hh8节译:澄清修会

Elucidatum

Many mysteries were unravelled in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy through investigation into the archives of the Sigillite. In the sealed underground archivum of Azure-Locus-CI-y6, the preserved records of the activities of Malcadors secret police -the so-called Officers of Elucidation- were found; corroborating hearsay long dismissed as simple fearmongering.

在荷鲁斯叛乱之后，通过对于掌印者档案馆的调查研究，我们解开了许多谜题。在被封锁住的地下档案室：碧蓝—矢量—CI—y6中，我们发现了马卡多的秘密警察——所谓“宣道官”们的活动记录，这些记录证明了许多传言的真实性——这些言论长期被人们视为（刻意）散播出的恐惧而遭到无视。

The Order Elucidatum, colloquially known as the Elucidators or Tallymen, acted in two functions; openly as apparent contributors to the bureaucracy of the Great Crusade and covertly as iconoclasts, censors and murderers. In their open capacity, the Elucidators travelled freely among the Expeditionary fleets of the Great Crusade, operating as supporting data scribes to the offices of iterators, future planetary governors and census takers as a function of the Administratum. The work of the Elucidatum was vital in sifting and analysing the data gathered from newly Compliant civilisations; categorising, scrutinising and providing useful demographic information to those now in command, or gently guiding the rhetoric required of iterators to bring about more efficient transitions into Imperial authority.

澄清修会俗称宣道者或统计员，他们有两项职责：公开的身份是大远征官僚系统的工作人员，背地里则是偶像破坏者、审查官和杀手。他们以公开的职务在远征探索舰队之间自由旅行，公开身份从次级数据抄录员到过渡政府的官员、未来的行星总督和作为政务部工作人员的人口普查员，不一而足。在筛选和分析从新归顺于帝国的文明中收集到的数据方面，澄清修会的工作是至关重要的。他们分类、审查和提供有用的人口统计信息给目前的掌权者们，或者温和地指导过渡政府使用所需的说辞，让当地更有效地转变为受帝国当局控制的区域。

The unfettered access the Order had in regards to the databanks of combined knowledge of the Great Crusade was instrumental to their ulterior purpose for being abroad in the galaxy. By analysing census data and being privy to the information provided by the ambassadors of newly found human worlds, the Elucidators could determine the risk posed by nascent or suppressed religious cults post-Compliance. This information facilitated the pursuit of their true objectives: the assassination of demagogues, the destruction of proscribed texts and the suppression of any persons with knowledge of or contact with the manifestations of the Warp. The mandate possessed by the Order Elucidatum was underwritten with the seal of the Sigillite himself allowing the Tallymen, who were themselves expert and highly specialised warriors, to take immediate possession of any military command or asset they required, other than the Legiones Astartes, to complete their mission.

澄清修会可以不受限制地访问存储着大远征复合知识的数据库，这对他们在银河系中乘船旅行的不可告人目的是有帮助的。通过分析人口普查数据和了解新发现人类世界的大使们所提供的信息，宣道者们能够确定这些世界归顺于帝国后新生或被压制的宗教教派所带来的风险。这些资料有助于他们实现自己的真正目标：暗杀政治煽动者、摧毁被禁止的文献、镇压所有知晓或接触过亚空间现象的人们。澄清修会拥有盖着掌印者本人（专用）印章的授权书，这允许统计员们（他们本身也是熟练且高度专业化的战士）立即获得自己所需的任何军事指挥权或资源以完成他们的任务——阿斯塔特军团除外。

These missions were chosen and undertaken independently, for the Sigillite had recruited highly intelligent warriors from the finest military orders in the Sol System for his secret police, as part of the earliest of his initiatives to find men and women of inquisitive nature who might seek out traitors, spiritualists, witches and those tainted by them. The Elucidators held no trials, trusting to the logic of their Truth and the insight of the information they compiled in selecting their targets for elucidation.

这些任务是被独立挑选和执行的，因为掌印者是从太阳系最优秀的军事修会中征召极具才智的战士了担任自己的秘密警察。这也是马卡多某项倡议的最初部分：找到（一些）天性好奇的男男女女，他们可能会找到叛徒、通灵者、巫师和被这些人所污染的人们。宣道者们不会进行审判，他们相信自己所知真相的逻辑性与对选择“阐释”目标时要用到的信息的洞察力。

Though few truly knew of the exploits of the Elucidators, they earned a dark reputation. They were a faction responsible for the burning of fanes with all of their worshippers still huddled within, and the pogroms of religious castes in the rural wilds of countless worlds. Their name quickly became synonymous with genocide. Malcador's secret police were sanctioned to make use of seratoxin, a nerve agent dispersed to ensure that the minds of all witnesses of any kind of immaterial incursion event: man, woman or child, were utterly expunged and placed beyond any hope of recollection. A cruel fate, the so called 'Brain Destroyer' leaves its victims as withered husks, unable to respond to more than autonomic instinct and phototropic cues.

虽然只有极少数人知道宣道者们所作所为，但澄清修会还是为自己赢得了黑暗的恶名。他们要对其负责的行为包括：将（教派）所有信徒都还蜷缩在其中的神庙们烧毁，在无数世界上的乡野之地对宗教氏族进行大屠杀。他们的名称很快就成为了种族屠灭的同义词。马卡多的秘密警察们被批准使用血清毒素，这种神经毒剂被传播开后，能够确保非物质生物入侵事件的所有目击者——男性、女性或儿童的意识（记忆）都被彻底抹除，而且没有任何找回回忆的希望。这是一种残酷的命运，所谓的“大脑毁灭者”会把它的受害者们变成了枯槁的行尸走肉，除了自主本能和向光性信号之外，它们无法对（其他）更多的刺激做出反应。

Their atrocities were not limited only to the murder of entire lines of Imperial households, for as the Great Crusade advanced into the farthest reaches of space, it was the Elucidators who took it upon themselves to wipe out the many early cults of Emperor worship within the Expeditionary fleets. The Tallymen became a Bogeyman or Chowkidar to be feared in the minds of common folk residing in the bellies of the vast warships of the Great Crusade, with elders admonishing misbehaving children by invoking their name.

他们的暴行不仅限于谋杀掉整个帝国贵族家系，随着大远征挺进到了太空最遥远的边境，也正是宣道者们消灭了远征探索舰队内部众多崇拜帝皇的早期教派。统计员们变成了那些居住在大远征的巨大战舰船腹中普通民众心中令人恐惧的妖怪或“乔克达尔”恶魔，长辈们会说出他们的名字来警告（吓唬）行为不端的孩子们。

Had Mankind been trusted to know of the outer dark and reject it of its own volition, the Order Elucidatum would not have been needed. Thousands upon thousands of deaths and the massacres of innocents simply accused of association or belief in warpcraft without due process could have been avoided. Their tally of murders is a direct contribution to the cost of the Great Lie.

如果人类被相信能够了解外界的黑暗并出于自己的意愿拒绝它，那么帝国也就不需要澄清修会了。仅仅因为他们的联想或存在于星舰中的宗教信仰，澄清修会就在没有正常程序的情况下造成了成千上万人的死亡并屠杀无辜者，而这一切本是可以避免的。他们的谋杀人数直接促成了人类帝国维持帝国真理这一弥天大谎的成本的增加。