IA2节译：残暴之刃超重型坦克
In the distant past of the imperium ,when the Legones Astartes went to war in formations of many thousands, they did so accompanied by some of the mightiest engines ever wrought. One of the greatest of those legendary machines was the Fellblade, a super-heavy tank the equal of any foe up to and including the Titans of the Adeptus Mechanics. It shares certain similarities with the Baneblades of the Imperial Guard, but its armour, systems and weapons are substantially more advanced. It is possible that the two machines share a common STC ancestor but if so. the Fellblade has been lavished with the rarest of systems in the machine canon, reserved exclusively for the legendary Adeptus Astartes.
在人类帝国遥远的过去，阿斯塔特军团战士们曾以数千之众的编队奔赴战争，当时陪同他们奔赴战场的还有人类曾经制造过的某些最强大的战争引擎。这些传奇般机器当中最强大的之一就是残暴之刃，这种超重型坦克可以与任何敌人相匹敌，包括机械修会的泰坦。它和星界军的毒刃超重坦有着某些相似之处，但残暴之刃的装甲、（操作）系统和武器大体上都更先进。可能这两种机器有着共同的共同的STC原型机，但如果是这样的话，残暴之刃也是被慷慨地给予了机械（制造）准则中最罕见的系统，是专门为传奇般的阿斯塔特修会所保留的。
The Fellblade is believed to have entered service within the legiones Astartes in the closing decades of the Great Crusade. and as such it saw action with both sides in the calamitous galactic civil war that drew a close to that portentous age. Survival archival fragments describe the mighty battles of that war, providing tantalising glimpses of an age of glory long since passed into history. It was an age when the Adeptus Astartes fought in numbers the likes of which have not been seen in many centuries, and were supported in battle by massed formations of super-heavy tanks. When a chapter was but a fraction of a Legion, thousands of battle brothers deployed as one and as such had need of engines of war as mighty as the Fellblade. The tank was able to spearhead such mighty assaults and advances. Its fearsome weapons able to engage even the most potent of foes. What xenos-wrought machineries of death the Fellblade must have laid low with its deadly accelerator cannon must remain a lost memory, as must the battles it surely fought against the Traitor Legions and their vile allies during the dark days of the Horus Heresy.
人们相信残暴之刃是在大远征最后几十年中加入到阿斯塔特军团的服役行列中的，因此，它在那场结束了那个不祥时期的灾难性银河内战中见证了双方的行动。幸存的档案片段描述了那场战争中的伟大战役，让我们一睹那个早已成为历史的辉煌时代。在那个时代，参战的阿斯塔特战士数量之多是人们在数个世纪中都未曾见过的，而且他们在战斗中也能得到超重型坦克大规模编队的支援。彼时一个战团只是阿斯塔特军团的一小部分，数以千计的战斗兄弟作为一个整体进行部署，因此需要像残暴这样强大的战争引擎。这些坦克能在激烈的突击和前进中担任先锋矛头，其可怕的武器甚至能够对抗那些最强大的敌人。残暴之刃必须放低其致命的速射加农炮来摧毁的异形制造的机器已经成了失落的记忆，它们在荷鲁斯叛乱的黑暗时期对抗叛变军团及其邪恶共犯的战斗必然也是如此。
Ten thousand years after the Great Crusade, the Fellblade all but unknown in the arsenals of the Adeptus Astartes. It is thought that many were lost in the inter-legonary wars of the Horus Heresy and the subsequent Scouring, having borne the brunt of the fury of those terrible confrontations. Possessed of such rare and potent technologies, it was perhaps inevitable that the Fellblade should fall from use as the knowledge and spirit that contributed so much to the Great Crusade receded, to be replaced with ignorance and superstition. Maintaining the Fellblade's advanced system became ever harder as time went on and repairing battle damage all but impossible. In addition, with the mighty Legions of old divided into Chapters, the need for such a heavy vehicle faded, the Space Marines refocusing on shock assault and rapid strike tactics. Later on, key Forge Worlds responsible for the production of specific systems used by the Fellblade were lost, knowledge and expertise becoming ever more fragmented, a reflection of the fate of the Imperium itself.
在大远征（结束）一万年之后，残暴之刃在阿斯塔特斯修会的武器库中几乎无人再知晓。人们认为很多残暴之刃都在荷鲁斯叛乱与之后的大清洗时期的军团间战争中遗失了，它们在那些可怕的对抗中承受了军团战士怒火的冲击。当那些为大远征做出巨大贡献的知识和精神发生退步时，残暴之刃也就会被难以避免地停用，而其所拥有的非常稀有且强大的科技，也会被无知和迷信所取代。随着时间流逝，维护残暴之刃的先进系统也变得愈发艰难，修复战斗损伤几乎变得不可能。此外，随着曾经强大的阿斯塔特军团被拆分为战团，星际战士们将（作战）重点重新调整为突击进攻和快速打击战术，对于此类重型载具的需求也逐渐衰落。之后，帝国也失去了负责制造残暴之刃所使用的特定（控制）系统的关键铸造世界，相关的知识和专业技能变得更为碎片化，残暴之刃（的命运）也就成为了人类帝国自身命运的一种反映。
As the 41st Millennium draws to a close, none can say how many Fellblades remain in existence. It is likely that most are sealed within the stasis-locked arsenals of the most venerable of Chapters. Some may not even have seen action since the Scour, having been locked away against some future need no other war machine in the Chapter's reserves can meet.
随着第41个千年迎来尾声，没人再能说出还存在着多少残暴之刃超重型坦克。可能它们中的大多数现在都锁在了那些最受敬重的战团的静滞武库中。某些残暴之刃甚至可能在大清洗之后便未再参加过行动，战团将它们锁在仓库中，以应对战团预备队中的其他战争机器无法解决的未来需求。
Others may have been placed in stasis having been damaged beyond repair, the Techmarine, hoping that some future generation might be able to tend the wounded machine where they cannot. Still more may be retired from service and placed within a Chapters reliquary, a much venerated reminder of a long lost age of glory.
其他残暴之刃可能被放置在了停滞状态中，它们受损严重到无法修复的地步，技术军士们无法维修这种超重坦，他们希望未来的某一代人们能够照料好这些受损的机械。还有更多的残暴之刃可能会退役，它们会被放置在战团圣物陈列室中，成为一件倍受尊敬的文物，提醒着人们那个失落已久的光荣时代。
Nevertheless, the Fellblade does still see service on the battlefields of the 41st Millennium. Weapons locked away generations ago are increasingly being unleashed upon the numerous foes of Mankind. Fellblades that have not seen the action since the Primarchs led their Legions in person now fight once more. Even a single Fellblade can turn the tide of the largest of battles and few foes can stand against such a noble engine of war. The appearance of such war machines is a sure sign of the desperate times facing the Impenurn, for few indeed are the Techmarines still able to repair damage to their venerated systems.
但尽管如此，残暴之刃仍能在第41个千年的战场上服役。在数代人的时间之前被封存的武器（现在）正越来越多地被用于对付无数的人类之敌。那些自从原体亲率军团作战的时代就未曾参战过的残暴之刃现在再次投入战斗。哪怕只有一辆残暴之刃也能改变规模最大的战役的走向，几乎没有敌人能对抗如此高贵的战争机器。这种战争机器的出现也是人类帝国所面临的绝望时代的明确标志，因为几乎没有技术军士仍然能够修复他们可敬的系统所受到的损害。
The Fellblade is armed and equipped with a panoply weapons all but unknown to the 41st Millennium. The tank's primary weapon is a twin accelerator cannon, a vacuum-based system that uses a complex overpressure mechanism to propel heavy shells with greater force than would be possible in a conventional cannon. So efficient is this system that very little recoil is produced, making the weapon extremely accurate and stable. Furthermore the accelerator cannon is served by an advanced loading mechanism that allows the tank's commander to switch ammunition types at a moment's notice. The accelerator cannon fires two types of munition.The first is an anti-armour shell with a superdense core that is capable of penetrating any known class of physical armour. The second is a heavy high explosive munition with a fragmentation core capable of scything down dozens of foes with a single shot.
残暴之刃所装备的全套武器在第41个千年几乎是不为人所知的。这种坦克的主武器是一门双联速射加农炮，这是一种基于真空技术的武器系统，它使用一套复杂的超压机械装置，用比传统火炮更大的力量推动重型炮弹。这套系统极为高效，以至于几乎不会产生后坐力，这令这种武器极其精准且稳定。而且这种速射加农炮配备了一套允许坦克指挥官在瞬间切换弹药类型的先进装弹机械。速射加农炮发射两种类型的弹药：第一种是反装甲炮弹，拥有能够穿透任何已知类型实体装甲的超高密度核心；第二种是沉重的高爆炮弹，拥有破片核心，一次炮击就能击倒数十名敌人。
Both shell types are targeted using a complex logis engine system slaved to the vehicle commander's strategium terminal,enabling him to track and switch between dozens of targets.
这两种炮弹都是由载具指挥官的战略终端控制着复杂逻辑引擎系统进行瞄准，这使他能够跟踪和切换数十个目标。
The accelerator cannon is far from the Fellblade's only weapon, for it mounts several more, any one of which would be counted main weapon on a lesser tank. In particular, the vehicles carries a pair of side sponson-mounted quad lascannon, a system held by many veteran commanders to offer the ultimate balance between rate of fire. accuracy and armour penetration .
速射加农炮远非是残暴之刃唯一的武器，这种坦克上和搭载了其他数种武器，这些武器中的每一种在较为轻型的坦克上都能算作主武器。尤其是那一对安装在车体两侧的四连装激光炮，许多经验老道的指挥官会使用这套武器系统来提供射击速度、精度和穿甲能力的终极平衡。
As advanced as its weapons undoubtedly are, the Fellblade's armour and other systems are equally as formidable. The tank's armour is constructed of a reinforced metaplas alloy matched only by the armour utilised on the god machines of the Collegia Titanicus, while its engine and systems are powered by an atomantic arc-reactor, a system the Adeptus Mechanicus has been all but unable to replicate for many generations.
残暴之刃的武器无疑是先进的，而它的装甲和其他系统同样令人生畏。坦克的装甲是由一种强化过的形变合金制成的，只有泰坦修会的神之机器上使用的装甲才能与之匹敌；为其引擎和系统供能的是原子电弧反应堆——机械修会已经在数代人的时间里都无法复制这套系统了。
The Fellblade was at one time often crewed by Legion serfs,many of them individuals who were rejected during the Space Marine implantation and indoctrination process, but who were nonetheless superior to the rank and file of the Emperors fighting forces. In the 41st Millennium however, such venerated war engines are only ever crewed by Space Marines. Invariably the most experienced and honoured brethren serving directly under the Master of the Forge. It is only ever at the direct behest and concordance of the Chapter Master and the Master of the Forge that a Fellblade is deployed, and only in the direst of circumstances, and in almost all cases, heavy damage is all but irreparable and the loss of a Fellblade a tragedy for the entire Chapter.
曾几何时，残暴之刃通常是由军团仆役们进行操作的，其中大部分都是在星际战士植入改造和意识灌输过程中被淘汰的候选者，但尽管如此，他们还是比帝皇的作战部队中的普通士兵们要优秀。但在第41个千年，这些可敬的战争引擎只能由星际战士们操作，而且一贯是在铸造大师的直接指挥下，由战团中经验最丰富也最可敬的战斗修士们驾驶。只有在战团长和铸造大师达成一致且直接下令的情况下，残暴之刃才会被部署，而且只会应用于最迫切的情况下。在大多数情况中，坦克所遭受的严重损伤几乎是无法被弥补的，而损失一辆残暴之刃会是整个战团的悲剧。
