The Chronicle of Ashes

In 017.M31, a task force of the Ultramarines Legion, composed of the survivors of the 19th, 48th and 207th Destroyer Cadres, encountered several renegade Word Bearers cruisers defending a lone Gloriana class battleship identified as the Chrontcle of Ashes in the wild and unchaned space of the Dominion of Storms. Overwhelming the Traitor escort craft with the brutal efficiency that marked the Destroyers of that Legion, the Ultramarines captured the Chronicle of Ashes in a furious boarding action involving nearly three hundred Space Marines and two full days of bloody close quarters fighting as they swept the ship's innumerable decks clear of Traitor Space Marines.

在017.M31，一支由第19、第48和第207毀滅者核心部隊(duì)的幸存者組成的極限戰(zhàn)士特遣隊(duì)在風(fēng)暴統(tǒng)治域那狂野且不受拘束的宇宙空間里偶遇了一艘榮光女王級(jí)戰(zhàn)列艦，這艘戰(zhàn)艦被識(shí)別為灰燼編年史號(hào)，被幾艘懷言者叛軍巡洋艦護(hù)衛(wèi)著。特遣隊(duì)以軍團(tuán)毀滅者部隊(duì)那標(biāo)志性的野蠻效勞擊潰了護(hù)航艦船，并通過(guò)一次狂暴的跳幫行動(dòng)俘獲了灰燼編年史號(hào)——將近三百名星際戰(zhàn)士在船上進(jìn)行了整整兩天的血腥近距離戰(zhàn)斗，他們掃清了無(wú)數(shù)甲板上的叛徒星際戰(zhàn)士們。

In the aftermath of their victory, the Ultramarines discovered something unexpected in the vaulted halls of the Chronicle of Ashes’?upper decks; stretching across every wall and onto ceilings was etched a history of the Word Bearers’?actions and undertakings in the twisting and fey language of now dead Colchis. Later investigation of this prize by members of the nascent Inquisition was to reveal a wealth of information regarding events that had previously been hidden to Imperial scholars, and the details were transcribed into a series of tomes now kept in the sealed archives of the Imperial Palace, before the Chronicle of Ashes was finally cleansed, tech-exorcised and re-dedicated as the Lex Talon is, before being presented to the Ultramarines in 022.M31 and incorporated into the newly founded Nemesis Chapter. Many of the events noted in this history are based on the writings found within the Chronicle of Ashes, whose proscribed contents were made available to the author.?

在獲勝之后，極限戰(zhàn)士們?cè)诨覡a編年史上層甲板的拱頂大廳中發(fā)現(xiàn)了某些未曾意料的東西：關(guān)于懷言者軍團(tuán)行動(dòng)歷史的銘文延展在每面墻和每塊天花板上，而且是用稀奇古怪且曲折的科爾奇斯（它現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)是個(gè)死亡世界了）語(yǔ)言寫就的。之后新生的審判庭的成員們對(duì)這艘船進(jìn)行了調(diào)查，這次調(diào)查揭示出了大量信息，其中涉及的事件之前并未對(duì)帝國(guó)學(xué)者們開放，細(xì)節(jié)內(nèi)容被抄寫進(jìn)入了一系列的典籍當(dāng)中，這些文獻(xiàn)如今被保存在帝國(guó)宮那被封印的檔案中。在這之后帝國(guó)對(duì)灰燼編年史號(hào)進(jìn)行了最后的清理，經(jīng)過(guò)技術(shù)驅(qū)邪和重新執(zhí)行過(guò)儀式之后，這艘船成為了律法利爪號(hào)。律法利爪號(hào)于022.M31被贈(zèng)予極限戰(zhàn)士們，并被納入新組建的復(fù)仇女神戰(zhàn)團(tuán)。很多在這一歷史時(shí)期被記錄的事件都是基于那些發(fā)現(xiàn)于灰燼編年史號(hào)上的文字內(nèi)容，而本書作者也得以獲取其中那些（原本）被禁止的內(nèi)容。（機(jī)仆：這基本等于是給珞珈傳和hh懷言者三部曲打了個(gè)軟廣告…）