帝国中一些较大的城市——比如下文中的这座巢都——直径能够达到数千公里。
原文:The Cathedra Crosium was definitelyimpressive.
Even a man like Archimedis Van Leeuwen – no stranger to thesegmentum’s wonders – found himself staring.
Towering high above the low-gravity world of Incandesica,the cathedra’s crown of steeples and chapel towers reached for the
网页链接 was situated at the heart of the Crozier Worlds and was the hub ofAdeptus Ministorum affairs in the sector. The mighty Cathedra Crosium sat atthe heart of Incandesica’s high-rise continental expanse of City-Sanctus. Onefat hive, expanding for thousands of kilometres and dominated by dormitoryspires, temple complexes and the magnificence of gothic shrines, theCity-Sanctus was swarming with priests and pilgrims.
Doubling as a palace of planetary governance, the greatstate rooms of the cathedra were vaulted chambers of ornate stonework - ancientand beautiful. Colonnades of statues ran up the centre, depicting cardinals andother high ecclesiarchs heralding from the sector, and saints that had inspiredthe faithful of the Crozier Worlds.
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而一个非巢都的工业城市也能够横跨半个大陆。
原文:The industrial city was a great darkstain across half a continent, its manufactoria standing as titanic cathedralsto the Imperial hunger for munitions and war machines.