IA10节译：噬人鲨战团介绍与组织结构
THE CARCHARODONS
CHAPTER NAME: THE CARCHARODONS
战团名称：噬人鲨
FOUNDING: UNKNOWN
组建时间：未知
CHAPTER WORLD/DEPLOYMENT: UNKNOWN [BELIEVED 'NOMAD-PREDATION' FLEET ORGANISATION]
战团母星/部署地：未知（据信该战团为“游牧狩猎”舰队组织，见附录）
FORTRESS MONASTERY: UNKNOWN
要塞修道院：未知
GENE-SEED (PREDECESSOR): UNKNOWN [SOME RECORDED GENE-SEED INDICATORS POINT TO THE RAVEN GUARD]
基因种子来源（前身）：未知（某些记录显示其基因种子标记指向暗鸦守卫）
KNOWN DESCENDANTS: NONE
已知子团：无
SOURCES UNRELIABLE: 'CARCHARODONS', 'CARCHARODON ASTRA' AND VARIOUS LOW GOTHIC DERIVATIONS OF THE SAME ARE USED BOTH IN HISTORICAL RECORDS AND BADAB WAR ACCOUNTS.
根据可靠来源信息，该战团在历史记录和巴达布战争报告中使用过“噬人鲨”、“星辰恶鲨”和各种含义相同的低哥特语名称。
Of all the Space Marine Chapters involved in the Badab War. the Carcharodons remain the most enigmatic and mysterious. having forged for themselves a dark and bloody legend in the minds of those that survived the conflict that has continued long into its aftermath. The Chapter returned from the black void beyond the Imperium's borders as strangers to friend and foe alike, siding with the Loyalist cause against those they saw as traitors to the divine Emperor. In some ways the Carcharodons seemed to be both living anachronisms harking back to an ancient past. and in others entirely strange and sinister beings, which were nevertheless recognisable as Space Marines in the Emperor's service.
在参与巴达布战争的所有星际战士战团中，噬人鲨战团仍就是最为神秘的。该战团在那些从巴达布战争这场旷日持久的冲突中幸存下来的人心中留下了血腥黑暗的传说。该战团从帝国边境之外的黑色虚空中返回到人类的疆域中，尽管他们对敌我双方而言都是一群陌生人，但他们还是选择站在忠诚派一方，共同打击那些在他们看来背弃了神圣帝皇的叛徒们。在某些方面上，噬人鲨战团似乎是可以追溯到古老过去的活生生时代错误，而在其他方面上，他们就是完全怪异凶险的存在，但尽管如此，他们仍被认为是服务于帝皇的星际战士。
In the general course of the Imperium's histories. or the order of battle of its military might, the Carcharodons have no real official existence in recent history. They simply feature nowhere within the open record, and likewise the Chapter has no known officially recorded battle honours. While further confusion is evident based on potential mis-identification with other lesser-known Chapters operating with similar nomenclature and symbology (re: 'Void Reapers', 'Blood Sharks'. etc). However. deep study of certain ancient treatise on the wars of the Imperium and sealed and secret records within the Holy Ordos of the Inquisition hold several tantalising references and hints as to the shadow this Chapter has cast . The oldest of these may be found within the pages of the Mythos Angelica Mortis written by the savant-scribes of the Secretariat Militum of Terra in late M36, which largely compiled from earlier sources. In this often vague and incomplete work, references are made to a Space Marine Chapter it calls the "Carcharodon Astra" being despatched into the "Outer Darkness... upon an endless voyage... to ravage the foes of mankind..." and to "... set about the traitor, the alien and the renegade without mercy, and harrow them in their places of strength". This text it seems stems from a far older work. now lost, dating back to the unknown era that surrounds the Astropath Wars of late M32/M33. This is a time now too shrouded in myth and allegory, and its true nature has been purged from history so thoroughly that less is known of it to the Imperium's high authorities than of the Horus Heresy or the Great Crusade. Other records grant this wandering Chapter variations in name or title, but remaining consistent between the accounts are certain facets of detail similarities of iconography and operation, and a bestial but calculated savagery fearful, even to those hardened to the lmperium's methods of warfare. to contemplate. To this baleful Chapter is afforded a sacred and unending duty that has seen them entrusted (or perhaps condemned) to travel the empty spaces beyond the Imperiurn's borders on an endless voyage, their goal to seek, locate and destroy the enemies of Mankind. All elements which tally with the Carcharodons Chapter and the, actions in the Badab War.
当我们翻阅帝国的全套历史记录，或者说关于军事力量战斗序列的内容时，就会发现噬人鲨战团近期的历史档案中并无真实的官方存在记录。我们在公开的记录中找不到他们的踪迹，这个战团就像是没有已知的被正式记录的战斗荣誉一样。而且有些不为人知的战团使用着与他们相似的名称和符号（比如“虚空收割者”、“血鲨”等），对于这些战团的潜在错误识别给造成了进一步的混淆。不过，在深入研究了关于帝国战争（历史记录）的特定古代著作和审判庭神圣修会封存的秘密记录后，我们掌握了一些关于这个战团所投下阴影的诱人提示与参考资料。其中最古老的信息收录于由泰拉军务秘书处的学者文官们撰写的《死亡天使神话》，在这份通常模糊不清且不完整的著作中提到了一个被称为“星辰恶鲨”的星际战士战团，他们被派往了“外侧黑暗…进行无尽的航行…屠戮蹂躏人类之敌”，而且“对于叛徒、异星人和变节者毫无怜悯，把他们从自己的地盘上连根拔除”，而这篇文章似乎也是来源于某些远为古老但现在已经遗失的文献，后者可以追溯到大概（发生）在 M32/M33 晚期的星语战争的未知时代；该时期现在已经被神话和寓言所掩盖，它的真相在历史（记录）中被清理得是如此彻底，以至于帝国高层对此事的了解程度尚不如对荷鲁斯叛乱或大远征的。其他记录也给予了这个四处漂泊的战团各种名称和头衔，但这些报告全都对图像信息和战团行动某些细节上的相似性做出了一致的描述，而且报告中都提到噬人鲨战团表现出了一种凶狠但却思虑周全的残忍行为，哪怕是那些对帝国的战争手段无动于衷的人也觉得他们可怕。这个凶恶的战团被授予了一项神圣但也永无止境的职责：他们被委托（或者被判决）去帝国边境之外的空寂宇宙中进行一场无尽的航行，目的是寻找、定位和摧毁人类之敌。所有这些元素都与噬人鲨战团和他们在巴达布战争中的行径相符合。
Tactically. during the Badab conflict, the Carcharodons operated almost exclusively as a rapid-strike force. disdaining any kind of protracted engagement wherever possible. preferring to approach their targets either with extreme speed or by stealth, allowing them to strike with the element of surprise on their side wherever possible. In attack they endeavoured to close ground with their enemies swiftly and do battle either in hand-to-hand combat or unleash their firepower at near point-blank range. For this reason each Carcharodons Space Marine. regardless of whether they were part of the Devastator squads or dedicated assault units, was observed to carry a plethora of bayonets, blades and chain weapons in addition to their normal armaments so that they were always able to rend at their foes at close quarters. The combat style of the Carcharodons proved both effective and brutal in the extreme — it was to stoke hard and fast. inflicting the maximum damage possible in the shortest span of time. If the enemy survived they would fade away only to attack again, bleeding the foe dry until they could no longer resist and were destroyed. Once the enemy had been slaughtered. they would then move on without pause to the next target, and do so again and again until nothing surrounded them but the remnants of their carnage.
在巴达布战争时期，噬人鲨战团在战术上几乎是完全作为快速打击部队。他们尽可能地蔑视任何种类的持久战，更偏好依靠极高的速度或潜行来接近目标，尽可能以出其不意的方式进攻敌人。在攻击行动中，他们会努力地快速接近敌人，与对方进行肉搏战，或者在近距离范围内释放他们的火力。因此除了他们的标配武器，所有的噬人鲨星际战士——无论是属于破坏者小队还是特定的突击单位，都被观察到携带了过多的枪刺、刀剑和链锯武器，所以他们通常都能在近战中撕碎敌人。噬人鲨的战斗风格被证明极其高效但也极其残忍——他们的进攻快速而猛烈，能在最短的时间里造成可能的最大伤害。倘若有敌人幸存，他们只会隐藏消失然后再次进攻，持续杀伤敌人的幸存单位，直到对方不再抵抗，面临毁灭。一旦面前的敌人被屠戮殆尽，他们就会毫无停歇地移动到下一个目标面前，并且一次又一次地重复这个过程，直到他们身边再无活物，只剩下他们屠杀的残余物。
After action battle reports involving the Carcharodons showed their aggressions to be precisely channelled and re-directed as needed towards specific strategic targets by their commanders. Those that fought beside them remarked upon their ability to seemingly erupt from absolute stillness to fury in a moment and without warning, and then equally without warning withdraw like ghosts frorn the battlefield should events turn against them. Friend and foe also quickly experienced another phenomena where the Chapter was concerned which swiftly entered into legend; the Carcharodons' eerie silence during their attack. Their officers' commands issued via a locked and encrypted vox-net. not a word or sound were being uttered during battle to friend or foe. save out of extreme necessity.
涉及到噬人鲨战团的战斗报告现实：战团指挥官能够精确引导战士们的攻击性，并且能够根据需要将战士们的攻击性重新定向到特定的战略目标。那些在他们身边作战过的人们声称他们有一种似乎能从完全沉静状态瞬间爆发为狂怒状态的能力，这种现象毫无预警，然后他们会同样毫无预兆地像鬼魂一样从战场上撤退，除非事态逆转。友军和敌人很快也会经历到与该战团有关的另一种现象，这种现象迅速成为了一个传说：噬人鲨战团在进攻过程中那诡异的寂静。战团军官们通过加密封锁的无线电网络发布指挥命令，他们在战斗中不会对敌人或友军说出任何话语，除非有极端的必要性。
In character the individual Space Marines of the Chapter were observed to be very taciturn, cautious and watchful. but exhibiting a marked change into violent bouts of extreme bloodlust in combat, hacking down or blasting apart their foes with wild abandon. Despite their seeming closeness to animal savagery, they were highly formal in their dealings with other Space Marines and agents of Imperial authority, preferring when such matters became necessary to address their peers in modes of High Gothic, using forms outdated by millennia. Other than when they were summoned to High Commander Culln's council or needed to co-ordinate with other Loyalist forces directly. they neither mixed nor sought out the companionship or honour of the other Loyalists. The Chapter was observed to be highly religious however. and place of Imperial worship and those under holy orders were among the few places that were routinely spared during their attacks. In addition many of the Chapter's Battle Brothers were seen to carry devotional items. or use prayer-script or other markings on their wargear recognisable as belonging to the traditions of the Terran Ministorum and the Imperial Creed. In many instances these more conventional emblems of the Imperium were found alongside more idiosyncratic markings, often abstract or depictive images and tokens concerning fanged maws, death's heads. oceanic predators and bloody wounds. Primitivist in nature they reflected the particular traditions of the Chapter. and were exemplars of a unique and all but impenetrable culture evolved over millennia of near isolation.
在性格方面，战团中的个体星际战士们都被观察到是非常沉默寡言、谨慎和警惕的，但在战斗中他们会表现出明显的转变，表现出极度嗜血的暴力发作，疯狂地砍倒或炸碎他们的敌人。尽管他们看似近乎有着兽性的野蛮，但他们对待其他星际战士和帝国当局的代表时却非常正式，而且在有必要时他们更偏向用高哥特语和自己的同辈们交谈，不过语法已经过时了千年之久。除了在被召唤去参加最高指挥官库林的会议或需要与其他忠诚派部队直接协调配合时，他们既不与其他忠诚派联合，也不寻求对方的友谊或赞美。不过该站团被观察到极为虔诚，帝国圣所和其中圣职人员是少数在他们的袭击中经常幸免于难的场所和人士。另外战团中的许多战斗兄弟都被看到携带了宗教仪式用品，或者用祈祷经文或其他标志装饰他们的武备，这种行为符合泰拉国教和帝国教义的传统。我们发现在很多情况中，这些传统的帝国式标记旁边会伴随着一些更为怪异的标志，通常是关于尖牙巨口的抽象或写实性的图像和标志、死者的头颅、海生的掠食者和血腥的伤口。这些标志在本质上是原始主义的符号，反映了该战团的特殊传统，这也是一种独特且几乎不可渗透的文化的典范，这种文化在几千年近乎孤立的状态中不断演变。
In appearance the Battle Brothers of the Chapter, when viewed in the flesh, were also very singular. displaying a greyish-pale, almost deathly pallor. with their more venerable members possessed of liquid-seeming black eyes without a visible iris or sclera. Aside from these marks. there was no common type of physiognomy or genotype among them, likely pointing to a very widely recruited base stock. Legate Inquisitor Frain's examination of gene-seed samples taken from the Chapter proved them to be untainted although subject to some long-term degradation, and possessed of several markers found in the uncommon Raven Guard bloodline, a mutation of which may have resulted in their unusual physical appearance and be the basis of some of their traits.
我们看到战团中的战斗兄弟们也有一种独特的生理外表，他们的肤色呈现出一种淡灰色的苍白，那近乎就是死者般的苍白，而且战团中那些更受尊敬的成员们拥有看起来就像液体的黑色眼睛，眼中没有可见的虹膜或巩膜。除了这些标志外，战团成员之间并不存在共同的相貌类型或基因类型，这可能指出该战团有分布非常广泛的征兵基地。使节审判官弗莱恩对于取自该战团基因样本的检验表明：虽然噬人鲨战团的基因受到了一些长期退化的影响，但他们并未受到污染，而且他们的基因带有一些被发现于罕见的暗鸦守卫血脉的标记。这种变异可能导致了他们不寻常的生理外表，而且也是他们某些特征的（生理）基础。
Although it can be said of many Space Matte Chapters that they are without mercy to some extent. it proved doubly true of the Carcharodons. Time and time again they displayed an utter disregard for any civilian casualties they inflicted in pursuit of their military targets with a few salient exceptions, and when they enacted judgement on those who had supported the rebellion. they were as the hand of death itself.
尽管许多星际战士战团在某种程度上都可以说是毫不留情的，但噬人鲨战团真的被证明是毫无仁慈。在追求军事目标的过程中，他们一次又一次对受波及的平民的伤亡表现出彻底无视。而当他们对那些支持反叛的人执行审判时，他们就是死亡本尊之手。
Organisation
组织结构
The forces of the Carcharodons Chapter that arrived to join the Badab conflict demonstrated a number of highly distinctive traits and trappings that set them apart from their brethren fighting on either side of the war. Their Chapter fleet was extensive but inconsistent in makeup. and within its line of battle were numerous examples of vessels either very ancient. salvaged or extensively repaired. including one battle barge. the Nicor which was based on the hull of a Charibdys class grand cruiser, a vessel class rarely seen since the early days of the Great Crusade. Also of ancient provenance were much of the Chapter's arms. vehicles and wargear. with types such as the Phobos R/017 pattern bolt gun and Mark V Heresy pattern power armour Predominating. alongside which were used other weapons and equipment of designs and patterns that covered he span of the Imperium's breadth and history. Notable in the Chapter's strength was also a considerable contingent of Terminator armour suits. some of which had themselves been clearly modified or augmented in unorthodox ways to keep them combat worthy. This strength was an asset that served to greatly add to the Carcharodons' power as an attacking force, and was counterbalanced by considerable numbers of scouts used flexibly to assay targets for attack.
前来参加巴达布战争的噬人鲨战团部队展示出了许多非常独特的特征和装饰，这些事物将他们与参战双方的星际战士兄弟们区分开来。他们的战团舰队在舰种组合上广泛但却没有协调性，战列线中的大量舰船要么是极其古老，要么就是被打捞上来或者接受过大量维修的，其中就包括一艘由巨海妖级超大型巡洋舰改造而成的战列母舰“水怪号”，自从大远征早期该型号的战舰就极少被看到。战团的大部分武器、载具和军备也源自古代，比如占据占据主导地位的福波斯 R/017型爆弹枪和马克5异端型动力甲，他们使用的其他武器的设计与型号也来自帝国的广阔疆域和各个历史时期。值得注意的是，战团中由装备终结者动力甲的单位组成的分队也数量可观，其中某些人还自行以非常规手段对动力甲进行了明显的改造和增强，以保持动力甲的格斗能力。这些分队极大地增强了噬人鲨战团作为突击部队的力量。噬人鲨战团也会让数量可观的巡逻兵凭借灵活性来分析进攻目标以进行平衡。
The Chapter was observed to conform very roughly to the tactical and squad doctrines laid down in the Codex Astartes. but showed, at least to outside eyes. considerable deviation from its proscriptive command structure and company arrangements. In some instances it abandoned almost wholesale the symbology and insignia of the Codex in favour of personal and often highly totemic markings. The account recorded by the Fire Angels Captain, Tarnus Vale, who fought alongside their forces. however. offers the supposition the Carcharodons actually follow a very disciplined pattern of order, despite their seeming barbarism. but this was a thing all but impenetrable to outsiders. This distance was only worsened by the taciturn and withdrawn nature of the Chapter's warriors. Tarnus Vale also went on to describe their tactical deployments and use of shock-assault as highly reminiscent of those typical of the Black Templars, alongside which Vale had fought earlier in his career. Although in character the two Chapters were as far apart as light and dark, he saw their overriding and implacable desire to close with the enemy and shatter their foes in bloody personal combat as the same.
我们也观察到该战团非常粗略地符合阿斯塔特圣典中所制定的战术和小队（战斗）信条，不过至少在外人看来，他们的组织模式展现出了与圣典规定的指挥结构和连队配置的极大偏差。在某些情况中，他们几乎抛弃了圣典中几乎所有的标志和徽章，换用了个人化和通常高度图腾化的标记。不过，曾经与噬人鲨战团并肩作战过的火天使战团连长塔尔努司 瓦勒的报告中提出了一种假设：虽然噬人鲨战团看似野蛮，但他们实际上遵循着非常有纪律的秩序模式，不过这件事并不能被外人们所理解。该战团中星际战士们沉默寡言和孤僻的性格只会拉大这种距离。塔尔努司 瓦勒继续描述噬人鲨战团的战术部署和对于突击进攻（战法）的使用很能让人想起黑色圣堂战团典型战法——瓦勒曾在自己的早年生涯中与他们合作过。尽管两个战团的性格区别的就像光明与黑暗那样巨大，但瓦勒看出他们都有种压倒一切也难以平息的相同渴望，那就是在血腥的个人战斗中接近并撕碎他们的敌人。
Each Carcharodons Space Marine Company encountered during the Badab War operated in a fashion similar to a Codex Battle Company. but was augmented with an attached auxiliary force of Scouts and spearheaded by dedicated Terminator veterans who served as bodyguard to the Company's commanding captain. Of Codex-style reserve companies however, there appeared to be none within the Carcharodons' forces and it is highly likely that all of the Carcharodons companies conformed to the observed pattern.
我们在巴达布战争中遇到的每个噬人鲨星际战士连队都是以类似圣典战斗连队的形式进行运作，而且被增加了一支附属的侦察兵辅助部队与担任连队指挥连长卫队的指定终结者老兵们组成的矛头以进行强化。不过噬人鲨战团中似乎并不存在圣典风格的后备连队，很可能是（因为）所有的噬人鲨连队都遵循了这种被观察到的模式。
The Chapter also included both Chaplains and Librarians conforming to the roles ascribed to them by the Codex. although the Chapter's forces encountered during the Badab War seemed low in terms both of the number of Apothecaries and Techmarines in their ranks. However. this impression may simply have been because these two cadres remained in reserve with the Chapter fleet much of the time - this being far from an unknown practise with Chapters who spend large periods in isolation. This structure put the effective strength of each Carcharodon fighting company at around one hundred to a hundred and twenty Initiates and twenty-to-thirty neophyte Scouts. although the exact size and disposition of the Chapter as a whole remains unknown.
战团中也包括了牧师们和智库们，他们也符合圣典对于他们的职责界定，但出现在巴达布战争中的噬人鲨部队的药剂师和技术军士数量似乎都较少。不过，我们会产生这一印象可能仅仅是因为这两类人员大部分时候都留守在了战团舰队中——对于长时间处于孤立状态的战团来说，这么做也未尝不可。根据这套结构，每个噬人鲨战斗连队的有效兵力是大约一百到一百二十名战斗修士和二十到三十名侦察兵，不过我们仍不知晓整个战团的具体规模和战争配置。
While the Carcharodons were observed to maintain and utilise a sizable arsenal of armoured vehicles and heavy siege gear during the Badab conflict (which it used to good effect in their assault on Endymion Prime for example), large detachments of mobile Space Marine infantry were used as the Chapter's principal weapon and the bloody battle-prowess of the Carcharodons themselves was always relied on to carry the battle. Most tactical operations by the Chapter began with the use of small scouting forces and reconnaissance groups to infiltrate close to enemy positions to identify weak points and strategic targets of value, which once identified were subjected to overwhelming surprise attack. The strike forces used to conduct these lighting assaults would deploy directly into the line of fire by use of drop pods, Thunderhawks and other interface craft (which the Carcharodons operated in considerable numbers). and comprised a mix force of Space Marine tactical. assault and support troops. These forces. which relied on surprise to carry the assault rather than preparatory bombardments or armoured spearheads. proved particularly effective in attacking dug-in opponents and well defended bastions during the later Badab War. although were markedly different to the equally effective heavy siege assaults of the Minotaurs Chapter. On several observed occasions. where resistance proved unexpectedly severe or the enemy responded too rapidly, the Carcharodons would swiftly recall their forces again, leaving destruction to cover their wake. The Carcharodons' forces would circle the defended position again and try the attack from another quarter. If that failed another and another until a fatal weakness was found - all the time avoiding their own forces becoming bogged down in costly breaching actions or suffering heavy attrition. In concert with these intensive attacks, the Carcharodons utilised their fleet to conduct perilously close Terminator teleporter strikes in order to destroy the chances of co-ordinated resistance or decapitate enemy forces mid-battle.
同时噬人鲨战团也被观察到保有和使用着规模可观的装甲载具库存（比如在他们对于Endymion Prime的进攻中，这些装备发挥了良好效果），他们将移动的星际战士步兵组成的大型分遣队用作战团的首要武器，并且始终依靠噬人鲨星际战士本身血腥的战斗能力来作战。在大多数战术行动的开始阶段，噬人鲨战团会用小规模的侦查部队和侦察团队渗透接近敌人据点，识别出薄弱点和有价值的战略目标，这些目标一经发现就会遭到压倒性突袭，战团会用空降舱、雷鹰炮艇和其他对接载具（噬人鲨还在使用着相当数量的此类载具）直接将这些进行闪电突袭的打击部队部署到战线中，这些部队由星际战士的战术、突击和支援部队混合组成。这些部队依靠出其不意而非预备轰炸和装甲矛头来发动进攻，尽管与牛头怪战团同样有效的重型围攻明显不同，但在巴达布战争后期，这种部队在对付防御完备的堡垒和躲藏在战壕中的目标时被证明尤其高效。在许多抵抗出乎意料得顽强或敌人反应太快的情况中，噬人鲨战团会迅速再次召回的部队，只在身后留下毁灭，他们会再次环绕敌军的防守位置并尝试从另一角度进攻，倘若再次失败，那就再换一个角度，直到发现一个致命弱点——他们一直避免自己的部队陷入代价高昂的打开突破口行动或遭受严重的损耗。为了配合己方密集的攻击噬人鲨战团会利用战团舰队进行危险的近距离终结者传送打击，目的是摧毁敌方协同抵抗的机会或在战斗中斩首敌军。
