HH7节译：战将—灾厄泰坦

The Warlord-Sinister

In information given to the Council of Terra by the Ordo Sinister's representative, an officer of the Order styled Prefect Kelner Anahat, it was confirmed with authenticated patents that the organisation of the Ordo Sinister was arranged and provisioned entirely to an exacting order laid out by the writ and dictate of the Emperor, from which it could not deviate nor innovate upon pain of destruction. It comprised four allied but self-contained fortress crypts— each with their own defences, support staffs menials and techno-arcanists, all in support of a 'Chamber', each comprising five specially modified Warlord Titans. These god-engines, properly classified as Terranic pattern Warlord-Sinister Psi-Titans, were each rebuilt around an Emperor-designed psychic amplification matrix device called the Ciricrux Anima. In place of the standard Titan configuration of mind-impulse units, it was this which controlled and empowered the Warlord-Sinister and in place of the moderatii that would normally crew a battle Titan, the Psi-Titans were instead crewed by what might be considered the damned— bound psykers surgically locked in place and slaved to the will of the Preceptor-Intendant who mastered the god-engine in place of a Princeps. By direct cortical control, the power and spirit of the bound psykers were siphoned off and focused by the arcane technologies of the Ciricrux Anima, the baleful device that truly makes the Psi-Titan what it is. This energy was controlled by a techno-arcane interface quite unlike that of a standard configuration mind impulse unit, while much of the Psi-Titan’s other functions were slaved to sub-automata systems and machine spirit homunculi. Set at the heart of the storm of these energies, the Preceptor-Intendant sat in a shielded command crucible in the Titan's head. But even this was insufficient to entirely protect them from the psychic forces at play, and so each Titan commander of the Ordo Sinister was a psychic blank, an 'Untouchable', but selected it would seem on entirely different criteria from those who served within the Sisters of Silence or the Culexus Clade, and cybemetically augmented to allow for human-machine interface. Although in his testimony Prefect Kelner Anahat would not be drawn on his or his comrades' recruitment or training, he did state that of the psykers bound within the Warlords-Sinister that "for some, it was a punishment for their crimes, and others, a blessed relief from their torments, and that... a balance was maintained in order that optimum conditions were met". He would also not be drawn on the rate the bound psykers were exhausted by the process.

在恶兆修会的代表——被称为长官凯尔纳 阿那哈特的修会军官呈递给泰拉议会的信息中，有一项内容得到的确切证明：恶兆修会的组织（结构）完全是根据帝皇颁布的严苛命令进行安排和提供补给，（任何人都）不得对此加以偏离和创新，违者将遭受毁灭。修会由四座彼此结盟但又保持自给自足的要塞地宫组成，每座地宫都有自己的防御（体系）、后勤仆役和科技秘术师，这一切都是用于支援某一个“分会”，而每个分会都由五台经过特殊改造的战将泰坦组成。这些神之机械实际上被分类为泰拉型战将—灾厄灵能泰坦，它们是围绕帝皇设计出的灵能放大矩阵设备——灵魂圣环重建而成的。这种设备替代了标准型号泰坦中配备的意识脉冲单元，负责控制和驱动战将—灾厄型泰坦；而且恶兆修会也并未使用那些通常负责驾驶战斗泰坦的驾驶员们，相反，驾驶灵能泰坦的是一群被认为是受诅咒者的人们——被用外科手术固定锁闭在原地的受缚灵能者，他们遭受着以机长身份掌控着神之机械的督管导师的意识的奴役。凭借直接的脑皮质控制手段，灵魂圣环的奥秘技术将受缚灵能者的力量和精神吸走并聚集起来，正是这种恶毒的设备真正使灵能泰坦成为了神兵利器。这种能量由一个（用）科技秘术（制成）的接口进行控制，其与（其他泰坦）标配的意识脉冲单元完全不同，同时灵能泰坦的大部分其他功能都是由半自动系统和机魂精怪们控制。位于这团能量风暴核心位置的，是坐在泰坦头部受防护的指挥舱中的督管导师。但即便如此，也不足以完全保护他们在使用灵能力量时免受影响，所以恶兆修会的每位泰坦指挥官都是灵能空白者——即“不可接触者”，但挑选灵能泰坦指挥官所遵循的标准似乎与寂静修女和邱利萨斯神庙的选人标准完全不同，并且指挥官们要为使用人机接口而进行智控强化。凯尔纳 阿那哈特并未在自己的证词中提到自己和同僚们的征召和受训过程，但他确实提到了那些被束缚在战将—恶兆型泰坦机体内的灵能者们，“对他们中的某些人而言，这是对他们罪行的惩罚；而其他人则是在折磨中得到了幸福的解脱，而且…在乐观的情况中，平衡会得到维持”。他也没有提到该过程中受缚灵能者们被耗尽的速率。

Through the use of the Ciricrux Anima, a Warlord-Sinister is able to project psychic phenomena on a truly gargantuan scale, although without any of the nuance or fine manipulation available to an individual trained psyker. These phenomena include waves of preternatural fear, psychokinetic effects, biomantic leaching of life in the immediate area and even the temporal distortion-based reversion of damage to the Titan itself. But the most devastating use of the psychic potential of the Ciricrux Anima is the focusing of its power through a unique weapon system, the Sinistramanus Tenebrae. This is a hybrid of strange technologies, more akin to a mutilated warp engine in design than a conventional weapon, but it serves to focus the psychic antipathy of the bound psykers into a fracture in reality—a fracture, much like the forced warp-breach inherent in vortex weaponry which is then channelled and released as a projectile of nightmarishly destructive force. Where the projectile ——which manifests as a sphere or bolt of 'darkness' as it eats the light of whatever medium it passes through before striking dense matter— detonates, it causes complete annihilation in the immediate impact area, as what was there is disassembled and hurled bodily into the Empyrean molecule by molecule until the mercifully brief rupture self-seals. Those in the wider area of the impact are simply struck dead, their bodies left unmarked as if their souls had been sheared from their bodies. While vortex warhead ordnance is both more powerful in its blast and limited in range only by its function, the Sinistramanus Tenebrae psi-cannon has the advantage that it may be fired repeatedly, at least while the strength of those on board lasts to power it.

通过使用灵魂圣环，一台战将—灾厄型泰坦就能在一片非常巨大的区域中生成灵能现象，（其表现）与一个受过训练的灵能者没有任何细微差别。这些现象包括（让人产生）一阵又一阵的超自然恐惧、念力效应和让附近区域的生命出现生物过滤现象，甚至是对泰坦本身造成基于时间扭曲的伤害逆转。但对于灵魂圣环的灵能潜力最具毁灭性的用法是通过一套独一无二的武器系统——黯灭之手聚集能量。这套装备是怪异技术的混合物，其设计更类似损坏的亚空间引擎而非常规武器。它能将被束缚的灵能者的灵能力量集中起来，在现实空间形成一道裂缝——这条裂缝非常类似漩涡武器强行制造的亚空间破口，然后被引导并释放出一种梦魇般的破坏性力量。黯灭之手投射出的物体表现为一团“黑暗”的球体或闪电，它在撞击到致密物体前会吞噬所有介质中的光。当被引爆时，它会对周边的撞击区域造成彻底毁灭，原本存在于撞击区域中的东西会被分解，分子都被一个又一个地丢进至高天，直到这条裂隙自动封闭——不幸中的万幸是，这道裂缝是短暂存在的。那些身处更广阔撞击区域内的人们会直接死亡，尸体上不会有任何痕迹，就像灵魂被从身上割下来一般。虽然旋涡弹头的爆炸威力更强大且射程仅受其功能的限制，但黯灭之手灵能炮的优点是可以反复开火——至少在机体内的灵能者们为其持续供能时是这样的。