IA9节译：咆哮狮鹫战团及其组织结构

CHAPTER NAME:THE HOWLING GRIFFONS

战团名称：咆哮狮鹫

FOUNDING:UNKNOWN [CIRCA m.33) 

组建时间：未知(大约是在第33千年)

CHAPTER WORLD:MANCORA (SOVEREIGN FEUDAL WORLD) 

母星:Mancora(君主制封建世界)

FORTRESS MONASTERY:THE PROUD EYRIE

要塞修道院：高傲鹰巢

GENESEED (PREDECESSOR):ULTRAMARINES 

基因种子来源（母团）：极限战士

KNOWN DESCENDANTS:NONE 

已知子团：无

The Howling Griffons Chapter are  staunch traditionalists amongst the Adeptus Astartes, hardened warriors who consider themselves first and foremost to be defenders of the Imperium and an Instrument of the Emperor's purpose. Their exact origins remain lost in the shadowed wars of the 33rd Millennium, but what can be said for certain is that they have always been a highly active Chapter, and there are low Space Marine Chapters of their age that can claim such an extensive series of campaign honours as they.

咆哮狮鹫战团是阿斯塔特修会中坚定的传统主义者，这群严肃的战士们认为自己首先且最重要的身份是帝国的保卫者以及实现帝皇目标的工具。他们确切的起源遗失在了第33千年阴影重重的战争中，但我们可以明确地说：他们通常是一个高度活跃的战团，很少有同龄的战团获得了像他们这样繁多的战斗荣誉。

In this distinguished roll of war and conflict, the Howling Griffons are notable for having been at the forefront of a great many battles and campaigns whose names have echoed down the ages, such as the defeat of the Black Crusades of Abbadon the Despoiler, and the overthrow of the Necroteks of Naath whose pocket-empire rose during the Plague of Unbelief. Their worthy record has continued into recent history and has included the casting down of the mad regent of Amar and their involvement in the bloody Trl-Unity Wars where they fought as one Chapter and bested the Orks on Gunnerdark, saving an entire campaign salient from being overrun by the xenos.

在这份显赫的战争和冲突记录中，咆哮狮鹫战团因为冲在某些影响深远的战役的前线而名声大噪，比如抵抗掠夺者阿巴顿的的黑色远征，在无信瘟疫时期推翻Naath的死灵术士们所建立的口袋帝国。他们值得尊敬的历史一直持续到了近代，其中包括推翻Amar世界疯狂摄政（的统治），以及参与血腥的Trl统一体战争——在这场战争中，整个战团全员参战，并在Gunnerdark世界上击败了兽人，此举拯救了整场战役的突出部，避免其被异形所攻占。

The Chapter is justly proud of its ability to engage almost continuously in conflict and fight the most bitterly contested campaigns, and is notably well-provided for in both arms and wargear. In order to maintain this advantage, the Chapter's extensive forges on their home world of Mancora tirelessly work to keep the Howling Griffons supplied and make good battlefield losses as they occur. Such is the enviable capacity of their armouries that they are not only able to keep pace with the Chapter's aggressive nature, but they are also able to manufacture and maintain some of the rarer Space Marine battle materiel, such as the Land Raider Prometheus and advanced Mark VIII Errant pattern power armour in noteworthy numbers.

该战团有能力近乎不间断地参与冲突，并能参与战事最为痛苦激烈的战役，他们也有理由为此而自豪。咆哮狮鹫在武器和战斗装备上都有很好的保障。为了维持该优势，其家园世界Mancora上的大量铸造厂无休无止地运作着，以此保持咆哮狮鹫的装备供应，并在战场损失出现时进行良好补充。咆哮狮鹫的武器库（生产）能力是如此令人羡慕，以至于他们不仅能满足战团的好战天性，而且能以显著的数量制造出某些更为罕见的星际战士军备，比如普罗米修斯型兰德掠夺者和先进的MK8游侠型动力甲。

Thanks in no small part to its glorious record, the Howling Griffons Chapter has gained the right and title to recruit its initiates from several different worlds in order to sustain a high level of Induction and attrition in its ranks, the most principal of these worlds being Mancora itself. This planet, whose overlordship lhe Chapter has long held, has been kept as an active pre-industrlallsed world divided between feudal and near-continuously warring city-slates -an arrangement which maintains a bias towards a heavily martial local culture and strong stock well-suited to the Chapter's recruiting needs.

咆哮狮鹫战团被授予了在多个不同世界征召新兵的权力，他们以此来维持程度较高的征兵数量并补充部队中的损耗，这在不小的程度上是因为该战团光荣的记录。

No description of the Howling Grillons Chapter however would be complete without acknowledging a dark shadow that has long fallen over the Chapter's otherwise glorious history, and this is their bloody vendetta against the being that would become the Daemon Prince Periclitor the Foresworn, and the Word Bearers Legion from which the vile entity sprang. The root cause of this enmity, which exceeds even that usually encountered between the Space Marines and their renegade kin, remains lost in the past. Scattered evidence exists that the Howling Griffons have specifically sought out the Word Bearers to do battle with on many occasions, and the Word Bearers likewise in their turn have targeted the Howling Griffons for attack. One of the blackest episodes in this history of bloody enmity was the ambush of the Howling Griffons Chapter Master's battle barge at Arios Point in 220.M38. Attacking in overwhelming force by ambush as the mighty ship voyaged back to Mancora to celebrate the fifth millennium anniversary of the Howling Griffons founding, the warband of the Chaos Lord Periclitor and his allies ravaged the warship and forced the survivors down to the surface of Arios Quintus in a series of fierce battles. Finding no refuge for respite on the barren world, and beset on all sides by Word Bearers and Night Lords Chaos Space Marines, degenerate mutants and summoned daemons, the Howling Griffons had no avenue of retreat and surrender was unthinkable, despite the mocking demands of their enemies to bend their knee to the Ruinous Powers. Instead the doomed company of Howling Griffons held faith and died to a man in a desperate last stand, accounting for hundreds of the enemy before the last of the Emperor's warriors fell.

但是，倘若不提及长期笼罩在咆哮狮鹫光辉历史上的黑暗阴影，那么对该战团的描述就是不完整的——那边是他们与恶魔王子“被弃者”佩里克利特（彼时，他还尚未升魔），以及来源于该邪恶实体的怀言者部队之间的血腥宿怨。双方间的敌意甚至超越了星际战士与其变节亲族们通常相遇时所产生仇怨，但其根源已经遗失在了过去。零散的证据表明：在很多情况中，咆哮狮鹫们都会专门找到怀言者来与之交战，而怀言者同样会反过来将咆哮狮鹫作为袭击目标。这段血腥仇杀历史中最黑暗的事件之一是怀言者在220.M38于Arios点区域对咆哮狮鹫战团长所乘坐战列母舰的伏击行动。在这艘庞大的舰船返回Mancora去庆祝咆哮狮鹫建团第五千周年纪念日的路上，混沌领主佩里克利特的战帮与他们的盟友以压倒性力量对其发动了伏击，他们蹂躏了这艘战舰，并在一系列的激烈战斗中迫使幸存者们降落到Arios Quintus 世界的地表。咆哮狮鹫们在这个荒凉的世界上找不到可供喘息的避难所，而且还从四面八方遭到怀言者与午夜领主混沌星际战士们、堕落变种人和被召唤来的恶魔的围攻。敌人嘲弄地要求他们向毁灭大能屈膝臣服，他们没有退路，投降（的后果）也是不可想象的。但这支注定被毁灭的咆哮狮鹫连队坚定了信仰，在绝望的最后坚守中战死到最后一人。在最后一位帝皇的战士倒下之前，咆哮狮鹫们杀死了数以百计的敌人。

The Chapter later recovered the desecrated body of its master, Oriando Furioso, impaled on the front of a Thunderhawk drifting in orbit of the planet a month later. This defeat and desecration was a bitter blow, for not only had they lost their revered master at their enemies' hands, but along with him also much of their veteran 1st Company, their 8m Company and a venerable battle barge that had served the Howling Griffons in countless battles over a thousand years. For this grievous wound to the Chapter's honour, every Howling Griffon that takes up his place as a full battle-brother swears an oath to avenge those that fell at Arios whenever able, and the Howling Griffons have sworn to destroy Periclilor whatever the cost, even though the Chaos Warlord's many atrocities saw him elevated to the ranks of daemonhood some millennia after the Arios attack. If one day the Chapter must make war in the very depths of hell to have their revenge for their fallen brethren, they will not baulk at the task.

战团在一个月后发现了战团长奥里安多 弗里奥索遭到亵渎的尸体——他被刺穿后钉在一艘漂浮于星球轨道上的雷鹰炮艇的前部。这场失败和受辱是痛苦的一击，因为死在敌人手中的不仅有可敬的战团长，还有经验丰富的第1连中的很多老兵、第8连队和一艘可敬的战列母舰——在其服务于咆哮狮鹫的一千多年中，这艘战舰参加过无数战斗。战团的荣誉受到了严重损伤，所以（之后）每一位完全成为战斗修士的咆哮狮鹫都发誓要在任何可以做到的时候为Arios上的逝者们报仇。咆哮狮鹫们也发誓要不惜一切代价毁灭佩里克利特，即便这名混沌军阀的诸多暴行已经令他在Arios袭击行动的数千年之后升格为了恶魔。倘若有一天，该战团要前往地狱最深处发起战争来为逝去的兄弟们报仇，他们也不会退缩。

Organisation

组织结构

The Howling Griffons are a Chapter organised along the strict lines of the Codex Astartes, seeing it not so much as holy writ but simply as the finest military treatise ever written. To them it is a work penned by the foremost of the Emperor's Primarchs, and a volume whose wisdom on matters of warcraft has never been bettered. As such the Chapter strives to remain within its tenets, keeping to its division of companies and disposition wherever possible. As avowed generalists, the Chapter has a policy of maintaining an even as possible ability in the many types of warfare the Codex identifies, from armoured assault to planetary strike operations to boarding actions, and insists that all battle-brothers master each discipline in turn as the Codex dictates. Competition within the Chapter for excellence is strong, but is never allowed to spill over into discord.

咆哮狮鹫是一个按照阿斯塔特圣典的严格教条组织起来的战团，在他们看来，圣典与其说是神圣的文集，不如说是有史以来最好的军事著作。对咆哮狮鹫们而言，这是一本由帝皇麾下最重要的原体所撰写的著作，书中关于战争的智慧从未被超越过。因此该战团努力遵循圣典的信条，在任何可能的情况下都遵守圣典的连队分配和（兵力装备）配置。作为公认的全才，该战团的原则是：尽可能让自己有能力进行圣典中确认的诸多类型战争，从装甲突袭到行星突击再到跳帮行动都包含在内，而且他们坚持认为所有战斗修士都要按照法典的规定轮流掌握每一种战术信条。在战团内部有着追求卓越的激烈竞争，但这种竞争绝不被允许发展成不和。

Also of note is the Chapter's tradition of powerful battle-psykers in its ranks. This is in no small part due to their primary source of initiates, as Mancora's population is known to have a higher than average incidence of psyker-births. This is a factor which has contributed to a strong Chapter Librarium down the centuries, with the Howling Griffons, own Codicers taking an active role in policing Mancora's people and weeding out those whose unregulated or weak psychic talent would leave them open to the touch of the Warp.

同样值得注意的是：该战团有在部队中使用强大战斗灵能者的传统。这在不小的程度上与他们新兵的主要来源相关：Mancora人口中灵能者的出生比例高于正常水平。该因素促使咆哮狮鹫战团在几个世纪后形成了庞大的智库团，而且咆哮狮鹫的典记员们也积极监管着Mancora的人民，并且清除掉那些灵能天赋不受管制或较弱的人们——此类灵能者抵御不了亚空间的触碰。