《Index Astartes》节译：战术无畏动力甲

There are few instances where Space Marine power armour is not enough protection for a warrior, but when battle calls for durability and protection over agility, it is to the revered suits of Terminator armour that the Space Marines turn. Massively thick armour plates and powerful servo-muscles drive them, and only the best and bravest of a Space Marine Chapter may don these suits of ancient, holy armour.

令动力甲都不足以为星际战士们提供足够防护的情况几乎是不存在的，但当战斗更需要耐用性和保护力而非敏捷性时，星际战士们便会转而使用可敬的终结者动力甲。这种古老且神圣的动力甲有着极其厚重的装甲板，并被强悍的伺服肌肉（纤维束）所驱使着，只有星际战士战团中那些最优秀也最勇武的成员们才有可能穿上终结者动力甲。

Space Marine power armour has a long and glorious history, having its origins in the long-forgotten time before the Emperor’s unification of Mankind on Terra. Nothing is now known of this time, but it is speculated that the first suits of powered armour were worn by the techno-barbarians that fought alongside the Emperor as he battled to bring Terra under his rule. Over time, these suits were refined and improved, becoming the earliest incarnations of Space Marine power armour.

星际战士动力甲有着漫长且光荣的历史，它起源于帝皇在泰拉上统一人类之前那段被长期遗忘的岁月中。现在，我们对于那个时期一无所知，但根据推测，最初的动力甲是穿着在了科技野蛮人身上——当帝皇征战四方，令泰拉归于自己的治下时，他们曾与人类之主并肩作战。随着时间流逝，这些甲胄也被改良，成为了星际战士动力甲的最初化身。

The first suits of Space Marine power armour were developed from this armour and were said to have been worn by the first Space Marines as they fought to unite the planets of the Solar System under the Emperor’s control. Legend tells that, once the Solar System was secure and the process of rebuilding was firmly in hand, the greater galactic conquest began. Faded techno-arcana of the Adeptus Mechanicus tells that, even before the Age of Strife ended, the Emperor had started to make provisions for his Great Crusade.

最初的星际战士动力甲就是由这些甲胄发展而来，据说当第一批星际战士浴血奋战，令太阳系中的诸行星处于帝皇的控制下时，他们身披的就是此种最初的动力甲。据传说所言，就在太阳系被平定，重建过程也被稳步执行后不久，更大规模的银河系征服战争便开始了。机械修会那逐渐消逝中的技术奥秘则表明：甚至早在纷争纪元结束之前，帝皇就已经在为他的大远征厉兵秣马了。

Part of these plans included the re-equipping of the Space Marine armies with a far more sophisticated fighting suit that historians have dubbed Crusade or Crusader armour. Alongside these developments, the Emperor initiated a program to develop a system of armour that would provide even greater protection than that offered by power armour.

这些计划中也包括为星际战士部队重新装备远为复杂的战斗装——历史学家们俗称其为“远征型”或“远征军型”动力甲。在获得这些发展的同时，帝皇还启动的一项计划：开发出一套防御性能比动力甲更强的动力装甲系统。

TACTICAL DREADNOUGHT ARMOUR

战术无畏动力甲

Combining the technology of power armour with that of the exo-armour developed for sealed environment suits used by starship crews forced to work in extremely hazardous situations, the development of Tactical Dreadnought armour was begun in order to provide the best protection possible for the Space Marines.

通过将动力甲技术，以及为那些被迫在极端危险环境中工作的星舰船员们使用的密封环境服所开发出的外骨骼装甲技术结合起来，帝国开始了对于战术无畏动力甲的开发——其目的在于为星际战士们提供可能的最佳防护。

Exo-armour is constructed from heavy gauge plasteel plating, forming an armoured shell that can withstand even the colossal impact of high-speed orbital micro-debris. It is the only armour suitable for working inside the high-pressure casings of plasma reactor shields or the extremely corrosive environments inside the holds of bulk chemical carriers. These same qualities, suitably enhanced, make Tactical Dreadnought armour virtually invulnerable to most weapons.

外骨骼装甲由厚重的塑钢板构成，塑钢板构成的装甲外壳甚至能够承受（太空）轨道上高速微型碎片的巨大冲击。当人类在电浆反应堆防护罩的高压管套，或巨大的化学品运输舰货舱内部的极端腐蚀性环境中工作时，这种装甲是唯一适用的工作服。相同的特性在得到适当强化后，令战术无畏动力甲对于大多数武器而言都几乎是坚不可摧的。

The development of Terminator armour, as Tactical Dreadnought armour soon became known, was well underway by the time the Horus Heresy erupted, and these heavily armoured suits were available throughout the Legions by the time the traitor Warmaster struck.

当荷鲁斯叛乱爆发时，终结者动力甲（战术无畏动力甲很快就会以这个名称而被人们所知）的开发正在稳步进行；而当叛变的战帅发动进攻时，人们已经能在各军团中找到这些装甲厚重的战装了。

According to fragmented records of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Terminator armour was originally designed to be the ultimate Space Marine power armour, and was envisioned to replace the older suits. However, as the Horus Heresy sucked the resources from the Imperium, Terminator suits became increasingly rare, for they were exceptionally difficult to create and maintain. In addition, in most battles, their bulk became a disadvantage against the lighter power-armoured warriors who easily outmanoeuvred them.

根据机械修会的碎片化记录，终结者动力甲最初是被设计为最终版的星际战士动力甲，并被设想用于替代之前（型号）的战装。然而，随着荷鲁斯叛乱消耗了人类帝国的资源，终结者动力甲也变得愈发稀少，因为它们的制造与维护都是极其困难的。另外在大多数战斗中，当穿戴者对抗那些装备着更为轻量化动力甲的星际战士们时，终结者动力甲那庞大笨重的体积成为了劣势——后者能轻松地在机动性上超越他们。

However, the suits were still highly sought after, and they were used to great effect in the countless bloody and short-ranged battles waged in cramped conditions, such as boarding actions in ship-to-ship engagements, hive cities and tunnel fighting. It was in these areas that Terminator armour excelled, and under these conditions that their bulk and sturdy frame are best deployed. Armoured with heavy sheets of plasteel and ceramite, Terminator armour contains a full exoskeleton and a complex arrangement of fibre-bundle muscles that allow a warrior to fight with deadly skill in close quarters, where agility is secondary to protection.

不过，终结者动力甲仍然是极受欢迎的装备，它们在那些发生于狭窄环境（例如舰对舰交战中的跳帮行动、巢城和隧道中的作战行动）中的无数短距离血腥战斗中发挥了重大作用。终结者在这些区域中表现出色，在此类情况中，它们庞大的体积和坚固的框架能被最好地部署。终结者动力甲覆盖着塑钢与陶钢构成的厚重装甲，拥有完整的（机械）外骨骼和一套复杂的肌肉纤维束（系统）——它允许一名战士在近战中施展出致命技艺，而在这种境况中，防御性比敏捷性更重要。

In the same manner as power armour, Terminator armour contains its own independent power supply and fully enclosed life-support functions, though those incorporated in Terminator armour are more powerful and longer-lasting. Suits of Terminator armour also carry teleport homers enabling them to teleport into battle with some degree of accuracy. The armour contains various augers and auspexes, enabling the Space Marine to be fully aware of his environment, both externally and internally, monitoring such things as radiation levels, proximity of biological entities and the life signals of the body, amongst others. Just like power armour, though, the armour also has other devices installed that are designed solely for Tactical Dreadnought armour, including threat detectors and motion sensors.

终结者动力甲有其自身独立的动力供应与全封闭的生命维持功能（系统），这与动力甲是相同的，不过这些被并入到终结者动力甲中的系统更强大，持续时间也更久。终结者动力甲也携带了传送信标，使它们能够以一定程度的准确性被传送到战斗中。终结者动力甲也包含了各种占卜仪和鸟卜仪，这确保星际战士们能完全意识到自己（所处）的环境——内部和外部的都在其内，并监测诸如辐射水平、生物实体的距离和（生物）躯体生命信号等信息。不过就像动力甲那样，装甲上还安装了其他专门为战术无畏动力甲设计的装置，其中也包括威胁探测器和运动传感器。

In addition, the suit is fully equipped with a range of auto-senses and targeters, allowing the Space Marine to track his target with increased accuracy. Members of a Terminator squad are linked to each other with pict-display units, allowing the Space Marines to see what their brother warriors see. All suits of Terminator armour are capable of this, but to avoid confusion, it is usual only the Sergeant’s armour that broadcasts pict-signals during combat.

另外，此类战装完全装备了一系列自动感应器与瞄准器，这允许星际战士们以更高的精度追踪自己的目标。终结者小队中的成员们都由图像显示单位彼此连接起来，这允许星际战士们看到自己的兄弟战士们所目睹的事物。所有的终结者动力甲都能做到这一点，但为了避免（出现）混淆，通常只有军士的动力甲在战斗中才会播放图像信号。

VETERAN SPACE MARINES

星际战士老兵

A Chapter’s 1st Company is also known as the Veteran Company and contains its bravest and most heroic battle-brothers. Many will have risen to the rank of Veteran Sergeant before being inducted to the 1st Company, though less experienced Space Marines are often accepted into its ranks for performing acts of exceptional courage. These Space Marines are mighty heroes whose legends have become part of the Chapter’s history, and it is every warrior’s ambition to become one of their Chapter’s elite. The 1st Company is invariably the most powerful Company in the Chapter, as only its warriors are trained to take the field of battle wearing Terminator armour. All Space Marine Chapters maintain a number of suits of the revered and rightly feared Terminator armour, and these are amongst a Chapter’s most prized relics.

战团的第一连队也被称为老兵连，其中容纳了战团中最为英勇的战斗修士们。很多星际战士在加入第一连队之前都已经晋升为了老兵军士，不过那些经验资历较浅的星际战士也会因为表现出非凡的勇气而被第一连队所接纳。这些星际战士们都是伟大的英雄，他们的传奇会成为战团历史的一部分，所有战士也都有成为战团精锐当中一员的志向。第一连总是战团中最为强势的连队，只有该连队中的战士们才会接收在战场上使用终结者动力甲的训练。所有星际战士战团都保有着一些受人尊崇敬畏的终结者动力甲，他们位列于战团最珍贵的圣物当中。

Squads of Terminators are most often employed in boarding actions or where the fighting is certain to be close and bloody. They can also be equipped with a varied selection of weaponry that allows them to fight at longer ranges, but it is brutal assaults that they are primarily designed for. These rare suits are highly sought after, and as such, each Chapter carefully maintains those in its care. Incredibly ancient, many of the secrets of construction are long lost and each one is revered by the Space Marines and lovingly maintained by the Chapter’s Techmarines. Some of the oldest suits were produced before the Horus Heresy. Although new suits are produced by the Adeptus Mechanicus, the production rate is so slow, and the demand for them is so great, that no Chapter can be sure when it will be re-equipped; there could be several centuries between two shipments of the treasured armour arriving at a fortress monestary. Each suit of armour is given a special place of honour within the 1st Company’s Chapel, and only warriors of the 1st Company and selected senior commanders may enter to don these holy artefacts. It requires rigorous training to be able to fight in Terminator armour and, once trained in its use, a Space Marine will be expected to perform above and beyond his brethren, acting as an example to the rest of the Chapter.

终结者小队最常用于跳帮行动，或是战斗注定会激烈且血腥的战场上。他们也可以装备能够令其远距离作战的各种武器，但终结者们的主要用途还是进行残酷的突击行动。（终结者动力甲）这种稀有的战装是非常受欢迎的，因此每个战团都小心地保管这些装备。终结者动力甲古老到令人难以置信，关于其制造的很多秘密都早已失传，每一套装备都受到星际战士们的尊崇，并由战团中的技术军士们悉心维护。某些最为古老的装备都是在荷鲁斯叛乱之前被生产出来的。尽管机械修会还在生产出新的终结者动力甲，但生产速率非常缓慢，而（帝国）对于这种装备的需求又很巨大，（所以）没有哪个战团能确定自己何时会被重新配备终结者动力甲；当某座要塞修道院收到一批珍贵的终结者动力甲后，下一批到货可能就是数个世纪之后的事情了。在第一连队的礼拜堂中，每套终结者动力甲都会被给予一个特殊的荣誉位置，只有第一连的战士与被选定的高级指挥官才可能进入其中，去披挂上这些神圣的造物。为了能够穿着终结者动力甲进行战斗，星际战士需要进行严格的训练；而且某个星际战士一旦接受了终结者动力甲的使用训练，人们就会期望他表现得比自己的兄弟们更卓越，表现为战团中其他成员的模范。

ARMAMENT

武器装备

Terminator armour is designed to carry a variety of weapon fits, but the most common armament carried is a storm bolter and power fist. This configuration allows a Terminator to engage the enemy at long range while advancing and then to deliver a devastating assault with the deadly energies of a power fist – a weapon capable of tearing through the hull of a battle tank. Many Space Marines opt to carry a chainfist, similar in effect to a power fist, though equipped with a massively powerful chainblade attachment that can carve through the armoured bulkhead of a starship. Within each squad, one Space Marine is often designated a fire support role, and massive, fibre-bundle muscles and suspensor fields allow a Terminator to carry a much heavier array of weaponry than his power-armoured brethren. Such warriors may carry the dreaded assault cannon – to lay down a hail of heavy ­shells, a heavy flamer – for when the fighting is certain to be close and bloody and the enemy closely packed, or the cyclone missile launcher – to engage heavily armoured targets at long range.

终结者动力甲被设计用于携带多种武器装备，但最常见的武器是风暴爆弹枪和动力拳。这种武器配置能允许终结者在远距离对抗敌人的同时前进，之后还能用动力拳的致命能量发动毁灭性的突袭——这种武器能够撕穿战斗坦克的车体。很多星际战士会选择使用链锯拳，这种武器的效果类似于动力拳，但装备了一柄能够刺穿星舰装甲舱壁的极其强悍的链锯刃附件。在每支小队当中，通常都会有一名终结者被指派担任火力支援角色，而强大的肌肉纤维束和悬浮场允许他们携带沉重的武器阵列——这些装备比他们那些身穿（普通）动力甲的兄弟们手中的武器要沉重得多。此类战士们可能会携带一门可怖的突击炮，用重型枪弹对敌人进行密集扫射；也可能是一门重型喷火器——当敌人进行密集成群，战斗注定血腥且激烈时，这种武器会派上用场；或者是旋风导弹发射器，用于在远距离对付那些装甲厚重的目标。

Certain squads of Terminators are also configured specifically for close combat, with no ranged weaponry whatsoever. These squads are most often teleported into battle, where the enemy cannot engage them with long-range firepower before the Terminators attack. The most favoured configuration for these squads is either a pair of lightning claws – multiple, fist-mounted blades sheathed in lethal energy that can cut through armour and flesh with equal ease – or thunder hammer and storm shield. This latter configuration is usually employed when the enemy is likely to employ weaponry that may defeat even the formidable armour of a Terminator. A storm shield contains a small power field generator that can protect a warrior in close combat and is proof against even the most lethal close combat weapons. The thunder hammer is a deadly weapon that releases a terrific blast of energy upon impact, and those it does not kill, vehicles and the living alike, are rendered virtually incapacitated.

特定的终结者小队也会为近距离交战而专门配置武器，他们不会使用任何远程武器。这些小队通常是被传送到战场上，这样在终结者们攻击之前，敌人就无法用远程火力与他们交战。这些小队最为偏好的武器配置要么是一对闪电爪——安装在拳套上的多柄利刃包裹着致命的能量，肉体和装甲都能被其同样轻松地切穿，要么就是雷霆锤和风暴盾。当敌人或许会部署那些甚至可能击毁终结者可怖装甲的武器时，星际战士们通常就会旋转后一种配置。风暴盾中包含一个小型力场发生器，它能在近战中保护一名战士，而且被证明能够抵挡哪怕最为致命的近战武器。雷霆锤是一种致命的武器，它能在撞击到目标时释放出恐怖的能量爆炸，而无论是载具还是活体目标，即便没有被杀死，也都几乎丧失了行动能力。

DEPLOYMENT

部署方式

Unlike Space Marines in power armour, Terminators are bulky and slow moving, their speed and agility sacrificed for better protection. As a result, methods had to be developed in order to allow them to reach the enemy in enough strength to prevail. Terminator armour is designed to allow its wearer to utilise the technology of teleportation, and through this sometimes treacherous method of transport, Terminators may strike right into the heart of the enemy battle lines. Although this method of transport can be far from accurate, it is often the best way to get Terminators into the thick of the fighting quickly. Teleportation is, however, a barely understood technology, and many Chapters of Space Marines – such as the Space Wolves – have a healthy distrust of such things and refuse to utilise it. For Chapters like this, Terminators more commonly make use of Drop Pods – which allow them to strike like a thunderbolt into the thick of the fighting – or deploy inside the fearsome Land Raider battle tank.

不用于那些身穿动力甲的星际战士，终结者们身形笨重且移动缓慢，他们牺牲了速度和敏捷性来换取更强的保护效果。因此，帝国必须开发出各种手段，以便让他们能以足够的兵力接近敌人来取胜。终结者动力甲的设计允许穿戴者们使用传送技术，通过这种有时很危险的运输方式，终结者可以直击敌人战线的核心部位。尽管这种运输方式会很不准确，但它通常是让终结者们快速进入激烈交战区域的最佳方式。不过，传送是一种几乎不被人们所理解的技术，而且很多星际战士战团——比如太空野狼——对此类技术有着一种合理的不信任感，并拒绝使用。此类战团通常是用空降舱把终结者们输送到战场上——这允许他们如雷霆般杀入战况激烈的区域中，或者是用可怖的兰德掠夺者战斗坦克将其部署到战场上。

The Land Raider is one of the most, if not the most, powerful tank in the Space Marine’s arsenal, able to withstand the impact of a battle cannon with little or no effect. These tanks were designed primarily to enable Terminator squads to travel in safety through the very worst war zones, and are equipped with frontal assault ramps that deliver its warriors straight into the thick of the fighting. In addition, the Land Raider is armed with powerful lascannons and can act as mobile fire support for the Terminators once they have disembarked. There are several Land Raider variants, but one of the most common is the Land Raider Crusader, a pattern developed by Marine-Artificer Simagus during the Jerulas Crusade of the Black Templars Chapter. This crusade involved the besiegement of many heavily fortified bastions of a hive world and extensive use of the Crusader pattern enabled the Sword Brethren Terminators of the Black Templars to penetrate the defences of their enemies with relative ease. With an increased transport capacity, and weaponry designed to inflict maximum casualties amongst nearby infantry, many other Chapters involved in similar engagements quickly adopted this Land Raider pattern.

兰德掠夺者是星际战士武库中最强大的坦克之一，能够在几乎不受任何损伤的情况下抵御战斗炮的轰击。这些坦克主要被设计用于确保终结者小队能安全穿越最险恶的战区，而且还装备了能让战士们直接冲入战况最激烈区域的正面进攻坡道。另外兰德掠夺者还装备了强悍的激光炮，能在终结者们下车后为其充当移动火力支援平台。兰德掠夺者存在很多改型，最常见的型号之一是十字军型兰德掠夺者，该型号由星际战士工匠西玛古斯在黑色圣堂战团的Jerulas圣战远征期间开发出来。这次远征包括了对于某个巢都世界上诸多大幅度强化过的要塞的围攻战，十字军型兰德掠夺者的广泛使用使黑色圣堂战团的长剑兄弟终结者们能够相对轻松地穿透敌人的防御。该型号的兰德掠夺者拥有增强过的运输能力，并装备了旨在对附近的步兵单位造成最大伤亡的武器，参与着类似交战行动的其他很多战团也很快便采用了此类载具。

THE CRUX TERMINATUS

终结者十字

Each Terminator bears a badge upon his left shoulder guard that is made from stone and is said to incorporate fragments of the Emperor’s armour. At the climax of the Horus Heresy, the Emperor personally led an attack upon the Warmaster’s Battle Barge alongside some of his most trusted warriors. During the fierce fighting, the Emperor came face to face with Horus, who, in the battle that resulted, grievously wounded him. Following Horus’ defeat, it is said that the Emperor decreed that his armour be taken off and melted down, and that the pieces be made into badges that all Terminators could wear in recognition of the service performed in the defeat of Horus. However, if this is true, then each suit of Terminator armour must only contain the most miniscule of fragments.

所有终结者的左肩甲上都佩戴了一个石质的徽章，其中据说包含了帝皇本人甲胄的碎片。在荷鲁斯叛乱的高潮阶段，帝皇在一些自己最信任的战士的陪同下，亲自领导了一场对于战帅战列母舰的进攻行动。在这次激烈的战斗中，帝皇直面了荷鲁斯，后者也在随后的战斗中重伤了他。在击败荷鲁斯后，据说帝皇下令人们卸下自己的甲胄并将其融化，这些甲胄碎片要做成徽章，所有终结者都可以佩戴这些勋章，以表彰他们在击败荷鲁斯的战斗中做出的贡献。不过，倘若事实如此的话，所有终结者动力甲中所包含的肯定只是最微小的碎片。

THE CRUZ ARGENTUM

白银十字

Elements of the Crux Terminatus, on the shoulder pad of a Terminator, can be adorned with additional ornamentation in recognition of acts of supreme valour. One such adornment is the Crux Argentum, a shoulder badge of silver and encrusted with gems, that is awarded to Space Marines who perform acts of valour above and beyond the call of duty.

对于佩戴在终结者肩甲上的终结者十字徽章，也可以用额外的纹饰来进行装点，以表彰最卓越的英勇行为。白银十字就是此类装饰之一，它是一枚镶有宝石的白银肩章，被授予给那些表现出超越了职责所需的英勇行为的星际战士们。