hh2节译：帝拳军团组织结构

At the time of Horus' betrayal, much of the early Legion structure remained in the Imperial Fists. Ever a practical leader, Rogal Dorn most likely saw little reason to change what had been proven to work. So it was that the base components of the Legion and the system of hierarchy used were little changed from its early days. As the Great Crusade progressed, however, the Legion's particular role and developing preferences for waging war began to change this. Along with the Legion's bias for recruitment, these factors created a number of key differences at every level of the Legion.

在荷鲁斯背叛帝国时，帝拳军团仍然保留了众多早期军团时代的结构。罗格 多恩曾经是一个务实的领导者，他很可能看不出有什么理由去改变已经被证明有效的东西。帝拳军团的基本组成部分和等级制度与早期相比几乎没有变化。不过，随着大远征的进行，军团的具体职能和对发动战争的喜好开始改变这一状况。伴随着军团在征召新兵方面的偏好，这些因素在军团的各个等级上造成了一些关键性的差异。

At the squad level, the Imperial Fists showed a noted schism in their dominant unit types as time passed. Firstly of note was the number of assault-configured units, which was very high, as were auxiliary units armed with specialised weaponry suited to the destruction of armour and fortifications. The second notable dominance was that of heavy weaponry ——whether mounted on vehicles or carried by Legionaries— which was selected not only for raw power but also foe its accuracy and adaptability in the field, with, for example, the multi-purpose missile launcher preferred over the arguably more indiscriminate autocannon and the precision and range of the lascannon over the shorter ranged multi-melta. The Imperial Fists were also amongst the strongest proponents of the development of Tactical Dreadnought Armour, and fielded a large number of squads equipped in all patterns of the so-called Terminator armour. Notably, they also were amongst the first to field significant numbers of the Indomitus pattern produced by the forges of Deimos. At the time of the Great Betrayal, they alone fielded Terminators armed with prototypes of the Absinia and Iliastus pattern assault cannon, retrofitted and rescaled from the Kheres pattern which had proved such a powerful addition to the Contemptor pattern Dreadnought chassis.

在小队层面上，随着时间的推移，帝国之拳在它们的主要单位类型中显示出明显的分裂。最为明显的是突击配置单位的数量非常多，装备有专门武器的辅助军单位也同样适用于摧毁装甲单位和防御公事。第二个显著影响是在重武器上——无论是安装在载具上还是由军团战士携带——帝拳们选择某件重武器不仅是因为它的自身火力，还因为它在战场上的准确性和适应性，比如，多用途导弹发射器优于自动炮——毕竟，可以说后者在开火时是更为不加区分的（机仆：导弹长眼，子弹不长眼）；激光炮的精准性和射程也优于射程更短的多管热熔。帝国之拳也是战术无畏动力甲发展最为坚定的支持者之一，而且帝国之拳的确拥有大量配置了这种也被称为终结者的动力甲的小队。很明显，帝拳也是第一批大量装备Deimos铸造的不屈型终结者动力甲（机仆：就是我们常说的t甲，狗头t甲）的军团。在大叛乱时期，帝拳军团独自部署了装备了Absinia 和Iliastus 型号突击炮原型机的终结者，这两种突击炮改造和重新调整自Kheres型号突击炮，后者在蔑视者无畏上已经被证明是强大的武器。

Above the squad was the company, in this case a formation which could vary in size from a few squads to several hundred Imperial Fists. The strength of companies often waxed and waned as they took casualties, or were bolstered by fresh recruits. No matter their size, each company was grouped into a battalion, and two battalions when paired were often referred to as a regiment, but latterly also called a "Crusade""or 'Household". Larger formations comprised of multiple companies were formed as needed for a particular task or deployment, rather than as standing units.

小队之上是连队，关于连队的规模，从几支小队到数百名帝国之拳星际战士不一而足。连队的兵力通常因遭受损失或征召到了新兵而起伏不定。无论他们的规模如何，每个连队被分成一个营，两个营成对行动时通常被称为一个团，后来也被称为一支“远征军”（机仆：crusade也可以称为十字军，事实上也有不少国内锤友称黑色圣堂战团的独立远征部队为“十字军”，至于为啥想必大家都懂）或者“王庭军”。更大规模的部队包含多个连队，它们并非长期单位，而是针对具体任务或者部署的需要而进行组建。

Within the Imperial Fists, there are many formations from squad to Household whose names and deeds shone bright in the days of the Great Crusade. To list the histories of them all would demand more than this text can bear, but even such an abbreviated inspection cannot pass over the Templars.

在帝拳军团当中，从小队到王庭军，很多部队的名称和事迹在大远征时期熠熠生辉。本文的篇幅不足以承载他们的所有历史，不过，虽然本文仅仅是一份如此简单审阅文本，但我们仍然不能忽视圣殿骑士们（机仆：后来的黑绿皮…其实话说回来黑色圣堂战团本名black templar，翻译过来就是“黑色圣殿骑士”）。

Raised by Rogal Dorn during the first decade of his command, the Templars were the warriors charged with guarding the Temple of Oaths aboard the Phalanx. No fane of superstition or misguided religion, this secular Temple was dedicated to the ideals of the Great Crusade and the sacrifices it demanded. There, beneath the tattered and burned banners of defeated enemies and the statues of dead heroes, the Imperial Fists returned to renew their perpetual oaths of loyalty to their Emperor and Primarch. Each oath made by a son of Dorn was carved on the walls, floor and ceiling, etched for all eternity in black granite. Besides Dorn and the Emperor, only the Templars were permitted to enter the Temple unbidden.

圣殿骑士们是在多恩指挥军团的前十年中被提拔起来的，他们是负责保卫山阵号上的誓言圣殿的战士们。他们未被迷信和邪教所误导过（机仆：…多恩反手给了黑骑士一个耳光，表示自己没这儿子，分家时叫他领着全体圣殿骑士滚蛋，滚的时候把永恒远征号一起带走。旁边的红拳哥哇地一声哭了出来…），谨以这座世俗的圣殿献给于大远征的理想和大远征所要求的牺牲。在这处圣所中，悬挂在高处的，是那些被击败的敌人破碎烧焦的军旗和战死的英烈们的塑像，在它们的俯视下，帝拳战士们回归此地，重温自己忠于帝皇和原体的永恒誓言，每位多恩子嗣发下的每条誓言都被雕刻在墙上、地板上与天花板上，永远被铭刻在黑色花岗岩上。除了帝皇与多恩，只有圣殿骑士们被允许自由进入圣殿（其他人想要进入圣殿需要有原体的命令）。

Nominally the First Company of the Imperial Fists, the Templars' strength rarely fell below 1,000 warriors, and their members were drawn from veterans across the Legion. Skill at arms was not enough to earn such a responsibility; each Templar was a warrior in whom the crusader light had come to burn with undimming brightness, and zealous, remorseless and tempered by decades of war, they were exemplars of what it was to be an Imperial Fist of the Great Crusade.

作为名义上的帝国之拳第一连队，圣殿骑士的兵力几乎从不低于一千人，他们选拔自全军团的老兵们。仅仅战技高超还不足以胜任这份职责：每位圣殿骑士都是远征军中燃烧着永恒光芒的明灯，他们狂热无情，经受了数十载战火的锤炼，他们是大远征时期帝拳军团的典范。

Legion Command Hierarchy

军团指挥等级体系

Rogal Dorn was the complete master of his Legion. Every warrior under his command knew that above all else they served their Primarch, and beyond him the Emperor. All others, be they Primarchs or lords of high renown, were nothing besides the clear line of authority which descended from the Master of Mankind. Complete and total obedience was demanded by Dorn and given by each Imperial Fist from the lowest warrior to the most exalted captain.

罗格 多恩完全掌控着他的军团。他指挥的每名战士都知道最重要的就是为原体服务，除此之外就是为帝皇而战。至于所有其他人，无论对方是原体还是声名显赫的领主，都仅仅是人类之主授予的明确职权。多恩要求完全绝对的服从，每个帝国之拳战士，从级别最低的战士到最为尊贵的连长都要做到完全的服从。

Beneath Dorn were the senior captains of the Legions regiments. Crusades and Households. Unlike other Primarchs, Dorn maintained no fixed inner circle of advisors or senior lieutenants. Ever the pragmatist, he is said to have once remarked to Horus that his counsellors were whoever were there to stand beside him in battle. Beneath the senior captains were the line captains and centurions who led the Legion's battalions and companies. This technically made the captains of the Legion the most senior ranks beneath the Primarch himself . In reality a second layer of authority existed above them, that of the fleet masters, siege masters, appointed theatre commanders and marshals and ultimately the First Captain.

多恩之下是军团各团，远征军和王庭军的高级连长们（机仆：这结构怎么这么眼熟…）。不同于其他原体，多恩并不保有顾问或高级副手们构成的固定核心圈子（机仆：俗称内环…yysy内部小圈子不是da特色，30k基本各军团都有类似组织，比如ba的第一天球，nl的夜幅议会，月狼的影月议会之类的）。作为实用主义者，据说多恩曾经告诉荷鲁斯：我的谋士就是那些与我并肩作战的人。高级连长之下是率领军团各营和连队的连长和百夫长们。严格来讲，这让军团的连长们成为了原体本人之下级别最高的军官。事实上，在他们之上还有第二层掌权军官，他们是舰队之主，攻城大师，被任命的战区指挥官和元帅，以及第一连长。

A master of a fleet held complete authority over it for a fixed time or until a campaign was complete. Selected for their skill in void warfare in a Legion which excelled in that theatre, the fleet masters represented many of the Imperial Fists' finest strategists. Likewise, siege masters were charged with arraying and overseeing the forces engaged in a siege, and had total authority over units engaged in that action. It is a mark of the importance Rogal Dorn placed on these two methods of warfare that those who commanded in such theatres were raised to positions that could only be overruled by the Primarch himself

在一段固定的时间内或直到战役结束之前，舰队之主对其部队拥有完全的权限。帝拳军团精通虚空战，舰队之主们因为自己的虚空战能力而被挑选出来，他们代表了军团中许多最为优秀的战术家。同样的，攻城大师们负责部署和监督参与围攻战的部队，而且对于参战的部队拥有完全的权限。这标志着罗加尔·多恩对这两种战术的重视，那些在这样的战场上指挥过的人被提升到只能由原体本人自己进行否决的地位。

Besides the Pnmarch, only one other position commanded unconditional authority over the Legion as a whole. The First Captain of the Imperial Fists was also always the commander of the Templars, and by tradition the finest proven warrior within the Legion. As guardian of the oaths of every Imperial Fists warrior, the First Captain held not only great authority, but commanded respect from all of his brothers.

除了原体之外，只有只有一名军官有权命令整个军团无条件接受自己的命令——帝拳军团的第一连长，他也是圣殿骑士的指挥官，以及第七军团公认的原体之下第一人。作为每一名帝拳战士的守誓人，第一连长不仅拥有巨大的权力，而且获得了所有战斗兄弟的尊崇。

Additional titles existed for those who commanded permanent fortresses built by the Legion. Such stewardships were concerned chiefly with the maintenance of defences and the raising of recruits, but also command in time of siege. Such duties were usually temporary, with the incumbent returning after a time to the main forces of the Great Crusade. The titles of castellan and Legion seneschal were subtly different in both the honour and duties they bestowed, but both were of sufficient weight that their bearers retained the title even after they were returned to the rest of the Great Crusade.

那些指挥由军团建造的永久要塞的人还拥有其他头衔。这些要塞管理者的工作主要与维持防御和征召新兵有关，但在围攻战时期也要负责指挥作战。这类任务通常是暂时的，当前的驻军会在一段时间后回到了大远征的主力部队。堡主和军团庭管这两个头衔所赋予的荣誉和职责有微妙的不同，但是这两个头衔都有足够的分量，头衔的持有者们即使回到了大远征的主力部队，也会仍然保留自己的头衔。

War Disposition

战争配置

At the time of the Isstvan III atrocity, the bulk of the Imperial Fists were returning to Terra with Rogal Dorn. Though the Emperor had called all of the Imperial Fists to Terra, in practice such a total withdrawal from the Great Crusade would have been impossible. Some forces stayed on the edge of the Great Crusade to complete campaigns or individual duties. Other forces remained scattered across the Legions fortresses and bastions, and still others had yet to rendezvous with the bulk of the Legion.

在伊斯特万三号暴行发生时，一大半帝国之拳军团正在跟随多恩返回泰拉。虽然帝皇已经命令所有帝国之拳阿斯塔特返回泰拉，但在实际操作中，从大远征中进行这样一场全面回撤基本是不可能的。有些部队留在大远征的边缘来自完成战役或者独立任务，其他部队仍然散布在军团的要塞和堡垒中，另外还有一些部队尚未和军团的主力会合。

The strength of the Imperial Fists was never in its numbers. Though not small, their tally of warriors during the Great Crusade rarely rose above 100,000. At the time of their withdrawal to Terra, the Legions records show that the Temple held the oaths of 98,356 living warriors, although such a number cannot be taken as accurate. The vagaries of Warp travel, Astropathic communication and the volume of space across which the Great Crusade was fought means that all that can be certain is that this tally is nothing more than a plausible estimation.

帝国之拳的优势并不在于他的兵力总数。虽然第七军团的规模并不小，但在大远征时期，帝拳的兵力记录几乎从未超过10万。当他们撤回泰拉时，军团记录显示圣典中铭刻了98,356活着的战士的誓言，不过这一数字也不能作为准确数据加以采用。亚空间航行的变幻莫测，星语通讯和大远征所跨越的空间意味着这样一个情况：我们可以确定，这个统计数字不过是一个似是而非的估计

Aside from the number of its Space Marines, no review of the strength of the Imperial Fists can be complete without noting the strength of their fleet. At the time of the Horus Heresy, the Imperial Fists had over 1,500 warships under their direct command, and many more bonded by oath and fealty. This naval might was the greatest of any of the Legiones Astartes, and was further enhanced by the fact that many of the ships were the largest in the Imperium. Even the Sons of Horus and the Ultramarines could not rival such strength alone.

除了星际战士的数量，不考虑舰队实力的话就无法完成对帝国之拳军团力量的评估。在荷鲁斯叛乱时期，帝国之拳直接指挥着超过1500艘战舰，而且还有更多的舰船被誓言和忠诚与他们捆绑在一起。这支海军可能是阿斯塔特军团中最为强大的，另一个事实也加强了这一点：其中的许多战舰是帝国中最为庞大的战舰。即便是荷鲁斯之子和极限战士与无力独自匹敌这样一支舰队。