hh8节译:不死神皇教派
Undying Emperor
The following account is based upon information gathered during the interrogation of the disgraced captain of the 8th Expeditionary Fleet vessel Lex Principium.
基于审讯第8远征探索舰队中的舰船——“原则律法”号那位可耻舰长所收集到的信息，我们形成了下文中的报告。
Among the men and women of the great Imperial war effort, the majesty of the Emperor and the grandeur of His galactic vision was often a topic of discussion. Invariably, such talk also veered into the realms of the Emperor's longevity. In the early years of the Great Crusade, the Emperor had existed as a presence in the galaxy long enough to become legend, with records surviving for many families of their distant ancestors having met or fought alongside Him in mythical times on Ancient Terra. Many speculated as to His age, for had an Emperor-like being not fought on Terra a thousand years before even the Great Crusade had begun? To a few, regardless of what He may have claimed to the contrary, the Emperor was an immortal being who could never die; He had conquered death itself and would live to conquer the very cosmos. This was the idea upon which the Cult of the Undying Emperor was shaped.
在效劳于伟大帝国战争的男男女女中，帝皇的统治权（地位）和他对于银河系的宏伟愿景经常成为讨论话题。而不可避免地，此类谈话（最终）也转而探讨帝皇的长寿。在大远征早期，帝皇存在于银河系中的时间漫长到足够成为一个传说，很多（贵族）家庭存留下来的记录表明：在古老泰拉上的神话般（过往）时代中，他们遥远的先祖曾经遇到过帝皇或与之并肩作战。很多人都在猜测他的年龄，因为在大远征开始的一千年之前，难道就没有某个类似于帝皇这样的人在泰拉上奋战吗？对于少数人而言，无论帝皇可能会说什么来否认这一点，他都是一个永远都不会死亡的不朽存在；他征服了死亡本身，而且还会活着去征服整个宇宙。不死神皇教派便是依照这些理念形成的。
Deifying the Emperor was not entirely uncommon, with discipline officers and iterators tasked with suppressing it; however, this early cult of Emperor-worship gained traction quickly. It is thought to have originated almost from the declaration of Terran Unity, and spread quickly among the Expeditionary fleets before vast distances were between them. Beginning with an idea that was agreeable, it was adopted as a belief by large swathes of Imperial personnel, even if it was not openly spoken of，and required no organised ritual. This idea only became harmful when within the 8th Expeditionary Fleet unscrupulous individuals exploited it, peddling supposedly holy trinkets and pendants of the Imperial Aquila in exchange for supplementary ration tokens. An industry of relics formed, through misinformation and myth, soon trading in the misbegotten teeth and bodily fluids of'martyrs' who had died for the Emperor, stolen from post-Compliance medicae encampments and war graves.
神化帝皇并非是一种完全不常见的行为，尽管纪法官员和负责（政权）更替的官员们会压制这些活动；然而，这些崇拜帝皇的早期教派很快便发展壮大起来。我们认为，这些行为几乎就是起源于帝皇宣布泰拉统一时，而且在远征探索舰队们彼此相隔广阔的（空间）距离之前，它便在舰队间快速传播开来。崇拜帝皇最初（只）是一种讨人喜欢的想法，之后则被大量的帝国人员采纳为一种宗教信仰——即便这种情况未被公开谈论过，而且不需要有组织的仪式。只有当第8远征舰队中一些寡廉鲜耻的人利用它，兜售所谓神圣的小饰品和帝国天鹰的吊坠来换取额外的配给券时，这种想法才变得有害。通过错误的信息和神话，这些人形成了一套圣物产业（体系）；很快，他们就做出了可鄙之事：从已归顺世界的医疗营地和战争墓园中偷盗那些为帝皇而死的“殉道者”们的牙齿和体液来用于交易。
This macabre trade soon came to support other unsavoury activists, who found a ready source of human viscera required for their own rituals. Under the guise of the Cult of the Undying Emperor, practitioners of warpcraft came to support this trade and gather the materials required to summon their gods of hell into reality. To cover their activities, they spoke of the Daemonic in terms of the sanctic, and of their gods as angels and saints, perverting the language of the Imperial Truth, adapting it to become in itself a religious credo - for it stood to reason that with the use of the blood and bones of martyrs who died serving Him, they could open the gates to an illuminated heaven of the Emperor's creation. This operation became well known among believers, and with the help of a sympathetic captain they formed an area of openly unholy consecration within the bulk freighter Lex Principium, whereupon they called all of their followers to gather for the rituals to begin. When they opened the Empyrean within the bowels of the ship however, their lies unravelled. The cultists knew not what powers they invoked, nor how to contain them. The ship's captain was alerted by the screams of his Astropath and Navigator, neither of whom would survive the night. Unable to reach his security detail, he locked down the bridge and signalled distress to the fleet.
这种令人毛骨悚然的交易很快就开始支持其他令人厌恶的积极分子，后者找到了一种现成的人类内脏来源以用于自己的仪式。在不死神皇教派的伪装下，亚空间飞船上的从业者们开始支持这一交易，并收集必要的材料来将他们的地狱之神召唤到现实中。为了掩盖自己的行动，他们以圣洁的说法来称呼恶魔，将其称为自己的神明、天使和圣者，并且扭曲了帝国真理（中）的语言，使其本身成为一种宗教信条——他们以此推论出：通过利用那些为帝皇而死的殉道者们的血液和骨骸，他们就能打开帝皇所创造的光明天堂的大门。这一行动在信徒中广为人知，在一位同情他们的船长的帮助下，他们在大型货舰“原则律法”号内建立了一个公开的不洁献祭场，他们召集所有的追随者聚集到此地来举行仪式。然而当他们在飞船深处打开至高天（入口）时，谎言也就崩溃了。教徒们不知道自己召唤来了怎样的权能，也不知道如何控制它们。星语者和导航者们的嚎叫向舰长发出了警报，前两者无人从这次暗夜中幸存。由于无法联系到自己的安保人员，舰长封锁了舰桥并向舰队发出求救信号。
A Sokar pattern Stormbird was immediately dispatched, containing a small contingent of the Iconoclasts of the XVIIth Legion and the Corpse Grinders of the IVth Legion. Together, the two dour strike teams went about the grim work of purging the ship, finding it to be filled with lunatic cultists and grotesque xenos spawn, whom they dispatched with equal effect. The immediate threat neutralised, the XVIIth Legion, having already earned a reputation in the early years of the Great Crusade for the unremitting destruction of religious cults, undertook a short campaign of cleansing, their reputation alone prompting Imperial citizens to identify the guilty relic traders and give up any known remaining cultists. Ironically, when reuniting with his Legion, Lorgar would study the same report, and it is understood by Imperial scholars that some of the ritual terms first used by the Cult of the Undying Emperor to beguile their members as to their true intentions were included in the Lectitio Divinitatus.
舰队立刻派出了一艘索卡尔型风暴鸟炮艇，其上装载了第十七军团“圣像破坏者”和第四军团“尸体研磨者”组成的小规模分队，这两支阴沉冷酷的打击小队共同承担起清理这艘飞船的残酷任务；星际战士们发现船上满是精神错乱的教徒和丑陋怪异的卵状物，他们将其赶尽杀绝。在消除了直接的威胁后，第十七军团进行了一场短暂的清洗运动——该军团在大远征早期就已经因为坚持不懈地摧毁宗教教派而赢得了声誉，只是他们的名声就能促使帝国公民识别出有罪的文物商人并交出任何已知的残余信徒。讽刺的是，珞珈与自己的军团团聚之后将会研读相同的报告；帝国学者们认为，最初被不死神皇教派用于欺骗其成员的某些仪式术语被纳入到了《圣言录》中。
Addendum: Emperor Worship
补遗：帝皇崇拜
It has been many years since this account was first conceived in secret. I know now that I will not live to see what becomes of our Imperium, and so may therefore write without regret or the apprehension felt by those who, like me, remember walking by the Emperor's side during the Great Crusade. I refer to the new Imperial cult which openly worships Him, the existence of which is contrary to His will.
自从我第一次构思这篇报告以来，已经过去很多年了。现在我明白，自己是不会活着看到人类帝国变成什么，所以我在写作本文时不会感到遗憾，也不会像那些如我这般仍记得在大远征期间与帝皇并肩前行的经历的人们那样感到忧虑。我指的就是那些公开崇拜帝皇的新帝国教派，后者的存在违背了帝皇本人的意志。
In the long decades since Ullanor, when the Emperor ceased to command His armies across the stars, His frightened subjects nave clutched ever more desperately for solace in what they have perceived to be His words and works. Their desire for His presence in their lives has led to the creation of a new belief variously called the Imperial Faith or the Faith of the Emperor Our Saviour; which is rooted in the text of the Lectitio Divinatatus, spawned from the ravings of thrice-damned Lorgar Aurelian. These foolish souls worship the Emperor as a god and it can only be imagined what bitter amusement the Golden Primarch, should he yet live, derives to see that the very matter over which the Emperor chastised him is become the foundation of His kingdom.
自从乌兰诺大捷之后漫长的数十年中，当帝皇不再（直接）指挥他的军队穿越群星时，他惊恐的子民们便更加绝望地从自己所能感知的东西——帝皇的言语和著作中寻求慰藉。他们渴望帝皇自己的生活中，这种期望导致了某些新宗教信仰的诞生，并且拥有各种不同的名称：帝国信仰、帝皇信仰或吾等救主信仰——这些信仰根植于《圣言录》中的文本，而这些内容是出自备受诅咒的珞珈 奥雷利安的疯言疯语。愚蠢的灵魂们将帝皇作为神来崇拜，我们只能想象，如果那位金色的原体（倘若他还活着的话）看见帝皇为之而对其进行惩罚的事情成为了人类帝国的基础，他会感到何等苦涩的可笑。
Such worship of the Emperor is a step towards the use of faith as a tool with which to pervert His designs. The new lords of Terra do not act to halt its spread, but rather use it as a means to meet their own mortal ends. It is now more imperative than ever to remember the ascendance of the empirical, secular Imperium He created. Knowledge of the Great Lie does not diminish the value of the Truth; the threat of the Daemon can be understood and countered rationally using the artifices of technology. His sons are marvels of science, not the demi-gods of myth and, could He speak, the Emperor would be the first to deny His own divinity.
这种对于帝皇的崇拜是（某些人）将之用作工具来扭曲帝皇本人意志的第一步。新任的泰拉领主们也并未阻止这种崇拜行为的传播，而是将其用作满足自己凡俗目的的手段。现在，人类比以往任何时候都更需要记住帝皇所创造的经验主义世俗帝国的优势。弥天大谎（机仆：帝国真理）并不会减少真相的价值，我们可以理解恶魔的威胁，并理性地使用技术手段来对抗它们。帝皇的子嗣们是科学奇迹，而非神话中的半神；倘若帝皇能讲出话语，那他就会是第一个否认自己神性的人。
