hh3节译：暗鸦守卫军团组织结构
The XIXth Legion was founded according to the Emperor's far reaching vision for the armies of humanity laid down in the strictures of the Officio Militaris, The Legion was divided into chapters, chapters into battalions, battalions into companies and companies into squads. Most Legionaries considered themselves members of a given company rather than a chapter, the company being the preferred level for most independent operations. From its earliest formation, the Legion's officers devolved command responsibility towards the lower echelons, allowing sub-commanders to take the initiative and make tactical decisions according to immediate needs without interference from higher up the chain of command. This mindset was a direct result of the practises of the Xeric tribes, who conducted their wars against far more numerous foes and were therefore well practised in a wide spectrum of unconventional tactics. Individual units tended towards the smaller end of the scales set down by the architects of the Emperor's armies, but each was a tightly-knit band of warriors trained and equipped to operate on their own for extended periods. They were well able to live off of the land, taking what few resources they needed from their environment or when opportunity or necessity dictated, from defeated enemies.
第十九军团是根据帝皇对于人类军队的远见建立起来的，这份远见写在了军务庭的规章内。军团划分为战团，战团划分为战斗营，战斗营划分为连队，连队划分为小队。多数军团战士认为自己是某个被指定的连队而非某个战团的一员，在大多数独立任务中，连队也是被偏好的部队层级。自其刚刚形成时，第十九军团的军官们便将指挥责任下放给下级部属，允许次级指挥官们发挥主动性，在没有上级指挥链干预的情况下根据当前的需要做出战术决定。直接导致这种思维模式的是Xeric部落的行为实践——他们要与数量多于自己的敌人进行了战争，因此很好地养成了运用了各种各样的非常规战术的习惯。独立单位们倾向于帝皇军队的构建者们所制定出的等级体系中那些较为低端的部队，每支部队都是一群组织严密的战士，他们经受了相应训练、进行了相关装备以长时间执行独立任务。他们可以用有限的资源独立生存，从所处环境中获取自己需要的少数资源，或者当有机会或有必要时，从敌人身上夺取。
As the Legion expanded, its ranks were swelled with the full panoply of war machines created for the Legiones Astartes. While its sub units remained relatively compact, the XIXth integrated numerous other formations into its structure, allowing it to take its place in the hosts of the Great Crusade and to confront the countless enemies of Mankind that would deny the Emperor's manifest destiny to rule the stars. While retaining its expertise in stealth and infiltration, the XIXth integrated formations of battle tanks, super-heavy war machines, artillery, assault vehicles and fleet assets, mastering each with the skill engineered into them by the genius of the Emperor. Nonetheless, the XIXth favoured a style of war that focused on rapid strike, outflanking, mobility and, where possible and desirable, stealth.
随着军团拓展，其部队也被配属了为阿斯塔特军团而创造的全套战争机械。虽然第十九军团的次级单位仍然保持相对紧密的状态，但也将很多其他的编队整合进入军团结构中，这允许第十九军团在大远征的（战争）集群中占有自己的一席之地，对抗无数拒绝接受帝皇统治群星的明显命运的人类之敌。在保持自己对于偷袭和渗透的专长的同时，第十九军团也整合了战斗坦克编队、超重型战争机械、炮兵部队、突击载具和舰队，军团战士也靠着由帝皇的天才为他们（用基因工程）构建出的技艺掌握了每一种编队（的战术）。尽管如此，第十九军团仍然偏好注重于快速打击、迂回、机动性以及（可能和可取的话）偷袭的战争风格
In terms of specialised units, there were certain formations the XIXth favoured over others. The Legion is noted in several accounts as fielding more Legion Reconnaissance squads than many others, every Legionary being cross-trained to fulfil his usual role, as well as that of the recon units. Indeed, the line between Tactical squad and Reconnaissance squad seems to have become blurred, the two often operating using similar tactics and even specialised equipment.
就专门单位而言，第十九军团对于某些特定编队的偏好胜过了对于其他编队。第十九军团在多份报告中被记录比许多其他很多军团部署了更多的军团侦察小队，每名军团战士都经过训练以履行其通常的职责，而且也经受了担任侦察单位的训练。事实上，战术小队和侦查小队之间的界限似乎已经变得模糊，两者在行动中会使用类似的战术甚至是（类似的）特定装备。
From its earliest days, the Legion employed more Moritats than did many others. The individuals assigned to this duty were often those considered extreme in their methods even by the cold-blooded Xeric and they were often used —willingly— to undertake missions from which they were not expected to return. It is likely that the Raven Guard engaged in far more assassination and sabotage operations than is widely known to the Order of Remembrancers. Invariably, the increasing numbers of remembrancers accompanying the Expeditionary fleets were only allowed to bear witness to the Legion's victories after they had been won, the imagists, historators and poets denied the opportunity to record the Raven Guard as they waged war on the Imperium's foes.
从其最早的岁月中，第十九军团就部署了比其他很多军团都要多的暗杀精英。被指派到这些任务中的人们通常是那些哪怕在冷血的Xeric人看来也被认为是手段极端的战士们，他们通常（也愿意）被用于执行那些他们不被希望返回的任务。可能暗鸦守卫们参与过的暗杀与暗中破坏任务（数量）远比广为记述者修会所知的要多得多。越来越多陪同着远征舰队的记述者们仅仅被允许见证军团赢取的胜利，当暗鸦守卫向帝国的敌人发动战争时，绘梦者、历史学家和诗人们被拒绝给予记录暗鸦守卫的机会。
In the aftermath of the Council of Nikaea, which history does not record Corax attending, the Raven Guard obeyed the command to renounce the employment of psykers and to disband its Librarius. Most of the Legion's Librarians were reassigned to the line companies to serve in conventional roles, although some may have served in the Seeker squads or as Vigilators or Moritats. Whether or not these individuals obeyed the Decree of Nikaea when operating independently on missions not committed to any archive must remain unknown and it is likely that most were slain upon the bloody battleground of the Urgall Depression.
在尼凯亚会议之后（历史上并未记载克拉克斯的出席），暗鸦守卫遵守了放弃部署灵能者和解散军团智库的命令，大多数军团智库员被重新指派到战线连队中去担任传统职务，但也有某些人可能进入了寻路者小队，也可能是成为了守夜者或者暗杀精英（机仆：这两个是军团百夫长）。对于这些人在独立执行那些未提交过任何档案的任务时是否遵守了尼凯亚决议，我们仍然不得而知，而且可能大多数人都战死在了Urgall绝望平原的血腥战场上。
Legion Command Hierarchy
军团指挥等级体系
Upon assuming command of his Legion, Corvus Corax took steps to codify the methods of warfare he had employed against the slaver-lords of Lycaeus into a series of tactical and strategic maxims by which the Raven Guard would operate. In the main, these doctrines meshed well with those the XIXth had already been operating under throughout the Great Crusade, easing that particular aspect of the Primarch's assumption of command. It is notable that as soon as he was able, Corax ensured that most of his senior commanders were drawn from Deliverance. Indeed, several of the Primarch's closest advisors had served alongside him as young freedom fighters during the Lycaean Uprising, having later undergone the implantation and conditioning process to turn them into warriors of the Legiones Astartes. After the costly Battle of Gate Forty- Two, the numbers swung in favour of those born of Deliverance still further, with only a handful of Terrans still serving in positions of high command.
一经获得了第十九军团的指挥权，科沃斯 克拉克斯就采取措施，将他用于对抗Lycaeus世界奴隶主的战争手段编纂为暗鸦守卫军团将要执行的一系列战略战术箴言。总的来说，这些信条与第十九军团已经在大远征当中运用的那些相吻合，减轻了原体对指挥权的承担的特定方面。很明显只要克拉克斯能够的时候，他便确保他的大多数高级指挥官是挑选自拯救星裔（星际战士）。事实上，原体的很多关系最紧密的幕僚在他还是Lycaean起义的年轻自由斗士时便随侍在他身边，他们之后接受了植入手术和适应过程，被转变为了阿斯塔特军团战士。在Gate Forty- Two损失惨重的战斗之后，人数进一步偏向了那些拯救星裔，只有少数泰拉裔仍然担任高级指挥职务。
The Primarch maintained a comparatively loose chain of command, and was known to value candid and honest counsel from his officers. His bearing made it clear he did not expect to be treated in the manner many of his brother-Primarchs demanded as their birthright. When he was their leader during the slave uprising on Lycaeus, Corax's peers insisted he was watched over by a bodyguard lest the overlords or some other rogue element attempt to assassinate him. While he resented this, Corax allowed it, as much for his followers' peace of mind as for his own safety. Having joined his Legion, the bodyguard followed, being formed into an honour guard known informally as the Shadow Wardens. It was said that they were ever present, though often unseen when their Primarch went to war, and that none could avoid their gaze. Indeed, only one individual was ever able to do so, and that was Corax himself ,giving rise to the wry saying that Corax was able to slip his own shadow should he choose to do so.
原体克拉克斯保持了一种相对松散的指挥链，而且以珍惜来自下属军官坦率诚实的忠告而著称，他的态度清楚地表明：他并不希望别人以对待他的兄弟原体的方式对待他——他的兄弟原体们视自己享受的对待为一种天生的权利。当克拉克斯还是Lycaeus世界奴隶起义的领袖时，他的同志们坚持认为要有一支卫队来看顾他，以免霸主或其他流氓分子企图暗杀他。虽然克拉克斯对此表示不满时，但他允许这样做，这既是为了让跟随者们安心，也是为了自己的安全。这些卫队成员加入军团后他们组成了被非正式地称为暗影卫士的军团荣誉卫队。据说他们曾经在场，尽管在原体身处战争时（人们）常常看不见他们，而且没有人能避免他们的凝视，事实上也只有一个人做到过，那就是克拉克斯本人，这也引起了这样的说法：倘若克拉克斯选择这样做的话，他能够滑入自己的影子中。
Perhaps more than any other Primarch, the Raven Lord frequently operated alone, or otherwise led very small bands of handpicked warriors who, of all his sons, possessed skills comparable to his own— the Mor Dretha or Shadowmasters. This predilection must at least in part derive from his time as a freedom fighter, where circumstances dictated small cells of rebels were often more effective than larger numbers. It was not unusual for Corax to himself conduct extensive reconnaissance prior to a battle, while most Primarchs would leave such tasks to their warriors. Corax is also known to have led small forces on deep infiltrations far behind enemy lines, striking directly at the heart of an enemy force, leaving his line officers to conduct the overall operation. Frequently, the actions of the main force were in fact a ploy to draw the enemy's attentions away from the Primarch's own mission, allowing him to strike the final blow and win the battle.
渡鸦领主会频繁地独立行动，而且可能比其他所有原体都更频繁，不然就是率领非常少的一群由他亲手挑选而出的战士，他们是所有的暗鸦子嗣中掌握着与原体本人相当的技艺的战士——摩尔 德拉萨或者暗影大师。这种偏爱肯定至少在部分上是源于他作为自由斗士的岁月，在当时的环境中，小规模的叛军秘密小组通常比大部队更有效。克拉克斯本人经常会在战前进行广泛的侦查活动，而大多数原体会把这些任务留给他们的战士们。克拉克斯也因率领小规模部队在敌人大后方进行深入渗透而著称，他会直接攻击敌军部队的心脏，留下他的前线军官们执行整体作战（任务）。主力部队的行动在事实上通常是将敌人的注意力从原体自己的任务上吸引走的策略，让原体打出最后一击并赢得战斗。
War Disposition
战争配置
At the time of the Isstvan III atrocity, the Raven Guard Legion was committed almost in its entirety to ongoing operations in the Thetos-Groton binary star system. When at last prevailing conditions in the Warp made it possible for Lord Dorn on Terra to contact his brother-Primarch by way of astro-telepathy and inform him of the dire events unfolding in the Isstvan system, Corax ordered his fleet to make way at once. Not all of the Legion departed for the Isstvan system however, the Primarch determining that a portion must return to Deliverance in order to guard it against counter-attack. None of the senior commanders wished to be absent when the Traitors were brought to justice, and so lots were drawn to decide who would return. Thus, around 1,000 Legionaries alongside their Imperial Army allies of the Therion Cohort, departed for Deliverance, leaving a little under 80,000 to confront the Warmaster Horus and his allies at Isstvan V.
在伊斯特万三号暴行时期，暗鸦守卫军团的几乎全军都正在Thetos-Groton双星星系作战。当亚空间中的普遍情况最终让泰拉上的多恩阁下有可能用星语通讯联系他的兄弟原体，并告知他发生在伊斯特万星系中的危急事件时，克拉克斯命令他的舰队马上前往。但也并非所有的军团部队都启程前往了伊斯特万星系，原体决定必须有一部分人必须回去保卫拯救星以防备（叛军）反击。没有哪位高级指挥官希望在给叛徒们带去判决之时缺席，因此抽签决定谁会回去拯救星。于是，大约1000名军团战士和他们的帝国军盟友瑟瑞昂步兵大队启程前往拯救星，剩下不到80000名星际战士前去讨伐伊斯特万星系的战帅荷鲁斯与他的盟友。
As with most of the Legions, there were other elements detached to serve elsewhere. A small number, mostly Terrans of the Legion of old, had been assigned to serve beyond the fringes of the Imperium, some in independent 'nomad predation' fleets, others attached to various Rogue Traders Militant or other so-called 'lone wolves'. One of these fleets was in fact commanded by the Legion's former commanding officer - Shade Lord Arkhas Fal - on the direct order of the Primarch when Corax took over the Raven Guard. What became of the Shadow Lord, his fleet and the other elements may never be known, and the fact that Corax appears to have made no effort to recall them suggests they were considered a body apart from the bulk of the Legion.
就像大多数军团那样，暗鸦守卫也有被派遣到其他地方作战的其他分队。少量暗鸦守卫，大多都是老军团的泰拉裔，被指派到帝国边境之外的地方服役，某些是在独立的“游牧巡猎”舰队中，其他的则是依附于各种行商浪人军事团体，还有些则是成为所谓的“孤狼”。此类舰队中的一支在事实上是由军团的前指挥军官——幽暗领主阿尔卡斯 法尔指挥，这是克拉克斯接管暗鸦守卫军团之后下达的直接命令。法尔成为了暗影领主，他的舰队和其他分队可能永远不会为人所知。克拉克斯似乎根本就没有努力召回过他们，这一事实说明他们被视为排除到军团主体之外的团体。
When the Raven Guard committed to the Isstvan V drop, they did so in numbers approaching their full strength, with all assets, both surface and space borne, in attendance. The events of the Battle of Gate Forty-Two had left the Raven Guard as the smallest of the Legions, but they would be operating alongside six of their brother Legions, or so they had every reason to believe. The truth, as described elsewhere in this account, was otherwise. The Raven Guard were to lose tens of thousands of Legionaries during the betrayal that was the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre, and by the end of the ninety-eight days that followed, could muster but a fraction of their former strength, Leaving aside the unknown numbers operating alone in the outer darkness, the Raven Guard must now number barely 4,000, including those despatched to garrison Deliverance.
当暗鸦守卫在伊斯特万五号进行空降时，他们动用的人数接近军团的全部兵力，而且投入了地表和太空中运载的全部资产。Gate Forty-Two战斗中的事件导致暗鸦守卫成为军团中最小的那些，但他们会和六个兄弟军团共同作战，他们有充分理由相信自己会获胜。但就像这份报告中其他地方所描述的那样，事实并非如此。暗鸦守卫军团在登录点大屠杀中损失了数以万计的军团战士，等到接下来九十八天的结尾时，暗鸦守卫能集合起的兵力仅仅是过去军力的一小部分。不考虑那些在外域黑暗中独自作战的未知成员，暗鸦守卫现在能召集起的数量仅仅有4000人，而且要包括那些被派去驻守拯救星的战士。
For the first time in their glorious history, the Raven Guard were truly laid low. What the future would hold for the Legion would be a time of trial and misfortune.
在他们荣耀的历史中，暗鸦守卫军团第一次真的陷入了低谷。军团的未来将会是一段充满磨难和不幸的岁月。
