IA2节译：蔑视者无畏

When the Legiones Astartes spearheaded the Emperor's conquest of the galaxy during the glorious age that was the Great Crusade, they were led by heroes the likes of which had never been seen before and in all likelihood will never be seen again. At some point before or during the Great Crusade, the Mechanicum learned how to save the life of a mortally wounded Space Marine by excising damaged tissue, in some cases all but his brain and spinal column, and implanting what remained into a life-sustaining machine of arcane design and dark provenance. Of course, for a mighty, vigorous hero to be preserved in such a manner without purpose would be a living purgatory and so the warrior and the mechanisms that preserved his life were sealed within an armoured sarcophagus and this in turn was mounted into the towering form of the earliest types of Dreadnought. The fragmentary histories of the Imperium do not describe the very first instances of the Space Marines of old serving in this manner, but it is known that one of the first must have been the Contemptor, a class regarded as an irreplaceable relic in the 41st Millennium, a relic that even the most machine lore-steeped Techmarine could not replicate. Other types known by little more than name include the Deredeo and the Furibundus, as well as the dreaded Lucifer pattern, thought to have been a variant, or perhaps even the progenitor, of the Contemptor stripped of its advanced systems and fitted with heavy armour, making it a peerless breaching unit long lost to the armies of the Imperium. 

在那段被称为大远征的光荣岁月中，阿斯塔特军团是帝皇征服银河的矛头，领导着他们的是前无古人，后无来者的英雄们。在大远征之前或大远征时期的某些时间点上，机械神教学会了通过切除受损组织并将残骸植入到有着玄奥设计和黑暗起源的方式来挽救遭受致命伤害的星际战士——在某些情况中当事人只会存留下大脑和脊柱。当然，对一个强大且精力充沛的英雄来说，以这样毫无目的的方式存活下去将是一个活生生的炼狱，所以这些战士和那些用于保持他生命的机械装备都被密封到了一台装甲石棺中，而石棺又被反过来装配成那种形体高大的最早期无畏机甲。帝国碎片化的历史资料并未描述那些以此种方式（继续）服役的星际战士们的最初案例，但我们知道蔑视者无畏肯定是最初的无畏机甲类型之一，该型号的无畏在第41个千年被认为是一种不可替代的圣物，哪怕是最精通机械知识的技术军士们也无法复制。我们仅知道其名称的其他无畏型号还包括德雷都型和盛怒型，以及令人恐惧的路西法型——该型号被认为是蔑视者改型，甚至可能是其先祖型号；它被拆除了先进系统，并安装上了厚重的装甲，这令它成为了无与伦比的破城单位——帝国军队很久之前便失去了此类单位。

Contemptors resemble other types of Dreadnought, although their armoured form is somewhat more refined and less angular than the types in common use in the 41st Millennium. It is not just in appearance that the Contemptor differs however, for its systems are of an order of magnitude more advanced than those that came later. The Contemptor is powered by an atomantic arc-reactor of a type now all but lost to humanity, and this venerated power source is coupled to a field protector of a type similar to that utilised in Space Marine storm shields, providing the Contemptor with a high level of protection against enemy attacks.

尽管蔑视者无畏的装甲机体不如第41个千年那些常用型号精致，棱角也不那么分明，但它与其他类型的无畏有相似性。然而，藐视者无畏的区别之处也不仅在外表上，它的系统也比之后出现的那些无畏机甲的系统先进一个数量级。为蔑视者供能的是原子闪弧反应堆，人类现在已经失去了这种技术；这种可敬的能量源也连接到了一个与星际战士风暴盾中所使用的力场防护器相类似的装置，这为藐视者无畏提供了抵抗敌人攻击的高水平保护。

The ability to create new Contemptors is almost certainly now beyond the Adeptus Mechanicus, or at least jealously guarded by some secret order of Tech-Priests unwilling to share their lore even with those who could utilise it to crush the enemies of Mankind. Some believe that the Contemptor shares many systems with the dreaded, near mythical battle-automata of the Lego Cybernetica.If this is the case, it might go some way towards explaining why so few Contemptors remain in the arsenals of the Adeptus Astartes, for the war engines of the Cybernetica are regarded by many as technology taken beyond the acceptable limits of machine canon.

 我们基本确定，机械修会现在已经无法再制造新的蔑视者无畏，或者至少是被技术神甫们的某些秘密教团小心守护着——他们甚至不愿与那些可以利用这些技术来粉碎人类之敌的战士们分享他们的知识。某些人相信：蔑视者无畏和智控军团那可畏并且近乎神话般的战斗机兵共享着很多系统。倘若如此，这或许在一定程度上解释了现存于阿斯塔特修会武库中的蔑视者无畏为何如此稀少，因为很多人都将智控军团的战争引擎视为超出了机械准则可接受限度的科技。

Those few Contemptors that remain in the service of the Adeptus Astartes are invariably relics of the Great Crusade or of the Horus Heresy and the Scouring. Few if any are known to have been constructed since, their secrets lost and their legend tainted by association with the dread automata of the Cybernetica. Nevertheless, those Chapters that have inherited or otherwise come into possession of even a single Contemptor venerate them enormously. reserving them for the use of the mightiest of Chapter heroes. Others have been in continuous use since the earliest and darkest days of the Age of the Impenum, so ancient they are now awoken and activated only a handful of times a millennium, the oldest of heroes stirring to continue the wars of old. 

极少数仍在阿斯塔特修会中服役的蔑视者无畏是从大远征时期或荷鲁斯叛乱与大肃清时期一成不变继承下来的圣物。从那以后，它们几乎没有再被建造出来过，它们的秘密已被遗失，与智控军团那可怕的自动机兵之间的联系也玷污了它们的传说。然而，那些继承或以其他方式拥有哪怕一台轻蔑者无畏的战团，对它们都极为崇敬的，这些机体会被留给战团中那些最为强大的英雄们使用。其他蔑视者无畏则是自帝国年代那最早期也最黑暗的日子以来就一直在使用，他们是如此古老，以至于在一千年中仅会被唤醒和激活数次，这些最古老的英雄们仍在激昂地继续着往昔的战争。