HH3节译：钢铁勇士军团中的兄弟会

There existed in the ranks of the Iron Warriors, a series of long-standing warrior societies that existed outside of the Legions military order and command structure, and which were seldom become known to outsiders. By some accounts these were so firmly entrenched they resisted the outside and corrosive influence of Horus' Warrior Lodges, and by other accounts became the vector of the Legion's corruption.

在钢铁勇士的部队中，存在着一系列（历史）悠久的战士团体，它们独立于军团军事序列和指挥结构之外，且几乎从未被外人知晓过。从某些叙述报告来看，这些组织极其根深蒂固，以至于（让第四军团）抵挡住了荷鲁斯战士结社的腐化性外部影响；但从其他叙述报告来看，这些兄弟会就是（传播）军团腐化的载体。

The Dodekatheon: The Brethren of Stone

多徳卡瑟昂分会：磐岩兄弟会

The oldest, most numerous and influential of the warrior societies of the IVh Legion, the Brethren of Stone was an order of masons and strategists whose origins predated the Legion's connection to Perturabo and Olympia. Originating first as a tactical symposium in the style of the Warcaste Metisraad culture of Terra, it focused on siege craft as well as the field of military architecture. Upon Perturabo's re-joining with the Legion, the Primarch massively expanded the organisation, renaming it as the Dodekatheon after the cultural and political traditions of Olympia. The Olympian Dodekatheon was a cyclical gathering of the twelve greatest Tyrant households of Olympia for the purposes of resolving disputes and forging allegiances. It also featured extensive wargames and tournaments between the households present, and the muster of artisans and warriors, who would show off their skills either to the glory of their patrons or in the hopes of employment.

在第四军团的战士团体中，磐岩兄弟会是最古老、人数最多且最具影响力的，它由工匠和战略家们组成，起源能追溯到军团与原体和奥林匹亚世界汇合之前。该兄弟会最初起源于泰拉Metisraad战争氏族文化风格的战术研讨会，专注于攻城战和军事工程建筑学。一经与自己的军团团聚，佩图拉博便大规模拓展该团体的组织规模，并按照奥林匹亚的文化政治习俗将之重新命名为“多徳卡瑟昂”。奥林匹亚式的多徳卡瑟昂，是星球上十二个最伟大僭主家族的周期性聚会，其目的是解决分歧和组建联盟。聚会活动也包括参会家族之间的大量战争游戏和锦标比武，工匠和战士们也会聚集起来，炫耀自己的技艺——目的要么是为自己的赞助者夺得荣誉，要么是希望得到聘用。

The Legion's Dodekatheon took on these trappings, becoming over time a venue of contest and exchange for its foremost warriors, officers, builders and strategists——met without rank and on an equal footing——to test their mettle and further their learning. It was where its members fought and re-fought bloodless wars in simulation, unveiled new designs, poured over battle reports and military intelligence, and vied for position and the respect of their peers and their Primarch. Although Perturabo enforced rigid discipline in his Legion and would countenance no disruption due to vendetta, the Dodekatheon served as a "safety valve" for the Legions internal rivalries as much as an academy of war. In theory the Dodekatheon was open to all Iron Warriors, but in practice only those who had distinguished themselves in some way attended, others did not, rather than risk the disfavour of their Primarch.

军团多徳卡瑟昂会议也继承了这些衣钵，而且随着时间推移，它成为了军团中最重要的战士、军官、建造者和战略家们进行竞赛和交流的场所；成员们不分军衔，地位平等，聚集起来是为了测试自己的毅力，并进一步学习技艺。他们在模拟战争中反复进行不流血的战斗，公布新的（武器）设计，分享大量的战斗报告和军事情报，竞争职位和同伴与原体的尊重。虽然佩图拉博在自己的军团中施行严苛死板的纪律，也不想让家族世仇在军团中造成混乱，但多徳卡瑟昂分会也如同战争学院一样，充当着军团内部争斗的“安全阀”。理论上，多徳卡瑟昂向所有钢铁勇士开放；但在实际中，只有那些表现卓越的人们才会参加，其他人则不会，因为他们不想惹得原体不悦。

The Apolakron: The Brethren of Steel 

阿伯拉克隆分会：坚铁兄弟会

Formed as a smaller shadow organisation which operated in many ways as a division of the larger Dodekatheon, the Apolakron's particular focus was on the machine-craft of Battle-automata, both in their construction and maintenance, and their employment in war. It existed in an uneasy alliance with the Mechanicum, save those Tech-Priests who had long-served the Iron Warriors directly, and was viewed with particular suspicion by elements of the Legio Cybernetica, who saw it not as a kindred group, but rather a rival to their monopoly on the arcane knowledge they held.

阿伯拉克隆分会是一个阴影中的小型组织，它在很多方面都是作为更大型的多徳卡瑟昂分会的一个分支进行运作。他们有着独特的关注项目——自动机兵的建造、维护与战争部署。除了那些直接长期服务于钢铁勇士军团的技术神甫，他们与机械神教（其他成员）之间存在着不稳定的同盟关系。智控军团的成员们对阿伯拉克隆分会抱有怀疑，后者并非被他们视为相似的团体，而是争夺自己对于手中奥秘知识垄断权的对手。

The Kheledakos: The Brethren of Cold

赫勒达考斯分会：冷空兄弟会

Owing its origins to the aftermath of the Legion's early campaigns under Perturabo, the Kheledakos, although led and commanded by Legiones Astartes, also encompassed the senior officers and Mechanicum magos, enginseers and shipwrights who maintained and crewed the Legion's warships. Its base of operations was the Black Citadel,Olympias principal and most heavily fortified orbital shipyard, and void warfare and the construction and design of warships and assault craft were its obsession.

赫勒达考斯分会起源于佩图拉博早期领导下的军团战役之后，尽管它由阿斯塔特军团战士领导和指挥，但也包括了（凡人）高级军官、机械神教贤者、引擎士和负责维护与驾驶军团战舰的船工们。该兄弟会的行动基地是“黑色堡垒”——奥林匹亚世界要塞化程度最高的主要轨道造船厂，其成员们痴迷于虚空战争以及战舰和突击艇的设计建造。

The Lyssatra: The Brethren of Thunder

利萨特拉分会：雷霆兄弟会

The most obscure and cult-like of the Legion's warrior societies was the Lyssatra, known as the Brethren of Thunder or most disparagingly in the Legion as the 'burned men'. It was something of a pariah group whose members contained some of the Legion's more unhinged and war-brutalised gun-crafters, weapon smiths and ordnancers. Their obsession was creating destruction and devastation, far beyond what even the rest of the Legion generally considered sane or practicable, and were darkly rumoured to have had truck with strange occult ideology and xeno-tech in secret long before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy.

利萨特拉分会是军团战士团体中最鲜为人知，也最类似于教派的一个；他们被称为“雷霆兄弟会”，军团中则对他们冠以最轻蔑称呼“受焚者”。该兄弟会是由被遗弃者组成的团体，其成员包括军团中某些更为精神错乱且饱受战火摧残的枪炮工匠、武器铁匠和炮兵。他们痴迷于毁灭和破坏，且程度远远超出了军团其他成员普遍认为的理智或可行的范围；而早在荷鲁斯叛乱爆发很久之前，就有险恶的传言声称，其在背地里与诡异的神秘主义意识形态和异形科技有关。