八版圣典节译：基因窃取者

2021-05-15 21:29 作者:机兵苍熊式 0人读过 | 我要投稿

GENESTEALERS

There are many terrifying creatures in the Tyranid hive fleets, but one in particular has carved out a horrifying and bloody legend on more than a thousand worlds. It is a lurker in dark places, a clawed harbinger of sudden death. It is known as the Genestealer, and it is a plague upon the galaxy.

泰伦虫巢舰队中存在着许多恐怖的生物，但在超过一千个世界中，某种生物尤其被刻上了骇人和血腥的传说。它是黑暗中的潜伏者，带来暴死的利爪恶兆。它被称为基因窃取者，是银河中的瘟疫。

A Genestealer is a swift and powerful predator with lightning-fast reflexes and serrated claws that can tear through the thickest of armour. Genestealers also have large, highly adaptive brains and possess a form of brood telepathy that allows them to function independently from the Hive Mind. This autonomy allows them to destroy through stealth and guile that which cannot be defeated through numbers alone. The mightiest of these creatures are the Broodlords, hulking killers which lead the Genestealers in their bloody ambushes.

基因窃取者是快速而强悍的掠食者，它们拥有闪电般飞快的反应能力和能够撕穿装甲最厚重部位的锯齿状利爪。基因窃取者也拥有着硕大且具备高度适应性的大脑，而且具备了允许他们独立于虫巢意识进行活动的可遗传心灵感应系统。这种自主性允许它们通过偷袭和诡计来摧毁那些仅凭数量无法战胜的对手。这些生物中最强大的是巢群领主，这些杀手会在血腥的伏击战中领导基因窃取者们。（机仆：泰伦那个大型巨兽单位“虫群领主”/群主是swarmlord）

A strong survival instinct drives Genestealers outwards from the hive fleets, and they seek out space-bound vessels attempting to flee the surface of doomed prey worlds. It is simple for a Genestealer to stow away aboard such ships, nesting unseen amongst crawl spaces until it is brought to a new planet by the unsuspecting crew. If a single Genestcaler reaches an inhabited world, it can spell disaster. Genestealers reproduce by implanting other life forms with their own genetic material. Once infected, a victim is enthralled by the Genestealers' nascent telepathy and Tyranid attributes are passed on to its offspring, creating monstrous hybrids completely under the alien's domination. These deformities eventually breed true, creating Purestrain Genestealers under the control of the progenitor of the cult. the Genestealer Patriarch - a formidably intelligent alpha beast possessing fearsome telepathic power. For years these creatures lurk in sewers and caves beneath cities, preying on the populace like folk-tale monsters. Within just a few years they will have assembled a vast network of mind-controlled operatives, embedded in every stratum of the local planetary government and military. Thus placed they wait, sometimes for many years, until the Hive Minds will once again dominates their psyches.

强烈的生存本能会驱使基因窃取者从虫巢舰队中传播出去，它们会找出试图离开那些注定沦为虫巢猎物的世界星球表面的星际舰船。对基因窃取者而言，通过此类舰船进行偷渡是很简单的，它们会不被发现的躲藏在飞船蜿蜒的空间中，直到被毫无戒心的船员们带到一个新的星球。一只基因窃取者抵达有人居住的世界后就会传播灾难，它们会通过在其他生物形式体内植入自己基因物质的方式进行繁衍。受害者被感染后就会被基因窃取者新生的心灵感应通路控制住，泰伦虫族的属性也会传递给他的后代，生育出完全接受异形控制的丑恶混血种。这些畸形怪物最终会繁衍出真正的基因窃取者——它们会在教团先祖的控制下创造出纯血基因窃取者。基因窃取者族长是拥有恐怖心灵感应力量的可怕阿尔法智能生物，这些生物会在多年的时间里潜藏于城市下方的排污管和洞窟中。它们在仅仅几年的时间里就能聚集起由它们精神控制的对象组成的庞大网络，这些受控个体会嵌入到当地行星政府和军团的每个阶层。他们会静静蛰伏，有时甚至会等待很多年，直到虫巢意志再次支配住他们的心灵。

No one knows how widespread the Genestealer infestation has become or how many worlds if affects. For every brood uncovered and purged, a dozen go unnoticed. When a Tyranid hive fleet , enters an infested system, the Hive Mind asserts its synaptic dominion over the Broodlord and its clan. Planetary defenders are thrown into disarray as Genestealers suddenly burst from the shadows, overwhelming crucial systems and leaving the prey world vulnerable before the merciless Tyranid onslaught.

无人知晓基因窃取者感染的传播广度，或者是说有多少世界遭到了影响。帝国发现和净化一个巢群，就有十数个隐藏起来变得不为人知。当虫巢舰队进入一个被感染的星系时，虫巢舰队就会就会伸出自己的突触来控制巢群领主和它的氏族。随着基因窃取者从阴影中冲出，行星防御者们会陷入混乱，而在泰伦虫族无情的屠杀到来之前，基因窃取者族群会摧毁猎物世界都关键系统，并使其变得脆弱。