hh8节译：圣血天使军团组织结构
Unit Organisation and Structure within the Legion
In all of its incarnations, the IXth Legion has defied the standard by which the Legiones Astartes have been measured. In its earliest days, it operated with such a simple order of battle and command structure that it could barely be called an army, consisting only of massed infantry companies with few specialised troops of any kind. Most often these troops were equipped as 'reaver' squads, close quarters optimised and wielding arms requiring limited resupply, the perfect warriors for operations undertaken at arm's-length from the main force of the Great Crusade. The aberrant quirks of the Legion, the red thirst that haunted its warriors, wreaked havoc on its discipline and made any attempt at large scale organisation difficult. Tactics were often developed and employed at the company or even squad level during combat rather than being part of a larger Legion-wide approach to strategy.
在其所有的形式中，第九军团都已经违背了衡量阿斯塔特军团的标准。在其最初的岁月，他们以一套如此简单的战斗序列和指挥结构运作着，以至于几乎无法被成为一支军队，而仅仅是由大量的步兵连队和极少数各种类型的特殊部队拼凑起来。这些部队大多数情况下都是作为“劫掠者”小队进行装备，他们最优化了近战（能力），使用着（只）需要有限的再补给的武器。第九军团这些完美的战士承受着与大远征主力部队之间的武器差距。军团中的异常怪癖——红渴困扰着第九军团战士们，它对军团的纪律造成了严重的破坏，也让进行大规模组织的任何尝试都变得艰难。在战斗中，战术通常在连队甚至是小队层级的单位中发展和执行，而非是作为大型的军团范围战略方法的一部分。
This unique manner of operation, fighting at a distance from other units and with limited oversight by the Divisio Militaris, served to limit the impact of the Legion's more aberrant practises on the morale of allied units. As such there was no concerted effort to bring the Legion into compliance with others of the Imperial Host, and it was a matter of tacit complicity among the various generals and commanders that fought alongside the IXth Legion that it was to be allowed to operate in a manner of its own choosing. Its first commanders were more warlords than true officers, they enforced discipline at the point of a sword, earned respect with the strength of their arms, and they walked the battlefield as visceral forces of nature. When these respected commanders advanced, the warriors of the IXth Legion followed. When they held the line, their followers dug in, and when they laid down their blades, those around them ceased the killing. It was a brutally efficient structure, one that could be impeded only by the infliction of massive casualties, for even if one warlord fell, there were a dozen veterans ready to step forwards and take his place.
第九军团在作战时要远离其他单位， 而且要受到军务庭的限制性监督，这套独一无二的运作方式是为了限制第九军团那些更为异常的行为对盟军士气的影响。所以让第九军团和其他的帝国部队合作并不会有齐心协力的效果，那些与第九军团共同作战的各位将军和指挥官们之间也存在着一种战术共识——第九军团应该被允许按照他们自己选择的方式运作。第九军团的首席指挥官们与其说是真正的军官，不如说是军阀们，他们用剑锋来强制执行纪律，用武力赢取尊重，他们靠着天性本能的力量行走在战场上。当这些备受尊敬的指挥官们前进时，第九军团的战士们便会追随；当他们坚守阵线时，下属们也会拼死抵抗;当他们放下利剑时，周围的战士们也会停止杀戮。这是一套残忍有效的结构，只有大量的人员伤亡才能阻止它的运作，因为即便有一名军阀倒下，他身后也有十多位老兵准备上前接替他的位置。
This was all to change with the return of Sanguinius. The winged Primarch was to bring a sense of order to the often fractious Legion, stamping a new structure onto it in the hopes of containing its hunger. Though in essence this new order would seem to be in accord with the Principia Bellicosa, the schema by which the other Legions were organised, in actuality it also varied a great deal from the standard pattern. It retained the basic structure of companies, initially forming the Legion into 200 companies of approximately 300 warriors each, although by the last years of the Great Crusade this would have increased to 300 companies each of 500 warriors. However, past this basic structure there were many discrepancies, each chosen by the Great Angel to serve a purpose in his plans. These companies were grouped into Hosts for campaigns requiring greater force of numbers than that possessed of a single company, though each Host was a temporary creature broken and made as need required.
这一切将会随着圣吉列斯的回归而改变，背生双翼的原体将为这个经常暴躁易怒的军团带来秩序感，他将赋予第九军团一套新的结构，希望以此来克制军团（对于血腥暴力）的饥渴。虽然在本质上这套新秩序看起来符合基础军典——其他军团也是根据这份纲要进行组织，但事实上它也与标准模式有着很大的不同。它保留了连队的基本结构，起初圣血天使军团由200个连队组成，每个连队大约300名战士，到大远征末期时，数量会增加为300个连队，每个连队500名战士。不过，除了这套基本结构，圣血天使军团也有某些独一无二之处，每个特点都由大天使亲自挑选出来服务于他的机会中的某个目标。当某些战役需要的兵力超过单个连队时，这些连队就会被组织成战群，不过战群只是一种临时单位，会根据需要进行组建或解散。
Sanguinius created three Spheres to encompass his Hosts, three chambers by which he would give order and purpose to the warriors of the Legion. Each was separate and distinct from the Three Hundred Companies and the strictures of the Principia Bellicosa, forming a distinct strata of organisation that allowed the warriors of the IXth Legion to focus their hunger and rage towards a single end and to conquer it. Yet it was not merely a blunt tool, but an elegant and artful plan designed to promote the finer qualities of the Legion while providing an outlet for the more base. It was the Great Angel's masterwork, the fulfilment of an oath and the salvation of his children.
圣吉列斯创建了三重天球体系来包含他的军团部队，他会通过这三层天球组织来向军团战士们下达命令和目标。每一层天球都独立和区分于军团的三百个连队和基础军典的束缚，它们形成了一套允许第九军团的战士们将他们的（血腥）饥渴和愤怒集中于一个目的并将其克服的明确组织阶层。这并非是一套钝拙的工具，而且是一个用于提高军团的素质并同时为给他们提供了更为基本的发泄出口的优雅且巧妙的计划。这是大天使的杰作，也是他对于诺言的履行和对于子嗣们的救赎。
The outermost of the three Spheres would encompass the rank and file of the Legion, the warriors that plied blade and bolter on the battlefield. Known within the Legion as the Malak, these warriors had but one duty - to fight at the order of their captains. They obeyed, they killed and they practised the arts granted them by the Primarch, and by these simple disciplines and the endless focus of their post-human minds they staved off the depredations of their hunger. Within this sphere there were but few distinctions, simple titles and orders for those who excelled in specific arts of war and peace, exemplars of their tasks and angels of small actions. These were the marksmen, poets and duellists of the Legion, its strong right hand and beating heart, and though these were but small honours, they were held dear by those who won them.
三重天球的最外层将会包含的是军团中那些手持利刃和爆弹枪在战场上奋战的军团战士们。他们在军团中被称为圣血使者，只背负着一项职责——根据连长的命令作战。他们遵守命令，奋力搏杀，并实践着原体授予他们的艺术。凭借着简单的纪律和超人意识的无尽专注，他们避免了自身血腥饥渴（对于理智）的掠夺。这层天球的战士们之间几乎没有区别，那些精于战争与和平的独特艺术的战士们会得到简单的头衔和勋章，他们是是任务中的典范、小规模行动中的（战争）天使。圣血使者们是军团的神枪手，诗人和决斗家，他们是第九军团强劲的右手与搏动的心脏。虽然他们只能获得渺小的荣誉，但那些赢得荣誉的人们都很珍视这份荣耀。
The Second Sphere was composed of the commanders and leaders of the Legion, the powers and dominions that stood at the side of Sanguinius. To them fell the duty of command, of the execution of Sanguinius' wishes with alacrity and sound judgement. Unlike those who fought at their command, they bore the burden of free will, of time to think and ponder as they would while the curse stalked them. They were the planners and strategists of the crimson host, they directed battles and wars as lesser men directed symphonies, utilising each instrument at their command to its utmost. As the rank and file found peace in their studies, so too did each of the mighty become a master of many disciplines, those of the pen and brush as well as those of the blade and gun. Though they were not the singleminded fanatics of Legions such as Angrons red reapers or Guilliman's famed tacticians, there were few who could match them in the arts of war taken as a whole.
第二天球由军团中的指挥官和领袖们组成，他们的实力和统御力仅次于圣吉列斯。他们承担着指挥的责任，要用敏锐明智的判断来执行圣吉列斯的意愿。不同于那些在他们的指挥下作战的军团战士们，他们背负着自由意志的负担——在他们沉思时，他们承受的诅咒也会潜入他们的身心。他们是这支猩红军队的计划者与战略家，如同寥寥数位指挥家就能指挥整场交响乐那样，第二天球的军官们能将自己手中的每支部队都发挥出最大功效。随着部队中的战士们在他们的研习中找到了平和，这些强大的指挥官们也都成为许多修行方面的大师，他们使用画笔和绘刷就像使用爆弹枪和利刃那样得心应手。虽然圣血天使们并不像安格隆麾下的腥红屠宰手或者基里曼麾下的著名战术家那样专心狂热于某一方面，但作为整体时，几乎没有哪个军团能在战争艺术上匹敌他们。
The First Sphere, the final demarcation of Sanguinius' new Legion, comprised the ranks of the Immortals. These warriors stood within the presence of the Primarch; they did not operate within one of the Three Hundred Companies but as the guards and servants of the Great Angel himself 。Each, when inducted into the ranks of the First Sphere, gave up his common name to take on another and gave up his identity to do the work of the Primarch without guilt or regret. They were Sanguinius’wrath, his stern resolve and his watchful eyes each given form and purpose. Upon these warriors he depended for the most dangerous of tasks, to fight upon those battlefields and to act upon those errands that would tarnish the soul and bring the hunger roaring to the fore. By the armour of the names and persona that the warriors of the First Sphere wore like their own, they put off the toll of their actions and emerged from their service untarnished, to take their places in the ranks once again.
第一天球是圣吉列斯新军团的最后一个层级，他们由不朽者部队组成。这些战士们会在原体出场时侍立他的身边，他们并非在连队中参与作战，而是担任大天使本人的卫士和侍从。在被选拔进入第一天球时，受选者要放弃自己的本名并接受另一个名称，他们也要放弃原有的身份，无愧无悔地执行原体的意志。他们是执行圣吉列斯的义愤与冷酷决断、为原体监视一切，他们每个人都被给予了形式和目标。圣吉列斯依靠这些勇士们来完成最危险的任务，他们会在那些恐怖的战场上作战，执行那些让灵魂都黯然失色的危险任务，将自己的血腥饥渴发泄到面前的敌人头上。第一天球的战士们身披带有着原体赐予的名称和身份的甲胄作战时，就像披挂着自己的动力甲作战时那样熟稔勇毅，他们不顾作战行动造成的损失，从自己对于原体意志的执行中脱颖而出，再一次荣登榜首。
Legion Command Hierarchy
军团等级体系
The lords of Sanguinius' crimson hosts bore many similarities to the strictures of the Principia Bellicosa, but with a number of differences both large and small. Authority was strictly divided across the three Spheres of the Legion, with each officer operating within his own place in the manner given him by the Primarch himself。 This strict, overlapping system of authority was less flexible than some Legions, but it afforded a solid line of responsibility and control that limited the effect of the Blood Angels' everpresent hunger and sudden rage. To mitigate the possibility of any breakdown of authority, the Blood Angels maintained a large number of junior officers, lieutenants and sergeants of varying types, all quickly able to take the place of the slain in the heat of battle.
圣吉列斯的绯红天使军团在结构上与基础军典的要求有着诸多相似性，但也有着大大小小的诸多区别。权力在军团三重天球体系中严格区分，每位军官都按照原体给予的方式在自己的位置上服役。这套严格而交叠的权力体系不如其他军团的灵活，但它提供了一条限制圣血天使们那无时无刻的血腥饥渴与突然的怒火的责任和控制的固定权力范围，为了降低权力链条发生任何断裂的可能性，圣血天使军团保有大量的低级军官，副官和各种类型的军士，但他们的上级在激战中牺牲时，他们能够快速地接替位置。
On the field of battle, the line of authority was always drawn clearly for the Blood Angels and followed absolutely. To disobey or question orders was a grave sin, undertaken only in the most serious of situations and warranting the harshest of punishments, even if proven correct. Their duty was only to obey, the individual warrior worried not for anything but action, putting the hunger to the back of his mind while those appointed over him worried over consequences. In the Blood Angels, all authority stemmed directly from Sanguinius and flowed down from him, first to the lord commanders then to his captains and beyond in an unbroken and inviolable line. This feet kept his Legion centred and focused, each word from a sergeant in the heat of battle was the word of Sanguinius himself ，each nod from a captain a tilt of the Primarch's head itself。
在战场上，圣血天使总是清楚地划定职权范围并且绝对遵循。违背或质疑命令是一项重罪，这些行为只有在最为严峻的情况中才能被允诺，而且哪怕这些行为被证明是正确的，做出这些行为的人也必须接受最严厉的惩罚。他们的职责仅仅是遵守命令，单个的军团战士除了任务行动之外不得他顾，他们将自己的血腥饥渴抛诸脑后，至于后果则是由任命他们的军官来关心，在圣血天使在，所有的权力都来源于圣吉列斯，并由他向下传递：原体首先将权力赋予军团的领主指挥官们，之后赋予他的连长们，超越了一套牢不可破的权力规范。这套权力基础使第九军团冷静且专注，激战中军士说出的每一句话都是原体本人的亲言，连长的每一项赞同都有原体本人的首肯。
The Blood Angels also differed in small ways, as with many of the Legions they had their own titles and names for authority and a host of lesser divisions to suit their style. Those who held command over Hosts and had authority over lesser captains were known as Archeins rather than the old title of Praetor, and also held the title of Dominion for a company. Within a company were a number of junior officers, the Powers who commanded the ranks of the company at war and the Virtues who stood as its exemplars in other endeavours. Many were known by the focus of their devotion, Archeins of Wisdom and Powers of the Blade, such distinctions a mark of respect as much as a tactical designation in a Legion whose Primarch urged them to be more than simple weapons.
圣血天使们在某些小的方面也有所不同，就像许多军团都有自己的关于权力的头衔和名称，以及一套与他们的风格相适应的下层分支。圣血天使军团中那些指挥战群、权力高于连长的军官被称为天弓统帅，而非以其旧有头衔——军团执政官进行称呼，而且还在连队中拥有主天使的头衔。连队中还有很多下层军官，力天使在战争中指挥连队作战，能天使们则是担任其他方面的榜样。许多军官都以专注于自己的奉献而闻名，天弓统帅们专注于智慧，力天使专注于剑技，这些区别性的称呼不仅是表示受尊敬的标志，也是军团中的战术称号——圣吉列斯敦促圣血天使们成为超越武器的存在。
War Disposition
战争配置
By the last years of the Great Crusade, the Blood Angels were among, if not, the pre-eminent Legion of the Imperial Host 。The years since Sanguinius had taken charge of the Legion had seen its revitalisation, a change so complete that few now even remembered the Revenant Legion of old. Once the half-forgotten rearguard of the Great Crusade, now it stood at the forefront of every advance, and those who had once scorned it now sang its praises in every court of the Emperor's far-flung domain. It was a fearsome fighting force, a breaker of empires and an ender of worlds, and unshakeable in its loyalty to the Emperor. It was the strong foundation upon which the Imperium was being built, and while it still stood, that empire would not fall.
在大远征末期，圣血天使军团是最顶尖的军团之一。圣吉列斯接手军团以来的岁月见证了第九军团的复兴，改变是如此的彻底，以至于恐怕没人还记得曾经的幽魂军团。曾经，他们是大远征中几乎被遗忘的后卫；现在，他们则是伫立在每次进攻的前锋，那些曾鄙夷他们的人如今在帝皇遥远领地的每个宫廷上颂唱着天使们的赞美诗。第九军团是一支可怕的打击力量，他们荡灭伪帝国，终结（不愿归顺的）诸世界，对于帝皇有着无可动摇的忠诚；他们是人类帝国建立其上的坚实基础，第九军团依然伫立，人类帝国便不会陨落。
At any time, the Legion numbered near 120,000 warriors, accounting for casualties, made up of to 300 individual companies, one of the largest Legions in operation at that time, with perhaps only the vast throngs of the Ultramarines and Iron Warriors on record as overmatching this strength. Each of these Hosts comprised a force , predisposed towards assault and orbital drop operations, with a large proportion of its infantry equipped for close quarters combat, and its vehicles primarily rigged for high speed strikes and breakthrough operations. With few defensive assets in comparison to more rounded Legions, they would be at a disadvantage if committed to a large scale conflict without operational initiative, but with the Great Crusade at its apex, such a situation seemed at the time unthinkable. This force was spread across the galaxy in a number of separate Hosts, each engaged in large scale operations, as well as custodial forces at each of the Legion's main bases and redoubts 一 these being at Baal, Saiph and Canopus.
圣血天使军团的人数在任何时候都是将近120000星际战士包括人员伤亡，第九军团由三百个独立的连队组成，也是当时最大的尚在运作的军团之一，而且根据记录，也只有极限战士和钢铁勇士这两个人数庞大的军团能在兵力上上超过圣血天使。每个战群都包含一支倾向于进行突击和轨道空降行动的部队，而且有相当大比例的军团步兵配备了近战武器，其载具也主要是为高速打击和突破作战而进行装配。相比于其他更为全面的军团，圣血天使几乎没有防御性装备，如果在没有主动优势的情况下陷入大规模冲突，他们将会处于不利地位。但是随着大远征到达了鼎盛时期，这种情况在当时似乎是不可思议的。圣血天使军团会拆分为数个战群，然后分散在银河各处作战，每个战群都要负责一场大规模行动，军团位于巴尔、Saiph和Canopus的每个主要基地和堡垒也都有卫戍部队。
Of these bases, Baal was the largest, for while the second moon remained sacrosanct for the native Blood, the empty rad-scoured world beneath was transformed by the Mechanicum of Anvillus at the invitation of Sanguinius himself There, where no unmodified person could tread, the tech-adepts built a manufacturing site the envy of many smaller Forge Worlds, supplying much of the munitions and technical needs of the IXth Legion. Baal, as the home world of Sanguinius, warranted a large standing guard, a duty mainly fulfilled by the Crimson Paladins, though at least one company could normally be found at refit. Canopus also served as a manufacturing centre, though of lesser size and sophistication, producing vast quantities of shells and other simple munitions to feed the hungry cannon of the Legion. It was a common stopping point for troops bound outwards for the Great Crusade's frontlines, and many units were to be found at rest there. Saiph was the smallest of the Legion's permanent outposts, serving only as a source of recruits from among the world's endlessly warring tribes, and warranted but a single squad as custodians.
巴尔是这些基地中最大的。对于本地的血族们而言，巴卫二仍然是神圣不可侵犯的世界，而来自Anvillus的机械神教成员们在圣吉列斯本人的邀请下前来转变这个遍布辐射的空旷世界。在这个未经改造的凡人无法忍耐的地方，技术侍僧们建立起了一座令小型铸造世界都为之嫉妒的制造站，它供应了第九军团所需的大部分弹药和技术造物。巴尔作为圣吉列斯的故乡需要庞大的常备守卫力量，这项职责主要由绯红圣骑士们履行，不过通常也会有至少一个连队的圣血天使们在巴尔修整。Canopus也是军团的制造中心，不过规模和生产成熟度更低，为军团饥渴的火炮们生产了大量的炮弹和其他简单弹药。对于前往大远征前线的部队来说，这是一个常见的修整点，我们能发现有很多单位在此处修整。Saiph是军团最小的永久哨站，它只是一个兵源地——军团从这个世界上征战不休的部落中挑选新兵，只有一支小队驻守此地。
The Legion's fleet assets were similarly impressive, boasting over 300 capital class ships, many of them heavy cruisers or even battleships of various classes. Many of these craft were outfitted to serve as orbital assault craft, mounting either banks of heavy linear cannon for use as bombardment weapons, launch rails for swarms of drop pods or vast hangar bays from which the large Stormbird or Thunderhawk dropships could operate.
军团舰队同样令人印象深刻——舰队中有超过300艘主力舰，其中很多都是重型巡洋舰甚至战列舰，她们被装配成了轨道突击舰船，要么是安装了用作轰炸武器的成排重型线列炮和用于发射大群空降仓的发射通道，要么就是带有可供大型风暴鸟或雷鹰空降艇运作的巨大机库港。
Few among their brother Legions could match such a fleet for sheer firepower or mass, for the weakness of the Blood Angels fleet lay in its single-minded obsession with a single stratagem. In terms of support craft, the fleet was less amply supplied, with less than 600 sub-capital craft, mostly slower escort gunboats with little in the way of fast strike craft. This was another side effect of the Legion's singular focus, for such craft were rarely needed for their preferred strategy and speciality, save as screening assets for the larger cruisers.
几乎没有哪个兄弟军团能在舰队的纯粹火力或质量上匹敌圣血天使军团，但圣血天使舰队的弱点在于对单一战略的一心一意。圣血天使舰队在支援型舰船方面供应不足，只有不到600艘次级舰船，而且大多数都是缓慢的护卫跑船，很少使用快速攻击艇。这是军团专注于单一战术的另一个副作用：军团的特点和偏好的战略几乎不需要此类（快速）舰船，她们是充当大型巡洋舰的扫描设备。
In all, the Blood Angels constituted one of the greatest threats to Horus' nascent rebellion, they were easily a match for any Traitor Legion he cared to stand against them and their loyalty to the Emperor was unquestionable. Openly confronted, they would savage his forces and leave him ill-prepared for an assault on Terra, but left unopposed there could be no attack on Terra without the Blood Angels striking his exposed flanks. Some among his confederates urged the IXth Legion be destroyed in detail, its separate Hosts attacked while on-campaign and annihilated one at a time while they were vulnerable. Mortarion favoured this approach, for he of all the brothers had the least love for the winged Primarch and his witch-dreams. Yet Lorgar convinced his warmaster that there was another way, a way to not only remove an obstacle but to gain an asset. A trap had been prepared and the Lord of the Word Bearers spoke to the Warmaster of Signus and a mark of blood。
总之，圣血天使军团被认为是荷鲁斯筹备中叛乱的最大威胁之一。他们能轻松匹敌他们所关注的任何站在他们对立面的叛变军团，而他们对于帝皇的忠诚也无可置疑。圣血天使军团将在公开对决中摧毁荷鲁斯的部队，让他无力准备对于泰拉的进攻。只有圣血天使不去进攻荷鲁斯暴露出的侧翼，战帅才能进攻泰拉。荷鲁斯的同盟中有人敦促战帅彻底摧毁第九军团，进攻那些分散的正在作战中的圣血天使战群，在他们尚且脆弱时一次一个地消灭他们。莫塔里安赞成这个计划，因为他在所有兄弟中最讨厌背生双翼的天使原体和他的巫师之梦。而珞珈则说服他的战帅有另一种去除威胁的方式——而且不仅能去除一个障碍，还能增加一份力量。怀言者之主已经准备好了一个陷阱，珞珈向战帅述说了西格纳斯星系和鲜血标记。
