The Conquest of Galaspar was a campaign waged by the Death Guard during the Great Crusade. It was the first major independent action taken by Mortarion after taking command of his Legion.

加拉斯帕征服是大远征期间死亡守卫发动的一场战役。这是莫塔里安在指挥他的军团后采取的第一次重大独立行动。

Overview 概述

Waged against Galaspar, the capital Hive World of a pocket empire, the human civilization there had refused to accept the rule of the Imperium and opened fire on Explorator vessels and Imperial envoys. Imperial officials were cautious of the power of Galaspar's Empire and given other fierce campaigns in the area initially put off waging the war for several years. However the recently rediscovered Mortarion instead volunteered his Death Guard, wishing to prove himself and seeing the tyranny of Galaspar's rulers similar to his own experiences on Barbarus. So it was without warning that the Death Guard fleet smashed through the outer defences of the Galaspar system.

在向袖珍帝国的首都巢都世界加拉斯帕发动进攻时，那里的人类文明拒绝接受帝国的统治，并向探索者战舰和帝国使者开火。帝国军官对加拉斯帕的帝国的力量持谨慎态度，鉴于该地区的其他激烈战役最初将战争推迟了几年。然而，最近重新发现的莫塔里安却自愿建议了他的死亡守卫，希望证明自己，并看到加拉斯帕统治者的暴政，就像他自己在巴巴鲁斯的经历一样。因此，死亡守卫舰队毫无预警地突破了加拉斯帕星系的外部防御。

Defeating the initial enemy defenses of asteroid-fortresses and Fire Ships, Mortarion's fleet made a direct course for Galaspar itself, ignoring the surrounding planets. Reaching Galaspar's orbit, Mortarion led the invasion of the world from his personal assault barque, the Fourth Horseman. The three kilometer-long craft ploughed into the upper Hives of Galaspar, toppling the city's spires and unleashing its deadly cargo of 11,000 Death Guard Space Marines. Galaspar's primary hive fell in a night and a day, the Death Guard killing any man, woman, or child who stood before them.

击败了最初敌人的小行星堡垒和火船的防御，莫塔里安的舰队直接驶向加拉斯帕本身，忽略周围的行星。到达加拉斯帕的轨道后，莫塔里安率领他的个人突击艇第四骑士号入侵了世界。这艘三公里长的飞船撞上了加拉斯帕的上巢，推倒了这座城市的尖塔，释放了11000名死亡守卫星际战士的致命货物。加拉斯帕的主巢都在一夜之间陷落，死亡守卫杀死了任何站在他们面前的男人、女人或孩子。

The unprepared slave-soldiers of Galaspar found themselves reeling in terror at the Astartes onslaught. Falling back to defensive redoubts, the Galaspar force's Stubbers and Lasguns proved useless against thick Astartes Power Armour. The Death Guard seized ground, destroyed enemy counter attacks, and advanced in its wake in a cycle that broke the Galaspar defenders. The Death Guard also employed biological weapons, using Phosphex Bombs to sow death and terror. The enemy forces began a bloody retreat into the lower depths of Galaspar's hives but, even in this noxious and dark environment, the Death Guard found and slaughtered them. With Galaspar's primary hive in firm Death Guard control, the Legion's Techmarines took control of the main planetary orbital defenses, quickly disabling them. This allowed the orbiting Death Guard fleet to safely land even more reinforcements on the world.

加拉斯帕毫无准备的奴隶士兵发现自己在阿斯塔特的猛攻中惊恐不已。回到防御堡垒后，加拉斯帕部队的伐木枪和激光枪被证明对厚重的阿斯塔特动力盔甲毫无用处。死亡守卫占领了地面，摧毁了敌人的反击，并在一个循环中前进，打破了加拉斯帕的守军。死亡守卫还使用了生物武器，使用磷化炸弹播种死亡和恐怖。敌军开始血腥撤退到加拉斯帕的巢都的较低深度，但即使在这种有毒和黑暗的环境中，死亡守卫也发现并屠杀了他们。随着加拉斯帕的主要巢都被死亡守卫牢牢控制，军团的技术军士控制了主要的行星轨道防御，迅速使其失效。这使得轨道上的死亡守卫舰队能够安全地在世界上降落更多的增援部队。

However, the rulers of Galaspar were not yet defeated, and the world's secondary hives spewed forth tens of millions of soldiers and thousands of tanks. The Death Guard met the enormous attack, using their orbiting warships to unleash devastating bombardments on the tightly massed enemy forces. With the bulk of Galaspar's remaining army destroyed in the open, each of the world's secondary hives were methodically encircled, besieged, and violently captured, the Death Guard ignoring any proclamations of surrender. Mortarion showed no mercy, dispatching forces to pursue and hunt down the scattered remains of fleeing enemy forces in the later stages of the battle. It is said that not one of the enemy defenders survived the battle. However Death Guard losses were also heavy, including its First Captain Antavus Barrazin.

然而，加拉斯帕的统治者尚未被击败，世界上的次级巢都吐出了数千万士兵和数千辆坦克。死亡守卫遭遇了巨大的攻击，使用他们的轨道战舰对密集的敌军进行了毁灭性的轰炸。随着加拉斯帕剩余军队的大部分在公开场合被摧毁，世界上的每个次级巢都都被有条不紊地包围、围困和暴力占领，死亡守卫无视任何投降声明。莫塔里安毫不留情，在战斗的后期阶段派遣部队追捕逃跑的敌军的零散残余。据说敌军守军中没有一人在战斗中幸存下来。然而，死亡守卫的损失也很惨重，包括其第一连长安塔维斯·巴拉津。

When Imperial support fleets arrived to take control of the planet, they were horrified at the slaughter and destruction the Death Guard had unleashed on Galaspar. However, the people of Galaspar, used to the oppression of their previous rulers, meekly accepted Imperial rule. Moreover with the example Mortarion had made on Galaspar, every other world in the surrounding systems quickly submitted to the Imperium, lest they suffer the wrath of the Death Guard.

当帝国支援舰队抵达控制行星时，他们对死亡守卫对加拉斯帕的屠杀和破坏感到震惊。然而，习惯了前任统治者压迫的加拉斯帕人民温顺地接受了帝国的统治。此外，以莫塔里安在加拉斯帕上树立的榜样为例，周围星系中的其他所有世界都迅速屈服于帝国，以免他们遭受死亡守卫的愤怒。