《MUNITORUM》节译：动力拳

A power fist is a formidable close combat weapon capable of pulverising armour, flesh and bone with horrific ease. Taking the form of a heavy servo-powered gauntlet, it is commonly worn as part of a suit of power armour, replacing the ceramite plates from forearm to fist. The real killing might of a power fist comes not from its piston-enhanced grip, though this alone could crush a man’s helmet and the skull within, but rather the disruption field that surrounds it. This field tears into matter at a molecular level and anything that remains for more than a moment within its grip is ripped apart in the most appalling fashion.

动力拳是一种可畏的近战武器，能极为轻易地粉碎装甲、肉体和骨骼。它的形态是一只由伺服装置提供动力的沉重拳套，使用者通常会用其替换从前臂到拳头的陶钢板甲，将之用作动力甲的组成部分。动力拳真正的杀伤力并非来自于其用活塞（马达）增强过的握力——尽管单靠这一项也能捏碎一个人的头盔和里面的头颅，而是来自包绕着拳套的崩解力场。这种力场能在分子层面上撕裂物质，任何被动力拳握在掌中超过片刻的事物都会被以最可怕的方式裂解开。

A Heroic Weapon

英雄武器

As is befitting for such a potent and fearsome weapon, use of the power fist is limited to such individuals as honoured Space Marine captains and chapter commanders. Sometimes, a sergeant might be rewarded with carrying one of these mighty weapons into battle, blessed by its brutal might so that he might better vanquish the enemies of the God-Emperor. As with many weapons of this ilk created by the Imperium, wealthy Imperial Guard officers, vain planetary commanders and stoic commissars carry lesser versions. However, when it comes to their efficacy, they are as a rusty knife to a well-honed blade.

为了与这样一件强大且可怕的武器相称，动力拳的仅限于诸如可敬的星际战士连长和战团指挥官之类的人物使用。某些时候，一位军士也会被给予在战斗中使用这样一件强大的武器（的权力）以资奖励，而在动力拳残酷力量的祝福下，他可能会更好地消灭神皇之敌。就像帝国制造的许多这类武器那样，富有的帝国卫队军官、自负的行星指挥官和坚忍的政委们也使用着轻量化的版本。然而，这两种动力拳的功效区别就是生锈的刀片与磨锋利的刀刃之间的区别

This difference was evident during the battle for Tartarus Hive on Armageddon. The Steel Legion were struggling to hold back the Ork hordes of Warboss Ghazghkull, when Space Marines of the Blood Angels Chapter counter-attacked the aliens. Men stood mute witness as the red-armoured giants fell upon the foe with a horrific rage. In the midst of the carnage, Blood Angels Sergeant Kyron demonstrated the might of the power fist, single-handedly destroying a lumbering Ork Battlewagon covered in ramshackle armour and festooned with cannons. Thrusting his fist into the engine block of the machine, Kyron ripped it apart in an arcing shower of energy and flame.

在阿玛吉顿世界塔尔塔罗斯巢都之战中，它们间的差异是明显的。当圣血天使战团的星际战士们向异星人们发起反击时，钢铁军团正在努力顶住战争老大碎骨者麾下欧克兽群的进攻。凡人们沉默地看着红甲巨人们带着可怕的怒意攻向敌人。在这场屠杀中，圣血天使的凯隆军士展示了动力拳的威力，他独自一人便摧毁了一辆笨重的兽人战争货车——其上覆盖着摇摇欲坠的装甲并安装了火炮。凯隆用动力拳砸中了那台机器的引擎区，在一阵能量与烈焰的电弧流中将之撕开。

Fixed to the mighty arm of a Space Marine, a power fist can punch through almost any defence, even hammering through the side of tanks to tear out the crew. Armed with a power fist, a battle-brother is deadly to anything on the battlefield, easily able to to crush foes within his grip. Equally, fortifications are little defence against an assault from a power fist-armed Space Marine, the coruscating gauntlet able to peel back plasteel bulkheads and batter down ferrocrete bunkers.

在被固定到星际战士的强壮手臂上后，动力拳能够击穿几乎任何防御，甚至能砸穿坦克的侧面（车体）来拖出里面的乘员。装备了动力拳的战斗修士对战场上的一切都是致命的，他通过抓握便能轻松捏碎敌人。同样，防御工事在面对装备了动力拳的战斗修士的进攻时也几乎毫无防御可言，这种闪闪发光的拳套能够剥开塑钢舱壁，砸烂铁凝土掩体。

The only drawback of a power fist, apart from the strength required to wield it, is that it remains a slow and prodigious weapon to use. As the disruption field pushes back against the air and the power armour struggles to bear the weight of the fist, its hydraulics whine and hiss. In the time it takes even a Space Marine to raise the weapon for a strike, an enemy with a blade can dart in and land a blow. In a whirling and chaotic melee, a Space Marine must endure dozens of cuts, slashes and thrusts as he methodically pulverises his foes with crippling punches and backhanded strikes.

除了使用其所需的力量之外，动力拳唯一的缺点便是其使用起来缓慢且巨大（沉重）。当崩解力场穿过空气受到反冲，动力甲努力承受拳套的重量时，动力拳的液压装置会发出吱嘎声和嘶嘶声。在一名星际战士举起这种武器进行攻击的时间段内，手持刀剑的敌人就可以冲过来刺出一击。在混战中，当一名星际战士用强悍的拳击和反手进攻有条不紊砸碎敌人们时，他也要承受数十次劈砍和戳刺。

It is perhaps due to the cumbersome and unwieldy nature of the power fist that the Adeptus Astartes are among the few soldiers of the Imperium to use it in high numbers. The protection afforded by power armour and the enhanced frame of a Space Marine means he is able to take the punishment before readying a killing blow. Nethertheless, the speed of the weapon is balanced against the incredible damage it can cause, and many Space Marine commanders gladly accept the sacrifice of speed if it means they only need to strike once.

或许是因为动力拳的笨重且难以驾驭，阿斯塔特修会是帝国中极少数大量使用此类武器的部队。动力甲提供的保护和星际战士们强化过的躯体意味着他们能够在准备挥出致命一击之前承受敌人的反击伤害。无论如何，这种武器的攻速都中和了其能造成的难以置信伤害，很多星际战士指挥官也高兴地接受了对于速度的牺牲——毕竟他们只需进攻一次。

Symbol of the Space Marines

星际战士的标志

Crafted on forge worlds and in the depths of Space Marine fortress monasteries, each power fist is unique to the Tech-Priest or Techmarine who created it. Hours of painstaking work based on millennia-old templates and designs go into fashioning the weapons from the rare components required to grant the fist its singular strength. So difficult are some of the parts to produce, especially the shielded containment chambers of the power core and the web of field emitters arrayed across the fist’s fingers, that they are often scavenged from older weapons.

每套动力拳都是在铸造世界和星际战士要塞修道院的深处制造而成的，对于铸造它们的技术神甫和技术军士而言，它们都是独一无二的。铸造者们要基于流传千年之久的模板和设计，耗费数个小时的艰苦劳作，使用赋予动力拳独特力量所需的稀有组件，才能造出这样的武器。某些部分极其难以生产，尤其是能量核心的防护安置舱和排列在动力拳指套各处的力场发射器网络，这些组件通常是从陈旧的武器中回收而来。

Many rare and exquisite examples of the power fist exist within the ranks of the Adeptus Astartes, such as the paired weapons of Marneus Calgar, the Gauntlets of Ultramar. These ancient weapons served the Chapter Master during the Battle for Macragge, where they split the skulls and spines of countless Tyranid bio-horrors. Pedro Kantor, Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists, also famously wields a power fist. Painted crimson as an icon of his Chapter, Pedro put this sacred weapon to terrible use during the Rynn’s World campaign, where he crushed the invading Orks of Waaagh! Snagrod.

阿斯塔特修会中存在着很多罕见且精致的动力拳，比如马里乌斯 卡尔加的那对武器——奥特拉玛之拳，这位战团长在马库拉格之战中便用这对古老的武器撕裂了无数泰伦恶物的头颅和脊柱。绯红之拳战团长佩德罗 坎托也绝妙地使用着一只动力拳。佩德罗将这件武器按照战团的徽章涂成了绯红色，在他击碎斯纳格罗德的Waaagh!中来犯兽人的瑞恩世界战役中，他将这件神圣的武器发挥出了可怕的用途。

A well maintained power fist is a near priceless weapon to its owner, carefully cared for and stored with the reverence reserved for a great treasure. This respect for the weapon goes beyond simple superstition and matters of honour, and has as much to do with the impressive combat capabilities the gauntlet possesses. A Space Marine is wise to respect his weapons, lest they fail him in battle – this is especially true of one as deadly as the power fist.

对其拥有者而言，一只维护良好的动力拳是一件近乎无价的武器，他们会以对待珍宝的敬畏之心精心照料和保存动力拳。他们对于这种武器的敬意超脱了简单的迷信和荣誉感，而是与拳套那令人印象深刻的战斗能力有莫大的关系。一名星际战士会明智地尊敬自己的武器，以免它们令自己在战斗中失败——在像动力拳这样致命的武器上尤为如此。