战锤40K：战争黎明2——虫族战争中的难兄难弟两个SM战团

　　创建

　　帝皇之镰被指定为第874支星际战士战团，据推测他们的基因库来自于极限战士或帝国之拳。他们的第一任战团长是托奇拉(Thorcyra)——一位富有战略头脑的领袖，他一直领导战团数世纪之久，直到他在带领战团脱离克拉肯虫巢舰队的魔爪时牺牲。

　　帝皇之镰在对母星附近银河东缘(注8)的警戒行动中逐渐壮大，当扫荡了周边矿业聚居区附近的海盗之后，战团又在次级星区对兽人的迁徙进行打击。他们参加过“达摩克利斯湾远征”(注9)，并且在帝国占领Sy'l'kell的行动中扮演了重要的角色;但是，在得知虫族正在对乌尔特拉马星系(Ultramar)——极限战士的家园前进之时，远征就终止了。

　　在巴达布之战之后，恸哭者战团由于在战争中曾经倒向叛徒一方而开始了一场赎罪性质的百年远征，帝皇之镰负责监视这支悔过战团身上任何可能出现的反叛征兆。长时间的监督使得这两支战团成为了盟友，他们一直在履行自己的职责，直到41千年的最后几年——直到帝皇之镰的母星索萨被毁灭。起初，人们认为帝皇之镰和他们的母星一道被摧毁了，但是一小部分战士仍然在打击克拉肯虫巢的子舰队和其它虫族力量的战场上活跃着。

　　索萨最后的日子

　　第41纪，992年，克拉肯虫巢舰队正像癌症般四处蔓延，它们已经淹没了帝国最初的所有抵抗，消灭了恸哭者战团，帝皇之镰在试图冲击第一波虫族舰队的时候也遭遇了重大损失。舰队遭受惨痛损失的帝皇之镰们随即撤退到了母星索萨之上，后者随即就遭到了虫族的围攻，成千上万的泰伦生物降落到了星球上，帝皇之镰在战团长托奇拉的带领下，为了给居民的疏散争取时间，守卫在一座名为“巨人之棺”的岩石山峰上。(注10)

　　异形们数不清的舰船来势汹汹，力量差距的悬殊使得帝皇之镰看起来无足轻重。尽管如此，他们仍然在这一虫族占领整个索萨最后的障碍上坚守了数个星期。到最后，弹尽粮绝的帝皇之镰们不得不去吃死去异形的尸体来继续维持战斗。在毫无希望的形势下，泰伦虫族最终消灭了帝皇之镰，托奇拉战团长安排所有剩下的战士撤退以避免整个战团的全军覆没，他在最后时刻郑重地把战团的象征——皇帝的镰刀交到了唯一幸存的连长——第三连的特拉西乌斯手上，让他和其它人乘坐雷鹰炮艇撤离这个劫数难逃的星球，自己则带领第一连的残部坚守阵地，作为最后一道防线。

　　几近被毁的领导权传递到了特拉西乌斯的手中，隆重庄严的仪式在荣誉之威号(Honour's Might)上举行。特拉西乌斯将其重新命名为索萨之心号，以缅怀逝去的家园与牺牲的战友。

　　比黑摩斯虫巢舰队

　　帝皇之镰在第一次虫族战争中的戏份不多，他们的主要力量放在对抗钛星人的达摩克利斯远征上。不过同时他们也在加强母星的防御以应对可能到来的虫族入侵

　　下面还有两段，一段是达摩克利斯远征，资料集V1上有比之详细多的介绍，我就不翻了，另一端也是讲克拉肯虫巢舰队的，不过与前文有严重的冲突，为了故事的完整性我也不翻了，有空的兄弟自己看一下吧

　　The Arrival of Hive Fleet Kraken

　　Over 300 years since Hivefleet Behemoth, the Imperial Tarot began to tell of disaster 10 years before the arrival of Hive Fleet Kraken. Images of war haunted the Thorcyra and the astopaths. An uprising on the Factory World of Graia led to the deployment of the 3rd, 9th, and elements of the 10th companies to restore the Imperium's hold on the system. But during the Scythes invasion it became apparent that the uprising was caused by a Genestealer cult. After several months of combat and heavy casualties, the cult was finally crushed.

　　While returning home the Scythes forces from Graia encountered increasing disturbances in the warp. The Navigators suggested the Miral System to rest and wait out the warp storms. Here they encountered the remnants of their own Chapter, and learned of the overrunning of Sotha & the destruction of the Lamenters Chapter (The Lamenters made their last stand against the Tyranids at the Devlan System Sentinel Stations) by what the Imperium had now named 'Hive Fleet Kraken'.

　　Stories of desperate boarding actions against the Hiveships and their awakening occupants, close quarter combats and waves of attackers left dread in the hearts of the Scythes. With the Lamenters and their homeworld of Sotha gone, the Scythes found themselves cornered on the Deathworld of Miral. After planet fall the Scythes organised the Miral PDF to defend against what seemed to be an imminent assault.

　　Within a week the Tyranid were upon them. After countless, desperate, boarding actions and pitched land battles the Imperial forces chose a large rock mesa fortification known as the 'Giant's Coffin' from which to make a protracted last stand. After several weeks of fighting the Imperial forces attempted a breakout to leave the planet utilising a recently discovered Imperator Titan found inside the many labrynthine chambers of the mesa fortress.

　　In the counter-attack that led the withdrawal, barely a hundred Imperials escaped Miral. This was only achieved when the Titan inducted a core breach to eradicate a majority of their planet based pursuers. The survivors then fled back to Graia, losing several ships enroute to harrying vanguards of the Hivefleet. Once they made Graia, they set about organising the Graian defenders for the invasion that was surely to come.