hh6节译：远征军代表团

The Crusader Host

At the conclusion of the Unification Wars, the Legions stood upon the precipice of launching the Great Crusade, to depart the Sol System in a great many cases never to return. Before leaving at the head of the first great Expeditionary fleets, each of the Legions mustered a party of Legionaries who would remain on Terra and stand as their representatives before the Terran Council in all matters in which the Legions held a stake. In addition, they would serve as an honour guard to watch over Terra and all that the Unification Wars had won Mankind. Perhaps most importantly, they would record the names of those Legionaries who would lay down their lives conquering the great darkness beyond the light of Sol, so that no sacrifice would ever be forgotten. In accepting this honour, the Legionaries of the Crusader Host would be making an equally great sacrifice, for they would partake in none of the glory their brothers would win and all their victories would be won by proxy。

在统一战争结束时，阿斯塔特军团站到了推进大远征的前沿，他们将在很多情况下离开太阳系，永不还乡。在第一支伟大的远征探索舰队离开的前夕，每个军团都召集起了一群战士，这些战士们将会留在泰拉，而且当军团参与所有事务时，他们都要在泰拉议会面前担任军团的代表。另外，他们还要担任荣誉护卫来守望泰拉与人类在统一战争中赢得的一切。可能他们最为重要的工作，就是记录那些为征服太阳系光芒之外的广阔黑暗地带而牺牲生命的战士们，这样便没有哪份牺牲会被遗忘。要接受这份荣誉，远征军代表团中的军团战士们就要做出同等伟大的牺牲，他们无法参与到同胞兄弟们赢得的荣誉当中，他们的所有胜利同时通过担任军团代表赢取的。

When the Warmaster's betrayal was revealed at Isstvan III, the members of the Crusader Host were as one incarcerated by the Praetorian of Terra, the Primarch Rogal Dorn. If such as Horus could turn, then who among the Host could be trusted? At length, Dorn was satisfied that those of the Host drawn from his own Legion were sound in their loyalties and he ordered them freed. Of the remainder, each is a tale in its own right. Some escaped, their fates unknown. A small number were freed on condition of their performing some great and vital task, such as service in the ranks of the Knights-Errant. The ultimate fate of many of the Crusader Host is bound up in the events of the climax of the Horus Heresy, when total war came at last to Terra, but that is a tale best accounted when at last it is time to do so.

当战帅的背叛在伊斯特万三号上被揭露时，泰拉禁卫官——原体罗格 多恩将远征军代表团的成员们一视同仁地关押起来。如果荷鲁斯这样的人可以背叛帝国，那么在代表团当中谁又可以被信任？最后，多恩确信那些从自己的帝国之拳军团中挑选出的代表团成员保持着忠诚，他命令释放帝拳军团的代表们。至于其他人，每个人都有自己的故事。某些人逃走了，他们的命运未知。少部分人被释放，条件是他们要去执行某些重要任务，比如加入游侠骑士部队服役。很多远征军代表的最终命运与荷鲁斯叛乱高潮——全面战争最终到达泰拉时的事件捆绑在一起，不过关于这些故事，我们至少要在恰当的时候再考虑。