IA9节译：新星战士战团及其组织结构

CHAPTER NAME：THE NOVAMARINES

战团名称：新星战士

FOUNDING：2ND(M.31）

组建时间：2ND(M.31）

CHAPTER WORLD： HONOURUM

母星:HONOURUM

FORTRESS MONASTERY：THE FORTRESS NOVUM

要塞修道院：新星要塞

GENE-SEED (PREDECESSOR)：ULITRAMARINES

基因种子来源（母团）：极限战士

KNOWN DESCENDANTS：NONE OFFICIALLY LISTED，BUT THEY WERE KNOWN TO HAVE HAD THE HONOUR OF THEIR BRETHREN SELECTED TO AID THE FOUNDING OF SEVERAL ULITRAMARINES GENE—SEED SUCCESSOR CHAPTERS IN THE PAST, NOTABLY THE DARK SON AND THE ANGEIS OF FURY。

已知子团：无官方列举，但已知他们在过去拥有过自己的兄弟被选中去支援多个极限战士基因种子子团的创建，较为著名的是黑暗之子与狂怒天使。

An ancient and proud Chapter, the Novamarines are hard-line adherents to the Codex Astartes who consider the writ of the text itself to be divinely  ordained law. The Novamarines' outlook and disposition is very firmly rooted in a glorious past and a long history of leal and unwavering service in defence ol the Imperium. The Chapter's standards of probity and honour are such that they have been held up as an example even to other Chapters of the Astartes in the past, and are known to have drawn blood against those who would stray too far from the Codex's teachings. In character they are known to be hard and unwavering, and their sense of honour and rectitude is unquestioned both by their fellow Astartes and the powers of the Imperium. Uniformity of thought, strength of purpose and service to the Imperium before all else are the Chapter's key beliefs, and they have long been indepondent advocates of what the Inquisition would dub the 'Monodominant' outlook, espousing a doctrine of the complete extermination of all intelligent alien life in the galaxy In order for the survival of Humanily to be safeguarded.

新星战士是一个古老而高傲的战团，他们是阿斯塔特圣典的坚定拥护者，视这份文本内容为神圣规定的法律。新星战士的见解和性格牢固地植根于他们坚定不移忠诚保卫帝国的漫长且荣耀的历史中，无论在他们的阿斯塔特兄弟还是帝国其他势力看来，他们的荣誉感和正直都是无可置疑的。战团的核心信念是：思想统一、坚守目标和效忠帝国优于一切。他们长期以来都独立地倡导着一种被审判庭戏称为“纯净派”的理念，拥护“要彻底灭绝银河中其他智慧外星种族来为人类存续提供保障”这一信条。

Their founding Master is known to have been Lucretius Corvo, a highly honoured Captain of the Ultramarines Legion who served as one of his Legion's champions during the brutal fighting against the Traitor Word Bearers Legion on Astagar during the Horus Heresy. During this desperate siege, Corvo's forces held out for six days against many times their number, and in one last, desperate counter-attack be and his chosen band managed to destroy the Traitor Warlord Titan Fellghast and break the siege. For this action Corvo was awarded a Laurel of Defiance by his Primarch, a sacred object that is still enshrined on the Fortress Novum to the present day. The Chapter's rare use of a quartered livery is believed to based on Corvo's personal heraldry, further selling their first Master's stamp upon the Chapter. At their founding they were given the guardianship of the pre-lmperial fortress world of Honourum by Robute Guilkman himself, a site that had once marked the northward exlent of the Ultramarines Legion's advance into the galaclic north of the Segmontum Ultima. Honourum is a storm-wracked world of jagged mountains and barren stone lands, with little by way of flora and fauna: barely enough to allow it to be classified as a life sustaining world. Honourum's small population is divided up into feral huntor-gatherer tribes, nomadically picking their way across the bleak landscape. To them the vast redoubts and soaring bastions of the Fortress Novum, graven from Honourum’s greatest mountain range are no less than the halls of the gods, and the rippling aurora cast into the static-charged night sky by the  fortress monastery's void shields are gateways to the halls of the dead in the world beyond. These simple and hardy primitives have provided the Novamarines with their recruits since tho Novamarines' founding, and during their Indoctrination Into the Chapter all vestiges of their past culture and beliefs are purged away and replaced wrth a pattern of thought and culture that any native of distant Ultramar would instantly recognise. The one Idiosyncrasy of the autochthonic traditions of Honourum's natives that is retained by the Chapter is the practice of ritually tattooing the skin. Each Novamarine's toughened hide over time becomes an illustration of their career and life, with sigils and abstract designs depleting the battles they have fought and the stars they have travelled. It is a commonly held belief among the Chapter that these vivid images serve to armour the soul from the predations of dark spirits, and that by the roll of deeds recorded on their flesh will the Emperor judge their worth in death.

他们的初代战团长是卢克雷修斯 科尔沃，一位荣誉傍身的极限战士军团连长，在荷鲁斯叛乱时期，他是在Astagar对抗怀言者叛徒军团的残酷战斗中的军团冠军之一。在这场绝望的攻城战中， 科尔沃的部队面对数量数倍于己的部队坚守了六天，并发动了一次绝望的反击，最终，科尔沃选定的部队成功击毁了叛军的战将泰坦“陨落恶灵”，打破了围困。科尔沃因为自己的这次表现被原体授予了抵抗者桂冠，这件神圣的赐物至今依旧被供奉在新星要塞中。战团那罕见的四等分涂装据信就是基于科尔沃的个人纹章，这进一步为新星战士们打上了初代战团长的标记。他们在组建时就被罗伯特 基里曼本人给予了前帝国要塞世界Honourum的监护权，这个站点标志着极限战士军团在极限星域向银河北部挺进的范围。Honourum是个暴风肆虐的世界，有着崎岖的群山和贫瘠的石原，而且动植物稀少：它几乎不足以被分类为能够维持生命的世界。当地稀少的人口分散为几个未开化的采猎部落，在荒凉的大地上过着游牧生活。对他们而言，耸立于Honourum最为高耸的群山间的新星要塞的高耸工事和巨大堡垒不亚于众神的殿堂，要塞修道院的虚空盾投射在宁静夜空中起伏着的极光是通往这个世界之外的亡者之地的大门。从新星战士战团建立开始，这些落后且强壮的原始人们就在为战团提供新兵，而在他们进入战团接受教导时， 他们那会被遥远的奥特拉玛星区的所有原住民马上识别出的过去文化信仰的所有遗存都会被抹除。被征召进入战团的Honourum原住民保留了当地传统中的一种特质：他们会在皮肤上仪式性的刺青。随着时间的推移，每位新星战士坚韧的皮肤就会成为他们事迹和生活的例证，使用标记和抽象化的图形来表明他们参与过的战斗与前往过的群星。战团中保有着一种共识：这些生动的图像能武装他们的灵魂，使其免受黑暗恶灵的侵害，而在他们死后，帝皇将会根据涂写在他们血肉上的事迹来判断他们的价值。

At their founding, the Novamarines swore an oath to defend the Segmentum Ultima from the enemies of Mankind, and in near eight thousand years have not wavered in this charge, and although they are not a purely fleet-based Chapter, they have often had cause to divide their warriors over vast areas of space in order to fulfil their duty. This wide dispersal over a vast patrol area has meant that the Chapter has seldom fought together as a whole. but while their strength is often divided, in the past this has meant that the Novamarines have been among the first to answer the call of fellow Spaco Marine Chapters in need, most notably in recent years fighting in defence of the world of Obsidia，home planet of tho Sable Swords Chapter. This intervention prevented Obsidia being overrun by the mutant hordes of the Twisted Convocation while the bulk of the Sable Swords were engaged fighting the Eldar Swordwind on Larical's Folly. This valiant rescue has resulted in the swearing of an solemn oath of eternal debt by the Sable Swords to the Novamarines, something never taken lightly by the Chapter, and the Sable Swords are but the latest in a long line of Adeptus Astartes who owe such debts to the Chapter. This deed and many others of similar mettle throughout their long history has established the Novamarines with an enviable reputation for honour and brotherhood which few Space Marine Chapters can equal.

在他们创建时，新星战士们发誓要保卫极限星域免受人类之敌的侵犯，他们在将近八千年的时间中从未动摇过。他们虽然并非纯粹的舰基战团，但他们经常会分出自己的战士跨越遥远的太空距离来完成他们的职责。由于要在广阔的巡逻区中进行大范围的分散，这意味这战团从未作为一个整体作战过。不过虽然他们的兵力经常分散，在过去这也意味着新星战士是第一批回应兄弟战团求援呼叫的战团，近来最为著名的行动就是防卫黑貂之剑战团的母星Obsidia世界。新星战士的支援使Obsidia免遭被扭曲教团的变种人部落攻陷的厄运——当时大部分黑貂之剑星际战士正在Larical's Folly世界上与艾尔达剑风大军（机仆：直接说贝耶坦方舟的部队不就行了…贝耶坦在灵族语里是剑刃之风的意思）交战。这次英勇的救援让黑貂之剑战团发誓他们永远欠下新星战士一笔债务——这是星际战士战团永远不会轻易发下的誓言，不过，黑貂之剑战团也仅仅是诸多向新星战士战团发下这种誓言的战团中最新的一个，这次义举和其他许多次相似的援助为新星战士战团得到了几乎没有战团能够匹敌的荣誉和兄弟情义，也因此建立起了令人钦佩的名誉。

Organisation

组织

The Novamarines Chapter is a proud member of the 2nd Founding, having been spilt off fully formed from the Ultramarines Legion after the Horus Heresy as part of Guilliman's reforms of the Space Marines. As a result they have long been amongst the most strict and dogmatic adherents of the Codox Astartes and Its tenets, and have rigorously enforced its organisational mandates despite their companies often being scattered across the Imperium for much of the Chapter's history.The Chapter has also taken great pride in maintaining their insignia and martial culture all but unchanged since their founding. Much of the Chapter's honorifics and titles are all but Indistinguishable from those employed to this day by the Ultramarines and the other defenders of Ultramar, although the Chapter soparated from them by a gulf of distance and entirely independent In operation and fealty. Another notable feature of the Novamarines' panoply of battle is that they hold many war-relics of ancient provenance in fully operable condition from the bygone era of Imperial might before the Great Heresy. These all but irreplaceable assets are known to include a full complement of Terminator armour with which to equip their 1st Company if needed, extensive arsenals of early pattern Predator. Vindicator and Whirlwind tanks and numerous Dreadnought frames which are maintained with great reverence by the Chapter forge on Honourum. Some of these potent weapons aro known to have fought in the battles of the Great Crusades, although their revered occupants have since changed many times down the millennia. 

新星战士战团是第二次建军中高傲的一员，他们是荷鲁斯叛乱后基里曼重组星际战士部队计划的一部分，完全从极限战士军团中分离出来。所以他们也是阿斯塔特圣典及其信条最为严格和教条的拥护者，虽然在战团历史上的大多数时候他们的连队经常被分派到帝国各处，但他们严格执行（圣典）组织指令。从他们建立开始，新星战士们就一成不变地保留了他们的徽章和军事文化，他们对此非常自豪。虽然新星战士与他们之间的距离遥不可及，而且在运作和效忠方面完全独立，但战团中的大部分敬语和头衔都与极限战士和其他保卫奥特拉玛的战团所使用的别无二致。新星战士战斗装备的另一个显著特征就是他们拥有很多处于完全运作状态的古老战争圣物，它们甚至可能出现于帝国在大远征之前的时期。所有这些不可替代的已知资产中包括在需要时能够装备整个第一连的全套终结者动力甲，以及大量的早期型号掠食者坦克。Honourum上的战团铸造厂中也保留了大量的维护者攻城坦克、旋风坦克和无畏机甲库存。已知这些强大武器当中的某些曾在大远征时期征战四方，不过在几千年的时间中，他们可敬的驾驶员也已经换过很多次了。