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IA10节译:处刑者战团与其组织结构

2021-12-15 14:55 作者:机兵苍熊式  | 我要投稿

THE EXECUTIONERS 

CHAPTER NAME: EXECUTIONERS 

战团名称:处刑者

FOUNDING:.3RD [UNCONFIRMED: STATED IN THE CHAPTER'S OWN CHRONICLES)

组建时间:第三次建军(未确认,该信息记录于战团自身的编年史中)

CHAPTER WORLD/DEPLOYMENT: STYGIA-AOUILON [BINARY-ORBITING SPHERES]

战团母星/部署地:STYGIA-AOUILON(互相环绕的双子星球)

FORTRESS MONASTERFY:DARKENVAULT (GEO-STATIONARY FORTIFIED ASTEROID/STYGIA-AOUILON] 

要塞修道院:巨龙穹顶(被改造为同步轨道空间站的要塞化小行星/STYGIA-AOUILON)

GENE-SEED (PREDECESSOR): IMPERIAL FISTS

基因种子来源(母团):帝国之拳

KNOWN DESCENDANTS: IRON CHAMPIONS. CRIMSON AXES (RECORDS LOST CIR. 092.M39), [THE SKULL BEARERS CLAIM THE EXECUTiONERS AS THEIR ANTECEDENTS. BUT THIS REMAINS UNSUBSTANTIATED BY OFFICIAL RECORDS) 

已知的子团:钢铁冠军、绯红利斧(记录大概遗失于092.M39)(携颅者声称处刑者是自己的先祖,但这一点仍未得到官方记录的证实。)

An ancient and proud Chapter whose origins are to be found in the chaotic centuries that followed the Hotus Heresy. the Executioners are scions of the proud line of the Imperial Fists. Founded under the command of Fafnir Rann, reputedly the most vicious of Regal Dorn's later captains. they were created, according to their chronicles. for the sole task of seeking out and slaughtering Mankind's foes rather than undertaking any more defensive or strategic purpose. The Executioners are a bellicose, almost barbarous Chapter that disdains the martial trappings and ordered obedience of such stalwart and unimpeachable members of the Astartes as the Ultramarines and their own forebears the Imperial Fists. but they have gained a fearsome reputation for sheer undaunted endurance and destructive wrath. As a Chapter they see their goal and purpose as a simple one: to extinguish the lives of those that would contest the Impenum's rule or threaten humanity, and to do so without remorse. In literal terms they see themselves as the Emperor's chosen headsmen, and his judgement theirs to enact. 

处刑者是一个古老且自豪的战团,他们起源于荷鲁斯叛乱之后的混乱世纪中,是帝国之拳军团高傲的子嗣。该战团在法夫尼尔 兰恩——这位传言中罗格 多恩手下最为严厉的连长的指挥下建立的。根据战团编年史记载,处刑者战团只为一个任务的创建:找出并屠戮人类之敌,而非出于更具防御性或战略性的目的。处刑者是一个好战,甚至近乎野蛮的战团,他们蔑视军事上的诱骗战术,也对诸如极限战士、以及他们的先祖帝国之拳等坚定且无懈可击的阿斯塔特战士们那组织有序的服从性感到不屑,不过他们也以纯粹顽强的忍耐力和毁灭性的愤怒赢得了可怕的名声。作为一个战团,他们认为自己只有一个使命:夺取那些将会挑战帝国的统治或威胁到人类安危之物的性命,而且在下手时毫无悔恨。他们在字面意义上将自己视为帝皇选中的侩子手,以及帝皇判决的执行人。

Descended from the noble lineage of Regal Dorn's Imperial Fists. aside from an inviolable sense of honour and a history of phenomenal skill at arms. they share little in common with the progenitor Chapter's culture and traditions. nor are their ties to any but their own successors among the Space Marines strong. Instead their ancient ways and beliefs are very much rooted in the feral worlds from which they have long recruited their Battle Brothers. Accordingly, some of their fellow Space Marines are known to view the Executioners as barely more than ill-disciplined primitives and gore-splattered headhunters, little better than renegades. However to hold this to be true is to ignore a high degree of blood-bought battle wisdom and a certain deliberate cunning that makes the Chapter far more than a barbaric horde in space marine guise,and set aside a record of unwavering service to the lmperium at some of the darkest periods of its history.

处刑者战团诞生自帝国之拳战团,继承了罗格 多恩的高贵血脉,但除了不容侵犯的荣誉感和非凡的武艺历史,他们在文化和传统上与母团几乎没有共通之处。而除了自己的子团之外,处刑者与其他星际战士们的关系也并不牢固。相反,他们的古老的处世之道和信仰在很大程度上都是植根于他们长期征召战斗修士的荒蛮世界。因此,众所周知的是:他们的一些星际战士同仁认为处刑者不过是一群纪律败坏的原始人和满身血污的猎头者,只比变节者们强出那么一点儿。然而,如果有人认为这是真的,那他就是忽略了处刑者战团高度的血战智慧和特定的蓄意狡诈——这些特质让处刑者们远非是一群有着星际战士外表的野蛮人,而且也忽视了处刑者战团在帝国某些最黑暗历史时期对帝国所贡献出的坚定服务。

One of the Space Marine Chapters posted on the Imperium's fringes. the Executioners' common range of operations encompasses the desolate void wastes to the galactic south-south-west, between the borders of the Segmentum Tempestus and Segmenturn Pacificus. although they are accustomed to great voyages and forlorn quests over their long history. having fought in wars right across the lmperium in the past. Since the closing years of M37 the Chapter has made its home at the twin worlds of Stygia and Aquilon: infamous planets of fire and ice locked in a perpetual orbit ellipsing around a giant,slowly dying sun at the edge of the endless benighted expanse of the galactic southern fringe.The Executioners' fortress-monastery is a huge armoured asteroid base known as the Darkenvault, gravitationally trapped between these two worlds and it is from this bleak and forbidding bastion that their skull-prowed warship sally forth into the immense blackness beyond in search of targets to destroy.

处刑者是驻守在帝国边境的星际战士战团之一,尽管在他们历史上,该战团习惯于进行伟大的远航和孤苦艰难的探索,也曾在帝国各处战斗过,但处刑者战团通常的活动范围环绕着银河南部至西南部的荒凉虚空废土,夹在暴风和太平两大星域的边境之间。自从M37末期,处刑者战团便将双子世界Stygia和Aquilon作为了家园:这两颗恶名昭著的行星遍布火焰和寒冰,它们被锁定在一个永久的轨道上,围绕着一个巨大且正在慢慢消亡的恒星公转,此地位于银河南部边缘那片无边无际的黑暗地带的边缘。处刑者的要塞修道院是一座被称为巨龙穹顶的巨大装甲化小行星基地,引力将它困在了那两颗星球之间,战团那些颅骨造型舰首的战舰就是从这座阴森禁忌的要塞中驶入外侧无边无际的黑暗空间,前去寻找摧毁的目标。

By the laws and traditions of the Chapter, each Executioners Space Marine must forge their own path to glory and become worthy of remembrance in the great chronicles that have been kept by successive generations of the Chapter's chaplains or "Death Speakers" as they are also  known. It is these Death-Speakers, whose task it is to recount the slaughter-tallies of the Chapter's honoured dead during holy feasts and memorial ceremonies held deep within the Darkenvault's catacombs. Their second and equally important task is to keep order in the often fractious Chapter, and consequently the Executioners maintain an unusual high number of Chaplains,with each company assigned three by tradition. These report to the Overall high Chaplain. also known as the Lord Speaker of the Dead. As a part of their duties the Chaplains keep precise records of the battles in which their companies have fought, so that the lessons of both victory and defeat are never lost for future warriors of the Chapter. It is only by right of bloodshed. by taking the lives of the Emperor's enemies that an Executioners Space Marine can be granted the honour of a place in the chronicles. and thereby earn the respect of their fellow Space Marines and in so doing attain rank and honour in the Chapter. 

根据战团的法律和习俗,每位处刑者星际战士都必须铸就他们自己的荣耀之路,让自己值得被记录到战团牧师——或者说“述死者”们代代保存的伟大编年史册中。述死者们的任务是:在神圣的节日,以及在黑暗墓穴的深处举行的纪念仪式上,他们要重新讲述战团中这些光荣的逝者们屠杀敌人的记录。他们的第二项但也同样重要的任务是:在这个经常暴躁易怒的战团中维持秩序,因此处刑者战团中有着数量多到不自然的牧师,根据习俗,每个连队都会被指派三名牧师。牧师们向“述死者尊主”——战团中的至高牧师进行报告。保存自己所在连队经历过的战斗的准确记录也是这些牧师们职责的一部分,这样战团中未来的战士们就不会失去前人从成功和失败中获取的经验教训。只有通过流血牺牲、通过杀死帝皇之敌,一名处刑者星际战士才会得到在编年史上拥有一席之地的荣誉,从而赢得(战团中)其他星际战士兄弟们的尊重,并以此在战团中获得地位和荣誉。

By nature intractable ambitious and swift to anger, the Chapter's Battle Brothers are taught to avenge slights to their honour with blood. even among their own. but unlike those few other Chapters were such behaviour is tolerated or even encouraged in the ranks (such as the Space Wolves or Marauders for example). little passes by way of brawling or boisterous competition among them. because for the Executioners, all such battles are to the maiming or the death of those involved. Honour demands no less. Another eccentricity of the Chapter's culture outsiders have found disturbing is the Executioners' tendency to carry from the battlefield trophies taken from particularly noteworthy victims, such as skulls, heads and weapons - not for any ritual purpose. but rather for the tally of the Death-Speakers after the battle. They are then promptly discarded after they have served their purpose unless judged to be particularly significant in which case they may be preserved as relics, often adorning the Space Marine's armour or wargear for a time. Others exposed to the Executioners' ways have also taken issue with their spiritual beliefs. which have endured since before the rise of the Ministorum. Primarily these take the form of animism and ancestor worship. and while they ascribe to the Emperor Divine temper and right. they have little use for the Ecclesiarchy and its trappings of saints and 'petty' superstitions, save as a useful tool for binding together the Impenum's scattered multitudes. 

由于天性暴躁固执而且易怒,所以处刑者战团中的战斗修士们被教导要用鲜血来报复对于他们荣誉的侮辱诋毁,哪怕是在他们自己人之间。但与其他某些战团(例如太空野狼和掠夺者战团)不同的是,在处刑者战团中,这种行为是可以容忍甚至是被鼓励的,他们之间很少发生争吵或激烈的竞争,因为对处刑者们而言,所有这些战斗的目的都是令参与者残废或死亡——荣誉要求他们必须如此。外人还会从处刑者战团中观察到另一个让人不安的癖好:他们倾向于从战场上那些值得注意的受害者身上拿走战利品,比如颅骨、头颅和武器——这一举动并无任何仪式性的目的,而是在战后用于述死者记录他们的功绩。在完成使命后,这些战利品就会被迅速丢弃,除非是被认为特别重要的那些——在这种情况下,它们可能会被作为圣物保存下来,通常会在一段时间内被用于装饰星际战士们的武器和动力甲。其他接触过处刑者们生活方式的人也对他们的精神信仰提出了质疑,这种信仰在帝国国教崛起之前就已经存在了。处刑者们信仰的主要形式主是万物有灵论和祖先崇拜,而且他们将之归因为皇帝的神性情和权利。处刑者们几乎用不上国教教义与教会的神圣装饰物及其“琐碎的”宗教观念,只是将其用作一种有用的工具,用于将分散在帝国各处的人群绑定起来。

As with most Chapters posted in the further reaches of the void, the Executioners Chapter is highly independent in operation and deployment, undertaking its own ongoing war with the enemies of Mankind. But unlike some, they have never allowed themselves to become isolationist or insular, maintaining ties of communication and pacts of service and allegiance with the Segmentum Tempestus authorities at Bakka. Drachus and Gryphonne. further cementing these ties by allowing the cavernous Darkenvault station to serve in extremis as a refuge for Explorator missions and deep range fleet patrols. The Executioners themselves have benefited from these relationships by gaining access to the Segmentum's fleet anchorages and supply stations. Their pacts with the Mechanicus at Gryphonne have resulted in the Chapter gaining many gifts of wargear and heavy arms with which to wage their wars. although given the Chapter's reputation it must be said that many of their allies have been loathe to call upon them in return, except in times of dire need. 

就像大部分驻守在虚空深处边境的战团那样,处刑者战团在运作和部署上有高度的独立性,进行着他们自己对于帝皇之敌的持续战争。但与某些战团不同,处刑者并不允许自己成为孤立主义者或保守主义者,他们和位于Bakka、Drachus和Gryphonne等世界上的风暴星域帝国政府机构保持沟通,为其服务和效忠;他们还允许执行探索任务的帝国部队和远程巡逻舰队在紧急情况下将空洞巨大的巨龙穹顶空间站用作避难所,这进一步巩固了两者的关系。处刑者战团自己也从这种关系中获益:他们被允许进入星域的舰队锚地和补给站。处刑者战团与Gryphonne世界上机械神教的协约让他们获得了大量用于进行战争的军械和重武器。不过考虑到该战团的恶名,我们也必须说明一点:处刑者战团的大部分盟友都极不喜欢向他们寻求回馈,除非是在急需的情况下。


ORGANISATION

组织

Perhaps surprisingly for a Chapter with so barbaric and unsophisticated a reputation, the Executioners adhere very strictly to the tenets of the Codex Astartes in their structure and organisation, with only a few minor changes in orthodoxy which largely reflect a tendency towards close-range fire fights and brutal hand-to-hand combat. These tactics are preferred as the Chapter's brethren may more readily prove themselves in such decisive combats than in operations carried via long range firepower or using hit-and-run tactics. 

对于处刑者战团这样一个以野蛮和简单直率而著称的战团而言,他们在组织和结构上对于阿斯塔特圣典教义的恪守或许是令人惊讶的。处刑者们只是对圣典中的正统(战术)观念进行了一些微小的改变,这些改变在很大程度上反映了处刑者们对于近距离交火和残酷的肉搏战的倾向。这些战术是处刑者星际战士们的首选,因为相比于那些使用远程火力和游击战术的战斗中,他们更容易在此类决定性的战斗中证明自己。

Operationally this tactical bias has been represented most obviously in the Chapter's battle companies by the replacement of one of their standard Codex approved Devastator squads for a Sternguard Veteran squad of the Company's finest warriors in their organisational line of battle. Conversely. the use of bikes and attack bikes is disdained by the Executioners. who have a preference for the use of Land Speeders for scouting duties, and heavy armour wherever possible for assault and reconnaissance in force. Capable of subtlety when the need arises. the Executioners prefer to assure victory and the glory of their warriors by engaging the enemy as closely as possible. and are unafraid of battles of attrition or mutual destruction. relying on the ability of their Battle Brothers to overcorne and endure anything the enemy can throw at them and return it with greater force. At times this has proved a flaw. leading the Chapter to fight on once engaged where its better judgment may have otherwise prevailed before its bloodlust had been roused, a failing that has also been said of their ancient progenitors in the past. 

在实际操作中,这种战术偏好在战团的战斗连队中表现得最为明显:在自己的战斗阵线中,他们会将标准圣典要求设立的破坏者小队之一替换为由连队中最优秀的战士们组成的宿卫老兵小队。处刑者们也鄙视对于战斗机车和攻击机车的使用,他们偏好使用兰德速攻艇来负担侦查职责,并会在任何可能的情况下动用重装甲单位来进行突击和侦察。当有必要时,处刑者也能巧妙地处理各种问题,但他们还是更偏好尽可能地通过与敌人近距离交战来确保胜利和夺取勇士的荣耀,而且也并不惧怕消耗战与两败俱伤的战斗。他们会依靠战斗修士们(自身)的能力来压倒并忍受敌人发起的所有进攻,并以更强悍的力量进行还击。这种行为在有些时候被证明是一种错误,会导致处刑者们在交战中一旦被唤醒嗜血欲望,他们更理智的判断力就会占下风,据说这种缺陷过去也曾出现在他们古老的祖先身上。

Within the Executioners Chapter. each Company Captain is treated as a warlord in their own right by the Chapter, with a great independence of action afforded them. The Chapter's master. also known as the High Executioner. although possessing ultimate authority, must also heed his Company captains, who along with  the Chapter's Chief Librarian, Master of the Forge and Lord Speaker of the Dead, form a war council which by ancient right may, by unanimous assent, overthrow the Chapter Master should he prove unfit or unworthy in their eyes. Unlike the traditions of most Space Marine Chapters, leadership contests for the command of the Executioners can be bloody affairs; with each of the company Captains having the right to challenge for the title of High Executioner in trial by combat should they so wish. 

在处刑者战团内部,每位连长都被视作一名军阀,他们被给予了极强的行动自主性。战团长也被称为至高处刑者,尽管他手握战团中最强的权柄,但他也必须听取连长们的意见。连长们与战团的首席智库、制造大师和述死者尊主组成战争议会,如果他们认为战团长不称职,他们就能利用手中古老的权力来一致同意罢免战团长。与大多数星际战士战团的习俗不同,处刑者战团中的领导权竞争是血腥的:如果他们愿意的话,每位连长都有权通过决斗的方式来挑战至高处刑者的头衔。


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