hh3节译:阿尔法军团组织结构概述

机仆：因为对我而言原文实在太长，工作量太大，我只好拆成两部分发，指挥等级和战争配置另出专栏。

When faced with the task of elucidating the inner workings and structure of the Alpha Legion, one is once again forced to deal head- on with paradox and contradiction, both by report and the evidence left in the dust of shattered worlds where the Legion worked its arts of war. Where one authoritative report might present the Legion's inner workings as highly stratified and cloaked in labyrinthine secrecy beyond any other, a different report, also by reputable source, might describe the Legion's inner workings as surprisingly open and egalitarian in nature, with each voice heard in council regardless of rank or station. Certain commonalities do however exist, particularly in accounts of how the Legion fought, and to some extent trained its aspirants for war.

当面对阐明阿尔法军团内部的运作与结构这项任务时，编写者被迫再次直面悖论和矛盾，而这些资料同时来自于那些被丢在破碎世界的灰尘中的报告和证据——这些世界就是被阿尔法军团的战争艺术搞得四分五裂的。在一份权威报告中，军团的内部运作可能被高度分层，并被迷宫式秘密所掩盖；但另一份来源可信的报告则会将军团的内部运作描述为在本质上出人意料的开放和平等，每个人的声音在军团议会里都会被倾听，不论级别和地位。不过，某些共性确实是存在的，尤其是考虑到军团如何作战，以及在某种程度上为战争而训练他们的应征者。

The first of these is the emphasis the Alpha Legion placed on unity of action and intent within its ranks. Such co-ordination and faultless discipline was paramount to the rapidly shifting, responsive tactics Alpharius inculcated in his Legion, and the fluidity which characterised the Legion's deployments on the battlefield. It was repeatedly reported that from their first hours as aspirants, the would-be warriors of the Alpha Legion would train and fight together as units, rather than individual soldiers; the success of each one, and even their survival, depending on the success of the unit as a whole. The exercises and trials the Legion's aspirants were put through were said to be in their way as deadly as any of the Legiones Astartes, but required both intelligence and co-operation to overcome, so that no single aspirant might alone survive them.

首先，阿尔法军团在其队伍中强调行动和意图的统一。这种协调和无懈可击的纪律对于阿尔法瑞斯在军团中灌输的快速变化反应战术和军团在战场部署上展现出的流动性特点是至关重要的，反复有报告称：从成为应征者开始，未来的阿尔法军团战士们就会作为单位而非单个的士兵来共同训练和作战；每个人的成功，甚至他们的生存，都取决于作为一个整体的单位的成功。据说军团应征者们要经受的锻炼和考验就像任何军团阿斯塔特要经受的一样致命，不过这也要求应征者们同时动员自己的才智与合作能力来克服困难，所以没有哪个应征者能独自一人从这些考验中幸存下来。

A second commonality in observations of the Alpha Legion was its superlative expertise in the arts of espionage, sabotage, infiltration and assassination. The goal of which was to leave an enemy leaderless and fractured, a helpless puppet before the Legion's onslaught when it came。 In counterpoint, the tactics of attrition and the forlorn hope, the bloody slog of trench warfare and static defence were things shunned by the Alpha Legion unless entirely unavoidable, and even then only ever engaged in on the Legions own terms. When the time for all-out attack came however, it would be a lethal mistake to underestimate the Alpha Legions abilities in open warfare, abilities which had drawn grudging praise from both the likes of Horus and Sanguinius in action.

我们从阿尔法军团中观察到的第二种共性是他们在间谍、暗中破坏、渗透和暗杀技艺上最为优秀的专业技能。他们这些行动的目标是让敌人陷入群龙无首和被瓦解的状况，让他们在阿尔法军团发起猛攻时成为无助的木偶。相反，阿尔法军团会回避（严重）减员且无望的战术、血腥的堑壕战与静态防御，除非完全无法避免，而且即便如此，他们也只能以军团自己的方式参战。不过，等到全面进攻的时候，低估阿尔法军团在公开战争中的能力将会是一个致命的错误——阿尔法军团公开战争的能力在行动中获得了荷鲁斯和圣吉列斯等人的一致好评。

The seamless tactical cohesion and fluid mastery of complex stratagems displayed by the Alpha Legion in the realms of infiltration and covert assault also made them masters of adaption, manoeuvre, feint and ambush in open battle. To fight the Alpha Legions hosts of warriors and war machines in open battle was akin to fighting a single, vast and coiling entity with myriad limbs and striking fangs, but operating under a single malevolent will.

阿尔法军团在渗透作战和隐秘进攻领域展现出的对于复杂战略的无缝战术衔接和流畅掌握也让他们成为了公开战斗中的适应作战、欺诈作战、佯攻做战和伏击作战大师。在公开战斗中与阿尔法军团交战，就类似于对抗一个拥有无数肢体和引人注目的尖牙、但在一个独立恶毒的意志控制下运作的独立巨大且卷曲的实体。

It is unclear whether the Alpha Legion ever conformed fully to the original operating strictures and organisational pattern laid out for the Space Marine Legions in the Principia Belicosa at the start of the Great Crusade, particularly as the Alpha Legion was formed long after the initial muster of the Legions. Outwardly though there was extensive resemblance to the basic Legion patterns, although the command structure and the organisation of the Alpha Legion can be discerned as being radically more fluid and specialised. It seems entirely possible, given the evidence available, that an individual Legionary's role and position within the division he was attached to was adapted and changed as frequently as tactical need demanded, and perhaps to some higher system of purpose whose ultimate goal remains unknown.

我们不清楚阿尔法军团是否曾经完全遵守过基础军典在大远征开始时为星际战士军团制定的最初的运作结果和组织模式，特别是阿尔法军团是在各军团最初集结的很久之后才成立的。尽管与基本的军团模式极为相似，然而我们可以看出阿尔法军团的指挥结构与组织在其本质上更具易变性和专业性。看起来，给出证明个别军团战士的角色和职位会在他所隶属的部门中根据战术需求进行调整与更改的可靠证据是完全可能的，而且他们的身份和职务也许会为了配合某些最终目标仍然未知的更高级目标系统而进行调整变化。

The Alpha Legion's companies, battalions and chapters (sometimes referred to as Harrows ,Cohort, Hosts and Instruments in shifting meaning) were formulated and broken down seemingly at the whim of Alpharius and the Legion's commanders. To this end unit numerations were swapped and heraldry changed and adapted, personnel and resources were reassigned or removed entirely from an order of battle, only to be later again replaced. Such organisational transits were noted not only between active deployments but also even during the course of a particular campaign. This made the Legion's strength, intentions and deployments almost impossible to gauge or track to foe and friend alike.

阿尔法军团的连队、战斗营和战团(某些时候也以非正式的方式被称为苦痛战群、大队、战群和任务分队)似乎是根据阿尔法瑞斯和军团指挥官们的突发奇想来规划和拆分的，结果就是：单位的编号被被交换、纹章被改变和调整，人员和资源被重新分配或者完全从某个战斗序列中移除，只是他们后来又被取代了。这种组织过渡不仅被记录存在于活动部署之间，而且在特定的战役期间也是如此。这使阿尔法军团的兵力、意图和部署几乎不可能被衡量和追踪——无论是被敌人还是被朋友。

This shifting and deliberate formlessness may, by some reports, have extended even to a particular Legionary's identity and rank, and is echoed in reports of uncommon similarity in both the physical features and aspect sometimes displayed by the Legion. Needless to say this latter phenomenon is confusingly not constantly observed in the record either, and while some reports speak of the Legion's members displaying a strange physical uniformity, others infer them as originating from a mixture of genotypes, while others indicate a strange, waxy and unnatural appearance to grey flesh bled of pigment, and sees them adorned with shimmering serpentine electoos. It is entirely possible that all of these reports are equally valid. Whether surgical or memetic implantation techniques, proscribed cognitive manipulation or esoteric technologies were employed to these ends remains unknown, as does just to what extent the individual Legionaries undertook such measures voluntarily——or perhaps were even aware of being subject to them at all.

根据某些报告，这种不断转变且有意的无形化可能甚至已经拓展到了具体的军团战士的身份和军衔，而那些关于阿尔法军团有时会显示出身体特征和外观上罕见的相似性的报告也呼应了这一点。后一种现象在记录中没有被经常观察到这自不必说，而某些报告中也声称阿尔法军团成员们展示出了一种奇怪的身体上的一致性，其他报告推测他们这种情况是源于多种基因类型的混合，还有些报告指出了（阿尔法军团战士有）一种古怪、质地光滑且非自然的外观，就像流出颜料的灰色皮肉，而且看到他们用闪闪发光的蛇纹石装饰。这些报告不可能全部都是同样确凿的。军团战士们是否利用了外科或模因植入技术、被禁止的认知操纵手段或深奥的技术来达成这种结果我们不得而知，我们也不知道独立的军团战士们自愿采取这些措施的程度——或者他们甚至完全意识到了自己是完全受制于这些措施的。

At a strategic level the Alpha Legion was clearly at pains to maintain a wide spectrum of military assets and capacities, its dedication to flexibility ensuring it was as capable in armoured warfare as it was in surgical drop strikes, artillery fire support or close quarter Zone Mortalis operations. It was supported in maintaining these abilities by voracious demand for materiel, particularly supplied by Forge Worlds such as Lucius, Incaladion and Phaeton—with some of these treaties of provender brokered directly by the Warmaster, no doubt in the hope of further securing the Alpha Legion's loyalty. These arrangements do not however account for the full scope of the Alpha Legion's extensive panoply of war, particularly their known acquisition of rare and specialised wargear notionally only manufactured by the armouries of certain Legions and never released to others, or not yet issued outside of closed prototype deployments.

在战略层面上，很明显阿尔法军团要竭尽全力来维持广泛的军事资产和能力，其对于灵活性的注重确保他们能像有能力使用外科手术般的空降进攻、炮兵火力支援和致命区域近距离作战那样有能力使用装甲战术，对物资的巨大需求支持着对于这些能力的维持，尤其是来着诸如卢修斯、Incaladion和Phaeton这些铸造世界的支持——某些支持是根据战帅直接协商而成的军供条约加以提供的，这无疑是荷鲁斯希望进一步获得阿尔法军团的忠诚的举措。不过，这些安排没有占据阿尔法军团那数量庞大的战争装备的全部范围，尤其是那些稀有且特化的武器装备绝品——这些装备理论上仅能由某些特定军团们的武库制造，而且并未向其他军团公开过，或者至今也只是公布过封闭的原型部署。

A case in point is the evidence of the Alpha Legion's access to a version of Corvus pattern power armour, not then in general circulation, as early as the Dropsite Massacre and the is, Battle of Paramar. Later battlefield recovery and analysis of this 'Corvus-Alpha' armour shows it in fact to be a unique variant likely developed separately from an early prototype of unknown manufacture. This suggests that the Alpha Legion may have acquired incomplete schematics by covert means early in the project's life and chosen to develop it on their own without recourse to the Mechanicum. It has been surmised that long before the Horus Heresy was to tear the Imperium asunder, the Alpha Legion had sought to secure its own extensive facilities of manufacture and positioned numerous hidden supply outposts and arms caches, both within Imperial space and beyond it, the full extent of which will never be known.

此类情况有一个很好的例子：阿尔法军团使用某种版本的渡鸦型动力甲的迹象，他们早在登录点大屠杀和帕拉玛会战中就装备的渡鸦型动力甲，而那时渡鸦型动力甲还没有广泛流传（机仆：严格来说mk6渡鸦型动力甲就没广泛流传过，它更类似于mk7天鹰型的试做版，两者甚至都能互换配件。mk7也比我们想象得要古老，在hh时期，撤到泰拉的机械神教就开始生产mk7供应泰拉守军）。之后对于这种“渡鸦阿尔法”型动力甲的战场回收和分析显示该型号动力甲事实上是一类独一无二的变种型号，它很可能是由某种未知型号动力甲的早期原型机独立发展而来的。这表明阿尔法军团可能在项目开发历程的早期就已经通过隐蔽的方式获取了不完整的原理图，并选择不依靠机械神教的资源进行自主开发。已经有人推测早在荷鲁斯叛乱把帝国撕裂开很久之前，阿尔法军团就已经试图确保自己拥有大量的制造设施，并且设置了许多隐蔽的供给哨站和武备储存库，而且在帝国疆域内外都有他们留下的哨站和武库，其具体范围可能永远不会为人所知。

On a tactical level, the Alpha Legion favoured freedom of manoeuvre and portability of firepower. Its battle tactics showed particular tendencies towards specialised reconnaissance and infiltration units in opening combat operations, to be quickly followed by the rapid deployment of fast armour, close air support and mechanised infantiy units as a main strike force. Attacking from many vectors at once, as well as skilfully employing feints and ambushes, would commonly reveal a foes weaknesses to the watching Alpha Legion commanders. They would then bring about maximum pressure against the exposed vulnerability, deploying reserves of shock troops, heavy armour and artillery as expedient to deal a shattering death blow. In order to employ these tactics, the Alpha Legion was known to have developed a number of specialised formations and units, often equipped with otherwise unknown and esoteric weapons and wargear. They were also known to form sub-divisions, referred to as "Splinters", which operated completely in isolation to achieve a particular mission or strategic goal, without regard to the safety or survival of either themselves or other members of their own force. It was often the case that other allied forces, and even the rest of an Alpha Legion deployment in the conflict in which they operated would be entirely unaware of a Splinter's existence or mission.

在战术层面上，阿尔法军团偏好机动性和火力的便携性。其战术表现出在开战行动中对于特定侦查和渗透单位的特殊倾向，之后会迅速跟进由快速装甲单位、近空支援和机械化步兵单位构成的主力攻击部队的快速部署。阿尔法军团会同时由多个方向发起攻击，并且巧妙地运用佯攻和伏击，这通常会将敌人的弱点揭露给正在观察战场的阿尔法军团指挥官们，他们之后将会在敌人暴露出的漏洞上施加最大的压力，部署突击部队、重型装甲部队和炮兵预备队作为方便可行的进攻部队来对敌人造成致命打击。为了实施此类战术，已知阿尔法军团已经发展出了许多专门的编队和单位，通常装备着其他未知且玄奥的武器和战争装备。他们因组成某种被称为“裂棘部队”的次级分队而著称，这些部队完全独立运作以完成某项特殊任务或战略目标，而且不会考虑他们自己与队伍中其他兄弟的安全与存活。其他盟友部队甚至和裂棘部队共同作战的其他阿尔法军团部队都完全不会意识到裂棘部队的存在或其任务，这通常是种常见情况。

The Seeker squads employed by many Legions were, according to some reports, pioneered first by the Alpha Legion to this end, and certainly such squads, along with specialised Reconnaissance squads, were common to almost all of the Legions battle formations. These tactics were taken a stage further by the Alpha Legion in the creation of an elite unit geared specifically to rapidly inflicting targeted casualties behind enemy lines, known variously as the Headhunters or 'Effrit—although this latter term may also have referred to the act of assassination, and the sowing of destruction and chaos behind the lines mid-battle, as well as a particular unit type. This preference for high-impact strikes carried out by small, elite infantry units is evidenced by the fact that both Destroyer squads (who suffered none of the opprobrium found in some Legions to those so assigned), as well as specialised Alpha Legion sabotage operatives are also classified as Effrit in some accounts and treated as a respected veteran cadre within the Legion.

根据某些报告，很多军团都会部署的寻路者小队是由阿尔法军团率先开发的，而且此类小队以及专门的侦查小队无疑在几乎所有军团的战斗编队中都是常见的。阿尔法军团则创造某种进行了特殊装备的精英单位来在敌军战线后方迅速造成目标伤亡，以此在这种战术上更进一步，这些单位被称为猎头者（机仆：我就是在查隔壁halo斯巴达三期的猎头者小队时才误入了战锤30000这个大坑…）或者艾弗瑞特，后者也可能是指暗杀与在敌后阵线上散播混乱与破坏这种行为，以及某种具体的单位类型。阿尔法军团对于小型精锐步兵部队实施的高强度进攻的偏好也由如下的事实得到了佐证：毁灭者小队（阿尔法军团的毁灭者们没有遭受我们在一些军团中发现的对那些被指派到此类部队的人的羞辱）以及阿尔法军团专门的破坏特工（机仆：凡人特工）也被分类为艾弗瑞特，而且他们在军团内部被作为受尊敬的老兵核心骨干加以礼遇。

Another designation，again drawn from ancient myth by the Alpha Legion, was the 'Lemaean'. This cognomen appears to have been given to the Legions most expert shock assault troops, particularly to dedicated Terminator companies and in some instances breacher squads and Dreadnoughts. In particular, battle recordings of certain Lernaean Terminator units mark them as being equipped with advanced teleportation assault capacity and specialised heavy weaponry such as compact conversion beam weapons and phase-field generator gear. The foremost task of the Lernaean was to swiftly isolate and destroy the most powerful frontline troops and potent battlefield assets a foe possessed, and to do so in such an emphatic and bloody manner that not only was a potential threat to the Alpha Legion's attack ended, but the psychological shock of their attack would further damage enemy morale. Such was the calculated cruelty and cold brutality employed by the Lernaean, that their reputation quickly spread beyond the Alpha Legion itself. Certain records also indicate other named and specialised formations, such as the 'Rhatosthaen', 'Shayatan'，'Quaryn' and 'Echidna' whose nature, if they truly existed at all, remains mysterious. In addition, certain references are made to the "Chrythsaor' which may have referred to the Legions Librarius (possibly encompassing a wider intelligence gathering apparatus as well), which was suspected to have been extensive before the Council of Nikaea. Though not believed to have been present at the Council, Alpharius, at least outwardly, appears to have had his Legion abide by its ruling, a stance quickly ended during the war of the Heresy.

另一个称呼是“勒拿”（机仆：九头蛇的全名——勒拿沼泽的九头蛇/许德拉/海德拉）——也是阿尔法军团从古老神话中抽取出来的。这个绰号似乎已经被给予了军团中最为内行的突击部队，尤其是专门的终结者连队，某些情况下也会被给予攻城小队和无畏机甲。特别是某些勒拿终结者的战斗记录标明他们具备了先进的传送打击能力且配备了专门的重型武器，比如紧凑型转换光束武器和相位场发生器装置（机仆：这玩意儿好像更类似力场护盾之类的）。勒拿部队的首要任务是迅速孤立和摧毁敌人所拥有的最为强力前线部队和最为强大前线资源。如此血腥且强硬的行动方式不仅终结（敌人）对于阿尔法军团的进攻行动构成的潜在威胁，而且袭击行动造成的心理冲击也会进一步损伤敌人的士气。这便是勒拿部队使用的蓄意且冷酷的残忍暴行，他们的名声也快速地传播到了阿尔法军团之外。某些记录也显示了其他被命名的专业化编队，比如“蛇毒素”、“魔圣者”、“受猎者”和“针鼹鼠”（机仆：我还不如直接音译…）——哪怕这些部队真实存在过，他们的本质也仍旧是个迷。另外，某些提及“ 克瑞萨尔”的地方可能是指军团智库（可能还包括更广泛的情报收集设备），人们怀疑在尼凯亚会议之前该组织就已经影响广泛。虽然阿尔法瑞斯被相信并未出席尼凯亚会议，但至少在表面上，他似乎已经让他的军团遵守了会议的裁决，但在荷鲁斯叛乱期间，这种立场姿态也很快就结束了。

Of importance also when considering the particular structure and capabilities of the Alpha Legion is its use of human and augmented-human agents and paramilitaries. Whereas many Space Marine Legion forces utilised the manifold elements of the Excertus Imperialis to support their efforts in the Great Crusade, and many Expeditionary fleets utilised regiments of the Imperialis Auxillia (or Imperial Army) subservient to the Legiones Astartes in their order of battle, the Alpha Legion made particular use of detached elements specifically trained for tasks of espionage, infiltration and terrorism, and these were beholden to none save the Legion itself in fealty. Operating individually or as part of a cell network, these agents and operatives often had little knowledge of each other or in many cases of who their true masters were, but were uniformly highly trained, psychoconditioned for ruthlessness and fanatical loyalty, and were often subjected to surgical or biochemical augmentation to further their abilities. When encountering human worlds to be brought into Compliance, these augmented and highly adept agents (referred to as 'Sparatoi', possibly from an ancient term meaning the “sown men” in some sources), would go ahead of the Legion and infiltrate the population, acting as spies, agitators and saboteurs. They would encourage treachery, spread disinformation and corrosive mimetic patterns, and find or take over underground rebel or terrorist groups. Their role primarily was to promote dissent and cause widespread panic and infrastructural damage, and so seek to critically weaken an enemy before the Legion itself engaged in battle. When the Alpha Legion finally showed its hand, the Sparatoi and their web of puppet-agents would provide a wave of sabotage and distraction attacks, further destabilising the enemy, often at the cost of their own lives. It is apparent that prior to the Horus Heresy, the Sparatoi network was expanded into the Imperium itself and its armed forces, becoming a cancerous presence that was only revealed as civil war erupted. Further reports of actual Legionaries similarly infiltrating civilian populations by unknown means and even the rank and file of others of the Legiones Astartes and masquerading as part of their number cannot be confirmed.

在考虑阿尔法军团的具体结构与能力时，他们对于凡人和强化人特工与准军事人员的使用也是一个重要方面。鉴于在大远征时期很多星际战士部队都会使用数量繁多的帝国民兵来支援自己的行动，很多帝国远征探索舰队也会在他们的战斗序列中使用附属于星际战士的帝国辅助军（或帝国军）团，阿尔法军团尤其会使用为间谍、渗透和恐袭等任务接受过特殊训练的独立分队，而且这些分队只效忠于阿尔法军团自身。这些特工和干员们会独立或作为某个小型网络的一部分进行运作，通常他们对彼此几乎一无所知，很多情况下他们也几乎不知道谁是自己真正的主人，但他们都同样接受过高度的训练，培养出了冷酷无情和狂热忠诚的心理状态，而且他们通常接受过外科或生化增强改造手术来提升其能力。当遇到将要被归顺于帝国的世界时，这些被强化且高度专业的特工们（被成为“斯帕拉图”，该词可能源于一个古老的术语，在某些出处表示“播种者”）会提前于军团赶往那里并渗透进入当地人，充当间谍、煽动者和破坏者。他们会煽动叛乱、散布虚假信息和损害性的模拟形态、找到或接管地下叛军组织或恐怖主义团体。他们主要负责引起异议、造成广泛的恐慌和破坏基础设施，并在军团参战之前尝试严重削弱敌人。当阿尔法军团最终出击时，斯帕拉图特工和他们的傀儡特工网络将会进行一波破坏行动和佯攻行动，进一步动摇破坏敌人（的根基），而这往往是以他们的生命为代价。很明显在荷鲁斯叛乱之前，斯帕拉图特工网络就已经拓展到了帝国自身及其武装力量当中，他们成为了癌症般的存在，只有在内战爆发时才会显现出来。关于军团战士以未知方式同样渗透到了平民当中，甚至盗用其他阿斯塔特军团成员的军衔和档案，并伪装混入其他军团的进一步报告则尚未得到证实。