THE BETA-GARMON STAR CLUSTER
贝塔伽尔蒙星团
The Beta-Garmon star cluster balances on the edge of the Segmentum Solar; half a dozen star systems closely linked by stable warp routes and heavily fortified by the Imperium. Since the days of the great Ullanor Campaign, its worlds were a staging ground and munitions stockpile for the Emperor's armies setting out into the galactic north and east. Even before the rise of the Ruinstorm that clove the Imperium in two, the star cluster's place among the Imperium's domains singled it out as a vital choke point in the defence of the Segmentum Solar. During the bloody years of the Horus Heresy, it became a prize that was coveted jealously by both sides, and some of the most destructive battles of
that age were waged upon its planets.
贝塔伽尔蒙星团处在太阳星域边境的平衡处；六个恒星系被稳定的亚空间航线紧密连接起来，并被帝国大幅度要塞化。自从伟大的乌兰诺战役之后，帝皇麾下向着银河东部与北部进发的军队，便以这些世界作为集结地和军备储存库。甚至在那场将帝国劈为两半的毁灭风暴刮起之前，该星团在帝国疆域中的位置，令其被挑选为保卫太阳星域的一个关键阻塞点。在血腥的荷鲁斯叛乱期间，它成为了参战双方都在觊觎的战利品，这个时期中某些最具毁灭性的战斗就发生在了该地的行星上。
The first humans to settle the star cluster came during the Age of Expansion; Mankind's great pilgrimage to conquer the stars. These first colonies spread out among the nearby star systems, and Imperial surveys suggest that, at its zenith, the Beta-Garmon star cluster spanned over thirty inhabited worlds. While few reliable records of these early millennia remain, it is known that the star cluster was a prosperous human empire, and was ruled over by lords who claimed lineage back to those first colony fleets. Unlike many of its neighbours, Beta-Garmon survived the Age of Strife mostly intact, and many of its cities and great machines date back to the Dark Age of Technology- even though the knowledge to repair or replicate them has long since been lost.
人类最初定居于这片星团，是在拓张纪元；那是人类为征服群星而进行伟大朝圣的时代。最初的殖民地就分布于附近的恒星系中，而帝国的调查研究则表明：在其鼎盛阶段，贝塔伽尔蒙星团包含了三十多个有人类定居的世界。虽然关于此地早期数千年历史的可靠记录已所剩无几，但已知的是，该星团曾是一个繁荣的人类帝国（的所在地）；统治此地的领主们声称自己的家系可以追溯到第一批殖民舰队上的移民们。不同于自己的很多邻居，贝塔伽尔蒙星团（中的文明）几乎完好无损地从纷争纪元幸存下来，此地的很多城市和伟大机械都能追溯到黑暗科技时代——哪怕是维修和复制它们的技术也都早已丧失。
In 811.M30, the Imperium brought the worlds of the BetaGarmon cluster into the Emperor's growing domain. By this time, only five systems in the cluster survived, and were designated by the Imperium: Alpha, Beta, Delta, Zeta, and Theta; Beta being the largest and most valuable, it subsequently became the common Imperial name for the collected stars. Imperial Seneschals and Mechanicum Domini were sent to enforce the Pax Imperium, though the Garmonites accepted the arrival of the Imperium willingly, and so most of their lords were allowed to keep their power-provided that they bent the knee to the Master of Mankind. These ancestor-lords would later become fertile ground for the agents of the Arch-traitor Horus to turn the systems of Beta-Garmon against the Emperor.
人类帝国在811.M30将贝塔伽尔蒙中的世界纳入到帝皇不断扩大的疆域中。此时，星团中只有五个恒星系（中的文明）幸存下来，人类帝国将之命名为：阿尔法、贝塔、德尔塔、泽塔和西塔；其中贝塔恒星系最为庞大也最具价值，它后来成为人类帝国对于该星团的常见统称。为了建立起帝国圣平律法的统治，帝国监理官和机械神教统御官也被派往此地，不过伽尔蒙星团的人们也自愿接受了人类帝国的到来，当地的大部分领主都被允许继续掌权——只要他们向人类之主屈膝臣服。但在后来，这些四世三公的领主们也成为了巨逆荷鲁斯的代理人们进行颠覆活动的沃土，其令贝塔伽尔蒙的恒星系们背叛了帝皇。
Each of the cluster's major planets were swiftly exploited and fortified by the servants of the Emperor, and deep vaults found beneath Beta-Garmon II and III were used to stockpile vast supplies of munitions. Thus was the Beta-Garmon cluster turned into an armoury and staging ground for the armies and fleets of the Imperium. Mars too laid claim to several of the cluster's worlds; its agents overseeing Dark Age marvels like the protective hive-shields of Beta-Garmon Ill, the gigantic shipyards of ThetaGarmon V and the harvest domes of Delta-Garmon II.
帝皇的仆从们迅速开发并要塞化了星团中的所有主要行星，发现于贝塔伽尔蒙二号和三号地下深处的仓库也被用于储存数量庞大的弹药补给。火星也索取到了星团中的多个世界，其代理人监管着诸如贝塔伽尔蒙三号上的巢都防护盾、西塔伽尔蒙五号上的巨型造船厂和德尔塔伽尔蒙二号上的丰饶穹顶农场。
Not long after the start of the Horus Heresy, the Ruinstorm, a massive barrier formed of warp storms that isolated thousands of worlds from the reach of the Emperor's armies, cut the systems of Beta-Garmon off from its surrounding sectors. While inaccessible to its allies, the servants of the Traitor Horus moved freely through the Ruinstorm and it was agents of the XX'h Legion that were the first to spread their lies among the Garmonite Lords. After the nearby Paramar system fell into civil war, the BetaGarmon cluster was quick to follow.
在荷鲁斯叛乱开始后不久，贝塔伽尔蒙中的恒星系被毁灭风暴（数千个世界都被这道亚空间风暴组成的巨大屏障隔绝开，帝皇的军队无法前往这些星球）切断了与周边星区的联系。虽然贝塔伽尔蒙的友军们无法抵达此处，但叛徒荷鲁斯的仆从们却能在毁灭风暴中来去自由，第二十军团的特工们率先在伽尔蒙领主们当中散播起谣言。在邻近的帕拉玛星系陷入内战之后，贝塔伽尔蒙星团也将沦于战火。
The bitter conflicts that followed in the wake of the weakening of the Ruinstorm, and the great Titan battles that forever scarred the star cluster, were predicated upon its place as a crossroads point on the path to Terra. During this time, the cluster became the narrow of the passage, like a mountain pass, into which both sides poured men and war machines. Few battles in the history of humanity were as brutal or costly as those during the Beta-Garmon campaign - and, at the time, it was believed few would ever surpass it.
贝塔伽尔蒙星团位于通往泰拉航路的十字路口处，这也就预示了在毁灭风暴减弱后到来的苦涩冲突，以及那些在此地永远留下伤疤的大规模泰坦战斗。在此期间，该星团就变为了一个如山口般狭窄拥挤的通道，双方都投入了兵力与战争机器。在人类的历史中，仅有极少数战争与贝塔伽尔蒙战役同样残酷且损耗严重——在当时，人们相信只有极少数战争能（在惨烈程度上）超越它。
TITANDEATH TIMELINE
泰坦之死时间线
The long and savage Beta - Garmon campaign included hundreds of warzones across dozens of worlds. Even before the greater armies of the Warmaster reached the star cluster, the battle lines had long since been drawn, and fighting had been going on for many years. It was a cauldron of battle that would consume millions of lives before its end and see the demise of entire Titan Legions.
贝塔伽尔蒙战役漫长且惨烈，其包括了遍布于数十个世界中的数百个战区。甚至在战帅的大军抵达该星团之前，战线便早已形成，战斗也已经持续了多年。在其结束之前，这些混乱激烈的战斗将吞噬数百万人性命，并将摧毁掉完整的泰坦军团。
Presented here are some of the notable events from those bloody years of war. These selected battles and betrayals are intended to paint a picture of the great civil war as it unfolded, and also give an overview of the scale of conflict brought to Beta - Garmon, a theatre of war that saw Space Marine Legions, entire Imperial armies , Titan Legions and Primarchs all take to the battlefield.
我们在此展示的，是那段血腥战争岁月中的某些著名事件。我们选出这些战斗与背叛，目的既是描绘出那场大规模内战爆发的图卷，也是总揽诠释那场爆发于贝塔伽尔蒙的冲突的规模：星际战士军团、完整的帝国军编队、泰坦军团和原体们都踏足了这片战场。
634006.M31: War comes to Beta - Garmon
634006.M31: 贝塔伽尔蒙战事初起
Even as the fires of Isstvan III are cooling , Alpha Legion attack cruisers enter the cluster. A campaign of assassination and sabotage by the XXh Legion paves the way for an Emperor's Children Millennial, seeking to win back the favour of Fulgrim by bringing the Garmonite lords of Beta - Garmon Il to heel. Meanwhile, the Traitor Titans of the Legio Mortis Reaper maniples sweep away the Loyalist Nemesis brigades defending Nyrcon City in a matter of days. After Nyrcon and the Anvil are taken,forces across the cluster declare for or against Horus and many of the cluster's worlds descend into civil war.
尽管伊斯特万三号的战火仍在冷却中，但阿尔法军团的攻击巡洋舰们已然进入了贝塔伽尔蒙星团。第二十军团发动了一场关于刺杀与暗中破坏的战役，为帝皇之子千人队的到来开辟了道路——这些第三军团战士们试图令贝塔伽尔蒙二号的领主们屈服，要以此赢回福格瑞姆的青睐。同时，在几天的时间中，死颅军团收割者中队的叛军泰坦们便扫清了拱卫Nyrcon城的忠诚派步兵旅“复仇女神”。在Nyrcon和Anvil这两座城市（机仆：这两座城市是星团的统治中心）被攻占后，星团各处的部队要么宣布效忠于荷鲁斯，要么就是奋起抵抗叛军，星团中的很多世界都陷入内战。
376007-779010.M31: Strife engulfs Beta - Garmon
376007-779010.M31:纷争骤起
Traitor forces plague the star cluster with constant attacks, while rebel armies spring up like brush fires , eroding the Imperium's defence on many worlds. During these years, the worlds and systems of Beta-Garmon fight among themselves——sometimes aided by the actions of Space Marine Legions, Titan Legions or other outside forces as they move to warzones in the galactic north and east, or retreat back towards Terra. Events such as the Great Starvation, the Soul Plague of Theta-Garmon and the Rain of Plasma are all wrought during these years of strife.
叛军部队的不断进攻就如同瘟疫那般，肆虐在星团中。反叛的军队就如同灌木丛中燃起的野火，侵蚀着很多世界上的帝国防御力量。在这些年中，贝塔伽尔蒙中的世界与恒星系们相互争斗——某些时候还会得到星际战士军团、泰坦军团和其他力量的协助，而这些援军要么在前往银河北部与东部的战区，要么就是在撤回泰拉。诸如大饥荒、西塔伽尔蒙灵魂瘟疫和电浆暴雨等事件都发生在这一纷争时期。
521007.M31: Trapped by the Ruinstorm
521007.M31: 毁灭风暴之困
Many Imperial fleets and armies, as well as Loyalist Titan Legions and elements of Loyalist Space Marine Legions become trapped in the Beta - Garmon cluster by the Ruinstorm - the vast warp storm raised by Lorgar's ritual in Ultramar. These trapped forces lend their strength to the Loyalist forces holding out against a steady supply of Traitor reinforcements.
珞珈在奥特拉玛举行的仪式掀起了一场大规模亚空间风暴——“毁灭风暴”，很多帝国舰队与军队，以及忠诚派泰坦军团与忠诚派星际战士军团分队，都被困在了贝塔伽尔蒙星团。这些被困的部队增援了当地的忠诚派势力，抵抗着源源不断的叛军增援。
780010.M31: The First Battle of Nyrcon
780010.M31: 第一次Nyrcon之战
Rogal Dorn orders sizable detachments of Imperial Fists and Salamanders Space Marines to engage the Emperor's Children Millennial garrisoning Nyrcon City, while Solar Auxilia regiments, supported by newly raised Garmonite Theta-Battalions , lay siege to the equatorial fortress cities of Beta - Garmon II. On Beta - Garmon III , the Warp Runners send their Verdis maniples against the Death's Heads Legio defending Caldrea Primus. Months of fighting sees thousands dead and dozens of Titans fall, though for now the Traitors'hold on Beta - Garmon II and III is broken.
在罗格 多恩的命令下，帝国之拳与火蜥蜴星际战士们组成了一支规模可观的分遣队，前去讨伐驻守在Nyrcon城的帝皇之子千人队；同时在新组建的伽尔蒙西塔战斗军的支援下，（多个）太阳军步兵团们向贝塔伽尔蒙二号的轨道要塞城市群发动了攻城战。在贝塔伽尔蒙三号上，虚空行者军团派出自己的维尔迪斯中队们去对抗守卫主火山口的死颅军团。在数个月的战斗中，数千人死亡，数十台泰坦陨落，但叛军对于贝塔伽尔蒙二号与三号的掌控目前已被打破。
277012.M31: Vanguard Fleets
277012.M31: 先锋舰队
Raider wolf packs and vanguard fleets are the harbingers of the Warmaster's armada. These agile strike groups attack the outlying worlds of the star cluster — sparing Beta-Garmon II and III from the initial assault, and forcing Imperial commanders at Nyrcon City to divide their forces—diminishing the defences of these core worlds.
战帅的舰队派出了使者——掠袭狼群舰队与先锋舰队。这些敏捷的打击群进攻了星团的外围世界——它们的初期攻势避开了贝塔伽尔蒙二号与三号，迫使Nyrcon城的帝国指挥官分兵应对——这削弱了忠诚派对于这些核心世界的防御。
31702.M31：Hammer of the Legio
31702.M31：泰坦军团之锤
With the Imperial armies and fleets spread out across the cluster, Horus unleashes the full measure of his Titan Legions against key targets. On Delta-Garmon II and Theta-Garmon V, sieges that have lasted years are brought to a sudden and brutal tipping point. Titans of the Death's Heads Legio lead the way against the harvest domes of Delta-Garmon II, the airless wastes growing thick with the twisted wreckage of Loyalist tanks,On Theta-Gannon V, Tiger Eyes and Death Stalkers maniples march across the great Garmonite shipyards, their guns tearing open the fortress docks and leaving clouds of frozen corpses in their wake. Only the swift arrival of Warp Runners and Imperial Hunters maniples prevents both systems falling completely into the Warmaster's hands, though both Loyalist Legios find themselves hard-pressed by the vast number of enemies arrayed against them.
随着帝国的军队和舰队分散到星团各处，荷鲁斯释放出麾下泰坦军团的全部力量，进攻关键目标。在德尔塔伽尔蒙二号和西塔伽尔蒙五号上，已经持续了数年的攻城战达到了一个突然且残酷的临界点。死颅军团的泰坦一马当先，攻向德尔塔伽尔蒙二号的丰饶穹顶农场，忠诚派坦克扭曲的残骸遍布在星球的真空荒原上；在西塔伽尔蒙五号（的轨道上），虎眼和死亡潜者的泰坦中队们在巨大造船厂各处阔步行军，他们的火炮撕开了要塞船坞，身后留下成堆被冻结的尸体。完全是由于虚空行者和帝国猎手中队们快速抵达的增援，这两个恒星系才未彻底沦入战帅之手；但面对列阵攻来的大量敌人，两支忠诚派军团也都发现自己处境艰难。
361012.M31: Beneath a Blood Red Star
361012.M31:血色红星之下的杀戮
The God Breakers come to Alpha-Garmon IX with orders to level the world and rob the star cluster of its harvested energy. Anticipating the arrival of the Traitor Titans, the planet's Martian Domini called out to the Firebrands and Warp Runners Legios for aid, while massing their own regiments of Mechanicum Knight Houses. The resulting conflict turns the black plains of Alpha-Garmon IX to glass with the fury of battle, while Dark Mechanicum war-servitor clades and mutant levies clash in the tunnels below with the defenders. During the battle, many of the world's tesla-spines are felled — their kilometres-long spires crashing down among the fighting Titans.
肩负着夷平那个世界，并且掠夺星团中丰沛能量的命令，破神者军团前往了阿尔法伽尔蒙九号（机仆：阿尔法伽尔蒙是红巨星，机械神教在阿尔法伽尔蒙九号上修建了大量太阳能电站和储能设施）。星球上的机械神教统御官预料到了叛军泰坦的进犯，他们呼叫炎纹和虚空行者两个军团来救援，并集结起自己麾下的骑士家族部队。在随之到来的冲突中，激烈的战火将阿尔法伽尔蒙九号的黑色平原玻璃化，同时黑暗机械神教的战争机仆和变种人奴兵与守军在地下隧道中展开激战。在战斗中，星球上的诸多流电高塔都被推倒——它们数千名长的塔尖轰然倒塌在混战的泰坦之间。
403012.M32: Second Battle of Nyrcon City
403012.M32:第二次Nyrcon城之战
The war finally comes to Beta-Garmon II in full force. Having bled the Loyalists in the outer systems, the Warmaster unleashes his maniples of Death's Heads, Tiger Eyes and Death Stalkers into the wastes surrounding Nyrcon City, while his fleet attacks the planet from above and hundreds of Traitor army regiments storm the hives themselves. In what would become known as the Second Battle of Nyrcon, Titans break through the hundred-kilometre deep defences of the PanCrypta Dust Clans, Solar Auxilia and Nemesis Brigades. Warp Runners maniples lead the Loyalist Titans to make a stand in the shadow of Nyrcon's gate, but ultimately fall, opening the way for the Traitors to flood into the city. With the city under their control, the Traitors move swiftly to conquer or destroy the rest of Beta-Garrnon II.
贝塔伽尔蒙二号终于爆发了全面战争。战帅已经在外围星系对忠诚派造成了持续伤害，来自死颅、虎眼和死亡潜者的泰坦中队被释放进入了Nyrcon城周围的荒原中；同时叛军舰队也从上空进攻这颗行星，数百个叛军步兵团突袭了巢都。在被后世称为第二次Nyrcon城之战的冲突中，泰坦们突破了PanCrypta沙尘氏族兵、太阳辅助军和复仇女神步兵旅们组成的一百千米宽防线。虚空行者的泰坦中队们率领着忠诚派泰坦，在Nyrcon城门的阴影中坚守着阵地，但他们最终也都陨落了；道路被打通，叛徒们如洪水般涌入城中。随着Nyrcon城被其控制，叛军们快速行动，征服或摧毁了贝塔伽尔蒙二号的其他区域。
643012.M31: Hive War on Beta-Garrnon III
643012.M31: 贝塔伽尔蒙三号上的巢都战争
While Beta-Gannon II has all but fallen to the Traitors, Beta-Gannon III remains loyal to the Imperium, though its hive are under constant assault by Sons of Horus and Iron Warriors siege battalions. Nova Guard Titans muster around its hives, defending against ground assault, while other Legios patrol the storm-covered wastes repelling battlegroups sent across the void from Beta-Gannon II. On the shores of the Chymist's Sea, Imperial Hunters Titans oppose landings by neuro-slave armies of captured Garmonite soldiers, the Loyalists forced to annihilate their former allies and drive their formations into the caustic ocean.
尽管贝塔伽尔蒙二号已经几乎落入叛军之手，但贝塔伽尔蒙三号仍然忠于帝国，不过星球上的巢都也遭受着荷鲁斯之子与钢铁勇士攻城部队的不断袭击。新星守卫军团泰坦们集结在集结在巢都周围，抵御着地面进攻，同时其他军团在遍布风暴的荒原上巡逻，击退从虚空中赶来的贝塔伽尔蒙二号战斗群。在Chymist海的海岸上，帝国猎手军团对抗着精神控制奴兵大军的登陆行动——后者是由被俘的伽尔蒙士兵改造而成，忠诚派们被迫毁灭自己昔日的盟友，将其部队赶入腐蚀性的海洋中。
705012M31:Among the Omega Dead
705012M31:行走于欧米茄伽尔蒙的死者之间
On a special directive from the Warmaster, a maniple of Death's Heads Titans are sent to Omega-Garmon at the head of an army. There they find Firebrands Warhounds waiting for them among the ruins of a dead planet. Few records remain of the confrontation, and those Firebrands Princeps to survive swear oaths of silence, vowing to never speak of events on the graveyard world.
按照战帅的特殊命令，一支死颅泰坦中队率领一支大军，被派往了欧米茄伽尔蒙。而在那颗死亡世界的废墟间，他们发现炎纹军团的战犬泰坦们正在等待自己。只有极少数关于此次冲突的记录遗存下来，那些幸存的炎纹泰坦机长们也都发下静默誓言，宣誓自己永不说出发生在那颗墓园般世界上的事件。
859012.M31: War for the Outer Worlds
859012.M31: 外围世界争夺战
Fresh Traitor forces continue to pour into the star cluster, while the astropathic choirs of the Cathega Telepathica send out an almost constant cry to the Emperor's armies for aid. Across the outer systems of the cluster, the Loyalists abandon any pretence at strategy and hurl their reinforcements into the fray as they arrive. Heavily damaged Titans of the Warp Runners, Nova Guard and a dozen smaller Titan Legions continue to hold the line on Alpha-Gannon IX around the last-remaining Mechanicum citadels, their exhausted crews facing the God Breakers over barricades built from fallen God-machines.
新的叛军部队持续涌入星团，同时当地的星语唱诗班也近乎不断地呼唤着帝皇的军队前来援助。在星团外围的各个星系中，忠诚派们放弃了战略上的伪装，增援部队一到达便被投入战场。来自虚空行者、新星守卫和十二个更小型军团的受损严重的泰坦，仍在阿尔法伽尔蒙上最后剩余的机械神教堡垒们周围，坚守着战线；精疲力尽的泰坦乘员们越过陨落的神之机械所构成的路障，直面破神者军团的进攻。
919012.M31: To Control the Void
919012.M31: 掌控虚空
The first great battles of the Sea of Fire begin. The void between Beta-Gannon II and III is filled with warring ships, while missiles are hurled across the dark, seeking out enemy ships or far-off cities and mustering grounds. Elsewhere in the cluster, the arrival of fresh fleets from Segmentum Solar signals that the Emperor will not let Beta-Garmon fall easily.
“烈火之海”战役的第一批大规模战斗开始了。贝塔伽尔蒙二号和三号之间的虚空中遍布着交战的飞船，导弹在黑暗中飞驰而过，寻找着敌舰、遥远的城市与集结场。而在星团的其他区域中，从太阳星域抵达战场的新舰队表明：帝皇不会让贝塔伽尔蒙星团轻易沦陷。
084013.M31: Arrival of the Primarchs
084013.M31:原体的到来
Jaghatai Khan and Sanguinius arrive at the cluster and commence pulling together the vast resources gathered there at Dorn's command. Sanguinius assumes overall command of the Imperial war effort, but owing to the multitudes of different assets, the lack of a clear command structure and the huge scope of the warzone, effective control cannot be imposed.
在多恩的命令下，察合台可汗与圣吉列斯抵达星团，开始聚集在此地的庞大（战争）资源集结调配起来。圣吉列斯获得了对于帝国部队的全权指挥，但由于不同的战争资产数量众多、清晰指挥结构的缺失与战区的巨大范围，有效的（战场）控制无法被执行。
193013.M31: Fortress Beta-Garmon
193013.M31: 贝塔伽尔蒙要塞
Traitor forces are quick to fortify their gains, and with frightening coordination, the Warmaster restores recently Conquered defences. On Delta-Gannon II, Dark Mechanicurn hereteks bring crippled Titans back to a semblance of life as massive gun emplacements, while the hundred-metre high nemesis cannon of Nyrcon are restored and turned against the Emperor's forces. Newly arrived Loyalists find themselves walking into brutal killing grounds or facing ordnance still bearing the Aquila of the Imperium.
叛军部队将自己夺取的阵地快速加固强化。通过惊人的协调行动，战帅修复了近期征服的防御设施。在贝塔伽尔蒙二号上，黑暗机械神教的技术异端们将残废的泰坦改造为巨型炮塔，并修复了Nyrcon城那门百米高的巨炮，用于对付帝皇的军队。新抵达的忠诚派们发现，自己不是在走入残酷的杀戮场，就是在面对那门仍旧带有帝国天鹰标志的火炮。
193013.M31：March of the Dark Sentry
193013.M31：黑暗哨兵的进军
The Dark Sentry enters the Beta-Garmon system, Traitor fleet hiding in its shadow. In the midst of the fleet battle, Imperial forces make a landing on the planet to deny it to the enemy. Among their forces are Titan maniples that are soon opposed by their own kind. In the shadowy landscape, victory often goes to the side that can use the strange physiology of the Dark Sentry to their advantage.
“黑暗哨兵”世界（机仆：黑暗哨兵是游荡在星团中的一颗行星）进入了贝塔伽尔蒙星系，叛军舰队躲在其阴影中。在舰队战斗中，帝国部队登陆了这颗星球，以防其落入敌军手中。这些部队中泰坦中队们很快便遭到了自己同类的进攻。在阴影遍布的登陆场中，胜利往往属于能够将黑暗哨兵诡异自然机能用作自己优势的一方。
286013.M31: On the edge of the Void.
286013.M31: 虚空的边缘
A Loyalist fleet attacks the shipyards at Theta-Garmon V, the Firebrands Legio leading the ground assault. Titans fight across the skin of the orbital shipyards as ships battle above their heads. Though the initial Loyalist assault captures key fortress docks, the Dark Mechanicum trigger a solar event that bombards the gas giant and blinds the unprepared Loyalist Titans and void craft. Tiger Eyes Titans inflict a heavy toll upon the Firebrands and their allies, though the blinded Titans fight on bravely to the end.
一支忠诚派舰队袭击了西塔伽尔蒙五号（轨道上）的造船厂，炎纹泰坦军团领导了对空间站表面的进攻。当泰坦们站在轨道造船厂的外壳上交战时，它们头顶也在进行舰队战。尽管忠诚派在初期进攻中占领了关键要塞船坞，但黑暗机械神教诱发了一次恒星事件——它们轰炸气体巨星（诱发核聚变），对此毫无防备的忠诚派泰坦和虚空舰船上的图像传感器都被摧毁。在虎眼泰坦军团的攻击下，炎纹军团及其盟友损失惨重，但那些失明的泰坦勇敢地奋战到了最后。
356013.M31: The Titandeath
356013.M31: 泰坦之死
More than twenty Legios and hundreds of Titans converge on Beta-Gannon II as the Loyalists seek to strike a decisive blow to reclaim Nyrcon City and clear the system of Traitors. Shoulder to shoulder, the Loyalists meet their enemies in battle like infantry formations facing off, only on a much grander scale, Knight Banners racing around their feet like hunting hounds. Many Titan Legions are extinguished forever in the days of battle that follow, and even legendary formations such as the Warp Runners and Tiger Eyes are reduced to a fraction of their initial size. By the time that the Loyalists reach the shattered walls of Nyrcon, both sides are staggering over fields of fallen god-machines, while the light from Beta-Gatmon ll's burning hives is visible from space.
忠诚派试图发起一次决定性进攻，以夺回Nyrcon城并清理掉星系中的叛军部队，因此有超过二十个泰坦军团和数百架泰坦聚集到了贝塔伽尔蒙二号上。忠诚派如同步兵编队那样，并肩前行，对峙敌人，只是规模要大得多；骑士机甲们如同猎犬般在泰坦脚边奔跑。在之后的数天战争中，很多泰坦军团被永久性毁灭，哪怕诸如虚空行者和虎眼之类的泰坦编队的兵力也下降到了最初（参战）力量的一小部分。等忠诚派抵达Nyrcon城破碎的城墙处时，双方都是在遍布着陨落的神之机器的战场上蹒跚前行；贝塔伽尔蒙二号上巢都熊熊燃烧的火光，在太空中都可见到。
559013.M31:A Hole in the Sky.
559013.M31:天穹上的孔洞
While the war on Beta-Gannon II unfolds, the Warniaster launches his fleets and reserve Titan Legions against Beta-Gannon III. Detonating a vortex warhead in the upper atmosphere, the Traitors create a hole in the caustic storms surrounding Caldrea Primus, and for the first time in millennia, the sun touches its spires. Without the constant toxic storm assailing it, the hive's ancient and esoteric void shields fall dormant. In the vacuum created by the warhead, Nova Guard and God Breakers Titans fight for the fate of the hive as the boiling storm closes back in around them.
就在贝塔伽尔蒙二号上展开激战的同时，战帅派舰队和后备泰坦军团进犯了贝塔伽尔蒙三号。叛军在星球上层大气中引爆了一枚漩涡弹头，在Caldrea Primus巢都周围的腐蚀性风暴中创造出一道（亚空间）孔洞；在数千年的时间中，阳光第一次照耀在了巢城的塔尖上。没有了持续性有毒风暴的侵袭，巢都那古老且玄奥的虚空盾陷入休眠。在弹头创造出的真空环境中，新星守卫和破神者的泰坦们为巢都的命运而展开激战，同时猛烈的风暴再次逼近了它们。
637013.M31: No Price too High
637013.M31: 不惜一切代价
Without orders or doctrine changed, the war shifts inevitably from one of conquest to one of slaughter. Exhausted armies bomb their own cities or trigger the destruction of hives and fortresses rather than see them fall into enemy hands. What little restraints were placed upon the Titan Legions are cast aside and the god-machines unleash their weaponry upon the ancient structures of Beta-Garmon's worlds. Many of the harvest domes of Delta-Gannon II are fractured, geysers of fire bringing daylight to the dark world for a time — while the heavily damaged shipyards of Theta-Garmon V are shrouded in a debris field that stretches out for millions of kilometres into the void.
由于并未改变命令和信条，战争就不可避免地由征服转变为屠杀。精疲力尽的守军们要么炸毁自己的城市，要么就是触发巢城和要塞的毁灭程序，而非眼看着它们落入敌军手中。那些限制约束泰坦军团（行动）的微小障碍都被抛弃了，神之机器将武器火力释放到了贝塔伽尔蒙诸世界的古老建筑上。贝塔伽尔蒙二号上的众多丰饶穹顶农场都被炸碎，一时之间，断断续续的（爆炸）火光照亮了这个黑暗的世界。同时，西塔伽尔蒙五号上受损严重的造船厂被包裹于一片在虚空中绵延开数百万公里的废墟带中。
012012.M31—740013.M31: The Great Slaughter
012012.M31—740013.M31: 大屠杀
In months of battle, millions have perished in the hives and fortresses of Beta-Garmon II and III, the subterranean tunnels of Delta-Garmon II, the void-cities of Theta-Gannon V and hundreds of other warzones across the cluster. The astropathic choirs of Terra receive a constant stream of Imperial dispatches from the Beta-Garmon cluster, each one bearing the name of another regiment, brigade or battalion of the Imperial Army obliterated in the fighting — though Horus makes no such accounting of the forces that fall in his name. Such is the scale of the destruction, and the radioactive wastelands left behind by the Titan battles, it is doubtful if any will ever know for sure the full tally of the fallen.
在数个月的战斗中，数百万人消亡于贝塔伽尔蒙二号和三号上的巢都与要塞、德尔塔伽尔蒙二号的地下隧道、西塔伽尔蒙五号的虚空城市与星团各处的其他数百个战区中。泰拉星语唱诗班不断从该星团收到帝国派遣部队的信息流，每条信息中都带有另一支帝国军战斗团、战斗旅或战斗营在战争中被摧毁的内容——但在荷鲁斯（收到）的统计报告中，叛军们并未以他的名义歼灭这些部队。这场毁灭的规模是如此庞大，泰坦们激战之后留下的辐射废土亦然，以至于我们都要怀疑，是否有人确切知道贝塔伽尔蒙战役中的全部阵亡人数。
788013.M31: The Needle Breaks
788013.M31: 曲终魂断
The tipping point of the Beta-Garmon campaign comes in the shadow of the Carthega Telepathica on Beta-Gannon III, its astropaths still screaming out for aid from Terra. Having pinned the bulk of the Loyalist forces against the defences of Caldera Hive, only a handful of Loyalist Titans drawn from different Legios defend the Diviner's Needle along with their Knight allies, among them Nova Guard, Warp Runners, Firebrands and Imperial Hunters — some reduced to a single maniple of undamaged war machines. Unbroken by months of fighting, the Death's Heads Legio leads a massive host of Traitor Legios against the tower's defences, the Titans and Traitor Knights marching up through the toxic storm to battle on the mountain top, and ultimately bring the spire down. As it falls, a psychic scream reaches out across the cluster and beyond, spreading dismay and horror to all Loyalists it reaches.Though the fighting at Beta-Garmon will continue until Horus stands at the gates of Terra, and long after, history will record this as the point when the fate of the cluster was sealed, and the Warmaster's armies began their final march toward the heart of the Imperium.
在贝塔伽尔蒙三号的星语高塔的阴影中，贝塔伽尔蒙战役迎来了转折点——此地的星语者们仍在嘶吼着向泰拉求援。忠诚派的主力部队被派去压制Caldera巢都的防御力量，只有抽调自不同军团的寥寥几台忠诚派泰坦与自己的骑士盟友们一道，保卫着星语者们所在的尖塔。这些泰坦来自新星守卫、虚空行者、炎纹和帝国猎手——某些部队兵力缩减到仅剩一支由未受损的战争机器组成的中队。而在数个月的战争中未受折损的死颅泰坦军团，率领着庞大的叛军泰坦部队，攻向尖塔守军。泰坦和骑士们穿过有毒风暴，大步前行，走上山顶与守军激战，最终将尖塔摧毁。随着高塔倒下，一道灵能哀嚎传到星团内部各处与外部，其所及之处的所有忠诚派心中都被散播开恐惧与沮丧。虽然贝塔伽尔蒙星团的战斗将会持续到荷鲁斯站上泰拉城门之日，但在很久之后，历史会将高塔倒下的时间点，记录为该星团的命运被终结，以及战帅的大军开始向人类帝国的心脏发起最后挺进之日。
