已久的对卡迪亚的入侵，这次轰炸如此强大，甚至震撼了被夸耀的卡迪亚突击军。伴随着轰炸而来的是混沌星际战士、迷失者和被诅咒者、恶魔和泰坦军团，他们以前所未有的数量淹没了卡迪亚堡垒世界。然而，卡迪亚军队英勇顽强地战斗，并得到了传奇的太空野狼第十三连队的帮助。

Space Marines and Chaos forces battle in the 13th Black Crusade 星际战士和混沌部队在第13次黑色远征中战斗

Many Crone Worlds around the Eye of Terror would come under attack from Chaos forces and immortal Phoenix Lords would lead Eldar defenses in the Belial IV System, attempting to destroy a dark cathedral erected by the Word Bearers. The Eldar would also engage Ahriman of the Thousand Sons after the sorcerer managed to breach the Webway in a hunt for the mysterious Black Library.

恐惧之眼周围的许多老妪世界受到混沌部队的攻击，不朽的凤凰领主将领导贝利亚四号星系中的灵族防御，试图摧毁怀言者建造的一座黑暗大教堂。在巫师设法突破网道寻找神秘的黑色图书馆后，灵族还与千子的阿里曼交战。

Elsewhere, Lord Thybault Helican XXIII lead the defense of the Thracian Primaris system of Scarus Sector against a rising tide of deviant cultists. Many Astropaths died and the Lord Jiudiciary of the Adeptus Arbites of Thracian Primaris reported a 400% increased activity of deviant cults.

在其他地方，领主蒂博·赫利肯23世领导了斯卡鲁斯星区色雷斯主星星系的防御，以抵御日益高涨的异常邪教徒。许多星语者死亡，色雷斯主星的法务部领主朱迪卡里报告说，异常教派的活动增加了400%。

While the forces of Cadia managed to hold off the Chaos armies in a bloody stalemate, the Imperial Navy would receive reinforcements from Cypra Mundi and launch a counterattack to drive Abaddon's forces back into the Cadian Gate. Using these resources to his advantage, Admiral Quarren managed to defeat Chaos fleets many times the size of his own, allowing a flood of Imperial reinforcements to break the Chaos blockades of Cadia and the Scelus Sector. In the Belis Corona System, the entirety of Battlefleet Gothic would storm into the fray. The Imperial Navy was staking everything on this final, sector-wide retaliation; if it were to fail, the whole of Battlefleet Obscurus would be so weakened it would have no hope of repelling Abaddon's invasion.

卡迪亚的部队在血腥的僵局中成功击退了混沌军队，帝国海军从赛普拉·蒙迪那里得到增援，并发动反击，将阿巴顿的部队赶回卡迪亚之门。利用这些资源，夸伦海军上将成功击败了比他自己大很多倍的混沌舰队，让帝国增援部队大量涌入，打破了混沌对卡迪亚和斯凯鲁斯星区的封锁。在贝利斯·科罗纳星系中，整个哥特舰队都加入了战斗。帝国海军把一切都押在了这场最后的、全星区范围的报复行动上；如果它失败了，整个朦胧星域舰队将被削弱到无法击退阿巴顿的入侵。

While the Imperial Navy reinforcements bolstered the defenses of Battlefleet Cadia, Abaddon would unveil the next step in his plan. The Word Bearers Legion, led by the Dark Apostle Erebus, would enact terrible rituals on the world they had captured, unleashing Warp Storms and hordes of Daemons across outlying sectors around the Eye of Terror such as Scelus and Caliban. Cut off from aid, these sectors were ravaged by the powers of Chaos. Imperial forces would not falter however, and a counterattack led by Creed and the White Scars Chapter was launched on and from Cadia, engaging Chaos forces throughout the sector in a surprise move of resolve. After holding out for many long weeks of stubborn resistance, the defenders of the Cadian Gate received further aid when reinforcements from dozens of Space Marine Chapters finally began to arrive. Among them were the Blood Angels, who assaulted the largest horde of World Eaters encountered in living memory on the world of Kasr Partox and defeated the forces of Kossolax and a Bloodthirster on Agripinaa. Meanwhile, the Dark Angels under Supreme Grand Master Azrael and the Space Wolves under Great Wolf Logan Grimnar engaged the forces of Typhus on Macharia, Korolis, and Kasr Sonnen, managing to put aside their past differences and bitter rivalry.

虽然帝国海军增援部队加强了卡迪亚舰队的防御，但阿巴顿公布其计划的下一步。由黑暗使徒艾瑞巴斯领导的怀言者军团将在他们占领的世界上实施可怕的仪式，在恐惧之眼周围的偏远星区，如斯凯鲁斯和卡利班，释放亚空间风暴和成群的恶魔。这些星区与援助隔绝，被混沌部队蹂躏。然而，帝国军队并没有动摇，由克里德和白色伤疤战团领导的反击从卡迪亚发起，与整个星区的混沌部队进行了一次令人惊讶的决心行动。在坚持了数周的顽强抵抗后，当数十个星际战士战团的增援部队终于开始抵达时，卡迪亚之门的守军得到了进一步的援助。其中包括圣血天使，他们袭击了帕托克斯堡世界记忆中遇到的最大的吞世者部落，并在阿格里皮纳击败了科索拉克斯的军队和一个嗜血狂魔。与此同时，至高大导师阿兹瑞尔领导下的黑暗天使和头狼罗根·格里姆纳尔领导下的太空野狼在马卡里亚、克罗利斯和索宁堡与泰丰斯的部队交战，设法搁置了他们过去的分歧和激烈的竞争。

Further reinforcements across the theatre of war included the Black Templars and Imperial Fists. Lord Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz would also appear in the waves of reinforcements, leading strike forces of Grey Knights against Daemons in the Agripinnaa Sector as well as on Kasr Holn and Xersia. The White Scars under Khajog Khan also arrived, forcing Abaddon to lift the sieges of three Cadian Kasrs before being entrapped and destroyed in a bloody fight to the end. With so many of the legendary Space Marines arriving, the Imperium was at long last able to see a real chance of turning back Abaddon's Thirteenth Black Crusade.

战场上的进一步增援包括黑色圣堂和帝国之拳。领主审判官托尔克马达·科特兹也将出现在增援部队的浪潮中，率领灰骑士打击阿格里皮纳星区以及霍林堡和瑟西亚的恶魔。哈乔格可汗领导下的白色伤疤也到达了，迫使阿巴顿解除了对三个卡迪亚堡垒的围困，然后在一场血腥的战斗中被困住并摧毁。随着如此多的传奇星际战士的到来，帝国终于看到了扭转阿巴顿第十三次黑色远征的真正机会。

However, the rituals of Erebus of the Word Bearers reached their peak shortly after the arrival of Space Marine reinforcements. Through the sacrifice of a million innocents, the entire region around the Eye of Terror was attacked by a Warp storm so intense that inter-system travel was rendered impossible and cutting the warzone off from further Imperial reinforcements. Taking advantage of this, Typhus would unleash the full strength of the Death Guard upon the Agripinaa Sector, which now was reduced to ruins. The most chilling development for the Imperium however was the slow encroachment of the Planet Killer upon Cadia itself as the war entered its final stages. The Imperium's problems were further compounded by xenos forces, even at this late stage in the war. A Tyranid splinter of Hive Fleet Leviathan began to encroach on Segmentum Obscurus and assault Belis Corona while warbands of Orks ravaged the Scarus Sector in what became known as the Green Krusade.

然而，在星际战士增援部队抵达后不久，怀言者的艾瑞巴斯的仪式达到了顶峰。通过一百万无辜者的牺牲，恐惧之眼周围的整个地区都遭到了一场如此强烈的亚空间风暴的袭击，以至于星系间的航行变得不可能，并切断了战区与帝国进一步增援的联系。利用这一点，泰丰斯向阿格里皮纳星区释放死亡守卫的全部力量，该星区现在已沦为废墟。然而，帝国最令人不寒而栗的事态发展是，随着战争进入最后阶段，行星杀手对卡迪亚本身的缓慢入侵。即使在战争的后期，帝国的问题也因异型部队而进一步加剧。虫巢舰队利维坦的一支泰伦分支开始侵占朦胧星域并袭击贝利斯·科罗纳，而欧克的战帮则在后来被称为绿色远征的斯凯鲁斯星区肆虐。

Rumors persisted among Imperial sources that the Daemon Primarchs have returned at the helm of the Crusade to herald in the End Times.

帝国消息来源中一直有传言称，恶魔原体已经重新掌舵远征，预示着终结之刻的到来。

Fall of Cadia 卡迪亚陨落

Though the Volscani attack and the wave of chaos that swept through Cadia after it caused much damage, after several months of fighting the Imperium had reestablished its hold on the Fortress World and many considered the worst of the crisis to have passed. Most of the major Kasr fortress-cities of Cadia had been retaken and Chaos fleets had been scattered across the Cadian Gate. Such was the confidence of many Imperials that victory celebrations were already being actively planned. However in truth, the attacks so far were merely the first wave in Abaddon’s grand campaign. Opposing him were the shattered remaining Imperial defenders consisting of Creed and the Cadian Shock Troops including the Cadian 8th, Space Wolves under Orven Highfell and Sven Bloodhowl, the Dark Angels 4th Company under Korahael, Black Templars of the Cruxis Crusade under Marshal Marius Amalrich, the Order of Our Martyred Lady under Eleanor and Genevieve, House Raven under Vardus, and various other hodgepodge surviving formations.

尽管沃斯卡尼的袭击和席卷卡迪亚的混乱浪潮造成了巨大的破坏，但经过几个月的战斗，帝国重新建立了对要塞世界的控制，许多人认为这场危机最糟糕的时期已经过去。卡迪亚的大部分主要堡垒要塞城市已被夺回，混沌舰队分散在卡迪亚之门。这就是许多帝国人的信心，胜利庆典已经在积极策划中。然而，事实上，到目前为止，这些袭击只是阿巴顿的伟大战役的第一波。与他相对的是由克里德和卡迪亚突击军组成的残破帝国守军，包括卡迪亚第八兵团、奥尔文·高落和斯文·血嚎领导的太空野狼、科拉海尔领导的黑暗天使第四连队、马吕斯·阿马里奇元帅领导的黑色圣堂的克鲁西斯远征、埃莉诺和吉纳维芙领导的我们的殉教女士修会、瓦杜斯领导的渡鸦家族以及其他各种幸存者的大杂烩编队。

The first indication that something was amiss was when a Imperial picket fleet under Admiral Quarren detected a massive Chaos armada exiting Warp space near the Cadian system. The Chaos fleet was of unparalleled size and included such infamous vessels as the Terminus Est. Worst of all however was a massive Blackstone Fortress, the Will of Eternity, aboard which Abaddon now made his command center. While Quarren led a valiant defense from the Emperor Class Battleship Might of the Faithful, the Imperials were annihilated after only 77 minutes.

出现问题的第一个迹象是，夸伦上将率领的帝国警戒舰队发现一支庞大的混沌舰队正离开卡迪亚星系附近的亚空间空域。混沌舰队的规模无与伦比，包括终焉号等著名的战舰。然而，最糟糕的是一座巨大的黑石堡垒，永恒意志号，阿巴顿现在将其作为指挥中心。夸伦率领帝皇级战列舰忠实力量号进行了英勇的防御，帝国仅在77分钟后就被歼灭。

Creed, still the commanding officer on Cadia, responded to the disappearance of Quarren’s fleet by immediately holding a new council of war alongside the likes of Wolf Lord Sven Bloodhowl, Master Korahael, Inquisitor Talia Daverna, Canoness Eleanor of the Order of Our Martyred Lady, and Magos Klarn. However, despite Creed’s best efforts to create a unified command to counter the coming attack, the various Imperial factions present still proved too stubborn and rebellious. Creed lamented that he did not have one true army from which to defend Cadia, but many smaller independent forces with their own agendas.

克里德仍然是卡迪亚的指挥官，他对夸伦舰队的失踪做出了回应，立即与狼主斯文·血嚎、科拉海尔导师、审判官塔莉娅·达韦尔纳、我们的殉教女士修会的大修女埃莉诺和贤者克拉恩等人成立了新的战争议会。然而，尽管克里德尽最大努力建立一个统一的指挥部来应对即将到来的袭击，但在场的各帝国派系仍然过于顽固和叛逆。克里德哀叹，他没有一支真正的军队来保卫卡迪亚，而是有许多有自己议程的较小的独立部队。

Meanwhile, Trazyn the Infinite's collection on Solemnace was devastated in upheavals. This provoked him into action, and using the Celestial Orrery he traced he disturbances to the Eye of Terror. Trazyn was moved to resolve the crisis by going to Cadia. At the same time, Mechanicum Magos Belisarius Cawl was instructed by the Harlequin Shadowseer Sylandri Veilwalker to investigate a long-abandoned planet devastated in the 4th Black Crusade. On the world he discovered the presence of Pylons much like Cadia and is then instructed by Veilwalker to head to Cadia. The Imperials also had reinforcements heading to Cadia in the form of the Phalanx, which had just defeated a Chaos invasion of its own.

与此同时，无尽者塔拉辛在上的收藏在索勒纳姆斯的动荡中遭到破坏。这促使他采取行动，并利用璀璨星图将他的骚乱追溯到恐惧之眼。塔拉辛前往卡迪亚解决危机。与此同时，丑角暗影先知西兰德里·帷幕行者指示机械教贤者贝利撒留·考尔调查一颗在第四次黑色远征中被摧毁的长期被遗弃的星球。在这个世界上，他发现了与卡迪亚非常相似的方尖碑的存在，然后帷幕行者指示他前往卡迪亚。帝国还以山阵号的形式向卡迪亚增援，山阵号刚刚击败了对自己的混沌入侵。

Saint Celestine appears on the battlefield 圣塞勒斯汀出现在战场上

As Creed planned what move to make next on Cadia, Bloodhowl and his Firehowlers Great Company alongside many other Space Marine Chapters struck directly for the Will of Eternity itself and launched a bold boarding action. While the Marines were able to penetrate deep into the fortress and even attack Abaddon himself, they were no match for the Warmaster’s might and Bloodhowl was forced to lead a retreat. During the withdrawal, Bloodhowl’s boarding craft was shot down and plunged into the Blackstone Fortress.

当克里德计划下一步在卡迪亚采取什么行动时，血嚎和他的火嚎大连以及许多其他星际战士战团直接与永恒意志号交战，并发起了大胆的跳帮行动。虽然星际战士能够深入堡垒，甚至攻击阿巴顿本人，但他们无法与战帅的力量相匹敌，血嚎被迫领导撤退。在撤退过程中，血嚎的跳帮艇被击落，坠入黑石要塞。

After defeating the boarding attempt Bloodhowl, Abaddon immediately positioned the Will of Eternity over Cadia and prepared to use its massive Warp gun to destroy its many Kasr fortresses. He also acceded to the demands of his half-daemonic Khornate Chosen Urkrathos to be allowed to lead the Hounds of Abaddon in a surface assault. Their main objective was to disable the Pylons emitting null-fields around Kasr Kraf, which would interfere with the Warp Gun of the Will of Eternity. Urkrathos and his warriors slaughtered their way across a citadel of the Sisters of Battle near Kasr Kraf while the bulk of his army besieged the Dark Angels inside their own cruiser. Meanwhile, Krom Gat led an attack to pin the Imperial armies at Kasr Kraf in place, coming into direct conflict with the Iron Wolves Great Company.

在击败了血嚎的跳帮尝试后，阿巴顿立即将永恒意志号定位在卡迪亚上空，并准备使用其巨大的亚空间炮摧毁其许多要塞堡垒。他还同意了半恶魔的恐虐神选厄奎索斯的要求，允许他带领阿巴顿的猎犬进行表面攻击。他们的主要目标是使在克拉夫堡周围发射虚无立场的方尖碑失效，这将干扰永恒意志号的亚空间炮。厄奎索斯和他的战士们屠杀了克拉夫堡附近的一座战斗修女城堡，而他的大部分军队则将黑暗天使围困在他们自己的巡洋舰内。与此同时，克罗姆·盖特率领进攻，将帝国军队固定在克拉夫堡，与铁狼大连发生直接冲突。

After hours of heavy fighting, Urkrathos pushed through the determined Ecclesiarchy defense and claimed the Sororitas Shrine. The act proved the final push to allow for the warrior of Khorne to ascend to Daemonhood, and he merged with his Daemonic familiar Artesia. The newly elevated Daemon of Khorne then led the final attack against the Sisters of Battle, grievously wounding the twin Cannonesses Genevieve and Eleanor. While the Chaos forces were successful in claiming the shrine and allowing the Will of Eternity to begin its bombardment, the Iron Warriors under Krom Gat were pushed back at Kasr Kraf by the Iron Wolves. It was now obvious that Kasr Kraf was Abaddon's chief target, and as a result most Imperial forces across Cadia began to congregate there. Urkrathos was undeterred, and led a massive offensive against Kasr Kraf.

经过数小时的激烈战斗，厄奎索斯突破了坚定的教会的防御，并声称占领了修女会圣地。这一行为证明了最后一次推动，让恐虐的战士升格为恶魔王子，他与他熟悉的恶魔阿特西亚合体了。新晋升的恐虐恶魔随后领导了对战斗修女的最后一次进攻，重伤了双胞胎大修女吉纳维芙和埃莉诺。当混沌部队成功夺取圣地并允许永恒意志号开始轰炸时，克罗姆·盖特领导的钢铁勇士在克拉夫堡被铁狼击退。现在很明显，克拉夫堡是阿巴顿的主要目标，因此，卡迪亚各地的大多数帝国军队开始聚集在那里。厄奎索斯没有被吓倒，并领导了对卡拉夫堡的大规模进攻。

After many long grueling battles, the Black Legion-led assault finally reached the gates of Kasr Kraf. This was aided in no small part by Urkrathos, who raised his own dead and reinvigorated them as mindless blood-crazed warriors of Khorne. The Chaos forces took grievous losses in the faced of disciplined Kasrkin, but their sheer supernatural might allowed them to ultimately prevail. Meanwhile, Abaddon's intelligence chief Cacadius Siron consumed the brains of a recovered Cadian trooper, discovering that large amounts of Space Wolves remained aboard the Will of Eternity and were heading towards the vessels Void Shield generator region.

经过许多漫长而艰苦的战斗，黑色军团领导的进攻终于到达了克拉夫堡的大门。这在很大程度上得到了厄奎索斯的帮助，他复活了自己的死者，并使他们重新成为恐虐无脑的嗜血战士。面对训练有素的卡舍津，混沌部队遭受了巨大的损失，但他们纯粹的超自然力量使他们最终获胜。与此同时，阿巴顿的首席情报官卡卡迪乌斯·西隆消耗了一名恢复的卡迪亚士兵的大脑，发现大量太空野狼仍留在永恒意志号上，正朝着战舰的虚空盾发生器区域前进。

By now, the Kasrkin at Kasr Kraf were killing one Berzerker for every thirty of their own, losses that were unacceptable to any Space Marine force. Even more problematic for the Chaos forces, more powerful Daemons like Bloodletters could not manifest so close to the Null-array. Urkrathos was thus only aided by Flesh Hounds when a counterattack by the Black Templars under Marshal Amalrich emerged from their defences. Covertly, Trazyn the Infinite had by this point landed on Cadia and was secretly aiding the Imperial defenders with his own Deathmarks. Trazyn and his warriors even disabled a Chaos Baneblade discreetly. Amid the chaotic fighting at the gates of Kasr Kraf, Eleanor and Genevieve reappeared to attack Urkrathos. In the ensuing battle, Urkrathos killed both of the Cannonesses. Meanwhile, aboard of the Will of Eternity, Abaddon's adoptive "daughter" Morkath led hunting parties to try and stop the Space Wolves.

到目前为止，克拉夫堡的卡舍津每30人就杀死一名狂战士，这是任何星际战士都无法接受的损失。对于混沌部队来说，更大的问题是，像放血鬼这样更强大的恶魔无法在如此接近虚无阵列的地方出现。因此，当阿尔里奇元帅率领的黑色圣堂的反击从他们的防御中出现时，厄奎索斯只得到了血肉猎犬的帮助。此时，无限者塔拉辛已经秘密降落在卡迪亚，并用自己的死亡印记秘密协助帝国守军。塔拉辛和他的战士们甚至谨慎地残废了混沌毒刃。在克拉夫堡大门的混乱战斗中，埃莉诺和吉纳维芙再次出现，袭击了厄奎索斯。在随后的战斗中， 厄奎索斯杀死了两名大修女。与此同时，在永恒意志号上，阿巴顿收养的“女儿”莫卡斯带领狩猎队试图阻止太空野狼。

By now, Urkrathos had finally reached the Null-Array of Kasr Kraf, slaughtering Mechanicum troops before him and destroying the infernal device which was poison to his Daemonic kin. Just then, Saint Celestine emerged to attack the Khornate warrior directly. While Urkrathos was defeated in the renewed attack led by Celestine, he welcomed his temporary banishment to the Warp as he knew Abaddon would soon open fire with the Warp Gun of the Will of Eternity and annihilate his killers.

此时，厄奎索斯终于到达了克拉夫堡的虚空阵列，屠杀了他面前的机械教部队，摧毁了对他的恶魔裔有毒的炼狱装置。就在那时，圣塞勒斯汀出现了，直接攻击了恐虐战士。虽然厄奎索斯在塞勒斯汀领导的新一轮攻击中被击败，但他欢迎他暂时被放逐到亚空间，因为他知道阿巴顿很快就会用永恒意志号的亚空间炮开火并消灭他的杀害者。

Meanwhile aboard the Blackstone Fortress itself, Morkath and Siron reached the Space Wolves but were shocked to find that the Legion of the Damned had arrived to aid them. The Chaos counterattack would have been pushed back had Abaddon not arrived, using his might to defeat even the ghostly warriors. Abaddon mortally wounded Sven Bloodhowl, but it soon became apparent that he had fallen into the Wolf Lord's trap as the Phalanx appeared and unleashed a punishing salvo at the Will of Eternity. Abaddon and his lieutenants were forced to teleport away. The Phalanx disabled the Will of Eternity and cleared Cadia's skies of hostile aircraft. While Kasr Kraf was secure for the time being, the Inquisition judged the situation doomed and recommended virus bombing Cadia to spare it from the Archenemy.

与此同时，在黑石堡垒本体上，莫卡斯和西隆抵达了太空野狼，但震惊地发现咒缚军团已经到来帮助他们。如果阿巴顿没有到达，混沌的反击就会被击退，他利用自己的力量甚至击败了幽灵般的战士。阿巴顿致命地打伤了斯文·血嚎，但很快就发现，随着山阵号的出现，他掉进了狼主的陷阱，并对永恒意志号发动了一场惩罚性的齐射。阿巴顿和他的副官们被迫远程传送。山阵号摧毁了永恒意志号，清除了卡迪亚天空中的敌舰。虽然克拉夫堡暂时是安全的，但审判庭认为情况注定要失败，并建议对卡迪亚进行病毒轰炸，以使其免受大敌的攻击。

Creed held a new council, this time with new faces from the Phalanx present including Belisarius Cawl , Tor Garadon, Baroness Vardus of House Raven, Ruis Tracinto and his Crimson Fists, and now even Trazyn. Such was the desperate situation for the Imperium that they even agreed to a temporary alliance with the Xeno construct. Cawl laid out his plan to amplify the Cadian Pylons, pushing back the Chaos horde and perhaps even weakening the Eye of Terror itself. However as they made their preparations, Abaddon identified the position of the Imperial council and personally led an assault with his elite. As the Imperials desperately evacuated Creed via Valkyrie gunship, his faithful standard bearer Jarran Kell gave his life staying behind to hold back the enemy. The valiant Cadian fell personally battling Abaddon. The Chaos forces next drove towards where Cawl and Trazyn were working, forcing the two scientists to personally sweep aside the enemy as Creed arrived with fresh Vostroyan reinforcements to lead a counterattack.

克里德举行了一次新的会议，这次有来自山阵号的新面孔出席，包括贝利撒留·考尔、托尔·加拉顿、渡鸦家族的瓦杜斯女爵、鲁伊斯·特拉辛托和他的绯红之拳，现在甚至还有塔拉辛。帝国的情况如此绝望，以至于他们甚至同意与异型结构建立临时联盟。考尔制定了他的计划，以增强卡迪亚方尖碑，击退混沌部落，甚至可能削弱恐惧之眼本身。然而，在他们做准备的时候，阿巴顿确定了帝国会议的位置，并亲自率领他的精英发动了进攻。当帝国通过瓦尔基里炮艇绝望地撤离克里德时，他忠实的旗手贾兰·凯尔献出了生命，留下来阻挡敌人。英勇的卡迪亚人亲自与阿巴顿作战。混沌部队随后向考尔和塔拉辛工作的地方冲去，迫使这两名科学家亲自将敌人扫地出门，随后克里德带着新的沃斯托尼亚增援部队抵达，领导反击。

It was then that Abaddon emerged before Cawl and Trazyn, rapidly turning the tide of the battle in the favor of Chaos. Trazyn then used his many Tesseract Labyrinths to summon a whole army before him, including the Heresy-era Lieutenant Commander Cerantes of the Ultramarines. After being forced to kill Cerantes, Abaddon renewed his advance but found that Cawl and Trazyn had escaped. The Warmaster then was assailed by the combined might of what Creed had arrived with, including Kasrkin, Space Wolves accompanied by Wulfen, Black Templars led by the Emperor's Champion, and the Adeptus Custodes. Trazyn continued to summon new slaves from his collection, including the missing Inquisitor Katarinya Greyfax. Saint Celestine arrived at the head of a new Sororitas host, diving into battle against the Despoiler. Under this combined assault even Abaddon began to weaken and he took immense damage. Cawl and Trazyn were able to reactivate the Pylons, causing Abaddon's daemonic allies to vanish before its effects and also weakening Celestine, allowing Abaddon to finally best the Living Saint. Abaddon then moved next on his original target, Creed, and an unequal duel broke out. As Abaddon struck down Creed, a wounded Celestine stabbed the Warmaster through the back. The wound forced Abaddon to teleport away, knowing that soon the reactivated pylons would strand him on Cadia.

就在那时，阿巴顿出现在考尔和塔拉辛面前，迅速扭转了战斗的局势，使其有利于混沌。然后，塔拉辛利用他的许多超立方体迷宫召集了一整支军队，其中包括叛乱时期的极限战士副指挥官卡兰提斯。在被迫杀死卡兰提斯后，阿巴顿再次推进，但发现考尔和塔拉辛已经逃脱。然后，战帅受到了克里德所带来的综合力量的攻击，包括卡舍津、狼人陪同的太空野狼、帝皇冠军领导的黑色圣堂和禁军。塔拉辛继续从他的收藏中召唤新的奴隶，包括失踪的审判官卡塔丽娜·格雷法克斯。圣塞勒斯汀率领新的修女会天军，深入与掠夺者的战斗中。在这次联合攻击下，甚至阿巴顿也开始衰弱，他受到了巨大的伤害。考尔和塔拉辛能够重新激活方尖碑，导致阿巴顿的恶魔盟友在其影响面前消失，也削弱了塞勒斯汀，使阿巴顿最终战胜了活圣人。阿巴顿随后向他的原初目标克里德移动，一场不平等的决斗爆发了。当阿巴顿击倒克里德时，受伤的塞勒斯汀从背后捅了战帅一刀。伤口迫使阿巴顿远程传送，因为他知道很快被重新激活的方尖碑就会把他困在卡迪亚。

Back aboard the Vengeful Spirit, Abaddon received word from Morkath aboard the Will of Eternity that she still lived and was preparing to use the Fortress to conquer Cadia and eventually Terra itself. However Abaddon had other plans, and betrayed his own creation by using the Vengeful Spirit to push the Will of Eternity into Cadia's gravitational pull. The Fortress smashed into Cadia, causing massive destruction and forcing many Imperials to begin to evacuate. The Imperial evacuation plans had been worked out at the time of the 2nd Black Crusade, however, and were often completely outdated, confused, and just not feasible. Furthermore, the Inquistion had secretly drafted the "Extremis Protocols", effectively forbidding an evacuation of Cadia due to the risks of corruption being spread by its overly Chaos-exposed defenders. Creed had covertly worked against the "Extremis Protocols", however, and augmented as well as updated the old evacuation plans which he triggered after the Will of Eternity's crash. An attempt by high-ranking Inquisitor Talia Daverna to prevent the entire evacuation was overruled by Greyfax, and Daverna was later shot by Cadians when she continued her blocking efforts.

回到复仇之魂号上，阿巴顿收到了永恒意志号上莫卡斯的消息，她仍然活着，并准备利用要塞征服卡迪亚，最终征服泰拉本身。然而，阿巴顿另有计划，他利用复仇之魂号将永恒意志号推向卡迪亚的引力井，背叛了自己的造物。要塞猛攻卡迪亚，造成巨大破坏，迫使许多帝国军开始撤离。然而，帝国的疏散计划是在第二次黑色远征时制定的，而且往往完全过时、混乱，根本不可行。此外，审判庭还秘密起草了“极端协议”，有效地禁止了卡迪亚的撤离，因为其过度暴露于混沌的防御者有传播腐化的风险。然而，克里德曾秘密反对“极端协议”，并在永恒意志号崩溃后加强和更新了他触发的旧疏散计划。高级审判官塔莉娅·达韦尔纳阻止整个疏散的企图被格雷法克斯否决，达韦尔纳后来在继续封锁时被卡迪亚人枪杀。

Cadia dies 卡迪亚毁灭

Many Cadian units subsequently tried to follow the orders as well as they could, fighting through enemy lines to reach evacuation points. In the orbit, Imperial Navy ships desperately struggled to pick up survivors, even as they were beset by Chaos vessels and the expanding Warp due to the collapsing pylons. In contrast, the forces of Chaos simply abandoned most of their armies on Cadia, leaving millions of Traitor Guardsmen and cultists to die.

许多卡迪亚部队随后试图尽可能地遵守命令，穿过敌人的防线到达疏散点。在轨道上，帝国海军舰艇拼命地营救幸存者，尽管他们被混沌战舰和因方尖碑倒塌而扩大的亚空间所包围。相比之下，混沌部队只是放弃了他们在卡迪亚的大部分军队，留下数百万叛徒卫队和邪教徒死亡。

Meanwhile, with the pylons failing, Celestine was back at her maximum power and led a withdrawal of Imperial forces from doomed Cadia. As Creed and parts of his Cadian 8th held the line against the returned Daemonic legions, the Imperials fled Cadia as the planet was dragged into the Warp. The Phalanx led the surviving Imperial vessels out of the system. Aboard the Vengeful Spirit, Abaddon was told by one of his seers that Cawl has a precious artifact aboard his vessel. What the artifact was was not known, but Abaddon considered it of immense importance and he began an attempt to capture Cawl's ship. The Black Legion's warships assailed the Imperial evacuation fleet just as it was about to jump into the Warp. Cawl's ship was captured just as the Phalanx and Imperial warships jumped into the Immaterium. Aboard Cawl's vessel, the Magos and Inquisitor Greyfax were guided by Celestine's vision to seek salvation on the outer planet of the system, Kalisus. Fleeing the Black Legion fleet, they arrived on the prophesied world and landed on it with Cawl's artifact. Accompanying this force were Black Templars and Tempestus Scions.

与此同时，随着方尖碑的失效，塞勒斯汀恢复了最大的力量，带领帝国军队从注定失败的卡迪亚撤军。当克里德和他的卡迪亚第八兵团的一部分守住了对抗返回的恶魔军团的防线时，帝国逃离了卡迪亚，因为这个行星被拖入了亚空间。山阵号带领幸存的帝国战舰离开了星系。在复仇之魂号上，阿巴顿的一位先知告诉他，考尔的战舰上有一件珍贵的圣物。这件圣物是什么尚不清楚，但阿巴顿认为它非常重要，他开始试图夺取考尔的船。黑色军团的战舰在帝国疏散舰队即将跳入亚空间时袭击了它。就在山阵号和帝国战舰跳入非物质界时，考尔的船被捕获。在考尔的船上，贤者和审判官格雷法克斯在塞勒斯汀的幻象指引下，在行星的外行星卡利苏斯寻求救赎。他们逃离了黑色军团舰队，抵达了预言中的世界，并带着考尔的造物降落在那里。与这支部队同行的是黑色圣堂和暴风忠嗣。

However the Imperials were followed by the Black Legion, and Cawl fled with his artifact as the Black Templars led by the Emperor's Champion fought a rearguard action. Just as the Imperials seemed doomed, Celestine led the Black Legion into an Eldar trap led by Eldrad Ulthran. Drawn from Ulthwé, Biel-Tan, and other Craftworlds as well as Wyches, the Black Legion was ultimately forced to retreat. After the Eldar saved the Imperials, they guided them into a Webway Portal.

然而，帝国被黑色军团紧随其后，考尔带着他的造物逃跑了，帝皇冠军领导的黑色圣堂进行了后卫行动。正当帝国军似乎注定要灭亡时，塞勒斯汀带领黑色军团进入了埃尔德拉德·乌斯兰领导的灵族陷阱。被乌斯维，比耶-坦和其他方舟世界以及巫灵牵引，黑色军团最终被迫撤退。灵族拯救帝国军后，引导他们进入网道门户。

The surviving Imperial defenders are guided by the Eldar into the Webway 幸存的帝国守军在灵族的指引下进入网道

Secondary Invasions 二次入侵

Although the majority of the 13th Black Crusade was fought near the Cadian Gate, the general chaos of the incursion allowed several splinter fleets to break off from the forces spilling from the Eye of Terror, and wreak havoc much farther afield.

尽管第13次黑色远征的大部分是在卡迪亚之门附近进行的，但入侵的普遍混乱使几支分裂的舰队从恐惧之眼溢出的部队中脱离出来，并在更远的地方造成严重破坏。

One such splinter fleet, under the command of Warmaster Varan the Undefeatable, made for the planet Perlia, Varan having learned of the existence of the Shadowlight, an immensely powerful xenos artifact that could awaken the powers of latent psykers and, worse, could have triggered the expansion of the Eye of Terror that Abaddon sought. Varan came to the planet on the Despoiler's orders, having pledged to retrieve the artifact.

一支这样的分裂舰队，在战帅无敌者瓦兰的指挥下，前往珀利亚行星，瓦兰得知了暗影之光的存在，这是一种非常强大的异型造物，可以唤醒潜在的灵能者的力量，更糟糕的是，可能会引发阿巴顿所寻求的恐惧之眼的扩张。瓦兰是在掠夺者的命令下来到这个行星的，他承诺要取回这件神器。

The artifact was being kept in a Mechanicus shrine under the joint control of the Mechanicus and the Ordo Xenos, but the planet as a whole was woefully undefended. However, at the center of the Imperial forces were the faculty of the Schola Progenium, which included battle-hardened veterans from the Imperial Navy, the Guard, the Celestians of the Adepta Sororitas, and, last but not least, the celebrated Hero of the Imperium, Commissar Ciaphas Cain. These veterans were able to muster the citizens of Perlia into a halfway competent PDF, and drilled their own students into a surprisingly effective fighting force, in conjunction with the Mechanicus and Inquisitorial soldiery at the shrine.

这件造物被保存在一个由机械教和攘外修会共同控制的机械教圣地中，但整个行星都没有防御。然而，帝国军队的中心是忠嗣学院的教员，其中包括来自帝国海军、卫队、修女会的洁天使的久经沙场的老兵，以及最后但同样重要的是，著名的帝国英雄、政委凯法斯·凯恩。这些老兵能够将珀利亚的公民征召成一个半吊子的PDF，并与圣地的机械教和审判庭士兵一起，将自己的学生训练成一支令人惊讶的有效战斗力量。

During the final defense of the shrine, Cain and his aide, Ferik Jurgen, defeated Varan in hand-to-hand combat, and his force was annihilated by the surprise appearance of a Necron scouting force. The Imperial forces were able to evacuate before the Necrons arrived. Although the Shadowlight was lost to the Necrons, Inquisitor Amberley Vail conceded that this was preferable to the disastrous consequences of allowing Abaddon to possess it.

在圣地的最后防御中，凯恩和他的副官费里克·尤根在肉搏战中击败了瓦兰，他的部队被死灵侦察部队的突然出现所歼灭。帝国军队能够在死灵到达之前撤离。尽管暗影之光陷给了亡灵，但审判官安伯利·维尔承认，这比允许阿巴顿拥有它的灾难性后果要好。

Another splinter fleet, under the command of Urkrathos, Chosen of Abaddon, was dispatched to the Dark Mechanicus Forge World of Chaeronia, to retrieve an ancient Castigator-class Titan, along with an army of lesser Titans, but these were destroyed first by a small strike group of the Grey Knights. Urkrathos razed most of the planet to the ground in fury, but was forced to withdraw empty-handed.

另一支分裂的舰队，在阿巴顿亲选的厄奎索斯的指挥下，被派往喀罗尼亚的黑暗机械教铸造世界，与一支较小的泰坦军队一起夺回一个古老的惩戒者级泰坦，但这些泰坦首先被一小队灰骑士摧毁。厄奎索斯愤怒地将行星的大部分夷为平地，但被迫空手而归。

Another major invasion took place in the Diamor System, where the Black Legion Sorcerer Xorphas led an invasion of the System in the intent to expand the Crimson Path.

另一次重大入侵发生在迪马默星系，黑色军团巫师索法斯率领入侵该星系，意图扩大深红之路。

Other Battles 其他战斗

• Defence of the Basilica of St.Lysias — Dark Angels fought with the Traitors.

• 保卫圣莱西亚斯大教堂 — 黑暗天使与叛徒作战。

• The Battle of the Boros Gate — Major Word Bearers attack shortly before the commencement of the Black Crusade.

• 博罗斯之门之战 — 黑色远征开始前不久，主要怀言者发动袭击。

• The Mendox Cataclysm 门多克斯大灾变

Aftermath 余波

Of the population of Cadia, only around three million survived the planet's destruction and Lord Castellan Creed was missing and presumed dead. But far worse was the aftermath of Cadia's destruction. With the planet destroyed, the Pylons holding back the Eye of Terror faltered and the first step of Abaddon's Crimson Path apparently succeeded. This is one of the key theories for why the Great Rift formed and subsequently divided the galaxy in two with a series of massive Warp Rifts. After Cadia's destruction, the Black Legion continued to rampage across Imperial space, coming into conflict with Ultramar in the Ultramar Campaign. Black Legion forces collected the remains of Cadia's shattered Pylons and stored them aboard their warships, using the Warp-negating effects to try and cut off Warp travel to Terra by dropping them at strategic locations along the Throneworld's Warp routes. Nearly all the Warp routes to Terra were closed, but the Black Legion's plan was foiled by the Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence at the Battle of Vorlese. As for the Despoiler himself, he was not seen again until the War of Beasts on Vigilus.

在卡迪亚的人口中，只有大约300万人在行星的毁灭中幸存下来，领主堡主克里德失踪并被推定死亡。但更糟糕的是卡迪亚被摧毁的后果。随着行星的毁灭，遏制恐惧之眼的方尖碑衰退，阿巴顿深红之路的第一步显然取得了成功。这是解释为什么大裂隙形成并随后通过一系列巨大的亚空间将银河系一分为二的关键理论之一。卡迪亚被摧毁后，黑色军团继续在帝国空域横冲直撞，在奥特拉玛战役中与奥特拉玛发生冲突。黑色军团部队收集了卡迪亚破碎的方尖碑的残骸，并将其存放在他们的战舰上，利用其抵消亚空间的效果，试图通过将它们投放在王座世界亚空间路线沿线的战略位置来切断亚空间前往泰拉的航线。几乎所有通往泰拉的亚空间航线都被关闭了，但黑色军团的计划在沃勒斯之战中被禁军和寂静修女挫败了。至于掠夺者本人，直到警戒星的野兽战争才再次出现。

Around the same time as Cadia's destruction, Roboute Guilliman was reborn thanks to the temporary alliance between Imperial forces and the Eldar. After the Terran Crusade, he returned to the Imperial Throneworld and resumed his duties as Lord Commander of the Imperium. The Great Rift created in the wake of the 13th Black Crusade ravaged the Galaxy, with even Terra itself coming under assault from Daemonic forces. The newly reappointed Lord Commander Guilliman organized the Indomitus Crusade to reclaim territory, particularly beyond the cut-off region of Imperial space now known as Imperium Nihilus. Belisarius Cawl and the new line of Primaris Space Marines were key in the Imperial counteroffensive.

大约在卡迪亚被摧毁的同时，由于帝国军队和灵族之间的临时联盟，罗伯特·基里曼重生了。在泰拉远征之后，他回到了帝国王座世界，并恢复了帝国领主指挥官的职责。第13次黑色远征后形成的大裂隙蹂躏了银河系，甚至泰拉本身也受到了恶魔部队的攻击。新任命的领主指挥官基里曼组织了不屈远征，以夺回领土，特别是在现在被称为帝国暗面的帝国空域的禁区之外。贝利撒留·考尔和新的原铸星际战士是帝国反攻的关键。

The end of the 13th Black Crusade and the subsequent formation of the Great Rift were significant enough to herald a new age in Imperial history known as the Age of the Dark Imperium.

第13次黑色远征的结束和随后大裂隙的形成具有重要意义，足以预示帝国历史上一个被称为黑暗帝国时代的新时代。

Background 背景

The Thirteenth Black Crusade was the background to the worldwide Warhammer 40,000 Eye of Terror Campaign, which resulted in a minor victory for the forces of Chaos and gave Abaddon a foothold in the Cadian Gate, though he suffered grievous losses to his fleet.

第十三次黑色远征是全球战锤40000恐惧之眼战役的背景，这场战役使混沌部队取得了小小的胜利，并使阿巴顿在卡迪亚之门站稳了脚跟，尽管他的舰队遭受了严重损失。

In 2017 Games Workshop released Gathering Storm: Fall of Cadia which retconned much of the lore and status of Cadia and the 13th Black Crusade as a whole. It established that Cadia was destroyed and the status of many of the characters and forces from the earlier campaign are left unresolved.

2017年，GW发布了《风云际会：卡迪亚陷落》，讲述了卡迪亚和第13次黑色远征的大部分传说和状态。它确定卡迪亚被摧毁，早期战役中许多角色和部队的状态尚未得到解决。