The Battle of 47-16 was a compliance action that took place around forty years before the Battle of Isstvan V, and some short period of time after the Sacking of Monarchia. It is notable for being the first military action of the Word Bearers Space Marine Legion after their chastisement by the Emperor of Mankind upon the world of Monarchia, and for the marked change in approach taken by the Word Bearers and their Primarch Lorgar Aurelian to enacting the compliance actions of the Great Crusade.

47-16之战是一场平定行动，发生在伊斯塔万五号之战前约40年，摩纳齐亚的毁灭后的一段短时间内。值得注意的是，这是怀言者星际战士军团在人类帝皇对摩纳齐亚世界进行惩罚后的第一次军事行动，也是怀言者及其原体珞珈·奥瑞利安为实施大远征的平定行动而采取的显著改变。

• Conflict:Great Crusade

• 冲突：大远征

• Date:M30

• 日期：M30

• Location:47-16

• 地点：47-16

• Outcome:Imperial Victory

• 结果：帝国胜利

• Combatants:Imperial 47th Expeditionary Fleet/Scions of the Storm

• 作战方：帝国第47远征舰队/风暴后裔

• Commanders:Primarch Lorgar Aurelian, First Captain Kor Phaeron, Captain Sor Talgron, Captain Argel Tal/The Hierarch (KIA)

• 指挥官：原体珞珈·奥瑞利安，第一连长科尔·法伦，连长索尔·塔格隆，连长安格尔·塔尔/大主教(KIA)

• Strength:6 Companies of Word Bearers, Legio Cybernetica cohorts, 5 Custodians, Titan demi-legio/large numbers of Artificial Intelligence war machines

• 力量：六个怀言者连队，智控军团大队，五名禁军，半个泰坦军团/大量的人工智能战争机器

• Casualties:over 100 Word Bearers slain, 1 Titan destroyed/total extermination; est. two hundred million inhabitants slain, all Artificials destroyed

• 伤亡：超过100名怀言者牺牲，一架泰坦被摧毁/彻底灭绝；即。两亿居民被杀，所有人工智能被摧毁

Prelude 序曲

After the chastisement of Monarchia, Lorgar locked himself away from this legion and expedition fleet for a full month, only speaking to Kor Phaeron and Erebus, stilling all operations and coming to a conclusion about the future of his legion. The discovery of 47-16 prompted action, and first contact with the world took place.

在摩纳齐亚的惩罚之后，珞珈将自己与这个军团和远征舰队隔离了整整一个月，只与科尔·法伦和艾瑞巴斯交谈，停止了所有行动，并对他的军团的未来做出了结论。47-16的发现促使行动，并首次与世界接触。

The human inhabitants of 47-16 could trace their history back for over four thousand years of separation from any other human civilisation, and had come to think of Terra as a myth. As a result, they were overjoyed when the Word Bearers envoys, led by First Captain Kor Phaeron, arrived. The First Captain's initial impression, however, was less positive. He reported back that the entire population were heathen idolators and considered them beyond redemption. While some of the senior commanders at the briefing (such as Sor Talgron) believed that the populace could be re-educated into belief in the Emperor, Kor Phaeron thought they should be exterminated. The First Captain, along with Erebus, communicated the news to their primarch, who finally emerged from his seclusion. Announcing that, in the light of the Emperor's proclamation that the Word Bearers moved too slowly in the Great Crusade, the world was to made compliant quickly, Lorgar unleashed the full combat potential of the 47th Expedition upon the waiting world.

47-16的人类居民可以追溯到他们与任何其他人类文明分离4000多年的历史，并将泰拉视为一个神话。因此，当由第一连长科尔·法伦率领的怀言者使者到达时，他们欣喜若狂。然而，第一连长最初的印象并不乐观。他报告说，整个人口都是异教徒的偶像崇拜者，认为他们无可救药。虽然简报会上的一些高级指挥官（如索尔·塔格隆）认为人口可以重新接受教育，信仰帝皇，但科尔·法伦认为他们应该被消灭。第一连长和艾瑞巴斯将这一消息传达给了他们的原体，后者终于从隐居中走了出来。珞珈宣布，鉴于帝皇的宣告，即怀言者在大远征中行动过于缓慢，世界应迅速平定，他向等待的世界释放了第47远征队的全部战斗潜力。

The Storm 风暴

In a demonstration of future intent, Lorgar ordered the full-scale planetary bombardment of 47-16. For twelve hours the expedition fleet vessels fired upon the surface, striking it with every major weapon system available, from cyclonic torpedoes to massed energy strikes, slaying an estimated 190 million people. Only one city on the entire planet survived the bombardment, protected by a coruscating energy field of exotic nature. This was the capital city of the world, and location of their palace-temple (which was as large as a city itself). As Lorgar had ordered the execution of the entire populace, a ground strike of five companies of Word Bearers was unleashed. The defenders proved to have exotic energy weapons as well as defences, when weaponised lighting bolts reached up from the ground and struck several Stormbirds and drop pods from the air, killing a hundred Word Bearers in a moment.

为了证明未来的意图，珞珈下令对47-16进行全面的行星轰炸。在12个小时的时间里，远征舰队向地表开火，用所有可用的主要武器系统对其进行打击，从旋风鱼雷到大规模能量打击，估计造成1.9亿人死亡。整个行星上只有一座城市在轰炸中幸存下来，受到奇异自然的闪烁能量立场的保护。这是世界的首都，也是他们圣堂宫殿的所在地（圣堂宫殿和城市本身一样大）。由于珞珈下令处决全体人口，五个怀言者连队发动了地面打击。事实证明，守军不仅拥有奇异的能量武器，还拥有防御，武器化的闪电从地面射出，击中了几只风暴鸟和来自空中的空投舱，瞬间杀死了一百名怀言者。

The other Legionaries of Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Seventeenth and Thirty-Fourth Companies all landed safely and began their assault towards the protective energy dome.

第四、第七、第九、第十七和第三十四连队的其他军团士兵都安全着陆，开始向保护性能量穹顶发起攻击。

Thirty-Fourth Company, under the command of Sor Talgron, landed five kilometres from the dome, in the ruined outskirts. It transpired that, while the ashen remains of the inhabitants proved their efficacy against flesh, the fleet's weapons had done little catastrophic damage to much of the architecture; 47-16's buildings were largely made out of a peculiar material that resisted weapons-fire. Unfortunately for the invaders, the defenders of 47-16 were made of the same stuff and possessed their own, smaller, directional energy fields. 47-16's capital was protected by a sizable force of Artificial Intelligence constructs, large, tri-legged lighting throwers in the main. The lighting bolts discharged from their weapons were strong enough to kill an Astartes in a single strike, not to mention pierce the armour of both Predators and Land Raiders, while they themselves were extremely difficult for the Word Bearers to kill, being highly resistant to bolt weapons and chainswords. Land Speeders, not long issued to the Word Bearers, proved effective, their speed allowing them to avoid the ponderous attacks of the Artificials.

第三十四连队在索尔·塔格隆的指挥下，在离穹顶五公里的废墟郊区登陆。事实证明，虽然灰白色的居民遗骸证明了它们对肉体的有效性，但舰队的武器对大部分建筑几乎没有造成灾难性的破坏；47-16的建筑主要由一种能够抵抗武器火力的特殊材料制成。不幸的是，对于入侵者来说，47-16的守军是由同样的材料制成的，并拥有自己的小型定向能量立场。47-16的首都受到相当大的人工智能构造体部队的保护，主要是大型的三条腿的掷光者。从他们的武器中射出的闪电足够强大，可以在一次打击中杀死一名阿斯塔特，更不用说刺穿掠食者和兰德掠袭者的装甲了，而他们自己对爆矢武器和链锯剑具有很强的抵抗力，因此极难被怀言者杀死。不久前供给怀言者的兰德速攻艇被证明是有效的，它们的速度使它们能够避免人工智能的沉重攻击。

The energy-shield was no weaker against ground weapons than orbital-based, but one of Talgron's Sergeants, a certain Kol Badar, quickly analysed the situation and recommended the destruction of several nearby power spires, theorising that they were helping generate or maintain the shield somehow. While the bulk of the Word Bearers' forces concentrated on trying to bring down the shield with constant shelling (and the occasional directed orbital strike), Thirty-Fourth Company concentrated on bringing down three of these spires. This proved to have a small effect on the shield, blowing a hole in it that lasted long enough for Sor Talgron to lead one assault squad inside. They immediately headed directly for the palace-temple.

能量盾对地面武器的抵抗力并不比轨道武器弱，但塔格隆的一名军士科尔·巴达尔迅速分析了情况，并建议摧毁附近的几个电力尖塔，推测它们正在以某种方式帮助产生或维持护盾。当怀言者的大部分部队集中精力试图用不断的炮击（偶尔还有定向轨道打击）摧毁护盾时，第三十四连队集中精力摧毁了其中的三个尖塔。事实证明，这对护盾的影响很小，仅在护盾上炸了一个洞，但这个洞持续了足够长的时间，让索尔·塔格隆能带领一个突击小队进入。他们立刻直奔圣堂宫殿。

Making their way inside unopposed, Talgron and his squad discovered where the surviving citizenry were located; they were all inside the massive central meeting space of the building, apparently at prayer. Ordering his men not to engage, Talgron identified the priest-figure that had to be the leader, and engaged him in discourse, ordering him to direct a complete surrender. The priestly leader in turn showed Talgron the trappings of his religion, and to the Word Bearer's experienced sense where religious motifs were concerned, it became shockingly clear that the people of 47-16 worshiped a god that could be interpreted as none other than the Emperor. Talgron instantly realised that they could be converted not only into Imperial citizens easily, but the type of citizens the Word Bearers previously sought to create; adherents to the belief that the Emperor was Divine. He immediately requested that both sides cease fire, which was duly arranged, and Sor Talgron's discovery communicated to Lorgar.

塔格隆和他的小队在没有抵抗的情况下进入，发现了幸存平民的位置；他们都在建筑巨大的中央会议空间里，显然在祈祷。塔格隆命令他的部下不要参与，确定了一定是领导者的牧师人物，并与他交谈，命令他指挥完全投降。这位像神职人员的领导者反过来向塔格隆展示了他的宗教信仰的标志，对于怀言者在宗教方面的经验意义来说，令人震惊的是，47-16的人崇拜的是一个可以被解释为帝皇的神。塔格隆立刻意识到，他们不仅可以很容易地转变为帝国公民，而且可以转变为怀言者以前试图创造的那种公民；相信帝皇是神圣的信徒。他立即要求双方停火，这是安排妥当的，索尔·塔格隆的发现传达给了珞珈。

Kor Phaeron and one hundred Terminators of his First Company teleported into the meeting space, taking up a perimeter all around the survivors, before Lorgar and Erebus teleported in to speak to the priest and examine Sor Talgron's findings. Talgron explained the lightning-lord worship of the world could easily be turned to worship of the lighting-bolt bedecked Emperor, and that the populace were already interested; they had somehow obtained a copy of the Lectitio Divinitatus. Lorgar considered Talgron's words, but revealed that his thoughts upon the Divine had progressed beyond what he had once written in the Lectitio, and that he was planning a new book to illuminate the subject. Dismissing the possibility of sparing the nascent Emperor-worshipers, Lorgar gave the signal; Erebus murdered the priest, while Kor Phaeron's Terminators opened fire on the helpless citizens, mowing them all down, apparently completing the extermination of the planetary populace. Shocked, Sor Talgron was taken into the confidence of his Primarch and told of how the Emperor's actions in chastising the legion had caused this event to happen, and that perhaps the old beliefs of Colchis held more relevance for the Word Bearers now.

科尔·法伦和他的第一连队的一百名终结者传送到了会议空间，在珞珈和艾瑞巴斯传送进来与牧师交谈并检查索尔·塔格隆的发现之前，他们包围了幸存者周围。塔格隆解释说，世界对闪电领主的崇拜很容易转变为对闪电装饰的帝皇的崇拜，民众已经对此感兴趣；他们不知怎么弄到了一本帝皇圣言录。珞珈考虑了塔格隆的话，但透露他对神性的思考已经超越了他曾经在圣言录中写过的东西，他正在计划一本新书来阐明这个主题。珞珈认为不可能放过新生的帝皇崇拜者，于是发出了信号；艾瑞巴斯谋杀了牧师，而科尔·法伦的终结者向无助的平民开火，将他们全部击倒，显然完成了对行星人口的灭绝。令人震惊的是，索尔·塔格隆被他的原体所信任，并被告知帝皇惩罚军团的行为是如何导致这一事件发生的，也许科尔基斯的旧信仰现在对怀言者来说更有意义。

The execution of the planetary leaders and the bringing down of the power field did not deactivate the Artificials. Word Bearers forces scoured the glass city for them, taking them down with some difficulty (though it was discovered that they were vulnerable to power weapons). As a result, it was with some consternation that a force from Seventh Company discovered that there was a superior form of Artificial unit they dubbed a "king", but which was rapidly codified as an Obsidian unit, when more were discovered. It was at this point that permission was given for the Legio Cybernetica units allied to the Word Bearers to engage. The Imperial robots ultimately proved superior to the Artificials. It was not long after this engagement that warriors of Seventh Company also discovered that part of the Adeptus Custodes unit assigned to the 47th Expedition had decided to take to the field and aid the Word Bearers in their extermination of the Artificial Intelligence war machines. Argel Tal of the Seventh then chose to lead a Word Bearers squad to fight alongside the Custodes for the remainder of the battle.

对行星领导人的处决和能量立场的瓦解并没有使人工智能失效。怀言者部队在玻璃城四处搜寻，艰难地将它们击倒（尽管人们发现他们容易受到动力武器的攻击）。结果，令人有些震惊的是，第七连队的一支部队发现了一种他们称之为“王者”的高级人工智能单位，但当发现更多时，它很快被编入一个黑曜石单位。正是在这一点上，与怀言者结盟的智控军团部队被允许参与其中。帝国机兵最终被证明优于人工智能。在这次交战后不久，第七连队的战士也发现，被派往第47远征队的部分禁军修会部队决定前往战场，协助怀言者消灭人工智能战争机器。第七连队的安格尔·塔尔随后选择带领一个怀言者小队与禁军并肩作战。

Aftermath 余波

At the end of the long day of fighting, Lorgar summoned his entire legion to the surface, in order to address them all concerning their future, in the continuing aftermath of the events on Monarchia. The sworn honorary members of the Legion amongst the robot cohorts were allowed to stay, but the Adeptus Custodes were pointedly excluded, by threat of force.

在漫长的一天战斗结束时，珞珈召集了他的整个军团在地表，以便在摩纳齐亚事件的持续余波中，向他们讲述他们的未来。机兵大队中的军团宣誓荣誉成员被允许留下来，但通过武力威胁，禁军修会被明确排除在外。