IA2节译：圣物西卡然战斗坦克

The Sicaran is one of the rarest relic tanks in the possession of the Adeptus Astarte, and while there are larger vehicles secreted deep within their armouries, most require extensive and time consuming rites of reactivation to bring back to life. The Sicaran in contrast, so some Techmarines state, slumbers lightly, even fitfully, ever ready to heed the call of the Master of Relics and continue the wars of a bygone age.

西卡然战斗坦克是阿斯塔特修会所拥有的最稀有圣物坦克之一。星际战士军械库的深处隐藏着更大型的载具，其中大多数都需要用漫长且耗时的复活仪式来令其复苏。但西卡然则相反，所以某些技术军士声称西卡然是处于浅层甚至断断续续的睡眠中，它们随时准备回应圣物之主的召唤，并继续进行过往时代的战争。

Many adepts of the machine deny that the Sicaran is anything but a myth, an imagined or at best half-remembered phantom of an age long ago shrouded in blood and shadow. Others, especially more senior Techmarines, know that the Sicaran is real and once served the Legions Astartes as they prosecuted the wars of the Great Crusade. They know that it survives into the 41st Millennium and may still occasionally be seen upon the battlefield, its potent Herakles pattern accelerator autocannon spitting a torrent of deadly accurate, rapid fire death at the foes of the Emperor.

很多机械教士都否认西卡然的存在，他们认为西卡然只是一个神话传说，是一种被人们想象或顶多是人们记忆不清的幻影，来自于某个很久之前便被隐藏于鲜血和阴影中的时代。而其他教士，尤其是那些级别地位更高的技术军士们则知道西卡然战斗坦克是真实存在的，也知道他们曾在大远征的战争中服务于阿斯塔特军团。他们还知道西卡然幸存到了第41个千年，而且人们可能偶尔还会在战场上看到它们，其强悍的赫拉克勒斯型速射炮向帝皇之敌们喷射出精准且快速的致命炮火激流。

The Sicaran is possessed of some of the most advanced and therefore ill-understood machine systems, and it is the subject of deep-rooted awe and superstition, even amongst the most venerable Masters of the Forge.

西卡然配备了某些最先进也因此而令人难以理解的机械系统，哪怕是最可敬的铸造之主也对其抱有根深蒂固的敬畏和迷信。

Even when held in stasis, the Sicaran must be ministered to constantly by its overseers, never less than a score of servo-lectors combining their efforts to ensure the machine's continued rest, as should the Sicaran awake before being called, its machine spirit is prone to behave in an unpredictable manner.

哪怕是在保存于静滞状态时，看护者们也必须不停地照看着西卡然坦克，负责联手协作让机械处于持续休眠中的伺服讲经者永远不能少于20名，因为倘若西卡然战斗坦克在被召唤之前便醒来的话，其机魂会倾向于按不可预料的方式做出行为。

Some witnesses of such a premature awakening have reported a baleful, all-too aware glow emanating from the vehicle, cyclopic primary auspex block. Others have heard garbled battle-cant from an age long passed sputtering from its vox systems, clipped orders and vengeful oaths flying back and forth across a non-existent vox net using terms unknown to the warriors of the 41st Millennium.

某些目睹过西卡然战斗坦克过早苏醒事件的人们声称：自己看到了载具上独目的主鸟卜仪散发出恶毒且过于敏感的光芒。其他目击者则听到音频通讯系统中传出噼啪作响的声音——那是从很久之前流传下来的战斗黑话，简短的命令和复仇的誓言在一个不存在的音频网络上来回传递，而且使用的术语并不为第41个千年的战士们所知。

Stasis chambers housing slumbering Sicaran battle tanks are therefore commonly sealed with the most potent of wards, their blast doors smothered in blessed wax and fluttering Purity seals, and the air all about is heavy with the most sacred of incense and the continuous chants of the servo-lectors echo down passageways where few dare to tread without the express leave of the Master of the Forge. 

因此，安置沉睡中西卡然战斗坦克的静滞舱通常会被用最强大的安保舱室来进行封存，防爆门上覆盖满了受祝的蜡封和飘动的纯洁封印，空气中弥漫着最神圣的焚香，伺服讲经者们不断吟唱着的圣歌回荡在过道中——在未曾得到铸造之主明确许可的情况下，几乎无人胆敢涉足此地。

The Sicaran represents a rarity amongst the battle tanks of the Adeptus Astartes, for it is not a variant of the Rhino or the Land Raider. Its hull is a unique pattern, thought by the most knowledgeable of adepts to have been commissioned by a Primarch of the Legones Astartes in the long lost, golden age of the Great Crusade.The tank combines numerous highly advanced and all but forgotten technologies, their capabilities far exceeding the sum of their parts. Its engine is capable of far greater output than its mass would suggest, meaning the tank can carry heavier armour than others of its size while travelling at a greater speed. It mounts a number of autonomous systems, including auto-drive and auto-aim mechanisms that require little in the way of attention from the Space Maine crew, but the most potent system the Sicaran carries however are its twin, turret-mounted accelerator autocannon, which are capable of a rate of tire and degree of accuracy far in excess of most other weapons of their class .It is likely that variant sub-types of the Sicaran must once had existed, perhaps mounting such legendary weapons as the graviton cannon or the volkite carronade, but if this is the case, no such examples are known to exist even within the stasis chambers of the most ancient of Chapters.

西卡然是阿斯塔特修会战斗坦克中的一件珍品，因为它并非兰德掠夺者或犀牛运输车的改型。其车体型号是独一无二的，而且是在某位阿斯塔特军团原体的委托下，由最为博学多才的专家于早已失落的大远征黄金时期构思设计而成的。这种坦克融合了诸多极其先进但也几乎被（现代人）遗忘的科技，它们的能力远超过各部分的总和。西卡然引擎所产生的（动力）输出远比推动车体质量所需的力量大得多，这也就意味着相比于和其他同尺寸的载具，西卡然能装备更厚重的装甲，同时还能以更快的速度前进。西卡然安装了很多自动系统，其中就包括自动驾驶和自动瞄准设备，星际战士乘员们几乎无需对其加以关注。不过西卡然战斗坦克最强大的系统是其安装在炮塔上的双联速射自动炮，此类武器的射速和精度都远远超过了同级别的其他武器。西卡然战斗坦克可能也必定存在过各种各样的次级类型，它们或许安装了诸如重力炮或爆燃臼炮之类传奇般的武器。但倘若如此的话，即使是那些（历史）最古老战团的静滞室里也并不存在此种实例。

As with so many other relic war machines, the Sicaran is only rarely committed to the war zones of the 41st Millennium.No functioning STC imprints are known to exist, making it all but impossible to produce new vehicles to replace battlefield losses. For many Techmarines, the recovery of this long lost machine canon represents a lifetime's ambition whilst others continue to stubbornly deny that such a war machine ever existed at all, whilst others secretly believe, that this is the sacred STC imprint so long sought after by the disciples of Arkhan Land. 

就像很多其他圣物战争机器那样，西卡然战斗坦克在第41个千年很少被投入战场。已知（目前）并不存在可运行西卡然STC模板的迹象，所以要通过生产新载具来弥补战场损失几乎是不可能的。对很多技术军士而言，寻回这种早已失传的机械精品是其一生的宏愿；而其他技术军士仍旧继续地顽固否认此类战争机器曾经存在过。同时还有某些其他的技术军士们在背地里相信：阿坎 兰德的门徒们在长期寻找此种神圣STC模板的踪迹。