HH5节译：泰坦军团
One of the most ancient pillars of the Mechanicum, the Collegia Titanica operates the mighty Titans, each a bipedal metal giant armed with weapons able to level entire districts, and protected by armour and void shields capable of shrugging off attacks from all but the heaviest of foes. Though few in number compared to the uncountable hosts of the Great Crusade, the Titan Legions fought at the forefront of the Imperium's expansion, carrying the light of Unification to the benighted worlds of Mankind.
泰坦修会是机械神教最古老的支柱之一，它们运行着泰坦，这些双足行走的金属巨物每一台都装备了能够夷平整个区域的武器，而且由装甲和虚空盾保护着——除了最强大的敌人之外，它们毫不在意（其他）所有敌人的进攻。相比于大远征中的无数部队，泰坦军团数量稀少，但他们也征战在帝国拓张的前沿，将统一的光芒带给各个愚昧落后的人类世界。
The so-called 'god-engines' of the Titan Legions have served Mankind since long before the Age of Strife, their origins lost in the Dark Age of Technology. The Legios themselves came into being on Mars during the anarchy of Old Night, when the fabled "Triad Ferrum Morgulus" was established. This trio of nascent Orders consisted of the Legio Tempestus, Legio Mortis and Legio Ignatum, and while all three stood against the horrors of Old Night, from ravening xenos to thinking-machine aberrations, they were just as equally likely to fight one another for each served the interests of its home Forge above all else, so that throughout the long age of anarchy, rivalries were established that much later would bear bitter fruit indeed.
早在纷争纪元很久之前，泰坦军团中所谓的“神之引擎”便已经服务于人类，它们的起源遗失在了黑暗科技时代中。军团是在旧夜的混乱中诞生于火星，出现于“三支钢铁神军”被组建之时。组成这一新生团体的三巨头是：风暴军团、死亡军团和火蜂军团。从贪婪劫掠的异形到思维机器所引发的异常现象，三个军团都在抵抗着旧夜中的恐怖之物；但由于每支军团都认为维护自己家园铸炉的利益高于其他一切，他们可能也同样会彼此争斗。所以这三个军团在漫长的混乱年代中建立起了（彼此）竞争的关系，而这种关系事实上会在很久之后结出苦果。
The Lord of Terra
泰拉之主
When the Emperor of Mankind came to the Red Planet, having brought unity to war-shattered Ancient Terra, upon Olympus Mons the Lords of the Red Planet ascended to their place alongside the Imperium of Man, but the Mechanicum would ever remain an empire within an empire, for machine domains other than Mars existed across the galaxy and would in time swear fealty to the Fabricator-general of Mars. In recognition of the fact that the Unification of all humanity could not be achieved without the technological and scientific aid of the Mechanicum, Mars became an ally to Terra rather than her subject, and so began the Great Crusade.
在已经统一了被战争严重破坏的古泰拉后，人类帝皇来到了红色星球。在奥林匹斯山上，红星的领主们登上了自己在人类帝国中的宝座；但机械神教永远都是人类帝国中的另一个（独立的）次级帝国，因为除火星之外的机械神教领地分布于银河系各处，它们也迟早要效忠于火星铸造将军。火星也意识到一个事实：没有机械神教在科学方面的援助，帝皇统一全人类的目标就无法实现；所以它成为了泰拉的盟友而非臣下，大远征由此开始。
As the Emperor's hosts pushed ever outwards into the galaxy, casting back the horrors that had gripped the scattered human worlds for so many long centuries, the Titan Legions marched with them. Fighting alongside the trans-human Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes, the elite void-soldiers of the Solar Auxilia and numerous other forces in the rapidly expanding Excertus Imperialis, the Titan Orders came upon other planets dominated by their long-lost kin, Forge Worlds not unlike Mars and ruled by similar techno-theocracies. A few refused to acknowledge the primacy of the Red Planet and had to be forced to submit, or in some cases were even destroyed. The majority however knew of the Red Planet through the few fragments of archive data and echoes of legend which had managed to survive the Age of Strife, and willingly took their place in the new order.
随着帝皇的军队冲出泰拉向银河挺进，击退了那些在诸多漫长世纪中掌控着四分五裂人类世界的恐怖恶物，泰坦军团也与他们同行。泰坦修会与阿斯塔特修会的超人星际战士、太阳军的精锐虚空士兵和快速拓张的帝国辅助军中的无数其他部队并肩奋战，他们踏足了自己长期失散的族亲所统治的其他星球，还有那些虽不同于火星、但也别类似的科技神权（政体）所统治的铸造世界。其中有少数世界拒绝承认红色星球（在机械神教中）至高无上的权力地位，他们要么被迫臣服，要么就是在某些情况中被毁灭。但大部分铸造世界都通过在纷争纪元中幸存下来的少量档案数据碎片和传说得知了红星（的存在），也心甘情愿地加入新秩序。
The Might of the Titan Legions
泰坦军团之力
The greatest of the newly-discovered Forge Worlds were found to host their own Titan Orders, and while many had developed their own unique and sometimes idiosyncratic cultures, others were found to have organised themselves along a similar line to the original Martian Triad Ferrum Morgulus, suggesting some underlying machine principle or pattern at work, which the Lords of Mars looked upon and found pleasing. Of the lesser Forge Worlds not possessed of the necessary templates, resources or expertise to construct and operate their own Titans, Mars favoured those who swore fealty with such patronage that they might do so.
人们发现，在新找到的铸造世界中，最强大的那些也拥有自己的泰坦修会，而且很多都形成了他们自己独特和有些时候（甚至）是怪异的文化，其他的则被发现采用了与火星上最初的三支钢铁神军类似的结构，这表明有某些根本（潜在）的机械原理或模式在发挥作用，火星的领主们看到了这一切并感到喜悦。至于那些没有建造和运行泰坦所必要的神殿、资源和专业知识技能的次级铸造世界，火星可能会向宣誓效忠的那些惠赠此类支援。
Within scant decades of the outset of the Great Crusade, the Mechanicum had discovered or founded a score of Titan Orders, and by the turn of the first century of the Great Crusade, the orders of battle by which the Legios arranged themselves had become somewhat codified, and while individual bodies exercised considerable variation in strategy, a degree of standardisation was evident. The Fabricator-general proclaimed that the many Titan Orders should be recognised as a distinct class within the greater corpus of the Mechanicum, that its doctrines, traditions and battle honours might be propagated and preserved for the good of all Mankind. This body was to be known as the Collegia Titanica, and while the Legios themselves would remain subservient to the will of the individual forge lords, it would become a politically influential entity within the emerging structures of the nascent Imperium of Mankind.
在大远征开始的短短几十年里，机械神教已经发现或建立了十数个泰坦修会；等到了大远征第一个世纪的转折点时，军团用于自我安排的作战命令已经在某种程度上被编写成了法典，虽然各个主体在战略上有相当大的差异，但他们的标准化程度已经很明显了。火星铸造将军宣布：许多泰坦军团应该被视作更大规模的机械神教主体中的某个独立分类，它的信条、传统和战斗荣誉可能会为了全人类的利益而被传播和保存。这个团体将被称为泰坦学会，虽然军团本身将会继续服从于单个铸造领主的意志，但泰坦学会将成为新生人类帝国的新兴结构中具有政治影响力的实体。
The Collegia Titanica came to rate the strength of each Titan Legion according to a complex formula that allotted each a Militaris grade. First tier designations ranged from 'primus' to 'dnarii', with a range of further clausal numerical definitions describing the Legios specific capabilities, specialisations and other characteristics. Though it rarely told the whole truth, the most obvious measure of a Titan Legions strength was ever the number of god-engines it could field, with the largest maintaining as many as 200-300, while the smallest might be able to muster barely a dozen. In reality however, the mixture of Titan classes was a far more reliable indicator of potency than raw numbers. Few indeed could field the colossal Imperator class, while almost all fielded significant numbers of Warhound Scout Titans, the lightest common engine, with the ubiquitous Warlord and the standard Battle Titan, a proven and powerful design which made up the bulk of most Legios' main strength. There were many other classes besides, notably the ancient Reaver and several Warlord variants such as the Nemesis and Nightgaunt and other, rarer chassis whose designs such as the Apocalypse, Carnivore and Komodo were unique.
泰坦学会开始根据一套为每个军团分配军事级别的复杂公式来计算每个泰坦军团的力量。第一层级的称呼从“首席”到“末席”不等，外加一系列描述军团的特定能力、专长和其他特征的更进一步子项数据定义。虽然这几乎不能代表完整的真实状况，但一个泰坦军团军力最为明显的衡量标准就是他们能动用多少神之引擎；规模最大的军团保有200-300台泰坦，而最小的军团或许仅能集结起十数台泰坦。不过在现实中，泰坦种类的组合状况比纯粹的数量更能显示出军团的力量。事实上，只有极少数军团能部署巨大的帝皇级泰坦，而几乎所有军团都能部署大量常见的最轻型神之引擎——战犬级侦查泰坦，以及普遍存在的战将级泰坦和标准的战斗泰坦——这种得到证明的强悍型号组成了大部分军团主力部队的主体。除此之外，还存在许多其他类型，尤其是古代掠夺者（型号）与数个战将改型，比如复仇女神型和夜魇型；而诸如启示录型、噬肉者型和科莫多型之类其他更为罕见型号的设计则是独一无二的。
Many Titan Legions had a particular mix of god-engines they preferred to commit to battle, exemplifying their own specific battle doctrines. Legio Audax, also known as the 'Ember Wolves', for example, fielded a large number of Warhound Scout Titans, employing them as fast-moving hunting packs that were fearsomely effective at harrying and bringing down far larger enemy engines. Most Legios however, sought to maintain a balanced and flexible force able to prosecute a wide range of operations and confront many different foes.
每个军团都有自己所偏好用于指派作战的一套独有的神之引擎组合（模式），这是对于他们自身具体战斗信条的举例说明。例如，也被称为“灰烬群狼”的奥达克斯军团会使用数量庞大的战犬级侦查泰坦，他们会被部署作为快速移动猎群部队，在袭扰和击倒远比自己（体系）庞大的敌军引擎方面非常有效。但大多数军团都试图保持一支平衡且灵活的部队——其能够执行范围广泛的行动，对抗许多不同的敌人。
Though some Titan Legions used their own vernacular, the Collegia Titanica enforced a degree of standardisation in unit nomenclature. Depending on their role, Titans were fully capable of operating individually, and often did so when supporting conventional ground units. In practice, they were often deployed in formations of anything from two to ten god-engines, but broken into formal units known as a 'maniple' comprising five god-engines 一 the numeral '5' having an occult and numerological signifier of destruction in many numiscantic systems of prognostication favoured by the Omnissian cult. The most senior Titan commander —or princeps— was appointed as the maniple's leader and this force was considered sufficient to prosecute all but the most apocalyptic of battles.
虽然某些泰坦军团会使用他们自己的方言，但泰坦学会在单位命名上实行一定程度的标准化。由于他们的角色，泰坦完全有能力单独行动，他们在支持常规地面单位时也经常这样做。在实践中，他们通常是以2到10台神之引擎组成的编队被部署，但（在战斗中）被拆分为由5台神之引擎组成的被称为“支队”的正式单位——数字“5”在万机神教派所青睐的预言（占卜）系统中拥有具备命理学意义且神秘的毁灭示意。最高级别的泰坦指挥官——机长会被指派为泰坦支队的领袖，这种部队被认为足以参与除了那些最为启示录般惨烈的战斗之外的所有冲突。
The Warriors of the Collegia Titanica
泰坦学会的战士们
Titan crews rank alongside the elite of the Imperialis Armada in the skill and courage with which they operate their mighty engines of war, although compared to the crews of void-faring warships they are few in number indeed. The princeps is in total command of the Titan via a mind impulse unit, a complex and not entirely understood device that merges body and mind with that of the engine so completely that a princeps controls the Titans metal form as they would their own flesh. The process is a two-way one however, for each Titan, in particular the more ancient machines, is invested of its own individual anima which is the product of its deeds and its former masters, and which bleeds into the consciousness of the princeps to create a gestalt of the two. So immersive is this connection that should the Titan suffer damage, the princeps feel it as if their own flesh were wounded. Severe damage is likely to cause crippling stigmata on the princeps' body, and should the engine be dealt a killing blow, the cyber-neural feedback is almost certain to kill them.
尽管在与那些远航虚空的战舰的船员们相比时，泰坦乘员们数量稀少，但他们在操作强大战争引擎方面的技能和勇气可与帝国舰队的精英们相媲美。机长通过一套意识脉冲单元对泰坦进行全权指挥，这种复杂且并未被完全理解的装备能将人与引擎两者的身心极其完整地融合到一起，以至于机长能像控制自己的血肉之躯那样控制泰坦的金属躯体。不过，这个过程是双向的，因为每一架泰坦，尤其是那些更为古老的机械，都拥有自己的灵魂——这是他们自身的事迹与前代主人的造物，它会渗透进入机长的意识中，来为两者创造完型（连接）。这种联系是如此拟真，以至于当泰坦机体受到伤害时，机长会觉得仿佛是自己的身体受了伤。机体受到严重损伤可能会令机长身上出现极其严重的圣伤，而如果引擎遭到致命一击，智控神经（接口）所产生的反馈几乎必定会杀死机长。
Assisting the princeps are a number of specialist crew, the exact number and their roles dependent on the class of Titan as well as the doctrines of the parent Legio.These are known as moderate and each has responsibility for a different system, such as the sensors or the helm, adding their own oversight towards the mind impulse commands of the princeps. Several of these moderati are stationed at the princeps, side within the 'head' of the god-engine, while others are located elsewhere in the Titans mighty form—the gun moderati, for example, are often stationed in the carapace as near to their weapons as the Titans complex anatomy allows. In addition, one or more Tech-Priests watch over the god—engine's mighty plasma generator, assisted by a small cadre of servitors. While a lighter class of Titan, such as a Warhound, might have but a handful of crew, a Warlord might have a dozen and an Imperator even more.
协助机长的是多位专业的乘员，他们的具体数量和角色取决于泰坦的型号与母军团的信条。他们被称为操作官，每个人都负责一套不同的系统——比如传感器或方向舵。他们将自己负责的内容添加到机长的意识脉冲指挥（信号）里。其中有几位操作官会位于机长身边，处在神之引擎“头部”的侧边；而其他人则会位于泰坦强大身躯的其他位置，比如在泰坦复杂的解剖结构允许的范围内，火炮操作官们通常位于靠近武器的机壳处。另外，还有一或多位技术神甫来照看神之引擎强大的电浆发电机，一小群机仆会协助他们。一架诸如战犬之类的轻型泰坦可能只有几名乘员，而一台战将泰坦可能会有十数名乘员，一台帝皇级的乘员甚至更多。
Not all of a Titan Legion's subjects serve within the mighty god-engines, for many more fight in their shadow. Each Forge World is served by massive cohorts of skitarii, scutarii and secularis, and these are often assigned to provide the Titan Legions with massed ground forces capable of performing the battlefield duties which the Titans themselves are too large to perform. Furthermore, there are those Forge Worlds which, having compacted with subservient Knight Houses, march to war preceded by a fast moving skirmish line of Knight-Lancers and similar classes of walker that bridge the gap between infantry and Titan, engaging enemy vehicles and allowing the Titans to concentrate on the heaviest of enemy war machines, in particular enemy Titans.
但并非所有的泰坦修会成员都是在泰坦内部进行服侍，更多人是在泰坦的阴影中战斗。每个铸造世界都有大量的护教军部队、泰坦禁卫和世俗步兵，他们通常会被指派去为泰坦军团提供大量的地面部队，以完成那些泰坦因自身过于庞大而无法执行的战场任务。另外，那些与自己的臣属骑士家族关系紧密的铸造世界在奔赴战场时，由长枪骑士和类似型号的步行机甲所组成的快速移动战线会冲在他们前方，架起步兵和泰坦之间的桥梁。骑士们会进攻敌军载具，以使泰坦专心对付敌军最重型的战争机器——尤其是敌方泰坦。
It is when an army is to confront an enemy that is itself supported by Titans that they truly come into their own, and this only came about with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. From the very outset, the Warmaster ensured that as many Titan Legions as possible rallied to his banner and first amongst these was the Legio Mortis —the Deaths Heads— and soon others followed. Traitor Titans saw service in the very earliest battles of the Horus Heresy, including the Isstvan III Atrocity and the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre. The Collegia Titanica was split asunder by the war and as it spread across the galaxy, the battlefields of the sundered Imperium burned with the staggeringly destructive potential of these mighty god-engines. The battle was never so bitter nor all-consuming however as when Traitor and Loyalist Titans faced one another in open war, the mortal soldiers fighting at their feet as inconsequential as insects and slain by the thousands as unimaginable energies were unleashed.
当一支军队面对一群由泰坦支援的敌人时，他们就得自食其力了，而这一切只会随着荷鲁斯叛乱的爆发而到来。从一开始，战帅就确保有尽可能多的泰坦军团集结在他的旗帜下，其中最早投奔他的是死亡军团——也称死颅军团，不久后其他军团也臣服于荷鲁斯。人们在荷鲁斯叛乱最早期的战斗中便见到了叛军泰坦，其中包括伊斯特万三号暴行和伊斯特万五号登陆点大屠杀。战争令泰坦学会分崩离析，而随着战火烧遍了整个银河，人类帝国变得支离破碎，各处战场都在这些这些强大神之引擎惊人的破坏性力量下燃烧着。然而，当忠诚派和叛军双方的泰坦在公开战争中彼此相遇时，战斗的苦涩和吞噬一切的破坏性也是前所未有的，在它们脚下战斗的凡人士兵们就如同虫豸那般微不足道，成千上万的人都会被泰坦所释放出的难以想象的能量所杀死。
