hh9节译：未生之父

The Unbegotten Father

Of all the tens of thousands of subjects that bled and died within the hidden laboratories of the Emperor, the names of all but a handful are unknown 。Most were, and remain, anonymous vessels used to nurture the first crude batches of gene-seed distilled from the Primarchs blood, test subjects for the earliest organs cultured from that seed and all were considered disposable in the cause of the Space Marines' genesis. Some few, however, served as something more: functional prototypes of the new breed of warrior the Emperor had envisaged for His conquest of not just Old Earth but the entire galaxy. They were likely not quite as their modern cousins - unrefined and ill-favoured but potent nonetheless - and served as the bridge between the unique power of the Primarchs and their sons; a formula by which the process could be repeated and perfected. The vast majority of these were born of the strain of gene-seed extracted from the first of the Primarchs, noted as it was for its stability, with a single warrior listed by name in the oldest of records salvaged from the depths of the Imperial Palace Archives: Abrasax, of the fourteenth Ghent intake.

在皇帝的隐藏实验室中，曾有数万个受试者流血并死亡，在这些人中，除了少数几个以外的所有人的名字都是未知的。他们大多曾是（现在仍然也是）用来培育从基因原体血液中提取出的第一批粗制基因种子的匿名容器，以及培养自基因种子的第一批人造器官的受试者，他们都被认为是星际战士起源过程中的一次性消耗品。不过，也有极个别人发挥了其他作用：帝皇为征服古老地球乃至整个银河而设想出的新型战士的功能原型。他们很可能与自己的现代表亲们并不相当——他们没有教养、不受欢迎，但却很有效，他们充当了原体和星际战士的独特力量之间的桥梁；这是一个过程可以被重复和完善的公式方案。这些战士中的绝大多数都是在被植入了提取自第一位基因原体的基因种子之后诞生的——该类型的基因种子因其稳定性而著称。而那些挽救自帝国宫档案馆深处的最为古老的记录资料中列出了单独一位战士的名字：奥巴瑟（机仆：艹，阿巴瑟…），根特家族的第十四名征召军。

No mention of this figure is to be found again in Imperial records, nor in the order of battle of any of the Legiones Astartes, save in one obscure text. A brief account, written by one of the councillors attending the Emperor during the Siege of the Imperial Palace, notes a warrior by the name of Abraxus Ghent, clad in unadorned power armour, who had served as one of the many guardians of that venerated building's vast halls and who fought as part of the rear guard that held the inner precincts against the Traitor hordes while the Emperor and his Primarchs led the assault on Horus' flagship. His death is not noted in the account, nor does he appear on the lengthy rolls of honour naming the veterans of that climactic battle, either living or dead.

我们未在帝国记录中发现对于此人的再次提及，也并未在任何阿斯塔特军团战斗序列中发现此人，这个名字被保存在一个模糊的文本中。在叛军围攻帝国宫期间，某位参见过帝皇的战争议会委员写下了一份简短的记述，其中记录了某位名为奥巴拉修斯 根特战士，这名战士身着朴素的动力甲，是保卫受人敬重的帝国宫的宽敞大厅的众多卫士之一，而且当帝皇和两位原体领导对于荷鲁斯旗舰的突袭时，他作为在内部区域抵御叛徒大军的后卫之一进行战斗。他的死亡并未被记录在这份记述档案中，他也并未出现在记录那些参与了这场高潮之战的老兵们的姓名的冗长荣誉名单上，无论生死。