hh3节译：钢铁勇士军团战争配置

War Disposition

For the Iron Warriors Legion, the Horus Heresy came as the culmination of a series of reversals and fell tragedies that had, in recent years, stalked the Legion and by their effect both deranged and twisted its psyche. Foremost of these had been the rebellion of Olympia, the seat of the Legion's domain in the Meratara Cluster and foundling world of their Primarch Perturabo. With Dammekos, the long-lived Tyrant of Lochos and Satrap of Olympia finally dead, the tangled and viperous politics of Olympia had once more developed into infighting and vendetta. The violence and division flared up more bitterly than ever before because of the changes the Imperium had wrought on the world and the discontent bred by generations of the planets finest youth having been culled for the Legion, never to return.The shocking news of the rebellion struck at the heart of the Legion and its master, and could not have come at a worse time. For over a year, the Iron Warriors Legion had been involved in the almost single-handed suppression of a major infestation of the noisome xenoform known as 'Hrud'(or the Temporaferrox as they are referred to in certain records) across several worlds of the Sak'trada Deeps. All such actions in the history of the Great Crusade have proved costly both in terms of lives and the sanity of those who must fight such nightmares, and this was to prove no exception.

对钢铁勇士军团而言，荷鲁斯叛乱是一系列的逆转和悲剧高潮，这些事件在叛乱即将爆发的几年中纠缠着第四军团，它们也扰乱并扭曲了军团的精神。其中最严重的是奥林匹亚世界——铁勇军团在Meratara群星中的封地与原体佩图拉博被遗弃到的世界的叛乱。随着达梅库斯——长寿的Lochos僭主和奥林匹亚总督最终去世，奥林匹亚的纠结和暴政再次恶化为内斗和仇杀。由于帝国为此地带来的变化和数代优秀青年被军团挑选带走所导致的不满，暴力和分歧变得比以往任何时候都更为苦涩，一切都永远无法挽回。母星叛乱的惊人消息震惊了军团的核心与他们的主宰，而且这一切发生在了一个最糟糕的时间。在超过一年的时间中，钢铁勇士军团在单枪匹马地压制被称为“赫鲁徳”（在某些记录中它们被称为“锈时者”）的恶心异形种族遍布Sak'trada深渊多个世界的严重侵扰。在大远征的历史中，此类行动被证明会对那些必须与这种噩梦般的异形交战的战士们造成生理和精神上的损坏，而且这种情况被证明毫无例外。

Forced to contend with the violent disruptions in the fabric of time, storms of solar flares and tectonic instability attendant on these incomprehensible entities, as well as the malign technology wielded by the creatures themselves, the Iron Warriors Legion is estimated to have lost more than a fifth of its then active strength in a campaign located far from the border of the Imperium and what to many seemed a doomed and purposeless expedition under 一what appeared at least— to be direct orders from Terra. Following on the heels of the recent savage casualties they had suffered in the Great Crusades service, the rebellion on Olympia was a wound that could not be borne.

钢铁勇士军团被迫与（赫鲁徳造成）的时间编织结构的暴力破坏、太阳耀斑风暴和这些难以理解的实体带来的地质构造不稳定性，以及这些生物本身使用的恶毒科技进行抗争，我们估计第四军团在这场远离帝国边境的会战中损失了超过五分之一的有生兵力，在很多人看来，这是一场注定失败也毫无目标的远征，而且至少看起来是有来自泰拉的直接命令。在钢铁勇士军团已经在大远征中遭受了新近严重损失的情况下，奥林匹亚叛乱的消息紧随而至，这份伤痛令第四军团无法忍受。

Leaving a sacrificial force in his wake to finish the fight against the alien horrors at any and all costs, Perturabo brought his Legion home in murderous wrath. Olympia burned, mountain citadels were cast down and whole cities of the Iron Warriors' own kin were put to the sword. With a bitter rage that bordered on madness, it was Perturabo who shattered with his own hands the defences of Lochos he himself had raised in a former age. To their own blood and kith he and his Iron Warriors had shown no mercy, and in the aftermath millions were left dead, and Olympia and its planetary system brutally enslaved. Amid the ruins of once-fair Olympia, it is said by some that Perturabo and his Legion finally knew despair at what they had unleashed, and horror and guilt at what they had become. But by others it is said that the Legions last shreds of self-deceit fled them and the Iron Warriors and their Primarch saw the truth of their souls for the first time, and embraced darkness. It was to many in the Imperium a shocking crime of self-destruction, but it was one to which the authority of the Warmaster gave licence and the veneer of justice.

佩图拉博在身后丢下一支牺牲性部队，命令他们不惜一切代价来结束与这些令人厌恶的异星人之间的战斗，自己则带着杀人的怒火率领军团返回故乡。奥林匹亚被焚灭，群山堡垒被摧毁，军团战士的亲属们居住的整座城市都遭到了屠杀。在近乎疯狂的苦涩狂怒中，佩图拉博亲手击碎了Lochos城邦——他年轻时长大的故园的防线。原体和他的钢铁勇士们没有对自己的血亲和乡邻们表现出任何的仁慈，之后有数百万人丧生，奥林匹亚和它的星系遭到了残酷奴役。在奥林匹亚这个曾经公正的世界的废墟中，有些人说佩图拉博和他的军团终于对他们释放的东西感到绝望，他们惊恐和愧罪于自己成为做出此等暴行的人；其他人则说第四军团丢掉了自己最后一丝自欺欺人的幻想，钢铁勇士们和他们的原体第一次看到了自己灵魂中的真相，他们也就欣然接受了黑暗。对帝国大众而言，奥林匹亚事件是一次自我毁灭的惊人罪行，但是战帅的权力给予了（第四军团）许可，而且披上了审判的虚假外衣。

In the wake of this tragedy, the Legion retreated further into a private world of bleak violence and bitter paranoia. It brutally oppressed the worlds it garrisoned with renewed savagery and unleashed genocidal force upon the first hint of open rebellion, with many of its commanders growing ever more unhinged and isolated from the Imperium they served.

在这场悲剧之后，军团带着凄凉的暴力和苦涩偏执退缩到了某个私人世界。他们残酷地压迫着这些世界，带着新生出的野蛮残暴驻扎在这里。只要一有公开叛乱的迹象，他们便会派出执行种族灭绝任务的部队，军团的很多指挥官远离帝国，他们变得更为精神错乱。

At the time of the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, the Iron Warriors Legion is estimated to have had an active strength of between 150,000 and 180,000 Legiones Astartes, along with a very substantial war fleet of over a hundred Capital class vessels. More accurate assessment than this is, however, impossible given the considerable portion of sub-deployments and garrisons that were maintained by the Legion scattered across the Imperium and its increasingly isolationist tendencies in the years before the war. It is believed that the Legion had further accelerated its indoctrination and recruiting program, as well as local shipbuilding at Olympia in the lead-up to the rebellion, and so the lower division of these estimates may indeed be erroneous.

在荷鲁斯叛乱爆发时，钢铁勇士军团的有生兵力据推测在150,000到180,000名军团阿斯塔特，而且拥有一支超过一百艘主力舰的战争舰队。不过，考虑到军团保有了大量分散在帝国中的次级部署单位和驻军，以及他们在战争前数年中的孤立主义倾向，进行更为准确的估计也是不可能。我们相信钢铁勇士军团进一步加速了意识灌输和征兵过程，奥林匹亚当地的造船厂也为叛乱做了准备，因此，将这些估算值的下限进行划分确实是错误的。

Further to this the Legion, according to evidence uncovered later, appears to have increased its ties to certain factions of the Mechanicum and the Legio Cybernetica in particular during this period, and is believed to have begun to shelter some renegade or outcast elements of the Machine Cult under Perturabos protection. It is also known to have raised up from the ashes of Olympia a fanatically loyal and highly trained human auxiliary force, the Thorakata, as a fool of oppression and client army in its own right, to serve the Legion. These measures can now be seen as the beginning of the bloody Empire of lron, centred on damned Olympia, that was to take root in the years that followed of rebellion and civil war.

此外，根据后来发现的证据，钢铁勇士军团似乎尤其是在这一时期加强了与机械神教某些派系和智控军团之间的联系，我们相信军团开始窝藏一些由佩图拉博庇护的机械教派变节者或被放逐者。而且我们也知道从奥林匹亚的灰烬中崛起了一支狂热忠诚且高度训练的凡人辅助军——佩章卫队，他们是一支效忠于第四军团的镇压和委托者部队。现在看来，这些措施是在开始建立一个以被诅咒的奥林匹亚世界为中心的血腥钢铁帝国，它将在叛乱和内战之后的岁月中扎下根基。

So it was that, rotting from within with loathing and bitter spite, the iron facade the Legion presented to the Imperium hid the extent of how rapidly and how deeply it had descended into homicidal madness; until at last it was called on to help in the punishment of the rebellious Warmaster on Isstvan V, and the dark truth was revealed.

就这样，钢铁勇士军团带着仇恨与苦楚的情绪从内部腐坏了，他们展现跟帝国的钢铁外表掩盖了他们是多么快速和严重得沦为了一群嗜杀的狂徒；直到他们最终被召唤去惩戒伊斯特万五号上反叛的战帅，他们才揭露出自己的黑暗真相。