HH9节译：黑暗天使军团六翼

The Hexagrammaton

The Hexagrammaton, a phrase in ancient Terran that loosely translates as “The Six Divine Ways”, is the title given to the modern form of the Dark Angels' great Hosts. It came into use throughout the Legion at some point around 830.M30, when the Legion first reached a nominal strength of 100,000 warriors and had excised many of the early Hosts by means of attrition in battle and the failure of their doctrines. Those Hosts that remained were regarded as the purest and most efficacious expression of the tactics and strategies forged by the First Legion over its long history, worthy of a permanent place within their order of battle. So successful were they that, when he took command of the Legion, Lion El'Jonson retained the Hexagrammaton virtually unchanged. The Primarch took steps only to re-organise their hierarchies and to structure the Hosts to more closely echo the Calibanite knightly cohorts with which he had conquered the dark forests of his adopted home world, symbolically changing the title of those forces to 'Wings' to mark his ascension to the position of Grandmaster.

六翼是一个古泰拉词汇，大致翻译成“六重分途”，这个头衔被给予了黑暗天使现代形式的天军部队。这个名称大概在830.M30的某个时间点开始在整个军团中使用，此时第一军团第一次到达了名义上有100000名阿斯塔特战士的兵力，而且也通过战斗消耗和撤销其信条的方式消除了许多早期的天军部队。存留下来的天军部队被认为是第一军团在漫长的历史中所铸就的战略战术最为纯正和有效的表现，他们值得被永久性纳入战斗序列。这套体系是如此成功，以至于当莱昂 艾尔庄森接手军团指挥时，他几乎毫无变化地保留了六翼。原体采取的措施仅仅是重组了他们的等级体系，并让天军的结构更紧密地贴合他用于征服故乡黑暗森林的卡利班骑士团，他象征性地将这些部队的头衔改称为“翼”，这标志着他将这些部队的领袖提拔到了大导师的地位。

These six sub-strata of organisation within the Legion, the six Wings of the Hexagrammaton, would remain unchanged until the end of the wars ushered in by the Horus Heresy; the wide-spread destruction wrought by that era would see the near-annihilation of some of those bodies.

在军团中，这套组织被分为六个分支——即六翼体系的六支翼军，直到荷鲁斯叛乱引发的战争结束，他们才发生了变化。这一时期所造成的那些广泛破坏将会见证其中某些团体几乎被消灭。

At the time of the Dark Angels' return during the Thramas Crusade, the Wings of the Hexagrammaton took the following form:

当黑暗天使在萨拉马斯远征期间返回时，各翼军采取以下的形式：

The Stormwing

飓翼

The largest of all the Wings, the Storm wing incorporated the A majority of the Dark Angels line infantry, training battalions and mobile ordnance batteries within its ranks. The members of this Wing were drilled in the disciplined and stalwart arts of close order warfare and set-piece battles, unshakable on defence and resolute on attack. Its veteran warriors were the core of the Legion's infantry companies, capable of executing complex manoeuvres and formations under the heaviest enemy fire. When the Legion took to the field of battle en masse the veterans of the Stormwing stood in the front ranks, serving to steel the resolve of their brethren and to oversee the execution of orders in the chaos of battle; valued more for their attunement to the subtle shift of war as the massed ranks of friend and foe collided than their vaunted skill-at-arms. The inner circles of the Storm wing were notoriously difficult for initiates to gain admittance to, with rigorous trials for those seeking to assume the mantle of Marshal of the Stormwing. Only veterans of the largest engagements were honoured with titles in the Wing, including both senior officers and grizzled warriors of the line; for among their number the scars of war were the most treasured badges of honour. This inner circle also included a surprising number of the Legion's Apothecarion, who were often at the centre of the battle's fury and integral to the massed infantry assaults for which the Stormwing was famous. Indeed, at first the Master of the Stormwing had also held the title of Master of the Apothecarion for the First Legion. In contrast to the inner circle, whose ranks rarely changed and were accounted one of the most conservative and tradition bound groups within the Legion, the outer circles were in constant flux.

飓翼是所有翼军当中最大的一支，它合并了大部分黑暗天使战线步兵、训练战斗营和这些部队中的移动武器平台（机仆：比如毒蛛炮台，轻剑武器平台）。飓翼成员们要培养纪律性，训练近距离战斗和定位进攻战斗的坚毅战术，他们的防御不可动摇，他们的进攻坚决顽强。飓翼老兵是军团步兵连队的核心，他们能在敌军最为猛烈的炮火进攻下执行复杂的操作和编队任务。当军团前往战场时，一支大规模的飓翼老兵部队会站在前军，他们负责坚定兄弟们的决心，并在混乱的战斗中监督命令的执行；相比于他们自豪的武艺，他们在敌我双方部队冲突交战时对于战争微妙转变的协调能力则更为宝贵。对于普通战士而言，得到加入飓翼的机会是出了名的困难，那些寻求承担飓翼元帅职责的星际战士们要经受严格的考验。在飓翼中，只有在规模最大的战役中奋战过的老兵们才能被赐予荣誉头衔，其中既包括高级军官，也包括须发斑白的普通战士，战争伤疤在他们当中被视为最值得珍视的荣誉勋章。飓翼内环也包括数量惊人的军团药剂师，他们通常会出现在战火的中央区域，他们对于飓翼那著名的大规模步兵进攻而言是必不可少的。事实上，飓翼大导师也是第一军团的药剂总长。飓翼内环成员们的军衔几乎不会改变，他们被认为是军团中最保守和传统束缚最重的群体之一，而与之相反，飓翼外环成员则处于不断的变动中。

The Deathwing

死翼

Formed from the shattered remains of the Host of Crowns,  the formation once famed for its line breaker squadrons and marksmen.Those of the inner circle who survived that infamous incident swore mighty oaths that no member of the Wing would ever leave the field of battle in the hands of the enemy, accepting death over dishonour or retreat. The Death wing excels in special operations alongside other units of the Legion, especially as a counterpart to the more numerous Stormwing, with a multitude of sub-disciplines within its ranks. Most renowned among its specialists are those dedicated to the role of line breakers, elite veteran infantry that serve to shatter the enemy's formations and create openings for other units or Wings, and the lifeguard cadre deployed to protect officers during battle. These lifeguard cadre are especially prominent, with few high ranking officers in the Legion lacking a small force of Deathwing veterans sworn to give their lives to ensure their safety. Indeed, it is a detachment of the Deathwing that provides a garrison force for the inner citadels on both Caliban and Gramarye, charged with the safety of the Primarch himself. Given the stringent requirements for entry into even the outer circles of this Wing, its membership remains small but garners much respect within the Legion, often acting as force commanders in situations where the authority of other factions within the Legion is unclear. As the Horus Heresy wore on and casualties began to take a toll on the Dark Angels’ officer corps, the veterans of the Deathwing came to assume a greater responsibility over their brethren, slowly taking a dominant position within the Legion and on the Council of Masters.

死翼由宝冠天军的破碎残军组成，这支编队曾经因其阵线突破者中队和神射手而著称。死翼内环中那些挺过了最为著名事件的成员们发下宏誓：没有死翼成员会让战场落入敌手，他们不会受辱或退却，而是会接受死亡。死翼在与军团其他单位一起执行特殊任务时表现出色，尤其是相对于人数更多的飓翼，而死翼的部队中也存在众多的次级单位。死翼的专门化单位中最为著名的是担任阵线突破者的那些——这些精锐老兵负责击碎敌军的编队并未其他单位或翼军创造突破口，还是就是在战争中被部署前去保护军官们的核心卫队。这些核心卫队极其优秀，军团中几乎所有高级军官都有一小支宣誓用自己的生命来确保他们安全的死翼老兵卫队。事实上，在卡利班和Gramarye的内环堡垒中也有死翼分遣队驻守，他们负责保卫原体本人的安全。由于即使是加入死翼外环也有着严格的要求，死翼人数较少，但他们在军团中倍受崇敬，在军团中其他派系的权限不明确的情况下，死翼军官通常就会担任部队指挥官。当荷鲁斯叛乱爆发，黑暗天使军团的军官们出现伤亡减员时，死翼老兵们就开始承担比其他兄弟们更为重要的责任，他们在军团和大导师议会中逐渐获得了主导地位。

The Ravenwing

鸦翼

The Wing most changed by the return of Lion El’jonson, the Ravenwing was named for the Calibanite Order of the Raven which had trained the most fearsome mounted warriors to be found on that savage world. Combining those warriors of the Order of the Raven inducted into the Dark Angels with the remnants of the Hosts of Wind and Void, the Lion created a formation that would carve a legend for itself on the battlefields of the Great Crusade and beyond. Based around the principles of mobile attacks, of strike and fade tactics and skirmish warfare, the Ravenwing excelled at the use of light skimmers and aircraft, but also incorporated significant infantry assets. These were mostly reconnaissance squadrons, though among those infantry units specialised in the use of drop pods and other orbital assault doctrines, there were many initiates of the Ravenwing marked by the symbol of a white corvid. When the Legion gave battle to a foe that sought to evade or confuse them, or one whose overwhelming power compelled them to counter it with speed, it was the initiates of the Ravenwing that took to the fore. These initiates were often considered mavericks and glory-hounds by the more hidebound veterans of the other Wings, for the Ravenwing retained a number of more barbaric customs associated with its recruits, many of which hailed from remote feudal worlds. As such, those Calibanite warriors who gained admission to its ranks were often those out of favour with the Masters of the more prestigious Wings or those eager to forge their own legend.

莱昂 艾尔庄森的回归对该翼造成的影响最大。鸦翼是以卡利班渡鸦骑士团的名称进行命名，后者拥有那个野蛮世界上最为可怕的骑乘勇士。莱昂将加入军团的渡鸦骑士团战士和号飓与虚空天军的残部相混合，创造出了一支编队，而无论是在大远征之中还是之外的战场上，鸦翼都会刻下属于自己的传奇。基于包含突击、袭扰战术和遭遇作战的移动进攻准则。鸦翼在对于轻型悬浮艇和飞行器的使用上表现突出，但他们也合并了重要的步兵单位。这些步兵主要是侦查中队，即使是在那些擅长使用空降舱和其他轨道突袭战术的步兵单位中，也有许多带有白鸦标志的鸦翼战士。当军团与那些试图躲避和迷惑他们的敌人作战、或者遇到拥有压倒性力量迫使军团依靠速度来与他们抗衡的敌人时，鸦翼战士就会被派往前线。其他翼军中那些更为迂腐守旧的老兵们通常认为鸦翼战士们标新立异且贪图荣誉，因为鸦翼保留了许多和他们的新兵——很多都是来自遥远封建世界的战士们有关的更为野蛮的习俗。所以，鸦翼中接纳的往往也是那些不被其他更有威望的翼军的大导师们所喜或热衷于铸就属于自己的传奇的卡利班战士。

The Dreadwing

恐翼

Perhaps the most feared of all the branches of the Hexagrammaton, gamering a reputation that far outweighed the Wing's influence within the Legion, the role was the utter annihilation of the enemy worlds. When called out from the ranks, the initiates of the Dreadwing were experts in the brutal tactics of massacre, purge, and the deployment of Exterminatus class weaponry, though many also specialised in the use of terror as a weapon. It was an evolution of the Host of Bone, its brutal tactics refined and temperamental nature dulled by the influx of Calibanite recruits, though it retained many of the Skandic ceremonies and titles that had marked its origins. Its initiates were, however, far from dim brutes, for the Dreadwing saw to the duty of caretaking some of the most dangerous technologies that existed anywhere within the Imperium. Its ranks included not only the vast majority of the Legions Destroyer and Moritat cohorts but also a large number of Techmarines, forge adepts and no few Apothecaries, those considered among the least orthodox of their kind and often of morbid disposition. In the sealed vaults of the Dreadwing rested the least stable of the Dreadnoughts maintained by the Legion, those whose minds were trapped within the horrors of wars long since ended, as well as artificial warriors of a more fearsome nature. In the years after the initial outbreak of the Horus Heresy, as attrition and despair cut at the prohibitions of the Great Crusade, it would also play host to those warriors given dispensation by their Primarch to resume use of their psychic powers. For the Lion would not see his Legion plunged into the greatest war in recorded history barred the use of one of its most powerful weapons. To choose between victory or the sanctity of the dictats of Nikaea was no choice at all, for the Lion would always choose victory, no matter the cost to be paid in the aftermath.

恐翼可能是六翼所有分支当中最令人畏惧的，恐翼战士们有着远超该翼军在军团中影响的名声，他们负责彻底毁灭敌军的世界。当被从队伍中召唤出时，恐翼战士擅长于大屠杀、净化、部署灭绝令武器等残酷战术，其中很多人也专长于将恐惧用作武器。恐翼是枯骨天军的进化版，卡利班新兵的流入改善了他们的残酷战术，也削弱了他们喜怒无常的性格，不过他们仍然保留了很多标志了他们起源的Skandic似头衔和仪式（机仆：Skandic，看来枯骨天军战士是来自现实中的北欧地区——泰拉上的暴虐北境）。但恐翼侍僧们远非是野蛮，因为他们负责看顾存在于帝国任何地方的某些最为危险的科技。恐翼部队中不仅包含绝大多数的军团毁灭者和暗杀精英大队，而且还有很多技术军士，铸造侍僧和药剂师。这些人往往被认为是同胞兄弟中最为外道，而且通常也有病态倾向的成员。恐翼的仓库中也沉眠着第一军团保有的那些最不安分的无畏机甲，这些古战士们的意识被困在了那些早已终结的战争的恐怖场景中，而且他们也是有种某种更为恐怖的性格的人造战士。在荷鲁斯叛乱刚刚爆发之后的岁月中，绝望和损耗打破了大远征时期的禁令，那些被原体豁免允许重新使用灵能力量的战士们也是恐翼成员。因为莱昂不会眼睁睁地看着第一军团陷入有史以来最残酷的战争，却被禁止使用他们最强大的武器之一。胜利还是坚持尼凯亚决议，（对雄狮而言）从来就不是一个选择的问题——因为莱昂往往会选择胜利，无论之后需要付出何等代价。

The Ironwing

钢翼

The Ironwing was dedicated to the use of overwhelming firepower on the field of battle, to confound the foe by means of barrage and conflagration, to defy their riposte with inviolate armour and carry the day by means of force alone. It was not a subtle Wing, composed as it was of the majority of the Legion's armoured vehicles, heavy Dreadnoughts and field artillery batteries, a force ill-equipped for operations reliant on stealth or subterfuge. Yet, they excelled at the breaking of fortresses by superior firepower and the rapid onslaught of massed war engines to overrun and annihilate an unprepared foe in the open field. Its marshals were experts on the engagement and destruction of enemy war machines and heavy guns, often called upon to see to the destruction of those apocalyptic engines of destruction encountered by the Legion in its lonely crusade. Though this deployment of massed war engines was by far the most renowned aspect of the Ironwing, it was not the only facet to their doctrine of overwhelming strength. As a merging of the old Hosts of Iron and Stone, the Ironwing also included a substantial number of initiates from the infantry arms of the Legion, mostly those attached to heavy weapon support units, breacher cadres and Terminator squadrons. Indeed, during the last years of the Great Crusade, the Ironwing fielded the largest concentration of Terminators not only in the Dark Angels but in any of the Legions, including a number of experimental patterns of armour unknown in the panoply of other forces. Often employed en masse to storm fortresses or repel the onslaught of the enemy, these warriors earned a fearsome reputation within the Legion, many retaining the old emblem of the Host of Stone and assuming the title of Stoneborn. The brutal attrition of the early years of the Horus Heresy would decimate the ranks of these valiant warriors, ever first in attack or defence of the Legion, and by the end of the rebellion they were a shadow of their former strength. Given the wealth of technology fielded by the Ironwing, its inner circle was dominated by the forge lords of the Legion, but of all the Wings only the Dreadwing was more despised by the Mechanicum, for the Ironwing and its masters paid little heed to the creed of Mars and employed much technology that was forbidden to the adepts of the Mechanicum.

钢翼致力于在战场上使用压倒性火力，利用弹幕射击和烈火击败敌人，利用不可攻破的装甲部队阻挡敌人的反击并独自取胜。钢翼作战靠的并非是机巧，他们包含了军团中的大部分装甲载具、重甲无畏和战场火炮，而缺乏进行偷袭或使用诡计的装备。不过，他们在使用强悍的火力攻破要塞、以及在公开战场上利用战争引擎进行大规模快速突袭来蹂躏和摧毁毫无准备的敌人方面表现突出。钢翼元帅是与敌军的战争引擎和重炮交战并将其毁灭的专家，而在钢翼独自的远征中，他们也经常被要求去见证那些与第一军团交战的末日引擎的毁灭。虽然对于大规模战争引擎的部署是钢翼最为著称的方面，但这并非是他们压倒性兵力信条的唯一方面。钢翼合并了曾经的坚铁天军和磐岩天军，他们也包含了大量的军团步兵，其中大多数都被配属到了重武器支援组、破城核心与终结者中队。事实上，在大远征后期，钢翼在所有星际战士军团部队中都是终结者单位最为集中的部队，而且拥有着大量不为其他军团所知的试验型号。这些战士们通常被派去大规模地进攻要塞或击退敌人的进攻，他们也在军团中获得了令人敬畏的名声，很多人也都保留着磐岩天军的徽章，拥有磐岩之子的头衔。荷鲁斯叛乱早期的残酷损耗让这些英勇的战士们受损严重——他们冲在军团进攻或防御的第一线，等到叛乱结束时，他们只剩下过去兵力的残影。考虑到钢翼也掌握着技术财富，他们的内环由军团的铸造之主掌控，不过在所有翼军中，机械神教对于钢翼（机仆：原文应该是写错了）更为鄙视，因为钢翼和钢翼导师们基本不在意火星的贪婪，而且使用着那些机械神教被禁止接触的技术。（机仆：比如铁人…）

The Firewing

炎翼

The smallest of the six Wings of the Hexagrammaton,  the Firewing was dedicated to all the bloody subtleties of warfare. It was the hidden blade of the Legion, the knife in the dark and the blade against the throat of the foes' commanders. Within its ranks were to be found an eclectic mix of stalkers, champions and Moritat killers, all bound by their shared expertise in the arts of blade and knife, duellists and assassins without peer. The Fire wing sought the destruction of the enemy through the violent depletion of their command structure, whether in honourable duels at the heart of a battle or at the hands of subtle killers far from the battlefield. When given free rein upon the field of battle, the initiates of the Firewing chose to wage a war of wills against the enemy, seeking to break their resolve rather than slaughter their ranks. They counted knowledge among the keenest of their weapons, allowing them to strike at the enemy's weakest points where their limited numbers would be most effective. As such they possessed the most extensive library of any of the Wings, a vault that contained the detailed accounting of thousands upon thousands of xenos and sub-human empires, and which was guarded by a sub-sect of the Fire wing dedicated to the cataloguing of those records. Of all the Wings, they remained least changed from their origins in the wars of Unity on Terra, with many of the eldest marshals of the Fire wing being veterans of that conflict and steeped in the culture of Terra and its nearest colonies. The Calibanite influence had little impact on the entrenched and complex systems of ritual within the veteran ranks of the Firewing, whose marshals had long made a tradition of recruiting only from Terra and the densely-populated colonies that surrounded it. It was also notable for its strong links to the Sons of Horus, who recruited from a number of the same worlds, a connection that turned to the bitterest hatred with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, for it would pit those once sworn to eternal loyalty against each other. During the second Rangdan Xenocide, the Firewing would sustain severe casualties, reducing it to a fraction of its former size as its initiates stood toe-to-toe against Rangdan warmasters and reavers.

炎翼是六翼中最小的一支，他们致力于战争所有的血腥细微之处。他们是军团隐藏的利刃、黑暗中的尖刀，以及直指敌军指挥官喉咙的锋刃。在他们的部队中，我们能发现潜行者、军团冠军和暗杀精英兼收并蓄的组合，他们都被自己在使用刀剑方面的共同专长、决斗记忆和独自暗杀的本领绑定在一起。炎翼试图通过暴力损坏敌军的指挥结构来毁灭他们，无论手段是在战况激烈时与对方进行决斗，还是让远离战场的机敏杀手痛下黑手。炎翼的侍僧们选择与敌人进行意志上的对抗，他们寻求的是击溃敌军的决心，而非屠杀他们的部队。他们将知识视为最有力的武器之一，因为知识能允许他们攻击敌人的最脆弱的部位——在这些情况中，他们有限的人数是最有效的。就像他们拥有各翼军中最广博的图书馆那样，炎翼也拥有着一座容纳了关于数千个异形种族和人类伪帝国的数千份细节记录的宝库，而且炎翼中有一个专门负责为这些记录编目的次级分支来保护这些记录。在所以翼军中，炎翼与自己在泰拉统一战争时期的原型相比变化最小，许多最年长的炎翼元帅就曾是统一战争的老兵，而且他们就曾沉浸在泰拉和那些最靠近人类母星的世界的文化中。卡利班的影响对于炎翼老兵部队中间那套根深蒂固且复杂的仪式体系几乎没有冲击，炎翼元帅长期坚持着一项传统：只从泰拉和围绕泰拉的那些人口稠密的殖民地上征兵。他们与荷鲁斯之子军团间的强烈联系也值得关注：他们在很多相同的世界上征兵，而随着荷鲁斯叛乱的爆发，这种联系成为了最为苦涩的仇恨，让那些曾经发誓永远忠诚的人走到了彼此的对立面。在第二次冉丹会战中，炎翼蒙受了严重的损失，他们缩减为原有规模的一小部分——因为炎翼战士们曾与冉丹战帅和掠夺者们正面激烈交战。