死亡守望单位：杀戮修士lex
Not every xenos-related crisis demands the full deployment of a Deathwatch Kill-team, but many seemingly inconsequential incidents can be harbingers of a greater threat that would be foolhardy to ignore. Under these kinds of circumstances a Watch Captain may elect to send a single Space Marine, a specially trained "Kill-marine" skilled in solo operations, to investigate and exterminate where possible or to call in backup where it is truly needed.
不是每个异形相关的威胁都要求一整只杀戮小队的部署，但很多无关紧要的意外可能预示着会被鲁莽忽视掉的更大威胁。在这些情况下，一位守望连长会派出一位星际战士，一位受过特殊训练，精于独立行动的“杀戮修士”，杀戮修士们会在可能的情况下进行调查和消灭，当真的有必要时，他们会呼叫支援。
Overview综述
Kill-marines are naturally denied the reliable supporting firepower of their Battle-Brothers and fall back on the stealth and infiltration techniques they first mastered as Scout/Initiates to perform their duties. Scout Sergeants often make superlative Deathwatch Kill-marines with little additional training but these specialists are drawn from all ranks of the Deathwatch as needed. A certain independence of thought and great strength of spirit are in many ways more important than exceptional stealth skills for a Kill-marine. A Kill-marine must possess the right temperament to operate for long periods cut off from their kind and from the sacred touchstones of their Chapter.
杀戮修士们天生就对战斗兄弟们可靠的支援火力保有否定，他们依靠自己还是侦查兵或者信徒（机仆：黑兽人侦查兵）时首先掌握的隐形和渗透技巧来完成任务。侦查军士们经常只需要很少的额外训练，就能培养出最优秀的杀戮修士，不过，这些专家要根据需要从死亡守望的各个军衔中挑选出来。对一名杀戮修士而言，在各个方面来说，思想的某种独立性和强大的精神力量比杰出的隐形技巧更重要。一名杀戮修士必须拥有适合进行长期任务的气质，这要求他能够长期与战斗兄弟和战团的神圣试金石相隔离。
Space Marines ordinarily live a cloistered existence in their Fortress-Monasteries. Their contact with the outside world is normally limited to fighting wars in it and their interactions with humans only come in chance encounters on the battlefield. By contrast a Kill-marine has to interact frequently with the existing authorities and power structures of the Imperium, often acting as a direct representative of the Deathwatch before planetary Governors, war councils and ruling bodies of Adepts.
星际战士们通常在要塞修道院里过着隐居生活，他们与外界的接触通常仅限于外出参战，他们与凡人的互动仅仅是在战场上的偶然相遇。相比之下，杀戮修士则要频繁与帝国的政府官员还权力机构打交道，也经常在行星总督，战争议会和各修会统治机构面前作为死亡守望的直接代表。
Kill-marines spend time living alongside those they must ultimately defend, sharing their trials and seeing the world through their eyes. In their missions a Kill-marine will make allies and enemies of many that they meet, and hear tales that would never reach a Watch Fortress. He might become involved in events that ultimately have little to do with the Deathwatch directly but rebound to the greater security of the Imperium. In this way the remote Deathwatch maintains a limited connection to the great masses it is charged to protect even as it stands vigil in the darkest gulfs surrounding mankind.
杀戮修士要和那些他们最终要保护都人一起生活，分享他们的考验，并用自己的眼睛观察这个世界。在任务中 他们会与自己遇到的很多人成为盟友或敌人 ，听取那些最终会传到守望要塞的故事。他们可能卷入最终与死亡守望没有直接关系的事件，但这也是为了帝国更大的安全。因此，这些死亡守望们也与他负责保护的大众们保持着有限的联系，即便他是人类周围最黑暗峡谷的守夜人。
In practical terms the greatest step a Kill-marine must take is to secure travel between the stars as Deathwatch vessels can rarely be spared for their direct deployment. Interstellar ships are such rare and precious things that even the word of a Space Marine will not turn one from its course. More militant Battle-Brothers have sometimes opted for the expedient of capturing a pirate vessel and forcing its crew to do their will, exterminating their unwilling hosts once they reach journey’s end. However many less drastic opportunities exist for a Kill-marine that is prepared to think more broadly. He might travel aboard Imperial Navy warships and Rogue Trader vessels for example, or join the retinue of an Inquisitor for a time if it will serve his purposes. To do this the Kill-marine may have to use his natural humility to ask, and not demand, his passage by offering his assistance in trade for reaching his destination.
实际上，杀戮修士必须迈出的最大一步是确保星际间的旅行，因为死亡守望的舰船很少能在他们的直接部署任务中不受伤害。星际飞船是极其稀有而珍贵的财产，即使是星际战士提出了要求，飞船的航线也不能改变。更为激进的战斗兄弟们有时会选择一种权宜之计：捕获一艘海盗船并且强迫船员们把自己送到目的地，旅行结束后，阿斯塔特还要处决掉这些不情愿的主人们。不过对于一位准备从更广的角度考虑问题的杀戮修士来说，也存在很多不是那么激进的办法。比如，他会搭乘帝国海军或者行商浪人的舰船，如果有助于他的目的，他也会加入一个审判官的随从队伍。为了实现目标，杀戮修士们需要用人性去交谈而非命令，他要通过提供帮助的方法来交换到达目的地所需要的交通方式。
Imperial authorities will usually welcome the opportunity to gain access the knowledge and experience of a Space Marine for their own purposes in some vexing matter. The singular skills a Kill-marine can bring to bear are liable to open whole realms of possibility that were previously out of reach to a Rogue Trader Captain or an Inquisitor. A previously unknown and potent player entering the game can be invaluable for their schemes. The guarantees of transportation to an undisclosed location that a Kill-marine may ask for are a small price to pay to secure his help.
出于自己的目的，在某些棘手的问题上获取阿斯塔特的知识和经验的机会往往会受到帝国当局的欢迎。一位杀戮修士可以带来的非凡技能可能会打开整个的潜在领域，而这些领域对浪人船长和审判官而言可能珍贵到了无价的地步。对于他们的计划而言，一位事先未知而且强悍有力的盟友的加入的极其宝贵的。杀戮修士可以寻求到一份搭乘顺风船前往未知地点的保证，而且他只需要支付很少的报酬：提供帮助就行。
More cynical commentators have noted that the portrayal of the Kill-marine as some kind of diplomatic emissary is disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst. A Kill-marine is still a Space Marine, a super-humanly fast and strong warrior trained in the very highest arts of war. Some accuse Kill-marines of being spies and assassins operating at the behest of the Watch Commander, independent and unregulated agents of a shadowy organization with a reputation for exterminating entire worlds. The coming of a Kill-marine may be treated with great alarm by some, an unsubtle reminder that the harbingers of death are near.
更为愤世嫉俗的评论家们则指出：将杀戮修士作为某种外交使节的形象充其量是不真诚坦率的，最坏的情况则是彻头彻尾的谎言。杀戮修士仍然是星际战士——拥有超越凡人的速度和力量，接受过各种最为高级的战争艺术训练的超人战士。有些人则指控杀戮修士们是在按照守望指挥官的命令执行监视和暗杀任务，是某个以毁灭整个世界而闻名的阴暗组织独立且未受监督的特工（机仆：这么说好像也没毛病…）。有些人会以极强的戒心对待杀戮修士的到来，他们视杀戮修士为一个不为人知的提醒：死亡的预兆就在附近。
Kill-marines do often forego power armour and use non-standard weaponry of a somewhat stealthier demeanour than the sacred boltgun and holy chainsword. They maintain that this practice is born of practicality when they are commonly moving through environments designed for an unarmoured man, and that employing more easily concealed weaponry only serves to soften their otherwise intimidating and warlike aspect. It is to be expected that such peerless warriors would adapt to their circumstances by honing their stealth and unarmed combat skills to exceptional levels so that they can slay quickly and quietly in case of trouble.
杀戮修士们经常会放弃动力甲并且使用某些更适合隐秘举止的非标准武器，而非使用神圣的爆弹枪和链锯剑。他们坚持认为这种做法源于实用性：他们通常要穿过为没穿动力甲的人所设计的环境，使用更易隐藏的武器则是为了软化阿斯塔特原本令人生畏和好战的一面（的形象）。可以预料到，这些无可匹敌的战士们会以依靠把他们的隐形和徒手格斗技巧到非凡的水平的方式来适应自己所处的环境，这样他们就能在困难的情况下快速而无声地杀戮。
However such paranoid accusations may have some foundation in reality. At times Kill-marines have turned on those apparently giving them aid, even unto slaying entire households from within on the pretext of uncovering corruption in their ranks. How often these events are rooted in coincidence and spontaneous action as opposed to the carefully considered orders of the Watch Commander is impossible to say. The responses of the Deathwatch to those brave enough to level such charges are simply that those who have no truck with the alien have nothing to fear.
不过这些偏执的指控可能是有一些现实依据的。有时杀戮修士会攻击那些明显给他们援助的人，甚至是以揭露他们阶层的腐败为借口，从内部屠杀掉一整个家族。在这些事件中，有多少次是植跟于巧合，有多少次是杀戮修士违背了守望指挥官深思熟虑的命令，做出了相反的自发行动，很难说清。死亡守望对于那些敢于提出这些指控的人的反应也仅仅是：那些和外星人没有勾结的人没有什么可害怕的。（机仆：个人感觉这句话有两重重含义啊：指控者只要没和异形勾结，企图给攘外修会找麻烦，那他的指控就是正常上访，没啥大不了的；还有就是我攘外修会从来没有勾结过异形，你告状我也不怕）
It is true that Kill-marines are often sent on missions obscure to their Battle-Brothers in the Deathwatch and even to themselves. The Librarium and the Apothecarion can layer mental blocks and hypno-conditioning into a Space Marine’s mind to make it receptacle for the most sensitive knowledge. Secret orders or communiqués that a Watch Captain will not entrust to Astropathic communication may be buried deep in a Kill-marine’s subconscious for him to transport to another Watch Fortress. A Kill-marine may carry, knowingly or unknowingly, relics or other items of key importance for delivery into the hands of specified individual. They may be assigned to guard an individual while having pre-programmed assassination protocols in place to eliminate them if the call arises. Some whisper that these enigmatic figures have even dealt directly with aliens, a feat that would surely require extreme Hypno-indoctrination for a Deathwatch Space Marine to achieve.
事实上，杀戮修士们也经常被委派对于他们的守望兄弟甚至是他们自己而言都不被知晓的任务。智库和药剂师能够将思维封锁和催眠调节融入星际战士的意识中，用这种方式来让它成为最敏感知识的容器。当一位守望连长有秘密的命令或者报告要进行传递，但又不能依靠星语通讯（以防止泄密）时，他会将这些信息深埋入一位杀戮修士都潜意识当中，由杀戮修士带往另一座守望要塞。一名杀戮修士可能会有意识或者无意识地携带着一些圣物或者其他极其重要的事物，将它们传递到某个具体人物的手中。他们可能被派去保护某个人，但在他们的大脑中已经预习设定好了暗杀协议，一切到位之后，一旦协议被唤醒，他们就会处决保护对象们（机仆：草，66号密令啊）。甚至有些私下传言说这些神秘人物会直接和外星人打交道，要让一名死亡守望这种近乎不可能的行为，一定需要极端的催眠灌输。
