8版机械修会圣典节译：卡斯特兰机兵与智控数匠

KASTELAN ROBOTS

卡斯特兰机兵

The Kastelan Robot combines tremendous physical might with a rugged stamina that has seen it fight the Imperium’s foes for ten thousandyears.Indeed,some of the relic robots have existed much longer still.As robotic technology stems from an age prior to the foundation of the Imperium,many forge worlds believe a number of their battle automata survive from those dark times.As damaged robot parts are cannibalised to make repairs upon machines that still function,such claims are doubtless at least partially correct.

卡斯特兰机器人结合了已经在十个千年中见证它们打击帝国之敌的强大的身体力量和坚固的持久力力。事实上，某些遗物机器人的存在时间要久远得多。由于机器人技术起源于帝国建立之前的时代，很多铸造世界相信他们的许多自动机兵是从这些黑暗时代幸存下来的。被损坏的机器人部分被拆解为零件后可用在修复其他仍在运作的机械上，所以这种推测无疑至少是部分正确的。

Standing nearly twice the height of a Space Marine,the Kastelan Robot is a nigh unstoppable force,for it is built of solid metal with a ceramite hide that allows it to stride through hails of fire without pause.In addition to thick armour,they are protected by a wonder from a bygone age–the repulsor grid.The invisible shield emanates outward from each robot with a deep thrumming sound, its force capable of stopping all but the most powerful of shots.

卡斯特兰机兵站起来的高度接近星际战士身高的两倍，它是一股不可阻挡的力量——因为卡斯特兰机兵是由允许它毫无停顿地大步穿越枪林弹雨的混入了陶钢的坚固金属制造而成的。除了厚重的装甲，它们还由一种来自过去时代的奇迹——斥力格栅提供保护。这种从每个机器人的内部向外发出的隐形盾牌都会发出深沉的嗡嗡声，它产生的（斥）力能够阻止几乎所有射击，最强的那些除外。（机仆：说白了就是偏导护盾/力场屏障，但我不知道会不会跟sw那样只防高速射弹/能量束）

Most incoming fire simply fizzles out against the unseen barrier, but should the deflection angle be just correct,the repulsor grid will send enemy shells or focused energy beams ricocheting back at the foe.

大多数的来袭火力只会击打在这道看不见的屏障上，但只要偏转正确的话，斥力格栅就会把敌军的炮弹或者聚焦能量束弹回给敌人。

Kastelan Robots fight in maniples – self-contained units that are sub-divisions of the Legion–composed of between two and six automata.The robots have a number of battle protocols that they follow,and every Kastelan must be carefully programmedfor each new task,lest it simply continue ad infinitum with its existing orders.It is not unknown for a maniple of Kastelans to stride purpose fully into a lake of lava,or slaughter its way through a city even after destroying the techno-insurrectionists it was sent to eliminate. Specialist  Tech-Priests, such as Cybernetica Datasmiths, can adjust the Kastelans’ programs during the course of a battle, allowing the unthinking automata to respond to changing circumstances.

卡斯特兰机兵以机兵中队的形式作战，机兵中队是一种独立的单位，属于智控军团的次级分支，由2到6名之间的自动机兵组成。这些机兵有很多要遵循的战斗协议，每个卡斯特兰机兵都必须为每项新任务而仔细编程，唯恐它无限地继续简单执行其现有的命令。一支卡斯特兰机兵中队因将目标完全赶入熔岩湖，或即使消灭了它们被派去歼灭的技术叛乱分子后仍然在城市中屠杀出一条道路而著称。专业的科技神甫，比如智控数匠能在战斗过程中调整卡斯特兰机兵的程序，允许这些无思索能力的自动机兵对变化中的环境做出反应。

When commanded with the Conqueror protocol,Kastelan Robots will advance and,as they near a target,their stomping stride turns into loping run that shivers the tortured earth.Shrugging off incoming fire,they close with a foe,becoming  battering machines. Each Kastelan uses its pair of barrel-sized power fists like wrecking balls to maul the enemy,the blows striking with force enough to crumple the thickest armour or  tear holes in ferrocrete.Should the foe seek to overwhelm the metal goliaths with sheer numbers,the Protector protocol can be activated,allowing the Kastelan maniple to fire their carapace-mounted incendine combustors, spraying the area with sheets of triple-blessed promethium.The robots’ varied weapon load-outs make them even more versatile. Those Tech- Priests with a penchant for ranged firepower will often replace power fists with twin-linked phosphor blasters,ensuring that when a maniple’s ballistics subroutines trigger, the enemy is riddled with incandescent, glowing shot.

当被以征服者协议指挥时，卡斯特兰机兵将会前进，随着他们接近目标，他们沉重的大步迈进转变为了使被折磨的土地不寒而栗的不停奔跑。他们轻易摆脱来袭的火力，接近敌人，化为捣碎敌人的机械。每台卡斯特兰机兵都用其那对尺寸如桶的动力拳像破坏球一样痛击敌人，这些重击带着足够瓦解最为厚重装甲或在钢筋混凝土上撕开洞的力道。倘若敌人们试图用纯粹的数量来压倒这些金属哥利亚巨人，征服者协议就会被激活，这允许卡斯特兰机兵中队他们使用安装在背甲上的焚烧炮开火，在该区域成片喷射三重赐福的钷素。这些机器人多种多样的武器装载使其更为多功能。嗜好远程火力的科技神甫们通常会把动力拳换为双联燃磷爆裂炮，确保当机兵中队的弹道子程序触发时，敌人会被盖满白炽发光的炮火。

CYBERNETICA DATASMITHS

智控数匠

Cybernetica Datasmiths are the specialist rank of Tech-Priest that program the Kastelan Robots of the Legio  Cybernetica at the maniple level,often having to do so in the thick of battle.They have access  to the dizzying array of weapons and arcana of their forgeworld’s arsenals,which they use indefence of themselves and their charges.

智控数匠是科技神甫的某一类专业职衔，他们在机兵中队级别的部队中为智控军团的卡斯特兰机兵编程，而且他们经常是在激烈的战斗中进行这项工作。他们可以使用其锻造世界的武器库中令人眼花乱的大量武器和秘法——他们使用这些东西来保卫自己和他们的所有物。

Since the aftermath of Warmaster Horus’rebellion,the Legio Cybernetica’s robots have been controlled completely by their masters–not by the bio-plastic cerebra and nerve-like tendril webs of Mechanicum constructs, but by sanctified sanctified  doctrina wafers,fusions of bio-matter and electronics often in even shorter supply than the robots themselves.No bigger than the cards of the Emperor’sTarot,these slivers of wetware are entrusted to the Cybernetica Datasmiths that accompany the robot maniples to war. Inserted into the dataslot hidden behind each robot’s chestplate, the wafer’s command protocol will dictate every iota of the host’s behaviour,usually optimising its ability to destroy its foes in a spectacular fashion. If the accompanying Datasmith wishes to change the behaviour of his charges–for instance to the assault- oriented Conqueror protocol–he must manually remove the first doctrina wafer and insert a new one in its place.Should a  maniple of robots find itself in battle mode without a Datasmith,it will continue to prosecute its last doctrina protocol until it runs out of power – something that usually takes weeks of unbridled slaughter to achieve.Such risks and limitations are willingly accepted by the Cult Mechanicus,for the act of hardwiring independent thought into a battle automaton is strictly forbidden.

自从战帅荷鲁斯的叛乱之后，智控军团的机兵完全由它们的主人们进行控制——并非是通过机械神教构造的生化塑质大脑或者类神经卷须网络，而是通过被批准的教义晶片和通常比机器人本身的供应更少的生物物质和电子产品的融合物。这些湿件薄片并不比帝皇塔罗的卡片更大，但它们受到那些陪同机兵中队参战的智控数匠们的信任。这些薄片要被插入隐藏在机兵护胸甲后侧的数据槽中，它们的指挥协议将会决定宿主行为的每个细节，通常会以惊人的方式优化机兵摧毁敌人的能力。倘若陪同作战的智控数匠想要改变受控机兵的行为（例如进攻导向的征服者协议），他就必须手动移除第一张教义晶片并且在数据槽中插入一张新的晶片。如果一中队的机兵发现自己处于没有智控数匠（陪伴）的战斗模式中，他们将会继续执行其最后的协议直到动力耗尽——通常机兵在进行过数周不受控制的屠杀之后就会耗尽动力。但机械教派愿意的接受这些风险和限制，因为将独立的思想强加于战斗自动机兵的行为是被严格禁止的。