IA1节译：马卡里乌斯重型坦克及其改型
The Macharius is one of a variety of what are referred to as 'second generation' Baneblades. These are built by Forge Worlds eager to secure large military contracts, but who do not possess the STC data required to build true Baneblades. Only a handful of Forge Worlds still manufacture Baneblades to the same design as those used during the Great Crusades, and the Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars keep a close guard on which Forge Worlds are allowed access to this data.
马卡里乌斯重型坦克是一系列被称为“二代”毒刃的载具之一，其建造者是那些热衷于制造大型军事装备却没有制造真正的毒刃超重型坦克所需STC数据的铸造世界们。仅有几个铸造世界仍在制造与大远征时期所使用的型号相同的毒刃，火星机械修会也严格的看守着那些被允许拥有这些数据的铸造世界。
From archive material it is known that, in ancient times, other super-heavy tanks were deployed by the Imperial Army. During the Great Crusades there were many of these 'large' tanks in the Emperor's service, and for years Adeptus Mechanicus munition-adepts have searched for the data for these missing vehicles. This search is made all the more difficult as, in the intervening millennia, they have fallen out of favour and the knowledge of how they were manufactured, or even what they were called, has been lost.
从档案资料中我们得知，帝国军在古早的时代中部署过其他超重型坦克。在大远征时期，曾有许多“大型”坦克为帝皇征战，多年来机械修会的军专家们也一直在寻找这些失踪载具的数据。这种搜寻工作变得更加困难，而在这一过程的数千年中，人们也失去了对于这些资料的偏好，关于它们如何被制造、甚至它们名称的知识都已经遗失了。
Through diligent study one man, Magos Nalax, discovered fragments of a blueprint buried deep in the archives of Lucius Forge World. He made it his life's work to re-construct the missing data by cross-referencing it with Baneblade components and other similar vehicles until he had the plans for an entire vehicle. Once completed Magos Nalax's work was forwarded to Mars and placed before the Fabricator-General for approval. This notoriously lengthy procedure took another two hundred years, and Nalax himself did not live to see the outcome.
但经过勤奋研究，一位名为纳拉克斯的机械神教贤者发现了深埋于卢修斯铸造世界档案馆中的蓝图残片。通过（将这些资料）与毒刃的部件和其他类似的载具进行交叉对比，他耗费一生的精力去重建了这些遗失的数据，直到重构出了载具的完整设计图。一经完成，纳拉克斯贤者的作品便被送交到火星，提交给铸造将军进行（审核）批准。这次著名的漫长审核过程又耗时二百年，纳拉克斯本人都没能活着看到结果。
After a long testing process and consultations with many other Forge Worlds, the plans were finally accepted, and Forge World Lucius was sanctioned to start production. The tank was named the Macharius, after the great Lord Commander Solar Macharius whose crusades at the beginning of the 41st Millennium had liberated one thousand worlds in the name of the Emperor. Ironically, in the meantime, Lucius had also lobbied for and been granted the right to build STC Baneblades, and it seemed that Magos Nalax's work would be wasted.
在经过长时间的测试过程和与其他铸造世界的协商后，这份设计图最终被接受，铸造世界卢修斯也被批准开始生产。该坦克被命名为马卡里乌斯型，这是为了纪念那位在第41千年初期发起远征并以帝皇之名解放了一千个世界的伟大领主指挥官——太阳领主马卡里乌斯。但颇具讽刺意味的是，与此同时，卢修斯铸造世界也进行了游说并被授于了建造STC型毒刃的权力，纳拉克斯贤者的心血看似要付诸东流。
Forge World Lucius started production of its Baneblade but soon found that demand outstripped supply and struggled to keep up with the Departmento Munitorum's requirements. Then the world of Krieg returned to the Imperium's fold and suddenly offered a vast amount of new regiments for service with the Imperial Guard. The Departmento Munitorum in turn looked to Lucius to provide much of their equipment. The sudden increase in demand meant that the Adepts of Lucius turned to the Macharius, and in 852.M41 the first tanks rolled off the production lines destined for Krieg. Thus began Krieg's association with the Macharius tank, although other regiments have been equipped with them since, and the Lords of Mars have also now begun to allow the production data to be used by further Forge Worlds.
铸造世界卢修斯开始生产自己的毒刃超重型坦克，但它很快就发现这种载具供不应求，自己很难满足军务部的（生产）要求。此时克里格世界也回归了帝国，并且突然向帝国卫队提供了大量的新卫军团，军务部转而指望卢修斯为其提供大部分装备。需求的突然增加意味着卢修斯的专家们要转向马卡里乌斯坦克（来弥补产量），第一批驶下生产线的马卡里乌斯坦克在852.M41被运往了克里格世界。这便开始了克里格与马卡里乌斯坦克的结合——尽管其他卫军团也从此开始装备此类武器，火星的领主们也开始允许更多的铸造世界使用其生产数据。
The Macharius tank has eight crew, comprising the commander, gunner and two loaders in the turret, with the driver, vox-operator (who also doubles as the heavy stubber gunner) and two sponson gunners in the hull. The vehicle lacks the Baneblade's massive size and many of its weapons, but is more than capable of fulfilling the same battlefield role and is a potent war machine, even if it cannot match the Baneblade's massive firepower, its heavy armour bracing, advanced logis engines and engine performance. Despite this the Macharius is still a heavy tank, with very thick frontal armour, and its twin battle cannons provide devastating firepower. Some entries surrounding the Macharius' data core, stored on Mars, hint that Magos Nalax also developed plans for alternative armaments. This may be true but as yet no such files have been found.
马卡里乌斯坦克拥有八名乘员，包括一名指挥官、一名炮手、两名炮塔装填手、一名驾驶员、一名音频通讯器操作员（兼任重型伐木枪的射击手）和两名侧舷副炮的炮手。这种载具并没有毒刃那般巨大的体积和毒刃的诸多武器，其性能也无法匹敌毒刃强大的火力、沉重的装甲支撑、先进的逻辑引擎和（卓越）的引擎性能，但它仍能胜任同样的战场角色，也是一种强悍的战争机器。马卡里乌斯坦克仍是一种重型坦克，拥有厚重的前装甲，其装备的双联火炮也能提供毁灭性的火力。马卡里乌斯坦克的数据核心储存在火星上，与其密切相关的某些条目暗示纳拉克斯贤者也开发出了替代武器计划。这可能是真实的，但此类文件至今未被发现。
MACHARIUS VANQUISHER & VULCAN
马卡里乌斯胜战者型与火神型
There are two primary variants of the Macharius tank. The Vanquisher replaces the Macharius' original battle cannons with powerful Vanquisher cannon. These weapons, although harder to manufacture and never available in great numbers, fire a very high velocity anti-tank shell that can penetrate the thickest armour with devastating results. The addition of these weapons turns the standard Macharius into a deadly tank killer.
马卡里乌斯坦克有两种主要改型。胜战者型是将原有的战斗炮替换为强悍的胜战者加农炮。这种难以制造也从未大量生产过的武器发射出极其高速的反坦克炮弹能穿透最厚重的装甲，造成毁灭性的后果。增加这种武器能令标准的马卡里乌斯坦克转变为致命的坦克杀手。
The Vulcan mega-bolter is a weapon usually carried by Titans. It is a multiple barrel gatling autocannon which can fire thousands of rounds per minute ire a destructive torrent, turning the standard Macharius into a highly effective anti-personnel weapon. Due to the weapon's and the Macharius' size, ammunition storage is restricted and is the variant's main drawback, carrying only enough ammunition for twenty seconds continuous firing. It is not unusual for the crew therefore to fill the tank's stowage bins with extra ammunition and carry more ammunition crates as external stowage.
火神巨型爆弹炮是一种通常安装于泰坦上的武器。这种多管转膛自动炮每分钟能发射数千发炮弹，形成一股毁灭洪流，将标准的马卡里乌斯坦克转变为了高效反步兵武器。由于武器和马卡里乌斯车体的尺寸，其弹药储存受到限；这也是此类改型的主要缺点，其携带的弹药仅足够进行二十秒的持续射击。因此乘员们通常会用额外的弹药装满坦克的积载箱，并携带更多的弹药箱作为额外积载。
MACHARIUS OMEGA
马卡里乌斯欧米茄型
A relatively new addition to the Imperial arsenal, the Macharius 'Omega' is a war machine built around a single focus — the battlefield deployment of the Omega pattern plasma blastgun, a variant of the more common Ryza design employed on the Stormblade.
马卡里乌斯“欧米茄”型是帝国武库中一种相对较新的装备，这种载具是围绕一个中心——对于欧米茄型电浆爆裂炮的战场部署来建造的，这种电浆武器是安装于风暴之刃上的更为常见瑞扎型电浆爆裂炮的改型。
The Omega pattern, although available since its rediscovery in late M39 by Explorator Magos Valistle Hum'nal, suffered doctrinal wranglings over the purity and completeness of its template within the Adeptus Mechanicus. This would delay its field testing and eventual deployment for centuries. The weapon's design, although more widely replicable than the arcane technologies of its forebear, lacks the stability of the superlative Ryza pattern weapon, and generates considerably more waste heat. However, the Omega also utilises a more compact generator design and force crucible, allowing it to be mounted on smaller super-heavy hulk.
尽管自从被探索贤者瓦里斯特尔 胡纳尔于M39后期重新发现后，欧米茄型电浆爆裂炮（一直）是可靠的，但机械修会内部还是对其模板的完整性和纯洁性展开了理论争辩。这将导致其现场测试和最终部署被拖延数个世纪之久。虽然相比其前辈的神秘技术，这种武器的设计更具广泛的可复制性，但也缺乏那些最卓越的瑞扎形制武器所具有的稳定性，并会产生相当大量的废热。不过欧米茄型电浆爆裂炮采用了更紧凑的发电机设计和加力坩埚，这使得它可以安装在更小的超重型坦克车体上。
The comparable ease with which the Macharius 'Omega' can be manufactured and repaired has more than overcome its shortcomings in the eyes of the Lords Militant, and large quantities of production capacity have been devoted to the design on the dogmatically allied Forge Worlds of Lucius, Hellgrace and Dynax Primus. Subsequently, the Omega has proved its worth on the battlefields of Orask, Nicanodes and in the counter-assault that has driven the Tyranids out of the Sable Nebula, offering a palpable victory against the devouring tide.
在军务领主们看来，马卡里乌斯“欧米茄”相对容易的建造和维修已经弥补了其不足之处，（形成）对于此类武器进行大量生产的能力已经被纳入到了独断联合的铸造世界卢修斯、Hellgrace和Dynax Primus的布局中。之后，欧米茄型在Orask和Nicanodes世界的战场上证明了自己的价值；而且在将泰伦异形赶出漆黑星云的反击战中，这种武器让帝国在对抗大吞噬者虫潮的战斗中获取了明显的胜利。
