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确击说在佩昆星上并没有以太，而铵'拉还远在通讯距离之外。然后他向对方展示了影像：只见瘟疫不仅在佩昆星上扩散，而且还扩散到了其它地方。钛星人和异族都被感染了。
Surestrike said there were no Ethereals on Pekun, and Aun'La was beyond the communication range. Then he showed her footage of the plague spreading not only on Pekun but elsewhere in the expanse. It was infecting both T'au and aliens alike.
确击接着说道，确保瘟疫不再传播的方法只有消灭这个世界上的辅助军，以及和他们一起共事的人。这是唯一的办法。
Surestrike continued that the only way to ensure the plague doesn't spread is to destroy the auxiliaries on the world and all who worked with them. It's the only way.
在评估了局势之后，影阳对此予以回绝。如果她允许进行轰炸的话，那么数以十万计的鸠'维萨和成千上万的钛星人便会就此死去。然而，瘟疫必须被阻止。轰炸可以消灭宫殿中的死亡守卫，并终止对方的瘟疫，以及他们那可怕的超维度盟友。
Beating back her denial, Shadowsun assessed the situation. Hundreds of thousands of Gue'vesa and thousands of T'au would die if she allowed the bombing. However, the plague must be stopped. The bombing could end the Death Guard in the palace and end the threat of their plague and that of their horrible extradimensional allies.
她的心中突然响起了先师的话语。古老的一课。通过灼烧，火焰可以达到消毒的目的。如果使用得当，火焰既可以伤人，也可以救人。紧随这份回忆而至的是最近的恐怖之事。那是对大不净者的面容，还有它恐怖的眼神，以及那令人精神受创的笑声的追忆。这使得她呕出了带血的胆汁。当记忆褪去后，她允许确击实施他的净化行动。
A voice of her old master sprang from memory. An old lesson. Fire can cauterize. Fire can heal as well as hurt if used properly. The memory was followed by a recent horrible one. The memory of the Great Unclean One's visage with its hideous leer and sanity-wounding laugh. It caused her to retch out bloodied bile. As the memory faded, she gave Surestrike permission to enact his purge.
影阳和稳磐回到了星潮节点，在那里，土氏开始对他们进行检疫治疗。稳磐尚处于疫病的第一阶段，而影阳已经完全落入了病魔的掌中。尽管如此，影阳依然保持着清醒的头脑。
Shadowsun and Calmstone were brought back to the Startide Nexus, where the Earth Caste quarantined and began to treat them. Calmstone was in the first stages of the plague, while Shadowsun was in its full grip. Though, somehow Shadowsun retained her mental faculties.
早在钛帝国的建立之初，也就是以太抵临的不久之后，土氏就已经开始清理影响他们种族的病痛了。凭借着钢铁一般的奉献精神、锐不可挡的专注，以及各个氏族的齐心协作，土氏成功地消灭了一种又一种的疾病，直到令钛族社会免受病痛之苦。除了抽象的术语之外，新一代的钛星人对疾病毫无概念可言。病痛被视为一种非智能生物和原始种族因缺乏同理心以及落后的（生活）方式而遭受的苦难。在诱使其它种族加入上上善道时，治愈所有的疾病往往会被率先提出。的确，整个族群都会向上上善道稽首，以期得到免于患病的机会。
Early in the foundation of the T'au Empire, shortly after the arrival of the Ethereals, the Earth Caste took it upon themselves to wipe out all the diseases that afflicted their race. With their steely dedication and sharp focus, and with all castes working as one, the Earth Caste succeeded in eradicating one disease after another until T'au society was free from illness and disease. The newer generations of the T'au have no concept of disease outside of abstract terms. Diseases were viewed as things non-sentient creatures and primitive races suffered from for their lack of empathy and backward ways. The offer of curing all diseases was often the first given to other races to tempt them to join the Greater Good. Indeed, entire populations bowed have bowed before the Great Good for the chance to live free of disease.
尽管拥有先进的医疗技术和创造性的诊治手段，但土氏的医生始终无法治愈影阳身上的死守瘟疫。唯一能让她的存活下去的东西是一个蜈蚣形状的装置，它依附在对方的身上，并将干细胞流泵入了她的体内。这种干细胞能够将被瘟疫液化掉的组织重新构建起来。为了由内而外地杀死影阳，死守瘟疫就像熵影一样进入了对方的体内，感染了她的每一个细胞。
Despite all advanced medical technology and inventive ways they tried to treat her, the Earth Caste medics were failing to cure Shadowsun from the Death Guard plague. The only thing keeping her alive was an experimental device in the shape of a centipede that was clammed to her to pump a stream of stem cells in her body. The stem cells were rebuilding the tissue that the plague was liquefying. It was as if the shadow of entropy had entered her body to infect every cell to kill her from the inside out.
影阳收到的报告称，对星潮节点的进一步增援遭到了兽人的阻挡。此外，正在忙于控制附近两个星系的部分钛族舰队遭到了兽人舰队的攻击。
It was reported to Shadowsun that further reinforcements to the Startide Nexus were waylaid by Orks. Moreover, a portion of the T'au fleet is busy containing Ork fleet attacks in two nearby systems.
报告还提到人类族群中的怪异生物形态正在增多。具有泰伦特征的变种人已经被频频发现。在这些星系中参战的钛族部队无法解开封锁线。
The report goes on to mention the rise of strange bioforms within the human populations. Mutated humans that have the characteristics of the Tyranids have been spotted more frequently. The T'au forces in the systems with these activities cannot relax their cordons
报告的最后提到了对抗钛族的人类部队中出现了令人不安的现象。那种不可思议的异象被帝国方称为奇迹，当帝国方反抗时，偶尔还会有圣人现身相助。
The report ends with mentions of troubling manifestations among the Imperial forces fighting against the T'au. Inexplicable phenomenons that the Imperials call miracles and saints appear to aid the Imperials on occasion whenever the Imperials are making stands.
为了对围攻钛族所在星蔓的种种威胁进行反制，四扩部队的兵力已经锐减，而五扩部队的大部分军力也已到达了极限，因此星潮节点的驻军必须利用其目前的力量来阻止死亡守卫的舰队了。他们必须得用空育战术来让逼面而来的兵锋为之一钝，否则死亡守卫就会带着他们的的超级瘟疫冲进钛帝国的心脏。
With the Fourth Sphere forces depleted and much of the Fifth Sphere stretched to the limit to contain the myriad of threats besieging the T'au in the Expanse, the forces in the Startide Nexus must make do with what they currently have to stop the Death Guard armada. They must draw a Kauyon to blunt the spear heading towards them, or else the Death Guard will pass into the heart of the T'au Empire, bringing with them their super-plagues.
一场元素议会就此召开。这一次，议会的亲族之魂是一位年迈的、蒙着双眼的人类女性，她的皮肤是蓝黑色的。她是一个灵能者。眼罩是用来保护她的，因为太多的视觉输入令她无法心如止水。她在心灵科技和亚空间异象方面的专识令其得以能够列席议会。她的名字叫马肯德拉·维拉。
An elemental council was called. This time the Kindred Soul of the council was an ancient blindfolded human woman whose skin was blue-black. She was a psyker. The blindfold was there to protect her since too much visual input disturbs her inner calm. She was on the council for her expertise in Mind Science and Warp related phenomena. Her name was Makendra Vella.
一般来说，亲族之魂一职的替补是尼卡萨族的文·塔赫·雷加。然而铵'拉解释道她对这场战斗极其重要。所以就由鸠'维萨的灵能者来顶替她了。
Originally, the Kindred Soul replacement was meant to be Ven Tah Regah of the Nicassar. However, Aun'La explained that she proved to have a deep-seated need for conflict. So the Gue'vesa psyker was chosen in her place.
影阳向议会解释道，驱散死守舰队的努力以失败告终，但她计划在对方打破阵型突入星潮节点的那一刻用空育战略来挡下他们。
Shadowsun explained to the council that efforts to disperse the Death Guard armada failed, but she is planning a Kauyon strategy tp stop them the moment they break formation to enter the Nexus.
确击提醒议会，影阳的空育战略只会招致灾难。她正在让死亡守卫不受阻挡地杀向星潮节点。更糟糕的是，死亡守望正在将疫病播往邻近的世界。尽管（已经）在努力的烧却瘟疫了，然而它们仍就在扩散着。
Surestrike motioned to the council that Shadowsun's Kauyon was only causing disaster. She is allowing the Death Guard to move unimpeded toward the Nexus. Worse still, the Death Guard are seeding their diseases on nearby worlds. Despite the efforts to burn out the plagues, they continue to spread.
土氏议员解释道，发病的并非只有一种疫病。首先，是影阳感染的坏死性疾病。其它还包括出血热、瘫痪症，还有滋骨病。滋骨病尤其可怕。它会令骨骼过度生长，从而让器官和整个躯体就此爆裂。这种疾病极具杀伤力，而且传播形式亦非常理所循。议会成员认为这种疾病并非寻常疫症，而是从人类所说的非物质维度中释放而出的异象。
The Earth Caste council member explained that there is more than one disease at work. First, there is the necrotizing disease Shadowsun and her aide are afflicted with. Others include hemorrhage, palsy, and bone diseases. The bone disease was especially gruesome. It causes the bone hyper-grow and rupture organs and the entire body. The diseases are hyper-aggressive, and they propagate through unorthodox means. It's the council member's belief that the diseases are not normal, but phenomena unleashed from the dimension that the humans call the Immaterium.
其中，长眠疫是最为危险的。它会让受害者陷入深度睡眠，并接触他们的物理限制。在某种程度上，这会增强他们的体力。它不会通过空气或者物理接触来进行传播。它会自发性地扩散起来。它的受害者会在一场又一场的噩梦后死去。土氏议员认为这种瘟疫是由恐惧传播的。对于瘟疫本身的恐惧。媒介的本体正是对于瘟疫存在的了解。目前，这是不治之症。
The Slumbering Plague was the most dangerous of them. It casts its victims into a deep slumber and removes their physical limitations. It somehow enhances their physical strength. It doesn't spread through airborne or through physical contact. It spreads spontaneously. Its victims are taken after bouts of nightmares. It's the council Earth Caste member's belief that the plague spreads by fear. Fear of the plague itself. The knowledge of the existence of the plague is the vector itself. Currently, there is no cure or effective treatment method for it.
议会成员向维拉求教。她解释了人类帝国是如何处理这种情况的。人类帝国会实施灭绝令，然后在安排一场掩饰行动。然而，她并不赞同采取这些手段，因为正是这种非人之举才使她投入了上上善道的光耀之中。如果钛星人打击的是病源而非疫症本身，那么效果会更好。
The council members turned to Vella. She explained how the Imperium handles such situations. The Imperium would have issued extermintus and conducted a cover-up campaign. However, she doesn't recommend these measures since these inhuman activities were what caused her to join the light of the Greater Good. It would be better if the T'au hit the disease at its source rather than the symptoms.
影阳随声附和道，她认为死亡守卫的异界盟友就是瘟疫的源头所在。她在佩昆星上和对方遭遇过。这些存在由瘟疫构建而成，它们并不遵照自然常理。虽然这些生物没有装甲或是其它科技设备，但是钛族的武器已经不止一次未能对它们造成伤害了。
Shadowsun chimes in by saying that she believes that the Death Guard's otherworldly allies are the source of the plagues. She encountered them on Pekun. These beings seem to be made of the plague itself and follow no natural law. More than once, the T'au's weapons failed to harm them despite the fact that the creatures have no armor or technology.
铵'拉透露他知道影阳拜访了佩昆星，也知道她为什么会去那里。多亏了她指挥蜂传来的影像，他才知道了她对克鲁特罪犯的非法讯问。她甘愿犯险的原因是他们和瘟疫处于极为危险的境地之中。
Aun'La revealed that he knew about her visit to Pekun and why she went there. Her unlawful interrogation of the Kroot criminal was known to him thanks to the footage from her command drone. Her venture is the reason that they are in this dire situation with the plagues.
影阳生气地瞪了欧伊·肯·雍一眼，这让机蜂关掉了光源，显得有些无精打采。
Shadowsun gave Oe-Ken-Yon an angry glare causing the drone to shut down his lights and look inert.
影阳争辩道，前往佩昆星的远征并非全然无用。她获得了可能是至关紧要的领悟。现在，她了解的宇宙真理已经比钛族之前知道的还要多。
Shadowsun argued that the expedition to Pekun was not useless. She gained insights that might prove vital. She understood now more of the truths of the cosmos that were previously known to the T'au.
铵'拉满眼忧伤地说道，以前，这些知识只有以太才知道。尽管作为清汐大师的弟子，她所赋予的权限比她氏族里的任何一员都要多，但她不应该知道这些，也不应该对它们作出定义。
Aun'La, with sadness in his eyes, said that such knowledge province of the Ethereals only. As a pupil of Master Puretide she is given more liberties than any of her caste, but it's not her place to know such matters nor define them.
铵'拉和确击让影阳陷入了沉默。沾沾自喜的确击接管了最高指挥权，并巧妙地嘲讽了影阳：她的部队因过于投入战斗而无法按时抵达来为她实施空育战略了。铵'拉告诉影阳让她集中精力养伤。要是违反了他的命令，不管是确击还是影阳，都会面临马尔卡'拉之刑。
Aun'La and Surestrike sidelined Shadowsun. The smug Surestrike takes over as acting high command and subtly taunts Shadowsun that her forces are too engaged to arrive in time for her to enact her strategy. Shadowsun is told by Aun'La to focus on her full recovery. If either Surestrike or Shadowsun disobeys his orders, then they will face the Malk'la.
在议会解散之后，影阳冲着欧伊·肯·雍大发雷霆。机蜂做出了道歉，并说它别无选择。它得像服侍影阳一样服侍以太。影阳让它收声闭嘴，然后命令它卷铺盖滚蛋，不准再回来。听到这里，欧伊·肯·雍难以置信地卷起了它的边圈。
After the council was dismissed, Shadowsun berates Oe-Ken-Yon. The drone apologized and said that he says no choice. He is bound to serve the Ethereals the same as her. Shadowsun silences him and orders him to leave and not return. At this, Oe-Ken-Yon reels up his rim in disbelief.
影阳跟它说她要用一只初级指挥蜂来取代它。欧伊·肯·雍朝着门口飘了过去，只见它低垂着，几乎都要触到地板了。他问他可不可以最后在服务一次，为她的助眠提供治疗。影阳告诉他滚就是了。欧伊·肯·雍在门口呆了片刻，然后就此离去。
Shadowsun tells him that she is going to replace him with a basic command drone. Oe-Ken-Yon dips low, almost touching the floor as he floats toward the door. He asks if he can offer one final service, bring her medicine to help her sleep. Shadowsun tells him to just leave. Oe-Ken-Yon stands a moment at the door's threshold and then goes.
影阳有了一个主意。影阳被告知禁止将其麾下的钛星人置于危险之中，但并没有禁止她自己以身犯险。稳磐警告影阳说她听起来开始变得像叛徒远见一样了。影阳回答说，远见在他手下死在阿尔萨斯·莫洛克的时候可没有安心养伤。远见还单枪匹马地向一艘星际战士的主力舰发起了攻击，他不仅活了下来，而且还把那艘船打残了。他们现在就需要那样的火焰。
Shadowsun got an idea. She was told that she was forbidden from endangering the lives of other T'au with her command, but she wasn't forbidden from endangering her own. Calmstone warned her that she was starting to sound like the traitor Farsight. Shaowsun responded that Farsight didn't stand idly by nursing his wounds while his men to died on Arthas Moloch. He also led a one-man attack on a space marine capital ship, and not only did he survive but crippled it. Such fire is what they need now.
她要联系辅助军来给她搭把手。铵'拉没有禁止她指挥他们，而确击则因为不信任的缘故没有起用他们。影阳拍着稳磐的马屁，请求他帮她一把。稳磐疲惫地叹了一口气，然后走出房间假装发病，以此转移土氏医生的注意力，好让影阳趁机逃脱。
She needs to contact the auxiliaries to aid her. Aun'La didn't forbid her from commanding them, and Surestrike was too distrustful to use them. Shadowsun buttered up and pleaded with Calmstone to help her. Calmstone let out a weary sigh and got out of the room to fake a seizure to distract the Earth Caste medics from Shadowsun's escape.
钛星人拥有不止一个胃。
The T'au have more than one stomach
利用一艘基于魂骨战斗服技术的匿踪舰，影阳在不被察觉的情况下从钛族的舰队里溜了出去。这种隐形科技先进的足以躲过人类帝国的传感器。和她同船的是四个非钛之民。挥舞着克鲁特重枪的塔克。尼卡萨人文·塔赫·雷加。一个叫阿'海雅的查尔帕克汀族长老。最后一个，是欧伊·赫伊。
Shadowsun was using a stealth vessel whose Ghostkell-based technology allowed it to slip undetected by the line T'au fleet vessels. Its stealth tech was advanced enough to slip past Imperial sensors. Aboard the vessel with her were four non-T'au. Shaper Tak wielding a heavy Kroot gun. Ven Tah Regah of the Nicassar. A Charpactin elder called A'haia. Finally, Oe-Hei.
欧伊·赫伊被重建了，他的知性被移植到了新的底盘上。不过，他的记忆并没有被完全移植过来。影阳对他的返役感到欣慰。尽管如此，当转向欧伊·肯·雍本该出现的地方时，她还是对他的缺席感到一阵失落。
Oe-Hei was rebuilt, and his sentience was ported to his new chassis. Though, not all of his memories were ported. Shadowsun felt comfort at his returned presence. Though, when she turned reflexively to where Oe-Ken-Yon should have been, she felt a pang of loss at his absence.
雷加和塔克打了一个赌。雷加认为塔克不可能从这次任务中幸存下来。塔克反驳道，如果雷加先他一步而死，那么他就会吃掉她的血肉，以发现她熊一般的力量源泉。阿'海雅评论道这是一种蛮行。在查尔帕克汀族的母星上，食人是被严令禁止的。很难想象伟大的钛'瓦会允许这种事情。
Regah and Tak made a wager with each other. Regah believed that Tak wouldn't survive the mission. Tak retorted that if Regah died before him, he would eat her flesh to discover the source of her ursine-like race's strength. A'haia commented that this was barbaric. On the homeworld of the Charpactin, cannibalism was forbidden. It's hard to believe that the great T'au'Va allows it.
影阳告诉阿'海雅上上善道不是神灵；它是一种哲学理念。它允许这样。阿海雅回答说虽然伟大的钛'瓦并不介意用词不当，但她对吃掉一个盟友甚为挂怀。
Shadowsun told A'haia that the Greater Good is not a god; it's a philosophy. And it does allow it. A'haia replied that the Great T'au'va doesn't mind a misnomer, but she does mind eating one's allies.
影阳向阿海雅解释说被她视为野蛮的举动是克鲁特文化的关键所在。克鲁特之所以之么做并不是为了填饱他们的肚子，而是为了增强他们的力量，然后进行进化。虽然这令人不快，但物有所值。没有克鲁特人的力量，钛帝国早就凉透了。
Shadowsun explained to A'haia what he sees as barbaric is a key part of the Kroot culture. The Kroot do not do it to satisfy their hunger but to increase their strength and evolve. It's unsavory, but the price is worth it. Without the strength of the Kroot, the T'au Empire would have fallen years ago.
阿'海雅回答影阳说可惜钛星人没能早点遇到查尔帕克汀族。如果他们早点遇到的话，那么水氏和查尔帕克汀人会齐心协力，钛'瓦就能不费一枪一弹地建立一整个帝国了。然后（她）继续指了指塔克，也不用吞噬尸体了。
A'hari responds to Shadowsun by saying that it's a pity that the T'au didn't meet the Charpactin sooner. If they did, with the Water Caste and Charpactin working as one, the T'au'va would have built a whole empire without a single shot fired. And continued on pointing at Tak, and no corpse devoured.
塔克向阿'海雅保证说，他们发现大块头的真菌乏味得令人感到厌恶，他们的种族并没有什么值得继承的力量。
Tak assured A'haia that finds greatfungus to be disgustingly bland and that their species have no worthy strength to inherit.
正当非钛之民继续你争我吵之际，欧伊·赫伊表示能身为机蜂他很是高兴。影阳开玩笑说有时她也希望自己能是一只机蜂。
As the non-T'au continued to bicker, Oe-Hei said he was glad to be a drone. Shadowsun joked that sometimes she wishes she was one too.
欧伊·赫伊问影阳克鲁特人会吃合金否。她说不会。他们会吃高强度塑料吗？她说不会。他们会吃电子元件吗？影阳被接连不断的问题弄得焦头烂额，于是对他吼道：你没有什么好怕的。
Oe-hei asked Shadowsun do the Kroot eat alloy. She said no. Do they eat hyperplastic? She said no. Do they eat electronics? Shadowsun, worn out by the continuous questions, yelled at him that he has nothing to fear.
*个人注释：根据小说《卡舍津》和BFG的桌面游戏的显示，克鲁特能够吞噬科技设备，然后从中获得启示。可别把这些告诉欧伊·赫伊啊。
*Personal note: As shown in the Karskin novel and in the BFG board game, Kroot can devour technology and gain insights from it. Just don't tell that to Oe-Hei.
匿踪舰直奔死亡守卫的主力舰而去。阿'海雅正在尽其所能地遮蔽他们的灵能存在。
The stealth ship was heading towards the Death Guard capital ship. A'haia was doing his best to mask their psychic presence.
影阳和议会成员取得了联系，对方同意与她进行秘密联络。她要气氏的海军上将对死守舰队进行一场分兵诱敌行动。她让土氏的高阶工程师在死守舰队进入虫洞的那一刻扰乱星潮节点的稳定性。上将表示同意，但他需要一点时间。土氏表示他不敢冒搞垮虫洞的风险。
Shadowsun contacted the council members, who agreed to contact her in secret. She asked the Air Caste admiral to create a diversion for the Death Guard armada. She asked Earth Caste's senior engineer to disrupt the constancy of the Startide Nexus wormhole the moment the Death Guard capital ship made ingress. He agreed but will do it for a short amount of time. He cannot risk the wormhole collapsing.
对于亲族之魂的鸠'维萨维拉，影阳要求她在自己通知对方的特定时刻联系鸠'维萨的族群，让他们向钛'瓦祈祷。在任务开始前，她让所有非钛族的盟友联系了自己的人民，并让他们同意在那个时刻进行祈祷，如果信仰的力量就像人类帝国所说的那样的话，那么他们也许能用这股力量来对抗死亡守卫。
From the Kindred Soul, Gue'vesa Vella, she asked that she contact the Gue'vesa populations and have them pray to the T'au'Va at the specific time she told her. Before going on this mission, she had all her non-T'au allies contact their people and also get them to agree to pray at that exact time. If there is power in the faith and belief like the Imperials claim, then perhaps they can turn this power against the Death Guard.
欧伊·赫伊问这种事情能不能行得通。 影阳说，以她对宇宙的通俗理解来看，答案是不，但是在经历了佩昆星的事件之后，她看到无面者的雕像并没有受到绿色霉菌的影响，所以她现在相信事情会变得有所不同了。
Oe-Hei asked if such a thing could work. Shadowsun said by her secular understanding of the cosmic, the answer is no, but after experiencing the things in Pekun, seeing the faceless statues unaffected by the green mould, she believes now it can make a difference.
为了从死守主力舰的虚空盾中飘过去，他们停掉了匿踪舰上的所有科技设备，并关闭了引擎。塔克说克鲁特人用不着这种花俏的垃圾。除了自己的意志、躯体和灵魂之外，克鲁特人不用依仗任何东西。它们足以为够。影阳指出他的克鲁特重枪是一件不错的枪炮科技。于是两人一起大笑起来。
To drift past the Void shield of the Death Guard capital ship undetected, they turned off all technology aboard the stealth vessel and shut down the engines. Tak said that the Kroot do not need all that fancy junk. The Kroot rely on nothing but their minds, bodies, and souls. They are enough. Shadowsun pointed at his heavy Kroot Gun and said nice gun-tech. The two shared a laugh together over it.
影阳告诉塔克，如果他们能从这项任务中幸存下来， 那么她就会尽其所能地为对方提供一件魂骨战斗服。
Shadowsun told Tak if they survived the mission. She would do everything in her power to give him a Ghostkell suit.
匿踪舰的热熔切割器在死守的主力舰上切开了一条通路，然后小队就此登船。他们遇到了一种令人厌恶的虫状生物。雷加用她的心灵力量把它们炸的往后直退，然后塔克用克鲁特重枪结果了对方。
The stealth vessel fusion cutters cut a way into the Death Guard capital ship, and the party entered. They were met with a loathsome insectoid creature. Regah blasted it back with her mind, and Tak finished it off with his gun.
影阳领着大家前往舰桥。当问及为什么她知道怎么走时，她回答说人类帝国的舰船设计停滞不前。它们的内部设计都很相似。
Shadowsun led the way to the ship's bridge. When asked how she knew the way, she answered that all Imperial ship designs are stagnant. They all follow a similar internal design.
纳垢灵向小队发起了袭击。影阳意识到这些生物的行为类似于舰船的免疫系统，不过（它们）反其道而行之。它们并不是让自己的宿主免于疾病，而是确保要让它的里内全都是腐败和疾病。
Nurglings attacked the group. Shadowsun realized that these creatures were acting like the immune system of the ship but in reverse. They didn't protect their host from disease, they made sure that all within it were just as diseased and corrupted.
这支队伍团结奋战，他们各施所长，一边掩护着彼此，一边驱逐着绝望的阴影。影阳告诉大家打得很好，并警告众人不要被恶魔触碰感染。塔克告诉她为时已晚。并不是所有人都穿着密封服。他们光是呼吸船上的空气就已经是在冒着活活烂掉的风险了。影阳说她拒绝相信这一点。她无法相信。
The party fought as one, their different strengths covering for each other and banishing the shadow of despair. Shadowsun told them that they were fighting well and warned them not to get touched and infected by the daemons. Tak told her that it was already too late. Not all of them are wearing sealed suits. By breathing the air of the ship, they are risking living decay. As Regah said, this is a one-way trip. Shadowsun said she refused to believe that. She cannot.
沉睡者从涌入的污水中现身了。小队竭尽全力击退了对方，但他们发现自己寡不敌众。其中一个沉睡者抓断了雷加的一根臂爪。欧伊·赫伊用他的锋缘撞向来袭的沉睡者，以此救下了她的性命。影阳和塔克都被沉睡者拉倒了。
Sleepers emerged from the onrushing tainted water. The party did their best to fight them off, but they were finding themselves overwhelmed. One of Regah's claw arms was grabbed and snapped by one of the sleepers. Oe-hei saved her by ramming his edge into the attacking sleeper. Shadowsun and Tak were being pulled down by the sleepers.
阿'海雅告诉小队闭上他们的眼睛，然后就放出了一道五彩斑斓的灵能之光。那道光芒把影阳和塔克身上的沉睡者打的飞了出去。影阳注意到正在甦醒过来的沉睡者发现了自己身上以及他们周围的恐怖之物。
A'haia told the party to cover their eyes and then unleashed a flash of colorful psychic light. The light knocked out the sleepers off Shadowsun and Tak. Shadowsun noticed that the sleepers were waking up and noticing the horror in themselves and around them.
影阳把照在沉睡者身上的灵能之光的作用拍成了影像。如果她早先在佩昆星上就知道了这件事，那里的人类就能获救了。这正是治疗长眠的良方。然而，死亡守望船上的人类已经无可救药了，这全都是因为它们。他指了指正在向他们曳足而行的携疫者。因为亚空间的恶魔让噩梦成真了。
Shadowsun took footage of the effects of the psychic light on the sleepers. Would she had known this earlier on Pekun, the humans there would have been saved. Here was the cure to the slumber plague. A'haia told her that it is as simple as finding the correct brainwaves. However, the humans aboard the Death Guard ship are too far gone to be truly saved, and it's all because of them. He pointed to Plague Bearers shuffling toward them. It's because of the Daemons of the Warp the nightmares made real.
影阳的惧意被无法抑遏的狂怒吞噬了。 以太向其他氏族隐瞒了恶魔的存在，她对此大为火光。当用弥天大谎掩盖了一个满是智能生物的维度时，钛星人又怎能说自己是在启迪开化呢？不管是不是恶魔，这些生物全都得死。
Shadowsun fear was swallowed up by the inferno of rage. She raged that the Ethereals were hiding the existence of these daemons from the other castes. How could the T'au claim that they are enlightened when the greatest of lies hid the existence of an entire dimension filled with sentient creatures? Daemons or not, all these creatures must die.
小队注意到路径方向正在随机发生变化。 为了将他们困在里面，这艘船仿佛正在改变自己的内部结构。只见道路岔了开来，而再一次，影阳必须作出抉择。
The party noticed that the path direction was changing at random. It was as if the ship was remolding its internal structure to trap them within it. The path forked, and once again, Shadowsun was forced to make a choice.
回闪： 影阳从洞穴群里逃了出去。她对自己感到厌恶。她已经落入她师傅的陷阱里了。在一个自行驱动的空育中，她即是猎物，也是厄运。她发现她的师傅正在等她。
FLASHBACK: Shadowsun escaped the cave system. She was disgusted by herself. She had fallen into her master's trap. An automatic Kauyon in which she was both the prey and doom. She found her master waiting for her.
清汐向她展示了一块他先前向她描述过的石头。他告诉她，山上有许多这种石头。而最为聪慧的学徒能够越过物质的世界，发现内在的真相。
Puretide showed her a stone that fit his earlier description. He told her that the mountain holds many such stones. The wisest student looks past the physical world and finds the inner truth.
影阳认为自己听懂了老师的话。她告诉清汐他的意思是她就是那块石头，通过逆境的砥砺。她会磨平自己的棱角，然后在命运的长河中顺滑地移动着。
Shadowsun thought that she understood her master's listen. She told him that what he means is that she is the stone and, through adversity, she would smooth her edges and move frictionless in the river of fate.
清汐勃然大怒 ，他告诉影阳并非如此。一个愚蠢的孩童居然胆敢揣摩老师的心思。影阳侮辱了他。她要是胆敢再吐出半个字，他会重重责罚。
Puretide, angry now, told her no. A foolish child would dare to presume the mind of their teacher. Shadowsun had insulted him. And if she dared to put words in his mouth again, he would punish her severely.
清汐问她是否在洞窟里做出了选择，以及选择来自何方。 她证实了这一点，说它来自她的内心，而非她的意志。这是一种本能。
Puretide asked her if she had made a choice in the caves and where did it come from. She confirmed it and said it came from her heart, not her mind. It was instinct.
清汐说她错了。这是信仰。
Puretide said that she was wrong. It was faith.
影阳正要说以太教导他们信仰是一种落后的观念，但是清汐让她安静。他告诉影阳，虽然以太才识过人，但却无法理解信仰。 想要赢得胜利，有时人们得在不知道能否着陆的情况下跃过鸿沟。而这正是造就一名伟大战士和富有远见的指挥官的原因所在。要信任自己。要信任他们生活的方方面面，要相信他们的内心，并以此激励他人。
Shadowsun was about to say that the Ethereals taught that faith was a backward concept, but he silenced her. He told her that the Ethereals, for all their wisdom, can never understand it. To win victory, one must sometimes leap a chasm without knowing the landing. This is what makes a great warrior and a visionary commander. It's to have faith in oneself. To have faith in every part of their existence, to trust what lies within, and in doing so, to inspire others.
影阳问要是她的信仰让她做出了错误的抉择该怎么办。 他回答说，迅速快捷和确定无疑就是他们的武器。果断的行动可以转化成摧毁敌人的动力。
Shadowsun asked what if faith in herself made her choose the wrong decision. He replied that swiftness and certainty are weapons of their own. Decisive action can turn into momentum that crushes the enemy.
他接着说道，影阳的伟力在于她的深思熟虑。这也是她最大的弱点所在。耐心和缓慢可能会对她造成不利，尤其是在需要用一种快速手段确保胜利的时候。在清汐的指导下，她磨砺着自己的空育，而他会教会影阳如何率心而击。如果她在清汐的训练中死去，那也在所不惜。
He continued by saying that Shadowsun's great strength is her deep thinking. It's also her greatest weakness. Being patient and slow can be turned against her, especially when a quick resolution is needed to secure victory. In his tutelage, she is going hone her Kauyon, and he will teach her how to strike suddenly from within. And If she dies from his training, then so be it.
就在她跟着师傅回去的时候，一个绝望的肺腑之音对她说清汐并不在乎她，而她也讨厌对方。随后，一个更加平和理智的声音传了过来。它问影阳清汐大师如果对她毫不在意，那他为什么要来找她，还等了她那么长时间呢？
As she followed her master back. A despairing inner voice whispered to her that he didn't care for her, and she disgusted him. A calmer reasoning voice came afterward. It asked if Master Puretide didn't care for her, then why did he come for her and wait so long?
回到现在：影阳告诉小队得离开了。她对此确信无疑。塔克拿掉了她的呼吸器，然后舔了舔影阳脑袋周围的空气。他告诉其他队员，她说的是真的。阿'海雅问塔克他是怎么知道的。塔克回答说他从那些被他吃掉的人那里得到了品尝意志的能力。阿'海雅说，看了除了影阳和她的机蜂之外，整个小队全都是灵能者。在钛帝国，灵能并不是什么稀罕之物。塔克告诉阿'海雅，他的意志尝起来就像路边的积雪，这让这个真菌异形大为火光。
Back to the present: Shadowsun told the party to get left. She was sure of it. Tak removed her rebreather and licked the air around her head. He told the rest of the party that it's truly what she believes. A'haia questioned Tak about how he could know that. He said that he picked up the ability to taste minds from those he devoured. A'haia said that it appears that the entire party are psykers except for Shadowsun and her drone. Psychic abilities are not so rare in the T'au Empire. Tak told A'haia that his mind tasted like oliy road snow, much to the annoyance of the fungus alien.
小队来到了舰桥上。影阳把热熔爆能枪的出力调至最小，然后走到了舰桥乘员的身后。利用其调低的热熔爆能枪所发出的无形射流，她悄无声息地把舰桥组员的脑子一个接一个的煮熟了。其中一个舰组乘员向前倒在了面板上，于是舰船发射了一门武器，这引起了海军上将的警觉，并且注意到了影阳。
The party reached the ship's bridge. Shadowsun put her fusion blasters on the minimum setting and went behind the crew on the bridge. She stealthy used the shimmering invisible discharge of her low-setting fusion blaster to cook the brains of the bridge crewmen one by one. One of the crewmen fell forward on his panel, and the ship fired one of its weapons, causing the admiral to be alarmed and notice Shadowsun.
上将向死亡守卫发出了警报。一个巨大的、长着苍蝇脑袋的变种人向影阳扑了过去。他的力量大到足以将她砸进一块 控制面板之中。影阳感到她的体内有什么东西被弄坏了，瘟疫的腐败正在她的身体里扩散。那个变种人再度朝她扑了过去。影阳标弹打到了对方的脸上，就此打爆了他的一只复眼。那个变种人一把抓住了影阳，于是影阳把他炸到了附近的一坐控制台里。控制台上的尖矛刺穿了对方的头颅，那个变种人就这样死去了。影阳用变种人的尸体抵挡死亡守卫的火力，但是更多的敌人将她团团围起。她捱了一发火箭，爆炸从她的战斗服上扯下了一块装甲。一个狞笑不已的死亡守卫将他的收割者自动加农炮对准了影阳，然后开火射击。他击中了他们的目标，她的盔甲被打得龟然欲裂。塔克向影阳伸出了援手，他用克鲁特重枪打爆了那名死亡守望的人头。
The admiral alerted the Death Guard. A huge fly-headed mutant came at her. He smashed her with enough force to send her crashing into a control panel. Something broke inside her, and she felt the plague's rot spread inside her. The mutant came at her again. She sent flechette rounds into his face bursting one of his compound eyes. He grabbed her, and she blasted off with him sending him right into a nearby console. The jutting spike on the console pierced the mutant's head, killing him. She used the mutant's body as a shield from the Death guard's fire, but more were surrounding her. She was hit by a rocket, and the explosion tore off a plate from her suit. A grinning Death Guard was fixing his reaper autocannon at her and firing. His shots were finding their mark and threatening to crack through her armor. Tak came to Shadowsun's aid and blew off the Death Guard marine's head with his heavy Kroot Gun.
影阳命令欧伊·赫伊播放录音。一时间，格鲁尔托斯克领主的声音在舰桥上轰然响起。这（声音）是之前在佩昆星的遭遇战中录下的。他的怒音让变异的人类和死亡守望都感到困惑不已。（因此）阿'海雅得以用五彩斑斓的灵能光束对整个舰桥进行轰击。星际战士和人都被打得失控了。
Shadowsun ordered Oe-Hei to play the recording. Suddenly the voice of Lord Glurtosk boomed on the bridge. It was recorded from their encounter on Pekun. His angry voice confused both the tainted humans and the Death Guard. This allowed A'haia to blast the entire bridge with colorful psychic light. Both marine and humans were stricken by seizures.
影阳和格鲁尔托斯克领主怼上了。他一边用力场护盾挡下了影阳的攒射，一边大笑着将镰刀砍了过去。一发从塔克的克鲁特重枪中射出的弹矢砸进了格鲁尔托斯克的头侧。据影阳所知，克鲁特重枪的弹矢曾经杀死过兽人军阀。然而，它并没有打倒这名混沌领主。
Shadowsun confronted Lord Glurtosk. Her shots were blocked by his force field as he laughed and swung his scythe at her. A shot from Tak's heavy Kroot Gun slammed into the side Glurtosk's head. Heavy Kroot gun shots, in Shadowsun's knowledge, have killed Ork warlords. Yet, it didn't bring down this lord of Chaos.
格鲁尔托斯克向影阳和塔克各派出了两拨死亡守卫。影阳的热熔爆能枪发出了耀眼的光芒，她就像龙卷风一样回旋疾转，三个死守被切成了碎片。而第四个星际战士则被她的导弹炸掉了头颅。
Glurtosk sent two packs of Death Guard at Tak and Shadowsun each. Shadowsun blazed her Fusion blasters and whirled like a tornado cutting three Death Guards into pieces. The fourth marine had his head obliterated by her missiles.
就在影阳躲避剩余的星际战士的攻击时，格鲁尔托斯克的镰刀向她砍了过去。他劈开了她的蹄足。突如其来的痛楚疼的影阳叫了起来。她的战斗服提供了医疗援护，并消除了痛楚，从而使她能够重新恢复战斗。她把格鲁尔托斯克的镰刀柄和舰桥天花板上的锁链缠到了一起。影阳了解格鲁尔托斯克，就像所有的星际战士一样，当他嗅到血腥味是会变得过于自信，而且还会因过于自傲而不愿放开自己的武器。就在他试图挣开自己的武器时，影阳用尽战斗服的全部力量，将她的那条完好的腿脚踏进了格鲁尔托斯克的前额。（然而）这一击未能让对方移动分毫。这时，影阳启动了战斗服足底的冲击筒。它轻而易举地击穿了格鲁尔托斯克的头颅，终于，他倒了下去。
As she dodged the attacks of the remaining marines, Glurtosk took the chance to swing his scythe at her. He cleaved off her foot. Shadowsun screamed in sudden pain. Her suits rendered medical aid and extinguished the pain allowing her to resume the fight. She tangled Glurtosk's scythe's shaft with the bridge's ceiling chains trapping it. She knew Glurtosk, like all marines, would become overconfident when he smelled blood and would be too prideful to let go of his weapon. As he tried to free his weapon, Shadowsun smashed her good foot with all the suit's strength into Glurtosk's forehead. The blow didn't move him an inch. Then Shadowsun engaged the suit foot's punch cylinder. It punched through Glurtosk's head with ease, and at last, he fell down.
死亡守卫的术士从蝇头变种人的尸体上召唤出了一大群飞蛆。 那群飞蛆压倒了影阳，正当它们准备将其吞而噬之的时候，影阳看到她的三个异族盟友正在祈祷。他们正在向钛'瓦祈祷。他们的合祷驱走了恶魔蛆虫。异族（盟友）杀到了影阳的附近，他们用自己的信仰逐退了恶魔。趁着盟友为自己争取到的机会，影阳向术士发射了镖弹。它们从对方的脖子和面孔上撕下了大块的（血肉），这使得术士失声尖叫，然后他命令纳垢瘟群向影阳一行逼了过去。
The Death Guard sorcerer summoned a huge swarm of flying maggots from the corpse of the fly headed mutant. The flying maggots overwhelmed her and were about to devour her when she saw that her three alien allies were praying. They were praying to T'au'va. Their combined prayer was repelling the daemon maggots. The aliens came near Shadowsun and turned back the daemon with their faith. Shadowsun took the chance given to her by their allies and launched flechette rounds into the sorcerer. They tore chunks from his neck and face causing him to scream and order the Nurglite horde to close on them.
沉睡者、邪教徒、死亡守卫和携疫者把小队围了起来 。似乎一切都结束了，直到雷加和阿'海雅决定牺牲自己。雷加用她的那根好使的臂爪将阿'海雅举了起来。阿'海雅用无可挑剔的高哥特语告诉疫群他就是对方的神灵。看着他就能获得安宁。然后他就用自己的光芒照向了对方。
The party was surrounded by sleepers, cultists, Death Guard, and Plague Bearers. It seemed that it was over until A'haia and Regah decided to sacrifice themselves. Regah lifted A'haia up with her good claw. A'haia, in flawless high gothic, told the horde that he was their god. Look at him and be at peace. Then flashed them with his light.
疫群呆在了原地，它们凝视着光芒，正在前行的死亡守卫被疫群挡住了去路。其中一名死亡守卫将他的动力剑向阿海雅掷了过去。影阳朝他发射了一枚导弹，但是太迟了。那柄飞掷而出的利剑杀死了阿海雅，他被一分为二。雷加发出了悲伤的咆哮，然后向死亡守卫冲了过去。为了保护她免遭爆矢弹火的伤害，欧伊·赫伊跟了上去。雷加一把抓起一名死亡守卫，然后将他甩到另一个人的身上。然后她把那名死亡守卫往下地一砸，接着一脚把对方的头颅踏成了肉泥。塔克挥舞着克鲁特枪前来为她助拳。他砍断了对方的腿脚，割开了敌人的咽喉。战友的殒命让他们悲恸不已，这给予了他们力量，让他们杀出了一条通往影阳身边的血路。
The horde froze in place, staring at the light, The Death Guard were blocked from marching forward by the crowd. One of the Death Guard made to throw his power sword at A'haia. Shadowsun launched a missile at him, but it was too late. The thrown sword cleaved A'haia in half, killing him. Regah screamed in grief and charged the Death Guard. Oe-hei followed close behind her protecting her from bolter fire. She grabbed a Death guard and flung him at another. Then she smashed down a Death Guard and stomped his head into paste. Tak came to her side swinging his Kroot gun. He cleaved off legs and slashed throats. Their shared grief at the death of their comrade gave them the strength to fight their way to Shadowsun.
那个苍蝇变种人活了过来，而且变得越来越大。 他用一道苍蝇旋风席卷了舰桥。影阳背后的视觉反馈器依旧可以视物，它看到船舱的窗户上绘有一幅神像，祂蹲在一口大锅的前面。这令她想起了佩昆星上的巨型恶魔，她的思绪开始倒流了。
The fly mutant revived and was growing larger. It covered the bridge with a tornado of flies. Shadowsun's back visual feed could still see, and it saw a hull window with the image of a god squatting before a vast cauldron. It reminded her of the huge daemon from Pekun, making her mind recoil.
一份古老的回忆涌上了影阳的心头。她记得对凯斯说过她依旧对饥肠辘辘的幽鬼畏惧不已。她问凯斯那玩意到底想要什么，还有它究竟在害怕什么。凯斯回答说我们幽鬼什么都不爱，我们只害怕虚空。
An old memory appeared in Shadowsun's mind. She remembered telling Kais that she still feared the hungry ghost. She asked him what does it want and what does it fear. Kais answered by telling her we ghosts love nothing and fear only the void.
影阳吩咐欧伊·赫伊要保护好雷加和塔克。她把船体的窗户弄至过热状态，让后将其砸穿，把他们一行全都送进了宇宙的真空之中。
Shadowsun told Oe-Hei to protect Regah and Tak. She superheated the hull window and then smashed through it, sending all of them into the vacuum of space.
正当她从死亡守卫的船上飘离之际，她看到一个巨大的黑色物体封住了豁口，从而使得舰桥上的死亡守卫免于被真空扯出舰外。死亡守卫的主力舰开进了星潮节点虫洞。她失败了。她思忖着宇宙的广袤，以及自身的渺小。无论是一条船还是一整个帝国，和这份广袤相比都是那么的微不足道。她心中的火焰熄灭了，她认为人类已经取得了胜利。银河中的大部分已经尽归其属，他们残忍无道地统治着它。所以，她为什么不接受这一切，然后让自己沉入深渊，去等待那缓慢而又漫长的死亡呢？就在她深入深渊之际，她听到有个声音在虚空中放声大笑。
As she floated away from Death Guard ship, she saw that the breach was being sealed by something vast and black protecting the Death Guard on the bridge from the vacuum's pull. The Death Guard capital ship entered the Startide Nexus wormhole. She had failed. She pondered the vastness of the galaxy and how she was insignificant. A single ship. An entire empire was all nothing when set against this vastness. The fire in her died, and she thought that humanity had already won. Much of the galaxy belonged to them, and they ruled it with cruelty. So why shouldn't she accept it and let herself sink into the abyss to the slow lingering death that awaits? As she allowed herself to sink into the darkness, she heard a voice laughing in the depths of the void.
当她的战斗服向她提醒要注意非人类生物的生命信号时，绝望的咒语被打破了。她看到塔克正盘腿坐在欧伊·赫伊的上面。雷加则飘在他的身边。她一动不动，浑身冰冷，但是微弱的脑部活动表明她还活着，只是处于冬眠状态之中。欧伊·赫伊用一个含有大气的泡泡罩住了他们。塔克告诉她，他也能进入冬眠状态。这可以降低呼吸空气的消耗。
The spell of despair was broken when her suit alerted her to non-human life signs. She saw Tak sitting cross-legged on top of Oe-Hei. Regah was close by, floating. She was motionless and cold, but faint brain activity revealed that she was alive in a hibernating state. Oe-Hei was enveloping them in an atmosphere bubble. Tak told her that he could also enter into hibernation. This should slow down the use of breathable air.
如果发生了最糟糕的情况，影阳吩咐欧伊·赫伊要将查尔帕克汀的光芒能够治疗长眠疫的消息告知钛族指挥部。欧伊·赫伊说他已经做了，然后他发射了一条加密光束。影阳向小小的无人机致以谢意，并褒奖了对方。在主人的感激之下，欧伊赫伊高兴地垂下了边辋，这令坐在上面的塔克惊恐地睁开了眼睛。
If the worst happened, Shadowsun told Oe-Hei that he should tell the T'au command that the Charpactin lights could cure the Sleeper plague. Oe-Hei said that's already done and he sent it via tight beam. Shadowsun thanked and praised the little drone. Oe-Hei dipped his rim gleefully at his master's gratitude causing Tak on top of him to open his eyes in alarm.
影阳的第二条讯息是派出一只信使蜂，让它带着尽可能多的情报穿越星潮节点，前去提醒本土注意即将到来的威胁。
Shadowsun's second message was to send a message drone through the Startide Nexus with as much information as possible to warn the mainland of the coming threat.
在做完了这一切后， 影阳和她的小队带着求救信号漂浮在太空之中，等待着救援。
With all of this done, Shadowsun and her party floated in space with a distress call, waiting to be saved.
回到死亡守卫的主力舰上，格鲁尔托斯克领主活了下来。他气得把三颗牙齿咬成了碎末。然而，他依旧活着，他要继续他的荣耀与征服之路。在纳垢的祝福下，他前额上的洞孔没能杀得了他。他发现很难进行思考了，不过他的脑组织迟早都会重新组合起来的。
Back on the Death Guard capital ship, Lord Glurtosk lived. He was consumed by rage to the point that he ground three of his teeth into powder. Yet he still lived, and he continued his path to glory and conquest. By the blessing of Nurgle, the hole in his forehead did not kill him. He found it hard to think, but his brain tissue would reknit in time.
术士瑟格莱恩用蝇首变种人的臃肿躯体堵住了舰桥上的洞孔。变种人发出了咆哮，他胡乱地摆动着，因为真空正在将他的内脏不断地吸出。
The sorcerer Thurglaine had used the bloated body of the fly-headed mutant to plug the hole in the bridge. The mutant screamed and flailed as his innards were continuously being sucked out by the vacuum.
瑟格莱恩警告了格鲁尔托斯克，他的预示表明，通过星潮节点的大门已经不再是获得纳垢青睐的途方了。有迹象表明，如果他们继续下去的话，会导致灾祸上身的。
Thurglaine warned Glortosk that his foresight revealed that the path to Nurgle's favor was no longer through the Startide Nexus portal. The signs point out that it will lead to disaster if they continue.
格鲁尔托斯克称对方是个骗子。术士愤怒了，他说自己和亚空间的联系是混沌领主永远都无法理解的。当对方从预示中长肥，却又只会无所事事地咆哮时，又怎能称自己是个骗子？他是死亡守卫和原体的耻辱。
Glurtosk called him a liar. The outraged sorcerer said that he has a connection to the Warp that Chaos Lord could never understand. How could he call him a liar when he has grown fat from his visions while doing nothing but bluster? He was a disgrace to the Death Guard and their Primarch.
术士再次警告他，穿越大门的话，他会有毙命的风险，否则就得被昔日困住死亡守卫的古老静滞囿于其中。那些不吸取过去教训的人注定将重蹈覆辙。现在，他必须回头。
The sorcerer warned him again that to go through the portal was to risk his demise or the old stasis that trapped Death Guard in the past. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. He must turn back now.
格鲁尔托斯克回答说当他抵达东缘星疆并与原体会师时，他会问对方认为哪个人更有价值。专心致志的船长保持着航向，并将纳垢的祝福献给了一整个帝国，或者是在最后一刻转过身去的那位顺从的术士。
Glurtosk responded that when he reaches the Eastern Fringes and meets up with their Primarch, he will ask him whom he considered more valuable. The dedicated captain that kept the course and delivered the blessing of Nurgle to an entire empire, or the meek sorcerer that turned aside at the last moment.
瑟格莱恩祝他的战斗兄弟，格鲁尔托斯克，能够好运。他说也许有朝一日他们会在纳垢的花园中重新聚首，但老实说，他对此表示怀疑。瑟格莱恩将自己和他的士兵从船上传送走了。
Thurglaine wished Glurtosk, his battle brother, luck. He said that perhaps one day they would meet again in the Garden of Nurgle, but in all honesty, he doubts it. Thurglaine teleports himself and his men off the ship.
回闪： 在逃离洞穴群的过程中，影阳被水流痛苦地推涌向前，她被黑暗压垮了。在黑暗中，一道光芒倏然闪现。只见一个半透明的身影出现在她的面前，它有许多条手臂，每只手里不是拿着武器，就是握着物品。这个身影不受湍流的影响，它的无面之首要比影阳高出好几英寸。它把一只耳细颈瓶递给了影阳。银色的泡沫从瓶中疾涌而出，影阳饥渴的肺中顿时充满了空气。影阳问它是什么东西。那个身影告诉她，它是各个种族的大同所在，它就是昭昭天命。
FLASHBACK: during her journey to escape the cave system with the water pushing her forward painfully, Shadowsun was overcome by darkness. In the blackness, a light appeared. A translucent figure manifested before her, many armed and in each hand carrying either a weapon or an object. The figure was unaffected by the rushing water, and it brought its faceless head inches before Shadowsun's. The figure brought an amphora toward Shadowsun. Silver bubbles emerged from it and filled Shadowsun's hungry lungs with air. Shadowsun asked what it was. The figure told her that she was the commonality of species, It was destiny.
影阳说它不过是一个幽魂而已。那个无面的身影说确实如此。和浩瀚的宇宙相比，它算不了什么。但是，如过影阳，希望之子，愿意的话，那么这颗种子就能茁壮成长。
Shadowsun said that it was nothing but a ghost. The faceless figure said that it was true. Set against the vastness of the universe, it was nothing. However, a seed can flourish if Shadowsun, the child of hope, let it.
水流变得更加平缓了一些。影阳问那个身影自己该如何报答对方。那个身影说它只想存囿于世。
The water became calmer and less violent. Shadowsun asked the figure how she could repay it. The figure simply said that it just wanted to exist.
现在：影阳在星超节点的设施中醒了过来。她遇到了欧伊·肯·雍，对方再度为自己的所作所为向她致歉。他告诉影阳她的异族盟友都已获救，并且得到了妥善的治疗。
In the present: Shadowsun woke up back at the Startide Nexus facility. She was met with Oe-Ken-Yon, who once again offered her apologies for what he did. He informed her that her alien allies were rescued and doing well.
他告诉影阳，以太发现在如此严峻的情况下，让确击接管她的指挥权是一种愚蠢的行为。以太让至高司令官官复原职，并将确击和第四次扩张部队置于她的指挥之下。现在，第四和第五次扩张部队都归她管了。
He told her that the Ethereals found Suretrike taking her command to be folly even in such dire circumstances. The Ethereals reinstated her as high commander and put Surestrike and the Fourth Sphere under her command. Both the Fourth and Fifth Sphere now answer to her.
影阳告诉欧伊·肯·雍，要是她现在有力气的话，她会起身将他打得飞出天外，然后命令他再度滚蛋。机蜂求她让自己把剩下的消息说完。她答应了。
Shadowsun told Oe-Ken-Yon that if she had the energy, she would get up and punch him out of the air and order him to leave all over again. The drone begged her to allow him to give her the rest of the news. She allowed it.
机蜂说查尔帕克汀人的方法奏效了。它治好了钛族和非钛之族的长眠疫。疫情结束了。这是好消息。
The drone said that the Charpactin method worked. It cured the Sleeper plague from T'au and non-T'au. The plague was ended. That's the good news.
坏消息是，死亡守卫的主力舰和两艘护卫舰开进了星潮节点的大门。钛族舰队没能及时阻止他们。不过，剩下的死守舰队突然停止了进攻，然后就撤走了。
The bad news is the capital Death Guard ship and two escorts entered the Startide Nexus portal. The T'au Fleet wasn't able to stop it in time. The rest of the Death Guard armada, however, broke off and retreated.
至于派往本土的信使蜂，它并不孤单。欧伊·肯·雍让自己的一个从属复制体跟了过去。从属机蜂并没有在虫洞里看到死亡守卫的踪迹。调查让他得出了一个结论。
As for the messenger drone that was sent to warn the mainland, it didn't go alone. Oe-Ken-Yon sent a slaved copy of himself after it. The slaved drone didn't see any evidence of the Death Guard in the wormhole. His investigation led him to one conclusion.
影阳警告他，如果他是想让自己对他发问的话，那她就会像凤凰一样骤然而起，然后把他弄碎在自己的膝盖上。
Shadowsun warned him if he made her ask him for it, she was going to somehow rise like a phoenix and break him over her knee.
机蜂给出了他的结论。死亡守卫的舰艇肯定已经被从虫洞的通道里拽了出去，然后就这样推进了亚空间。他们没能去成本土。
The drone gave his conclusion. The Death Guard ships must have been pulled from the wormhole tunnel and thrust into the Warp. They did not complete their passage toward the mainland.
影阳向钛'瓦致谢，然后告诉欧伊·肯·雍她原谅了他。影阳让欧伊·肯·雍代自己问候雷加和塔卡，并告诉他们，为了纪念之前的战友，她想让阿'海雅的一位族人和他们重新组队。
Shadowsun thanked the T'au'Va and told Oe-Ken-Yon that she forgives him. She told him to give Regah and Tak her regards and tell them that she wishes to resemble their team again with a member of A'haia kin as a mark of respect for their late comrade.
欧伊·肯·雍问自己是否可以重新加入她的行列。影阳说，对于他的出现，她可以稍微再容忍那么一点点。是的，他可以重新回到她的身边了。
Oe-Ken-Yon asked if would be allowed to join her side again. She said she could tolerate his presence a little longer. Yes, he can return to her side.
她把最后一件事告诉了机蜂 。在佩昆星上，她曾要他传令去把那个世界上所有的无面者雕像及其神庙统统毁掉。她想让他取消那个命令。
She told the drone one last thing. On Pekun, she told him to send an order to destroy the statues and temples of the faceless entity on the world. She wanted him to cancel that order.
在亚空间中，死亡守卫的主力舰被逮了个正着，它动弹不得，只能一动不动地停在黑暗之中。一万年前，当他们沦为纳垢的猎物时，死亡守卫也曾遭受过相同的磨难。格鲁尔托斯克领主看到一个巨大的无面实体向他的座舰直扑而来。它拥有钛族和人类的外貌。它长着许多臂膀。有些是克鲁特的。有些是熊一样的爪子。有些是真菌一般的触手。它的许多胳膊上都拿着武器、知识工具，以及一束束的光芒。
In the Warp, The Death Guard capital ship was becalmed, not moving, not going anywhere in the darkness. It was the same ordeal the Death Guard suffered ten thousand years ago when they became prey to Nurgle. Lord Glurtosk saw a faceless vast entity come toward his ship. It was both human and T'au in shape. It had many arms. Some were Kroot. Some were ursine claws. Some were fungal tentacles. Its many arms held weapons, tools of knowledge, and wisps of light.
混沌领主问对方是什么。它说它的名字是钛'瓦女神。
The Chaos Lord asked it what it was. It said its name was the Goddess T'au'va.
只听格鲁尔托斯克大声叫道，钛星人可是无神论者啊。那个实体回答说，他们的盟友可不是哦❤。 于是乎，它的众多臂膀向着死亡守卫的舰船靠了过去，然后将其攫而握之。格鲁尔托斯克嚎叫着，直到他的意志四分五裂。
Glurtosk cried out that the T'au are godless. The entity responded that their allies are not. Then its many arms closed in on the Death Guard ship holding it in place. Glurtosk screamed until his mind came apart.
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