hh4节译:无尽的帝国辅助军

The Excertus Imperialis of the Great Crusade era was a vast organisation whose numbers in a literal sense are uncounted; no accurate measure of it has ever been possible, so numerous is it, widespread across the stars and in flux as units are disbanded or suffer attrition, and fresh units, recruits and indentures are added to its ranks. As a structure, it is almost unfathomably complex. It formed the incomprehensibly vast support structure of the Great Crusade, including in its sweep the Expeditionary fleets' front line auxiliary and second line reserve forces (known collectively under the sub title of the Imperialis Auxilia一or Imperial Army informally) and the billions of planetary militia-raised provincial defence. It also included the myriad support organisations, colossal labour hosts, penitentiary legions, the warships and crew of the Imperialis Armada, the vast aexactory, Notary and Tithe corps, and nominally the Remembrancers, the Iterators and the enforcers of the Imperial truth—all were bound by its writ. 

大远征时期的帝国民兵是个庞大的组织，他们的数量多到字面意义上的无法计算。他们的数量如此巨大，对他们的精确测量是字面意义上的不可能，他们广泛分布在群星和不断的征战当中，随着部队解散或减员，新单位、新兵和契约兵被增添到了他们的部队当中。作为一个组织，他几乎是难以理解的复杂。他们组成了大远征不可思议的支援组织，其中包括遍布远征舰队的前线辅助军和二线预备队（他们被统称为帝国辅助军，分正式称呼为帝国军）以及数以十亿计的行星民兵防御部队。他们也包括无数的支援组织、庞大的劳工集群、仲裁官军团、帝国无敌舰队的战舰和船员、庞大的官僚集团、公证人和什一税团、已经名义上的记述者们——帝国真理的传播者和执行者，所有人都受帝国真理的法令约束。

Although notionally it was to the Officio Militaris on Terra and via them the Imperial Court to whom the numberless ranks of the Excertus Imperialis answered, it was always in truth subordinate to the principal agents and independent powers of the Great Crusade who commanded it on a daily basis: the Legiones Astartes and their Primarchs, the Mechanicum and their Titan Legions, the Knight Houses, the Rogue Traders Militant, the Imperial Commanders who governed the Imperiums worlds, the Navis Nobilite and the Collegia Psykana, all had better and more immediate call on the Excertus Imperialis to obey. So it was when the Imperium was riven by the Horus Heresy, so also was the Excertus Imperialis; turning traitor or remaining loyal with long accustomed masters to lead them, while even its more independent arms were forced abruptly to choose sides in a war not of their making. As the Great Crusade died, so did the organisation that served it, supplied it and fed its growth come to an end, split by division and torn in blood.

虽然在理论上，帝国民兵的无数部队是听令于泰拉上的军务庭（机仆：后来叫军务部）和帝国宫廷，但事实上，他们通常服从于那些每天指挥他们的大远征主要施行者和独立权威部门：阿斯塔特军团与他们的原体，机械神教和他们的泰坦军团，骑士家族，行商浪人的伍长，统治帝国世界的帝国指挥官们，导航者贵族和星语庭，所有能够更为直接地命令帝国民兵服从自己的组织。所以，当帝国被荷鲁斯叛乱所撕裂时，帝国民兵们也被分为孑然分明的两派：跟随惯常领导着他们的主人们沦为叛徒或保持忠诚，甚至是那些更为独立的部队也突然要被迫在这场并非由他们挑起的战争中选择自己的阵营。大远征已死，那些曾服务于其的组织们亦然，他们曾支持和供养这场伟大的远征，但现在一切都走向终结，分裂和鲜血撕裂了一切。