IA10节译：星空幻影战团及其组织结构

CHAPTER NAME: . THE STAR PHANTOMS 

战团名称：星空幻影

FOUNDING:  23RD (SENTINEL) FOUNDING, CIRCA EAR, M38 

建军时间：第23次建军（哨戒建军），大约为M38

CHAPTER WORLD/DEPLOYMENT:UNTIL RECENT, FLEET BASED, FORMERLY HAAKONETH (DESTROYED), NOW JAHGA 

战团母星/部署地：直到近期为止都一直是舰基战团，曾经的母星是HAAKONETH，当前母星是JAHGA

FORTRESS MONASTERY: THE BATTLE BARGE MEMENTO MORI, NOW LAND-LOCKED ON THE SURFACE OF JAHGA 

要塞修道院：战列母舰“死亡时刻”号，目前着陆在了Jahga世界表面。

GENE-SEED (PREDECESSOR): UNKNOWN 

基因种子来源（母团）：未知

KNOWN DESCENDANTS: . NONE 

已知子团：无

The Star Phantoms Chapter is one with a shrouded and sometimes troubled history. Their victories, though they have been many, have largely remained unsung and unremembered. For much of their past they have been left to operate alone at the edge of the Imperium breeding in them an isolationist and fiercely independent streak that has seldom embraced outside command. These vicissitudes of fate have led to the Star Phantorns clashing with Imperial authorities and fellow Adeptus Astartes on numerous occasions, and they have gained a shadowed reputation for themselves with other Imperial commanders. Matters concerning the Chapter's relations with their fellow Space Marines have been further worsened by suspicions caused by the Star Phantoms' secretive operations. seemingly unnatural obsession with death and strange mortuary traditions. These factors have been the cause of dark suspicions regarding them in the past, although full Inquisitorial investigation of the Star Phantoms after their ro:e in the wars of the Macharian Heresy exonerated the Chapter. The Inquisition uncovered no overt heresy of thought. spirit or biology. although the Holy Ordos did note with concern the depth and complexity of the Chapter's unique funerary cult beliefs. 

星空幻影战团有着一段被遮掩，而且有时是混乱的历史。尽管他们已经夺取了很多胜利，但在很大程度上都未被传颂和铭记。在他们过去历史中的大部分阶段里，星空幻影战团都是被留在帝国边境独自运作，这令他们滋生出来孤立主义和强烈的独立倾向，很少接受来自外部的指挥。命运的变迁导致星空幻影与帝国当局和阿斯塔特修会的同僚们在许多场合中都发生冲突，他们也在其他帝国指挥官处得到了被阴影所笼罩的名声。星空幻影的（某些）秘密行事也引起了其他星际战士们的怀疑，这进一步恶化了双方的关系——前者对死亡和奇怪的丧葬传统有种似乎不自然的痴迷。

The origins of the Star Phantoms lie in the 23rd founding of early M38, known in some sources as the Sentinel Founding as it was created to aid the Impenum's defences in numerous ill-starred and vulnerable areas of the galaxy. The, exact origins and primogenitor Chapter remained mysterious even during their creation, as did the backgrounds of many Chapters of this founding. Some sources have since hinted that they utilised the Dark Angels gene-seed, although this has been vociferously denied by the Dark Angels themselves, and the Star Phantoms consider such queries, even via official channels, as inherently presumptuous and cause for offence. Likely this speculation is simply based on some observed similarity in livery, iconography and trappings, which along with their inherent introversion of character has given birth to a likely unfounded assumption by certain scholars of the Adeptus Terra and Departmento Stratagos. 

星空幻影战团起源于M38早期的第23次建军，此次建军被某些资料称为“哨戒建军”，其目的是援助帝国在银河系众多不幸且脆弱区域的防御（力量）。就和此次建军中许多战团的背景（资料）一样，哪怕在创建的过程中，星空幻影战团的具体起源和母团也仍旧是个迷。某些资料暗示星空幻影使用了黑暗天使的基因种子，不过这一说法遭到了黑暗天使战团的强烈否认，而对星空幻影来说，哪怕是通过官方渠道提出此类问题，也会被其视作固有的自以为是（行为）和反击驳斥的理由。这种推测很可能只是基于人们在双方的涂装、图纹和装饰上所观察到的某些相似之处，这些因素以及该战团的内向性格导致泰拉修会与战略部的某些学者产生了毫无根据的假设。

The Star Phantoms' initial deployment as a Chapter was to the shrine world of Haakoneth on the edge of the ravaged Sakkara sector where they fortified one of the planet's mountainous mausoleum-complexes become their base of operations. From this bastion they sallied forth against the numerous foul xenoforms that plagued the region. The Star Phantoms' neophyte-recruits were drawn from the technologically regressive barbaric remnant-populations of the surrounding systems, and their first tasks were to guard against the numerous horrors that plagued that fallen seat of the Imperium's power. Since this time, the entire Sakkara sector has been lost to the outer void for more than a millenniurn, but these dark beginnings appear to have left an indelible mark on the soul of the Chapter that has remained to the present. 

作为一个战团，星空幻影最初的部署地是圣地世界Haakoneth，此处位于饱受蹂躏的Sakkara星区的边界。星空幻影将该世界上某座巨大的陵墓复合体加固改造为了行动基地，他们从这座要塞中出航，前去对抗如瘟疫般肆虐在该区域的众多丑恶异形物种。星空幻影从周边恒星系中技术退化的野蛮人遗民中征召新兵，他们的第一项任务就是防范无数恐怖之物对帝国的权力掌控已经失效地区的袭扰。从此之后，整个Sakkara星区在超过一千年的时间里消失在了外域虚空中，星空幻影战团留存到了现在，但这些黑暗的开端似乎在他们的灵魂中留下了不可磨灭的印记。

Following the destruction of their home world of Haakoneth in 120.M40. the Star Phantoms became a fleet-based Chapter, slowly rebuilding their strength and participating in numerous conflicts and interventions across the Segmentum Obscuras. It was during this period the Chapter came to further specialise in fleet combat and mass assault operations from near orbit. A favoured tactic of the Chapter being the co-ordinated use of large numbers of drop pods of varying types and classes, including weapons-platform types such as the Deathstorm as a key part of their strategies. It was during these years the Chapter earned a merciless reputation for the indiscriminate use of firepower. often inflicting wanton collateral damage on their targets during civil insurrections. This reputation was further cemented when the Chapter took part in the Macharian Crusade. The Lord Solar himself is on record as having judged the Star Phantoms as "Unsuitable for tactical close support of other Imperial units". It was in the aftermath of this famous crusade that the Star Phantoms' darkest hour came. 

在他们的家园世界Haakoneth于120.M40被毁灭后，星空幻影成为了一个舰基战团，他们缓慢地重建着自己的兵力，并且参与了朦胧星域各处的无数冲突和干涉行动。该战团就是在这一时期开始变得更为专长于舰队作战和从近轨道区域进行大规模突击行动。星空幻影所偏好的战术是对于大量各种型号与级别的空降舱的协调使用，其中也包括被他们用作自身战略关键部分的武器平台空降舱，比较死亡风暴型。也是在这段岁月中，该战团因其对于火力的随意使用而得到了冷酷无情的名声，他们经常在内乱镇压行动中对目标造成肆意的附带伤害。而当星空幻影参加马卡里乌斯远征时，这种名声也变得愈发稳固。根据记录，太阳领主本人都曾经判定星空幻影“不适合向其他帝国部队提供近距离战术支援”。而星空幻影最黑暗的时刻也是在这次著名的远征之后到来的。

Having participated in many of the Macharian Crusade's most deadly engagements, and despite having proved themselves time and again, they garnered little respect as they saw matters, and are known to have had a troubled relationship with the Crusade's commanders as to strategy and deployment. After the death of Lord Solar Macharius they became swiftly embroiled in the civil war and factional division that followed among his generals and war leaders, clashing directly with those Imperial Guard forces who in the Chapter's view had betrayed the Imperium. The Star Phantoms are listed in certain suppressed sources as being directly responsible for the annihilation of the 17th Terrax Guard on Thoth, and are known to have engaged in a bloody and protracted conflict with their former allies of the Marines Malevolent, resulting in that Chapter's near destruction at their hands. The Star Phantoms became subject to Inquisitorial investigation as a result of their actions and were ultimately cleared of heresy but were censured by the Holy Ordos. They were bound into the thankless and dangerous task of partly forming the spearhead of the Imperial Interdiction campaign in the 070s.M41 to end the Macharian Heresy. In the aftermath of this short and brutal campaign which involved elements from over a hundred Space Marine Chapters, the Star Phantoms, once again badly reduced in strength undertook a self-appointed crusade alone into the southern Segmentum Tempestus attacking isolated Ork and Chaos held worlds as they saw fit. Much of their activities afterward remain hidden both from the official record and the eyes of the lmperiurn until their participation in the brutal closing stages of the Badab War. 

星空幻影参与了马卡里乌斯远征中很多最为致命的战斗，但尽管他们一再证明了自己，但在他们，自己几乎没有得到尊重，而且他们在战略和部署上与远征军指挥官关系不佳是众所周知的。在太阳领主马卡里乌斯去世后，他们很快就陷入了内战，而且也卷入马卡里乌斯麾下的将军与战争领袖们之间随后爆发的派系分裂。该战团与那些被他们视为帝国叛徒的帝国卫军部队爆发了直接冲突。在某些（来源）受到压制的资料中，星空幻影被列为要对Terrax第17卫军团被毁灭于Thoth世界这一事件负直接责任的势力，而且该战团与自己曾经的盟友恶意战士战团爆发了血腥且持久的冲突——星空幻影在这次内斗中近乎毁灭了后者。星空幻影的所作所为导致其成为了审判庭的调查对象，虽然他们最终被洗脱了异端嫌疑，但还是遭到了审判庭的谴责。该战团被派去参与一项费力不讨好且危险的任务：他们在070s.M41部分地组成了帝国封锁平叛战役的矛头——这次行动意在终结马卡里昂叛乱。来自超过一百个星际战士战团的分队参加了这次短暂且残酷战役，而在此之后，兵力损失严重的星空幻影战团又进行了一场自封的圣战远征，他们独自前往银河南部的风暴星域，去进攻兽人和混沌势力以自己认为合适的方法控制着的那些偏僻世界。此后，他们的许多活动都被隐藏起来，既没有被官方记录，也没有被帝国所发现，直到他们于巴达布战争残酷的收尾阶段参战。

Organisation

组织结构

In terms of Chapter organisation the Star Phantoms broadly conform to the standard patterns laid down in the Codex Astartes, with some considerable slant given in its deployments and production towards the preferred use of 'first strike' and drop assault weapons and war materiel. as well as exotic additions to the recognised tenets that he in with their own unique beliefs. The Chapter has a preference for using heavy firepower to slaughter their enemies, closing to assault only when it is most tactically expedient to do so. For the Star Phantoms no one mode of combat holds any inherent glory or value over another. all that matters instead is that death is dealt to the enemy. Thanks in part to an extensive and diverse Chapter armoury, the tactical doctrines of the Star Phantoms favour Space Marine-carried portable heavy weapons to supply this combat firepower at close range. Both plasma and melta weapons in particular are fielded in comparably large numbers in the Star Phantoms' ranks. with the Chapter deploying a pattern of three Devastator squads per standard battle company, rather than the Codex approved number of two as is the norm. This doctrine of close range firepower is also carried through by the Star Phantorn's command structure. with combi-weapons. again favouring the incorporation of melta and plasma designs. produced in significant numbers by the Chapter's Techmarines and often carried into battle by its officers and Veteran Sergeants as a symbol of rank. In addition the Star Phantoms maintain a sizable core force of Vindicators and Land Raiders for use in armoured spearhead attacks, and manufacture and employ large numbers of Deathstorm drop pods in a fire support role for planetary assaults. 

在战团组织结构方面，星空幻影大体上符合阿斯塔特圣典所规定的标准模式，不过在部署和（武器）生产上，他们极为倾向于使用“先发制人”战术，以及空投进攻武器和战争弹药。此外，他们还在圣典的公认信条中加入了一些独特的增项，使其符合战团自身的独特信仰。该战团偏好使用重火力屠杀敌人，只有当近距离作战在战术上最为有利时，他们才会接近敌人作战。对于星空幻影来说，没有哪种战斗模式是比其他战斗模式更具备内在荣耀或价值的，杀死敌人才是紧要之事。星空幻影战团偏好用星际战士携带的重武器在近距离提供战斗火力，这部分是由于战团拥有众多且多样化的军械库。尤其是电浆武器和热熔武器，此两类装备在星空幻影的部队中有着相当数量的配备。而且星空幻影的每个标准战斗连中都部署了三个破坏者小队，而且圣典规范中的两个。这种近距离火力原则也被星空幻影的指挥结构所贯彻，战团技术军士们大量制造的复合武器也是偏好与热熔和电浆进行结合，战团的军官和老兵军士们经常在战斗中用此类武器作为军衔的标志。另外，星空幻影战团还保有着维护者与兰德掠夺者组成的一支规模可观的部队，并将之用于装甲矛头进攻；他们还制造并部署了大量死亡风暴空降舱，用于在行星突击行动中进行火力支援。