hh9节译：伊卡洛斯应急协议

Ikaros Contingency

The Mechanicum sat at the heart of the Emperor's new Imperium. It was the beating heart of its military and industrial base, supplying the industrial might by which the armies of the Great Crusade were forged and maintained, its far flung Forge Worlds were the cogs around which the campaign to liberate the galaxy turned. Without the Tech-Priests of Mars there could have been no Great Crusade, for the Mechanicum had become an essential part of the Emperor's plans. It was also the greatest threat to them in the years before Horus turned to treachery, for the Mechanicum stood apart from the careful order the Emperor had established. Of all the Imperium's institutions, they still worshipped a god openly, worked to their own rituals and creed that had little to do with the Imperial Truth. Worse, should they ever rise up against the Emperor, they could turn to their own formidable armies to prosecute a war against Him and turn the very technology of the Great Crusade against His servants. Such a war would be the end of the Imperium.

机械神教的新帝国中居于核心地位，它是帝国军事与工业基础跳动着的心脏，提供了锻造和维持大远征军队的工业力量，遥远分布着的铸造世界们是银河解放战争的齿轮们。没有火星的科技神甫们，大远征也将不会存在，因为机械神教已经成为了帝皇计划中必不可少的一部分。但在荷鲁斯悍然叛变之前的时光中，欧姆尼赛亚之仆们亦是帝国的最大威胁——因为机械神教脱离了帝皇下达的审慎命令。在帝国的所有机构中，他们仍在公开崇拜神明，执行他们那与帝国真理不相关的仪式和教义。更糟的是，倘若他们起来反抗帝皇，他们就能自己那可怕的军队来发动针对帝皇的战争，并用大远征中的所有技术来对抗帝皇的忠仆们。这样一场战争将成为帝国的终结。

To counter such a threat, the Emperor had established a number of contingency plans, several of which remain shrouded in mystery to this day of those known to history, the Ikaros Contingency is perhaps the most dire. A directive issued only to Lion El'jonson and the warriors of the First Legion, the ikaros Contingency consisted of two distinct clauses. The first was an Imperial warrant empowering the Dark Angels to keep in their possession a number of relics from the period of history known as Old Night, technology that had long been forbidden to any other institution as dangerous and unstable. It was, however, a technology that shared few similarities with that of Mars and as such was resistant to the wiles of the techno-magi and anethematic to their machines of war. The second clause, had it become common knowledge, would have been cause enough to start the war the Emperor sought to avoid, for it empowered Lion El'jonson and his warriors to conduct pre-emptive combat operations to neutralise elements of the Mechanicum deemed to have become “contrary to the needs of the Imperiurn”.

为了反击这样一种威胁，帝皇制订了许多应急计划，其中的很多计划至今仍然笼罩在神秘当中，而伊卡洛斯应急协议可能是最为紧急的一项。这是一项仅仅发布给莱昂 艾尔庄森和第一军团战士们的指令，它由两个不同的条款组成。第一条是授权黑暗天使们保有诸多来自被称为旧夜的历史时代的遗产——由于其危险性和不稳定性，其他任何机构都被禁止拥有这些科技。这些科技与火星的科技几乎没有相同之处，因此，这些科技能够抵抗机械神教的科技术士们的诡计，并且憎恶机械神教的战争机器。第二条则已经成为一项共识——倘若情况已经足够危急到要进行帝皇努力避免的战争：泰拉帝国与机械神教的决战，莱昂 艾尔庄森和第一军团就会被授权执行行先发制人的作战行动以瓦解机械神教的部队——等到了这种关头，机械神教会被视为“违背了人类帝国的需要”。

This final clause is known to have been invoked eight times in the history of the Imperium, though details of most of these incidents remain sealed within the vaults of the Dark Angels, with the encounter at Triplex the only openly acknowledged occurrence at this time. It would not be the last, for the Lion would not stay his hand now that open war had consumed the Imperium, and would bring censure to many more Forge Worlds he deemed 'contrary to the needs of the Imperium" before the end of the Horus Heresy.

第二条已知在帝国的历史中被启动了八次，不过多数此类事件的细节都被封印在黑暗天使的仓库中，Triplex铸造世界上的遭遇战是目前唯一被公开承认的此类事件。Triplex事件也并非是终结，因为莱昂不会在那场吞噬帝国的公开战争中袖手旁观，在荷鲁斯叛乱结束之前，会会有多得多的铸造世界被莱昂认定为“违背了帝国的需要”，并被雄狮降下严厉的责难（与审判）。