The Rangdan Xenocides were a series of bloody conflicts fought by the Imperium and Rangda Xenos during the Great Crusade in the late 800s.M30. Much of what is known about these conflicts is contradictory and incomplete.

冉丹异型灭绝是帝国和冉丹异型在800s.M30的大远征期间发生的一系列血腥冲突。对这些冲突的了解大多是矛盾和不完整的。

• Conflict:Great Crusade

• 冲突：大远征

• Date:839-890s.M30

• 日期：839-890s.M30

• Location:Segmentum Obscurus/Ultima Segmentum

• 地点：朦胧星域/极限星域

• Outcome:Imperial victory

• 结果：帝国胜利

• Combatants:Imperium/Rangdan

• 作战方：帝国/冉丹

• Commanders:Primarch Lion El'Jonson, Primarch Leman Russ, Primarch Alpharius, Magos Dominus Anacharis Scoria

• 指挥官：原体莱昂·艾尔庄森，原体黎曼·鲁斯，原体阿尔法瑞斯，统御贤者阿纳卡里斯·斯科里亚

• Strength:300,000 Astartes from: Dark Angels, II Legion, White Scars, Space Wolves, XI Legion, Death Guard, XIX Legion, XX Legion, Imperial Army, Xana Taghmata, Collegia Titanica , House Malinax/Rangda and their slave cohorts

• 力量：300000阿斯塔特来自：黑暗天使，第二军团，白色疤痕，太空野狼，第十一军团，死亡守卫，第十九军团，第二十军团，帝国军队，夏娜禁卫，泰坦修会，马林纳克斯家族/冉丹和他们的奴隶大队

• Casualties:At least 80,000 Astartes, Millions of Imperial Army, Dozens of Titan Legions lost, Entire Expeditionary Fleets lost/Rangdan race believed wiped out

• 伤亡：至少80000名阿斯塔特，数百万帝国军队，数十支泰坦军团损失，整个远征舰队损失/据信冉丹种族被消灭

Overview 概述

Though now a footnote in history, the Rangdan Xenocides were a massive series of campaigns fought for Humanity's survival. Over the campaigns 80,000 Astartes and millions of Imperial Army gave their lives to hold back the Rangda and their slave cohorts.

虽然现在是历史上的一个注脚，但冉丹异型灭绝是为人类的生存而进行的一系列大规模战役。在这场战役中，80000名阿斯塔特和数百万帝国军队献出了生命，以阻止冉丹及其奴隶大队。

First Rangdan Xenocide 第一次冉丹异型灭绝

According to one source, the wars began in the 839.M30 when the vicious Rangdan species of Xenos invaded the frontiers of the nascent Imperium. They were first encountered by the Imperium at Advex-Mors and engaged by the First Legion, who lost 5,000 Battle-Brothers over 4 months. However, this was later discovered to be but a small outpost for the Rangda, but the sudden appearance of Imperial forces stayed the Rangda's invasion for several decades.

据一个来源称，战争始于839.M30，当时凶猛的异型冉丹种族入侵了新生帝国的边界。他们在阿德维克斯-莫尔斯首次被帝国遇到，并与第一军团交战，第一军团在4个月内损失了5000名战斗兄弟。然而，后来发现这只是冉丹的一个小前哨，但帝国军队的突然出现使冉丹的入侵停滞了几十年。

In contrast, another source claims that the first battles of the Rangdan Xenocides took place in the 840s.M30, as negotiations between the Forge World of Xana and the Imperium were underway.

相比之下，另一个消息来源声称，冉丹异型灭绝的第一次战斗发生在840.M30，因为夏娜铸造世界和帝国之间的谈判正在进行中。

Second Rangdan Xenocide 第二次冉丹异型灭绝

In 862.M30 the Rangda reportedly invaded from the galactic north and east, inflicting losses on the Imperium on a scale that would not be seen until the Horus Heresy. Whole Expeditionary fleets went to their deaths without a single survivor, worlds were laid waste, dozens of Titan Legions were obliterated, and entire Space Marine Legions were said to be lost to the Imperium. Notably, a document called "The Rangdan Xenocides: A Crusade Field Guide", seemingly issued to Solar Auxilia troops during the campaign, offers possible details in this regard. The document includes a mention of the II and XI Legions being deployed alongside Solar Auxilia to fight the Rangda Xenos. It also references a "Warmaster", though this individual is not neccessarily Horus.

862.M30，据报告，冉丹从银河系北部和东部入侵，给帝国造成了巨大的损失，直到荷鲁斯叛乱才看到。整个远征舰队都死了，没有一个幸存者，世界被夷为平地，数十支泰坦军团被消灭，据说一整个星际战士军团都被帝国损失了。值得注意的是，一份名为“冉丹异型灭绝：远征野战指南”的文件，似乎是在战役期间发给太阳辅助军的，提供了这方面的可能细节。文件中提到了第二军团和十一军团正与太阳辅助军一起部署，以对抗冉丹异型。它也提到了“战帅”，尽管这个人不一定是荷鲁斯。

It was only by the efforts of the V Legion and XIX Legion that the tide was delayed long enough to allow Imperial forces to rally and make their stand at the Forge World of Xana. At Xana the Vth and XIXth Legions fought a bitter holding action for 8 months at a cost of 3,000 Astartes and many hundreds of thousands of Mechanicum troops. The siege was eventually broken by the arrival of the Dark Angels and Death Guard. What would follow was more than two decades of war and millions upon millions of deaths that saw 19 systems laid to waste. Contingents from nine separate Legions became embroiled in the war with more than 300,000 Space Marines and 3 Primarchs including Lion El'Jonson being deployed during the climatic assault on Taxal. Much of what happened during this conflict is unclear, but what can be said is that with the breaking of the Labyrinth of Night by the Emperor, the threat was at last stymied.

只有在第五军团和第十九军团的努力下，浪潮才被推迟了足够长的时间，使帝国军队能够在夏娜铸造世界集结并站稳脚跟。在夏娜，第五军团和第十九军团进行了长达8个月的艰苦抵抗，损失了3000名阿斯塔特和数十万机械教部队。黑暗天使和死亡守卫的到来最终打破了围困。随之而来的是二十多年的战争和数百万人的死亡，19个星系被废弃。来自九个独立军团的分遣队卷入了这场战争，在对塔克萨尔的气候袭击中，部署了30多万名星际战士和包括莱昂·艾尔庄森在内的3名原体。这场冲突中发生的大部分事情尚不清楚，但可以说的是，随着帝皇打破了午夜迷宫，威胁终于被阻止了。

In 881.M30, an incident known as the Majind Torc Transgression took place when a Basemekanic Barq broke the Imperial blockade of the galactic northeast to make impact at Majind. The Death Guard was mobilized to decimate the activated Macrobeest within by unknown means. Only the quick thinking intervention of the Space Wolves prevented disaster.

881.M30，发生了一场被称为马金德·托克越界入侵的事件，当时一艘巴塞梅卡尼克闪电突破了帝国对银河系东北部的封锁，对马金德造成了影响。死亡守卫被动员起来，以未知的方式摧毁内部活动的巨兽。只有太空野狼的快速干预才避免了灾难。

The last known battle of the Second Rangdan War was in 882.M30 when a battered Rangdan fleet was encountered and slaughtered. The worlds tainted by the Rangdan beyond recovery were abandoned and the surviving veterans sworn to silence or elimination. After this conflict, the Dark Angels created the Order of Broken Claws to study the Rangdan and prepare for the possible return of the horrific Xenos species.

第二次冉丹战争的最后一场已知战斗发生在882.M30，当时一支遭受重创的冉丹舰队被遇到并被屠杀。被冉丹污染得无法恢复的世界被遗弃了，幸存的老兵发誓要沉默或消灭。在这场冲突之后，黑暗天使创建了断爪骑士团来研究冉丹，并为可怕的异型种族的可能回归做准备。

Third Rangdan Xenocide 第三次冉丹异型灭绝

The accounts of the Third Rangdan Xenocide are highly contradictory, and much knowledge about this war was deliberately destroyed by the Imperium. It is known that the conflict took place in the 890s.M30, and generally agreed upon that the Imperial extermination campaign was led by the Dark Angels and Space Wolves under their Primarchs Lion El'Jonson and Leman Russ. The existing sources also agree that the Rangdan had grown powerful once more.

关于第三次冉丹种族灭绝的描述是高度矛盾的，关于这场战争的许多知识都被帝国故意摧毁了。众所周知，冲突发生在890s.M30，并普遍认为帝国的灭绝行动是由黑暗天使和太空野狼在他们的原体莱昂·艾尔庄森和黎曼·鲁斯之下领导的。现有的消息来源也一致认为，冉丹再次变得强大。

However, some tellings of the Third Rangdan Xenocide describe it as apocalyptic war during which 50,000 Dark Angels were killed as they fought off a massive Rangdan invasion which brought the northern Imperium to the brink of destruction. These losses eventually contributed to the Dark Angels losing their status as the largest legion to the Ultramarines. Another account claims that the Third Rangdan Xenocide was a decade-long series of catastrophic purges organized by the Dark Angels and Space Wolves to wipe out life on all Rangdan-tainted worlds, including Imperial ones. Accordingly, there were many battles "across vast swathes of the galactic north-west" during the Third Rangdan Xenocide.

然而，一些关于第三次冉丹种异型灭绝的说法将其描述为启示录战争，在这场战争中，5万名黑暗天使在击退大规模冉丹入侵时被杀，这场入侵将帝国北方带到了毁灭的边缘。这些损失最终导致黑暗天使失去了作为如极限战士的最大军团的地位。另一种说法称，第三次冉丹异型灭绝是由黑暗天使和太空野狼组织的长达十年的一系列灾难性清洗，旨在消灭所有冉丹污染世界上的生命，包括帝国世界。因此，在第三次冉丹异型灭绝期间，“在银河系西北部的大片地区”发生了许多战斗。

These accounts are outright contradicted by yet another tale which claimed that the Rangdan homeworlds were discovered by scouting White Scars in 887.M30, whereupon the Dark Angels and Space Wolves launch a just one-year-long campaign of extermination in often one-sided battles. According to this story, the two Space Marine Legions ultimately destroyed all Rangda and reduced their homeworlds to nothing. It is known that Xana contributed a large expeditionary force, including Taghmata Scoria and House Malinax, to assist in the later Rangdan Xenocides including the "carefully planned genocide at Rangda".

这些说法与另一个叙述完全相反，该叙述声称冉丹家园世界是在887.M30通过白色伤疤的侦查发现的，于是黑暗天使和太空野狼在往往是单方面的战斗中发起了一场为期一年的灭绝行动。根据这个叙述，两个星际战士军团最终摧毁了所有的冉丹，并将他们的家园世界夷为平地。众所周知，夏娜派遣了一支庞大的远征部队，包括斯科里亚禁卫和马林纳克斯家族，协助后来的冉丹异型灭绝，包括“精心策划的冉丹异型灭绝”。

The claims of an easy and complete Imperial victory are also called into question by the fact that the Order of Broken Claws was not disbanded after the Third Rangdan Xenocide. Instead, it was tasked to watch over a station at Advex-Mors and guard relics associated with the Xenos. Interestingly, the same account which alleged that the Imperium had successfully purged the Rangdan homeworlds falsely claimed that the Order of Broken Claws was stationed at the Rangda system, not Advex-Mors, by the time of the Horus Heresy.

第三次冉丹异型灭绝后，断爪骑士团没有解散，这一事实也对帝国轻松彻底胜利的说法提出了质疑。相反，它的任务是监视阿德维克斯-莫尔斯的一个空间站，并守卫与一下有关的遗物。有趣的是，同一个声称帝国成功清除了冉丹家园世界的叙述错误地声称，在荷鲁斯叛乱时代，断爪骑士团驻扎在冉丹星系，而不是阿德维克斯-莫尔斯。

Alpha Legion Involvement 阿尔法军团参与

During the Xenocides a member of the XXth Legion identifying itself as Alpharius but admitting their primarch had not yet been discovered came before the Lion. This "Alpharius" offered aid to the Primarch against the Rangdan in hopes that the Dark Angels would maintain their prominence and thus one day The Lion would be made Warmaster. The Lion at this time did not even know of the title Warmaster, but still secretly believed that such a title may one day be likely bestowed by one of the Primarch's by the Emperor. Alpharius stated that the XXth Legion would prefer The Lion be Warmaster over someone like Roboute Guilliman, as he was not so different from them in their views of war and secrecy. El'Johnson rejects this offer, explaining to Arnaid that "The offers change. The answer never does", in reference to those who'd turn the Lion from his path as the hunter of beasts.

在异型灭绝期间，第二十军团的一名成员自称为阿尔法瑞斯，但承认他们的原体尚未被发现，来到莱昂面前。这个“阿尔法瑞斯”向原体提供了对抗冉丹的援助，希望黑暗天使能够保持他们的突出地位，从而有一天莱昂会成为战帅。此时的莱昂甚至不知道战帅这个头衔，但仍然秘密地相信，有一天，帝皇可能会授予一位原体这样的头衔。阿尔法瑞斯表示，第二十军团更喜欢莱昂而不是像罗伯特·基里曼这样的人，因为他在战争和保密方面与他们没有太大不同。艾尔庄森拒绝了这一提议，他向阿尔纳德解释说，“建议会改变。答案永不变”，指的是那些会让莱昂偏离他作为野兽猎手的道路的人。

According to a dubious tale given by Alpharius himself, he was in fact the "Alpharius" present at the meeting with The Lion. Alpharius offered aid to the Dark Angels as he had an interest to move into the warzone to follow rumours of his long-lost brother he believed was on Bar'Savor. Upon Bar'Savor, Alpharius and Omegon were reunited and an Alpha Legion fleet including the Beta purged the planet of Slaugth that had followed in the wake of the Rangdan.

根据阿尔法瑞斯本人给出的一个可疑的叙述，他实际上就是出席与莱昂会面的“阿尔法瑞斯”。阿尔法瑞斯向黑暗天使提供了援助，因为他有兴趣进入战区，以追踪他失散多年的兄弟的谣言，他认为他在巴尔'萨沃。在巴尔'萨沃上，阿尔法瑞斯和欧米伽重聚，包括贝塔在内的阿尔法军团舰队清洗了冉丹之后紧随其后的史洛斯的行星。

It is unknown and unclear whether these events take place during the 2nd or 3rd Rangdan xenocides.

目前尚不清楚这些事件是发生在第二次还是第三次冉丹异型灭绝期间。