hh8节译:白疤军团组织结构
Unit and Formation Structure within the Legion
As has been noted, the Vth Legion has never adhered closely to the strictures of the Principia Bellicosa, that great treatise that informed the basis of most of the early Legions, organisation and structure. Lacking in the numbers that allowed many of the other Legions to operate as fully-fledged war hosts, the Vth Legion was originally organised into small Pioneer Companies, each operating as a separate and independent force. This independence of operation and command was both a necessity due to the size and mission of the early Vth Legion and a legacy of the fierce spirit of its original recruits. Each Pioneer Company operated as an augmented line company, comprising perhaps 1,000 Legionaries and a varying array of specialist detachments, with each unique in its exact configuration and total fighting strength. Over the first century of the Great Crusade, these companies continued to deviate from the standard organisational pattern of the Principia Bellicosa, in part due to the increasing difficulty of resupplying them. The rediscovery of Jaghatai Khan on Chogoris brought an end to this era of independent operations and saw the Legion go through a complete re-organisation.
就像我们记录的那样，第五军团从未严格遵守过基础军典——这套伟大的著作影响了绝大部分早期军团的组织结构基础。第五军团缺乏兵力，这使得他们无法像其他许多军团那样作为成熟健全的战争群体进行运作。他们最初是组建成小规模的先锋连队，每个连队都是一支分散独立的部队。这种运作和指挥上的独立性是必要，这与早期第五军团的规模与责任有关，也是军团最初的新兵们凶狠激烈的性格所致。每个先锋连队都是作为一个强化版的战线连进行运作，包括大约1000名军团战士和各种各样的特殊分遣队，每个先锋连队的具体配置和全部作战兵力都是独一无二的。在大远征的前一百年中，这些连队持续偏离基础军典的标准组织模式，部分原因是由于重新补给他们的难度越来越大。在巧高立斯上与察合台可汗的重逢终结了第五军团这段独立运作的时期，并见证他们进行了完全的重组。
By 865.M30, there were approximately 70,000 warriors in the Vth Legion, which would later increase to around 95,000 at the peak of the Legion's strength shortly before 007.M31. The Great Khan reformed these warriors into a number of Hordes, a formation that stood above the Brotherhood in the Legion's structure. In creating his new Legion, the Great Khan was careful to split up the old Pioneer Companies, mixing warriors of differing origins together with new recruits from his home world of Chogoris to constitute the new Hordes. Most documents dating to that time place the number of original Hordes at five, although some accounts place the number as high as seven. The exact number is difficult to ascertain due to the irregular size of these formations, as both the original Hordes and those that would follow varied wildly in size, with the smallest numbering little more than 5,000 warriors and the largest as many as 20,000. The difference in size did not appear to indicate any tactical or strategic speciality, but rather was tied to the will of the Horde's commander, known in the newly re-organised White Scars as a Noyan-khan. Indeed, the various Hordes often fluctuated wildly in size during the transition from one Noyan-khan to another, with warriors transferring between Hordes, or even splitting off to form new Hordes at the whims of either the Noyan-khan or Jaghatai himself .This process seems to have been intended to allow each individual commander to operate efficiently within the bounds of their ability and strategic preferences, rather than enforcing a strict organisational system upon them.
第五军团在865.M30的人数是大约70,000 名战士，等到军团兵力在007.M31之前不久达到巅峰时，这一数字增长到大约95,000。大汗将战士们重组为数个数个部落——这些编队在军团结构上高于兄弟会。在创建他的新军团的过程中，大汗小心地拆分了旧有的先锋连队，将不同来源的战士和征召自故乡巧高立斯的新兵们混编到一起来构成新的部落。在大多数源自这一的记录中，最初的部落数量是五个，但也有某些报告称数量是七个。由于这些编队的规模并不规则，所以我们难以确定其具体数量。最初和之后组建的战团有着各种各样的规模，其中最小的仅有略超过5,000名战士，最大的人数则有20,000之众。规模的差异似乎没有表明任何战术或战略上的特征，而是与部落指挥官的个人意愿有关——这些指挥官在新重组的白疤军团中被称为诺延汗。事实上，在从一个诺延汗到另一个诺延汗的转变过程中，各个部落的规模经常剧烈变化：战士们会在部落间转移，甚至还会在诺延汗或者察合台本人突发奇想时被抽调出来组成新的部落。这一过程的意图似乎是让每位指挥官都能在他们的能力和战略偏好范围内有效地指挥部队，而不是在他们身上强制施加一个严格的组织系统。
Whether this is the spectre of the old Pioneer Companies and their independent spirit, or part of the Great Khan's Chogorian heritage is unknown, but its effectiveness when combined with the free-spirited nature of the Vth Legion has been demonstrated in battles beyond count. It has, however, caused a number of difficulties with both their brother Legions and with the logistics and command echelons of the Divisio Militaris. A number of Great Crusade operations have encountered problems properly classifying White Scars detachments, both for purposes of resupply and of properly gauging the threat level of opposing forces. On Algeron VII, where two Hordes of White Scars were deployed for harrowing operations against renegade human enclaves, Great Crusade Divisio Logisticus supplied munitions and supplies for two standard Legiones Astartes Chapters, only to find this insufficient for the two over-sized Hordes sent by the White Scars. On Therona Secundus, an Ultramarines grand task force besieging a Fra'al stronghold requested reinforcement by a similar-sized force of the Legiones Astartes, only for Divisio Strategists to mistakenly assign a nearby White Scars Horde to the conflict. The Horde, numbering half the strength of the Ultramarines force, fought bravely as a part of the assault force, but its relatively low strength forced the Ultramarines to endure higher casualties than their strict protocols would allow. The warriors of Ultramar, always dubious of those who chose to disregard the logic of the Principia Bellicosa, saw this as a failure of the White Scars, one among a number of one-sided grudges - for the White Scars marked the Therona conflict as a great victory against adversity and spoke highly of the Ultramarines' fortitude.
我们不知道这种模式是先锋连队及其独立精神的遗存，还是大汗巧高利斯遗产中的某一部分，但当与第五军团自由奔放的本性结合在一起时，它的效力已经在无数战役中得到了证明。但是这也让白疤军团和兄弟军团以及军务庭的后勤与指挥官员们产生了诸多龃龉。在大远征时期的许多次行动中，帝国都在正确分类白疤分遣队上遇到了问题，既有在补给方面的的，也有在正确评估对方军队威胁水平方面的。在Algeron VII世界上，两个白疤部落被派去铲除叛乱的人类飞地，大远征后勤司为他们提供了两个标准的阿斯塔特战团所需的弹药和补给，结果发现这批物资无法满足白疤军团派出的两个超规格部落的需要。而在Therona Secundus世界上，一支负责围攻法拉’阿尔异形种族据点的大规模极限战士特遣队要求帝国派出一支规模类似的阿斯塔特军团部队进行增援，只是军务部的战略家们错误地将附近的白疤部落指派去参加这次冲突。该部落的人数只有极限战士部队的一半，尽管他们作为进攻部队的某一部分英勇奋战，但他们相对较少的人数迫使极限战士承受的伤亡损失高于他们的严苛信条所能允许的。奥特拉玛的战士们通常会对那些选择无视基础军典战术逻辑的人表示怀疑，他们将此视为白疤军团的失败，不过这只是第十三军团诸多一厢情愿的怨恨中的某一项——白色伤疤军团将Therona 之战标榜为一次突破困境的伟大胜利，他们也对极限战士们的坚韧勇气评价颇高。
The only other main organisational unit within the White Scars was the Brotherhood, a unit roughly equivalent to the standard company. Just like the larger Hordes, each Brotherhood varies in size quite widely, with some being formed of less than a few hundred warriors and others up to several thousand. Again, this disparity is rarely directly linked to the tactical role of the Brotherhood but rather the preferences and charisma of the Khan who led it. That being true, many Brotherhoods also tended to favour a specific mode of engagement, with the majority being outfitted and trained to operate as skirmish forces and rapid strike units. These most typical Brotherhoods were almost always mechanised units, in that the entire force of the Brotherhood was either mounted on jetbikes or supplied with other forms of rapid transport. Brotherhoods specialising in either long range combat or siege work were in a distinct minority and often among the smallest of these formations. This left the White Scars at something of a disadvantage in some combat theatres, forcing them to either rely on their own innate versatility to make do or to draft auxillia units into their line of battle to cope with specialised combat situations.
白疤军团中仅有的另一种组织单位是兄弟会，它大致相当于标准连队。就像更大型的部落那样，兄弟会的规模彼此相差很大，某些兄弟会仅由数百名战士组成，其他的则多达数千名战士。同样，这种差异也很少直接与兄弟会的战术职能相关，而是与领导兄弟会的可汗的喜好和个人魅力有关。事实上，许多兄弟会也倾向于一种特定的交战模式：将部队中的大多数战士都装备和训练成小规模战斗部队和快速打击部队。那些最为典型的兄弟会几乎通常都是机械化部队，整个兄弟会的战士们都骑乘着喷射机车或由其他形式的快速运输载具提供支援。专职于长距离作战或攻城战的兄弟会明显是少数派，而且他们的编队规模往往是最小的。这使得白色伤疤军团在某些战场上会处于不利地位，这迫使他们要么依靠自己天生的多才多艺来弥补，要么将辅助部队抽调进入他们的战线以应付专门的战况。
Within each Brotherhood the exact roster of units varied considerably and rarely adhered to standard company structures seen within the other Legions. Though each Brotherhood was a unique formation, most were formed of a core of jetbike-mounted troops, although these were sometimes known to fight dismounted in the style of more standard tactical units. In addition to this core of highly mobile strike troops was a number of more specialised units, of which the exact nature is highly variable. Most common among the various Brotherhoods were reconnaissance cadres or close assault specialists, roles which held particular value within the Chogorian traditions that sat at the heart of the White Scars doctrines. The inclusion of units that fall outside of these preferences, most especially static heavy weapons support units, was rarer but far from unknown. Indeed, some Brotherhoods were composed almost entirely of such units. Such specialised Brotherhoods were not pariahs among their swifter brethren, but often honoured for their role in the Legion's victories and their willingness to sacrifice the thrill of the hunt for victory. Most Brotherhoods also included what the White Scars referred to as a Keshig, which indicated a body of troops somewhere between a life guard for the Khan and an elite reserve intended to bolster both the fighting spirit and tactical firepower of line troops. Given the aggressive nature of most White Scars tactics, these units often formed the forefront of any assault, and most often contained the most skilled and experienced warriors within the Brotherhood.
在每个兄弟会内部，单位的确切种类相差很大，而且也很少会遵循我们在其他军团中所见到的标准化连队结构。尽管每个兄弟会都是一支独一无二的编队，但大多数都是由骑着喷射机车的核心部队组成的，不过他们有时也会以更为标准化战术单位的风格步行作战。除了这些高度机动化的核心部队之外，兄弟会中还有许多更为专业化的单位，他们的具体特性彼此差异很大。各种兄弟会中最为常见的部队类型是侦察兵部队和近距离突击专家们，在居于白疤军团信条核心的巧高利斯传统习俗中，这些角色有着特殊的价值。那些并不符合这种偏好的单位，尤其是那些静态重型武器支援部队虽然很少出场，但也绝非是不存在。事实上，某些兄弟会几乎完全由此类单位组成。这些专业化的兄弟会们并不会被自己那些更为迅捷的兄弟们视为遭遗弃者，而是经常因为他们在军团胜利中所扮演的角色以及他们（主动）牺牲追逐胜利快感的意愿而受到表彰。大多数兄弟会中也都包含被白疤们称为“怯薛”的部队，这个称谓表明这些人的身份介于可汗卫队和旨在增强前线部队战斗精神和战术火力的精英预备队之间。考虑到大多数白疤军团战术那富于进攻性的特征，这些单位通常会组成攻势的先头部队，大多数怯薛部队也都包含了兄弟会中技艺最精湛且（战斗）经验最丰富的战士们。
Among the more extreme deviations from standard practise within the White Scars Legion were their so-called weather-witches. These were the Librarian-adepts fielded by the Legion during the earliest days of the Librarius experiment, their training and role dictated as much by the superstitions of the Chogorian tribesmen as by the standardised training coda of the fledgling Librarius. They quickly came to fill the role of mystics and advisers to the Khans, more akin to primitive shamans to outside eyes than to the ideal of the warrior-scholar of the more orthodox Legions. Yet beneath the veneer of their shamanistic heritage lay a surprisingly complex position, serving their brethren as counsellors and mediators as well as shields against aetheric menace, and with a deep understanding of the Warp rooted in both Chogorian mysticism and the scientific studies of the Imperium's greatest scholars.
白疤军团中还有一类更为离经叛道的单位，即他们所谓的“气象巫师”。他们是军团在早期的智库制度实验中派出的智库修士，而在他们的训练和职责方面，巧高利斯部落民们迷信观念的影响就和刚刚起步的智库员标准化培训的最终部分的影响一样多。他们很快就开始成为可汗们手下的秘术师和顾问，而在外界看来，他们更像原始的萨满，而非那些更正统的军团中理想的战士学者。然而，他们在萨满遗产的外表下有着令人惊讶的复杂身份，他们担任着兄弟们的精神顾问和调解者，也是军团抵御以太界威胁的坚盾。他们对于亚空间的深刻理解植根于巧高利斯的神秘主义理念和帝国最伟大学者的科学研究。
In many ways, the studied respect these early adepts displayed for Warp phenomena showed a wiser approach than that of more secular scholars whose approach was rooted in science and often dismissive of the real threat concealed within the aether. In battle, the Stormseers stirred the Warp to aid their brethren, preferring more subtle applications of psychic power than crude bolts of power. They obscured the advance of the White Scars with fog, wind and rain, and impeded the foe with relentless flurries of hail or foul monsoons. Many of the Vth Legion's victories are founded on the cunning application of both the Stormseers’ psychic power and their sage advice. Despite their abilities, the Stormseers were most often judged on their appearance, which to the more stringent adherents of the Imperial Truth harkened back to the dark days of Long Night on Terra and superstitions of religion which the Emperor Himself had condemned. Among their most vocal opponents was Mortarion, whose innate hatred of the psyker was only exacerbated by the positions of influence the Stormseers held within their Legion, but he was not alone in questioning their loyalty to the tenants of the Imperial Truth and the Great Crusade itself
在许多方面上，这些早期智库修士们对亚空间现象表现出了一种刻意的尊重，相比世俗学者那些植根于科学，而且通常对以太界中隐藏的真正威胁不屑一顾的研究手段，这种方法更为明智。在战斗中，风暴先知们会搅动亚空间来帮助自己的兄弟们，他们偏好以更微妙的手段使用灵能力量，而是（直接）野蛮地射出能量箭矢。他们用雾、风和雨掩盖了白疤战士的前进踪迹，并用无情冰雹和猛烈的季风来阻碍敌人行动。第五军团的许多胜利都是建立于对风暴先知的灵能力量和他们睿智建议的巧妙运用。尽管暴风先知的能力卓越，但人们通常还是根据外表来评判他们，对于帝国真理更为刻板的追随者来说，这些灵能能现象让他们回想起在泰拉长夜时代中的黑暗岁月，以及遭到帝皇本人谴责的宗教迷信。莫塔里安就是他们最为聒噪的反对者之一，风暴先知们在第五军团中所拥有的影响地位加剧了莫塔里安对于灵能者与生俱来的仇恨，但莫塔里安也并非是唯一质疑风暴先知们是否忠诚于帝国真理和大远征的人。
Among the various specialised units common within Legiones Astartes ranks, there were some rarely seen among the White Scars. Most prominent amongst these were the assault troops known as Destroyers, dedicated to the deployment of proscribed weaponry and the utter annihilation of the foe. The tactics employed by these cadres in other Legions were considered anathema by the White Scars, whose joy in open combat and reverence for the unspoiled wilderness of many frontier worlds was ill at ease with such wanton destruction. Destroyer cadres did exist within the Legion, but in limited numbers. Known as the Karaoghlanlar, or the Dark Sons of Death, their armour was painted a dull black and festooned with shamanic charms to ward off the evil spirits that followed in their wake. These grim warriors, often considered deranged and as omens of evil tidings by their fellows, did not serve with any single Brotherhood but were instead placed under the direct supervision of the Stormseer Council, only deployed when both Khan and seer agreed they be set loose. This apparently pagan superstition appeared to serve simply as a tool to vilify the use of the extreme measures represented by the Destroyers, a choice known to have originated with the Great Khan himself who held little respect for those who resorted to such measures too frequently.
阿斯塔特军团部队中有着各种常见的特殊单位，但我们在白疤军团里几乎看不到其中的某些。这一现象在被称为“毁灭者”的突击部队中最为明显——此类部队致力于使用被禁绝的武器和彻底灭绝敌人。白疤认为这种被其他军团所使用的战术是可憎的，他们喜爱公开战斗，也对许多边疆世界未被破坏的荒野怀有崇敬，这种肆意的破坏令他们感到不悦。白疤军团中也存在毁灭者部队，但他们的有限。他们被称为卡剌喀兰剌尔，或“死亡黑暗子嗣”，他们的动力甲被漆成深黑色，上面装饰着萨满咒语，以抵挡跟在他们身后的恶灵。这些冷酷的战士通常会被同伴们认为是精神错乱者和不祥的预兆，他们不在任何一个兄弟会中服役，而是由风暴先知议会的直接监督，只有在可汗和风暴先知们同时答应释放他们的情况下，他们才会被部署。这种明显的异教迷信似乎只是一种工具，用来贬低蔑视以毁灭者为代表的极端措施的使用，据说做出这一选择的正是大汗本人，他并不怎么尊重那些过于频繁地采用这类手段的人。
Another notable exception within the ranks of the White Scars was the almost complete lack of any kind of position dedicated to the enforcement of military law. The White Scars never operated any kind of disciplinary corps, the officers known as consul-opsequiri in the Principia Bellicosa. Despite this, they also recorded one of the lowest rates of internal dispute and other infractions under Divisio military law. Some claim that this record is due to the White Scars' insular nature and unwillingness to properly report their activities, while others note that the White Scars maintain a complex code of honour, with several units that might be described as penal units by outsiders. Of these, the most well-known is the Kharash, a temporary body of warriors filled by volunteers whenever the need for diversionary or shock assault tactics occurs. Though assigned duties considered near-suicidal by many observers, the Kharash never lacked for volunteers, with those seeking to expunge some perceived sin equally matched by those seeking advancement through the honour attached to serving with the Kharash and surviving.
白疤部队中的另一个显著特征是：他们几乎完全没有任何负责强制执行军事律法的职位。白疤军团从未组织过任何维持军纪部队——此类军官在基础军典中被称为“宪兵长”。但尽管如此，根据记录来看，白疤军团也是发生内部纠纷和做出违反军务庭律法行为比例最低的军团之一。某些人声称白疤能保持这样的记录是由于他们生性孤僻，不愿意适当地报告自己的活动；其他人则表明白疤军团维持着一套复杂的荣誉准则，某些单位可能会被外人描述为惩戒部队。在这些单位中，最著名的就是卡拉什赎罪小队——当军团需要转移敌军注意力或使用突击战术时，志愿者们就会组成这种临时战士组织。尽管许多观察者认为赎罪小队被指派的都是近乎自杀的任务，但这支部队中从不缺少志愿者，那些试图抹去一些被察觉的罪孽的人，与那些试图通过与赎罪小队一起服务并幸存来获得荣誉以寻求进步的人，在赎罪小队中进行着平等的竞争。
