八版星际战士圣典节译：绯红之拳战团

CRIMSON FISTS

绯红之拳

Until recently, the Crimson Fists Chapter was on the edge of extinction.Their fortress monastery was destroyed and their numbers all but obliterated when Waaagh! Snagrod descended on their Chapter Planet of Rynn’s World.Yet the Crimson Fists fought on,bearing the blows of a  cruel fate with a stoicism that has become legend.Even amongst the elite ranks of the Space Marines, the Crimson Fists are held as peerless warriors who have been hardened in the most terrible and hopeless battles.

直到最近，绯红之拳战团都处于灭绝的边缘。当兽人军阀斯纳哥罗德的Waaagh!降临到他们的母星瑞恩世界时，他们的要塞修道院被摧毁，他们的成员几乎灭绝。然而绯红之拳们继续战斗，他们靠着已经成为传奇的忍耐力忍受着残酷命运的猛击。哪怕是在星际战士的精英部队中，绯红之拳也被视为是在最恶劣与无望的战斗中变强的无可匹敌的战士。

DORN’S SUCCESSORS

多恩的继承者

A Second Founding successor of the Imperial Fists, the Crimson Fists share the same patrician bearing as their Primarch. After their creation in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy,they struck out to forge a destiny all their own, and over the next ten millennia, they have carved their name in the lists of the Imperium’s greatest protectors, adhering rigidly to the precepts of the Codex Astartes and proudly maintaining the honour and legacy of Rogal Dorn.

绯红之拳战团是成立于第二次建军的帝国之拳子团，他们也分享了原体那高贵的耐性。他们荷鲁斯叛乱结束后被创建，之后他们独自外出去塑造属于自己的命运。在后来的十个千年中，他们名列于帝国最伟大的保护者们当中，他们严格遵守阿斯塔特圣典的戒律，而且也自豪地保有着多恩的荣耀与遗产。

Through out the Chapter’s long and glorious history,the Crimson Fists have become noted for their expertise in fighting the many alien monstrosities that assail the Imperium, in particular the Orks. Though they originated as a fleet-based Chapter, the Crimson Fists have become well-established as defenders of the Loki Sector in Segmentum Tempestus. There are countless Ork empires in the region, and although they were beaten back and held down for many millennia, the greenskins at last had their day. It was the greatest of the Ork invasions that revealed the true character of the Crimson Fists during the darkest epoch in the Chapter’s history.

在其漫长而光荣的历史中，绯红之拳战团因擅长对抗袭扰帝国的众多外星怪物——尤其是欧克兽人而著称。虽然他们最初是一个舰基战团，但绯红之拳战团已经成为了风暴星域中Loki星区公认的保卫者。该区域中有无数的兽人帝国，尽管绿皮人被击退并压制了数千年，但它们终于还是迎来了自己的时代。而在战团历史上最黑暗的时期，也正是规模最大的一次兽人入侵揭示出了绯红之拳的真实性格。

THE RYNN’S WORLD INCIDENT

瑞恩世界入侵战

Following the Crimson Fists’ successes during the Voltigern Crusade,the High Lords of Terra granted the Chapter full feudal rights to Rynn’s World.Operating from their newly built fortress  monastery, the Crimson Fists launched a brutal campaign that shattered the Ork forces across the Loki Sector, fracturing the powerful empires into hundreds of disparate,rival warbandsthat lacked the power to threaten the sector.

当绯红之拳于Voltigern远征中取得胜利之后，泰拉高领主们赐予了他们对于瑞恩世界的完整封建（统治）权。绯红之拳们从自己新建成的要塞修道院出发，发动了一场残酷的战役，重创了Loki星区各处的兽人势力。强悍的兽人帝国分裂为了数百个迥乎不同且相互竞争的战帮，它们现在缺乏威胁星区（安全）的力量。

In the closing stages of the 41st Millennium, the Ork Warlord Snagrod,arch-arsonist of Charadon,launched a massive Waaagh! that united the warring factions bordering the Loki Sector.Pedro Kantor, the Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists, recalled all of his forces to Rynn’sWorld in preparation for a counter-attack,but no sooner had the companies assembled than Waaagh! Snagrod reached the Rynn System.

在第41个千年的末期，“Charadon世界的纵火狂徒”，兽人军阀斯纳哥罗德发动了一场大规模的Waaagh! ，它统一了位于Loki星区边境的所有交战中的兽人派系。绯红之拳战团长佩德罗 坎托召集麾下的所有部队返回瑞恩世界以准备反击，但在各连队集结起来不久，斯纳哥罗德的Waaagh! 便抵达了瑞恩星系。

The Chapter’s orbital defences annihilated the initial waves of Ork Roks, Kroozers, and Bomma waves. Then, tragedy struck when one of the planet’s missile guidance systems suffered a catastrophic failure, and a single plasma warhead crashed into the Crimson Fists’ own fortress monastery.Somehow,the missile penetrated the fortress monastery’s void shields and armoured walls to detonate right in the heart of the structure’s vast and ancient arsenal.

战团的轨道防御系统歼灭了第一波兽人巨岩、巡洋舰和胡炸机。之后，悲剧发生了：星球上射出的某发导弹的导航系统遭遇了灾难性的失误，一枚电浆弹头的导弹撞向了绯红之拳自己的要塞修道院。出于某些原因，这枚导弹穿透了要塞修道院的虚空盾和装甲护墙，恰好在这座构造物的庞大且古老的军备库的核心处发生了爆炸。

The fortress monastery, and the mountain upon which it stood, were both atomised in a heartbeat. Six full companies,over half the entire Chapter, were slain in an instant. Only a handful of Space Marines who,by chance,had been manning the mountain’s outermost perimeter-defences, including Chapter Master Kantor, escaped the full brunt of the devastating explosion. Those few survivors managed to battle across the planet through overwhelming numbers of Orks to reach the world’s besieged capital: New  Rynn City. There, they reunited with the battered remnants of the Chapter’s few remaining companies,who were both shocked and buoyed to find their Chapter Master yet lived.

在一个心跳的时间里，要塞修道院和她坐落于其上的山脉都被炸得粉碎。六个完整的连队——战团中超过半数的兵力瞬间灰飞烟灭。只有少数星际战士碰巧躲过了这次毁灭性爆炸的正面冲击，其中也包括战团长坎托——他们当时正在位于山脉最外缘的防御工事中作战。这批极少数的幸存者一路激战，从拥有压倒性数量的兽人群中撕开一条道路，成功抵达了这个世界被围困的首府：新瑞恩城。他们在这里与战团少数残存连队的残军汇合——当发现自己的战团长还活着时，这些饱经战火摧残的战士们感到惊讶而振奋。

The Siege of New Rynn City itself was to grind  on for eighteen months,but through the inspired leadership of Pedro Kantor,and with the heroic sacrifice of scores of Crimson Fists,the Imperium won out against impossible odds. Wave upon wave of Orks crashed against Kantor’s lines,but the Space Marines never gave into despair.Countless green skins were brought down amongst a chorus of detonating bolt rounds, flesh-ripping flak explosions and roaring firestorms of promethium. When the Crimson Fists ran out of ammunition,the Orks fell instead beneath chainblades, combat knives and ceramite-clad fists.The greenskin shacked and slew as best they could,but still the Crimson Fists held firm.In the face of such warriors as the defenders of New Rynn City,Snagrod’s Orks could not prevail.The greenskins were finally repulsed from Rynn’s World–but the damage had been done. 

兽人对于新瑞恩城的围攻将会持续十八个月，但通过佩德罗 坎托振奋人心的领导与数十位绯红之拳战士的英勇牺牲，帝国战胜了不可能的困境。一波又一波的兽人向着坎托的防线发起猛冲，但星际战士们从未陷入绝望。齐射的爆矢弹、撕裂皮肉的爆炸弹和咆哮着的钷素烈火风暴杀死了无数绿皮异形。当绯红之拳们耗尽弹药后，他们会用链锯刃、战斗刀和包覆着陶钢的拳头来杀死兽人。绿皮们尽其所能地冲锋进攻，但绯红之拳们还是牢固地守住了阵线。面对着由如此勇猛的战士们所保卫的新瑞恩城，斯纳哥罗德的兽人部队无法取胜。绿皮们最终被逐出了瑞恩世界——但伤害已经被造成了。

BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED

遍身鲜血然永不屈服

Following the losses of the Rynn’s World campaign, the Crimson Fists found themselves clinging precariously to existence. The Crimson Fists’ future lay with a handful of Space Marines, their lives to be expended for greater rewards than the salving of personal pride or the pursuit of vengeance, even against the despised race of Orks who brought the Chapter to its knees. The Crimson Fists began recruiting additional brethren from Rynn’s World and across the entire Loki Sector,but the process could not be rushed.Further xenos attacks,the coming of the Great Rift and the resultant waves of Daemon invasions were met with the same stern resolve. One by one the battered companies saw their numbers dwindle, but still they fought on. When the Indomitus Crusade entered orbit, they brought more than just reinforcements to the Crimson Fists– they brought a future. From Archmagos Cawl’s freighter-hulk,a new generation of Crimson Fists joined the fray. 

在经受过瑞恩世界战役的损失之后，绯红之拳战团发现自己的存续岌岌可危。战团的未来掌握在了少量的星际战士手中，他们的生命必须被用于换取某些更大的回报，而非浪费在挽救个人骄傲或寻求复仇上——哪怕是用于对抗令战团遭受重创的可鄙兽人族群上。绯红之拳开始从瑞恩世界和整个Loki星区各处征召新的兄弟，但这一过程不能操之过急。进一步的异形入侵、大裂隙的形成和由此造成的恶魔入侵也要以同样坚定的决心来应对。每个遭受了重创的连队都看到了自己人数的减少，但他们仍在奋战。但当不屈远征的大军抵达了瑞恩世界的轨道时，他们为绯红之拳带来的不仅是增援——被一并带到的还有未来。新一代的绯红之拳战士们走出了大贤者考尔的巨型运输船，加入到了战斗当中。